Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

  1. Tags
    Summary

    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

    For a man raised on hunting and hellfire, who'd seen angels fall and demons rise, he should’ve understood sacrifice better. Should’ve known love when it was handed to him.
    Instead, he'd stood there like a coward, letting Cas fall without reaching out to catch him.
    The walls, the silence, the stillness — all of it bore witness as Dean Winchester, who had carried the world on his shoulders and survived hell itself, shattered into pieces over the one thing he could never fix, never fight for, never save.

    -

    Or, Dean grieves, grows a beard, becomes a dad without realizing it, and get's his happy ending. (Not a fucking rebar, for fuck's sakes)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    26,179
    Chapters:
    8/8
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    90
    Kudos:
    596
    Bookmarks:
    179
    Hits:
    6,974