At that moment the tiny cramped motel room door swung open Sam emerged through the narrow door frame, without saying a word or even glancing at the two clearly confused men he headed straight for the fridge.
After retrieving himself a beer, an item which the Winchester brothers hands were very familiar with, he slumped down on the awkwardly lumpy couch placed in the corner of the room. Dean stared at Sam in disbelief of the lack of acknowledgement
towards him or Castiel, "Um Sam, ..whats the deal with these missing girls then?"
At this moment Castiel became very aware of the tension between the brothers and left.
Sam looked up at Dean "Well as it turns out witnesses didn't see much just some guy with the girls a few days earlier, nothing really to work on at the moment…. um Dean? what is going on with you and Cas?"
Dean's brow lowered "That doesn't matter, what matters right now is finding out what happened to those girls"
Clear skies, surrounded by trees he stood there looking at the ground this was where he had slaughtered hundreds of angels, although the ground was clear he could see the wing markings on the grass, his imagination maybe, even so they were very much real to him. So many human emotions flooding his vessel, his eyes dampen, he raises a hand to his cheek confused by the leaking, "I'm sorry" Castiel uttered "I feel regret." This was the first time Castiel had returned to heaven after all he had done, his feelings overwhelmed him, "my intentions were good, I never meant for this to happen" Cas murmured his eyes darting around in a panic "I never meant for this to happen" he repeated to himself .
"We have a lead" Sam confirmed while putting the phone down and grabbing his bags, "bodies of two girls have turned up half eaten apparently an animal attack, i think they might be our two missing girls"
"well we better get goin' " Dean responded before downing the rest of his whiskey.
The engine of the impala rattled as Dean pumped the gas peddle, his eyes dead set on the road ahead of him but his mind clearly elsewhere, "Are we gonna talk about this or not?" Sam asked a look of concern for his brother spread across his face, Dean licked his lips briefly, "Sam, I'm fine"
Sam sighed and looked out his window, he knew Dean was clearly not fine but he also knew when not to push him, now was not the time.
"Castiel?" a soft voice spoke in surprise, Cas looked up death and destruction in his eyes, there he saw Samandriel standing there in his striped wiener hut uniform a look of shock and relief on his youthful face.
A massive weight of guilt swept over Cas almost bring him to his knees he knew it was judgement time, time to be punished for what he had done, but instead of anger, Samandriel just stood there in shock.
"I am aware of the mistakes I have made and am ready for the consequences" Cas said firmly
"I am amazed you are still alive I.. we, meaning everyone of us left thought you were gone, we knew your intentions were good Castiel, your heart is in the right place you did what you thought was right, what was needed, in doing so you stopped the war in heaven for that i am grateful, yes you caused a lot of destruction on earth but thats over now, you are still our brother still an angel of the lord just a fallen one" Samandriel replied a look of sympathy flickered in his eyes.
"Thankyou" Cas said "Now i must take my leave" and with that he was gone.
The Winchester brothers made their way through the crime scene tape bordering of a small section of the interstate, it seemed like such a strange place for a wild animal attack, they knew it was clearly one of their cases, the bodies of the two girls were ripped apart bits of them scattered across the road, "I'll go speak to the coroner, you look around for anything important to finding out what we're dealing with here" Sam said while adjusting his FBI standard suit, Dean still with a lot on his mind walked over to the bodies, there appeared to be a black tar-like substance on the ground next to one of the victims and the same substance on a set of keys in the other victims hand, clearly from fighting back to her attacker, the tar substance was one Dean had recently become very familiar with "Oh crap" he muttered under his voice.
"Leviathan? how is that possible, I saw you and Cas kill Dick?" Sam said striding back to the impala, "I don't know maybe one slipped through the cracks when i sent them back to purgatory" Dean responded slamming the car door as he got in, the rest of the drive back to the motel was quiet other than the sounds of the classic rock music blasting from the stereo, but between the brothers there was silence. Sam looked over at Dean the look of concern returning, from the glare and the way Dean immediately turned the volume dial of the stereo up Sam could tell he still wasn't ready to admit something was wrong, the rest of the drive would be consistent of silence and avoiding eye contact between the brothers.