Hey guys, I'm here again. This is my first Supernatural/Destiel fic so I'm a little nervous right now. It's rated-T for now, but it might change M later on, but I'm not sure. This is just the prologue, I don't know how long it will be or anything, I just know what I have lined out for it. It is AU with a human!Cas and Dean as nurse in the hospital. It also deals with abuse. abuse, so you've been warned.

P.S. The characters are not mine. I'm just borrowing them for a while.

P.P.S. Please review and tell me what you think.

Prologue

"So explain to me how this happened again," the nurse said to his patient as he bandaged a cut on the young man's face. He had already asked the question twice while he put a cast on the man's broken wrist.

The man looked up at the nurse and shook his head. Not quite meeting the nurses eyes, the man said nervously, "It's nothing. I just fell down some stairs at my apartment. Clumsy me."

The man knew that his nurse didn't believe him, and for good reason, as the man didn't fall down any stairs. He got the cuts and bruises on his face from being hit by his boyfriend. He broke his wrist being pushed down a flight of stairs after he tried to get away.

The nurse sighed and sat down in a chair next to the man's bed, "Castiel, you've been coming here for almost a year. You've had to broken wrists, a broken nose, all sorts of cuts and on your face and body, and more than once I've noticed hand shaped bruises on your arms. Please just tell me the truth. What is going on, Cas?"

Cas looked down at his hands and whispered, "I can't Dean. I just c-can't."

Dean put a comforting hand on Cas' shoulder, "Is he hurting you?" Dean flashbacked to the first time he took care of Castiel in the hospital. A man, just older than Cas, brought him into the ER. Cas was unconscious and was bleeding from a large cut on his head. The man had claimed that Cas had been mugged, and since Cas had suffered temporary amnesia after he regained consciousness, Cas couldn't remember otherwise. But Dean knew, just from the way the man stood over Cas and the way he wouldn't answer the doctor's questions, that it was really this man's fault Cas was hurt.

Castiel looked at Dean with fearful eyes, "N-No." Dean sighed again, taking the young man's hand in his, patting the back of it with his other hand. Cas flinched at Dean's touch, not used to a man's gentle touch. Even his own father's touch wasn't gentle after he found out his son was gay.

"I guess I can't make you tell me," Dean muttered, letting go of Cas' hand, "Just know that I am here for you, if you ever need to talk or a place to stay."

"That's kind of you," Cas hiccupped, wiping away his tears.

"I don't like the thought of you being hurt," Dean whispered, standing up. He didn't know much about the brunette-haired man, not any more than what was on his medical charts or had been told by the man himself, but Dean felt an unexplainable need to protect him.

Cas nervously rubbed his arm, "A-Am I free to go?"

Dean nodded, turning back towards Cas. "Come back in a week to remove the sutures and check on the wrist."

The brunette stood, putting his large trench coat back on, "I will. Thank you, Dean. For everything."

Dean handed the discharge papers to Castiel to sign, "You're welcome. And I mean it, if you need anything. Anything at all. I'm here. Just know that."

"I know," Cas looked at Dean and hesitated before he walked towards the blonde man and hugged him. Dean wrapped his arms around the shorter man and pulled him tight against his chest, trying to keep him safe for as long as possible.

Sooner than Dean wanted, Cas pulled away and walked to the door, "I'll see you in a week," Cas whispered, walking out.

...

Three days later, Castiel showed up at the hospital again with blood all over his face. He went straight up to Dean and looked at him pleadingly.

"Is the offer still open to stay with you?"

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