A loud gasp broke the silence, and two blue eyes opened in fear whole searching their surroundings but found nothing but a wooden box enclosing their body.

"Where... Am I?! H-help!" His voice was hoarse and raspy but he needed to calm down freaking put was going to get him no where what so ever. Castiel pulled the lighter from his jacket pocket, taking a couple times to light the damn thing but finally a dim firelight filled the tightly packed space. His long pale fingers traced the wood above him in the soft fire light, until he found a crack and started pushing on it. After a few attempts he pushed the wood open only to have dirt flood in.

the sun was blazing high that summer day when a hand finally breeched the surface of the ground and another soon followed it. They grasped onto the ground before pulling a body out of the dirt, which only took a few huge pulls to actually breech the surface. Castiel was panting and gasping for air, who knows how long he had been stuffed inside that stupid box. He took a few moments to lay there in the sun on the grass before standing up. The hunter squinted and hid his eyes as he scanned the area around him, and you wouldn't believe what lay before him.

Around where he came out was open plain filled with dried grass and small white wildflower there was also a wooden cross most likely to mark maybe where he was buried, but... It was all normal all up to the fact the trees surrounding the area had been blown away like a nuke had went off. Castiel was scared a hell (pun not intended) what had done this? And what had dragged him out of hell? Was it that had caused that much damage? But this would have to wait right now he wanted was to get out of here and find his brother, Gabriel.

Castiel walked what seemed like hours before coming across what seemed like an abandoned gas station. Cautiously he approached the door peering inside through the dirty window.

"Hello..? Anyone... T-there?" The hunter asked as loud as his voice would allow him.

When no answer was returned Cas took his coat off and broke through the glass, then opening the door. Immediately when he walked in he went to the fridge and gulped down two water bottles. There was a paper sitting on the desk and he read the date on top of it.

"September... Already? And I'm in Ohio... Great"

His ice blue looked down and saw he was filthy from head to toe, boy did he need a shower or at a least wash up. It hadn't taken him long when he came upon a mirror and sink in the back room, and thank god its water was working. Cas washed his face off and lifted his shirt and his body was completely unharmed. But how those hellhounds ripped him to shreds! That wasn't all he saw. Slowly he lifted his t-shirt on his right arm and what laid there was a giant handprint burnt into his skin. It wasn't his because it was about 2 inches bigger.

"What the...?" Castiel couldn't put his finger on it maybe the thing that pulled him out did it. He would have to ask Bobby about it later.

He gathered everything he thought we would need to get to Bobby's. That's when it started. First it was just that TV and radio turning on their own, so naturally his hunter instinct told him to line the door and windows with salt which was exactly what he did. But next thing Cas knew a sound worse than nail on a chalkboard and he held his ears in pain. Glass shattered and he found him himself on the ground wincing. Suddenly it stopped Castiel pulled his hands away.

"Okay... What the hell was that?"

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Outside there was a pay phone, which he was surprised that even, worked? He dialed the old hunter's number and waited for the familiar voice.

"Hello, who is this?" A small smile crawled onto his face when he heard his old country accent.

"Bobby, it's me." He replied hoping that he would remember him.

"Who is me?"

"It's Castiel Bobby" Then the line suddenly went dead. What was his problem? How long had he been gone, what maybe four months? He dialed it again and waited impatiently. "Bob-"

"Look this isn't funny. Call here again and I will kill you"

Cas looked at the phone and hung up. Looks like the only way he was going to get Bobby to believe him was to go see him himself. The hunter looked around for some sort of transportation. He saw an old car so he headed over to it, hotwired it and went on his was to Bobby's.

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Bobby looked down at his phone in disbelief. No way was that Cas, he had been dead for four months! And people just don't come back from the dead! He sighed deeply and put it down on the charger.

He got up and sat down behind his desk, and took a large gulp of whiskey. The old hunter looked at the bottle before throwing it behind him.

"I need to stop drinking..." He mumbled quietly as he slowly fell asleep on his desk.

About 9 hours later he was awoken by a loud knock as his door. Grumbling, Bobby stood up and opened the door and standing there was the living dead.

Castiel.

"Hello, Bobby"

"This is... Impossible" the experienced hunter said while backing up close to the end table to grab a silver knife that lay on top of it.

"Now before you go insane let me explain please" Cas begged as he slowly approached him. But that was all for not, for the next thing Bobby did was lunge at him. "Your name is Robert Steven Singer! You became a hunter after your wife was possessed! And you are about the closet thing I have to a father... It's me Bobby..." He said pulling a chair between him and the other hunter.

For a moment Castiel believed that one of his dearest friends actually believed him, for Bobby started to pet his shoulder before lunging himself at Cas again. "I am not a shapeshifter!" He said as deflecting the others attack.

"Then you're a Reverent!" The older one said as the younger took the silver knife grasped in his hand.

"If I was either could I do this?" Cas asked before taking in a huge breath and cutting his arm, letting the blood slide down his arm.

"Castiel..?" Bobby mumbled in a somewhat relieved tone. This made a soft smile appear on Cas' face.

"Yes it is" he said with a much more happy tone only to have holy water splashed into his face.

"I had to make sure" he chuckled with a nervous look on his face. Castiel wiped the water from his as he went to sit in Bobby's desk which was surrounded in empty bottles.

"Was there a sale at the Liquor store?" The younger one asked while collecting them into a neat pile in a far corner.

"Well these past months haven't been easy. We had to bury you" he replied as he watched with curiosity as to what the other was doing.

"Hey where is Gabriel anyway?" Cas questioned as he stood up dusting his hands for he had finished. "Also why didn't you salt and burn me? You know like usual"

Bobby sighed heavily. "I wanted to but Gabe wouldn't have it. He said that you would need a body when he brought you back, I haven't seen him since then I'm afraid..."

"But even if he got me out shouldn't I look like so thriller movie reject?" Cas said softly as he moved to stand by Bobby. "And why didn't you go find him? What it was him who got me out?! We have a problem then don't we!" It was natural for an older brother to act this way if you had a younger brother like Gabriel.

"When the boy doesn't want to be found, you can't find him. I tried trust me and I came up dry" he tried explaining but it was too late. Castiel was already pacing gripping his black hair tight in his hands. Obviously he was worried. The elder walked over and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. A hiss came from Cas and Bobby lifted his shirt to see the handprint. "What is this? Did whatever brought you back do this?"

Castiel nodded and pulled his hand away to roll his shirt back down. "I don't know but this isn't the tip of the iceberg. When I came out the whole place looked like a nuke hit it" he took a slow breath. "Then at the gas station, at first I thought it was a demon because the TV suddenly turned on..." He went on to tell him every detail he had to offer.

"We know now whatever dragged you out had an awful lot of power" Bobby said as he took another sip of his beer. "I have a friend who might be able to-" he was cut off by Cas.

"We find Gabriel first" the shorter one said with a bit of sadness in his voice.

"The first place to start looking is in Ohio I heard a whole bunch of demons have showed up there" he started off while gathering his stuff and getting ready to head out.

"That's where I came back. Back from hell" he said as he too collected some weapons for himself and headed for the door.

"So you think they are there because of you?" Bobby asked following him soon after.

"That's exactly what I think"

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