Title: He Who Is Like God

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: AU at the end of season 6

Pairings: none

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 190

Point of view: third

Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Cas

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

-"The Scientist", Coldplay


Castiel holds his head high, wings spread, hearing the voices inside him that make him Like God. His hands cover the world, all the realities, everything that is, was, and will be.

Castiel is no longer his name, he decides, listening to the heartbeat of his kingdom. Even Michael is unworthy, his brother who Was Like God. Michael is caged, defeated, broken. And he is not Like God, he realizes, smiling.

He Is God. He has become God, taken the world from Father's hands, and it is His, now. All is His, He Who Has Become God.

Dean, the newest Beloved of God, stares at Him. Dean's brother and Dean's sage, Samuel and Robert, stare at Him, He Who Is God. They are the beginnings of His disciples, if He but finds them worthy.

"You asked me a question, Dean," He says, "when My brothers fell into the cage. Ask it again."

Dean's eyes widen. His brother and sage look from Him to Dean, and the brother whispers, "Dean, what was the question?"

Taking a deep breath, swallowing heavily, Dean asks hesitantly, "Cas? Are You God?"

"I Am," He says.