prairie

Coming to you on September 9 

Kansas Katabasis

Written by @farenmaddox with art by @stonelions & @frijolebean

Rating: Mature

Word count: ~10k

Characters: Dean, Castiel, Jimmy Novak, Zachariah, Lillith 

Ships: Past Dean/Cassie Robinson

Tags: No archive warnings apply, Grief/Mourning, Angel Vessels, Soul Selling, Firefighter Dean Winchester, You can’t prove there’s allegory in this  

Summary:  Dean is dead. Allegedly. The angel Castiel is supposed to take his soul to Heaven before taking over his body, but his soul is being remarkably stubborn about going, clinging to the moment of his death and refusing to move on. Something's wrong, and they both know it. Either the vessel donation office made a mistake, or something far more sinister is going on.

Excerpt: It was like organ donation and like a life insurance policy, both in one, they said. You die, your body goes to someone who needs it—well, needs was a strong word, more like just really wants it—and your family gets a huge payout. And Dean’s family could use the money.

The more Dean thought about it, the more he wished he’d never signed up for this damned program. A hundred grand had seemed like the answer to every problem he had, and the idea that someone would puppet his body around had been entirely abstract. It had been easy to sign on the dotted line, at the time.

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