Chapter 20
A/N: HEY GUYS IM BACK! Sorry I didn't update Sunday night upon my return but my train was late and I got back late at like 11pm. So again sorry, but on with the show now!
"You are you are the only thing that makes me feel like I can live forever, forever with you my love." – The Airborne Toxic Event (Timeless)
The court room wasn't even a room. It was open like the prison yard, but it was solid beneath Dean's feet. It consisted of a white marble floor which somehow stayed afloat within the clouds and three wooden boxes filled with seats. Two were filled with heckling angels and archangels, but the third was flat and had seven chairs place upon it each of which housed an angel. Dean breathed heavily trying to take it all in. He looked over at one side of the room and Castiel stood a determined look on his face that Dean had seen often times before, but never in this context.
"All rise for the distinguished and honorable Angel Council," an angel said and everyone rose and faced the seven angels that sat on the chairs. "Zachariah, Uriel, Raphael, Samandrial, Anorath, Donathan, and the appointed substitute Cathalsis."
"Permission to speak your honor?" Cas asked.
"Permission granted." the middle angel Donathan replied, Dean observed he was clearly the head of the Angel Council.
"Why is Balthazar not at his place in the Council?" Cas asked, his expression never changing.
"He has been disbanded from this particular trial because he could hold a biased opinion regarding your crimes." Donathan explained.
"So could junkless and Zach over there!" Dean exclaimed motioning to Zachariah and Uriel.
"You are eager to speak human," Donathan said to Dean, his bluish almost white eyes staring into Dean's. "And I admire your courage to do so, but please refrain from speaking."
Dean wasn't sure if courage was the right word, but none the less he was glad he wasn't spited and struck down where he was right then and there.
"Castiel, the accused, will you please step forward?"
The two prison guards that were holding Cas removed his cuffs and he walked forward in stride. He bowed his head to Donathan and the others then looked up to meet their eyes.
"Castiel Angel of the Lord," Donathan recited as if he were reciting the Pledge Of Allegiance. "You have been accused of the crimes of changing a human into an angel and disbanding and disregarding your place in, job in, and loyalty to heaven how do you plead?"
The room fell silent and everyone waited for his answer. The air was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Dean watched as Cas looked to him then back to the Council.
"Guilty of all crimes your honor." Cas said almost proudly without a stutter or a faltered word.
Dean's mouth fell open and he wanted to run over there and smack sense into Cas right there. He was shocked. Cas was throwing himself under the bus for Dean.
"I plead guilty," Cas said, breaking the stunned silence. "But I'd like for my reasons to be heard and considered."
Donathan nodded and Cas stepped forward, turning his back to the Council and facing his people. They all held looks of anticipation on their faces. Cas stood with his head held high as if he had known his fate.
"Your honor, the Council, and fellow angels I have faced the Angel Council before regarding Dean Winchester and I know he has played a role in my "disobedience" as you call it against heaven," Cas cleared his throat and continued. "But you do not know why, angels as we all know are not supposed to feel emotions but this man, this righteous man Dean Winchester has taught me that emotions are supposed to be felt."
Donathan took in every word, as did the rest of the Council and angels…and Dean, he listened with a heavy heart, he had gotten Cas into this mess and he'd be damned again if he wasn't going to get him out of it.
"When we, the angels were given the task of creating man we decided to give him a gift, the gift of being able to feel and to experience the world around him by doing so, the ability to cry when sad, to laugh when delighted, and to love. But now as I stand before you I can say that I understand now why we gave man such a gift. When I volunteered to rescue Dean Winchester from Perdition I did so quickly and hastily. I returned him to earth where bit by bit I pieced his body and soul back together again, from his deepest secrets to the freckles on his nose. I felt everything he ever had, sure it was overwhelming but isn't everything when you first experience it? I felt whole when I touched him in his raw state of being, I couldn't fathom how such a broken man could make me feel that way, but then I realized that Dean wasn't broken; he was bent and bruised a little, but never broken. He was so full of hope and in fixing him I learned, and as he once said "I broke myself"."
Dean's words were hanging on his tongue, he wanted to speak but he found himself unable.
"So I did it all for emotion, something angels aren't supposed to know or feel, an emotion angels may have heard of…love. I am and always have been hopelessly in love with Dean Winchester and am not afraid to admit it out loud. So I assure you that a punishment as trivial as banishment and a fall will be of no use to either us for you see your honor I have fallen once emotionally for a man who I love and I have fallen time and time again for him from heaven and I can assure you I would fall a million times for the man before me because he is worth all that and more."
Cas then bowed his head again and stood to face the Council once more as they considered what he had just put out on the table. Dean stared breathlessly at him, of all the words Cas could've said and of all the words that had ever come out of his mouth the big three were the most beautiful of all. Dean hadn't anticipated those three words that man men fill with pride, women swoon, and children feel safe at night. The words I love Dean Winchester still rang in his ears.
"I love you too Cas," he finally breathed out, loud enough for Cas to hear. "I-I always have…"
The Council murmured amongst themselves and discussed the words Cas had said while Cas shared his and Dean's look. Dean knew now that everything would be alright.
"Castiel," Donathan said. "We have discussed your reasoning for your crime and have reached a verdict, angels please present your verdict one by one reasoning is optional."
There were three "guilty" votes from Uriel, Zachariah, and Samandrial and three "innocents" from Cathalsis, Anorath, and Raphael. Now they were waiting for Donathan's verdict. The head angel looked left then right and back to Castiel and Dean.
"Guilty." He said.
The angels gasped and Cas and Dean too, the prison guards rushed over to Cas and restrained him, he tried to pull away towards Dean. Dean responded by struggling towards Cas although he himself was being restrained.
"Cas!" Dean yelled his eyes full of fear. "Castiel!"
"Dean!" Cas yelled back, his gaze never breaking from Dean's as he pulled at his handcuffs.
"STOP!" a booming voice was suddenly heard and everyone, even the Council turned in the direction of the source. They all gasped. A whitish yellow light filled the room and it fell so silent that Death himself would be terrified. Dean's mouth hung slightly ajar, whereas Cas' expression was one of awe mixed with terrified.
"Father…" Cas breathed out.
"Hello Dean Winchester," God smirked and strode forward towards the hunter. "I suppose we've never met now have we?"
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OMFJESUS! IT'S GOD! *fangirling*
Cas' speech man I teared up a little writing that. It was powerful to me.
So Dean admits it, he loves Cas.
But what will become of his and Cas' fate? Will they be together and why is God there?
More to Come soon! Probably at least 1-2 chapters left in this story and an epilogue