Fic Title: Looking In the Wrong World
Author: misslucyjane
Fandom/Genre: SPN, Romance, Angst
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 33,000
Spoilers: Minor rumors for upcoming episodes.
Warnings: Depression, discussion of suicide and self-harm, suicidal thoughts.
Notes: Thank you to skidmo for beta. Written for spn_reversebang. Artwork by nanyakanya. Thank you for your beautiful inspriation!
Summary: For six months Dean has thought Castiel was killed by the Leviathan, but a little girl with an artistic bent insists Castiel is alive and can be saved. Dean doesn’t know how to save someone without a monster to fight, but Castiel is in need of rescue nonetheless.
Art link: : Art Masterlist

From Orpheus and Eurydice, A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr

“The Entrance to the Underworld”

A common enough mistake:
looking in the wrong place.
It’s not a fissure
in the earth, or crack
in a cliff face
that leads sharply down.

You were looking in the wrong
world. It was inside
you —entrance
to that cavern
deeper than hell,
more dark and lonely.
Didn’t you feel it open
at her first touch?

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