The Madness of King Castiel


SPN100 Drabble Challenge: word count 100

Challenge word: mad

Warnings: None

Summary: Castiel is carrying more than souls inside him, there are darker things contributing to his God delusion.


Red mist descends. Everything is red – crimson, carmine, alizarin – blood. Who'd have thought madness would look as beautiful as this; like a hundred glowing sunsets across the sedimentary layers of the Grand Canyon.

Ironic, really, when its origins lie in the molten tar-blackness of the thousands of leviathans that squirm inside him.

Red clears to crystal blue. Finally Castiel can see the destruction he's wrought – dark shadowed wings burnt into grass no longer fresh and green.

He waits for the horror that never comes; then after a moment, he smiles.

God looks on his creation and it is good.