Hello lovely fandom ^.^ chapter 14 is here. This story is a lot longer that I was expecting it to be. But I daresay I can figure out how to drag it on and attatch plot :P

This one concentrates more on Sam's point of view because Tashiya advised me not to forget the characters other than destiel xD

This chapter is dedicated to bani86 for the continuous support, thank you :D

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Enjoy ^.^

'So' Sam said slowly as Castiel caught him up while Dean was still inhaling pie in his room 'Dean has your handprint on his soul?'

'That's correct' Cas clarified. Sam sighed and and rubbed his temple as he tried to ward off a headache. This was just too much

'And you re-grew him?'

'Yes'

'Dude, that's just weird'.

'I agree, it is weird'. Cas confirmed.

'Will it affect him?' Sam asked 'The handprint I mean' Cas just shrugged

'I have no idea.' he said honestly, glancing towards the door to Dean's room 'I've only heard of one other case of this happening but it was just a story we told in the garrison. I don't know if it even happened. And if it did, it was centuries ago.'

'I could look it up I suppose' Sam said thoughtfully, pulling his laptop towards him

'I doubt that google will know' Cas said, tilting his head, the angel still hadn't fully grasped the internet yet.

'Trust me, Cas. If anyone knows, google will know.'

'I don't understand'

'Never mind' Sam waved a hand in dismissal. He didn't want to go through this again. Last time he had tried to explain computers and the internet to the socially awkward angel, he had ended up destroying a perfectly good laptop because Dean had gotten tired of the technobabble and intervened by telling Cas that it worked by magic. He typed in some keywords 'soul' 'angel' 'regrowth of body' 'lore' and pressed enter.

He scrolled through a few pages before finding a promising website. He scanned it and turned the laptop to show Castiel. 'Is this the story you heard?' he asked.

Castiel peered at the screen

'That was one version of it' he said, nodding

'There were others?'

'It was always the same story, a human and an angel with a profound connection, the human died, their body was so mangled it could not be healed and the angel used their bond to grow a new vessel, exactly the same as before, and the human lived.'

'Any specifics?' Sam looked up hopefully. He really wanted to find out what they were dealing with here. He hated to have unanswered questions especially about things that directly affected him and his brother. He wanted to know if this handprint could be harmful to either Cas or Dean, or even useful. The more details Cas could give him, the more he could narrow down the search.

'The specifics were always changing Sam. Who the human was, who the angel was, how the human died, what happened afterwards, each angel would change it in the telling to make it a better story. Who knows where it began?'

Sam pursed his lips

'Great' he said sarcastically, he scratched his head 'God, I wish Bobby were here. He might've known something'

'Something about what?' Dean said as he emerged from his room, an empty pie tray in his hand and a disturbing smile on his face. Sam raised an eyebrow

'I've said it before, dude. You love pie way too much' Dean grinned as he threw the tray into the trash

'You guys left me alone, I just had a great opportunity to-'

'Gross, Dean. Please, just stop talking' Sam almost gagged at the images that came to mind. Who knew how far Dean would go with his beloved pie? He really didn't want to know. Cas cocked his head

'What's gross?' he asked, curiously. Sam and Dean traded amused looks. Cas really was clueless sometimes. Dean just laughed and patted the angel on the shoulder

'You're so innocent' was all he said before plonking down into the empty chair that Cas was standing next to 'So what are we looking at?'.

Sam's lips twitched at the pure confusion on Castiel's face but then looked at Dean

'Possibly, the origin to the story that Cas heard. About regrowing a body.'

'Dude, this is really vague, like all it says is that the human was a woman. We know all the rest.'

'Scroll down' Sam said 'Look at the stuff that happened after.'

He gauged his brothers reaction as he read, swallowing nervously. Aside from the slight widening of his eyes, Dean showed nothing. But that was hardly surprising. Dean met his eyes briefly before re-reading the paragraph

'Seriously?' was all he said when he'd finished. He sat back and ran a hand through his hair.

'What is it?' Cas asked, looking between the brothers. Sam looked to Dean, but he made no move to explain so Sam spun the laptop around and paraphrased

'Basically, there are loads of different versions. And we can't be sure, but there are a couple of main points that keep cropping up. One, that the angel passes his powers into the humans soul and makes the human … well, almost angel. Maybe even full on angel. But in doing so it drains the angel of all his power and eventually …' he paused, not meeting Cas' eyes 'he dies'

Sam coughed to clear his throat before carrying on 'Another is that the power can be shared equally, or there could be some kind of mental connection between them that forms, or that the human only absorbs a short extra time of life, or that nothing happens at all, one even says that the human was instantly transformed into an angel but' he glanced at Dean 'I don't think that's the case. Thing is, there are dozens of ideas and no one actually knows so …' he trailed off. Finally looking up at Cas, nervously. It wasn't exactly fun telling a good friend that he might be dying after all.

Castiel looked calm, but then again, he always did.

'So basically, prepare for everything and we still have no damn clue!' Dean said heatedly. He turned to look up at Cas 'This could all just be crap, you know' he said. Castiel just smiled gently

'We'll just have to wait and see' he said.

'Cas' Dean put in, standing up to face the angel 'Sam's right. We need to find out everything we can about this whole handprint thing. I mean, it could be killing you!'

'Or it could be harmless' Castiel pointed out 'We won't know until something happens.'

'But by then it could be too late!' Dean argued

'We'll figure something out' Sam said placatingly 'Right, Cas?'

'Last minute solutions do seem to be our speciality' The angel said with a smile. 'We just need to keep a close eye on any possible symptoms'.

Castiel

Castiel frowned slightly and cocked his head,

'Cas?' Dean said

Castiel where are you? You have some explaining to do

'Metatron' he muttered 'I have to go'

And he was gone.

'That reminds me' Dean said to his brother 'The third demon trial. We need to find Abbadon.'

'She could be anywhere by now' Sam said with a sigh. 'Why don't you just take it easy for a bit?' Dean raised an eyebrow

'And why would I want to do that?' he asked. Sam made one of his 'seriously' faces.

'Oh, I don't know, Dean. Maybe because you just remembered Hell.' If Sam didn't know his brother as well as he did, then he would have missed the slight twitch he made before he covered it with a grin

'It's never stopped me before' he said. Going over to the door to grab his jacket 'I'm gonna go and see if I can find her trail.'

'Dean' Sam said, turning in his chair, he didn't want Dean doing anything right now, not until they figured out what this whole handprint thing was. But Dean was right, they did have to complete the trials.

'I'll call you if I find anything' was all he said before the door slammed.

Sam sighed and closed his laptop.

They had been so close to normal.

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