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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;"He took a deep breath in and instantly regretted it as smoke began to fill his lungs. He hacked out a cough spluttering and gasping on the smoke. He wanted to cover his mouth, but he couldn't, his arms were tied at an uncomfortable angle behind his back. br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /He looked out at the crowd, his vision blurry with tears. He could hear them cheering, calling for his death. Finally his blue eyes locked with green ones./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Castiel stared at the boy in front of him. Sam hadn't said a word since Castiel arrived in the small trading village. Dean had spoken nonstop about his little brother but Cas hadn't heard a peep from the younger boy./embr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /em style="box-sizing: border-box;"He gingerly placed two fingers on each side of Sams head. He gasped and jerked back, eyes wide./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;"He looked back at the hateful faces in the crowd. Searching for a friendly face. He saw his brother, Gabriel, shouting and shoving trying to get closer, but it was no use. His gaze fell on Sam who was standing nearby looking ashamed, with tears streaming down his face, The kid needed to realise that this wasn't his fault. And Dean. Where was Dean?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Castiel stared at the boy in front of him. Sam hadn't said a word since Castiel arrived in the small trading village. Dean had spoken nonstop about his little brother but Cas hadn't heard a peep from the younger boy./embr style="box-sizing: border-box;" /em style="box-sizing: border-box;"He gingerly placed two fingers on each side of Sams head. He gasped and jerked back, eyes wide./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"As soon as she was out of hearing range Dean turned to Sam "Go and tell Gabriel what's happening" Gabriel was the only one other than Dean who understood Sam's mad hand gestures. Sam nodded and took off. Finally Dean turned to Cas "punch me in the face" of all the things he could have said... "Why?" "Damn it Cas! So it doesn't look like I let you escape" Cas stared at him confused. " Urgh do I have to spell it out for you? If they get a hold of you they'll kill you!" He nodded. "And I'm not going to let that happen"/em/p
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