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Series One, Episode One, Part Four
O, Brother Where Art Thou?*
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Sam and Gabriel got back to the motel early in the morning. Dean was sitting at the small red kitchen table, staring at his coffee mug that had 'Yummy' written on the side. Sam could recognize that his brother was both sulking and steaming.
"Where's my brother," Gabriel asked cautiously.
"Gone," the hunter answered simply before sipping his coffee.
Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Crap," he said bitterly, then vanished with a flutter.
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Castiel was sitting by a stream on the other side of the world, watching as the water rolled past him. With all he did to Heaven, he felt he could not go back there, so he decided to take solace somewhere on Earth that was nowhere near the Winchesters. Nowhere near Dean. But the distance did not stop the Angel from replaying his conversation with the hunter over and over in his mind.
Gabriel sat down next to his brother. The two exchanged a glance. "He told me to stay away," the younger angel informed his brother.
The Archangel patted his brother on the back. "I heard. Sorry bro. I know how much the Winchester means to you."
Cas did not realize exactly what his brother was speaking of, but he did not dwell on it. "He got angry at me because I told him I did what I did because he wasn't there to help me."
"Yeah, well, I always knew Dean was an idiotic asshole."
"Dean isn't..." Cas was too angry and did not have the energy to really defend Dean to his brother. Instead he kept his gaze on the stream in front of him, still playing the scene over in his mind, thinking maybe if he had explained himself better, Dean would have understood.
Gabriel heard Cas's thoughts and sighed, "I truly doubt that little brother. I think he needs some time for your words to sink in. Hopefully he'll come around to at least understand your point of view later."
Castiel hoped his brother was right. He did not like Dean being mad at him, even when he himself was frustrated with the hunter.
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Sam had his hands on hips and wearing a pretty mean bitchface. "Dean, what happened with Cas?" He was worried that his brother had said something stupid to the Angel.
"I don't want to talk about it, Sam," Dean said calmly, but his voice was deeper than normal. It told Sam that there was something sorrowful behind his brother's words.
"Dean-"
"Fine. We had an argument, I told him to stay away for a while. That's it."
"You told Cas to what?"
"You heard me," Dean said gruffly, "Now I don't want to talk about this anymore!"
"But Dean-"
"But nothing, Sam. I said I don't want to talk about it anymore, so just shut up about it."
Dean was too angry for Sam to pry anything more out of his brother without risking life and limb, so he let it go. But it was not in Sam Winchester's nature to give up; he needed to know what happened with Cas.
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*O, Brother Where Art Thou? was a movie starring George Clooney. It was a "modern" adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. We watched it in my ninth grade English class, and if I remember right, I thought it sucked.
~Continue the story with the next episode, When You Come Back Down~