Title: Jump the Track
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Genres: AU, High School, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Length: Epic (83,180 words)
Warnings: Off-screen rape, suicidal ideation, child neglect, homophobia

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: alysian_fields @ AO3

Author's Summary:
High school AU. It's Dean's senior year at Lawrence High, and he's already given up on himself. It takes the arrival of the strange, intense, awkward Castiel Delacroix at the school to prove to Dean that maybe his life is worth saving after all.

Review:
In this non-supernatural high school AU, a Dean that has been raped by Alaister struggles to carry on with a life that he's now unsatisfied with and not even sure he wants anymore. Cas is the son of a famous televangelist, finally able to go to a public school after a life of being stifled by his family of religious zealots. Dean shows Castiel what he's been missing out on during his uneventful life, and Castiel helps Dean regain his good marks and his self esteem. It's not the most original plot, but this was a fic well written enough to move me to tears.

It's a realistically slow journey. Dean's struggles definitely tug at the heart strings, whilst the non-explicit nature of the rape stops the angst from becoming at all sensational. This is rape recovery handled delicately; paced well and ending on a lovely high and fluffy note.

Jump the Track