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Say You'll Be There

Chapter 1 - Old Friends

A slow burn AU that starts when Cas & Dean run into each other 8 years after they met in high school.

Dean's changed, and so has the name he goes by.

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They went to the same school when Dean was young. Just for a short time. Just until they left town, like they always did.

Dean went by a different name then. That was pretty par for the course at the time too.

Castiel was a couple years younger. They didn't really talk. They didn't have any classes together or anything. They were in the same level of math, ... Dean thinks... but it was a small school. Freaking brain was just too smart for his own good and Dean well, Dean never really got to focus on school so...

Dean and Sam had been new and I mean yeah, okay, they'd noticed each other. Friends of friends. or whatever.

Not that Dean had any, ... friends.

Kids tended to rag on him back then,  all those oversized hoodies, the cargo pants,... it wasn't what Dean was 'supposed' to wear. ... whatever the hell that meant. But, ... friend of ... friend of something -uh - someone ... I guess.

Cas was in tech, those nerds that hung out above the auditorium smoking joints and fiddling with the light switches when they weren't with the theater kids.  They partied with the theater kids, except they didn't. And, okay, maybe Dean hung around while Sam was in that stupid musical. It was dorky af, but it did seem to make Sam a lot of friends, girly ones, who giggled when he talked. 

Lanky bastard. 

Look. It was a place to be, the tech booth, and do his homework - if he felt like it that day. If he accidentally learned all the words to those stupid songs from hanging out sprawled across those empty auditorium seats, that's not Dean's fault.

#trans!dean#trans dean#deancas#destiel#deancas fanfic#spn fanfiction#destiel fanfic#AU!destiel#slow burn#the texting fic#the sexting fic#mine#chapter 1#okay yall. deep breath. i wrote a thing#my fics
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Speaking of breakdown hours, I am forever indebted to Robbie for bringing a loup garou into the Supernatural lore. Settle in for my very annoying screeching about this.

Supernatural used a monster called a rugaru, which always seemed to be a bafflingly misspelled version of rougarou. However, the lore was painfully far from the actual mythology. It has always bugged me because this is a story I grew up on. Sitting by the campfire being told to be good or the rougarou might get ya.

Loup garou is the French version of werewolf. It was passed down by the Acadians who settled in Louisiana after Le Grand Derangement, the forcible relocation of French settlers from Canada.

As with much of Cajun French and culture, the myth took on unique traits as it developed here. One was the transition from the formal French word loup garou to the Cajun word rougarou. Many people use the word interchangeably today, but I would argue rougarou is more common here because it is rooted in this place.

The rougarou is said to be a man with a wolf or dog head (rather than a true wolf transition). There are a few different myths. In some, the rougarou is a scary story for children. Be good or the rougarou will get ya! In others, the rougarou either goes after those who break lent or is a curse on those who do so.

There is also a delightful part if the legend that you can defeat a rougarou by putting 13 objects down. It will try to count them and when it can't, it will turn away.

I have always thought there was a rich opportunity to use the aspects of guilt or religious trauma in Supernatural for this particular beast and I have been sad that the myth was essentially turned into a genetic cannibal beast curse entirely unrelated with the underlying lore.

Having a traditional werewolf-like loup garou feels like a gift to me personally. I hope this doesn't awaken any fics in me. 😆

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help i was supposed to go to sleep so i ended up writing 800 words on Dean flashingback to bobby helping teenage Dean take off the duct tape he'd hurt himself binding with

#oops#trans!dean
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