Title: Conversations
Characters: Castiel and OFC
Summary: Castiel talks to a mourning mother and learns about faith human-style
Castiel was waiting again for the Winchester Boys- who have again gotten into trouble that landed them into the hospital. He just couldn't understand how Dean could believe so fervently that Samuel could make it out alive, when it was a clear indicator that Samuel was so close to death. He just couldn't understand it.
He wandered down the hospital corridors squeezing past rushing nurses and Doctors who barely had time to glance over at him, to even question why he was wandering the corridors. He past the War Veterans Unit when he heard an anguished scream; It didn't sound like someone being attacked but rather a scream of pain and hurt. He started following where the scream originated and it lead him to him a fifty year old woman rocking back and forth in her chair looking lost. The man beside her looked uncomfortable. He looked up and saw Castiel,
"Are you Mrs. Willows' husband?" Castiel barely opened his mouth and the man (assumedly Doctor) walked off. Castiel really did not know what to do. Looking around awkwardly for a couple minutes he finally sat down besides the lady. After another couple minutes of awkward silence he finally spoke.
"Mrs. Willows? What is the matter?" he just could not understand this situation. Why was she crying in a hospital? Where was her family? Mrs. Willows looked abruptly up. Her face lighted up.
"Are you an angel to take my son to a better place?" Castiel looked at her; he did not know how she knew. "Robbie was in so much pain. It hurt me so much, I wanted to make it better but I couldn't. I knew that God would take care of my Robbie". Castiel did not know how a mother who just lost her son could still believe that his Father took care of him. She continued talking unaware of his inner turmoil.
"Robbie is dead. God must have taken him. God must have decided that it was a better place for him up in heaven. God knows what he is doing. Robbie is going to a better place." Castiel was frankly at this point astonished that a mother who just lost her son believed that he was in a better place because his Father decided so.
He looked up and saw a spirit that would soon be moving on. The spirit was looking at the human lady with a kind of sad relief. The spirit spoke
"Mum, oh mum, don't cry. It's much better now. No more pain Mum. See, its better, the lady said I could wait for you on the other side. Mum don't worry we will see each other soon enough. I love you Mum" and then the spirit vanished. Castiel figured he must have moved on. When Castiel looked at the woman again, he was surprised that she wasn't crying. She looked at him,
"Didn't you feel Robbie? Robbie was here! He is at peace. I can feel it. God has taken care of my baby" and at that point the human woman smiled. Castiel finally blurted out a question that had been bothering him,
"How can you still believe in him?" she looked at him strangely,
"Because he takes care of his children, always, we may not see it as so, but he does." Castiel finally knew why she believed in his Father. Castiel knew as well he could believe in his Father wholly again. His Father might not be around, but he still took care of all his creatures.
Samuel Winchester just woke up.
