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by Alittleobsessed
“She died quite young,” Castiel affirms.
Dean threads their fingers together into something messy, a cat’s cradle, and follows the intersecting lines of their digits with his eyes as if there is something fascinating about the places they touch.
“Twenty-nine,” he says, and brings their hands to his chest before locking eyes with Castiel, “she was twenty-nine, first time around.”
Must be the niceness of it all, the tranquility of life that caught up to them after too many years running that has Dean so pensive now. He furrows his eyebrows, “I was twenty-nine.”
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Or: Mary died when she was 29 years old. So did Dean, once. Sometimes Castiel has to remind him that being dead and having died are two different things.
Words: 1317, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Mary Winchester
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Additional Tags: Season/Series 16, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, Fluff, Post-Canon, Curtain Fic, Domestic Bliss, POV Castiel (Supernatural), Domestic Fluff, Retirement is great but sometimes the past sneaks up on us, Conversations, a porch a house a sunset and you, Quote: We deserve a soft epilogue my love (nikka ursula)
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