"Cas!" Michael shouted panicked. Cas blinked a few times and looked up at Michael's relieved expression. "Cas, I thought you were dead. What are you doing out of bed?" Michael asked as he helped Cas up. Everything from just hours before came flooding back into Cas's mind and a weight filled his chest and made it hard for him to breathe. "Dean left," Cas choked out. Michael looked at him confused. "What do you mean he left?" Michael questioned as he helped Cas to the couch. Cas didn't answer. He just laid down on the couch and curled into the fetal position. "I want to talk to Gabriel," Cas said before shutting his eyes again. He tried his best to keep his thoughts away from Dean and the way he simply walked away from Cas, but he couldn't.
"I don't." Those two words echoed through his head nonstop. He couldn't believe how stupid he'd been to actually think Dean could've felt something for him. It was clear from the beginning that Dean would never feel that way for Cas. Yet Cas let his mind trick him into believing other wise and look where that got him. He felt like Bella from Twilight when Edward left and that made him feel even more pathetic. "Hey, Cas, what's going on?" Gabriel asked through the phone Michael handed Cas. "Dean left," Cas croaked into the phone. There was a pause before Gabriel spoke again. "I'll be there as soon as I can" Gabriel replied before hanging up. Cas was relieved. He knew Gabriel would understand once he said those words unlike Michael. Cas and Gabriel had this certain understanding about each other. Gabriel could always tell when it was okay to fool around and make jokes with Cas, but he could always also tell when it wasn't the right time. Something he couldn't quite tell around others. Cas was thankful he had a brother like him. Gabriel was the only one he ever really told everything to, besides Dean, but thinking about that just made Cas feel even worse.
A half hour later Gabriel walked through the door and told Michael he should go grocery shopping, a code they made up for when Gabriel knew he needed to talk to Cas alone. Gabriel sat on the couch beside where Cas was curled up. "So, what happened?" Gabriel asked softly. "I told him I loved him. It turns out he doesn't feel the same way," Cas told him unwanted tears welling up in his eyes now. Cas couldn't believe he was letting himself get so upset about this, but he couldn't help it. He could really imagine a future with Dean. "Cas, that's ridiculous. He kissed you, in front of the whole school no less, and Balthazar and I saw you two cuddled up on that hospital bed," Gabriel reminded him trying to make sense of it. He was sure Dean had feelings for Cas, there was no doubt in his mind at all. Cas shook his head. "It was just to prove a point and he was probably tired of the chair. He doesn't like me, Gabriel." Gabriel hated seeing and hearing his brother so hurt, especially because it didn't happen often. "Cas, you don't see the way he looks at you, though. It's almost like he's this plant that's trying to grow and you're the sun, water, soil, everything he needs to do so," Gabriel told him and it was true. Gabriel had caught Dean just looking at Cas quite a few times as if a fifty year long fog had finally lifted and he could see clearly for the first time in forever. "He looked me in the eye and told me he didn't love me."
Gabriel blinked a few times to process this. Regardless of what Dean said to Cas, he knew Dean had feelings for him. Gabriel didn't know how, but he was going to get to the bottom of this