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TWENTY-FOUR CREAM OF THE CROP BDSM FICS!!

There are three main categories:

BDSM Alternate Universe (3): Au trope where everyone is born a dom or a sub.

Safe, Sane and Consensual (10): Mostly AUs where they have some experience in the scene and try to work through things in a healthy way. It’s not, always, because they’re them and messy and human. But these are typically on the more realistic side of things (at least the negotiation/agreement side).

Don’t Try This At Home (11) - dark, a lot of pain and bloodplay, characters handling themselves or each other in ways you probably shouldn’t put into practice..but reading them is HOT (for some of us, anyhow).

BDSM Alternate Universe: everyone is born a Dom or a Sub

all the other things by @reallyelegantsharkfish (Destiel) - Words: 8,439

Castiel is a dom at a service for unattached subs. Dean never knew being a sub didn’t have to hurt.

This is such an incredible story of kindness and healing. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s just gorgeous and sweet.

The Meaning On My Skin by @saltnhalo (Destiel) - Words: 82,787

Castiel despises everything about being a dom. Then he meets Dean, and begins to see there might be another way.

I love the way this weaves in the ‘born a dom’ au, insecure Cas, tattoo artist Dean, a lot of personal growth and some blazing hot, gentle BDSM.

Closer to Bound, Closer to Free by bendingsignpost (Destiel) - Words: 5,867

Sam is going far, and the country needs his leadership. So Dean holds off on what he wants to be sure nothing gets complicated. Even when he meets Cas.

This is an incredible take on the characters - the way Sam serves the greater good, the way Dean serves him. It’s an incredible take on the BDSM AU - the culture of it, the assumptions, the dynamics...it’s an incredible world built in very few words.

Safe, Sane, Consensual: trying to do their best in an imperfect world

riptides by @reallyelegantsharkfish (Destiel) - Words: 138,635

“I’m going to kiss you now.”

This is one of the most gorgeous things I’ve read in my existence. Truly. It is heartfelt, it is sweet, it is filthy, it gets into a vast number of kinks, the ups and downs of BDSM, delves into some dark and difficult character exploration, and ends up...transcendent. Read the tags, but then read the fic. You will not regret it.

Four Letter Word For Intercourse by @bendingsignpost (Destiel) - Words: 194,739

As a grease monkey turned college freshman, Dean's constantly three seconds away from being stressed out of his mind. It hardly helps that he's finally figuring out his sexuality in his thirties.

What might help with that stress is a little phone number (and a big credit card bill). If he can't figure out how to be bisexual in person, he can at least give it a go over the phone, right?

This is another one that is just...incredible. It is sweet, it is heartfelt, it is hot, it is a story of self discovery and mistaken identity and bravery, and it is a really great representation of something healthy growing out of a lot of angst and doubt.

Unsolicited by @dangerousnotbroken - (Destiel) Words: 56,348

Dean get a dick pic from a wrong number...and he cannot believe who it’s from.

Porn star Cas. Mechanic Dean. Hotness, sweetness, and a whole lotta fantastic sexy times ensue. This is just 100% fun and lovely.

Love, light me on fire by ThePornFairy (Destiel) - Words: 3,841

He took a deep breath, wanting nothing more than to turn around and forget this, forget what he was about to do, just go back to never having to deal with it ever again. Instead, he threw the heavy object in his hand on the table before crossing his arms and all but glaring at his husband, whose smile disappeared as his eyes narrowed.

Incredible character exploration and seeing Dean as a masochist with self esteem issues is so true and the way Cas takes care of him is so lovely. It’s hurt/comfort, S/M style.

Kinetics by kittenbot (Destiel) - Words: 106,440

Set in the modern world without the supernatural, Dean is a sculptor and Castiel is a photographer. Castiel is also a Dom and Bakushi—an expert that ties people up in the traditional Japanese way; his specialty is suspension ties. Cas wants to show Dean how wonderful submission can be and he’s absolutely dying to tie Dean up and suspend him. Dean wants to let him.

A long, plotty, character exploration and BDSM scene exploration sort of fic. It will break your heart and heal you. I love this one so much.

Aesthetics in Autoerotica by @relucant (Destiel) - Words: 8,260(+)

Cas is a photography student doing an erotic shoot, Dean is a student who needs money and does some modeling on the side. It ends up being more than either of them expected.

This is incredibly hot and steamy and lovely - it has many of your kinky needs, and the BDSM starts slowly but there are gorgeous rope scenes and soft Dom!Cas is just delicious.

I Wanna Get Outside (Of Me) by emwebb17 (Destiel) - Words: 142,717

Castiel is a diagnosed OCD suffering from PTSD and agoraphobia, mysophobia, and dystychiphobia. The only outlet that’s been helpful is for him to have control over a sub. Dean is the novice submissive who may be his last hope.

This is lovely. It deals with some hard things, so read the tags and be ready for some emotional times, but it is beautifully handled, the character development is fantastic and the hotness is off the scales.

Cloud Nine by Ltleflrt (Destiel) - Words: 2,254

Alpha Cas is a sub, and his Omega is happy to take him apart when he needs it.

Some gorgeous role reversal A/B/O fic.

Send Me Thorns by nhpw (Destiel) - Words: 34,297

Castiel is an experienced masochist submissive whose first meeting with Dean doesn’t go well. But when they end up working together, Cas is forced to consider that there’s more to Dean than he’d realized.

An animal shelter, a masochist, an idiot with a dash of romance and insecurity - this is so lovely in so many ways. It’s sweet and hot and plotty and wonderful.

Russian to the Altar by @malmuses (Destiel) - Words: 144258

It turned out that Castiel was a Russian erotic novelist in need of a ticket to America, and Dean… well, Dean was a last resort.

Picture, if you will, Cas with a Russian accent, Dean baking cooking and cakes, the two of them married and having not a damn clue what to do with each other, except maybe crush from afar. Until they start having a D/s relationships as friends, which of COURSE isn’t how either of them feel. Slow burn, but with lots of sex, funny jokes, hot hot hot D/s scenes, a lot of desire to bash them both over the head, and then an ending that makes it all worth it. So good.

Don’t Try This At Home: it may not be healthy but it’s hot

Countin' One Two Three by Minxchester (ComeAlongPond14) (Dean/Cas/Sam/Gabriel+) - Words: 7,963

AU in which Sam and Dean Winchester are not relatively moral hunters who travel around saving people, but are instead road-tripping, bank-robbing, diner-dining rogues with nothing but their car, a slightly-too-intimate sibling relationship, and a passion for double-teaming cute waiters.

This is basically just a smutfest. If you’re looking for Wincest, it takes a very long time to get there, but it does happen. if you’re looking for WinCasWin, there’s plenty of that to soothe you before you get to any real brotherly sexy times. This is unabashed porn, and it is on FIRE.

Blind Date by @hazeldomain (Wincest) - Words: 1,489

Sam finds out Dean has a kink for anonymous gang bangs, and takes advantage of that to feed a kink of his own...

Some hot wincest pwp. Nothing more to say, it’s just smokin’. Non-con, officially, but ultimately desired.

All Inclusive K!ink by Amazonia_8 (WinCasWin) - Words: 29,552

Castiel has never been in a BDSM relationship, but he’s ready to fully submerge himself in the lifestyle. Dean has been a dom for a long time, but Cas is something entirely new and irresistable.

The second story in this series is my favorite, but this entire thing is just out of control hotness. Sub slave Cas, experienced Doms Dean and Sam. I love this take on the brothers, and on Cas, and the way it shows them working through their insecurities and unwillingness to communicate in order to help them develop a healthier relationship. Sam is brilliant and insightful and dark. Dean is sweet and thoughtful and a well meaning mess. Cas is inexperienced and stubborn, but he knows what he wants. This is definitely a go-to for me!

SextersAnon.com by @unforth (Destiel) - Words: 16,739

SextersAnon.com, is a site that helps like-minded individuals find each other for anonymous sexting. Dean and Cas have no idea what they’re getting themselves into when they match up!

This and it’s sequel Offline are just incredible. It is incredibly emotional and goes into a lot of difficult trauma and backstory. But it is absolutely incredible. Dean is a sadist, Cas is a masochist and they are a PERFECT match...if only they can get through all the baggage, history and fears that keep them apart. Grab a tissue box and have a friend available for comfort, and then go read this fic!!! (Happy ending, just a rough time getting there.)

Dirty Laundry by vipjuly (Destiel) - Words: 28,566

Dr. Castiel Novak is a leading name in the mental health community. When Dean Winchester, self-proclaimed Golden Gardens killer, lies down on his couch for the first time, Castiel feels it. Dean is exactly who he says he is.

Aw, yeah. That’s some quality murder husband fic, right there. This is supremely written dark destiel, and I am HERE FOR IT. The push/pull of it is very Hannibal-esque...it’s just lovely, dark and deep and stunning in the best ways.

Ancient Cultivars by @wingstocarryon (Sastiel) - Words: 7063

Castiel cries for the first time, and Sam doesn’t know what to do. He just does what he can.

This is such a deep and heartbreaking and beautiful exploration of Sam and Cas, on the same and opposite sides of the same trauma. It’s panic attacks and feeling at home and using pain to find a way back...it’s stunning and I can’t say enough about it.

Orpheus by sysrae (Destiel) - Words: 84,007

Dean keeps going back because he thinks he deserves what they give him. But when Castiel picks him up, it’s different. And it’s just the beginning.

Long, plotty, thought provoking AU exploration of Alistair and Dean and the aftermath of that. how Cas comes in not understanding any of it, but treating Dean kindly because that’s the way he is, and it’s hard and also needed so deeply. This is another one that’s just stunning and hard but so worth while.

Willing by @chiisana-sukima (Wincest) - Words: 13,466

After expelling Gadreel, Sam kills himself to close the Gates of Hell. Dean copes poorly alone, and then they cope poorly together.

The atmosphere of this fic is incredible - gritty, noir desaturated feeling to it. It’s subtle and thought provoking and you see Dean serve in a way he really doesn’t in canon, but the growth of it, the way he gets there, is utterly believable and perfect. This is absolutely one of my favorites of all time.

hurt me because you love me by blamethemusk (Sastiel) - Words: 4,374

Sam is a masochist. Castiel is not a sadist, but he can adapt.

Castiel serving the Winchesters in difficult ways is probably one of my favorite things. Here, Castiel gives Sam the pain he needs because no one else can. This is so dark and painful and so full of love. I can’t explain it. If you like some loving S/M, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Rise Above It by @silver9mm (Destiel, Wincestiel) - Words: 10,692

Cas wants to show Dean that, despite what he did in Hell, he’s not a monster. Dean disagrees.

This is the darkest, hardest fic I’ve ever loved. Definitely heed the tags. BUT, it’s also gorgeous and full of an incredibly selfless love, and it has such strong characterization and exploration of motives and mindsets...truly a masterpiece.

Dollars & Cents by ekbe_vile (Destiel) - Words: 4,602

Dean has a taste for causing pain, and Cas takes it.

Heartbreaking, this one. But again, so much exploration of character in the giving and receiving of pain. There are threads of repentance and horror and challenges of self acceptance. So much packed into so few words.

Been Down So Long by BlindSwandive (Wincest) - Words: 14,404

Sam’s addicted to demon blood and Dean is willing to do absolutely anything to get him over it.

Dark, dark, dark. Non-con all the way. Sam needs demon blood and it’s making Dean crazy. This is so well done - you can see the downward spiral for them both. Sam is an unreliable narrator while experiencing withdrawal; Dean is coming unraveled trying to take care of an unwilling Sam. Chilling but gorgeous. If you like bloodplay/blood-drinking, this is the fic for you.

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hippychick006 · 5 years

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14.19 - Jack in the Box Recap

I mean I absolutely loved this episode, one of my favourites, if not the best episode ever written.

But enough about The Benders… this recap/review is on 14.19, Jack in the Box. Predictions have been coming in ever since the episode title was released that Jack was going to end up in the box that Dean built for himself way back in the season. I was hoping we weren’t going to go that literal, but no, the episode ultimately does exactly what it says on the title.

Some excellent scenes, but as is usual with me, a lot of things that irk so scroll on by to the next post if you want to avoid negativity, particularly note the tags.

This one was a mixed bag, I’m not too sure how I feel yet about the episode as a whole. It’s not a love love love, but it’s not a clunker either. That aside, there’s no denying there were several stand out scenes that, regardless of who did what to whom, made for some pretty awesome television between the actors, all of whom brought their A game. 2 scenes in particular between Sam and Dean and 1 between Dean, Sam and Jack. A lot of the other scenes were actually okay, and they packed a surprising amount into this episode that didn’t leave me with whiplash for once - which Buck-Leming episodes have a tendency to do.

Most of my negativity on this one is on the opening couple of scenes, but my mood does get better as the post goes on... I think.

I don’t know if anyone else notice the opening montages, but Sam and Dean are barely in this one. This is the penultimate episode and your number 1 and 2 on the call sheet got a scant few seconds of recap. It was all Castiel, Jack, Nick and the angels. We don’t even get a shot of Sam’s face at Mary’s replicant burning, just Dean. For me, it’s just a reflection of the issues I’ve been having with this season in particular; if the recap for the penultimate episode doesn’t have much of your leads in it, then that to me is a problem for your writing. JMHO. Others can and do disagree, no biggie.

We open on what appears to be a wake for Mary. Complete and total strangers they’ve pulled off the streets of Vancouver to stand around looking sadly at personal objects of Mary’s on the map table. I think once again I’m supposed to be sad, and I am, seriously, I’m in mourning for my show. I’m in mourning because this scene if they’d written the character and story correctly and hadn’t cheapened death, should have been sad and it just… isn’t. kicks my stuck record player and moves on.

Mary’s three sons – Sam, Dean and Castiel – and I can’t with this god damn fan fiction pandering shit – come out from the library and Dean speaks to the strangers. “We know that her family were beyond just us.” (Family mention right out the gate, fantastic, I’m always worried they won’t fit in enough family references throughout the episode). Thankfully, for the safety of my television 28 floors up, Dean points to just Sam when he says, “just us.” But I need someone else’s input, but was this line a dig? I feel that it’s a dig, and given the writers and showrunners, I wouldn’t put it past them to get snarky because a lot of us haven’t liked the “found family” bullshit they’ve tried to force and haven’t been quiet about it.

I know I’m not meant to, but I can’t help laughing my way through this scene, particularly when Dean describes Mary as someone who was “tough, strong… stubborn as hell” (which she is, that’s not the problem), but it’s the fact that raises a chuckle from the complete strangers who all nod and go “yes, that was her!” Sam’s just nodding his way through this (like the Churchill bulldog in a British TV ad for insurance), but we do get the camera moving to him at one point so they’ve remembered he’s one of her sons, even though they didn’t show him the same way as Dean in the montage earlier… (sometimes I’m just a bitter Sam fan, ignore me and move on)

They raise a toast to mom and say goodbye.

Just as they are finishing, one of the strangers gets hit with an axe to the head. All the hunters immediately rush into action, running for weapons and preparing to deal with whatever just did it because they are hunters, that’s how hunters react when under attack.

I wish, but no, they all just stand around not really doing much of anything, other than looking clueless, until fake!Bobby walks in and smiles at them.

Turns out to be a wraith from a nest that Bobby and Mary took out on their last hunt. Okay, I’m going to go ahead and allow that Sam and Dean are far too grief stricken to apply tests to people, so they just allow everyone to walk straight into the bunker (test for a wraith by the way would be a mirror). I’m also going to presume they all knew the “hunter” wasn’t from the AU, but everyone just though he was Random!hunters plus 1 so didn’t think to ask who the hell he was.

Fake!Bobby asks how Sam is. He answers that it’s tough. Fake!Bobby asks “And the other one" nodding his head at Dean. Sam responds, “Dean… he seems to doing okay, hard to say.” Fake!Bobby: “Yeah, maybe he’s like me, being teary in public is not my style.” I think this line is to remind us that Fake!Bobby isn’t our Bobby and he really doesn’t know them at all. Worth noting that Castiel doesn’t get asked how he feels so make of that what you will.

Dean’s packing up the personal effects into a box, Sam tells him most everyone else is heading out, he suggests they open the bottle of scotch Ketch left, hang around and talk about mom. Dean: “Talk about mom? Isn’t that what we’ve been doing?” He leaves the room, leaving Fake!Bobby, Castiel and Sam just standing there.

Sastiel are in the kitchen looking at a picture of Mary, when Fake!Bobby joins them, bringing a beer for Sam. Fake!Bobby asks Sam what happened to Mary because he’s hearing “the kid…” He doesn’t finish because Dean walks in. Castiel’s still trying to get back in Dean’s good books and asks if he needs anything. Dean says that yeah, he needs a drink. Fake!Bobby tells him the bar's open and points to the fridge. Dean says no, he’s going to go out for a while.

Sam says they need to talk about Jack (which is 100% Sam because he never allows himself to grieve, he locks it up and focuses on the problem at hand, he did the same with Jessica, their dad and now again with their mom). He’s as dysfunctional as Dean is when it comes to facing his grief. But I think Sam is also more accepting of her death than Dean, because he knows she’s in a happy place (which he believed for Jessica and their dad due to his faith, but at the time of their deaths, he didn’t know for sure), so I think he’s sad, yes, but I don’t know that he thinks it’s altogether bad that she’s with their dad and no longer having to hunt, whereas I think Dean’s coming from his perspective, he’s lost his mother all over again.

Dean says, “we will” (talk about Jack later) and then walks out. Sam’s not overly happy about it, but he knows his brother and he’s learned that this is the way Dean deals with grief and he doesn’t go running after him.

As soon as Dean leaves, Fake!Bobby turns to Sam and says, “About that, I liked the kid, we fought together, but there’s only one way this ends.”

Castiel: Bobby’s right, we have to find Jack and help him.

Oh Castiel, I really don’t think that’s what Fake!Bobby meant.

Sure enough, Fake!Bobby’s face when he looks at Castiel could turn him to stone, “What? That kid, he killed Mary.”

Castiel: I know that…

Fake!Bobby: Don’t say but…

Castiel: But…he, Jack may not even realise that what he did was wrong

Fake!Bobby: If his human side is gone, you know what’s left… Lucifer. Now if you boys want to sit around and talk, fine, but me, I’m going to get on the horn to some of my people and go find that boy.

Castiel: And what then?

Fake!Bobby: An unstoppable monster, who don’t know right from wrong, gets put down, or the closest we can get to it, and anybody who don’t know that, needs to go back to school

I’ve put this whole dialogue in to point out that Sam says nothing during that entire scene. He was window dressing. They wrote an entire scene for side character fake!Bobby and side character Castiel with Sam in it, so anyone, anyone at all that says we don’t get better writing for J2 because “J2 want time off…” I’ll be slapping this scene down every single time because Jared was there, he just wasn’t being used.

Jack looks to be in an abandoned warehouse. He’s flashing back to killing Mary. He says, “I wish you were here… mom” and I think some people (those watching the fan fiction version of the episode) are interpreting that as Mary, but it’s Kelly he’s calling for. He knows who his mother is. He asks her to tell him what to do.

Hallucifer appears saying the usual stuff; that the Winchesters don’t care about him. He’s nothing to them, just a little pet monster. Jack responds that no, they’ll understand, “I’ll explain to them, it was an accident, and I tried to bring her back, and… they’ve made mistakes too…” Hallucifer tells Jack they hate him and Jack’s all he’s got, and him.

We switch to night and see the impala is parked and the music in this scene would be best utilised in a b movie horror flick. Oh wait…

It’s really dark, but I eventually see Dean and he’s crying out in the middle of nowhere and yes this is sad, and yes Jensen is great, but I’d love the scene a lot more if it hadn’t become forced over the last couple of seasons. It’s just “oh, it’s that time of the season where Dean cries.” Okay then. And as I’ve said, this isn’t on Jensen at all, but these scenes are just no longer organic for me personally - great if you still enjoy them.

We’re in heaven, I hate heaven. I hate how corporate it is. The same with Hell. Actually the same with wherever Death lives too. They’ve turned all these places into corporations. Duma hands a file to a minion and Cass appears. He wants to see Naomi and Duma tells him once again that she is unavailable. Cass presses why, Duma tells him Naomi’s been demoted and is in a tiny cell, Duma’s currently in charge. Castiel tells her he needed Naomi’s help in finding an archangel. Zzzzzzzz

Duma says that there’s none left. Castiel tells her about the problem with Jack and that he has grown “massively powerful… dangerously so”.

Why would you tell the angels that? Weren’t they after Jack’s powers at one point to sort out heaven? Even without that, when have the angels ever done anything that can be trusted, Castiel?

Castiel tells her that Jack’s burned through his soul and is on the run from the Winchesters, fearing their fury, but he thinks Jack can be salvaged and “rehabilitated with patient moulding and guidance.”

Duma says she’ll see what she can do. Me: Yeah, I bet you will.

Sam’s on his laptop when Dean returns. He asks Dean how he’s feeling, which Dean ignores to ask Sam what he’s working on. Sam says he’s trying to find Jack and that they need to find him, “before Bobby and his crew because if they find him first…” Dean: “He’s going to kill them all.” Sam says he doesn’t know. Then with no lead in, to what they were just talking about, Sam randomly says that he can’t stop thinking about mom.

Sam: I can’t stop thinking that… most people, it’s, it’s, it’s… hope and faith, right? That’s all they have, but we know the truth, we know God is real, we know Angels are real, too…”

Dean: God writes paperback books in his underwear, okay… and angels are dicks.”

Sam: But, they’re real, right… we know that mom’s not sitting on a cloud, playing a harp, she’s in a good place, she’s in a great place, she’s with dad…”

Dean nods, and responds, “You know what else, there wasn’t even enough of her left to even try to bring her back.”

I think some people had a problem with this promo clip, and I did too when I saw it. The conversation doesn’t seem to connect. It could possibly have been written better, but I don’t think it’s supposed to connect. Sam brings up mom, because he wants Dean to understand that even though she’s dead, they know she’s happy, that her being dead and with their dad isn’t the worst thing. I believe it’s the start of Sam’s campaign on trying to get Dean to rethink about Jack. Sam - though he’s not coming right out and saying it (because he knows his brother) - is still Team Save Jack (with Castiel). Dean on the other hand is reminding Sam, that what Jack did was so terrible, that there was nothing that could be brought back and there’s no coming back from that. So he knows what Sam is doing and he’s making it clear he’s no longer Team Save Jack. That’s just my thoughts on this scene, because otherwise, yeah, I’ve got nothing.

Back with Jack, and Duma has found him. Jack asks how she found him, but the writers don’t want to bother to explain the unexplainable, so Duma ignores it, and tells Jack exactly what he wants to hear, “It wasn’t your fault… it was a mistake. That doesn’t mean you don’t deserve redemption. I know, heaven knows, your mother knows that you have a glorious destiny.”

Puppy!Jack: I do?

Duma: You couldn’t save Mary Winchester, but you can save so many others, even heaven itself. You could make the world so much better. And think how happy that would make Sam and Dean.

Oh you complete bit...

Jack visits the office of a Dr Tate, who seems to write books on “the hidden agenda of religion.” and “imagine there is no heaven.” I quietly sing “above us only sky…” as Dr Tate asks (without looking up), “You’ve come about the leak in my bathroom?” We switch back to Jack, and Duma has appeared suddenly beside him, and can I just say, Duma has to the be the quietest angel ever, not a single flap of wings to announce her presence, very similar to my other favourite angel Zachariah.

She says “hardly.” (to the question about the leak). She has a conversation with Dr Tate about his beliefs, which don’t seem to match with Heavens - in that he doesn’t believe in Heaven. Duma tells him, “in more civilised times that was called heresy, and those ideas were an affront to heaven.”

Dr Tate: If there were a heaven.

Puppy!Jack (enthusiastically): Oh… there is, I’ve been there.

Dr Tate: I see! And I suppose you saw god?

Puppy!Jack (sadly): No… but he is my grandfather

Dr Tate: Huh… so that would make your father…

Puppy!Jack: Lucifer.

Duma: “Dr Tate, heaven is not unreasonable, you can avoid divine retribution by announcing to your considerable audience, that you’ve had a revelation, that everything you’ve written to date is false, that God is good...”

Dr Tate: Security!!

Or he tries to call security, but Jack TK’s the phone away and turns him to salt. Jack smiles when he’s done and the puppy thinks he’s done something good, but he’s done way worse than pee on the rug. Bad Jack, very, very bad!

Once again, Dean is off to the side and Team Sastiel (also known as Team Save Jack) are sitting together at a table. Castiel has updated Sam and Dean about his trip to heaven. Sam’s on board, “So the angels, they’re going to help us?”

Castiel: I was promised every effort would be made to locate Jack.

Dean (to Cass): Oh, heaven promised? Great. (to Sam). Well, we should take that to the bank.

Castiel: Jack’s powers could also be a threat, it serves them to help find him.

No shit Sherlock. But it also serves them to find him and use him. What were you even thinking? But it’s that time of the season you try to help by doing something dumb that’s going to backfire spectaculacularly, so what can we all do, but accept it?

Sam says he’s been looking for anything weird and reads from his laptop telling them a university professor was turned into salt. Dean asks why that sounds familiar and Castiel answers that it’s biblical. The thing is, Dean’s been shown to know the bible, as has Sam so I would think they would know this common story - maybe not others, but this one for sure.

Sam goes on to explain that the professor was an atheist, that wrote a bunch of books trying to disprove god and heaven.

Dean: Okay, so you think an angel iced him.

Castiel: No ordinary angel could do something like that.

Switch to Dean’s thinky face.

Sam tells them there’s another, a few hours later a woman (a fake faith healer according to the headline) fell into a crevice that had opened up and she was killed. Dean asks, “Like a sinkhole?” Sam said, “That’s what I thought too, but a witness said it was more like a fissure opened under her feet then closed back up with her inside).

Castiel quotes from the bible and says its 26:10

Sam says she a tv evangelist under investigation for stealing thousands of dollars through fake charities.

Dean: So… either Chuck came back, which that ain’t gonna happen (sledgehammer anvil warning or spoiler alert) or…”

Castiel: Jack

Jack’s back in heaven with Duma who tells him he’s done excellent work. That working together they can bring the glory days back (or words to that effect). Jack is only interested in one thing, “Sam and Dean will like that?” Me: *pets. Duma responds, “Words can’t begin to express how Sam and Dean will feel.” Me: Oh, you betcha. (wait, was I just channeling Donna?). Duma brings him to a room. She wants Jack to take a human soul and forge it into an angel. Wait, what?

Duma: What do you say?”

Me: “I SAY YOU ARE MAKING THIS UP AS YOU GO ALONG.”

Well, I don’t so much say it as shout it. Sorry about that outburst. Angels came well before humans so I’m really looking forward to the explanation for how on earth a human soul can be made into an angel.

Duma tells Jack that the room she’s brought him to is where his grandfather received prayers. She leaves him to make himself available to hear prayers.

Jack sits on the throne and the more I see the throne, I can’t help but wonder if Dean is going to end up on that throne running heaven and Sam’s going to end up on the dark throne running hell. I’m usually wrong, but I’ve just always got that feeling, from the speech Chuck gave once to Dean, “You, Sam, others that are the chosen, will have to find a way. It’s why I saved you years ago. You’re the firewall between light and darkness.” Anyone that knows IT, knows there’s always 2 firewalls at either side of a connection. Sam would be the firewall for Darkness (Hell), Dean would be the firewall for Light (Heaven) and the earth in between would be safe from both (because angel or demon, they are all dicks). Hippychick does meta... badly so we quickly move on!

Jack sits on the throne and hears many thoughts at once, until one voice comes through louder than others. We switch to that voice, which is a woman delivering a prayer to a congregation. She tells them that “Pastor Aimes is coming by to discuss The Book of Samuel.” Everyone seems very happy with that, so it’s obviously a group of Sam fans. Jack flaps in and is invited to join them. Jack introduces himself and he’s ditched the name “Winchester.” He’s just “Jack”. He asks them if they meant it when they said they wanted to go to heaven. They nod enthusiastically. He asks if they wouldn’t mind becoming angels. Again, everyone is all on board the angel train. The leader saying, “that would be a dream.” Jack says it doesn’t have to be a dream, and shows his powers, and he’s his father’s son, because we get a lightning display outside the church and then Jack glows golden, his wings appearing as a shadow on the wall behind, before returning to normal. He asks them to come with him to heaven.

Pastor Aimes arrives. Jack says he’s taking his friends to become angels, and would Pastor like to join them. Pastor Aimes – who unfortunately for him missed Jack’s display of powers - is dismissive (while at the same time wondering why the audience and leader are in a trance). Jack kills Pastor Aimes by having him be eaten by worms which is a bible reference to King Herod. Anyway, it’s a gruesome death. Jack smiles because he’s doing such a good job and Sam and Dean will be so pleased with him. He leaves with the congregation.

Oh wait, the pastor’s not actually dead, he’s in hospital, all bandaged up, so Sam and Dean - and of course Castiel because Chuck forbid they do what they used to do on their own any more without him being forced into every scene to avoid the meltdowns from his fanbase – pose as FBI and ask him what happened. He tells them the congregation were taken to heaven to become angels. They both look at Castiel who looks a little uncomfortable. Sam shows a photo of Jack and Pastor Aimes confirms that was who he saw. He explains that Jack waived his hand and cuts opened up and worms crawled out. He tells them that “he (Jack) said he was carrying out heaven’s orders and that I wasn’t a believer.”

Dean: Well… feel better.

Oh Dean. Empathy!

They go outside the room to talk and Castiel quotes again from the bible.

Sam (surprised): So…this is another bible thing?

Seriously? Seriously Dabb? In your penultimate episode, you have Sam fucking Winchester look dumber than a bunch of rocks that he’s not already made that connection himself?

Dean wonders what the hell is going on (probably with the writing for both he and his brother in this episode so far) and walks away.

What the hell do you mean what the hell is going on? This case is probably the easiest you’ve ever worked on. Jack has been misguided by heaven into carrying out their work. Duh!

Sam is the last to leave and we see that the worms are still coming out of Pastor Aimes, and that’s a horrible death. REMEMBER THIS DEATH FOR LATER!

Dean and Sam are arguing back at the bunker and whatever other issues I have with this episode, it certainly isn’t the scenes Jared and Jensen are in. They once again show why I even continue to watch this show which is why this scene is in it’s entirety.

Dean: I didn’t want it to come to this either, but I know that that kid’s head is not right, and now that heaven has its hooks in him, we don’t have a choice.

Sam: Come to what? What are you talking about?

Dean: Stopping Jack once and for all

Sam: Okay, fine, say I agree (said very much in a way that I don’t agree), Dean he can’t be killed.”

Dean: No, but he can be contained.

He opens the door to a room in the bunker and Sam walks in behind him asking, “How are we supposed to do that?”

Oh Sam, as I said, dumber than a bunch of rocks this episode, I really, really feel for you. You are capable of making these connections, but have just been slapped with the dumb stick.

Sam looks at the room for the first time and sees a tarpaulin over something that can only be…

Sam and Dean are standing across from each other. Dean pulls off the tarpaulin to reveal the ma’lak box. “With this.”

Sam: Are we seriously talking about locking Jack in this?

Dean: No, we’re seriously talking about not having a choice, we can’t kill him, okay, and this is warded to lock down an archangel.

Sam: Yeah… so… so what… we…we just… force him inside (Sam’s very uncomfortable right now).

Dean: No, no, he goes in here, it’s gotta be his choice.

Sam (stating the obvious): He’s never going to go along with that!

Dean: Maybe…

Me: Dean don’t do this, please do not do this, asking him to lie to Jack will destroy Sam. You know how he feels about this.

Dean: But he might, he might if he only has to stay in here long enough to finish the spell to fix his soul.

Dean’s turned away from Sam for this next bit so Sam can’t see his face, but we can.

Sam: The spell?... What spell? There is no spell!

Dean: We know that.

Sam (sighs): So, you want to lie to him.

Dean: No, but I want zeppelin to get back together (I think that’s what he said?), but what I need, what we need, is to stop Jack. Big difference, but here’s the deal, we’ve both got to sign off on it. This might be our only shot and if he even catches a whiff that this is a scam, he’s off in the wind.”

Sam: Exactly, but how do you think he’s not going to know something’s up?

Dean: Because you’re going to be so damn sincere.

Sam: Me? Why me?

Dean: Because you’ve always been in his corner, you’re his go to guy. Sam, if you reach out, he’ll come. If I do it, after what happened to mom, I could lose him. (Sam looks away). I will lose him.

Sam closes his eyes, he’s really not happy. But as I mentioned right at the start, regardless of what they are planning or what Dean is asking Sam to do, this is a fantastic scene between Jared and Jensen and the best thing about the episode so far. Are we surprised?

We see someone that looks to be homeless, warming themselves by a fire in a garbage can. Turns out that he’s an angel near the sandpit portal and looks to be guarding it – presumably guarding it again since they now have Jack and don’t want Castiel to get anywhere near him. Castiel demands the portal to be opened. And this is what I don’t understand – who let Castiel in to heaven earlier in the episode? He can’t get in without the portal being opened and Duma would have told people not to open it for him, so how did he get in? They just change it as and when they either need him to enter or not, it’s frustrating. Anyway, the random angel tells him that heaven is closed. Castiel says no, he was just there.

Random angel: I’m sorry, I said that wrong, Heaven is closed to you.

Angel fight!

Or not, as we switch to Jack in heaven with the people he abducted earlier. He’s bringing them out of their trance one by one. Me: Isn’t there a faster way that could maybe have freed up 5 minutes for something else? No? Okay then.

The random angel appears in the throne room, he’s tossed aside to reveal... Castiel behind him.

Duma: Castiel! Good news… I found Jack

Puppy!Jack: Cass, look, I’m making angels!!

Castiel: Yes, you, umm… Duma, a word!... Now!

Badass!Castiel alert. Love him.

Back at the bunker, Sam tells Dean he doesn’t think the plan is going to work. (translation for non Sam fans or people in denial: he really doesn’t want to do this plan)

Dean: One way to find out

Not getting out of it, Sam prays to Jack, who we switch view to, and Jack is hearing Sam’s prayer. “Jack… I hope you can hear this… bad things happened but we’re family, we’re your family, and bad things happen in families… we want to talk with you, that’s how we can all get through this, that’s how we can all move forward.” (I think that’s a record, 3 family references in a single sentence - go Dabb!)

Back in heaven, Castiel accuses Duma of using Jack to solidify her hold on heaven. That she’s “establishing a reign of terror… stripping heaven of its mercy”. Duma: “Well, Heaven never really had any mercy Castiel, you know that.” She tells him that she’s saving Heaven, she’s saving our kind (angels) and she is saving the world. God complex, (Season 6 and 8 or 10?) Zzzzzzzzzz

Sam’s still praying: “Jack, we want, we need, to see you, our mother would want it, your mother would want it…”

My mom voice: Sam “whatever your middle name is” Winchester! You did not just bring Jack’s mother into this mess!

Duma and Castiel are still talking, thankfully not for long, back with Sam: “Jack, we just want things to be the way they were, are you hearing this?”

Jack says he is.

Castiel says to Duma that he’s getting Jack out of here. Duma stops him saying she’ll end Ma and Pa Winchester’s special heaven if he does anything.

She doesn’t get a chance to do the Thanos snap because Castiel ends her with an angel blade. Yes! Where have you been hiding? Hmm? I’m so done with Castiel trying to live and work and act like a human crap, he’s a fucking powerful angel and I hate what the show and fandom have reduced him to, this poor, little wooby that’s been reduced to human problems. He isn’t anything of the sort, which is why his story ended long ago. Anyway, kicking my stuck record player once again, Badass!Castiel (which is the only Castiel this blog accepts) goes to find Jack.

Back at the bunker, Jack has not appeared, Sam says, “I guess he didn’t hear it.” (is there a little relief in that statement Sam, hmmm).

A flap of wings though announces Jack’s appearance and he says, “I heard, and I was so glad. I didn’t think I’d ever see you again.” He turns to Dean who looks like he wants to rip Jack’s head off, “I’ve been working with the angels to purify the world, oh and making angels…”

Okay, I’m going to kudos this one because I’m actually feeling for Jack here, he’s like a literal child, and he feels he’s done good (because Duma told him he was, and it would make Sam and Dean happy). And all he wants is to make Sam and Dean proud of him for doing good and we’re meant to feel bad about what Sam and Dean are contemplating doing. It’s horrible, this is a child they are going to put into a tiny, dark box and lock the door on. We’re supposed to stop and think about that. But from Sam and Dean’s perspective, Jack isn’t just a child, he’s the most powerful being on the planet and he’s killing innocent people because he’s completely malleable to influence, he’s killing people because he doesn’t know any better. He’s killing people because he has a temper and can’t control it. And they’ve got no idea how else to stop him, other than the box.

Dean imo isn’t thinking straight, and not just from grief from Jack killing his mother. Even before Mary died. Dean’s been affected by the things Michael did while wearing Dean’s body and using Dean’s hands for murder and we haven’t seen that come out yet, but from Dean’s perspective, it’s always been about eliminate the monster, which in his opinion, Jack has turned into and needs to be dealt with like any other monster.

And Sam, as I’ve mentioned in a separate post, he’s going along with Dean because he doesn’t want to let his brother down again. He doesn’t want to make the wrong choice like he did with Ruby. He’s never going to let his brother down again by choosing someone over Dean (Sam’s view of things, not mine), so his only choice is to trust Dean. He’s also struggling with decisions he’s made this season that he feels has led to the deaths of several people (unfairly imo), but it’s heavily on his mind and he doesn’t trust his judgement anymore so he’s looking to someone else to call the shots, unfortunately, that someone else is equally broken and equally not capable of calling the shots. And screw anyone that is hating these boys right now because you haven’t been watching the season which has led up to this!

Kudos to Jensen, Jared and Alex as this is a great scene between the three of them. Alex is so child-like, Jensen is barely containing his rage and Jared is alternating between being scared of Jack and really not being happy about what they are doing. Fan fiction or not, the show has portrayed that Sam feels a father/son relationship with Jack (moreso than Dean I would strongly argue). I’m both an Aunt and a mother and I can say that although I love my nieces and nephew, it absolutely does not compare to a parent/child bond. Putting this scene in it’s entirety as it’s that good.

Jack: Yeah, I make angels… (Dean fake smiles), but, I really missed you guys.

Dean: Yeah, us too, right Sammy…

What I love about this scene is that during it, Sam got up silently and had been walking around the back of Dean. Dean had his eyes on Jack the whole time, but he still knew that Sam had moved from the table and where he is now.

Dean: …Tell Jack how we want to clear things up, you know, between us

Sam looks like he’s walking up to the gallows as he’s moving closer to Jack. This is horrible to watch, but hey, for the first time in a few episodes, it’s actually great television no matter how painful!

Jack: I know, I know things have been bad, and… and if it helps, I regret it.

Now, since this was said in a similar tone to “I regret having that fifth cookie”, it’s not going down all that well with Sam and Dean so Sam and Dean just look at him and he continues, “The… accident.”

Sam (looks briefly back at Dean): The… accident?

Jack: What happened to Mary… she kept talking about my soul, that I didn’t have a soul, and she kept pushing…

Dean: Oh… so, she made you do it

Jack: No, it was me but, I didn’t want this “no soul thing” to become an issue between us. (Sam looks back at Dean who is trying very, very hard, not to react). I guess I… snapped. Before I knew it, it was all over.

Dean: It… being the accident

Jack (steps forward): I wish it didn’t happen

Dean: yeah, Jack, so do we, but… we understand, and we forgive you, you know for the uh… accident.

Sam (moving closer to Jack and he’s close to losing it): That’s what you want, right Jack, I mean you’d, you’d like that?

Jack: I’d like for things to go back to the way they were. (He sighs and smiles), I knew you’d understand.

Dean: So, if we told you that we were close to being able to fix your soul, we just need to keep you safe, until everything is ready… you, you’d be okay with that?

Jack: Safe? What do you mean?

Dean: Well, you could hurt other people, have another… accident.

Jack: Oh

Sam: We want to keep you safe Jack, that also means we have to… keep you safe from yourself (Sam reaches out and tentatively puts a hand on Jack’s shoulder), you know just so that nobody gets hurt, just until we get you better.

Jack looks at the hand on his shoulder and then at Sam and Dean and we (and likely they) are not sure if he’s going to have another “accident”, but he doesn’t, and they lead the lamb to the room with the box in it. Dean tells Jack that the best feature of the box is that it’s warded so keeps Jack’s powers below “the meltdown level.” Sam does that enthusiastic parent thing where they try to make a bad thing sound good, “Yeah, so you can’t hurt anyone, and nobody can hurt you!” (doesn’t that sound wonderful Jack?!)

Jack says he understands, but I’m not sure he really does. He goes into the box anyway. He asks Sam how long before he can come out. Sam answers, “not too long, (he looks nervously at Dean then back at Jack), Jack, we got this.” (Narrators voice: Sam does not have this, he’s close to breaking point).

Everybody is smiling (or grimacing) and Jack says, “Okay” and lies down in the box which Dean quickly closes and locks. Sam closes his eyes and walks out. He can’t handle it.

Jack’s in the box and he’s calling for Sam and Dean and I can’t. Sam and Dean are outside the room and they can hear him and it’s just awful. And it’s the panic room all over again, with a lot less space. Fuck Dabb for this, seriously.

Sam and Dean are finally drinking from the bottle of scotch mentioned earlier. I get an empty glass and join them because really, did we really just do this? Sam asks Dean what they do now. “Just go on with Jack locked up in there forever?”

Dean: We have to

Sam: I don’t know if I can do that.

For those of you that think Sam’s went along with this plan without having the intention of finding some way to help Jack get out then I feel sorry for you, you are missing out on a great character. Sam will absolutely be spending hours upon hours not sleeping to do research to get Jack out of the box, while working on Dean to accept getting Jack out of the box (so he’s not seen to “betray” his brother again which Sam as I mentioned earlier will not do). And similarly with Dean, he’s broken and not functioning and shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions right now, but Sam doesn’t trust himself, so what can you do?

Dean doesn’t answer that, just appreciates the whisky Ketch left.

Sam: you know I never thought it would end like this, with Jack.

Dean: Sammy, we knew from the beginning it was a long shot with him.

Sam: Yeah, but long shots are kind of our thing

Back to the coffin and Jack’s still calling for them, “Guys, I don’t think I like this.”

You know what Jack, neither do I.

Hallucifer is with him, telling him he got played. Jack tells him they said he should trust them. Hallucifer tells him that trust is a two-way street, that if they had trusted him, they wouldn’t have locked him up.

Castiel is back, he updates that Jack had been manipulated into doing what he was doing by Heaven (well duh again!), That Duma had told Jack that by doing those things, it would please Sam and Dean.

Dean: Oh, so now it’s our fault

Castiel: I’m just saying it’s urgent that we find him and tell him

Sam: Cass, he’s here.

Castiel (eyes narrow): What?

Dean: He’s locked up, safe, he’s in the ma’lak box

Castiel: No!

Dean: And that’s where he’s going to stay

Sam and Castiel look at each other.

Hallucifer is still working away at Jack and it seems to be working. He tells Jack there is no coming back from killing their mother, so the box is it for the rest of time. Jack gets pissed, his eyes glow and we see the box shaking… but it doesn’t break.

Castiel: Even after hearing what I said, you want to keep Jack sealed in a living death.

Dean: He agreed to it, because deep down, I think he knows it’s best

Castiel: No, you’re doing what Duma… you are manipulating him!

Back to the coffin, Jack turns to Hallucifer who says, “Bring it.” Eyes glow, warding seals glow and Hallucifer laughs.

Sam: Cass…

Cass: What? You just want to forget about him.

Dean: I wish I could forget about him, after what he did, and you know what he can do, this is our only play…

Loud banging noise is heard by all three, the bunker is shaking, emergency lighting switches to red, alarms blare, they run to the room with the box, with Castiel in the lead (but how does he even know which room Dean had the box in? – even Sam didn’t know).

Anyway, as we look into the smoke, yellow eyes appear first then Jack moves forward.

Sam: Jack…

Wow, let the meltdown ensue in the tags!

Last cliffhanger of the series next week, loads of meta already, I’m on Team: Dean will try to kill Jack, Sam will try to stop him, Chuck will appear to sort it all out and Castiel will be sacrificed. My prediction for Season 15 is that Dean will be told to sort out Heaven and Sam to get a grip on hell. And I will be way wrong, but it’s fun guessing where all of this is going to end.

#spn spoilers #14.19 #jack in the box #spn critical #anti castiel #anti dabb #just in case

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