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Chapter Six: Alexandria

Castiel hadn’t been in the dating pool for quite some time, so he wasn’t sure if taking someone to buy a suit constituted as flirting.

“Don’t you have to be with Jack?” he asked as they got off the metro in Alexandria.

Dean shook his head. “He headed back to school today, said he wanted to feel normal.  So I let Benny and them take care of security.  Sam said he’d kill me if I didn’t take a bit of a break.”

He took the steps up into the sunlight two at a time, so Castiel had to double his pace to follow him.  The streets were slightly less crowded here than they were in the heart of the city.  Cas took his first full breath in what felt like months.

He refocused on the conversation and nodded. “Your brother.”

“And the weirdest mother hen roommate you’ve ever met.  You’d think he was the one to raise me.”

Cas paused. “Raise?”

Instantly, he kicked himself.  This was what Meg meant when she called him socially inept, however affectionately.  He always put his foot directly in his mouth.

Dean didn’t seem bothered. “Yeah.  Mom died when I was eighteen, so I fought to get custody of Sammy.  He was a snot nosed little brat, but I wasn’t about to let somebody else take him.  Family, you know?”

Cas nodded.  Even a week ago, he wouldn’t have realized what that meant.  But thinking about Jack’s face—

“He’s only four years younger than me, so we were pretty much looking after each other, but I still tease him all the time about it.”

His face darkened slightly.  Cas tried to imagine him at eighteen, the five o’clock shadow coming in far patchier, with a kid brother by his side.  He certainly couldn’t have done the same at eighteen.  He’d been buried in college applications, worried about how he was going to survive the interview portion of his science fair entry (answer: he hadn’t).

“That’s why I worry about Jack.  I know what it feels like to just—be adrift.” Dean waved his hand vaguely. “And yeah, he won’t have to worry about money or anything, but he’s got the eyes of the world on him.  It’s going to be so hard.”

Cas tugged at his collar. “I want to help him.  I need to—to make it up to Kelly.  I mean, I want to help him, too, it’s not just because I’m guilty, but I need you to know where I’m coming from.”

The hand that brushed his wrist as Dean answered, “I know.”—was that flirting, too?  Or was it just Dean trying to seem like he understood?

Either way, it wasn’t exactly something he had the energy to dwell on right now.

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Title: Leap of Faith
Author:
@hartlessfiction
Artist:
@thedogsled
Beta:
please see A03 for betas
Rating:
Explicit
Word Count:
70,636
Summary: 
For some of us, it’s easy, close your eyes, take a breath, and jump. For others, it takes an entire bottle of whiskey, a slow, unreliable internet connection, and years of self-induced isolation on a picturesque mountainside to do what they have to do. What they need to do. Many years after losing his own pack, his family, an act he blames himself for, Alpha-Were Castiel is skilled at not giving himself even the smallest of pleasures, including that of a pack. An alpha needs a pack. It’s written into their DNA. It’s so much more than just having a mate. It’s the pack bonds that make an alpha whole, and the longer Castiel denies himself one, the more he loses of his humanity.

When a drunken, desperate act brings a beautiful, vibrant omega to his doorstep with a disastrous winter storm nipping at his heels, Castiel knows he does not deserve the gift. Sending Dean back down the mountain would be certain death for the young were, but allowing him to stay will undoubtedly change Castiel’s life forever. Maybe it’s time for Castiel to leave his darkness in the past, where it belongs. With Dean standing next to him on the precipice, there’s nothing left for Castiel to do but close his eyes, take a breath, and leap.

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