The Curling Tide Draws You In, My Dear

by tempusborealis

A series of literal drabbles (exactly 100 words) about an AU in which Cas is a lighthouse keeper and Dean is a writer who's paying to stay at the lighthouse while he tries to work on his next novel. In no particular order, they're just little snippets of their life together at the lighthouse.

36. Heat

Prompt requested by happywilkie

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Winter had a way of drawing attention to heat.

Coffee mugs cupped in stiff morning fingers. Skin flushed from the fire in the hearth. A full stomach after a hearty meal and a few fingers of Jack. Prickly shivers racing across skin in the almost-too-hot shower after a jaunt outside. Blasts from behind oven doors incubating seasonal favorites. Sheets and pillows in the muzzy first light warmed by another body in a way electric blankets could just never get right.

Heat became routine, became comfort. It begot a different heat entirely, blossoming in bony chests, blushing cheekbones, and goosebump Braille.