...and not a second rate version of someone else. When Dean finds Castiel standing on the wrong side of the bridge railing in the pouring rain, he takes him home. What starts out as a friendship born of loneliness and desperation grows into something more as they are drawn closer to each other over time, and slowly help each other to mend.
Supernatural - Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 72 - Words: 293,082 - Reviews: 207 - Favs: 183 - Follows: 308 - Updated: 8/27 - Published: 1/23/2013 - Dean W., Castiel