Looking for a specific destiel fic

[butterfliedgsr.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for a destiel fic I read on AO3 and forgot to bookmark!

It was a fairly long destiel fic (not 100K length long, I think about 20-30K), which involved Dean, Sam and Cas at I think Bobby's, and I seem to remember that God (as Chuck but before that was official on the show) had somehow gathered together a whole load of angels including Lucifer and Michael, as well as a bunch of demons (probably including Crowley) and they were, I think, fighting against Metatron to get back into heaven. I can't be absolutely sure that's when it's based because I can remember so few specific details--it may have been fighting the leviathan or Abaddon. It might even have been earlier than that and something to do with Raphael, I really can't remember (hence why I would like to read it again because I remember it was very good!)- but my instinct is it was to do with Metatron because there were so many angels on earth in it. I don't think it had to do with fighting the Darkness because I think I read it about 18 months/ a year ago.

-The main points that stick out are that the angels were living at Bobby's, including Michael, and the demons and Lucifer (as Nick) were having to live outside. As the story went on there was basically a switch-around of perspectives whereby Lucifer was actually being helpful and was forgiven by God and by the others, including Sam and Dean, and was welcomed back into the family and lived with them, and it was Michael who was being a complete prat and being horrible to Lucifer and acting like he was still in charge and the perfect son, and couldn't handle Lucifer being forgiven. There was a scene in a battle where Michael tries to kill Lucifer and everyone hates him for it. At the end of the fic Sam and Lucifer get together, which I definitely remember because I dont read Sam/Lucifer on it's own, but it's a fairly minor footnote at the end of the fic.

-I can't actually remember all that much about the destiel part of the fic except that it definitely was destiel getting together, which I'm afraid isn't all that helpful!

- I know there are a load of canon timeline inconsistencies in the above if it was centred around Metatron-- all I can remember is that they definitely weren't at the bunker, if it wasn't at bobbys then it was somewhere random. I read it about  a year ago as I said but it was probably older than that because I have a habit of just skimming through the destiel tag at ao3 and reading older stories! I've searched as best I could on the archive and also on the dean/cas big bang fics but obviously people don't always tag their fics with all the pairings or characters on ao3 and going through every fic is an impossible task so I'm hoping someone with remember this because it's been driving me mad!

Thanks in advance for any help!  

EDIT: FOUND, link is in the comments, it's an au season 6 with most of the later characters added in hence my confusion over when it was set! Thank you!

Comments

[flawedteacup.livejournal.com]

I think I remember this too, but the Metatron wasn't Curtis Armstrong's Metatron, I *think*? I'll see if I can find it.

[butterfliedgsr.livejournal.com]

I think the one you're thinking of might be "named" by RC_McLachlan which is actually the fic which reminded me of it and isn't totally dissimilar....but it might have been another metatron fic before canon metatron, I hadn't thought of that!

[asheza.livejournal.com]

I think the one you're thinking of might be "Defy Any and All Expectation" by Tenoko1
http://archiveofourown.org/works/778624

[butterfliedgsr.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!! YES!!! I had actually started thinking I had just dreamt it, thank you thank you! That's my weekend reading sorted :)