This Chapter is short. I'm very sorry about that. The next one will be longer I promise
Castiel left the bunker in a hurry, he stayed long enough so that the Winchesters wouldn't get worried. As soon as the coast was clear, he dashed out and flew away to find his beloved brother.
"Gabriel?" He asked, he was in a warehouse across the country. The place was dark and humid, there was dust and mold in every corner of the room. What was Gabriel doing in here?
"Brother?" Castiel called, hoping for an answer. When he got nothing he tried again. "Gabriel, brother, I need your help." Castiel said loudly, he needed Gabriel, needed advice. Castiel needed his brother.
"Cassie?" Gabriel said a minute later coming out of the dark. The guy was dirty and looked tired. "What are you doing here?" Gabe asked, giving his brother a menacing look.
"I needed some advice…" Castiel replied avoiding his brother's gaze looking around the room when; he spotted a man's body on the ground. "What did you do brother?" Castiel asked staring at the man's wrecked body.
"He got what he deserved. Remember Cassie, i'm also Loki." Gabe replied nonchalantly. With a wave of his hand, Gabriel made the body disappear and the angels continued talking like nothing happened. "What is it you want to talk about?" Gabe asked, sticking a lollipop in his mouth.
"I need advice Brother."
"About what?" He asked next, sitting on a newly appeared chair. Castiel looked at his brother and sat on the chair Gabe had made appear from him. Once he sat there, Castiel looked at his brother and swallowed the massive lump in his throat.
"It's about Dean-o, isn't it?" Gabriel said after a while in silence. Castiel looked at him with big eyes and mouth wide open. "How did you-"
Gabriel laughed, cutting off the younger angel. "Castiel, brother, I know you better than you know yourself." He said simply a smile gracing his face. Castiel nodded and looked at his hands, they were neatly folded on his lap twitching here and there. "What should I do about my feelings for him then?"
Gabe looked at him smile fading as quickly as it came. "Cassie, follow your heart man. There's nothing I can do to help. We aren't aloud to love a human, nor have engage in any sort of sexual contact. You've always been a good soldier, now you have to chose between heaven or happiness."
"Why do I have to choose? Why can't I have both?
Gabriel sighed loudly. Was Castiel this dense! "Cassie! Heaven would never accept it. Remember what happened last time an angel fell in love with a human?" Castiel nodded slowly thinking of Jane; the only Angel/Human hybrid left in existence.
"Yes…" Castiel replied slowly. He remembered hearing about her, how angels thought she was an abomination. He also remembered the killing of her parents, Castiel had stood in the back in the shadows, watching the slaughter of an angel and a human in love. It had hurt, it hurt that two people would get killed for loving each other and creating life.
"Even before she was created, Heaven had a target on that angel and the human. Loving Dean is a risk, showing it off would be a death sentence." Gabriel said. He looked at Castiel who looked defeated and crushed. Gabe sighed and scooted closer to the younger angel. "Cas?" He asked.
"Yes Gabriel?" Castiel responded, voice low and gruff. "This is what I would do," Gabe started. "I'd be with Dean. Love is a strong and powerful thing, any angel should be honored to feel that."
Castiel looked at the Archangel befuddled. "You-You really think so?" He asked gently. Gabriel laughed and patted his brother on the shoulder. "Yes Cassie, if I was in love I'd screw Heaven and go live the rest of my days with that person." Castiel smiled, but it faded quickly when he thought of Dean's feelings.
He sighed and said, "It doesn't matter thought. He does not feel the same way."
"Are you sure?" Gabe questioned, he thought about the hunter. The few times he had seen him with Castiel they had seen pretty close. They always regarded each other, and shared a look that seemed filled with love and passion.
Castiel didn't know, Dean was either so easy to read or a damn mystery. "No, I am not and I am scared to find out." Gabriel nodded and said "Ok, well I have to go now and remember, follow your heart me dear brother." And with that, the Archangel disappeared leaving Castiel alone with his thoughts.
Castiel looked into nothingness, thinking of how he felt and how it hurt knowing that no matter what, he would never be able to be with Dean...
-TBC
