"If you dare nothing,
then when the day is over,
nothing is all you will have gained."
"I have a plan," Gabriel announces, and that right there makes Dean's entire body tense in wary anticipation, because c'mon. It's Gabriel.
And then he actually hears the plan. Reckless, dangerous, not to mention completely insane.
It's a goddamn shot in the dark, Dean knows this. He spends the next week obsessing over every little thing that might go wrong, until even Castiel can't take it anymore and asks, "What can I do to help you?"
Fuck it. Words are overrated.
Dean jerks Cas closer by his tie, drops to his knees in front of the angel, and shows him.