#ghost!cas

Dean is a medium. He spends his days searching for truth past the veil. Or, more often, the location of the living’s lost keys, or Aunt Constance's will. He has a spirit helper on the other side, whom he contacts, who answers all his questions, who hunts down his client's late loved ones, and who often hangs around after the seance for a chat.

The Reign of the Dead by A_Diamond

Summery: Once a year, the dead of Lawrence Township rise from the grave and claim the streets from dusk to dawn. It’s a night when laws of man and God have no meaning, and the living spend it hiding behind barred doors and shuttered windows. But when the love of Dean’s life dies unexpectedly and well before his time, Dean braves the supernatural chaos for a chance to see Castiel again. 

From: AO3 

Chapters: 1/1 

Word count: 5,730 

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences 

Cas dies, but because he has grace instead of a soul, his ghost is different. He's able to be self aware- as far as anyone can tell. He glows a ghastly blue and his eyes are gaping holes. When he opens his mouth to speak, a rarity due to how his voice is now, his mouth is also a gaping black hole with shining white teeth. His wings are there, though they swap between feathers and bones. He mostly floats quietly in a corner, keeping to himself and following the item he's attached to (his trench coat?) though if needed or asked he loves to be helpful. Castiel may have finally found peace (if he hasn't he isn't saying so), but for everyone else the situation is heartbreaking.

I’d love to see Gabriel be brought back and he's told he can be restored to his former brilliance but only if he helps restore Cas. Cas gives no help with this of course, if he even can. And Gabe is still an ArchAngel (or maybe just trickster abilities?) but he can't fly unless emergencies because of how tired it makes him. And most of his angel abilities of snapping things up and healing are gone. He can't be killed, and most injuries heal instantaneously, and he doesn't have to eat/drink, but he needs sleep even if its much less than a human, and he's forced to drive across the country in his quest. 

He isn't sure when it stopped being about finishing a job for himself, and when it started being out of pity for his brother.

Gabe wearing The Coat and its not fitted to him and it doesn't suit him in any way, but Cas follows the coat so he has to wear it. Plus, it was his brother's coat, something Cas cared about and saw as such a part of himself that he attached to it. He’s not leaving that shit anywhere.

It gets stolen and he has to go claim it from the cops (or whoever had it) and he puts it on, going from frantic and stabby-ready to calm and sad.