It's really the unseen that gets you in destiel. First time you see them meet is NOT the first time. Camera panning out to leave them staring at each other in an alley. Prayer every night in purgatory but you don't hear it. Heaven Can't Wait fanfic gap. Everyone knowing so much about Cas but you never see Dean talk about him. Cas' phone screen blown up with calls&texts you can't read. Mentioning the Tombstone watch in the Dean cave that only Cas knows about. Gossiping offscreen about the cardigan. etc
The excruciatingly long stretches of looking at Dean raking leaves, carrying the trenchcoat from car to car. Of waiting for the other to come back from the heavenly war, from captivity. Man, they had so much. So much domesticity, so much yearning, longing to be in contact, to just be with each other, to be safe. To love.
