Coming 05/24/2017

Title: “Fated to Pretend”
Author: Senna_Frost
Artist: @kuwlshadow
Rating: Explicit
No Archive Warnings Apply
Major tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, AlphaDean, OmegaCastiel, Omega Jimmy, True Mates, Slow Burn, Severe Depression, Pining, Suicidal Thoughts/Ideation, Alternate Universe, Twincest, Passengers (2016) AU/Passengers Fusion, some Canon Typical Violence-Non-Graphic, Action/Adventure, Voyeurism, Major Angst with a Happy Ending
Pairings: Dean/Castiel/Jimmy, Dean/Castiel, Castiel/Jimmy, Jimmy/Dean
Coming May 24, 2017
Summary for: “Fated to Pretend”
THEN:
In the future, space has truly become the final frontier, what with Earth having reached critical mass and unable to sustain life, mostly due to overpopulation and over-mining of resources. With the combined efforts of governments and scientists alike, a plan was developed to relocate and start life anew; ships of colonists and crews were sent out, planets recruited for their life-sustaining qualities and colonies established. Many clamored to be chosen to help colonize these recently terra-formed planets, and only the best were accepted.
Alpha Dean Winchester, chosen for his pure alpha status and useful skill set as a Mechanical Engineer, is aboard one such starship, the Impala, en route to New Hope IV, a planet very much similar to Earth, a journey of 120 years away, one where he wishes to put his skills to good use and settle down with a mate in a house he has built with his very own hands.
NOW:
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dean wakes 90 years too early. Unable to return to stasis in his hibernation pod, he realizes that he will spend the rest of his life alone and will most certainly be dead before the ship ever reaches her destination.
Having hit rock bottom, in a strange twist of fate, Dean stumbles across Omega twins Castiel and Jimmy Novak and falls head over heels into obsession and ultimately decides to awaken them.
What follows, is a story about the cost of saving one life at the expense of two others. The battle between what is morally right and what the human soul can bear and how to navigate the fallout of taking someone else’s fate into your own hands. What makes life worth living? What is unforgivable? Can a relationship recover from lies and betrayal, when its foundation is already one of secrets and manipulation?
TEASER EXCERPT:
Day 303~
Walking up to the bar, Dean slapped the hibernation pod manual down on the polished surface as Balthazar whirred over to him.
“Say you were trapped on a desert island and you had the power to wish somebody there with you. You wouldn’t have to be alone anymore…but you’d be stranding the person on the island…how do you—Would you make that wish?” Dean demanded fervently with no preamble.
Balthazar arched an eyebrow at him, somewhat perplexed. “I don’t know. I’ve never been on an island.”
Temporarily thrown off track, Dean scrambled for another example. “Okay, well, yeah. Alright, uhh…forget the island. Let’s say you figured out how to do something…that would make your life a million times better…but you knew it was—Oh, shit, you knew it was wrong, and there’d be no taking it back—and just…How do you do the math? How do you decide?” Dean was anxious to get another opinion here.
Balthazar stared at him in bewilderment for a few seconds. “Dean, these are not what you would call ‘robot questions’.”
Dean heaved a deep sigh and plunked himself down in a chair, collapsing against the bar. “I know how to wake Cas and Jimmy up,” he revealed, equal parts determined but miserable about the atrocity he was considering committing. And it was indeed an atrocity, because once he had formed the idea, he realized he couldn’t wake just one of them up, even if he could choose between them (and he totally couldn’t), there was no way to only interrupt the hibernation for only one of them when they both shared the same cycle and pod. Not to mention the fact that there was no way he could fathom splitting the two of them up, waking only one twin and dooming him to a life of never seeing his best friend again.
“Oh, well that sounds like a fine idea! You could do with some company, instead of moping about down here,” Balthazar surmised, heedless of Dean’s moral dilemma.
“Yeah, but dude, I’d be marooning them on this ship for the rest of their lives!” Dean sputtered, and God, did it sound horrible when he said it out loud like that.
“Huh. Well, you can’t do that.” The bartender conceded firmly.
“Fuck…what am I gonna do?” Dean muttered dejectedly.
Straightening and puffing out his chest a bit, Balthazar smiled comfortingly at him. “Well, I’m here for you!”
Dean groaned exasperatedly. “Dude. You’re a machine.” He leaned forward and pushed at Balthazar’s chest, before thumping him soundly in the shoulder a few times. “See? You can’t feel that. You don’t have feelings.”
The android frowned at him in confusion, rocking back a little and looking down at his own chest as if just realizing it was there.
Abruptly Dean stood up and punched Balthazar in the face, which produced a dull, metallic clanging noise, more than a little angry at his inability to understand human perception, but the android was as unmoved as ever and just stared at him dryly.
“Feel better?”
“No. But I proved my point, see? That didn’t hurt you at all. And, you don’t even mind!” Dean grumbled, shaking out his hand, which was smarting from the ill-advised punch.
“…Cause you’re not a person,” he hissed, storming out of the bar.

