Casteaowl
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EDIT: Apparently when I uploaded this I accidentally submitted one of my rough drafts rather than the final draft. Also a chunk of the story seems to be missing entirely. I will fix this as soon as I get back to my own computer. Bear with me please! I will make an updated when I've corrected my error.
Castiel is a disillusioned war veteran who thought he was too broken to ever have anything resembling a normal life, and has settled himself with the bare minimum. His life changes when he finds himself with custody of his young niece after his twin brother and his wife are killed. To prevent Claire from being taken away and sent to live in foster care or with distant relatives, Castiel attempts to get his life together enough to raise her. But problems arise when his ability to take proper care of Claire comes into question. He finds help in the form of a quirky social worker and his brother—a lawyer—who help him fight to keep full custody of his niece. And maybe, along the way, these broken people can create a new family together.
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If Castiel had been forced to explain to a human what it felt like for an angel to suddenly become human, he might have likened it to having most of your limbs and senses violently ripped away or dulled, and then being thrown into the middle of a large city during the busiest hour of the day. After meeting the Winchesters he devoted a little more exploration to the idea, but no amount of apocalypses or time spent watching humanity could adequately prepare him for actually being one hundred percent human. When Metatron stole his grace and sent him to Earth, he quickly realized how wrong he was in his perception of humanity. The Winchesters take him in, but the person he could always count on most to help him isn’t exactly helping, leaving him with few options. But their family, broken as it is, always manages to pull through, somehow or another. A story in which Dean finally realizes what he means to Cas, and what Cas means to him.