An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Word Count: 4448 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode: s15e18, Despair, another entry for the Soft Epilogue genre, Domesticity in the Men of Letters Bunker (Supernatural), Domestic Fluff, Fluff, Gardener Castiel (Supernatural), Touch-Starved Dean Winchester, Farmer's Markets, Human Castiel (Supernatural), Shower Sex, Cuddling & Snuggling, Hugs, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Tenderness, Gentleness, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Healing, Bee-Lover Castiel (Supernatural), Star Trek Fan Dean Winchester, Trauma Recovery, Dean Winchester Deserves to be Happy, Castiel Deserves to be Loved (Supernatural), POV Dean Winchester
Summary: Dean’s died and come back he can’t even remember how many times, but he’s never felt alive like this.
They got Cas back three months ago today, and Dean wakes up the same way as usual: tangled in at least two of Cas’ limbs and his own fear that this is all a dream. Also as usual, Cas is still asleep, so Dean gently disentangles himself, piles the blankets up around Cas like he’s a nesting bird, and groggily heads to the bathroom. Dean’s lower back pain will have to be proof enough that he’s conscious.
Sam is out running, the masochist, and it’s quiet in the bunker this early. It’s later than Dean usually sleeps, but still barely 7, so he puts on his robe and shuffles to the kitchen to start a pot of coffee. He uses the fancy stuff Sam gets when he goes out of town for his health nut groceries. Dean made fun of him for it, but then Cas lit up like a firework the first time he tried it, so now it’s the only kind they buy. It’s not just molecules anymore because Cas is human now, again; it was the only way they could get him out of the Empty, but he says he doesn’t mind. Actually, he said he was joyful, that to go through human life with Dean was all he could’ve hoped for, plus a bunch of other terrifyingly romantic things that Dean definitely doesn’t deserve and still can’t fully process, so that conversation ended with Dean manfully not-crying, Cas apologizing, and both of them clinging to each other like life rafts. It’s a work in progress.
It’s up! \o/ Thanks to @educatedinyellow and @gravelghosts for their help brainstorming this. <33
