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It had already been two years since the accident had occurred to Castiel Novak.
All Castiel ever wanted was to be a normal teenager. But there were slight minor issues with his desire to be considered normal, and that was because of his sexuality, and the fact that he was a mute. Not a mute by choice, but by force.
When Castiel was approximately three years old, his older brother Lucifer put a knife to his throat. It started out meaning absolutely nothing. When Lucifer wanted Castiel to do something for him, he would threaten him by putting that knife to his throat. Lucifer, in particular mainly just made Castiel do simple things; Cleaning his room, doing his chores, keeping Cas quiet when Lucifer had a party when parents were away, ect. But one night, it was different. Things got more and more out of hand. One cold November night, Lucifer came home late at night exceptionally intoxicated from his friend's party.He ending up stumbling into his, Castiel's, and their other brothers' Michael and Gabriel's room, and slamming the door closed. Castiel was the first to wake up and see Lucifer in his drunken state.
"Lucifer what the hell are you-"
"Shshsh... Be quiet, Ca-Castiel.." Lucifer cut Cas off by his slurring as he held up a knife uncomfortably close to Castiel's throat. Cas knew Lucifer was far beyond just a little intoxicated,because of the smell of alcohol that lingered on his breath and the fact that the knife on his throat was not being held steadily like it would usually be. This time, Cas was legitimately afraid that Lucifer was going to kill him.
"Lucifer please I-"
"I said.. Be QUIET, Casti-el."Lucifer whispered psychotically, pressing the knife harder on Cas's throat to the point where it hurt Cas to simply inhale.
Suddenly, Michael awoke to this very scene. Castiel's blue eyes widened, as did Michael's green eyes. Cas gave him the look of not to say anything, but Michael didn't understand the sign. Lucifer turned around swiftly and saw him gaping at what was appeared before him.
"You little shit." Lucifer said turning back to Cas and then suddenly dug and slashed his knife into Castiel's throat. Quickly, Castiel began feeling dizzy. If he could've gasped or screamed, he would've. The only thing that he remembered before the blackout from loss of blood, was the screams of his name from Michael, then his parents rushing in and crying and screaming,yelling to call 911.
Once Castiel woke up in the hospital, he was told that he was lucky the cuts were not too deep, the only thing he lost the ability of was to speak or use his vocal chords at all. He had to get several stitches for his throat, but he recovered soon enough. Lucifer got put in a mental institution for twelve years. It started out rough for Castiel, having to learn sign language and everything.
A few months after the incident,their father got killed in a car accident. That's when Castiel Novak's life started going more downhill than it was. His mother developed an alcoholism problem, she smoked, and stopped caring about a lot of things; her children especially.
After having to do endure that,Castiel only had his brother's to lean on, and he was okay with that.