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obstinatrix ([personal profile] obstinatrix) wrote2011-03-31 10:55 pm

Fic: The Hanged Man (Dean/Castiel, NC-17)

Fic: The Hanged Man
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Words: ~2,500
Summary: This is a sequel to The Beating of His Hideous Heart, from the opposite POV to the original. Dean is a charming sociopath, Castiel the fresh-faced prison chaplain. Dean has been looking for Castiel for fourteen years.
Warnings: This one is less dub-conny than the previous, but there are still hints of that, and - sociopath!Dean. 'Content may disturb', I might say.



For fourteen years, Dean has been searching for the Hanged Man. His father was the Four of Pentacles, his brother the Ten of Wands, a perfect balance of control and defiance to bracket Dean and entrap him there between them. Dean fought, but it was no use. John was the enfolding sound and Sam the fury, and Dean was the shackled Ten of Swords between them, their martyr and their Christ. His protests to the yellow-eyed man brooked no respite, no sympathy or release. God sent no miracles, the yellow-eyed man explained, to men who did not climb into the lifeboats Heaven dispatched. The Power that Is helps those who help themselves.

John was his first, and undetected, a single shot of air shoved into his jugular one night when beer and exhaustion left him stretched out like a dead man on a mussed motel-room bed. By morning he was cold, and too old, too insignificant, for the aneurysm to be questioned, not least because Dean had been so very careful with his pinprick. His father was his first. It wasn't as if Dean had any other option, after all. The yellow-eyed man has always been very clear about that.

Sam was lucky number sixteen, though he had been eighteen when Dean had done it, claimed him forever in that wide-eyed frozen moment of youthful devotion. The numbers still bother Dean, a little. It's bad mathematics. He could have found another two girls without any great amount of difficulty, or taken Sam earlier, perhaps - at sixteen, when he first shot up like a tree, all coltish grace and too much hair. At twenty, though, Dean had not understood the nature of possession, and by twenty-two, he could no longer wait. Sam was growing, his mind doing things Dean could not monitor, his body touching people Dean had not approved. Better he do it now, with Sam still wholly his, than later, when the numbers were right but his hold on Sam had thinned at the edges.

No, it - made sense. Dean is wrong to be irked by the numerology.

Castiel is the Hanged Man. Sammy's very certain about it when Dean consults him, hand over his heart to touch the place where he is. Sam's lived there since the moment Dean cut his own heart out of him with endless gentleness; made the leap and stayed, exactly as the yellow-eyed man had said. Sometimes, Dean forgets himself and talks to him aloud - "Don't like the look of him, Sammy, do you?" "Hey, Sammy, daffodils. Remember that spring in Fort Worth?" - but the others don't understand. They laugh and make insinuations, some of which are frankly sick. Sam says it isn't their fault; they're just dumb, and Dean knows he's right. Still, sometimes it's nice to say the words aloud, even if only in whispers: "That's him, Sammy, isn't it? He's the one."

When Sam says yes his voice is so fervent that it almost doesn't sound like Sam any more. Castiel is the one.

After the first time, neither Dean nor Sam is surprised to see Castiel back, although Castiel himself is evidently utterly unsure. That's only natural - after all, Castiel doesn't know any of what Dean and Sam know, about the yellow-eyed man and his tarot, his soldiers ranked in rows. Dean is his general. Dean has his trust, and Sammy is his eyes. Castiel is blindfold, but his feet feel the draw, nonetheless, of the only righteous path.

"Well," Castiel says, and his fingers work restlessly, tangling, steepling at his waist as if in prayer. "How are you today, Dean?"

Dean is wonderful. Dean is glorious and full of holy fire.

"Dean," Sam says, low and cautioning. Typical Sam.

"Doin' great," Dean says. Sam is the one who sees, after all. "No guard, huh?"

"I trust you," Castiel says, faintly. The words are oddly hollow as they struggle out of his throat, thready and quiet, as if what he means is the precise opposite. That's the work of the yellow-eyed man on his mind, right there. That's the yellow-eyed man telling him how it has to be.

"That's nice," Dean says, and gestures at the bed, all polite, like Castiel's feet must be aching from all that following the true and perfect road. "Have a seat, father. Nice of you to come and see me at home like this."

That's a joke. Sam laughs a little, and Dean can almost see the way his eyes would go crinkled when he laughed like that, the way his white teeth flashed in his face. Sammy always did think he was funny.

Castiel smiles a little, too, but he doesn't laugh. When he sits, his hands are still working frenetically against each other, grind of palm on palm. That's a kiss, in Shakespeare, says Sammy. He wants it, Dean. He knows.

They keep Dean all by himself, most of the time. Probably because the other prisoners are scared of him, as they have every right to be. Dean doesn't mind much. After all, it's not as if he's actually on his own. Still, when visitors come - which is rarely - there's always a guard hovering somewhere, some dirty smudge of black at the edge of the tarot. Today, there's nobody, and Dean can't understand it.

"I told them I was going to take your confession," Castiel says, like he's reading Dean's mind. Perhaps he is: our brother of perspicacity. "You've a right to privacy, there."

The yellow-eyed man must have helped, Sammy says. Dean isn't allowed to go to chapel - perhaps they know that his skin would shine there, nacreous, glowing with the light inside him - but they have never brought a priest to him here. The yellow-eyed man must have helped.

When Dean steps closer, Castiel lifts his face, eyes closed, like a martyr, and Dean feels the steady pounding of his pulse in his throat, the surge of his fervour in his chest. He finds Castiel's pulse, too, with two fingers, pressing so that the blood skips and rushes behind the priest's ear, under the soft skin there. He's nervous as a rabbit, flutter-rush-flee of his heart, but perfectly still, as if he knows his purpose; as if he has come as a sacrifice. Perhaps he would like that, Sammy says, if Dean told him: this is my blood, poured out for many.

"Stupid, Sam," Dean thinks. He doesn't mean to break the skin.

When Dean's hand moves to cover Castiel's mouth, Castiel half-sobs against it, stiffening, and Dean makes a show of muscling him down onto his back on the bed. Castiel is a priest, after all, with his own beliefs and vows, and it will be easier if they both can pretend Dean is forcing him. It will be easier. The glint of the light in Castiel's eyes tells Dean he is right in his assumptions as he hikes up Castiel's cassock; spreads Castiel's thighs with a strong, flat palm.

"Tell him," Sam says. "Tell him what you're doing, Dean. Tell him who he is."

But he doesn't tell; not here. Dean doesn't tell anyone, not the psychiatrist nor the guards, nor even the priests, about the yellow-eyed man, about his best-beloved always with him, the voice of reason in his mind. They wouldn't understand - they don't have the capacity - and Dean doesn't want to be written off as crazy. Christ, the psychiatric hospitals are way worse than this joint. So he shakes his head tightly - forgetting yourself, Sammy, jeez - and wrenches Castiel's suit-trousers and underwear down his thighs, over his knees; sits back on his heels and studies his cock, swelling and stiffening under Dean's gaze.

"Dean," Castiel says, weak and soft. His hand comes up, cards through Dean's hair. "Dean, I - "

"I know," Dean tells him, because he does; curves his palm over Castiel's mouth again and works his other hand a little lower between his legs, finding the place where their journeys end. He's hot there, tight against Dean's curious fingers, but he shivers when Dean circles a little, gently; all-out whimpers when Dean shoves up his thighs and pins them while he leans in and licks at the furl of muscle.

"Dean," Castiel grits out, like it's the only word he knows, fingers feeling out the lines of Dean's face, cheekbones and brows and ears and jaw. He cries out when Dean's tongue breaches the core of him, fucking filthy-wet, loosening him up, and Dean murmurs shushing sounds against his skin. When he sucks on him there, a wet-mouthed kiss to the twitching rim of him, Castiel flings an arm over his face to muffle his cries, and Dean feels the triumph welling up his spine, spiking his blood.

"Hush, I know," he soothes, working a finger inside the hot, tight clench of him, beautiful Castiel with his angel's name. "I know, Father. I got you." Another finger, slow. "I got you, c'mon now. Everything's fine."

The sounds Castiel makes while Dean's fingers work him open are animal, inhuman and tight and broken, and his eyes are closed to the world. When Dean rises up over him - slots between his thighs; shoves them wide with his hips and lines himself up - he's still locked away somewhere inside himself, hands making frantic little fists against the mattress.

"Hey," Dean says, "You need me to make you?" He fumbles open his jumpsuit; nudges the slick head of himself against Castiel's hole, and Castiel all-out shudders, hips arching towards him. It's not a convincing display.

"Dean," Castiel says, that word again, relentless, but his eyes open, slowly, and Dean stares down into the depths of them, open and black and doomed. "Dean, I - "

Dean shifts, plunging smoothly into him, then, and Castiel bucks up in surprise, rearing like a startled horse. He's tight, God, so tight, but the Hanged Man must be a virgin, a sacrifice and a contradiction. He's a clenching heat around Dean as Dean splits him open, crushing and new and broken like the yellow-eyed man's seals, and Dean feels his breath quickening damply with the rush of it, the white-hot thrill in his bones.

"God, Castiel," he whispers; presses his face into the hollow of Castiel's throat and drives his thrusts deepeer, fucks and fucks and fucks. "Castiel, Castiel." It's ritual, salvation, and Castiel keens beneath him, bucking up and clutching at the muscle of Dean's back, smoothing into the dip of his spine beneath the orange cloth. He's perfect, so right for this that Dean can feel it sparking in him everywhere, fizzing in his blood like champagne.

"Take him," Sam whispers. "Dean, take him now."

And Dean does - stutters against that spot inside Castiel a few more times until Castiel's limp beneath him, weak and arching and desperate, and then he seizes up and comes, wet and clean and scourging all over Castiel's insides. Castiel, evidently, recognises it for what it is, because his body twitches violently, fingernails pressing deep, and then he's arching, too; smearing slick and hot all over Dean's stomach.

Oh, but he's beautiful, such a perfect fit. Dean almost doesn't want to pull out.

Castiel, when he lifts his head, is breathless, red-cheeked and ashamed. Dean almost remembers shame, if he thinks back long enough, but then the yellow-eyed man came and explained that it was for the weak, for those who didn't understand. Castiel does not understand the sacrifice he has made for Dean today, but Dean understands. Dean is grateful.

He pulls out slow; wipes them both with the edge of the thin blanket, and Castiel's cheeks are flaming as he stands and adjusts himself, shoving himself back into his trousers.

"He'll be leaking all over those," Sam says, a smirk in it, and Dean laughs. Castiel gives him an odd look, but Dean only blinks back at him mildly. Castiel wouldn't understand. True martyrs never do.

"You should come and see me again," Dean says, as if they have just played chequers or discussed the news. Castiel's breathing is still coming quickly, tight in his throat as he smooths his cassock flat. Probably, he will say no, but that makes no odds now. Dean has his Hanged Man, his Four of Pentacles, his Ten of Wands. On to the next card.

"All right," Castiel says, clearly unexpected by both of them. His little duck forward is more unexpected yet, the brush of his damp open mouth against Dean's. Dean hardly means to stumble forward into it, but then Castiel's kissing him, gentle and unpractised, five seconds of tingling warmth before he's gone again, blushing still more furiously than before.

Sam snorts; needles at the back of Dean's mind. "Dean, you're done. We need a Magician."

Dean gentles him down; presses a hand over his heart to hold him in, calm him down. No sense in rushing these things, after all. Magicians are a dime a dozen.

"See you soon, then," he tells Castiel, smile quirking up at the corner of his mouth.

"Yes," Castiel says. "I - yes. I'll pray for you, Dean."

He slips out in a hurry, all blush and ignorance, and Sammy laughs after him, but Dean is pensive, almost intrigued. It's been a long time since a card has caught him like this - compelled him after the claiming. Perhaps a Hanged Man needs more than touch. Perhaps, like the fourteen parts of the High Priestess, he needs to be subsumed, broken and assimilated.

Dean sits down on the bed slowly; glances briefly around his cell. There's nothing here to make an assimilation with. A blanket wouldn't do it, unless he could convince Castiel to submit to breath play, and he suspects he would be wary. So many rumours are spread about Dean, so much ignorance. It will be difficult.

"Possible, though," Sam says, catching on. "If he trusts you."

"If he trusts me," Dean says, slowly.

Beyond the door of his cell, a guard looms into view, presumably in response to Castiel's exit. When he hears Dean speak, he glances up, judgmental, and Dean glares back at him, close-lipped and defiant.

If Castiel trusts him, he can do anything. If Castiel trusts him, perhaps, Dean could hang him for real; keep him forever and ever. He would like Sam. They'd get along.

Dean gives it a week.

[identity profile] ophaniel.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
just read the two in one go; they're very arresting.

This is dark Dean with a twist - it's almost touching, especially the brother he has locked in his chest.
Also, the nature of the masterplan - the seals and the tarots, and the curious complexity of what must be done - its all so fascinating and funnily satisfying.
I don't ususally enjoy the idea of being drawn into a character's sickness, however, I find myself wondering what more Dean would make of Castiel, and shamefully, i also find myself half believing in it, and thinking Castiel would probably excel - whatever it turns out to be!

This is a tantalising place ot stop, but I do hope there is more.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! When I was still in school I spent a summer filing medical reports on mentally ill patients, a lot of which were reports of their delusions, and I've been intrigued ever since with how curiously internally logical they often are, how intricate and expansive. I had an inappropriate amount of fun exploring that here, I think. I'm glad you liked them!

[identity profile] lazy-daizy26.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
So compelling and creepy! Poor Cas didn't stand a chance.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! And, no, he didn't, did he? *pets him*

[identity profile] goldenfish-jz.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
My god, this is so wicked and dark, but so incredibly perfect and hot!
I'm in a loss of words, seriously. I'd really like a thousant sequels in this 'verse *puppy eyes*

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you so much!

[identity profile] dizbil.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Perfect. This fanfiction is perfect. I love your style, are you going to write more ?

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! There may be more in this verse, yep. :)

[identity profile] pinkwithoutplot.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I read this and the first story yesterday morning and they have been knocking around my brain ever since. They are masterful. There is something so haunting and believable about Dean's broken mind - the horrific beauty of him cutting out his brother's heart and carrying him inside forever. The dialogue between them, the whole situation, is so terrible and so heart-breaking it genuinely chilled me and made me want to cry at the same time. The way Dean gets angry when people make 'improper' suggestions about their relationship. The perfect 'logic' which he applies to how the tarot dictates his life. And of course the sheer hot-like-the-sun of Castiel's guilt-ridden pleasure - did I mention my priest kink? ;)

This world you've built is so rich for exploration. If I have one complaint, it's that these are too short - I want more! :D

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! When I was still in school I spent a summer filing medical reports on mentally ill patients, a lot of which were reports of their delusions, and I've been intrigued ever since with how curiously internally logical they often are, how intricate and expansive. Dean's mental landscape is like that, here, I think, and I loved writing it altogether too much, probably. :)

[identity profile] fallingsnow8.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I really do love this verse. Will you be writing more psychotic Dean? Dean's thought pattern is really interesting to read and love how he still talks to Sam, in his head. What you are doing with Castiel is also really good. I enjoy reading their interactions and the ending was wonderful. Castiel can't turn away from Dean and I enjoy how he actually agreed to keep visiting Dean and Dean finding Castiel to be intriguing makes me happy. Despite the fact this story is creepy, in a good way.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! I...am not sure about more in this 'verse. I love writing it, but I feel like the logical next step would be for Dean to kill Castiel and much as I'd sort of like to write that, I'm not sure many people would want to read it. ;)
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2011-04-03 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Dean isn't allowed to go to chapel - perhaps they know that his skin would shine there, nacreous, glowing with the light inside him....

Ooh, that's lovely. Both of these, so very creepy and horrifying and utterly perfect. Excellent stuff.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-03 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
:) Thank you!
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[identity profile] westofthemoon1.livejournal.com 2011-04-04 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Love this verse, so glad you were inspired to do a sequel! :) This look inside Dean's twisted little mind was fascinating. Dean's relationship with Sam is so central to his life normally, I really like how you've integrated that here. Even though we saw he'd murdered him in the first story it makes SO MUCH SENSE that he carries Sam's voice around with him forever... I love that. And I love the darkness of the story, but there's that romantic part of me that loves the preoccupation that Dean has for Cas still, and is rooting for ...at least some version of a happy ending, lol.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-04 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked!

[identity profile] earth-heart.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. My God. This is so incredibly intriguing and addictive.

Jesus. Tarot and Christianity and magics and... Oh, Dean, you are so incredibly well-thought out and planned, even in your current state.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-12 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you so much, hon!

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[identity profile] tachi-dai.livejournal.com 2011-04-12 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
OH GOD, I love you so much for continuing The Beating of His Hideous Heart. IT HURTS IT HURTS but I've got this huge, huge interest in serial killers (that's almost erotic, okay, who am I kidding, it's a kink already), and how you worked the tarot and the numerology, and Dean being clearly psychotic but oh-so-charming, reminding me of Ted Bundy and asfasghsdajgsfal

I love you for being bold enough to write this.

/creep

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-04-12 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked this so much, because I really, really liked writing it. Um. Possibly too much. So, yes. :D

[identity profile] xarixian.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, this is amazing. So hot and dark and creepy. Damn, I love sociopath!Dean, and Castiel's responses to him are just so ... guh. (Coherent, huh?)
I would actually love to read more of this, even if it is Dean killing Castiel. I don't know why that seems so perfect. Just the image of Dean kneeling over his body like he did with Sam's, like it's normal, like it makes total sense. It makes me shiver.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
:D Thank you, hon! I'd love to write more of it, too, but...I dunno. It would basically be snuff!fic. ;)

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[identity profile] aviddaydreamer.livejournal.com 2011-05-28 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my...

WOW. This is...just...dude.

Sociopath!Dean and priest!Cas own my SOUL. Dean can keep me in his heart, right next to Sammy.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-05-29 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
:D Thank you so much!

[identity profile] whatsername-05.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
This is brilliant. I am freaked out for life. Seriously both of these fics together are perfection!!

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much! I have a secret love for this verse myself, so that makes me happy. :D

[identity profile] gabby2253.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
this is very interesting to see Dean's victims being based of tarot cards! how did you ever come up with this?

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you! I honestly have no idea how I came up with this one, it just poured out of me. :)

[identity profile] nephilimseraph.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I am totally wrapped up in this! I love sociopath!Dean and the way he reasons things out. I really hope there'll be more!

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!

I love this 'verse and I really enjoyed writing in it. I think I'm putting off writing the third part because -- well. You can probably guess where it'd have to go, and I don't think I'd be very popular. ;)

[identity profile] simplyturquoise.livejournal.com 2011-12-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know what to say... disturbing, but wow.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2011-12-08 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
♥ Thank you!

[identity profile] rdv-chan.livejournal.com 2012-02-08 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
These stories are incredible. Is there the possibility of a third one?

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2012-02-09 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you so much! I had thought about writing a third one but I didn't really know if it would be received terribly well, since -- well, basically it would be a snuff fic. ;)

[identity profile] harrywells.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
Ohh, and I thought the first one was hot.
And that ending... wow. I got chills.
Fantastic fics<3

[identity profile] gabs186.livejournal.com 2012-08-22 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Gah. This is unbelievable. Horrifyingly sordid and spectacularly, criminally hot all at once. Poor Sammy :( Just amazing.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2012-08-23 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much! I really enjoyed writing these.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-05 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god please tell me there is more of this D: i love the story so muuch <333 its so unique i love sociopath Dean.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2012-10-05 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you so much! I'm sorry, though, this is all there is!

[identity profile] sanguinary7.livejournal.com 2012-11-12 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
F-ing beautiful. I love your writing so much it hurts. Easily one of the best authors out there for any fandom. And this...this was a masterpiece. Thank you. You are truly talented my dear. Keep it up because you have ruined me for other writers.

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2012-11-12 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!

[identity profile] adameyezd.livejournal.com 2012-12-23 03:43 am (UTC)(link)

Wow, I read both parts of this, & loved it. Erie but hot & I found it very intriguing.

I guess you only did these 2 parts - I would have loved to read more, but I'm thankful you wrote these two anyway!

Thank you for always being such an incredible writer!

[identity profile] heartstrings91.livejournal.com 2013-03-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my God, I-- let me get my thoughts together here!

Firstly, this was so intense and beautifully written. In the first part, you really conveyed Castiel's feelings of drifting, of not being competely aware of what had just transpired, of not being completely lucid. Priest!Cas is one of my favourite things, and you did it so well-- kept him Castiel, but also decidedly... not quite.

The second part has to be my favourite, though, no question about it. Dean was both charming and likable and-- well, the Dean that we all know and love, but it took no effort to imagine him with blood on his hands. The parts about the cards were very interesting, and although I understand why you might not continue, I think it'd be fascinating to see where that takes him next; whether he hangs around with Cas for a while, or goes on to the next card. Your Sam was perfect, and the set-up for that worked incredibly well for me. It was a strange mix of 'Dean-is-talking-to-a-dead-boy-in-his-mind' creepiness, and really believable affection between them. I always love those sorts of ideas because they make you start to question what's real and what's relative-- whether Sam was really there and Dean was right, or whether Dean was merely clinging to his memories and to his sanity (one by a rope and the other by a thread!)

And not to mention - on top of all of that - there was porn involved. Ugh, Jesus, God, thank you, bless you. *Moriarty nod*

I'm definitely reccing this every chance I get, and don't be surprised if you see comments from me in later years-- I'll definitely come back and read this again, as long as it's here! Thank you for this gorgeous piece!

[identity profile] obstinatrix.livejournal.com 2013-03-10 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh, thank you so much for such a beautiful comment! It's lovely when you get comments on an old fic, especially one you're proud of, which I am of this set, still. :) I'm so pleased you got so much out of it!

[identity profile] lucianwolf.livejournal.com 2013-10-23 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I love every little piece of this. So much. Oh god.

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