spndystopiabang | PROMO: Fabulous Monsters

Fic by ellispark | Art by nickel

Mature | Dean/Castiel | 10k

Canon-typical violence, Apocalypse world AU

It’s been a year since Dean last saw Castiel — a year since he was captured and reprogrammed by the angels, trained to be torturer. When Charlie escapes the angels, she tells him Cas can still be saved.

Dean rushes to Cas’s rescue, unsure of what he’ll find. Will Cas be the loyal friend he lost, or the emotionless killer the angels turned him into?

Preview:

Charlie returns to camp with blood-streaked hair and bruises on her temples, around her wrists and arms. She’s thinner than she was when Dean last saw her, her wrist bones poking out from under her too-large jacket sleeves. But she’s alive.

They swarm her – Ellen fusses over her, clicking her tongue and saying, “We need to get some food in you;” Bobby asks for a debriefing at 0800; Sam scoops her into a bone crushing hug before Mary shoos everyone away. Dean stands on the outside of the hive of activity, watching as Charlie tries not to flinch away from all their light and hovering touches. Charlie catches his eye over Mary’s shoulder as his mother leads her away to her tent for rest, a protective but unwelcome hand on Charlie’s elbow. Her eyes say come find me.

Posting May 19