Carry on After

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With the snap of his finger, Jack had landed them in what looked like a throne room. Everything was white and spotless, with a huge colorless throne in the center.

"This is where my grandfather, God, would receive prayers. I could have easily changed it into something different but I didn't want to, it is sort of like an "aha" towards him- If you know what I mean." Jack said, facing the throne. Then turned to face the brothers as Dean spoke, "I get what you mean, I would have done the same thing to that righteous bastard."

Sam chucked, "So, Jack, why did you bring us here?"

"Well he was supposed to be here already but I guess- wait, there he is now..." Sam and dean turn their heads to see the dark-haired angel walk in. Dean felt as though his soul just left his body... again. He had been waiting for the moment when he would finally see him again. Now that moment was here, his breath felt hitched in the bottom of his lungs.

"Cas," Sam says with a relieved and sincere tone as he scooped Castiel into his arms.

"Sam." He smiled cheerfully as Sam pulled away. Cas looked at Dean. The same Dean who hasn't let his eyes off the angel since he walked into the room. Dean looked at him like he'd seen a ghost, but Castiel gave him a different look... that Dean couldn't put his finger on.

"Dean," Cas embraced Dean with a hug, the blond wanted to last forever. He never truly realized how much he missed his best friend until now. Until he was in his arms.

As Cas pulled back, he looked at the two brothers, made a confused frown, and tilted his head like a puppy hearing a sound for the first time. "What?" Sam laughed. "You-" Cas starts as he glances back and forth at Sam and Dean, "... you guys looked... different... younger."

"Yeah, I added that," Jack says behind them. "I figured people would want to live eternity looking like the time when they looked the best!" He said in a mirthful tone.

"Young??" Sam laughed with a questioning look. With another snap of Jack's fingers, a small hand-held mirror appears in Sam's hand. He shares a shocked and adjusting look at Jack then raises it towards his face.

The reflection showed a short-haired, young boy; a face that Sam had not seen in a very long time. They all laughed at the goofy face Sam made in the mirror, it was the moments like this where Dean felt like they were a true family.

When he saw Cas die he never thought he would have a moment like this again, and with that thought, he glanced over at Castiel. When he was laughing like that, he truly looked like an angel.

But Dean did notice something off about Castiel as well...