Then
Cas came back he's totally human now. Sam, Dean and Cas defeat Pestilence getting his ring. Sam and Gabe soul-bond so that Lucifer can't wear him to the prom.
Now
Sam wakes up the next morning and Gabe is nowhere to be seen. But Sam can feel him now and he smiles a wave of happiness flowing through their bond. Sam stretches and heads to the bathroom to pee before shuffling downstairs to get some coffee.
"Good morning Sam." Cas says.
"Morning Cas," Sam says.
"Morning Sammy." Dean says.
"It's Sam, and good morning Dean." Sam says.
"Sammy, good morning." Gabe says before kissing him on the head.
Dean looks between Gabe and Sammy.
"What's going on?" Dean asks.
"Umm... Dean. I have to tell you something." Sam says.
"What is it Sammy?" Dean asks.
"Last night me and Gabe sorta soul-bonded. But the good news is now Lucifer can't wear me to the prom." Sam says.
"You what?" Dean yells.
Cas lays a hand on Dean's arm to try and calm him down but he shrugs him off and gets up and stomps out of the room going outside slamming the front door.
"Well that went well." Sam says.
"You knew he was not going to take it well Sammy." Gabe says petting his head.
"Ugh I know I thought the whole Lucifer not being able to wear me to the prom thing would help though." Sam says.
"Cas I really think you should try to soul-bond with Dean. Michael would not be able to take him over that way." Gabe says.
Sam snorts, yeah that would happen. Dean is not going to soul-bond with anyone. Sam can almost guarantee that. Dean is stubborn and he will not want to be tied down to anyone.
"I am going to go find Dean." Cas says standing up a going outside.
Cas steps outside and lets the sunshine wash over his body. He never really felt things like this before he became human. Cas is having a hard time not being an angel anymore. He was very angry at first and he's finally just come to terms with it. Dean has helped a lot showing him what to do.
He walks over to Dean, and leans against the Impala with him.
"Hello Dean." Cas says.
"Hiya Cas." Dean says.
"Are you alright?" Cas asks.
"Yeah I just don't get why Sammy wants to be tied to fucking Gabriel of all people." Dean says.
"Well, I can sense a little bit still and Gabe loves Sam." Cas says as he shrugs his shoulders.
"When the hell did that happen?" Dean asks.
"I don't know Dean, I just know that Sam and Gabe love each other. If you don't want to push Sam away you are going to have to learn to deal with it. This is a good thing. Lucifer can't possess Sam anymore." Cas says.
"Yeah that is a good thing. But now we are going to have deal with Gabe around all the time. I am not sure I have the patience for that shit." Dean says.
"You'll be fine Dean. Perhaps you and I should soul-bond then Michael would not be able to have you." Cas says.
"I am not bonding my soul with anyone! Fuck all that." Dean says.
Cas thinks back to what Sam said about Dean not bonding his soul with anyone. Well that went exactly the way Sam said it would. Cas sighs and resigns himself to not bonding with Dean ever. Cas is upset though he thinks he would love to have his grace bonded even more to Dean's soul then it was. It was already bonded a tiny fraction when he pulled Dean out of hell.
"That's what Sam said you would say." Cas says.
"Yeah well Sammy knows me what can I say?" Dean says.
"Yeah I guess he does. I'm just going to go now." Cas says as he walks away.
Dean thinks about what Cas has said and how upset Cas had seemed. He wants to know what Cas's deal is but he's not going to ask that afraid to know the answer.
Dean works on the Impala nothing is wrong with her but she keeps him grounded and he needs that right now. So he changes her oil and tightens her breaks and checks her spark plugs. When he's satisfied that she's perfect he goes and gets a bucket of water and soap and a sponge and decides to give her a bath. He strips his shirt off his body and gets to work. Cas comes back outside and watches Dean clean the car with no shirt on and his mouth waters at the site.
He and Dean haven't had any physical contact really since he's been back as a human. Cas sighs he really wants to know what is going on with him and Dean but he also knows better than to press the issue with Dean because it will only make things worse with them.
He watches Dean clean the car till Dean catches him watching. Dean looks up because he swears he can feel someone's eyes on him. He looks up and there is Cas watching him as he washes his baby.
"Cas you could come help instead of watching." Dean says.
"Of course Dean." Cas says as he strips his shirt off also and walks over.
Dean's eyes bug out of his head as Cas removes his shirt.
"Here" Dean says as he hands Cas a sponge.
"Was there something wrong with the car Dean?" Cas asks.
"Nope just doing maintenance on her buddy." Dean says.
Cas washes the car with the sponge Dean gave him helping him. Feeling suddenly playful Cas wonders what Dean would do if he picked up the hose and sprayed him with it. So he decides to find out he picks up the hose and presses in the nozzle aims at Dean and the hose sprays him full of water. Dean sputters and looks at Cas with a murderous expression on his face.
Dean chases after Cas with the bucket of water and throws it on him. Cas sputtering and completely wet just like Dean stops by the side of the Impala breathing heavily. Dean looks down at Cas all wet and leans forward and kisses him. Cas wraps his arms around Dean's neck and kisses him back deeply moving into the kiss more.
"What was that for Dean?" Cas asks.
"What I can't just kiss you now?" Dean asks.
"No you can, you just haven't touched me since I became human." Cas says gesturing with his hands to his body.
"I know I'm sorry Cas, I just feel like this is my fault." Dean says.
"Dean it's not your fault. I didn't have to do what was right but I chose too my brothers are the ones that are wrong here not you or me." Cas says.
"Yeah I know Cas, I am glad you chose to do what you thought was right." Dean says.
"You've been telling me what is right and wrong since we met. I remember the green room when you told me we were done and my heart broke. I couldn't be done, and I knew what Zachariah was doing was wrong. So I helped you." Cas says.
"Yeah so you helped me. Didn't do much good we were late and Lucifer got out anyways." Dean says as he sighs and runs a hand over his face.
"Yeah but we'll get him Dean don't worry. We have a good plan. I am going to go inside and help Bobby with lunch now." Cas says.
Dean stays outside and thinks about the plan which is a good plan. It might not be full proof but it's better than letting Sam jump in a box with Lucifer wearing him so Dean will take it. They are going to stull cemetery and Gabe isn't going to show himself but he's going to be the one to throw the rings down. He's going to be the one to lock Lucifer in the cage not Sam, not Dean and not Cas. Dean walks back into the house. They have to leave right after lunch. Cas, Bobby and Sam with Gabe and then Dean and Crowley are going after Death.
Dean walks back into the house and watches Cas and Bobby make some lunch. They eat and they pack the cars up and get on the road.
Dean walks over to Cas and Sammy and Bobby.
"Well this is it." Dean says.
"Yeah this is it, good luck Dean." Sam says.
"Good luck Sammy be careful." Dean says.
"You too." Sam says.
He walks over to stand in front of Cas.
"Be Careful Cas your human now don't forget that." Dean says and kisses him softly.
"I doubt I can forget that Dean." Cas says as he kisses him back
Bobby and Sam back off and don't say anything. Because they knew this was coming with Dean and Cas. Hell everyone knew this was coming with Dean and Cas but maybe Dean and Cas themselves.
"Good luck stopping the whole zombie apocalypse." Dean says.
"Good luck killing Death." Sam says.
Dean gets into the Impala with Crowley and they drive out. Sam, Bobby, and Cas get into Bobby's van and drive out as well.
Bobby, Sam and Cas get to Nevus and Gabe pops into view.
"Just came to say I can't stay I have to do something to get ready to fight Lucifer. But Sammy if you need me call and I will drop everything and get here. But I think you three can handle this or I would not be going." Gabe says.
"Ok Gabe. Whatever you are doing be careful." Sam says.
Gabe poofs out again and Bobby is looking into Binoculars a see's them loading the "vaccine" into the trucks.
"Yep they are loading up the trucks with the vaccine. Ok first truck doesn't leave for an hour, we get in we plant the c4, every 25 feet. Then we pull the fire alarm. "Bobby says.
"Uh that truck is leaving." Cas says.
"Balls. Ok new plan." Bobby says.
Cas walks over to the truck and punches the demon in the face. Making him hit the steering wheel and set off the alarm. Cas busts out the keypad to the security fence and gets into the truck.
Inside the warehouse the demons are milling around and the head demon walks over to a worker.
"It's the Winchesters." The demon says.
"Well we will have to give them a little treat." The head demon says.
Sam shoots out the lock on a side door and lets out a bunch of people and Bobby and Sam go through the door guns in the air ready to shoot if necessary.
The demons infected a bunch of people with croatoan Virus and they are waiting for Sam and Bobby. The cock their guns and wait a minute for them to come forward. As they start coming forward Sam and Bobby start shooting them. They are no longer people they can't live. Sam shooting over and over again not missing a single mark, they shoot all the infected and look at each other.
"That was too easy." Sam says.
They hear a woman screaming help me off in the distance.
"There's still people here." Sam says putting his gun in the back of his pants and starts to walk off.
"Kid no." Bobby says.
"Wait here." Sam says as he hands Bobby the demon killing knife.
"Be careful." Bobby says he hands Sam the rifle he was using and Sam takes off down the warehouse holding it up ready to shoot.
The head demon comes up behind Bobby and he stabs him in the stomach with the demon knife. Sam comes running up with two ladies tell them to go get out of here.
"All clear." Sam tells Bobby.
A demon runs into Sam knocking him over as Bobby shouts out "Sam!"
Bobby goes to shoot the demon on top of Sam but he has no ammunition left in the gun and it just clicks as he pulls the trigger. Sam looks into the demon's eyes as he is choking him and see's he's chocked full of croatoan Virus.
A gun goes off blowing the infected head off. Sam is gasping for breath lying on the floor. Cas is standing there with a smoking gun he just fired saving Sam's life.
"Actually these things can be useful." Cas says.
"Can we commit our act of domestic terrorism already? Let's go." Bobby asks.
Cas helps Sam off the floor and the 3 of them leave.
Meanwhile in Chicago Dean is with Crowley and they just pulled up to where Death is supposed to be.
"Hey let's stop for pizza." Crowley says.
"Are you kidding?" Dean asks.
"It just sounded good." Crowley says as him and Dean walk down the street. "There the big ugly building. Ground zero, horseman central if you will. He's in there."
"How do you know?" Dean asks as the wind picks up and leaves fly all over the place. The storm is getting closer.
"Have you met me? Cuz I know. The whole side of the block is squirming with Reaper's" Crowley says, "I'll be right back." He says as he walks off.
Dean stands there waiting for Crowley to come back and he's not gone 5 seconds before he's back.
"Boy is my face red. Death's not in there." Crowley says.
"You want to cut the cute and get to the part where you tell me where he is." Dean asks.
"I'm sorry, I don't know." Crowley says as he walks off.
Dean goes after him saying, "Whoa, whoa you don't know?"
"Signs pointed I'm just as shocked as you." Crowley says.
"Bobby sold his soul for this." Dean yells out.
"Relax all deals are sold back or store credit. We'll catch death in the next doom city" Crowley says.
"Millions, millions of people Crowley are about to die any second." Dean says.
"True, so I strongly suggest we get out of here." Crowley says.
What a dickhead Dean thinks. How can he let all these people die? Ooh wait he's a demon that's how he can do it.
Dean walks back across the street to the Impala and slides in the car. He looks over to the passenger seat and Crowley is sitting there.
"So what I call in a bomb threat? 1,000 bomb threats, how the hell am I supposed to get 3 million people out of Chicago in the next 10 minutes?" Dean asks.
Dean looks over and Crowley is missing from the car again. Dean looks around the car as the storm rages outside its raining and thundering and there's a lot of lightening.
"Come on." Dean says.
Dean sees Crowley down the street pointing to a door.
"What yeah I can't hear you." Dean says.
"I said I found him." Crowley says as he shows up in the car scaring Dean. "Death he's in there."
Dean gets out of the car and looks back in and says "Are you coming?" He's talking to himself though because Crowley is nowhere to be seen and why that shocks Dean is beyond him.
Dean slams his car door saying "not." He walks down the street towards where Death is. Dean gets to the building and slowly opens the door. He looks around seeing Dead people everywhere in the restraint. He shuts the door quietly trying to not make a sound.
Dean walks into the restraint passing all the dead people coming up behind Death with the scythe. Dean's hand is shaking so bad he's not sure he's going to be able to lift the damn thing to kill Death. All of a sudden the scythe gets very hot and it burns Dean's hand making him drop it on the ground with a loud clatter against the floor.
"Thanks for returning that." Death says. Dean looks to the ground and sees the scythe is missing. He sees it sitting next to Death on the table where he is sitting at.
"Join me Dean, the pizza's delicious." Death says.
Dean walks towards Death's table cautiously.
"Sit down, it took you long enough. I've been wanting to talk to you." Death says.
"I have mixed emotions about that. So is this the part where you kill me?" Dean asks Death.
"You have an inflated sense of your importance. To a thing like me a thing like you, well." Death says before taking a drink of his soda. "Think how you would feel if bacteria, sat at your table and started to get snarky. This is one little planet, one tiny solar system in a galaxy that's barely out of its diapers. I'm old Dean, very old. So I invite you to contemplate how insignificant I find you." Death says.
Death puts a piece of pizza on Dean's plate and tells him to eat it. Dean nervously picks up his fork and knife and begins to cut the pizza.
Thinking well if this pizza is poisoned at least I will go rather fast I am sure.
He picks up a bite of pizza on his fork slowly putting the fork to his mouth. He takes the bite off the fork slowly chewing it waiting for it to kill him.
"Good isn't it?" Death asks.
"Well I gotta ask, How old are you?" Dean asks.
"As old as God, maybe older. Neither of us can remember anymore. Life, death, chicken, and egg regardless at the end I'll reap him too." Death says.
"God? You'll reap God?" Dean asks shocked.
"Oh yes, God will die too Dean." Death says.
"Well this is a bit above my pay grade." Dean says.
"Just a bit." Death says.
"So why am I still breathing? Sitting here with you, I mean what do you want?" Dean asks.
"I want the leash around my neck off." Death says.
Dean looks at him confused.
"Lucifer has me bound to him, some unseemly little spell. He has me where he wants, when he wants. That's why I couldn't go to you; I had to wait for you to catch up. He made me his weapon. Hurricanes, floods, raising the dead, I'm more powerful than you can process and I'm chained to a bratty child having a tantrum." Death says.
"And you think I can unbind you?" Dean asks.
"Of course you can't, don't be stupid. But you can help me take the bullets out of Lucifer's gun. I understand you want this." Death says as he holds hand for Dean to see his ring.
"Yeah." Dean says.
"Well I'm inclined to give it to you." Death says.
"To give it to me?" Dean asks
"That's what I said." Death says.
"But what about Chicago?" Dean asks.
"I suppose it can stay. I like the pizza." Death says as he removes his ring. "There are conditions,"
"Ok like?" Dean asks.
"You have to do whatever it takes to put Lucifer in his cell." Death says.
"Of course." Dean says.
"Whatever it takes." Death says.
"That's the plan." Dean says.
"I need your promise that you will do whatever it takes to stop Lucifer." Death says as he hands over his ring to Dean. "Well do I have your word?"
"Ok yeah, yes." Dean says as he opens his hand up Death drops the ring into it.
"That better be yes Dean, you know you can't cheat Death." Death says.
The storm outside has stopped and Dean heads back to the Impala with Death's ring in his pocket. He drives back to Bobby to meet the others making record time he gets out of the car and goes into the house.
Cas is standing in the doorway when Dean walks in and he gets a big smile on his face.
"Dean you made it back safely." Cas says.
"Yeah Cas, I'm back." Dean says and walks over to Cas just really needing to hold him right now and if that sounds a little bit chick flicky well Dean's alright with that right now.
"Did you get it son?" Bobby asks.
"Yeah I got it. Death is a scary mother fucker I gotta tell you." Dean says.
Later on Bobby and Dean are outside in the scrap yard and Bobby hands him a beer. Dean has all four rings on the table and they all group together like they have magnets in them or something.
"How'd it go with the rockets audition?" Dean asks.
"High kick spare, needs work. I walked up and down stairs all night for no damn reason. I'm sore and it feels so good. Scared it's a dream, but then I remember the world's dying bloody so drink? " Bobby says. "Check it out." Dean says as he shows Bobby how all the rings group together like they are magnetized.
"So death told you how to operate those? The whole deal?" Bobby asks.
"Yeah it's nuts. Course I got bigger problems now. What do you think Death does to people who lie to his face?" Dean asks.
"Nothing good. What did you say?" Bobby asks.
"That I would do whatever it took to kill Lucifer. But I won't Bobby I won't say yes." Dean says.
"Look Dean I know the idea of you being bound to Castiel forever scares the hell out of you. But maybe it's a good idea considering what is going on. Michael won't be able to ride you to the prom. Just like Lucifer can't ride Sam now." Bobby says.
"Look Bobby, I can't do it. I am not worthy of Cas. I've been to hell he's a damn angel for God sakes." Dean says.
"Dean he is more human than angel these days and you know it." Bobby says as he walks away leaving Dean to his thoughts.
Dean is outside in the sun thinking, maybe he should let Castiel soul-bond him then at least Michael could never ride him. However he's not sure he wants to be bound to an angel for the rest of his life. Dean cares about Cas don't get him wrong he's just not really sure.
Dean sighs and walks inside the house. Tomorrow they kill the Devil and he thinks fuck I'm getting too old for this crap. He's actually glad Sam and Gabe bonded now at least he doesn't have to worry about Lucifer riding his brother to the prom anymore and that is a very good thing.
It's late and everyone seems to be in bed already Dean heads up to the room he is sharing with Cas looking at the man he's already in a bed fast asleep. Dean walks over to the bed and he's not really one for cuddling but this could be their last night on earth. He strips down to boxers and a t-shirt and gets into the bed behind Cas.
"Dean what are you doing?" Cas asks sleepily.
"It's alright Cas just go back to sleep." Dean says as he curls up behind Cas wrapping his arm around his waist and trying to fall asleep. Tomorrow they kill the Devil tonight he just wants to sleep with Cas.
-TBC-