dean saves the world and now he gets to be happy
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“As for your current predicament… there may be something I can do to help.” Cas looks hesitant even as he says it, casting his eyes sidelong at Dean.
Dean turns to him. “What d’you mean?”
Castiel’s lips press into a thin line, all of the jovial glint gone from his eyes. “PTSD and trauma can alter pathways and connections in your brain, in a very physical way. Because these changes are physical… it may be possible to… heal them, in a sense.”
“Heal my brain?” Dean shoots back incredulously.
or the one where they finally talk about what cas said before the empty took him
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There’s a tag sticking out over the collar of the soft cotton, and it’s an easy distraction from Sam’s droning voice. Dean stares at it for a second before reaching over and tucking it back into its rightful spot, his fingertips brushing the back of Cas’s neck in the process.
“I have The Butterflies,” Cas interrupts Sam to announce loudly.
Dean startles back, and Sam stops talking, looks between the two of them in disbelief. Taylor continues to croon.
“I’m sorry- what?”
or the one where dean and sam finally retire, dean bakes, eileen mixes drinks, everyone has the butterflies, and folklore is the album of the year
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“They are-” Cas sighs, “Sam suggested them to me. They’re videos that are supposed to help with anxiety.”
“Okaaay,” Dean draws the word out in obvious question. “I mean, that’s good, right? That they help you. Am I missing something?”
“They’re very- specific, I suppose.”
Dean’s eyebrows furrow, “So, it is a porn thing?”
“No, Dean,” and Cas actually rolls his eyes at him. As if it’s Dean’s fault that Cas isn’t making any sense. Cas has that look like he knows he just has to bite the bullet but he doesn’t want to, and he sighs. “It’s called A.S.M.R. It’s the use of sounds and visual elements to try to induce relaxation in the viewer.”
or the one where cas has recently gotten into watching asmr videos on youtube, and dean finds himself doing the most to be a supportive boyfriend in absolute winchester fashion
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“The point stands,” Castiel interjects, “that both Dean and Sam are experiencing an uptick in the pleasures of restorative emotional releases, that neither seems to be handling very well.”
“Hey!” Sam says, affronted, while Dean mumbles, “I’ll show you handling.”
“You guys need better examples of crying, not whatever your deadbeat dad made you think,” Eileen says with disdain. Dean nods. She's got a point, the man was a deadbeat. “I cry all the time and it’s not weird. I’m upset, I cry, I get over it. Maybe you just need someone with more experience.”
Dean raises an eyebrow. “Meaning…?”
“If you need to cry, then I’ll just cry with you. That way, you can’t feel weird about it because I’m doing it, too.”
or the one where dean (and sam) learn how to healthily handle their emotions for once through the healing powers of a new taylor swift album, while cas and eileen are supportive babes
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