Hard Road

Epilogue

Dean leaned over Cas's prone body.

"This is... far more cramped than my imagination lent me to believe," Cas mumbled.

Dean laughed.

"You're the one that wanted sex in the Impala. Not my fault it's not meant for two grown men," he told the angel, pressing his lips to the spot where neck met shoulder. It was a good thing they had rid themselves of their clothes before moving into the backseat. Because, while Dean may have pulled this off with small women before, he wasn't lying when he said it wasn't meant for two six foot men.

Dean tried to move his hand down to the hard dick poking him in the stomach, but only managed to slam his elbow into the front seat.

"Fuck!" he hissed.

Castiel stifled a laugh. Dean could feel the amusement through their bond.

"Very smooth, Dean," Cas offered. Dean glared at his angel.

"Do I need to remind you again whose idea this was?"

"Dean, I think I've changed my mind."

"Thank God, get us out of here?"

Cas reached out and placed two fingers against Dean's forehead. Between one blink and the next, Dean found himself nestled on the bed of the last hotel he and Sam had made their temporary home while they hunted a nest of Wendigos.

"Much better," Dean told Cas as he leaned over the other man and pulled him into a deep kiss. He could feel Cas's arousal grow through their link. If there was one thing Dean loved about his new bond with the angel, it was the feedback loop arousal created between the two. The more turned on he got the angel, the more arousal Cas fed through the bond and vice-versa. It was awesome, and made for seriously intense sex.

Cas returned the kiss and flipped the two over so he was laying on top of Dean. He felt the angel's and slip inside his jeans, cupping his already hard cock outside his underwear. Dean pushed a rush of yeswantneednow through their bond and smiled when Cas moaned against his lips.

"You have really mastered sending emotions through the link," he muttered, barely stopping the kiss to speak.

"Yeah, well, I had an awesome teacher," Dean returned.

Cas pulled back and smiled.

"Well-" he started, then trailed off, body going ridged. Cas's eyes lost focus, as if he was listening to something far off. "Sam's in trouble," he told Dean, reaching out and touching his forehead once again.

Dean blinked around the forest they landed in, searching for his brother.

"Over there," Cas answered, pulling out his sword from nowhere. Dean clamped down on the worry he knew had to be flooding their link. While he had gotten better at sharing feelings and emotions, he was still shit at blocking them.

Dean and Cas rushed in the direction Cas had indicated and as they broke through into a clearing, a bright, white, familiar light lit up the area.

"Shut your eyes!" Cas yelled, but Dean had already snapped his eyelids closed. He couldn't see what was going on, but he could feel Cas shock, then amazement tinged with worry.

"Cas, what the hell's going on?" Dean demanded.

"You can open your eyes," Cas answered, voice cautious and quiet.

Dean snapped his eyes open and found his brother in the center of the clearing, hand stretched out and twelve Wendigo laying motionless around him. Sam was bloodied and looked scared.

"Sammy!" Dean yelled, racing over to his distraught brother. "What happened, are you okay? Who else was here?" the last question he aimed back at Castiel.

"No one else, Dean," Cas replied.

Dean looked back at Sam, waiting for his brother to say something.

"I... I'm fine, Dean. I just came to see if I could find clues to their hideout. Didn't expect them to ambush me," Sam replied. He was breathing harshly and had one hand clamped to the necklace he wore, the one that held an archangel's grace.

"You know better than that! You never go hunting alone, Sam!" Dean snapped, "and what do you mean, no one else?" he asked, turning back to Cas. "I know what I saw, and I'm pretty sure only an angel packs the kind of punch that did this," he gestured to the fallen monsters around Sam.

"No one else was here, Dean. I... I think Sam did this," Cas told the hunter. Dean felt Cas's surprise, but he wasn't lying.

"What do you mean, Sam did this?" Dean asked, turning back to look at his brother.

Sam swallowed.

"I didn't mean to," the other hunter spoke up. "They were everywhere, I didn't know what to do. I just... I just wanted them to stop. I felt... I felt this... power. Inside. Kinda... kinda like I used to feel when, you know," Sam averted his eyes at this.

Dean felt horror rise up inside. NO. No way, no way was Sam going back to that. He opened his mouth to tell Sam exactly what was on his mind, but Cas interrupted. He must have felt the panic.

"Dean, it's not like that. What I felt, there was no darkness to it," Cas told him, laying a calming hand over the handmark on his shoulder.

"It felt like it, Dean, but not exactly. It was... different. Warm. Safe," Sam spoke up, hand still cradling the necklace.

"Sam, I believe you may have found a way to utilize Gabriel's grace," Cas told the hunters.

Dean snapped his head around to stare at the angel.

"What?"

"Yeah, I'm with him, what?" Dean repeated his brother's question.

"I'm not sure how, but I do believe that's what happened."

Dean sighed.

"Well, fuck."

"Perhaps we should return to the motel and look into this more?" Cas suggested.

Sam nodded.

"What about these?" Sam pointed at the bodies laying on the forest floor.

Cas waved his hand and the bodies burst into flame before disintegrating into dust.

The angel laid a hand on both hunters' shoulders and brought them both to the room Dean had just left.

"Well... can't say our lives are ever boring," Sam said with a nervous laugh.

"Yeah. The Winchester Curse," Dean muttered, picking up his phone. "I'm gonna call Bobby." Sam was already booting up his lap top, and Cas was already opening a book. No, their lives weren't boring. Dean would really hate it if they were.

A/N: A short little epilogue, because everything else I wanted to put in here, made it WAY too long, so I saved it all for the sequel.. WHICH is about half way done. :) I'll start posting once I'm closer to 90% done. So, keep a weather eye open! Also, I'm on twitter Aleisha_Potter7 is my new account (hacker got ahold of the old one.) and I'm on Tumblr, aleishapotter. Follow! As an incentive, and to get my muse going, I'm offering the first five followers on both a fic. Follow, then post a prompt and I will write you a fic to go with it. It doesn't have to be Destiel. I'm falling really hard for the Sterek Fandom (can't stand Teen Wolf still, but really in love with Derek and Stiles...) so, get to it! And enjoy! I'm also getting ready to post the oneshots that I took out of Hard Road, so, again, be watchful! Thank you for sticking with me through this long, lovely and at times painful journey!