A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews for the previous chapters. I love reviews! I thought it was finished there with Dean and Sam, but I kept thinking about it and I decided there were two more POVs I wanted to show, so here they are, in short order. Chapter 3 is Bobby's. Chapter 4 is a certain angel with and over inflated view of himself.

Smite is Right - Chapter 3

Well here we are again. It never ceases to amaze me how hard we fight just to end up back where we started, or worse. Much worse this time.

Castiel always was a shaky ally, but the gall of the guy is breathtaking. He actually thinks we owe him for all the times he saved us, as though he wasn't the one put us in need of saving in the first place. Pretty much every damn time. Said we should follow his plan for once, like he hasn't spent every day since we met him jerking us around like friggin' puppets, first on Zachariah's say so, then for his own reasons.

Hard guy to trust.

Then I watched Ellie die, and Sam disappear inside himself as the wall came down, and whatever trust I'd grudgingly cobbled together? Gladly gave it up. Don't owe the guy a thing. Not even the time of day.

And now the guy thinks he's God? What a crock. Never been a big believer myself, 'specially since Karen.

Can't deny the guy's got power though. Or that he's willing to use it.

Gotta wonder what Dean's gonna do next. He always takes it hard when one of us lets him down. Never forget the look on his face when he realised I'd known all along Sam was back from hell. Never wanna see that look on his face again, especially not directed at me.

I know sometimes we all expect too much from Dean. We expect him to accept us in all our weakness but we find it impossible to accept it from him. I had to remind myself when he told me I ain't his father that just a few weeks before I'd pointed my shotgun at those boys and told 'em to leave just like I did their daddy. Unlike John, they ignored me. They stuck by me and saved my life. I'm pretty sure it was Dean made that decision.

Castiel's betrayed every shred of trust any of us put in him. Put us in danger, made us look like fools all this time, had Crowley send the boys after all those alphas for him 'cos he didn't have the sack to tell us what he was up to from the start. He did all that, killed Ellie, opened Sam's mind to hell and still expected us to bow down.

Wanted Dean to approve of him, worship him. Because me and Sam? I don't think Castiel much cared if we kneeled in that room. I get the feeling it was Dean he was talking to.

He had that right at least. Dean's the one you need to win over if you want us to follow. Sam might have all kinds of power in him and I might be the father figure, but Dean's the leader. He's the one signs off on the plans.

I don't think any of us has much of a taste for worship lately. But Dean especially had that tapped out of him by his dad with the buttload of crap John laid on him before he waltzed off into the wide blue yonder like the selfish bastard he always was.

So I don't know whether Castiel's crazy or stupid. Don't know whether he thinks Dean's loyalty's gonna extend past all this or if he thinks he sees weakness and Dean'll kneel out of fear. I'm not gonna bet on the former 'cos I've seen that boy forgive some unforgiveable stuff, but the latter? Dean's a lot of things, but weak ain't never been one of 'em.

And worship? Angel better get ready for heartbreak cos it ain't gonna happen.

Sam managed to drive the car he took from my yard into a tree. Amazing he didn't do that trying to drive out of my yard, state he was in. I had to go a little further to find one that would take us back home.

Damn Castiel and Crowley for not needing cars. Would've been some satisfaction to boosting one of theirs, though I'd probably have wasted precious time trying to decide which of them to rip off most.

Still glad to be walkin' again, but boy, I could've done without it tonight, aching like I aged 20 years in the past day. And I know how that feels. Don't get up from these hits as fast as I used to. Damn near fell on my ass trying to help Dean get Sam up those stairs.

Got back to the boys with the car to find Sam asleep in his brother's arms, just like I saw him so many times when they were kids. You tell anyone I told you it brought a tear to my eye and you'll be walking funny the rest of your life.

Sam's sleeping upstairs now and Dean's watching over him and pretending he ain't hurting from all this – body and soul. Dean's convinced Sam's just sleeping, nothing worse, and boy I hope he's right. He was right about bringing Sam's soul back, though I gotta admit I had my doubts at the time.

But it's hard to hold doubts in the face of Dean's certainty. And Sam these past few months? I hadn't realised how much I'd missed him 'til we got him back. He's more like he used to be, like he was before Dean went to hell and we made hell on earth for ourselves in our grief.

Sam without a soul was scary as hell, and I wondered if I'd ever forgive him trying to kill me, but lord help me, like you can't hold on to doubt around Dean, you can't hold on to bitterness around a penitent Sam. And since he got his soul back the poor boy's doing penance for his evil twin and he's still as earnest as ever. But it's more than that. He's less jaded. Sweeter somehow.

I want him to get through this almost as much as Dean does. Dean's sure Sam's strong enough for this. Sure he's gonna get up and stand in the fight by his brother's side again. And like I said about doubts? I'm finding it hard not to believe the same damn thing.

So, here I am, hitting the books as usual. Trying to figure out how to take on a guy who thinks he's God. I'm laying some hope on a God needing believers to become such. Like the woods gods and minor deities us hunters run across from time to time. It ain't all about what they're packin' to start with; it's the worship gives 'em the firepower.

We've just gotta figure out how to defuse this one before he gets anyone beefing him up on that kinda juice too.

At least we've got one thing on our side. Castiel is a follower, not a leader. He don't know what to do with all this power and he don't know how to build loyalty 'cept in someone like Dean who looks for that kind of bond and overlooks a hell of a lot of crap to keep in. Castiel can't even build loyalty among his own kind from what I've been hearing.

He's gonna find out pretty soon that not wanting Raphael to rule is not the same as wanting Castiel to do it.

Working on two plans actually. The one where we kill him and the one where we drain him and hope he goes back to normal. Me and Sam thinks the first one's Plan A. Guess who thinks it's Plan B.

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