Deancas Bingo - hanahaki Disease
Curses of Flowers
Dean gets hit by a curse when hunting a witch. There is only one cure according to Rowena.
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Dean had almost got the witch when she decided to curse him. Of course she decided to curse him. Why couldn’t it be an easy day for the Winchesters and their fellow angel friends. Well Cas and Jack. The rest were assholes in Dean’s mind. He looked at the witch waiting to turn into something but she just smiled as he started coughing up blood and flowers? The witch smiled as she got away from him. Dean stopped coughing as he felt an arm on his shoulder. He looked to see Cas who seemed concerned.
“I’m alright,” Dean choked out. His throat was sore. Cas didn’t believe him though. He could read Dean better than anyone. Even Sam. Cas helped him up as Sam and Jack joined them looking for the witch.
“She got away,” Dean said. His voice was noticeably sore and Sam was concerned and offered to drive but Dean said no until he wasn’t touching Cas anymore and started coughing. Cas grabbed on to him but Sam and Jack already had seen enough to decide they needed to call Rowena.
“I’m fine,” Dean lied, but none of them were believing him as they got him into the impala with Cas by his side. Dean never rode in the back but this time he was. Sam got them back to the bunker and called Rowena to meet them there. Sam made Cas take Dean to the infirmary as Cas held on to him.
“You don’t have to heal me to keep me from coughing,” Dean said. His throat hurt.
“I’m not,” Cas said. Dean was confused as Cas said he would get him some water. Dean started coughing as soon as Cas left as Rowena walked into the room. Cas hurried back and got by Dean’s side and held his hand as the other slowly stopped coughing. Rowena came closer to them and went to examine Dean.
“So what is the diagnosis?” Sam asked. Jack came in and sat on Dean’s other side.
“He has hanakai disease. It’s an old witch curse placed on arrogant men,” Rowena said.
“Arrogant?” Dean asked.
“Now now,” Rowena immediately told him. “I am not saying you are arrogant. I am saying that is what it was used for. A man loves a woman and won’t admit it and then the spell is cursed and the man slowly coughs up blood and flowers for his lover. Her kissing him would be the only way to lift it. It was amusing when the woman would not love him as well because he thought too highly of himself.”
“I don’t love anyone,” Dean whined. Sam muttered something about Lisa. Cas seemed to stay quiet.
“Is there another way to help him,” Cas asked.
“His lover would be the only one,” Rowena said. “He must love someone or the curse would have not worked and you would have yourself a dead witch.”
“Okay, then is there another way to stop the curse?” Sam asked.
“Maybe if you kill the witch who cursed him,” Rowena said. Sam decided that was his option but Rowena seemed to not agree as Sam left with Jack in tow to find the witch. Rowena looked at Dean.
“Now that Sam is gone, do you want to try the question of who your lover is again?” Rowena asked. Dean looked at her confused.
“Why do you think you are not dying whenever Cas is near you but coughing continuously when he is not near?” Rowena asked. Dean didn’t know but he was going to trust that Sam could take care of the witch without thinking about Cas like that. Cas was his best friend not his lover. He didn’t love Cas like that, did he? Cas didn’t say anything but when Rowena left them Cas sat by Dean holding Dean’s hand.
“I don’t think we should tell Sam what Rowena is claiming,” Cas suggested. “It is probably just my consciousness healing you.” Dean agreed as well as the two sat in silence waiting for Sam’s call that the witch was dead.
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Sam called them with the news. Dean got up and was away from Cas for a second when he started coughing up blood and flowers. Cas grabbed him and seemed to think before he kissed Dean. Dean kissed him back. He kissed a guy back. He was kissing Cas on the lips because he loved him.
“I love you,” he said when they parted. He then cleared his throat. “No homo though as Claire would say.” Cas nodded as he moved away from Dean. Dean decided to clean up the blood and flowers so Cas didn’t have to worry about it.
“We can just not tell Sam about what really solved the day,” Cas said quietly.
“We have a while before he gets back,” Dean told him. Cas looked at him confused before he caught on to what Dean was hinting at.
“I figured this was as Claire would say ‘no homo’,” Cas said.
“It is,” Dean said. Cas didn’t believe him though, but pretended that he agreed with him as they slipped off to Dean’s room so they could be ‘just bros’ together.
~
Sam brought back beers to celebrate as Jack sat down texting. Dean was seeing the kid slowly become a teenager and it was interesting to watch Jack become like Claire and Alex.
“Who are you texting?” Dean asked.
“Claire,” Jack said. “On our sibling chat with Alex and Patience.”
“What is so important that you had to text Claire?” Dean asked.
“Just let her know Dads were together,” Jack said. Dean looked at him confused. “I heard you coughing in the background when we were calling Cas. Sam didn’t. Or at least he showed he didn’t. I thought you were going to be too stubborn to admit it but I’m glad you weren’t. I would hate to lose my dad.”
“I didn’t know you saw me as your dad,” Dean said.
“Of course I do,” Jack said. “Also, Claire wants to give you the talk. She is very protective of Cas since he is her dad pretty much.”
“Of course she does,” Dean said, smiling at his kid and pulling him into a hug. Cas and Sam were talking quietly. Right now it was nice to have the family that he had built accepting of him. Even if he hadn’t told his blood family that he had left yet.
