Fergus
1.
"Gabriel's dead."
And if it hurts him to hear such of pain in Castiel's voice, Fergus doesn't show anything. Instead he just grabs the two glasses of Craig he had poured earlier, and offers one of them to the angel.
"For his memory", he says as Castiel just stares at the glass. Finally Castiel nods and takes the glass, emptying it with one gulp, while Crowley drinks his own beverage with little more self-control.
Later he rubs circles in the angel's back as he cries and wonders how is it possible that his life has came to this.
He doesn't find it in himself to really complain.
/
2.
His first impression about the Winchester brothers after seeing them was: Dimwits.
Next time, Fergus grudgingly admits that there might be little more than that; at least, the older brother seems to be able to develop. If only he wouldn't let his holier-than-thou brother to drag him down…
But whatever they are or aren't, one thing is always sure:
They are dangerous.
/
3.
He has always been little weak for a older men with a beard. Fergus thinks that it might be some leftovers of his previous father-issues; because, even if he now has a father and it's all good and fine and rainbows and unicorns in that area, he still spent whole his life as a human without one.
And some things seems to stick.
(Of course, it doesn't help at all that the man is so damn good kisser.)
/
4.
He sees the way Castiel looks at Dean Winchester, and it's a pitiful sight, really; the angel's eyes are full of faith and admiration, even when he tries to be disapproving. Castiel might have lost his believe, but he still hopes, so deeply, that the Righteous Man will end up setting things right.
Fergus knows; the angel is in love, even though he probably doesn't realize it by himself.
Even a demon can feel little sympathy over hopeless case like that.
Since as long as Sam Winchester exist, his brother's loyalty and devotion belongs solely to him, as Sam's belong to him. It's a horribly unhealthy, almost symbiotic way that they're living their life's, and anyone else who gets tangled into it will eventually get burned.
He only hopes that he has enough salve to soothe the burns after Castiel has to pay his toll someday.
/
5.
Castiel isn't exactly happy about his little deal with Bobby, though Fergus swears to him that it's only a temporary occurrence.
It might be that the angel that knows him too well to believe it.
Fergus never let's go of something that's worth of keeping.
Castiel
1.
Lying to Aziraphale is hard.
No matter how many times Fergus tells him that it's for his on good, it still doesn't make it feel any better when Castiel sits in his brother's kitchen and looks at his all too forgiving eyes as he once again swears that everything is fine.
Only way he can deal with that is to visit Aziraphale less than before, and try to not recognize the poorly veiled look of disappointment on his face.
Sometimes he envies Fergus for his lack of conscience.
/
2.
Facing of the horsemen makes him feel how weak he has really became. He aren't able to be any use for Dean, he's more like a burden than an ally.
He's happily surprised of not being ditched; then again, there are only so many of them; they cannot offer to lose even useless ones.
But Castiel is tired of being useless.
And Bobby is more than happy to teach him how to use gun.
/
3.
They lost Sam.
For a moment, he thinks that Dean may be too crushed to continue, but is soon reminded of just who he was thinking about. Dean won't give up, at lest not of his brother.
Castiel can't help but feel great admiration towards him because of that, and is little confused of why that makes his chest feel little heavier.
Like he's carrying something fragile and precious inside of him.
/
4.
Between those short seconds before Michael releases his power against him, Castiel has time to think just what kind of face would Fergus show, would he ever hear him calling anyone to "assbutt".
It's almost enough to make him smile a bit.
/
5.
He knows that everything isn't as it should as soon as Sam stands up and forces him to promise to not tell Dean about his return, before walking away hardly even sharing a brief glance towards his brother.
But he has Dean and Bobby to worry about, so he pushes his thoughts aside.
The look in Dean's eyes when he wakes up and finds out that his brother is (as far as he knows) trapped in the cage with Lucifer, almost makes Castiel to spill it anyway.
Then he remembers what Sam said about Dean being better of living normal life with Lisa, and that thing inside his breast grows many sides heavier.
Eventually, he just leaves without another word.
Fergus
1.
After Lucifer's fall, Hell is in total mess; Dukes of Hell are on riot and are trying to take the rule, but their ideals are outdated and find only little support in the midst of younger demons.
War is impossible to prevent.
Fergus lays down and watches the bloodshed with a glass of Craig in his hand.
He can afford to be patient.
His time will arise.
/
2.
Grown is bloody, but it's his.
Fergus knows that there will always be those who won't accept his rule, who will spite on his name and plan his demise.
He doesn't care.
He's the King of Hell.
And all who goes against him shall perish.
/
3.
He spends few days in thinking of how will he explain his new rise in power to his father and his angel; eventually, he decides to just trust their ignorance of whats been happening around there since their retirement.
Telling them that his position is strictly ceremonial and only landed to him as of him being previous ruler's, Lilith's, second-in-command of course eats him a bit, but is best explanation that he can come up with.
Their proud looks are all hi need to salve his bruised ego.
/
4.
Castiel doesn't seem to understand all the changes he has committed in Hell.
It's okay; he's still just and angel. He has never been a human, and his understanding of human nature will always remain limited.
Fergus, on the other hand, understands human nature perfectly.
"It's a queue, Feathers! They're the worst kind of torture you can come up with!"
He's his father's son, through and through.
/
5.
He offers Castiel a glass of Craig. "Let's toast; to the victory!"
Their glasses make clear sound when they clink them together. It's so much more cheerful now than the last time they drank glasses, and Fergus feels more alive than he never felt when he was alive in the first place.
Of course, there's still one little detail that he has to work out: The Purgatory. Loke will be waiting his payment sooner than later.
But right now, he doesn't feel like worrying about it too much.
Castiel
1.
Without Michael, Heaven starts to fall off of It's seams. He had kind of hoped that things could be better now; shows how much he knows, then.
Rafael is already making her move.
Without even knowing it, Castiel soon finds himself in the lead of opposing fraction.
This isn't what he had hoped for.
/
2.
First they try to find clues about the whereabouts of the Purgatory of Aziraphale's books. It's Fergus who then decides to interrogate monsters.
"If someone knows, that should be them!"
As a demon, Fergus' interrogating methods are brutal; Castiel isn't sure how he feels about that.
On the other hand, those kinds of methods aren't as unfamiliar in Heaven than he would like to pretend: He remembers what he and Uriel once asked Dean to do for them.
After that, he has no right to complain.
/
3.
Dean has found Sam; Fergus is little too gleeful of that than Castiel is okay with.
He's also not practically happy to find out that Fergus has been using Dean and Sam's grandfather to capture monsters. He makes it clear, that after this, the demon will tell him about all his plans beforehand; for once, Fergus seems to listen.
It may be because of how Castiel held him against the wall, hand around his throat as he said it.
He's dealing with lots of stress right now; the demon would do well of not pushing his buttons.
/
4.
Fergus hadn't returned Bobby's soul, even after he promised to do so.
Castiel is hardly surprised by that; souls are too important, their power too vital to let even one to go wasted.
Souls.
Castiel himself would have use for a few extra souls in his side of the war.
But where to get those…?
/
5.
It's all so clear now…
Why hadn't he see it earlier?
Castiel made a mistake…
He brought Sam back from the Cage without his soul.
Fergus
1.
Soulless Sam is all the new kinds of hilarious; the boy is now closer a demon than any other living human has ever been.
Castiel bugs him to give the soul back; clearly he has learned little next to nothing about how tings like this work…
Rule number one: nothing is ever free.
/
2.
Having the Winchesters as his new errand boys was great as long as it lasted; who knew that they would unite with Meg?
…And he really should had killed that little bitch when he still had a change.
Thankfully, Castiel is up-to-date with the situation, and they manage to even fake his demise.
Maybe he now has time to concentrate on the main point…
/
3.
Loke start to become impatient; their time starts to run out.
…Fergus really doesn't want to deal with irritated god of chaos.
/
4.
The Winchesters seems to be everywhere nowadays.
One would though that they would take things little more easier for a time being.
The wall the Death put around Sam's soul is strong, but not without cracks; someday, it will gave up.
He's not all that sure if he wants to see the downfall of that; or what will be left of Moose, afterwards.
… After all, good opponents are hard to find.
/
5.
Eve is a one nasty surprise. There are rules in this game, and she just marched right in and turned them around!
Not that he cares as much as he could; Fergus has already decided that trying to find the way to the Purgatory from monsters is futile mission.
But even monsters need to die before they get there.
Even monsters need reapers… and not all reapers are hard to convince.
Still, he hopes that the Winchester will for once do something useful and get rid of that bitch as quickly as possible…
He's never cared a lot about competition.
Castiel
1.
The Purgatory. Monsters. Souls.
Surely Fergus realized the same for a long time ago? Realized, that while retrieving Fenris, it would be easy to take possession over those souls that dwell in the Purgatory?
Is that what he planned all along?
Well, that won't do; the demon has enough power as it is. Castiel, on the other hand, is in the middle of the war that he can't afford to lose.
It's not really a betrayal if other side tried to betray you in the first place, right?
Right…?
/
2.
It feels good to have Balthazar in his corner; it's been such a long time since he has been able to share everything with another angel.
(He stubbornly refuses to think about Aziraphale. He will explain him everything once he has put Heaven back as it should be; his brother will understand that it was all for the greater good.)
/
3.
They know.
Bobby has been suspicious ever since Fergus' "death", and now Sam backs him up. Dean's pleads for him to prove his innocent makes him squirm, but there's nothing he can deny; everything that's said is true.
The look of devastation and betrayal on Dean's face makes something inside of him crumble and break.
/
4.
Fergus has found a rogue soul reaper who is able to take them to the Purgatory and back. Now they only need to make sure that Dean and Sam won't come to interrupt them.
When someone voices their best opinion, it takes Castiel a few seconds to realize that it indeed is him who's saying those ruthless words.
He doesn't know how to descript the look on Fergus' face as he looks at him; part of him doesn't even want to.
/
5.
I'll fix this later, he promises to himself. That's the only way to make sure that they won't follow us.
Still, when he breaks off the wall in Sam's head, that bruised and broken thing inside of him shudders like it was dying out.
When we're done, they'll see that I was right in my actions, and they will forgive me.
He doesn't find it in himself to actually believe it.
