Fic: Common Calamity

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Title: Common Calamity
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Gen with a dash of Sam/Jess
Words: ~4,200
Spoilers: Through season five-ish, but it's AU, so nothing major.
Warnings: Mental illness, colorful language, some bloody imagery and some not-so-hot parenting.
Summary: Castiel comes for Dean, Sam intercepts, and Dean falls through the cracks. OR: the continuing adventures of schizophrenic!Dean, who first showed up in part III of "Variations on a Theme."
Neurotic author's notes: I...actually kind of like this one, which might mean I've just lost my mind for good and it's terrible. Blargh. The title comes from Baptista Mantuanus: "It is a common calamity; at some one point we have all been mad." Cut text is from Ray Bradbury. Oh, and here is John's lighter, for the curious. It is actually, apparently, a Mr. Gene Ramsey's.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.