“Could you, uh… could you find someone?”
Dean barely sounds like himself. His voice is a low rasp over the phone. He didn’t introduce himself in any way, didn’t say hello, didn’t call her “your highness.” But Charlie knows it’s him all the same. She can picture him standing in the bunker, holding the phone to his ear, rubbing his other hand across his forehead.
She hadn’t been waiting for the call, but it’s not exactly a surprise to hear from Dean. She saw that “meteor shower,” the one NOAA hadn’t predicted, same as anybody else. She’d looked into it but hadn’t found much—a spike in the birth rate, but that seemed more coincidental than anything else. Then again, when is anything ever a coincidence?
She senses that now is not the time to joke with Dean, so all she says is, “Yeah, probably.”
“He might be—he might be going by Jimmy Novak. Or Emmanuel. He—,”
“Cas? You want me to find Cas?”
Dean is quiet for a moment. Maybe he forgot that she read all Carver Edlund’s books, even the unpublished ones. Charlie hears him swallow before he speaks again. “Yeah.”
“You alright?”
“No. Not really.”
Clearly no more explanation is forthcoming. Back to business. “You got any pictures of him?”
Dean doesn’t say anything, but a moment later her phone buzzes. It’s a scan of a small photo, a face shot, probably left over from one of the Winchesters’ many fraudulent collage projects. The man in it is dark-haired, blue-eyed, tired. He doesn’t look like an angel. One of the photo’s corners is very slightly creased, as if it had been folded and then flattened out again, restored. Charlie wonders if Dean had kept this photo aside, tucked into his wallet, a secret icon.
“Good,” she says. “This will help.”
Dean is quiet again.
“Do you… need something else?” Like someone to talk to?
“Just find him,” he says, and hangs up.
Anonymous prompted: Blaine goes over to Kurt’s house and Kurt is still sleeping. and Kurt sleeps naked. (A/N: I meant to just write a smutty drabble but then I had feelings. So many feelings.)
At 7:07 he texts Kurt to let him know his connecting flight is delayed. At 7:08 he orders a triple shot soy latte and considers a somewhat rubbery looking egg sandwich in the display case. At 7:09 there’s an announcement for a flight going to Newark instead of LaGuardia. Blaine decides he isn’t all that hungry anyway, and rushes to the counter to make the flight.
He takes a cab in, doesn’t feel up to sorting out public transportation from New Jersey to Bushwick this early in the morning. He doesn’t text Kurt again either. His track record with surprises is spotty, but Blaine just figures that means there’s plenty of room for improvement.
Santana opens the door, gives a brief, unimpressed once-over then steps aside. “He’s in his…area,” she says with a flick of her hand, and goes back to her breakfast.
“Oh, is he busy?”
“Probably,” she says around a mouthful of cereal. “You know, flitting through wild flowers, perching on toadstools, spreading fairy dust everywhere. The usual.”
The Five Stages Of Grief
When Castiel dies for the first time, Sam watches Dean grit his teeth and mutter “dumb son of a bitch.” He watches his brother take out his anger in tense, vicious barbs against Zachariah, and then growl out “learned that from my friend Cas” like he’s dedicating Zachariah’s pain to the downed angel.
It’s the first time Cas dies, and the first time Sam wonders just when Dean started to care so much about that angel.
“My dear, find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.━ Falsely yours, Charles Bukowski”
“How do you do it?” Cas asks Sam one day, his eyes red-raw from lack of sleep, jaw dusted in two-day old stubble. “How do you live? How do you stand it?”
Sam’s face is partially obscured by yesterday’s newspaper, but he peers around the edge and quirks one eyebrow at Cas. “I dunno,” he says, and shrugs. “You have to figure out what kind of person you are first, I guess.”
“And how might one go about that?”
Sam looks at him then, really looks. He folds the paper into a square and sets it on the tabletop. “You good, Cas?” he inquires, concern budding in the corners of his eyes.
Cas nods abortively, wrings his hand together. “Yes, I–“ he pauses, sighs. “No, actually.”
Sam shuffles forward in his chair, curls his mouth into a gentle smile. “What’s on your mind?”
Burning Like A Silver Flame
His first time at a gay bar is significantly more depressing than he expected. And really his expectations were not very high in the first place. It’s drab and sticky and the jukebox hasn’t been updated since 1986. It’s also mostly populated by bored looking regulars, all much older than him, not that he couldn’t be into that. Just. Maybe if they didn’t all remind him of his Uncle Fred. Or at least weren’t dead-eyed and flannel clad.
Blaine scans the few groups of men dancing, realizes Sebastian has already ditched him for some random. Just as well, really, but still annoying since he was the one who talked Blaine into this whole thing in the first place.
“Rum and Coke,” Blaine says to the bartender’s back. May as well get a little buzzed while he waits. He fumbles in his wallet for the fake ID Sebastian had gotten him, hops onto a bar stool with a grimace. Seriously, why is everything so sticky?
The bartender plucks the license from his hand and makes a skeptical noise, but sets a glass down in front of him a moment later. Blaine is so busy being horrified by what is stuck to the bottom of his loafer that he takes a swig without looking up.
“I think you forgot the-” Blaine says, pushing the glass of Coke -sans rum- back across the bar. But the rest of the sentence dies in his throat. Now this he can work with.
Dean wakes up when the sun is just bright enough to cast a glow of light between the panes of their open-curtained windows.
His eyes take in the body lying soft and warm beside him; a tuft of dark hair, the curves of muscles and skin and bones, graceful hands made to hold Dean’s face between them—no longer the hilt of a glinting sword. Cas shifts, and with him come the covers as he rolls toward Dean sighing out a breath of content. When his eyelashes flutter open to greet the day, Dean is right there, taking in the flood of blue like he’s thirsty for it.
“Good morning, Dean.”
“Morning, sweetheart.”
Cas presses a kiss to his hair. Dean makes a sound like defeat and comfort rolled into one, and tries a little futilely to pull his arm out from under Cas’s hip.
“Come on, I’ll make us coffee,” he offers, but like every other morning, Cas couldn’t give a care. He presses another kiss to Dean’s temple before heaving himself bodily on top of Dean, trapping all of Dean’s limbs beneath his arms, his legs, and his chest. He reaches out behind him to grab the covers and drag them over the both of their bodies until the only thing Dean can see is the yellow glow of sunlight filtering through cotton, and Cas’s face tucked tightly beneath his chin.
“It’s nice to sleep,” Cas says to his neck, drawing his arms down until Dean can feel clever fingers trailing his ribcage.
“That’s what lazy people say.”
Cas pulls up, only to drop another kiss against his mouth. He gives Dean a thoughtful, considering look, then continues kissing any patch of skin his lips can find.
“One,” he says on Dean’s nose.
“Two,” he says on Dean’s jaw.
“Three,” he says on Dean’s left eyelid.
“Four,” he says on Dean’s shoulder.
“Five,” he says on the apple of Dean’s cheek.
Dean sucks in a breath and lets that familiar feeling of Cas unfurl in his chest.
“Are you really gonna try for a hundred today?” he asks. Cas’s lips linger on the shell of his ear.
“Yes,” Cas answers mildly, like they have all the time in the world for him to lay Dean out and press kisses to his flesh—each a prayer, a salve to the wounds thirty plus years of hunting can leave on a man’s body.
And the thing is, Dean laughs, they do. They have all the time now.
Cas starts shifting down, counting out, “Fifteen,” as he brushes his lips to Dean’s chest, where a heart beats healthy and strong, safe at last. Cas smiles.
Ficlet: In Limine
Amidst the giddy chaos after Mr. Schue and Miss Pillsbury’s wedding ceremony, Kurt felt someone take his hand. He thought it was Blaine at first, but immediately realized that it felt wrong—the fingers too slender and delicate, the palm cooler than the heat Blaine always radiated.
He turned and saw Brittany. She smiled and placed a finger to her lips, then pulled him gently toward the door. He walked with her out to the hallway, staying silent, wondering what she could possibly want.
To Give You Everything
4x15 reaction ficlet.
“Tequila shots. Go.”
Santana thumps a full bottle of Jose Cuervo down on the table and pushes a plate with lime wedges and two salt shakers right up against Kurt’s elbows. He rubs his hands over his face, wearily turns one shot glass over.
They don’t talk, not at first. Just taking shot after shot, Kurt giving a full-body shudder after each bitter, burning swallow, Santana pumping her fist in the air and chanting a litany of swears in Spanish.
“God, you are so fucked up for him,” she finally says, voice too loud and slurred at the edges of each word.
Kurt doesn’t haven’t to clarify which him she’s talking about. He knows. She knows. He knows she knows and she knows he knows and does Adam know? Should he know? The room spins a bit and Kurt presses his fists to his eyes to halt the line of very confusing thoughts swirling around him.
He wants to say that she’s wrong. Or at least that he’s working on not being completely fucked up for him. That he’s getting over him. But the alcohol is a warm thrum in his veins, spreading out from his center, pushing every should, every could, every last bit of defense he’s barely holding on to anymore.
“How do I stop?”
Santana hiccups, licks the patch of salt still left on the web of her thumb and pointer finger. “If you’re looking for advice on how to quit loving someone you’re asking the worst fucking person.”
From Chris Colfer (2:34 PM)
I think I’m in love with him.
Ashley nearly drops her iced coffee in the middle of her living room.
Before she’s gotten the chance to sit down and type out a properly thought-out response to such an abrupt admission, her phone buzzes again in her hand.
From Will Sherrod (2:35 PM)
I love Chris.
Maybe the flower child is just in Castiel; maybe he just grew up a little sideways, a little ‘different’, and that’s why he does stuff like this; Dean doesn’t know.
He found Castiel outside the headquarters in jeans and one of his old shirts, hair a mess. Standing where he was, Dean could only see his back. He was sitting down, and perched on his shoulders, like knots in a line of thread, were six tiny birds.
fic: If I Needed Someone (Glee, Kurt/Blaine)
Title: If I Needed Someone
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~17,500
Summary: BDSM AU. Kurt may be as queer as a two dollar bill, but in New York he doesn’t have to pretend to act like a proper sub on top of all of that. He can hold his head up high and make his own way through the big city without some dom holding his leash. He can be anything he wants.
Notes: Based on this kink meme prompt, though I do take a few liberties with it. I’ve also borrowed bits and pieces of worldbuilding from helenish’s Take Clothes Off As Directed and etothepii’s things you don’t tell me. So much love to zulu for the beta.
It’s not a date.
It is definitely not a date.
That’s why Mike and Mercedes are here too, saving them seats at a table for four in the middle of the cafe, not in the marginal privacy of the corner booths where they used to playfully nudge each other’s feet and smile at one another over the lids of their cups while they pretended their love was safe and untouchable from the harsh realities of the world around them.
It’s not a date.
But that doesn’t stop Blaine’s heart from hammering too hard behind his ribcage while he stands next to Kurt in line near the counter. They’ve both grown and changed since their frequent visits here before Kurt left for New York, before Blaine made a mistake, and before their untouchable love was shaken. Standing here, though, feels like they’ve taken a step back in time. If only for a moment, Blaine feels a flicker of young, hopeful love, and he reaches into his pocket to grab his wallet just to keep himself from grabbing Kurt’s hand instead and lacing their fingers together like he used to.
It’s not a date.
But Blaine’s still paying, since he was the one who offered up the idea of a Lima Bean visit in the first place. The young cashier with her hair perched in a bun on the top of her head calls out a friendly, “Next!” and Blaine takes a few steps forward, not even bothering to glance at the menu before he speaks.
“A medium drip and one grande non-fat mocha, please.”
He hands over the exact amount of cash without waiting for the total, and the cashier chirps out a polite word of thanks.
“You know my coffee order,” Kurt quietly says beside him. Blaine glances to his left to see Kurt smiling thoughtfully, his own lips pursed in a half-smirk while he valiantly tries to keep it from turning into a full-on beaming expression. They’re not together, and it’s not a date. Staring at Kurt like he’s the sun, moon, and stars might not be the best idea—but Kurt doesn’t seem to mind today.
“Of course I do.”
my little cupcake martina asked for an au with teacher!blaine and bp!/student!kurt uwu
rating: nc-17 ; warnings: age difference (kurt is 18, blaine is in his late thirties), spanking, dirty talk, boypussy (for people who are still unaware of what this means: kurt has a vagina. it’s a common kink, especially in this fandom. so don’t read, if you don’t like that ｡◕‿◕｡), oh and a tiny little mention of past kurt/ocs and puckurt
It’s not that Kurt wants to misbehave.
He just can’t help it.
Especially since Mr. Anderson, the new history teacher, is so damn hot when he gets angry.
