Chapter 16: Quiet
2038-2042
2038
Twenty years after Miranda's death, Dean and Castiel accompanied Sam to her grave. Afterwards, they drove to Palo Alto and visited another all too familiar cemetery.
2039
Sarah's business was booming, so Sam quit his job as State's Attorney and became a pro bono lawyer. His first clients: Dean and Castiel. They were charged with public indecency after being caught in the act in the USD library.
2040
Castiel attempted to determine who he loved. He couldn't ask Dean. That would defeat the purpose of the exercise.
Obviously, he loved Dean. He liked Sam and Hannah and Sarah and Amy and Rose and Rory and Ben and Lisa. He was fond of Bobby and Dan.
He loved Dean, because Dean was Dean. The ones Castiel liked were generally nice. While it was sometimes hard to love Dean, it was easy to love likeable people. Bobby and Dan, on the other hand, were not Dean and neither were they particularly likeable. Not at first, at least.
Nonetheless, Castiel thought he might love them. Love was weird.
2041
Amy and Rose, still locked in a never ending competition, achieved their career goals. They both became FBI agents. Somehow the sisters were made partners. They bickered and cursed their way through cases and were often mistaken for a lesbian couple.
2042
Bobby died. Dean didn't speak for a week. Sam cried for at least that long. Castiel tried hard to convince himself that it was not possible to feel the pain of others and finally had to conclude that what he was experiencing was own grief.