Rise Above (a destiel fanfiction)

In most people's eyes, Dean Winchester was a cocky son-of-a-bitch, who's relationship status consisted mostly of one-night-stands. Although most of these people who judged Dean so harshly barely knew him, it stuck with him. It was just a part of his personality.

He was tough, played both ends of the good-cop, bad cop situation, and had a love/hate relationship with his job. He never wanted to hurt anyone. He continues to tell himself that he saves more people than he hurts, but every time he sees another person he loves die before his eyes, that wall of reassurance breaks down a little bit. Some may say one day it is going to cave in on him and come tumbling down like a ton of bricks, and he's going to loose it. But then again, who said it hadn't already came tumbling down?

Some may say that a man like Dean isn't capable of love. But his love for little brother Sam proves that theory wrong. The things Dean did to keep his brother alive were unimaginable. The Winchester's mess with the natural order when it comes to things like death. Both of the boys have died countless times but continue to keep going on with life.

It wasn't long after Dean himself had died that he met an angel by the name of Castiel. Dean did not believe in angels originally, he wasn't much of believer in the first place when it came to religious things that had to do with God. Certain things he had seen had led him to believe otherwise. But when Dean miraculously woke up underneath a couple feet of dirt after a literal four months in Hell, he was surprised, astonished, he didn't know what to think. Especially considering the way he died. His body was nothing more than fleshy ribbons held together by bones and small areas of skin. He didn't even understand how he had made it back in perfect condition with no scars or anything at all. It amazed him.

Little did he know at the time that he was apart of something HUGE. Little did he know that it wouldn't be long before he fell in love with the Angel that had "gripped him tight and raised him from perdition".