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Chapters: 31/? Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Pre-Relationship - Relationship Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester Additional Tags: PTSD, Episode: s11e06 Our Little World, Episode s11e05, Set after 05 but with ideas from 06, Castiel in the Bunker, Caring Dean Winchester, Caring Sam Winchester, Emotionally Hurt Castiel, Mentions of Castiel's Wings, Castiel's True Form, Mentions of his True Form from his POV, Depressed Castiel, Castiel Angst, Emotionally Hurt Dean, Emotionally Hurt Sam, Drug Use, Assault on OC by another OC, Long recovery, Hurt Castiel, Physically Hurt Castiel, Talk of abusive relationship, Suicidal Thoughts, Some OC POV on Dean and Castiel's relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Learning To Communicate, Dean grows as a person Series: Part 8 of Season 11 fic Summary:
Castiel finds he needs to sink into the shows he's watching. It's harder and harder to drag himself away, and when the Winchesters return from dealing with the supposed ghost of Lizzie, they start to notice.
Sam and Dean do their best to help Castiel accept and recover from the mental and emotional wounds he's suffered, but they aren't exactly wound free themselves, and healing is a battle none of them are trained for.
