5x21 codas

[imaginary_girl]

Give Us This Day by mahobeme
Cas feels every bit the human he felt yesterday. He's experiencing pain and sensations in places he never knew existed on the human body. Mouth sour, shoulders sore, head leaden. His body — his body — is shaped in the stiff mold of the Impala's back seat. Everything feels heavier as a human; everything feels weighed down with meaning, with something Cas hasn't figured out the name for yet. It's confusing, a nest of emotions that tug and dance in the corner of his mind.

More than anything, it's distracting. Humans feel so much. Too much.

If You're Hanging Around, I'm Holding the Noose by melfice
It's taken a long time, far too long, for him to realize that there are pieces of Castiel in him, like shards of glass. They ache like splinters, like a forgotten piece that the skin has healed over, and it aches worse the more he ignores it.

Because there's more of Castiel's grace inside him these days than there is inside Castiel.