Title: and then there was one

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: AU

Pairings: none

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 100

Point of view: third


The vessel's mouth drips blood. Castiel can feel the body weakening around him. He strains for freedom, to escape the flesh and muscle prison, but something holds firm and he beats uselessly against it.

"Tell me, angel," the demon coos, its vessel's eyes flashing golden. "Do you know the phrase red-herring?"

Castiel's vessel's left arm snaps, hanging useless at the elbow. He does not make a sound.

"All'a you, so concerned with Sammy. Wonderin' what's the plan with Sam, earnest, powerful Sam." The demon cackles, spinning its knife. "That was the plan," it tells him gleefully.

"And it worked perfectly."