Voting Results for Pairings so far:
Dean/Cassie, 6 votes
Destiel/Cassie (Dean loves both Cas and Cassie and it's returned), 3 votes
Cassie/Gabriel, 2 votes
Dean/Castiel, 1 vote
Dean/Chuck, 1 vote
Dean/No one (Leave Dean a lonely and Miserable soul), 1 vote
Sastiel/Cassie (Basically Destiel/Cassie, but Sam is there instead), 1 vote
Sam/No one (Leave Sam a lonely soul), 1 vote
Cassie/Adam, 1 vote
Cassie/No one (Leave Cassie as a lonely(?) soul), 1 vote
Michael/Adam, 1 vote
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"Hello, Adam," Castiel says as Adam's eyes slowly open. When he notices Castiel standing there, he flails his arms wildly before grabbing his sheets and pulling them over his bare torso.
"Cas! Don't just- don't just walk into someone's room while they sleep!" Adam exclaims, face flushed. "Please go bother Sam or Dean while I get dressed."
"If that is what you would prefer." Castiel reappears in the motel room the Winchesters are staying, standing in front of the TV.
"Dammit, Cas! Where did you come from?" Dean shouts in surprise. Then, "Cas? You're back?"
"I have returned," she says, not understanding what he means. "Adam told me to bother you and Sam while he gets dressed. How do I do that?"
"Cas, Adam didn't mean that you should actually bother us. He just meant that you should talk to us and wait for him while he's getting dressed," Dean explains to her. The door to the bathroom opens, revealing Sam with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Dean! Why didn't you tell me Cassie was in our room?" Sam jumps back into the bathroom, using the door to block his body from Castiel's confused gaze. "And give me my clothes."
"It's not Cassie, it's Cas," Dean smirks, handing his brother clothes through the crack in the doorway. Sam snatches his clothes from Dean's hand, grumbling, and Dean returns to his bed, where he sits.
"It's Cas? She's back then?" Sam pokes his head out and peeks at her.
"Seems so," Dean responds nonchalantly, pretending he hadn't freaked out like his younger brother did.
"How are you feeling?" Sam asks her, stepping out of the bathroom fully dressed. "And, uh, do you know what's happened to you while in Heaven?"
Castiel hesitates before saying answering. "I remember everything that happened in Heaven and Cassie has revealed some of her other memories to me," she states coolly. "It would seem that it has not been the first time I've gotten close to humans or doubted my siblings' orders."
"What do you mean?" Dean asks, leaning forward. At that moment, Adam saunters into the room. He stops once he notices the tense atmosphere, and glances between Dean and Castiel.
"Did I just interrupt something? I can leave if you want," he offers.
"No. This isn't a safe place to talk about what Heaven has done," Castiel says before turning to Adam. "Hello again, Adam."
"Hey, Cas." He waves at her before focusing his attention on his brothers. "So what's the plan for today?"
"Bobby called about a demon problem," Sam answers.
"Oh," says Adam. "I'll wait in the car, then." He turns around and puts his hand on the doorknob, but before he can leave, Dean speaks up.
"What? No questions for Cas? Like why she didn't tell that she was back even if we were sleeping?" Dean says, gesturing wildly. Adam faces him.
"Nah. She talked to me just after she and Cassie joined, so I don't have any questions like you and Sam do," Adam responds simply. He then opens the door, exits the room, and slams it shut without another word.
"You woke him up as soon as you could, but you didn't come to us?" Dean demands.
"Adam is my friend. I thought he would like to know. And you and Sam needed your sleep." She tilts her head to the right as she notices his blatant anger. "Is something wrong, Dean?"
"You know what- no! Nothing's wrong!" He throws his hands in the air, still scowling. Castiel nods and disappears.
"Nothing's wrong?" Sam repeats incredulously, one eyebrow raised.
"Shut up." He leaves the room and Sam follows him, picking up the black duffel bag that contained all their luggage on the way out.
Bobby, Sam, and Dean approach the door to the panic room as Adam drinks beer upstairs.
"Well, thanks for shaking a tail," Bobby says to the Winchesters.
"Yeah, you got it." Dean says. Sam opens the door for Bobby.
"Go on inside. I wanna show you something." Bobby waves him in. Sam walks into the panic room while Dean and Bobby hang back.
"All right. So, uh, what's the big demon problem?" Sam surveys the room, which contains prison-like furniture and a large devil's trap in the center.
"You are. This is for your own good."
Sam turns around frantically, but Bobby and Dean had already shut the door with a large bang. Sam hurries over to the small peep door at eye level. He could make out both his brother and Bobby on the other side.
"Guys? Hey, hey. What?" Sam calls out. Bobby closes and latches the peep door. "This isn't funny. Guys! Hey! Guys?"
"So... What's happening to Sam down there?" Adam sips his drink, lounging in a chair in Bobby's kitchen, holding a book in his other hand.
"Getting the demon blood out of his system. You know, the usual." Dean shrugs, taking a beer out of the fridge.
"Oh. Okay." Adam continues reading.
"You're not at all freaked out about that?" Dean pops the cap off the bottle.
"Cassie already told me about it. Thought it would be best to know what you guys haven't told me." Adam tries to focus on his book. "Plus, I read what Chuck wrote, remember?"
"When did you get so close to those two, anyway?" Dean sits down across from him, trying to ignore the shouts from the panic room.
"While I stayed with Chuck, I got to know Cas. I guess, by extension, I became friends with Cassie. Now I'm trying to read, please stop interrupting." He waves his hand dismissively at Dean., who scoffs and gives Bobby a look that clearly says, can you believe this kid? Bobby only shrugs in return.
"Stay here," Cas orders Dean. She stares at the locked door leading to the panic room with an odd sort of determination. Before Dean can respond, Castiel vanishes. She reappears inside the panic room, where Sam lies down on a bare bed, staring at the ceiling.
Knowing that he cannot see her, Castiel unlocks the door and disappears. Sam looks up at the telltale sound of a lock clicking open, and approaches the door carefully. Once he is standing in front of it, he turns the doorknob and opens it. As he attempts to make his escape, Dean intercepts him.
"Bobby! Sam's up!" Dean shouts. Bobby rushes down the stairs and helps Dean get Sam back into the room. The two of them strap him to the bed before leaving and locking the door behind them once more.
"How'd he get out?" Bobby hisses at Dean when they're back upstairs.
"I don't know. Cas just told me to- fuck!" Dean swears. He checks in on Adam, whose position hadn't changed at all. "Did you know that Cas just tried to set Sam free?"
"She did what?" Adam exclaims, setting the book down and staring at him in shock.
"Yeah. Your buddy just decided to pop in tell me to 'lock the door' and let him out," Dean yells angrily.
"Oh." Adam relaxes. "She was probably ordered to by her superiors, but she found a loophole and had you stop it since she couldn't."
"That's it? What the hell did she tell you that excuses her from all wrong?" Dean steps closer to him. "What is that makes you so buddy-buddy enough that you can just forget about your family?"
"She tells me things! A lot more than you guys have!" Adam stands up, eye-to-eye with Dean, and clenches his fists. He pretends not to hear the book slip into the seat. "They tell me things I'm supposed to hear from you two! My supposed 'brothers'! I never wanted to be a hunter! Hell, I never asked John fucking Winchester to be my father! I was going to a medical college, learning to be a doctor! I may never see my mother again, just to protect her! And now I'm stuck with you- you fucking psychos! And you have the nerve to lecture me about family, huh? You two have never treated me like a priority! So excuse me if I trust someone who tried to warn you despite everything!"
"We don't tell you anything because we're trying to protect you!" Dean exclaims immediately.
"Protect me?! I'm more safe than you or Sam could be! Cas made it so I'm not able to be tracked by angels and they can't read what's in my mind! And-and you all treat Cassie and Cas like some sort of a means to an end, and not like actual people!" At the end of his tirade, Adam's face is flushed and he points at the door menacingly. "Get out. Get out of this room, Winchester!"
Dean scowls and storms off, leaving Adam alone with his thoughts. He collapses back into his chair and after a few moments, picks up the book. He throws it against the wall, where it bounces off onto the floor pathetically.
"I wish I could go back to the normal world," he complains to no one in particular.
Castiel stands at a railing looking over a riverbed. The night is cold, making her breath condensate with every exhale. In front of her, the streets lights flicker and she turns around to see Anna.
"What did you do?" Anna demands, her voice shaking.
"You shouldn't have come, Anna," she says.
"Why would you try to let out Sam Winchester?"
"Those were my orders."
"Orders? Cas, you saw him. He's drinking demon blood. It's so much worse than we thought. Dean was trying to stop him."
"I told Dean beforehand for that reason."
"What's going on with you, Castiel? You aren't like what I remember from before my fall."
"God," she answers.
"God? How is that possible? He stopped talking to us centuries ago."
"He sent me something to help." Castiel looks around. "You need to leave. You're going to be captured if you stay."
Anna stares at her uneasily but vanishes, and Castiel turns back to watching the water.
"What's the plan on stopping Lilith, Bobby?" Dean asks Bobby, who is sitting at his desk.
"There isn't one until you've made up with Adam and your other brother is clean." Bobby focuses on his research, shuffling through several papers.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means your family needs to be fixed before you can save the world, idjit."
"Adam doesn't want to fix things and Sam could take longer than we have."
"Have you even tried to fix things with, Adam? He's a nice kid, but he was just taken from everything he knew a month ago and was plunged into this world. Try talking to him again. And let me do my research in peace." Bobby gestures to the doorway. Dean sighs, disheartened, but listens toBobby anyway.
"Hey, kid. Um, I was wondering if we could talk." Dean knocks on Adam's door, despite it being ajar.
"Sure. What is it you want to talk about?" Adam stops his writing at the worn desk.
"I want to- I want to apologize." Dean rubs his neck.
"Don't strain yourself," Adam says.
"I wanted to say I'm sorry about what happened last night. You're right. You shouldn't have to learn those things from other people. It's just hard to tell someone you just met, 'hey, I just came out of Hell recently, and Sam here's been drinking demon blood for the last seven or nine months, want to skip and frolic and pretend nothing's wrong in the world?'" Dean continues, ignoring Adam.
"Well, when you put it like that, I suppose it makes sense," Adam agrees. "I'm sorry as well. I was called by my mom to come home as soon as possible, told that the supernatural is real, my dad was a hunts monsters, and I have two older brothers that are also hunters. It's only beginning to dawn on me that I can never return to the way things were before."
"Yeah..." They sit in silence. Dean breaks it a moment later. "I'm going to grab a beer."
"I'll join you." Adam stands up, pushing in his chair as he follows Dean out the door.
Hello,
I realize this is mostly a filler chapter, but as my beta, totallyignorable, reminded me, Adam should be more angry and less relaxed about his situation.
I was a little surprised to see the Cassie/Gabriel since more people seem to want Dean/Cassie, but I like a variety of votes, it lets me explore more pairings.
Thank you for continuing to read,
Gabriel's Wings