20. Texan. SPN and glee.
*not a spoiler free blog*
(photo is not mine obvs, but I couldn’t find the original source so if anyone knows it and can link me that’d be nice.)
When Cas gets this contemplative look on his face at the tattoo parlor where they get him his anti-possession tattoo Dean doesn’t make much of it. He just tells Cas to hurry up when he pauses to whisper something to the tatoo artist, gesturing as the other man nods back. He starts to notice when Cas withdraws into their room for hours at a time in the next few days with a sketchbook and pencil in hand. When asked, Cas just gives him a small smile and says he’ll see soon enough.
A few more days pass before Cas finds him in living room and gently places the sketchbook on the table before him. It’s flipped open and Dean’s vision is filled with wings. Sketches upon sketch of wings, some rough some detailed, and near the bottom, on drawings of backs.
“They’re beautiful, Cas.” Dean murmurs, a little confused and looks up to see Cas beaming at him, eyes shining with an excitement he hasn’t seen in Cas since he became human. Maybe even longer.
“I want them. I talked to the man who tattooed the anti-possession sigil on my chest and he said he could do wings too. I-I mostly drew them from memory, from how I remember them manifested before… and I took some qualities from my true wings and added those too. Will you take me?”
Dean pauses for a second, not in hesitation but because he can’t stop staring at the change in Cas’s face, how excited he seems. And the decision is nothing, simple really. “Of course, Cas. If that’s what you want.” Dean smiles back at him, reaching over to give his hand a quick squeeze.
Cas nods, that light still in his eyes. “I do. They can’t compare to my d wings of course but I want to honor them, and to keep them in my memory I suppose. This seemed like an apt way.”
They go in the next day, hand in hand because Dean notices somewhere along the way how much Cas’s hands are shaking and that the excitement has been replaced with a jittery nervousness that he can almost feel rolling off Cas. “Hey, don’t worry, babe. You’ll be fine, hm?” Dean whispers when he feels Cas clutch his hand tighter as they walk in.
He keeps a hold on Cas’s hand through it, whispering little encouragements to him.
And after, when they’re shown into a room with wall to wall mirrors so Cas can see the result and he breaks down crying at first sight, he holds Cas against him and tells him how beautiful they are, how beautiful he is. Cas just buries his face against Dean’s chest and sobs but Dean thinks they’ll be alright because this is so different than all the other times he’s held a crying Cas in his arms this past year. Because when he pulls Cas’s face up to press a gentle kiss against his lips, he can feel the curve of his smile.
Let’s say that Cas wears Dean’s amulet and Dean wears Cas’s grace…
this is everything that i want.
Bless SPN for this scene. Bless Carver for turning the audience’s own preconceived notions on their head. Bless him for the archery symbolism that ties neatly back to not only the theme of hearts, but also Artemis whom we saw fall in love inappropriately according to the precepts of Olympus. Bless the two plaid-wearing, bearded scruffy men who are stand-ins for Hunters and Dean’s notion of über masculinity who also fall in love, but this time with heaven’s express and noteworthy nudge. Bless this rare (the cupid did say her arrows were being directed less and less frequently) and heaven-mandated event to be one of the last things heaven does before it stops meddling in the affairs of humans. Bless this event for happening in front of Dean and Cas. Bless Cas for his nonchalance and easy acceptance and Dean’s pause of consideration. Bless this neon sign toward Destiel becoming definitively canon.
Dean and Cas just spending an entire morning in bed, not bothering to even get up because they don’t have anything better to do, cuddling with their eyes still half-shut, running to the kitchen to cook breakfast while Dean sings at the top of his lungs and Cas hums along, falling back into bed laughing and kissing and tasting of syrup and orange juice. Undressing each other with easy, lazy motions, hands roaming and mouths peppering kisses along collarbones and jawlines prickly with stubble. Gentle, soft sex, with quiet moans and the occasional whimper. Spooning, hands clasped on stomachs and noses buried in the backs of necks. And finally, Cas rolling out of bed and dragging Dean into the shower with him, so they can begin the afternoon.
↳ Season 8
“Cas, it’s me. We’re family. We need you; I need you.”
