"D-Dean?" an alarmed voice rings from the door to Dean's bedroom. He jolts awake, groaning groggily as his joints adjust to his sudden movements. He looks towards the doorway, squinting at the lights, which have been turned on.
"What do you…" he begins, but his voice trails off as he begins to recognize Sam's classic 'what the hell is going on' expression. His brother's eyes glance to something behind Dean. Dean's cheeks are instantly a bright shade of scarlet as he realizes his right arm is underneath Cas, their legs are entwined, and Cas's arms are clutched lazily around Dean's bare torso. His face is full of pure panic as he looks up at his younger brother. "Sam, I—"
"Finally." That's all Sam says as he walks away laughing.
Dean uncurls himself from Cas's unconscious body and sits up, shocked at the events that just played out. The fallen angel awakens from the movement, and squirms alongside Dean. "What… happened?" he asks with a yawn.
"Sam… Sam found us all, uh…" Dean responds. He brings his knees forward and brings his hands to his head, grasping tightly at his hair. "He saw."
"So?" Cas replies as he curls his arms around Dean again.
"So?" Dean repeats. But as he tries to come up with reasons why Sam finding about about the previous night, he can't seem to find any.
"I thought so." Cas leans up and kisses Dean's shoulder lovingly and Dean can't stop himself from blushing.
Sam greets the eldest of the two hunters and his fallen angel when they make the short journey to the dining room, where Sam is serving breakfast. Usually it's Dean who makes breakfast for himself and the other two men living in this bunker, but Sam must've seen today as an exception.
Dean quickly makes the decision not to talk about what happened this morning. Sure, he wishes Sam wouldn't have found he and Cas all tangled up like that, but there were undeniable feelings he had for Cas that he'd been feeling for a very long time before last night. Even though Sam finding them together (and probably hearing them last night, though Dean didn't want to think about Sam listening to any of that) was a less-than-pleasant situation, Dean had to get used to the fact that him and Cas could very possibly considered a steady couple very soon, and he had to get used to people knowing about it.
"Stop playing with your food and follow your boyfriend's example," Sam teases at Dean. He almost protests, but when he sees the glee in Cas's eyes as he shovels eggs and bacon into his mouth, he stops himself and begins eating.
"This is good, thanks Sammy."
"You're welcome. I, uh, have something we should probably discuss."
"What's that?" Dean replies between bites.
"Well… All the angels fell,"—Cas winces at Sam's words—"and Metatron is an angel. So he must've fallen too. But he took Cas's grace, right? So he has the grace of an angel. It's only logical to assume he used it to turn himself back into an angel after the fall." Cas has lost his appetite from the sudden harsh flashbacks he's currently experiencing and pushes his plate forward slightly. "If we could find a way to get that grace out of him, we could get your grace back, Cas."
There is a long hesitation.
"Well, uh, what are we waiting for then?" Cas finally replies.
"For one thing, we don't even know where to begin looking for something to even research how a human could cut the grace out of an angel. Especially when it's only three weak normal humans against the only angel in existence," Sam lectures.
"There was a library," Cas says simply.
"You gonna elaborate?" Dean asks when Castiel shows no intention of saying any more.
"In Heaven. There was a library in Heaven that had all of these things. And I bet the, uh, angelic librarian, if you will, took the books with him when he started falling. His name was Harahel, the Angel of Knowledge."
"Okay, so step one then, I'd say, is locating the guy," Sam says.
"Really? That is an astonishing idea! Where in the hell would you come up with something like that?" Dean snaps, voice flooded with sarcasm. His younger brother throws a glare at him.
"What's your problem?" Sam snaps back.
"Maybe you should knock before you barge into peoples' rooms! Did you ever think of that?" Dean hisses.
"Oh, come on, man. You're not still upset about that, are you? Seriously. It's not like we didn't know this was gonna happen. Seriously, dude. Everybody that sees you guys knows you have a thing for each other. Right, Cas?"
The fallen angel chooses not to answer, and instead looks down at his hands and blushes.
A few moments pass before Dean speaks up. "That doesn't mean you don't have to knock on peoples' doors." And with that, he picks up his car keys and walks out the door.
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