All You Did was Save my Life

Cas and Sam

Dean awoke to the sound of his phone ringing and he grasped around blindly, wanting to get it before it woke the baby.

"H'llo," he mumbled sleepily, not opening his eyes.

"Dean?"

"Sam?" Dean sat straight up, his eyes wide open now. But with his eyes open he could see... nothing. Or rather, no one. Cas was gone.

"Dean, did you hear me?"

"Sam, Cas is-"

"Here."

"What?" Dean asked, "What d'you mean? Where are you?"

"I'm just outside the hospital in Indiana. Cas... he showed up here and... I don't know exactly what he did, but he did something to my head. Lucifer's gone."

"What d'you mean he's gone? And what did Cas do to you?" Dean growled, frustrated.

"I think it would be easier if you just came and saw for yourself."

With that, Sam hung up. Dean threw the phone down and looked around for a moment before standing. He carefully placed his daughter in her crib before rushing downstairs.

"Cas is gone," he announced to the others.

"What?" Jo said in shock, "Where?"

"Indiana."

"What?" Now they all looked really confused.

"Sam just called," Dean explained, "He said Cas is there and he did something to Sam's head so he's not seeing Lucifer anymore."

Gabriel and Balthazar exchanged looks before Balthazar gripped Bobby and Ellen's arms and Gabriel strode over to Dean.

"Hold on tight," he said and then the five had vanished.

"I guess we're watching the kids," Ash said and Jo shrugged.

"Apparently."

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"Don't ever do that again," Dean said as soon as he was back on his feet.

"Faster than driving," Gabriel said, already walking away.

Dean followed the archangels line of sight and saw his little brother walking towards them. Sam looked a little worse for wear, but he was smiling widely.

Gave threw his arms around the hunter, not caring who saw or what they thought.

"You good now?" Dean asked.

"Yeah, yeah I'm good," Sam nodded, "But Cas..."

"Where is he?" Balthazar asked and Sam led them back to the hospital, not letting go of Gabe the whole way.

"I don't know what happened," Sam said, "One minute Lucifer was right in front of me and the next he was gone, but Cas was acting really strange."

"Did Cas say anything to you?" Bobby asked and Sam hesitated.

"Sam, what did he say?" Dean asked, stopping his brother.

"He said..." Sam took a deep breath, "He said he's sorry and he wants you to name the baby Max."

"Sorry?" Dean said confused, "The hell's he got to be sorry for?"

"He said he didn't want to be in the way anymore," Sam replied sadly.

"But he wasn't-"

"Wasn't he?" Gabriel said, his voice low and they all turned to look at him. "All you've done is ignore him or yell at him. I thought it was just the baby making him emotional and that he was overreacting, but all this... It's because of you."

"Gabe, look, I know I owe Cas a lot right now and that sorry isn't going even going to begin to cover it-"

"You're damn right it won't," Gabe said, "It's too late for apologies anyway."

"What d'you mean?" Bobby asked.

"Cas cured Sam," Gabe said, "He got rid of his hallucinations."

"So?"

"So where do you think those hallucinations went?" Gabriel hissed, stepping close to the elder Winchester. "Cas gave you back your brother cause he knew it'd make you happy. And he took himself away from you because he thought that would make you happy too."

Oh my goodness all of your reactions to the last chapter were more than I ever could have hoped for.

"What?! Where's Cas going? Why is he leaving? What's happening?!" was basically what I got from all of you and I thank you for that cause it was amazing and wonderful.

Also, I've had some requests for more Sabriel babies. I can promise that will definitely happen in the future, but it'll have to wait for Max to be a little older first. The only issue with having a bunch of young kids is that someone always has to be there to watch them so I promise I have ideas for how to solve this so Jo and Ash aren't always sitting out on the excitement.

Thanks so much for reading! I'll have a new chapter up tomorrow all leading up to chapter 100 on Wednesday!