Dean was not happy to say the least, he had thought that they would be saving a poor girl from a Demon only to find she WANTED to stay with him. That she seems to think he's protecting her, and though he could understand that he had saved her, he could not get why she would ever want to stay.
"What the hell was that back there man, you were of no help at all. Hell you wanted us to leave her there to begin with." Dean said turning on Castiel, as if he was somehow to blame for all of this.
But he just continued to look out of the car window seeming lost in thought, and he was. So much so he was even still in the car at all. There was something about Diana that he could not name... Something that had her marked by Heaven in a way he had never seen before...
"Cas, are you ok? Dean's right you said something about her being important..." Sam said ever the peacekeeper, but with the same curiosity as his brother.
"Diana is marked by Heaven."
"Marked? Marked how?"
"A... Warning..."
Sam and Dean both looked at each other, and then Dean pulled over the impala, turning to look at Castiel expectantly as if that would somehow tell him to keep speaking.
"Cas, man, what kind of a warning we talking? She not gonna like birth the antichrist or something is she?"
"The antichrist will not be born of a mortal, Dean." Cas replied looking lost as to where that came from in their present conversation.
"I think what Dean is trying to say is, is this warning something we need to worry about? Is she like a seal or something worse?"
Castiel thought back to the feeling that came off the young mortal and hit him in waves. It had been like nothing he had ever felt before in his long life. It wasn't a bad feeling, like he got from Demons or other monsters he had come across in his time with the Winchesters. It had rather been a promise of retribution to any harm that came to her at his or any other Angels hand.
"It was a warning to any Angel that comes in contact with her, it foretells of punishment for any of me or my brethren who do her harm. If I had helped you I would not have been forgiven..." The last part being said very softly so that the brothers almost didn't hear him.
"So, she's got a big do not do not disturb sign on her forehead?" Dean asked and getting no reply from the Angel looked over at his brother.
"I think maybe we need to take a trip back to Grandma's dinner, Dean. Maybe she could shed some light on this."
Dean nodded his head and pulled the car back on to the road, with questions moving rapidly in his mind. As Sam pulled out his cell phone to make a call to Bobby.
As both boys went about their normal routine for a hunt, Castiel thought over what he should do. On the one hand, the Winchesters where his friends, who he both wanted to help and protect. He had done a lot for them after all, he had left the protection of Heaven and put his lot in with the two mortals. That made him responsible for them and their actions...
On the other hand, he had to let them use the free will his father had given them. That, however, did not mean he could help them with this. It was one thing to rebel against Michael and the Apocalypse. To fight for what was right and protect his father's last creation. Still this was not a monster or the end of the world, this was a child protected by Heaven and the only one who would do something like that... Well, he would not have done so without a reason. And for that idea alone he could not help them.
"I will not help you with this." And without pause he was gone.
I want to thank the lovely DayStrom for this fantastic edit!
