pantheonofdiscord:

For Lack of a Better Word

Part 16/24:
Chrysalism
noun
1. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm

The rain started up about ten miles south of St Louis. At
first it was just a light patter sprinkling against the windshield, but it
quickly grew to a downpour that blurred the entire road. It took Castiel several
minutes and a near-miss with a minivan before he finally found the correct knob
for the windshield wipers in his new, pilfered station wagon.

It’s his fifth car today. He left the bunker in an old Cadillac
from the garage, but abandoned it in a parking lot the moment he hit Phillipsburg.
From there he jimmied the lock on an SUV and headed west into Colorado, then switched
to a little coup and doubled back east. He swapped the coup out for a rusty
pickup in Wichita, then promptly dumped it and hopped a bus from Springfield to
Jefferson City.

Despite everything, Castiel is grateful for all he’s learned
from Sam and Dean over the years. Now he knows how not to be found.

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