Cursed to Fall
A Destiel FanFic by The Broken Castiel and FlyHighDandelion
Chapter Three: "From a new perspective"
Suggested Playlist for this chapter
Don't fear the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult
Like Real People Do by Hozier
It Gets Cold by Eliza and The Bear
Just Like a Child by James Morrison
"Holy motherf...", said Dean rubbing the back of his head and standing back up. "What just happened? don't tell me that darn thing just... you and me?, no... no no no no... right?"
"I'm afraid so, it appears when you offered the staff the necklace it accepted it an cast its spell." Castiel said getting up and dusting off his trench coat.
"You know what?" said Dean biting his lower lip, annoyance on his face "I... am not going to deal with this right now".
After patting the legs of his jeans to clean off the dust, he looked up at Castiel and saw something different, like something which had always been there had just got more visible. He felt very protective of his friend, the doubts and trust issues from that afternoon seemed long gone. As he was thinking about this, he suddenly realized he had been looking at him in silence for long enough to make it weird, so he forced a cough and suggested going back to Bobby's to rethink their strategy.
Castiel had also been staring at Dean. It triggered a very strange feeling for him, like it was bad but even so, it felt nice. He also noticed that he felt even more protective of Dean than usual, most likely a side effect of the staff. Upon Dean asking to go to Bobby's, Castiel agreed then walked over putting his hand on his shoulder before zapping them back to the house.
Dean didn't even notice they were in a different place, and felt an urge to point out Castiel had the bluest eyes when something startled him.
"The hell is wrong with you two?!" shouted Bobby. "Believe me Bobby, you don't wanna know" Dean answered, raising his eyebrows.
"Dean decided to use the Staff of Chamuel on us." Castiel said, he also hadn't realized how long they had been standing there, and he certainly didn't realize he went right back to staring at Dean after he finished the sentence. Weapons of Heaven always ended up doing something, but Castiel did not expect this.
"Um... yeah..." said Dean, hoping not to have to explain what that meant.
Bobby's eyes narrowed with suspicion for a moment, and he quickly went back to one of the books about heavenly weapons he had been consulting earlier. He read something and started laughing out loud "Soulmates?" he laughed some more. "Yeah, well chuckles..." said Dean "we need to find a way to use this to our advantage, so when you're done laughing at us maybe you could give us a hand". He looked pretty annoyed, and kept glancing back at Castiel then away again, like he was trying to help himself but couldn't quite do it.
"It's actually a bond stronger than soul mates." Castiel corrected. "And I think it may take some time to use this to our advantage. For now it is a disadvantage."
Castiel for some reason felt hurt for calling this special bond with Dean a disadvantage. He ended up finally looking away from Dean and forcing himself to not glance back but in the end, the attempts were pointless.
Even though it made him feel unhinged, Dean agreed with Castiel that it was going to be a disadvantage for now. He thought about suggesting they should find a spell to break the bond, but he simply couldn't say the words. Instead he said. "Maybe we should just stick to finding more weapons for now, until we come across something of real use to us" mentally kicking himself for being so terribly aware of how Castiel's overcoat brushed against his arm.
"Yeah... That's a good idea." Castiel agreed, unaware he was taking steps closer to the Winchester. He knew the best idea would to find a way to break the spell but the thought alone was unbearable so he ignored it.
Dean looked at him some more, then looked away and cleared his throat. "So Bobby, you've been looking into heavenly weapons all day, which one do you think we should go after next?" In the back of his mind the idea of Castiel putting his hand on his shoulder for teleportation made zapping not such a bad prospect anymore. He shook the idea off his mind closing his eyes tightly and looked at Bobby, waiting for an answer. Before Bobby had a chance at suggesting one Castiel decided to try and make Dean realize they weren't going to be able to find Heaven's weapons at their current state.
"It might not be wise for us to go searching for weapons that other angels will be after in our current condition. If I die then you do too That actually might be to our advantage." He realized. "Raphael would not want Michael's vessel to be killed."
"So... he won't attack us for now... but he could still try to capture us" he muttered "I really believe we need to go find ourselves some weapons, Cass... we just need to focus more so we don't get distracted by the bond".
"Right." Castiel agreed then zapped them to another location. "Gabriel's horn of truth was last seen in this area... it doesn't appear to be here though. I can't sense its power."
"We could try a location spell" Dean pointed out "there are some in one of Bobby's books". He thought for a moment then said "what does this weapon do? Just wanna make sure we're not wasting our time with this one... or that it could backfire on us again".
"Gabriel's horn summons other angels, they're drawn to the sound that it makes. I'm sure it won't backfire as long as we don't play it until we're ready." Castiel said.
"Well, then let's go find it" Dean grabbed Castiel's hand without thinking and when he noticed what he had done he let go and backed a few steps before finishing his phrase with "... dude". He then looked awkwardly to both sides and finally to the floor.
Castiel stared at his hand for a little, he didn't understand why humans held hands but it had felt nice. "Right... Let's go back to Bobby's for the spell."
With that Castiel put his hand on Dean's shoulder and stared into his eyes a little before zapping them back to Bobby's.
Holding the spellbook on one hand, Dean told Castiel what they were going to need for the spell. "You go ahead and find everything" he felt weird about asking him to go but forced himself to say it "I'll stay here and work on the symbols for the setting".
"I'll be right back." Castiel promised then vanished to gather the ingredients. After 4 minutes Castiel returned with all of the ingredients and set the ingredients down before walking over to Dean and giving him a small smile. He didn't even notice he was smiling, it just happened.
Dean suddenly got up from his chair and gave Castiel a hug. When he pulled back he coughed a little, looking away from him, very embarrassed - "Sorry, man... you know... this freakin' bond". Before letting him answer, Dean took the ingredients, and went back to the table to set everything up to execute the location spell.
"I'm not sure how long the bond lasts Dean. It could last forever." Castiel said then started helping with the location spell.
This made Dean really impatient *forever* he thought, the idea was exasperating. They would have to do something about it as soon as they could. "It's getting worse, do you feel it?" He said "We have to do something about this, Cass".
Dean mixed the ingredients, while reciting the spell. The symbols lit up and they both fell to their knees, as images of the location filled their minds. "You felt that too?" Dean asked
"It's in a burial chamber, in southern Ethiopia". He prepared to be zapped.