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The debriefing with Zachariah had not been pleasant.
Fortunately, he had stopped short of taking punitive action. Castiel had, after all, gone to the barn with the honest intent of doing his duty and killing Anna. None of them had foreseen her taking a gamble as big as pitting demons against her brothers.
Still, Castiel has gotten what you might call an earful of biblical proportions.
He is quite relieved to be able to take refuge in Milliways for a while.
Castiel is sitting in a booth. A mug of coffee is on the table in front of him.
It’s full. He just wants to appear occupied.
[Plotlocked: Here there be very focused and powder-keggy angels.]
Fortunately, he had stopped short of taking punitive action. Castiel had, after all, gone to the barn with the honest intent of doing his duty and killing Anna. None of them had foreseen her taking a gamble as big as pitting demons against her brothers.
Still, Castiel has gotten what you might call an earful of biblical proportions.
He is quite relieved to be able to take refuge in Milliways for a while.
Castiel is sitting in a booth. A mug of coffee is on the table in front of him.
It’s full. He just wants to appear occupied.
[Plotlocked: Here there be very focused and powder-keggy angels.]
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"I learned how to build a ship in a bottle."
"I learned how to attend a birthday party. How to fold cranes out of paper. I learned to play baseball, and, in doing to, to speak civilly to vampires. I learned that I do not like ice cream for all humans are so fond of it. I learned to take apart an automobile and put it back together again."
He has learned how to have friends here, though it was nothing he set out to do.
"Is that the sort of thing you mean?"
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But, oh, he's trying to hide something.
Interesting.
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He's still not able to do that. Castiel attempts to take refuge in humor.
"I have not learned to cook."
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Flaming Easy Bake Oven.
"I did learn to cook."
She never could quite manage, as an angel. No matter how accomplished her vessel was at it.
"Don't suppose I'll need to know that any more."
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Still, Castiel will admit that cooking is probably pretty far down on the list.
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"And here I thought I didn't have a part to play any longer."
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"It is true."
She'll never be allowed back in Heaven's ranks. Not after all she's done.
"It is a pity. You would have been an asset. Before."
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"I suspect that what I would have been was dead on Cheat Mountain."
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Castiel had played 'what if' a lot after that battle.
"Ecanus did not have the appropriate command experience."
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"She went after the leader first. She's Lilith and I'm no archangel.
"Outcome would have been largely the same. I'd be dead, someone else would be alive, and your grief for me would have been a lot cleaner.
"Seal would still have broken."
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He's not sure if he'd welcome that cleaner grief or not. Though it would be so much easier.
"That was the end of our old unit. What remained of us were scattered to other groups. We were always considered the weaker for your leaving."
Tainted, almost.
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"What do you want me to say, Castiel?"
Not that she necessarily say it, of course.
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Finally he just sighs.
"I simply thought you might want to know what became of them."
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Ran out into the street when he order the retreat.
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It hadn't occurred to him that she would have heard that incident specifically.
"How much have you heard? Since you started hearing?"
He's curious.
And it could be important.
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Anna looks amused.
"You don't really think I'm going to answer that, do you?"
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"Do you really have anything to lose by telling me?"
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"But I'm not going to take the risk.
"Knowledge is power, right? And I'm not exactly in a position to give away of what little of that I still have. Not over cold coffee at the end of the universe."
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"Neither of us really trusts the other anymore."
It saddens him, more than he expects.
"I suppose it begs the question. Where do we go from here?"
Trust may be lacking, but the habit of asking his sister for guidance is still in effect.
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Two beats.
Ten beats.
"I do not understand."
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"I didn't really expect you to.
"As for where we go from here . . .
"Well, little brother, I guess we'll find out when we get there."
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"You still talk like a human."
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"See you at the next stop on the road to where ever, Cas."
And with the faint sound of rustling wings, Anna is gone.
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He does not say good-bye to the empty air. He wouldn't say it even if she was still there to hear.
There's no need to.
In here or out there, he has no doubt that he will see Anna again.