With This Stab I Thee Wed
With This Stab I Thee Wed by The Silver Queen
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 8k
“Soul and mind and blood,” the creature says, which makes absolutely no sense to Dean at all. It raises its chin and looks straight at Dean, and its blue eyes are so unreasonably blue, bluer than the sky or the ocean, as piercing as a sunbeam. “You have touched my blood, and I yours. Now by the law of Heaven, we are wed.”
Dean says, “What.”
Or: How Dean accidentally married Castiel (and saved the world) when he stabbed him in the barn.
This Lazarus Rising retelling takes a turn for the unexpected when Dean stabs Cas and… he can’t let go. According to Cas, this means he and Dean are married.
The opening scene is of Cas’s rescue of Dean in Hell, and I instantly trusted this author as they managed to make Dean and Cas feel like Dean and Cas right off the bat. The idea of an accidental marriage though stabbing is a wacky one, but the execution pulls it off flawlessly. The fic makes the reader laugh, cry, and feel a warm ball of warmth in their chest. In just over eight thousand words, the author takes Dean and Cas (and the reader) through Heaven, Hell, and Earth, and tells a convincing and adorable love story along the way.