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This is set at the beginning of season 9, episode 7 'Bad Boys'. I hope you like it.

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Sam was sitting in the library with Cas when the phone on the table started buzzing. Frowning he picked it up and looked at the number, but it wasn't one he recognized.

"Hello?" he said answering it Dean came through the door and went over to Cas to see what he was up to. Though when Sam spoke again he moved and grabbed the phone from his brother.

"I'm sorry, there's no, uh, there's no Dee-dawg-" Sam said down the phone before his brother pulled it out of his hand making him frown at him.

"I got it, I got it." Dean said turning round so his back was to Sam before he spoke down the line having a conversation with someone called Sonny. At his last sentence Castiel looked up. He did not like it.

"All right. Yeah, just sit tight. I'll be there as soon as I can." Dean said down the phone before he hung up to find both Sam and Cas staring at him. His brother yeah okay he probably wanted to rip into him about the nick name, but it was the look in Cas' eyes which confused him. They looked so hurt. Dean had no idea what to do to take it away. But he didn't want to see little Cas look that way, it was way to painful.

"So, what was that all about, 'Dee-dawg'?" Sam asked in a jokey voice.

"You remember when we were kids that spring in up-state New York? Dad was on a rugaru hunt. we crashed at the, uh ... the bungalow colony with the ping-pong table?" Dean asked turning to his brother but making sure he could still see Cas out of the corner of his eye. He didn't want him walking off somewhere if he was upset.

"Yeah. You disappeared. Dad came back. You were gone. He shipped me off to Bobby's for a couple months and went and found you. You were lost on a hunt or something." Sam replied still frowning in confusion, what had that to do with anything?

"That's what we told you. Right." Dean muttered in reply to Sam's words.

"I'm sorry? That's what you told me?" Sam asked crossing his arms. Just what was going on here?

"Truth is, I lost the food money that Dad left for us in a card game. I knew you'd get hungry, so ... I tried taking the five-finger discount at the local market and got busted. I wasn't on a hunt. They sent me to a boys' home." Dean explained with a shrug to his brother and watched the frown appear on Cas' face. Just what was the little guy thinking now?

"A boys' home, like a … reform school?" Sam asked, how was it he didn't know this about his own brother? Hell he had been there at the time. How had he not known?

"Yeah, more or less. It was a farm, and the guy who ran it, Sonny, he, you know, he looked after me." Dean replied not looking at his brother at all now as he watched Cas turn back to the table and frown down at it. He wished the fledging would talk to him and tell him what was on his mind.

"Wait. Does Sonny know what we do?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. He's good people. I gave him the number to the Bat Phone, and sounds like he's got something in our wheelhouse." Dean replied absently going over to the fledging. "hey Cas, you alright there buddy?"


Castiel had heard Dean say that he would be right there to whoever it was on the other end of the line and that meant that Dean was leaving. He didn't want him to go, but he didn't know what to do about that. It wasn't like he could ask Dean to stay. He turned to Dean, hoping that he would suggest they all go, like they did before, but he remembered how much they had all had to persuade Dean that time and he did not think that Dean would agree again. So he would be made to stay here with Kevin and Sam and Dean would go off alone. And Castiel couldn't even ask him to stay because he was trying so hard to be a good angel and not feel. So there was nothing he could do, nothing. He listened to Dean and Sam's conversation while he tried to find a reason that would allow him to go with Dean, all he could come up with was that the hunter would need back up, but he doubted Dean would see him as that even if he was an angel. Suddenly he realised that Dean was crouching down next to him and as such turned to the hunter though he didn't say a word.

"Hey Cas, you alright there buddy?" Dean asked even though he knew the answer was no. He had no idea what was up with the fledging but the one thing he did know was the was no way he could leave the kid alone like this. So it looked like they would all be going on this hunt. Maybe the farm would be good for Cas. Maybe Sonny would know what to do to help him. He spent his life looking after trouble boys after all. Maybe he could give Dean some advice.

"You want to go pack you bag, or do you want me to do it?" He asked the fledging and watched as he tilted his head in that Cas gesture which was all his own and he saw a small amount of hope appear in the kids eyes. It was then that Dean realised what Cas was upset about. He thought Dean was going to go off and leave him. He had to make sure Cas knew that that was never going to happen.

"We'll make it a family trip, yeah? It's a farm, so they'll be lots of nature stuff for you to look at. You'll like it." Dean continued warming to his theme. Not that it seemed he needed to persuade the baby angel as now Cas' eyes were practically glowing. With a smile he jumped off his chair and ran out of the room. Okay so he still hadn't spoken, but the smile was definitely a step on the road to improvement. Turning to Sam he saw his brother had his eyebrows raised at him. "What?" he asked as he stood back up.

"You trust this Sonny with Cas?" Sam asked, cos if Dean did, then that meant...well that was big. Cos Dean didn't really trust Gabriel with Cas half the time and he was the fledgling's brother.

"Yeah I do." Dean replied absolutely, yeah okay he won't want Cas leaving his sight, but that was just normal when you got a baby angel in your midst. He had to make sure Cas didn't do any angel shit right?

"Okay then." Sam replied, cos honestly, that was all he needed to know about what this Sonny meant to Dean. And how he had treated his brother when he was young. He was obliviously important to Dean and he was a good man. Sam was starting to get to the point where he couldn't wait to meet the guy.


Castiel ran off to Dean's room to get his stuff thinking only about how Dean had decided to take him with them. It wasn't until he was putting his angel blade in the bag with his spare clothes that he remembered Deans words. He had said family. Sam was Deans family, yes. But they way Dean had said it, it made Castiel think that Dean was including him under that term as well. Did Dean see him as family? What did that mean? How would that work? He was an angel and thus the angels were his family. And yet, Dean called him family. Castiel was going to have to think about this, but something, somewhere at the back of his mind told him there was nothing wrong with being a part of the Winchester family. In fact, being a brother to Dean and Sam was a good thing, though were these thoughts came from he had no idea. It was all very confusing for the fledging, as such he put them from his mind in favour of thinking about all the things he would see on the farm. Though of course his first duty would be to protect Dean, but surely the righteous man would want to take a look around the place he had once lived right?