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@achillestiel asked -> favorite cinematography in a scene

so he’d bought the damn book, the gold leaf of the helmet on the cover of the song of achilles glinting cheerily in the sunlight and into his eyes as he drove back to the bunker in a daze, eyes still unseeing. the world was a little more grey without cas. and the book well, it was a chance to forget himself. the same way he did, once upon a time as a kid.

the book is good, dean decides, leafing through the pages with a delicate hand, losing himself in elaborate descriptions. achilles and patroclus, they dance in the golden sunlight, laughing and making music in a carefree sort of way. and then…

“name one hero who was happy.”

he loses focus on the page, on the words, as his mind drifts to a faraway place from ancient greece to a place somewhere much closer and much sooner. he skims the rest of the paragraph, waiting to get to the answer.

“you can’t.”

and he finds himself so terribly lost in the words that he doesn’t even realize he’s crying. cas. cas was a hero, he’d saved him and the entire world. multiple times. he’d saved dean, by saying that he was finally happy.

but… how could he have been? his story ended in tragedy, leaving a twisted, broken heart and an anguished soul in its wake.