Aphranius



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  1. Rec 11

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    “The problem with you,” Cas slurs down the line. “Is that you see the world in black and white.”

    Whatever Dean was expecting when he picked up the phone, it wasn’t this. Then again, it’s two am. Maybe he should have had a clue. “What?”

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  2. Rec 5

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    Dean spends fifteen years loving Cas in silence.

    From a shitty apartment with one bathroom and too many unsaid things, to the wedding Dean shows up to with a smile like a wound. He’s there for all of it—the late-night confessions that never come, the girl Cas chooses instead, the slow unraveling of something that was almost, almost love.

    Dean never says it. Cas never asks.

    And by the time the phone rings—years too late, voice small on a grainy old message saying maybe it was you—Dean’s already learned how to live without the only thing he ever wanted to keep.
    This is not a love story. It’s a memory of one.

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  3. Rec 10

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    “Don’t leave.” The words leave his mouth almost without his permission. Like a plea; like a prayer. Something hungry and snarled that claws its way up his throat to curl pathetically in the air between them. “Just—please stop leaving.” I can’t lose you to, he doesn’t say. Doesn’t need to. He knows Cas will hear it anyway. Will always hear it, even if he doesn’t believe it.

    Cas turns back to him, and Dean can’t read the expression on his face. Something tight and frayed and pinched, something too sharp to be anger. Weariness, maybe. Dean is so tired of fighting. Of losing. He just wants to collapse into Cas’ arms and forget about everything. About Jack, about Mom, about—all of it. But it’s an old, timeworn instinct, one he has long since learned to wrestle down and beat into submission. One he has learned not to give in to.

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    Castiel keeps leaving, over and over again. And Dean knows that most of the time it’s been his own damn fault, but this time, he can’t live with it. This time, he doesn’t let him walk away.

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  4. Rec 11

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    All of this, he remembers in shadow.

    Such moments are all he has left now.
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    This is my “I am made of memories” take, except it is the tale of Judas’ three days in the depths of hell, remembering how he loved, and could not trust the love of the one he called his Lord.

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  5. Rec 30

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    “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.” He proclaims with eyes like flint and fire. You believe him. You believe him beyond doubt. He meets your eyes in the crowd and his mouth ticks up in a small, slanted smile. “Doth this offend you?”

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    Yep I wrote bible fic on Easter Morning. For what it's worth, I don't think it's particularly blasphemous. Everything Jesus says is a direct quote.

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