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    The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’

    Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.

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    20 Oct 2025

  2. Rec 49

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    Aldo has never really been one to think much about penance.

    “We honor God in a multitude of ways,” he’d told Thomas once. “I agree that discomfort is useful. We learn to turn away from our sins and commit to do better. I don't understand what mutilating yourself in His name is meant to accomplish. We were not put in this world to suffer, Thomas."

    Thomas had been quiet for a long time. "It is a different thing, though," he'd said finally. "You will agree on that much at least. Self-harm is a sin. Self-flagellation has a place in doctrine."

    Aldo had winced. "Next thing you'll tell me is you've joined Opus Dei. You don’t think confession is enough? Prayer?”

    “I think mortification of the flesh has its place,” he’d said absently, eyes faraway.

    “Does it serve a purpose, though, apart from hurting you? Does senseless pain really bring you any closer to Him?”

    Thomas had barely flinched. Aldo had felt possessed by the urge to grab his jaw and direct him forward, look at me, look!

    “We must repent, Aldo,” he’d said simply. "By whatever means necessary."

    He’s always thought Thomas did enough repentance as it was for the two of them. He thinks he understands better now.

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    16 Sep 2025

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    dean used to turn tricks. over a decade later, he met cas.

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    12 Sep 2025

  4. Rec 4

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    An after-dinner discussion of clerical celibacy with the Holy Father convinces Thomas that they have, in the spirit of the law, already broken their vows and might as well try a little more.

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    26 Aug 2025

  5. Rec 16

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    What they don’t tell you about getting older is that everything changes. Not just your body—though that too, of course. The creak of your knees, the low burn in your back, the way your muscles seem to protest even the simplest of tasks. He had braced for those changes.

    Expected them, even. He had been told to anticipate the fading of his vision, the dimming of the world at its edges. He had prepared himself for the dulling of his hearing, for the tremor that would someday find its way into his hands, for the occasional misstep or the stumble that came without warning.

    But no one told him that the world would change, too.

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    22 Aug 2025