AN: This chapter is the interview between Rossi and Castiel. :) Not sure if I can live up to people's expectations…but I'll do my best!
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Chapter 3
"So, Castiel, how well do you know the Winchesters?" Rossi asks, folding his hands together and resting his elbows on the table.
"I would like to believe I know them quite well. I have known them for close to seven years now, and Dean has even told me he thinks of me as family." Castiel replies, copying Rossi's actions and placing his elbows on the table.
"Family? Wow. That sounds like high praise."
"It is. There are few people that Dean trusts, and even fewer that he calls family." Cas says seriously.
"Makes me wonder if you will answer my questions honestly; being family means loyalty, doesn't it? How do I know you won't lie to me to protect him?" Rossi asks, trying to gage if Castiel will continue to be cooperative.
Castiel looks away for a moment before responding.
"Unfortunately my family has recently had to relearn the meaning of loyalty." Cas sighs. "You don't know that I won't lie to protect Dean, but I give you my word, that I will not." He states firmly, as if his word is an unbreakable vow and means a great deal.
"Did Dean kill those men in Pontiac, Illinois?" Rossi asks, cutting to the chase.
Castiel looks sad at the question, almost like a kicked puppy.
"Yes he did." He replies softly, sitting back in his chair.
"Can you tell me why?"
"That question is more difficult, and you probably won't believe me."
"Tell me anyways."
Castiel takes a moment to collect his thoughts before he begins.
"I promised Jimmy Novak I would protect his family. I haven't been doing a very good job of that and so I went looking for Claire."
"Seems you found her." Rossi says enthusiastically, giving Castiel a reassuring smile.
"Yes, but she had gotten herself mixed up with a man named Randy. He was using her to steal money to pay for his gambling debts, but I knew that he was manipulating her and asked Sam and Dean to help me get her away from him. When we arrived at the house, the debt collector was attempting to take advantage of Claire as payment for the missing funds. Everything seemed to have gone as planed until Sam, Claire, and I were in the Impala waiting for Dean. He had stayed behind to deter them from trying to follow us, but they struck him."
"So he killed them in self-defense." Rossi states, seeing if Castiel will take the easy way out or tell the whole truth.
Castiel shakes his head.
"I wish that were true, but Dean possesses the Mark of Cain. Once he started fighting he couldn't stop."
Rossi raises an eyebrow at that.
"This mark…it made him kill those people?" Rossi asks skeptically.
Castiel nods.
"Before the Mark, Dean would have left them incapacitated, not dead."
"Oh? Is it new? This…mark?" Rossi questions, sensing a deeper meaning in the man's words.
"Relatively. I'm not completely sure, but I felt its power for the first time in late November of 2013."
"For not being completely sure, that's pretty specific."
Castiel tilts his head and furrows his brow in thought.
"I guess for humans, that is pretty specific, but if I had not been distracted by the fact that I had just been tricked into thinking my brother Gabriel was still alive and then traded in a hostage exchange, I could probably tell you down to the exact millisecond of when it was."
Rossi raises his eyebrows.
"And how exactly would you know that?" Rossi asks, choosing to skim over the hostage exchange comment for the moment, but making note of it in his notebook for future reference.
Castiel shifts in his seat uncomfortably.
"This is probably the part where you will stop believing me…"
"What makes you think that?"
"You are a member of the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI. You deal with mentally ill humans on an almost daily basis. Needless to say, some of them, as Dean would say, are 'religious nut-cases'."
"I can see why that may concern you, but right now I just want to know what you know and what you think." Rossi says honestly, genuinely curious now.
Castiel sighs before resigning himself and sitting up tall in his seat and looking Rossi straight in the eye.
"I am an angel of the Lord. Part of my Father's design was to be very precise."
"An angel…" Rossi says, playing into Castiel's delusion to get more information. "How did an 'angel of the Lord' end up with the Winchesters?"
Cas scoffs to himself, knowing full-well that Rossi probably doesn't believe him.
"The full explanation of that would take some time to explain and I do not wish to leave Claire alone much longer." He says, glancing in the direction of his charge.
"Could you give me the short version?" Rossi urges.
Cas stares at him blankly for a moment. Maybe he does want to know the truth, but Cas was having a hard time believing that.
"Dean sold his soul to bring his brother back to life," He begins "Dean went to Hell to suffer his punishment, I was sent to raise him from perdition; but he was the Righteous Man and by design my superiors did not send me until they were sure that he would break the first of the sixty-six seals necessary to start the Apocalypse; Sam was used by a demon named Ruby to kill Lilith, the demon who sent Dean to Hell, who also happened to be the sixty-sixth seal and Lucifer was freed. I discovered that the angels and demons were working together to bring about Armageddon, under the impression that they could have 'paradise on earth' sooner. So, I sided with the Winchesters to save humanity. Then Sam tricked Lucifer back into his cage and after another complicated series of events Sam was brought back from Hell as well. We have been working with each other ever since." Castiel says a little sarcastically. Dean was definitely starting to rub off on him.
"You believe that everything you have just told me is true." Rossi questions, trying to take in the new information.
"Yes."
"When exactly was the Apocalypse?" Rossi asks slowly, concerned by the implications if it were true, but not fully believing.
"In broader terms, the first seal was broken close to seven years ago. It took around a year for the demons to break all of the seals. Then another of Lucifer walking free before Sam trapped him again."
Rossi takes a moment to think over all the information the supposed angel is telling him.
"So do you see Sam and Dean as heroes, then?"
Castiel tilts his head in thought. What an interesting question.
"I guess, in a sense, they could be seen as heroes…" He muses. "They have been hunting the supernatural for almost their entire lives. At first their only reason for hunting was their father's pursuit of the demon Azazel, who killed their mother, Mary. But to Dean it has always been more than that. He once said that hunting things and saving people is 'the family business.' I believe this to be true. It runs in their family. Their mother was raised as a hunter like generations before her; dating back to when the English first began to colonize what you call America. And their father's side of the family were members of the Men of Letters, collectors of supernatural knowledge and artifacts. I've been told that my Father had great interest in insuring that Sam and Dean were born and raised as hunters the way they were. I suppose you could say they were born to be heroes." He smiles to himself, realizing that it's true; they are heroes.
Rossi sits back in his chair. "That's quite a bit to take in."
"If you need more information you can read the 'Winchester Gospels'." Cas offers helpfully, standing to leave. "The prophet Chuck wrote down a great deal of their story. They are called the 'Supernatural' books and are under the pen name Carver Edlund. I believe Charlie said they have been put on the internet now." Castiel glances anxiously at the door, hearing Clair praying to him.
"The Winchester Gospels?" Rossi asks, eyebrow rising skeptically.
"Yes."
Rossi really isn't sure what to say to that. Having gotten more questions than answers, he nods and adds it to his notebook.
"Thank you for your time Castiel." Rossi says, standing up. "If we have any more questions, is there a way we can contact you? Or a place you will be staying?"
Castiel furrows his brow trying to think of the answers. "I have a cell phone, but I have never had need of giving anyone my number. I'm not sure what it is…as for a place I will be staying, Sam and Dean usually stay in a motel, but I don't have any money because Claire stole my wallet and gave it to Randy…" Cas falls quiet, listening to Clair's prayer.
"We could pay for a place for you to stay, and I'm sure I can help you get your cellphone number." Rossi offers, feeling Castiel's anxiety to get back to Clair as he once again looks at the door. "Let's take care of that and we'll get you settled? How does that sound?"
Castiel brings his full attention back to the man in front of him. "You are very kind Agent Rossi," Cas says, moving towards the door "but I am concerned about leaving Dean here." He says, voicing his other major concern.
"You don't have to worry. We will take good care of him. If there is some way we can help him, we will." Rossi reassures.
"I feel that I must caution you in upsetting him. He is…unstable at the moment." Castiel says wearily before nodding a goodbye and leaving the room in search of Claire.
AN2: Castiel made the drastic decision to tell the whole truth...what will happen next? Will this cause problems for Sam and Dean? Or will things go right for them for once?