Running

"You_you have...Are those?" Sam was transfixed by Cas' wings as he ran alongside him. Dean was transfixed by Sam. Only Cas paid mind to those who gave chase. Demons feared Hellhounds as they should. Hellhounds walked in Purgatory and Cas could hear them. But something worse belonged to Raphael. Something older that should not have been let out of the Pit.

"Yes, they are. This is real, Sam." Cas looked back. Dean heard the chatter from the things in pursuit.

"What are those?" Dean's voice said he knew all too well what Hellhounds spoke like. Big brother had once sacrificed himself for the younger one. He was more than a little bit familiar with these creatures. The things following them were not it.

"The Shadeem." Cas frowned. Sam let out a chirp.

"N-No. No. He said he wouldn't let them out. He said that the taste of my blood was enough." Sam went green.

"He fed you to them?" Cas's jaw dropped and he almost ran into a tree.

Dean went white and blue and nearly passed out. It had been on his mind too much lately. What Sam had done. If he hadn't, the Apocalypse would have started up all over again. It would have been over. Cas and Dean would have been thrown into the center of that last waking Hell. Dean had a thousand thanks on his lips, but twice as many regrets. He didn't need to know about that just yet.

"I...Well, yeah, Cas that's what keeps the well alive." Sam looked back. His eyes were tired and sad. The fact that he wasn't afraid of Hell's most fearsome beast told both of his brothers everything they needed to know about what had been happening to him down here.

"We have to find a way to ditch Raphael." Dean grabbed Sam's wrist. It was his way of saying we're talking about this later.

"Yes, I agree. I've an idea. Dean, I know you don't like flying, but this isn't the same as airplanes." Cas wrapped his arm around each of the Winchester's waists. He took off at a breakneck pace, eyes suddenly bursting with grace light. Talking like an eagle, he took to the sky. Even Dean was relieved to be airborne.