You Will Be Free

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Author: Darynidia

Artist: R-Ifann

Rating: Teen

Ships: Background Castiel/Dean Winchester

Word count: 17,488

Major warnings and tags: No archive warnings apply, minor character death, mention of suicide (minor character), canon-typical violence

Summary: Castiel has spent millennia travelling the universe, helping his fellow angels to restore planets whose native species had brought them to the brink of destruction. He never questioned his mission, accepting that the possession and control of sentient beings was necessary for his success. That was, until his latest mission led him to earth and to two human brothers, who taught him about free will and showed him that not everything was as it seemed. Trapped between two opposite world views and pressured to act fast, Castiel has to make a choice – something he was never meant to do.

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