The First and The Last for spn_30snapshots

Title: The First and The Last
Author: verucasalt123
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Sam/Castiel
Claim: Theme 01: Elemental
Theme: http://verucasalt123.livejournal.com/85331.html
Prompt(s): #03, touch
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: These boys do not belong to me.
Summary: Sam didn't expect the first touch, or the last.

Sam didn’t realize it at the time, but it had started the very first time Castiel had touched him. Castiel was reluctant, unable to see Sam as anything but a demon-blood junkie and an abomination. But he’d shaken his hand anyway, Sam wasn’t sure why, but he was grateful.

As the years passed, Sam realized how much those brief moments of physical contact with Cas affected him. When they finally crossed the line into a physical relationship, Sam was stunned. Partly because he knew he was far from deserving of a gift like that from one of God’s own angels, and partly because knowing Castiel could snap his neck with a single thought but knowing that he never, ever would. Cas touched him like he was precious, like he should be revered and protected.

The very last time Castiel touched him, two fingers pressed to his forehead in a dirty alley, he’d purposely hurt him, ripped away his protection from his memories of the Cage.

It was a good thing that Sam was unconscious for a long while afterwards. Castiel’s last touch had broken so much more than the wall in his mind.