His ears were ringing, blinking his eyes a couple of times, Dean gathered his surroundings, Cas was laying on top of him and John had a gun. That's when he felt warm sticky blood soaking through his shirt and that Cas was laying way too still.
"Cas?! CAS!" Dean yelled gently rolling his mate off him, Cas' left shoulder was soaked in blood and he was unconscious. "CAS!" Dean yelled again, ignoring the hot tears rolling down his face, he looked up at John who had the gun pointed at him, "stupid mother fucker." He growled and went to pull the trigger before two little wires flew over Dean's head and attached to John's chest, tasering him to the floor.
The school's security guard ran past Dean and cuffed the knocked out alpha, ignoring them he turned his attention back to his mate. "Oh god, please don't be dead." he whimpered and checked for a pulse. He let out a small breath of release when he found one, it was weak but it was there. "Stay with me Cas, don't go." Dean cried while the school nurse ran down the hall to help him.
By time the cops and ambulance got there, there was a small crowd of teachers, waiting for parents to come pick up their kids, two paramedics came over with a stretcher and carefully picked Cas up and laid him down, "I'm coming with you." Dean said grabbing onto Cas' hand. "I'm sorry son, only family can ride in the ambulance." Once of the paramedics said gently and Dean pulled down his shirt far enough, "I'm his mate!" he stated, the paramedic examined it quickly to make sure it was real before nodding.
"Bobby, please call Gabriel and Naomi." Dean asked as they passed him, "I will, I'll meet you at the hospital once we get everything settled here." Bobby yelled after them.
Mary was just coming out of the locker room and was headed towards the nurses station to pick up her rounds when she heard a bunch of commotion down the hall by the service elevators. She was going to ignore it before she thought she heard Dean's voice. Curious, because she knew he would be at school, she made her way down the hall. When she turned the corner she went into panic mode, because Dean was standing there yelling at a male nurse to let him go with, she saw the blood covering his shirt and she ran.
"Dean! What's going on?" She asked once she got to her son, at the sight of his mother, he collapsed to the floor and started crying, Mary knelt down and pulled Dean to her chest, "Dean, honey you need to tell me what's happening." she said softly, combing her fingers through his hair.
"J-John c-came to the school… H-he wanted to take me to A-Alistair. When I told him no, he p-pulled out a gun. C-Cas tackled me to the ground a-and got shot! HE'S SHOT!" Dean yelled the last part and started crying harder.
Mary's heart was racing, she was furious with John and scared for her son, and his mate. "Do, you want me to stay with you, or do you want me to go see what's going on?" she asked, "find out what's going on. "Dean said hoarsely, but I'm coming with you." he argued.
Half an hour later Dean as pacing the hall while Bobby, Sam, Naomi, Charlie, and Gabe sat in the chairs in silence. Bobby had brought Dean new clothes, mistakingly grabbing one of Cas' shirts instead of his, but he didn't say anything because he could breath in his mates scent. Another twenty minutes passed before Mary walked down the hall, "Dean." she said softly and he whipped around, "how is he?" he asked. "He's okay. The surgery went well, he's upstairs in room 303, he's still asleep but he'll make a full recovery, he will need to do some physical therapy though." She explained and Dean surged forward and hugged her, while Naomi let out a sigh of relief and cried softly.
"T-the bullet.. H-how close to his heart was it?" Dean asked, Mary stared at him for a moment, if it was 3 inches lower it would have killed him." she said quietly, Mary had to catch her son before he hit the floor.
When Cas woke up, the first thing he noticed was the searing pain in his left shoulder, the second thing he noticed was Dean saying his name. Focusing, Cas saw that Dean was hovering over him, "never do that to me again." Dean said trying to to look angry but the tears gave it away. "'m sorry. Next time I'll let your lunatic father shoot you." Cas said and grinned a little.
"Not. Funny." Dean growled and smashed his lips against Cas', "I thought I was going to loose you." Dean cried, "you'll never get rid of me." Cas said and pulled Dean down with his good arm and kissed him again.
Shortly after they broke apart, Mary and Naomi walked in, "Cas! It's good to see you awake." Mary smiled while Naomi started crying and went to hug him, "I'm okay mom." Cas mumbled and used his good arm to run his hand up and down her back. "I called your father." she said once she broke the hug.
"What'd he say?" Dean asked before Cas could, "I called him as soon as I got of the phone with Bobby… He asked if you were alive and I didn't know, and he told me to let you know if you're alive and that was it. When I called him an hour ago all he said was good and proceeded to hang up on me." Naomi explained, "what an asshole." Dean growled and Cas just rolled his eyes.
"Dean, he was finished with me the moment you were pregnant. I'm not concerned about him." Cas said and patted Dean's hand. "Where's Gabe?" Cas asked finally looking around the room. "He had to finish his test… He kinda ran out in the middle of it when Bobby called him, mom called the university to explain and the professor said he'd allow Gabe to finish." Dean explained.
Cas hummed and tried to conceal his pain but Dean was in over-protective mode so he noticed right away. "You're in pain." he stated, "no, not really." Cas tried to play it off, "yes you are, quit trying to be superman." Dean huffed and hit the call button for a nurse. A few minutes later Mary walked in with Sam behind her, "feeling pain Cas?" she asked already walking over to his IV, "a little." he answered. "Alright, I'll give you this and it should knock you out for the rest of the night." Mary explained while giving him the medicine.
Sam got in a little conversation with Cas before he started getting loopy. "Alright, Sam I'll take you home." Naomi chuckled after Cas started rambling. "I'll see you later. Love you." She said and kissed Cas' head, which made him laugh "'ove you toooooo." he giggled. "Dean, you probably should head home too, Bobby called earlier and said to give him a call and he'll come get you." Mary said once Cas was asleep.
"I don't want to leave him…" Dean whispered and started getting emotional again, "I know you don't sweetie, but you've got Henry at home and I promise you he's not waking up till tomorrow, I'm on for the rest of the night, I'll make stops in and check on him alright?" Mary said and Dean just nodded, "I'll be out in a minute." he said, "alright, I'll be at the front desk downstairs."
"Goodnight Cas… I love you." Dean whispered and kissed his mates cheek.
By time Bobby dropped him off, Dean could barely keep his eyes open. "Charlie is inside with pizza and Henry… Get some rest son, school's been canceled for tomorrow and Thursday." Bobby said and Dean just nodded and slid out of the truck.
Dean unlocked the front door and was immediately attacked by Lucy, "down girl." he mumbled but scratched behind her ears before walking downstairs. Charlie and Sam were on the couch watching some history documentary on NETFLIX with pizza on the coffee table and Henry asleep in his swing.
As soon as Charlie noticed him, she jumped off the couch and ran over to him. "How is he?" she asked as she pulled Dean into a hug, "he's asleep, but he'll be okay." Dean mumbled. "When does he get to come home?" Sam asked once Dean sat down, "I don't know, probably in a couple of days." he sighed and sat down.
Sam and Charlie didn't say anything for a while, but she did slide the pizza box towards Dean. "Here, Sam and I've already eaten, the rest is yours." Dean looked inside the box to see 4 slices of meat lovers (still warm), he took one slice and ate it and before he knew it the other 3 were gone.
"I'm going to take a shower, Sam will you please put Henry in his crib?" Dean asked and made his way to the bathroom. He started the shower and stripped down and stepped into the hot spray. Dean scrubbed and scrubbed his skin as if he was trying to scrub away today's events.
He scrubbed so hard his arm started to bleed just a little, seeing the blood shook Dean out of his trance and he suddenly had the urge to cut again. He stared at the blood and sank to the floor of the shower and started to cry again, he sat there, with his knees up until the water turned cold.
By time Dean came out of the shower, Sam was passed out on the couch and Charlie was on her phone probably scrolling through Tumblr. "Hey." Dean said quietly, so he wouldn't wake up his brother, Charlie looked up, "hi, feel any better?" she asked and Dean just shrugged, "I'm gonna go to bed… Um, I-I don't know how to ask this…" Dean said and rubbed the back of his neck. "Do you want me to lay with you?" Charlie asked, knowing that's what he was going to ask, Dean sniffled a little and nodded, Charlie smiled a little, "I'll be in, in a minute, let me clean up in here." "Okay, I'll grab a blanket and a pillow for the giant." Dean grinned softly.
Dean crawled under the covers and swapped one of his pillows with Cas' so he could have his mates scent, when Charlie came into the room Dean told her she could get a t-shirt from his dresser. When she got into the bed, she pulled Dean closer to her, "He'll be okay." She whispered and kissed the top of Dean's head.
