Season 12 Codas
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“The souls are gone,” Cas says, breathing a sigh of relief. He’s close enough that Dean can feel it on his face.
Cas slides his hand further back and finds his pulse. A human way of checking. Dean desperately hopes he doesn’t feel his heartrate tick up. They stay there for a heartbeat (Dean knows, he’s counting) longer than they have to before stepping back."
After they get back to the bunker with Mary in tow, Dean and Cas need to talk about the Lucifer thing.
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- Part 1 of Season 12 Codas
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“So. Mom in action. Weird.”
Not exactly the best word for the utter confusion of seeing his mother a) stab someone and b) beat up on a seasoned fighter like Lady What’s Her Face.
Cas inclines his head. “I’ve found that sometimes the people we idolize are not what we expect.”
12x02 Coda. Sam and Mary go to church, while Dean and Cas have some God talk of their own.
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- Part 2 of Season 12 Codas
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"The thing is, intellectually, Dean knows this isn’t permanent. Because even if he’s never been a parent, he practically raised Sam and he knows what empty nest syndrome feels like. Mom’s out there looking for her kids. Once she realizes that the only place she’ll ever find them is this bunker, she’ll be back. Or, at least, he hopes so.
But the emotionally raw side of him, the part that feels like the four-year-old Mary is so desperately searching for, has completely taken over. He sits in the middle of his bed clutching a pillow, fighting the lost-in-the-mall feeling in his chest with all his might.Cas left. Mom left. He can’t even keep his family together for more than two damn days."
Once Mary leaves the bunker, Sam figures that there's only one person to call that can drag Dean out of his funk.
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- Part 3 of Season 12 Codas
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“They’re older than me. How am I supposed to be their mother?”
She’s not running from her sons, she realizes. She’s running from their picture of her, from the woman that they think she is.
Castiel shrugs. “I don’t know. But I would start with trying to be their friend.”
After Mary leaves the bunker, she ends up calling Cas to find out a little bit more about her kids. Mary and Cas friendship fic.
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- Part 4 of Season 12 Codas
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“So,” Cas says conversationally, “you killed Hitler?”
“It was awesome.”
Dean launches into a full play-by-play of the hunt. Cas helps the story along by nodding appreciatively in all the right places. He even goes so far as to let out a gasp at one point, which Dean would not have seen coming.
There are days that I think my life can’t get any stranger,” Dean tells him.
Of course, he’s saying this while sitting in the kitchen of an underground bunker that used to be owned by a group of anti-supernatural geeks with an angel, drinking a cup of coffee. It can’t get much stranger than that."
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- Part 5 of Season 12 Codas
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"An awkward silence descends. Cas tries to break it.
“Are you and Alex—?”
Oh, God. She can’t have this conversation.
“Are you and Dean?” she snarks back.
The two of them stare at each other across the table in one of the most awkward moments that Claire has ever suffered in her life. She wonders if this is what it would be like with her parents.
“Let’s not have this conversation,” she says at last, just as Alex rejoins them.
She slides in flush beside Claire from ankle to waist. She feels her cheeks heat up under Castiel’s stare."
Cas is heading through Omaha and catches Claire and Alex after the Radiohead concert.
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- Part 6 of Season 12 Codas
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“If Lucifer was still trapped in the Cage, he wouldn’t be out there killing people. Every single person he takes early is on me.”
Sam shakes his head. “If we’re going to be playing the blame game, I’d say that the person who let him out in the first place wins.”
Cas looks miserable. “I was the one who let you out of the panic room.”
“And if you want to get technical like that, you would have never gone to the Cage in the first place if I hadn’t been stupid enough to think that God would bother talking to me.”
At that, he offers Cas a crooked grin and gets the barest hint of a smile in return. Sam knows what it’s like to go around in circles in your head, wishing that you had made a decision differently, but he also knows that it doesn’t do anyone any good, least of all yourself."
Sam and Cas finally talk about the Lucifer thing.
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- Part 7 of Season 12 Codas
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"Dean is going to lose his mind in here.
He’d never call himself a people person, but the truth is that he’s lived very little of his life alone. Growing up, he’d never gotten a moment to himself. Back then, it had seemed like a curse, but he’d happily kill right now if it meant he got to spend an hour in a sleazy motel room at three A.M. with Sam and Dad snoring up a storm. Even after he and Dad split up for hunts, he still found himself surrounded by people—the occasional one night stand, thin motel walls, sleeping in the Impala on the side of the highway with the sound of traffic.
The worst part is the loneliness."
It's been thirty-five days. Sam and Dean are trying to cope with their imprisonment, and Mary and Cas are doing their best to get them out.
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- Part 8 of Season 12 Codas
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There’s something about the way Cas says his name like it’s a prayer, like it means everything, that makes him snap.
“I’m not worth that! Not worth yanking Mom back into this—this messed up thing we call a life! Not worth upending the entire world for the thousandth time!”
By the time the tirade is over, his chest is heaving like he’s followed Sam on one of his ridiculous runs. Of all things, that’s finally what earns him a response.
“Of course you are.”
Cas’s voice is measured, quiet, contemplating. He looks more like the rock of granite Dean met eight years ago than he has in months.
"What could possibly make you say that?" Dean snaps.
After they all get back to the bunker, Sam and Mary have a conversation about Hell, and Dean and Cas talk some thing out.
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- Part 9 of Season 12 Codas
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"Cas doesn’t answer. Dean reaches up to take one of the bloodied hands in both of his own. It’s shaking. Gently, Dean moves his thumb in a slow circle around Cas’s knuckles. Some of the tension in Cas’s hands drains away, but his shoulders stay hunched, his eyes locked on something that Dean can’t see."
Cas killed another one of his siblings. Dean steps in to take care of the guilt.
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- Part 10 of Season 12 Codas
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"He’s amazed by how much Cas there is in his memories.
The exact fold of his old, ill-fitting trench coat, down to how many buttons chased each other up and down the flaps. The gummy crinkles of his first-ever smile, and how much bigger it’s been growing over the years. The warm steadiness of his hand on Dean’s shoulder, resting where the scorching red handprint used to lay.
Dean’s lived a long life—most of it, admittedly, dead. But Cas takes up so much more than his share of space."
After Dean gets his memories back, he talks with Cas. 12x011 coda.
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- Part 11 of Season 12 Codas
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"Dean still grabs him again to lead him into the room. For his part, Cas just lets it happen. Right now, it feels better to have someone else in the drivers’ seat. He does raise his eyebrows when he realizes there’s only one bed, though. He turns around enough in Dean’s grip to catch a glance of his face.
A flush rises in Dean’s cheeks. “I—I wasn’t planning on sleeping.”
He maneuvers Cas until he’s sitting on the edge of the bed. Cas can’t help the tiny smile that tugs on the edges of his lips.
“You were planning to watch over me.”
“I guess—yeah. That. In case you ended up getting worse again. I wanted to know.”
After nearly losing Cas again, there are some things Dean wants to say. Well, not quite say. But the sentiment's there.
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- Part 12 of Season 12 Codas
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"He really doesn’t want to have this conversation, but he presses forward anyway.
“Imagine if someone—if God, if your brother—sat you down across from Alastair and told you to buck up, work together, save the world.”
He tries to keep the bitterness from his voice, but that just makes the sentence fall completely flat from his lips. It sounds like someone else entirely has said it. Sam examines his fingernails for a long moment before looking up to check how Dean has taken it."
Sam and Dean talk about Mary working with the BMoL. It goes...surprisingly better than expected.
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- Part 13 of Season 12 Codas
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"Jody Mills likes to think that she has a pretty good BS meter. You have to, in her line of work. (That is, raising two teenaged daughters who think that if they work together, they can outwit her. They can’t. They can try, but they can’t.)
That said, the guy in front of her is off the charts.
“Nice to meet you.”
She extends her hand across the table. He has a floppy grip, but he doesn’t react to the silver ring on her pinkie finger, so this isn’t going as badly as it could be.
“Name’s Mick,” he says with a smile.
It’s probably supposed to be charming. It falls a little flat when she stares back, utterly skeptical."
Mick tries to recruit a couple of hunters by name dropping the Winchesters. It doesn't go as planned.
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- Part 14 of Season 12 Codas
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“This is Heaven that we’re talking about here, Cas. That worries the hell out of me, okay?”
Cas lets out a bitter laugh. “I don’t think you have to worry about me teaming up with them.”
His wings, still incorporeal, fold in close to his body, even though there’s no one there but Dean to see them. He can’t help himself; he’s pretty sure there’s a slight red tinge to his cheeks despite the fact he should be separate from his vessel. Should be. Maybe that’s why his wings are so—
“Cas—”
The words burst out before he can stop them. “They said I was broken.”
Cas and Dean talk about Heaven and home. 12x15 coda.
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- Part 15 of Season 12 Codas
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"Cas’s voice is bitterly cold. “So I should just stay on the job, then. Let you take care of my—of Claire.”
“She’s not your daughter, Cas.”
It comes out a little sharper than he’d intended, because he’s thinking of a little boy in Indiana who’d thought that Dean was the king standing on top of the world, not Atlas sweating beneath it.“She’s not yours, either.”
Dean opens his mouth to speak, but gets cut off by the click of being disconnected."
Dean calls Cas about the incident with Claire. It doesn't go too well.
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- Part 16 of Season 12 Codas
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“Have you—have you ever—”
Her voice breaks off. Sam leans back on his bed and roots around in the drawer of his bedside table. He’s ninety percent sure he has a tissue box in there somwh—oh. He pulls one out and hands it over. Eileen blows her nose loudly, then crumples the tissue in her fist.
“Yeah.”
God knows how many times. It’s not usually something she talks about, but there are tears in her eyes and she looks like she might need another tissue pretty soon, and there’s a feeling in his chest that hasn’t been there in who knows how long."
Eileen and Sam sort of end up sharing a bed. It's cute.
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- Part 17 of Season 12 Codas
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"When it’s all said and done, Cas has a baby in his arms.
Nephilim, Dean reminds himself, but it’s difficult to think about the kid like that when he’d seen his very human mother bleed out, pleading with them to take care of him. Dean’s seen a whole lot of awful in his time, but that ranked pretty high on the list.
She hadn’t even gotten a chance to name him.
The motel room somehow seems even more suffocating now than it had a few minutes ago. Cas sits perched on the end of the bed where Kelly—yeah. And he has a baby in his arms. What are they supposed to do?"
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- Part 18 of Season 12 Codas
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"The worst part of all of this is that Dean remembers that look. Remembers the calm, cool certainty in Cas’s eyes when they’d first met. Dean remembers a chiseled piece of granite with ice chip eyes. And he’s nothing like the Cas that Dean knows. The Cas that Dean—"
Cas gets kidnapped/brainwashed by a Nephilim. Dean isn't too happy about it.
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- Part 19 of Season 12 Codas
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By the time Alicia and Tasha have left, there’s a hand on his knee. Dean raises his eyebrows.
“I thought you had a date tonight.”
Max shrugs. “I’m flexible.”
Oh God. Not that Dean hasn’t used bad pick-up lines in his time, but that was pretty damn awful. Max must be able to read it in his face, because he retracts his hand.
“I’m sorry. I thought maybe—”This is the point where Dean would usually laugh and agree that Max isn’t exactly his type, but something stops him. For once in his life, he’s alone with a guy who has had the same experience that he’s had.
“No. I mean—that’s not the—”
Max cuts him off. “I get it. Don’t meet a lot of hunters who have that, though.”
For the life of him, Dean can’t figure out what he’s talking about. “What?”
“Boyfriend. Girlfriend. Non gender conforming significant other. Whatever.”
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- Part 20 of Season 12 Codas