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   more than just an instrument of pain by ad_castra

   Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Castiel/Sam Winchester
   • Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester
   • Sam Winchester
   • Castiel (Supernatural)
   • Dean Winchester
   • Post-Episode: s09e11 First Born (Supernatural)
   • Slow Burn
   • Trauma From Lucifer's Cage (Supernatural)
   • Sam Winchester Speaks Enochian
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt Sam Winchester
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Love Letters
   • Protective Castiel (Supernatural)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Cas navigating Sam's cage trauma thru enochain is SO personal to me
   • Eating Disorders
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • in the sense of Sam’s hand wound being used to mitigate pain
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • (specifically in ch5)
   • Languages and Linguistics
   • Canon Divergent
   • Castiel's Angelic Grace (Supernatural)
   • Castiel's True Form (Supernatural)
   • Description of a broken bone
   • sickfic kinda

   Summary

   Words don't always carry the same meaning when translated into another language. The same goes for Enochian, and the words Sam screams in the throes of his flashbacks detail anguish and pain and the hopeless begging brought on by repeated violation.
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   (Castiel bears witness to the horrors of Sam's cage trauma, and he's determined to help Sam associate Enochian with gentleness and love instead).

   ** on hiatus until August just because 1) working away from home and 2) very sick (again) — apologies and tysm for patience <33

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