Chapter 1
Dean lifted the glass to his lips and drank deeply. Whiskey burned his throat and tongue. That familiar warmth spread through his stomach and chest, but it wasn't as relieving as he had hoped. He was pissed at himself. He kept glancing nervously at the cell phone on the kitchen table in front of him. He had to admit, he was kind of hoping that Cas would call. If only he could apologize for casting him out like that...
If only that apology would change anything.
Instinctively, he reached for the bottle. Nope, no, not happening. No emotions today. Do it right, with a smile, or don't do it at all, right? Right. The phone rang and the bottle slipped from Dean's hands, clattering to the floor and spilling its contents. "Son of a bitch!" he hissed, scrambling to wipe the whiskey off of the phone before it could do any damage. He froze. The caller ID was displaying a familiar number. The cell phone he had given to Cas.
"Hello?" Dean's voice cracked as he spoke.
"Dean, something is wrong. I think my human body is dying." Castiel's voice was hoarse and weak.
"What? What happened?"
"I'm having trouble breathing and something is wrong with my throat and lungs. Are you familiar with this kind of phenomenon?"
"Hold on, where are you?"
He wrote down the motel's address on the back of a napkin, told Cas to hang in there, and left without cleaning up the spilled liquor.
As Dean started the car, he reassured himself that Cas was probably just sick - not dying of some sort of stab wound. He wasn't an angel anymore, stab wounds and the like were actually a threat now. He tried to remind himself that it was a bad habit to always assume that the worst had/has happened. Unfortunately he could think of too many incidents where the worst had happened. He muttered curses under his breath the entire drive, both at himself for ever letting Cas out of his sight, and at Cas for ever listening to him.
Ok, these chapters will most likely be rather short and I will do my best to update this story at least once a week. Comments and feedback are not only welcome, but officially requested!
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