{"id":220084,"date":"2014-03-28T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/28\/quick-ficlet-for-fanwork-friday-jack-stood-on\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:09:00","slug":"quick-ficlet-for-fanwork-friday-jack-stood-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/28\/quick-ficlet-for-fanwork-friday-jack-stood-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quick ficlet for<a href=\"http:\/\/superwholockthecomic.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> fanwork friday<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jack stood on the cliff edge and watched the galaxy rise over the perfectly flat lake, reflecting blue and purple and the spread of stars. There was a flutter of wings and he reached automatically for Cas\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>There was hesitation, but Castiel stepped up next to him. Jack could imagine the shadow of his wings covering him, noticing how the breeze lessened. They remained silent as the galaxy ascended, bright enough that the night needed no moon.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the lake began to light up, as if there were new stars being born alongside the reflections. Jack pointed and heard Cas\u2019 breath catch as they watched the lights bloom until the lake was on fire, nearly too bright to look at, washing out the stars above. Instinctively, Castiel turned Jack towards his chest, shielding the human, until the lights began to fade.<\/p>\n<p>When Jack blinked his eyes clear he smiled at Castiel, who was watching the lake with deep concentration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey bloom every two hundred years,\u201d said Jack, finally breaking the silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see why you called me here.\u201d Castiel\u2019s voice was gentle, full of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Jack softly kissed him. \u201cI figured even angels haven\u2019t seen everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They lapsed into silence again, taking a seat on the cool ground and watching the night pass by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1380544\" target=\"_blank\"><em>also on AO3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick ficlet for fanwork friday: Jack stood on the cliff edge and watched the galaxy rise over the perfectly flat lake, reflecting blue and purple and the spread of stars. There was a flutter of wings and he reached automatically for Cas\u2019s hand. There was hesitation, but Castiel stepped up next to him. Jack could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/28\/quick-ficlet-for-fanwork-friday-jack-stood-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22026,55,1741,156,4736,22027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}