Title: always an answer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Pairings: pre-Castiel/Dean
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Dean/Castiel, Dean's never understood that all those years he'd prayed for love, for help, for something better than a life of hunting, God heard & had answered every one in Castiel.
Over the years, Dean never actually prayed, in the traditional sense. He never prefaced his demands or requests with 'God' or 'Father', he just... directed his thoughts to the sky, since he knew no one was out there listening.
But despite what Dean knew, every single time, someone heard. And eventually, when the time was right and all the planets had aligned and the moment was at hand for the extraordinary and the unexpected and the world-changing, someone answered what Dean had never thought to be prayers.
Dean was in Hell, razor in hand, and Castiel pulled him close, gripped him tight, and raised him from Perdition.
The boy would never understand, someone knew, but that didn't truly matter. Castiel wouldn't comprehend for a long time, and that didn't matter, either.
But someone heard and someone finally replied, and that answer saved the world.