thinking thinking thinking about wander home. its wander home hours 24/7 in my brain.
idea idea i already established that cas can’t read or write. what if when they collect sam eventually it turns out that sam CAN read and write bc he taught himself bc hes such a supergenius. and what if he teaches cas and dean.
oooh other idea idk if i will include it its all about how im vibing that day but what if before this happens cas finds out, to his great surprise, that dean can read and write a little. bc sam was trying to teach him! and ofc they had like no time bc dean was always always working, and sam is a kid and doesn’t have a teacher himself so its not like they managed much. so dean’s grasp on reading/writing is very very basic. but like still cas is like :O bc he doesn’t know how to read/write at all. like almost no one does, that’s for nobility and clergy. so its like wtf how is this abused kid more literate than 99% of the population??
the answer ofc is that the abused kid has a genius little brother <3
and maybe when this comes to light dean is like. nervous that cas is gonna be mad. bc it’s not right that someone like him is better educated than someone like cas, who has a much higher social standing.
and ohhh u know john HATED the fact that sam could read/write and u know even as a little kid sam’s a little spitfire who won’t hide his love of learning and john HATES this and is like what u think ur better than me?? u think ur too good for this life?? and sam is like. yes.
(and dean’s like sam shut up shut uuuuuuup but he never shuts up bc it’s sam)
and John definitely beats sam when he catches him reading or writing, and he already hates that sam reads/writes so you know he would FLIP about dean. so maybe he just doesnt know. bc he’d like. kill him if he knew. so they hide their lessons and dean hides that he can read/write from John and then Cas.
So when Cas finds out (Dean probably finally reveals it in a situation where it would be helpful to Cas, cause his dedication to helping others is stronger than his fear) Dean is like. Scared. But ofc Cas is just like :O Dean you are so smart!! holy shit!!
and then idk maybe dean tries to teach Cas what he knows but its not very much. but they both become actually literate once they collect Sam cause Sam is a little smartie pants.
not that i’d actually wanna live in a different time period, thanks very much, but also lately im vibing the idea of being born hundreds years ago when an army trudges through my city and kills all my loved ones and i must assume a male disguise in order to seek revenge in this male-dominated society so i cut my hair short and slick it back and join the army and learn how to use a big heavy broadsword and i soon have a reputation as a great swordsman which is only overpowered by my reputation as a great lover despite the fact i never take all my clothes off but i still manage to get all the women and the other guys in my regiment can’t figure out how i’m so good with them but i just gotta shrug and play up the ladies man thing until one day i meet a princess of the blood and im charged with protecting her on a journey out of the capital but we get separated from the rest of the regiment and i start developing feelings for her because she’s spunky but i know It Can Never Be for a number of reasons and then one night she catches me bathing in the moonlight and i instinctively draw my sword because No One Can Know My Womanly Secret but also she’s the princess and also also now i’m in love with her so i simply hand the sword over but she throws it aside with a clatter and throws herself at me and we make love by the lakeside and the next day i put on my soldiers gear and we keep moving wondering what the future will hold when the enemy horde comes upon us and i defend her but am outnumbered when suddenly our separated guards catch up and we fight the invaders and i kill the man who slaughtered my family because he is conveniently part of this regiment and we’re all happy for our victory but i still look sadly at the princess because It Can Still Never Be and i must take her to the capital to meet her betrothed and we kiss and make love sadly in a tent one last time but then we finally reach the city it turns out her fiance is a huge Gay too and has a huge entourage of gays following him around and brushing lint out of his fur coats and he hires me to be the queen’s bodyguard wink wink nudge nudge and i meet her nightly using a secret passageway under the castle and also i get a really cool new sword and history doesnt remember me as anything more than a friend to the queen until centuries later when a bunch of love letters are found in a secret compartment under the castle by a lesbian librarian who was researching the local history and she falls in love with the lady castle tour guide as they bond over an interest in our love story the end
OP you just wrote a whole ass novel get that published
