Something's wrong/Dean & Castiel

[iamwinchester]

Dean was sure it came as no surprise to any of them how he dealt with what had happened. He’d drink more than was healthy, even for him. His sleeping patterns were the wrong way around, daylight hours sleeping off the alcohol he’d consumed the night before. In the days that followed he’d had some of the worst hangovers of his life, and somehow that

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[diefirst]

Castiel had only spared a few, brief minutes at Bobby's after the three of them had returned. Three, not five. And while he too had been affected by the loss of the two female hunters, he knew that it wasn't him place to intrude. Those five humans had been a family, and Castiel knew all too well what it was like to lose those.

But that had been weeks ago now, and Castiel still hadn't been back for more than a brief visit. Even then, his presence had stayed masked; wanting nothing more than to check on the brothers that one time. What he'd found had been enough to keep him from making a return visit. Not unless he had to. Instead, all his time has been spent searching for his Father, and nothing more. He doesn't want that time free to think of anything else

[iamwinchester]

Whether he wants to feel it or not, the flood of relief that Dean can feel filtering through his body is short-lived, the problem at hand needing their attention now, and he dispenses with pleasantries that are never really there anyway.

"Cas... Sam's gone." He's trying not to sound as worried as he is, and he's sure that he doesn't need to sound worried at all for Cas to just show up like he usually does. They haven't seen each other for a week, at least, and it's starting to show in the way he's actually verging on happy to hear the angel's voice down the other end of the line.

"Something's going on. Where are you?" It's not so much that he's overly-protective of Sam, not as much as he used to be, but because every single one of his hunter's instincts are firing, telling him his brother's in trouble.

[diefirst]

Those two words are enough to push him in to action, and Castiel is quick to make the journey from Kolkata to South Dakota. The static that accompanies him on the phone lasts for too long a moment as the signal shifts to cope with the change of location. He has no reason to waste time waiting for a location when he's already sure he knows where to find the hunter.

"South Dakota. In Bobby's yard." His own search is put to the back of his mind in favor of finding out what's happened to Sam, all too aware of what that could mean for the man. Especially if Lucifer is involved. "You need to tell me everything that you know."

[iamwinchester]

The static has Dean pulling the phone away from his ear again, frowning because he already has a headache - he could do without the noise down the line. His eyes are still fixed outside, sure he's going to hear the rustle of feathers sooner rather than later, but when it doesn't come he pulls his cell back to his ear and hears the tailend of where Cas is.

"We moved on." He doesn't want to go into the reasons why they aren't at Bobby's anymore, and he doesn't think he needs to explain that it was too tough for him to stay in a place that feels like the home he hasn't had since he was four. Not when they're missing two family members.

"We're in Ohio. I'm in Huron. River's Edge Inn." He still doesn't understand why Sam would just take off on his own, and it makes him feel worse that he has no idea when Sam left, the message sounding like his brother was already on the move.