M for language, violence, gore and future m scenes. Pairings Dean/Cas. I'm not going to write any of the real men in lemons or in any fake relationships, I love gay guys and especially to write stories about them but I feel an incredibly great respect for these men and my stomach gets a bit queasy at disrespecting their memory that way. I'm going to try and keep this as accurate as possible. Any quotes directly from the Band of Brothers book I'll note and I'm a history girl(going to be a history major) so facts are going to be accurate. And then I'll throw in our two favorite boys and sweeten the deal! (Oh and Cas will be there too!)
Some gaveā¦and some gave all; words spoken by many but understood by few. Not many can comprehend the pain, the loss. Giving all didn't mean giving your life, giving all was having your life stripped away from you, leaving nothing but an empty broken shell behind. They took your body, your sanity, your very Goddamn soul. Hell compared to that, you wished for death, you laid there, staring at the sky as the whole damn world crumbled to ash around you, people, civilizations, all reduced to the burned skeleton silhouette of a world turned to hell itself.
My story perhaps isn't completely unique. I wasn't the only one trapped in this purgatory. You could say there were millions of us, an entire army of zombie men broken to hallow eyed monsters with a purpose to kill or be killed. They talk about the honor, the glory, what we gave to protect what we believed in. Maybe I had believed in something to begin with, I think we all did. Bright eyed youth hell bent on an adventure to save the world they didn't have a clue how to save. We were ignorant, hopeful, convinced, believed with the very essence of our souls we would win.
But when you've been laying on your belly for so long you can't remember what your own mother's face looks like; wallowing in the filth, shit and misery of men God long ago turned his back against, your soul, your beliefs, everything you once stood for and fought for washes away in the mud and blood.
I slowly made my way through a long ago worn hallway to pass a picture on most days I paid no mind; maybe from the anger, the loss, deep down it just hurt too damn much to acknowledge most of the time. A black and white photograph of those men, some smiling so large it was a wonder the camera didn't break. Many had arms slung around other's shoulders, many were wrapped in wrapping and bandages and balancing on one leg or holding an arm carefully. Many were laughing, after all, the photographer had been such a pretty thing, clean and blonde with cherry red lips, she was home. But through the smiles and laughs and carefree stances you could see the pain and misery and longing just for it all to end in everyone's eyes.
My eyes lingered over two figures on the upper left, one of shorter stature and a thin frame with eyes haunted and a hallow face, my own eyes stared back at me. But to my side and slightly behind my frame was the thin willowy frame of Castiel Novak giving a rare half smile although he looked sad. I closed my eyes and grimaced as an entire floodgate of memories washed over me, some painful, some good, but all of them, began with the 101st Airborne, 506th Regiment, E company.
"From this day to the ending of the World, we in it shall be remembered, we band of brothers." ~William Shakespeare
So I realize as an opening chapter that may have been a bit heavy and miserable but this isn't going to be a story of sunshine and daisies. I'm sure you've guessed, this is being based off of Band of Brothers, I might leave some characters out, I'm going to add in some Supernatural main characters. This story is going to contain slash, rated M for language, some pretty morbid gore and violence and lemons in possible later chapters.
Updates aren't going to be often, I'm in school and I'm pretty busy, I update when I write a new chapter, not a set schedule. This most definitely isn't my first fanfiction although my profile is blank because I wiped it. I got tired of people's crap and I honestly got sick of my own shitty writing from several years ago. I vowed to not write anymore on fanfic, but alas when a good story grabs you it grabs you.
This first chapter is real short but I wanted to throw it out there as just a teaser and see what you guys think of it before I turn this into a big story.
Review and tell me what you think!
