spn ficlet: how he might win (Castiel, G)

[fannishliss]

title:  how he might win
author: fannishliss 
warnings: none, G, no pairing
spoilers: 6.22
length: 200 words
disclaimer: do not own, except in the ways I do.  :)

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At the brink of a waterfall, liquid hangs in glassy stasis, suspended before plummeting.

Castiel's power hangs there, roaring, gushing, endlessly exploding, endlessly renewed, aching to become, to transform potential into reality.

Castiel sees every aspect of creation, focused macro to micro, from the cosmos around the little blue island all the way down to the energy bits that swirl to make it up.

He sees back into the stream and forward into the mists of infinite collisions.

He sees himself, powerless, cut off, brutalized by arrogant archangels who willfully shove him out of being, from courageously, painfully, desperately there to gone in a careless snap of fingers.

Only God could bring an Angel back from the scattering of annihilation.

Only God could so easily gather the lost bits together, setting the fragments in orbit like a starry array before letting each little piece snap back into its own rightful place. 

Only God could reinsert an Angel into the fabric of reality from which he’d been torn, give him new strength, new purpose, enough to keep him going, and an inkling of how he might win.

So God does.  As the saying goes, the Lord helps those who help themselves.

Comments

[datenshiblue.livejournal.com]

Is this the essence of "if you want something done right..."? :D

Lovely word pictures to go with an intriguing idea.

<3

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

yes, very much so! My boy was all "is this what you call ... a paradox?" and I was like "Yes!" :D

I remember how much comfort Castiel took from the idea that God had brought him back from the dead, twice .... and then suddenly I realized that Lord!cas was probably the real resurrecter, since no other Angels have been brought back that we know of. It's a bit paradoxical, but if Lord!Cas is in place in the timeline, there's no reason he's not powerful enough to resurrect himself. :P

Then I remember how in the car in 5.22 with Dean he got that little uncharacteristic smirk (very like Lord!Castiel's) when Dean asked him if he intended to be Sheriff (in what I think of as the Impending "Touch of Evil" Noir Moment) and he's all, yeah, I like that. o_O

I think Lord!Cas set classic!Cas up!!!

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

This is a really cool idea.
See I'm still stuck on Raphael's assertion that Castiel could have been brought back by Lucifer ; )

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

thanks, bb!!

The Lucifer idea would open a whole nother can of worms... but of course, it was Luci who killed him the second time -- and he was in the cage when Cas came back (again).