What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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porcupine-girl:

Ok, so. Now that we know we’re getting S11, I’ve decided how I want canon Destiel to go:

S10 finale - Cas and Dean are both on their last legs. Dean wants Cas to kill him, Cas wants to use the last of his grace to remove the Mark (and fall, not die). IDK and IDC what the hell else is going on, but the final scene it’s just these two together.

They argue about it. There’s lots of clutching each other and dramatic touching and all that good stuff - nothing overtly sexual or even completely overtly romantic (SUBTEXT).

But once it’s decided that Cas will use his grace to heal Dean, and Cas will be human presumably permanently, Dean starts making all these promises to him, and they pretty much sound increasingly like things you just would not say to your buddy.

“I’ll take care of you this time, Cas, I promise.”
“You’ll come live with me. Us. Me and Sam.”
“I swear to you, Cas, I’ll never leave you.”

They do the thing, however that works. The Mark is gone. So is Cas’s grace. Cas collapses and Dean is holding him, cradling him, stroking his hair, all but kissing him. Cas comes around, still too weak to stand up, they’re kneeling on the ground, Dean still mostly supporting him. The music is super romantic.

Cas: I’m so hungry.
Dean: Yeah, let’s get you something to eat. Whatever you want, man. *pause, dramatic face touching* I’ll give you anything, Cas, anything you want. I swear.

END SCENE

FANDOM GOES ABSOLUTELY FUCKING APESHIT ALL FUCKING SUMMER.

IT IS GLORIOUS.

NOBODY INVOLVED IN THE SHOW SAYS A GOD DAMN WORD ABOUT IT IN EITHER DIRECTION. THEY JUST IGNORE ALL RELATED INQUIRIES.

S11 picks up whatever, a week later, a month later, IDK, probably depends on whatever happened to Sam and Crowley while Dean and Cas were in there saying their wedding vows.

And Dean and Cas are just together. Nobody says a fucking thing about it. It’s not even a thing. It’s just how things are. It’s not overtly acknowledged in ANY WAY for the first several episodes.

We just get all these little signs, getting more and more obvious as the season goes on - touches, smiles. A trenchcoat folded up in Dean’s bedroom. Cas is wearing Dean’s shirts. One of them wakes up freaking out from a nightmare, the other one runs into the room and just climbs right in bed to comfort them.

Life just goes on and this stuff is all in the background because it’s just part of their life now.

THE FANDOM CONTINUES TO EXPLODE AND IT CONTINUES TO BE GLORIOUS.

THE SHIPPERS ARE DYING OF ANTICIPATION.

EVERYONE ELSE IS TRYING TO DECIDE WTF IS GOING ON.

THIS SHOW IS THE TALK OF THE TOWN - EW, MTV, TV GUIDE, EVERYONE - BECAUSE EVERYONE IS TRYING TO DECIDE IF THEY HAVE REALLY GONE THERE OR NOT.

EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE SHOW CONTINUES TO SAY NOT A GOD DAMN WORD.

Finally, several episodes in - maybe even the midseason finale - they’re in the bunker, Dean is sitting down somewhere, IDK, wherever. Cas walks by and Dean just pulls him down into his lap and they start making out.

We didn’t get to see their first kiss, we all get to continue creating our own versions of that in our heads and our fics. Instead we get this as their first onscreen kiss: not a tentative, desperate first kiss but the confident, overtly sexy kissing of two people who both know what the other likes and who know without a doubt that orgasms will be had later.

Sam walks in with the (laptop, book, whatever):

“Hey, so get - Jesus - you guys, I’d tell you to get a room but you’ve already got one. Cas, get off my brother. Please. Anyhow, get this.”

And we continue on our merry way, and nobody makes a big deal out of it, it’s just the way things are now. Except now we get overt things like hand-holding or casual kisses or whatever sometimes.

At some point (maybe after one of them has a close call and the other saves them or something) we get the kind of sex scene we’ve gotten before for het couples, although I doubt the CW would let them take it as far as they took, say, Sam and Ruby. But in bed, shirts off, backs heaving, etc etc.

EVERYTHING IS DESTIEL AND NOTHING HURTS.

(For the record, this is how I think Sherlock should’ve done it between S1 and S2, but c’est la vie.)

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  1. nik-nak-patty-whack reblogged this from porcupine-girl and added:
    I actually was in the fandom back then and I wasn’t expecting cas’ grace to do shit against the mark because it hasn’t...
  2. spinningthehamsterwheel said: WTF kind of person digs into a four year old post to butt in and go “hey, I don’t like your ideas”?
  3. porcupine-girl reblogged this from nik-nak-patty-whack and added:
    Were you in the fandom back then? Bc I mean I didn’t actually expect Destiel to happen and certainly not like this but...
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