[Supernatural Fic] Sunshine

[daylight_darknight]

Title: Sunshine
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Rating: G
Spoilers: Set in season 5, but no specific spoilers for any of the episodes
Summary: "Dean was lying on the grass watching the sunshine through his eyelids."



Dean was lying on the grass watching the sunshine through his eyelids. For once, in this small moment, he was content. He was happy to just stay there listening to the distant sound of children playing and the soft sound of his brother snoring beside him. And forget everything else.

Taking a deep breath, he let his muscles relax sinking deeper into the ground.

Unfortunately, his attempt at relaxation was disturbed when a shadow fell over him. Tensing, he opened his eyes to find the familiar shape of Castiel blocking his light. The rebel angel formed a dark silhouette against the sun, an oddly bright halo glowing around him. He was looking down at them curiously, head cocked to the side.

Dean groaned.

“Are you and Sam alright?” Cas inquired.

“We were fine until you got here,” replied Dean glancing over at his brother who remained ignorantly dozing.

“I have important information for you.”

“No.”

Castiel pulled back his forehead furrowed in confusion. “What?”

“I said ‘no’.”

“But it’s vital that…”

“It can wait,” Dean insisted vehemently. “We’ve got more important things to do.”

“More important than the apocalypse?”

“Yes!”

Castiel’s head slowly tilted to the other side. “Is this more of that human stuff?”

“Exactly,” declared Dean. “Humans don’t just need food and sleep. We need breaks, time out and sunshine, lots of sunshine.”

With a deep breath, Dean closed his eyes hoping Cas would just fly away once more. And as he waited, the shadow did disappear from his face, but then he heard the distinct sound of someone lying down on the grass beside him. Eyes suddenly wide open, he glanced to his right to see Castiel on his back on the grass his hands laced behind his head.

“Cas? Wha…”

Castiel gave a slight shrug as he continued to stare straight at the sun in his disturbingly non-blinking way. “Angels need sunshine too,” he said.

Dean huffed in disbelief and shook his head before breaking into a grin. Closing his eyes once more, he let himself sink back into the grass. On his left, his brother snored. On his right, an angel let his blue eyes absorb the light of the sun.

Comments

[tptigger]

Nice. This, incidentally, is the first supernatural fic I've dared approach since watching the Season 5 opener. It gives me hope that things will get a little better between Sam and Dean. (I don't blame Dean, just... argh.)
I may actually brave episode 2 on the DVR sooner than I otherwise might have. (Have last week's Dollhouse to watch, and need to get through my TSCC S2 DVDs to make sure they're OK--I'm just glad to have finished S4 before the library wanted it back.)
Which is way more babbling about SPN in general than your very nice ficlet, which I really do like. Nice and peaceful. (Perfect for a break between studying the dreaded writing of cover letters. :)

[daylight_darknight]

Thanks so much for the comments. :)

And there definitely is hope though you might have to get through a few episodes to reach it.

[starandrea]

I don't watch Supernatural, but I love you, and I'm delighted to have read this fic: hooray for peace and sunshine ::warm fuzzies::

[tptigger]

I'm trying to decide if I should talk you into watching Supernatural or not (IE whether or not I think you'd like it). Refresh my memory, did you like Buffy and Angel?

[longbca.livejournal.com]

Great! Very sweet!