Name: Stuck Between the Channels [1/3]

Summary: After Castiel and Dean have that fight in the alleyway, they don't return to Bobby's

Pairing: Castiel/Dean, 3rd person

Rating: This chapter is PG-13, but from here it goes upward

Warning: Tad bit of violence and language

Disclaimer: These are not my characters, and I'm not making any profit.

A/N: This is based around episodes 5x02 and 5x18. I've gotten some quotes from those scenes which will be in italics, to symbolize they aren't my words. This story will be pretty straight forward I think. Enjoy!

"You pray too loud."

Moments before he turned his head quickly to face Cas, Dean had watched the religious man fall to his knees in prayer. Dean had allowed his eyes to wander, anywhere but at this man who appeared to be extremely keen on calling the angels on his behalf. He didn't have to watch the mans theatrics to know that he had been given this so called "gift" accidentally. Upon glancing back at the man, Dean thought that maybe, just maybe this was a mistake. He wasn't even sure if he wanted to go through with what he planned. Giving himself over to the angels after all this time just seemed futile, but he wanted this whole ordeal to be over. He wanted...normality. At the thought, a smile flickered across his face, but it soon disappeared when he heard the voice he'd been escaping in the first place.

Cas.

In a matter of seconds, he found himself slammed into a brick wall with a furious angel staring down at him. Had the circumstances been different, Dean felt he would have told a joke or played the whole thing off, but the circumstances weren't different and he was too stunned to do anything but try to fight Cas off. Although, even that was far fetching.

"What are you crazy?" He yelled, but from the vantage point of a passing pedestrian, Dean would appear to be taking a beating and would have no right to mouth off.

And this angel sure was furious.

"I rebelled for this?" Cas screamed. This wasn't the first time Dean had seen Cas angry, but this was all very melodramatic when you put him next to the Cas that fixed everything and had a sense of calmness even if he had to kill someone when no one wanted to, or step on someone to get out of an angel circle. All these thoughts were swimming through his head, before quickly being overtaken with fear.

Cas pushed Dean away from the brick wall, pushing him harshly into the parallel wall. Without warning, Cas raised his fist and pushed it forward where it struck the corner of Dean's jaw. The pain was excruciating, and as if he hadn't had enough, Cas landed another bunch just below his eye. "So you could just surrender to them?"

Any sane person could hear the tone of disappoint and anger dripping from Cas' voice and Dean had the pleasure of both hearing it and feeling it. With each punch that Cas landed on his face, more blood was spilled. His nose was a fountain, steadily draining into the river that had formed from his bruised and cut lip.

"Cas please!" Blow after blow to his stomach made him weaker than he already was until he felt himself toppling over, but that didn't stop Cas. It only fueled him further. In fact, Cas was holding him up by the lapel of his coat, if only to shake him even more. With one final push, Dean was left standing in the middle of the alleyway stumbling, and struggling not to fall over. The visible damage seemed endless and one eye had already swollen shut. Cas didn't care. He thought, how many times had he saved the Winchesters, came when they called, did a deed when he was fighting his own war, when he had killed his own brothers?

"I gave everything for you and this is what you've given me!"

With a kick that would topple over a full grown horse, Dean flew into the fence and toppled to the floor ungracefully. His face was bent to the ground, a visible open wound oozing blood and suddenly Dean felt tired. That he was done fighting. He'd gone to that man for a reason. He wanted it all to be over. He wanted to go back to the days when Sam and him had hunted Wendigo's, unhappy ghosts and vampires. "Go ahead. Just do it!" Dean bellowed. Dean had finally mustered up enough energy between strangled breaths to admit his defeat. He could see the anger in Cas' eyes, his balled up fist. He didn't know whether Cas would punch him or finally kill him. Either way, he figured nothing Cas did after this would be good.

Cas unclenched his fist as he looked down at Dean's bruised face. Dean closed his eyes in anticipation for the grand finale: going unconscious, but nothing came. He opened his eyes moments later to still see Cas standing over him with that serious porn star look. "Come on. The angels will be after you. I'll get you somewhere safe."

Safe.

The word almost seemed comical after what he had endured and being that Dean was sure that Cas was done punching and kicking the living soul out of him, he laughed. Laughed because it was better than crying in front of Cas and it was better than accepting that look of disappointment he often saw on so many faces when they looked at him.

That same childlike confusion flitted across Cas' face before he began to walk in the opposite direction, toward the street. "Are you coming or not, Dean?" He said sternly, his voice having returned to it's normal calm air.

Dean struggled to his feet, keeping a safe distance between the two, staying close to the wall so he could lean on it. "Yeah...," he said, his eyes to the floor, "yeah..." he repeated more to himself. He had been beaten, emasculated and now he felt like a lap dog. Dean was too exhausted to care and slowly followed behind Cas, but his breathing patterns began to increase until he couldn't take it anymore. It was like his heart was beating out of his chest and before he could even yell out for Cas -well in actuality he was too stubborn to call for him- he crumbled to the paved floor. Unconscious. Tired. Sore.

Cas, you son of a bitch. I'll kill you.

A/N: Bold writing is thoughts. So, yeah I hope this is okay and this was unbeta'd because I'm not cool enough to have one yet. Chapter 2 is coming up soon. Wait till you see what happen! :D