"Yes, he is back, dad" Said Dean under a car "He returned yesterday"

"Then, what's wrong?" Asked John holding a lantern "You got him back, right?"

"No, he says he is straight now" Continued Dean after a long pause "They brainwashed him, dad"

"Yeah, I heard about those guys in the television" Said John handling a tool to Dean "They say they can cure gay people"

"A bunch of bullshit!"

"Hun, apparently…"

"What do you think, dad?"

"I think Castiel loves you, or at least loved… Everything seems pretty... Fishy"

"I think that too"

"So what you are going to do?"

"Don't know dad"

"Well" Said John after a pause to whip some sweat off his forehead "If I were you, I would break into that place and search for a 'cure' to the 'cure', got it?"

"Dad?" Asked Dean coming under the car "That is an awesome idea… I'll need a day off"

"Sam, you let Dean find me, didn't you?" said Castiel handling him two books

"He would find you eventually, Cas" Said Sam taking the books "You know that you don't let Dean do things, he just does"

"I guess you are right" Said Castiel smiling, even his smile was off, it's felt insanely calm

"They messed with your head, didn't they?

Castiel just smiled

"Cas, I'm worried about you"

"Don't be Sam, I'm ok now"

"There wasn't anything wrong with you, Cas" Said Sam sympathetically "But now I'm not so sure"

Castiel just smiled again and picked a book from the shelve "The Metamorphose by Kafka, one day a man wakes up and realized he turned into a big insect during the night, I always liked this book, now it doesn't make sense anymore"

"This book is written figuratively, Cas" Said Sam turning away 'Wait' thought Sam 'Is Castiel saying that he felt like an insect before or that he is one now?'

"Maybe some things only make sense in the right moment in somebody's life"

"Cas, be honest with me" Said Sam looking at Castiel "Do you still love Dean?"

"Dean, is like a brother to me" Said Castiel smiling again, but it was an empty smile, it was like someone took his real smile and replaced it, maybe Castiel went through a metamorphose under the night, and that was his insect form.

"Hello, Dean" Said Castiel sitting on the couch, Dean just arrived with a big bag

"Evening, Cas" Said Dean walking towards the kitchen

"How are you doing?" Shouted Castiel from the living room

"Good, I guess and you?" Shouted Dean back after drinking a sip of a water

"I'm good" Said Castiel opening the icebox

"That's good to know" Said Dean frowning his eye brown "So this is the new you..."

"Yes"

"How it's like to be straight?"

"I feel, clean"

"Clean?" Asked Dean, it was strange how even his vocabulary changed "Cas?"

"Yes?" Said Castiel taking a yogurt from the icebox

"What they did to you?"

"They opened my eyes…" Said Castiel with that vague smile again "For the world"

"So you don't love me anymore?" Whispered Dean grabbing Castiel's collar like he used to do

"D-Dean?!" Stammered Castiel resting the yogurt on the counter

"Say you don't love me, Cas" Continued Dean looking into Castiel's eyes "Say you don't love me and I'll go away… forever"

"Dean, I don't want you to go away" Said Castiel holding Dean's forearm to get some distance "You are like a brother to me"

"No! Cas!" Whispered Dean on Castiel's chin, kissing it lightly "Please, don't do this to me"

"Dean" Said Castiel trying to pull Dean away, but his grip was too tight on Castiel's collar "Let me go!"

"I won't let you go, if you don't tell me" Said Dean with a pause kissing Castiel's mouth lightly "Tell me if you love or not"

"I don't know, Dean" Shouted Castiel placing his hand on Dean's chest "I don't know! Please stop, Dean, you are hurting me…"

Dean released Castiel that ran to his room like scared child, he sat on the chair and rested his head on the counter 'Why can he just tell me he hates me, it would be so much easier to give up on him' Thought Dean punching the counter in frustration, his phone rang.

"This is not a good time"

"Dean, it's Sam"

"Sammy, this is really not the time dude!"

"But Dean, I found out something about that institution" Said Sam with a victorious tone, Dean almost could see Sam's smile though the phone

"Sammy, please tell me its good news" Whispered Dean looking around, he wanted to make sure Cas wasn't listening

"Its, very good news Dean"

"Then, tell me!"

"This 'Clinic' uses hypnosis to treat patients"

"Hypnosis, isn't that thing that makes people act like dogs or chickens?"

"Yes, Dean… There a lot of uses for hypnosis, one is behavioral change induced by trance"

"Then I just need to break Castiel's trance?"

"Yes, but it's not as simple as rigging a bell or whistling… We need to know what triggers his trance, and then we need to revert this before it be triggered again"

"Sammy, In English now, please."

"Castiel's trance needs to be maintained by triggering it with some frequency, or else it will revert by itself"

"When I find the trigger, what do I do?"

"Call me, we need to know which trigger is, so that we can act on it"

"Thank you, Sammy" Said Dean hanging up, he already knew what to look for, now he needed to talk with Cas about what just happened.