Title: In the Hearts of Men
Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG – 13
Warning: Angst, vague violence
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this universe, I just warp it for funsies.
Notes: My first Supernatural fic ever, and I literally do not know how this came out of me. Title from All These Things I've Done by The Killers
Sam's soul had been touched so many times. If you were to ask Sam, he would say never. If you were to ask Dean, he'd say twice. If you were to ask God-
But there'd be no point.
The truth was that Sam's soul had been touched millions of times. By God and the devil, by his brother, by his father, by his dog.
By Michael. By Jess. Sometimes it seemed like half the world had gotten a slice.
Dean had used claws. Lucifer had used teeth. Michael had slowly but surely peeled away until there was nothing but raw nerve.
So the last time it was touched, there was no hiding.
There were gentle hands. A caress or a stroke. No jarring or ripping or squeezing. There were whispers. No screams or sobbing.
And his soul remembered. It remembered everything.
It beat frantically against his body, it reached up and up and up, to the one hand that had soothed it. The one pure thing that had touched it in its life.
It begged and it pushed at the wall. More, it asked. Please. And it wanted. It made Sam's arms twitch. It cast his eyes down.
But he just wouldn't listen.