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The Gale Hatch - Chapter 1 - messier51 - Supernatural [Archive of Our Own]

Sam - October 27, 2023. 2:42 AM. 500 Locust Street, Lebanon, KS. "There's an angel in my kitchen." "Hnnnnnhhhh?" Sam should not have answered the phone at-he squints at the red numbers on the clock-2:42 AM, but who knows what it could have been. Dean doesn't sound drunk though, thank goodness for small miracles.

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Title & Link: The Gale Hatch

Author: @messier51 (ao3)

Rating: Teen+

main pairing: Dean Winchester/Castiel

wordcount: ~43k

major warnings: Memory Loss/Otherwise Canon Typical stuff.

summary:

If you forgot the greatest love of your life, but they came back to you anyway, what would you do?

Hunters aren’t supposed to get old, but seven years after eliminating demons from the Earth, Dean can honestly say that trying to live a life is harder than trying to save the world. His eyes and joints may be failing, but his ears work as well as they ever did, and the strange man in his kitchen sounds an awful lot like he wants Dean to help angels.

Angels aren’t supposed to exist, but Cas needs to find a way to save them all. Returning to the Winchesters will corrupt Sam and Dean again, but if anyone can help Heaven, they can. Even if Castiel can’t stop the spell eroding his siblings’ individuality, he selfishly wants his last moments to be with Dean. Is it a sin to want to be remembered?

your thoughts: I didn't know what I was doing when I started writing this, but I learned a lot as I went. Including the fact that I can write a full story with so many words. I really liked coming up with a future for all of them: Dean, Sam, Jody, Claire & Alex, and Cas, where things hadn't necessarily gone perfectly, but they were working on it. And I like the challenge of writing Cas from his own perspective.