Collection of Destiel

Before Goodbye Stranger

April 1983

"What is love?" Small green eyes peered up into his mother's with a child's raw curiosity.

"Love?" The blonde woman craned her neck as her eyes peered down into his. She seemed to ponder the word for a moment before she ran her fingers through his hair and answered. "Love is magic. There are endless amounts of love in the world. In its simplest form it is needing someone so badly that without them you'd be very sad and lost."

The boy squinted his eyes as he thought over the definition. "Love is just needing someone? That's weird. Why don't people just say 'I need you'?"

"I don't know, Dean. Maybe when you find someone that you love so dearly, you can tell them that." Mary kissed the tip of her son's hair. "Save it for a special person. If you tell it to too many people it will lose it's worth."

"One person." Dean nodded his head slowly. "I'll find someone to tell it to one day and we'll be as happy as you and Dad."

"I hope so, honey."

March 2013

"Cas... This isn't you. This isn't you." The words through Dean's lips are slurred from the blood now pooling under his tongue. His good eye is pleading up at the angel as the concrete digs into his knees. "Cas. Cas." The pleading in his voice makes his head swirl as he reaches toward his angel with a shaking wrist. "I know you're in there."

Castiel's hand rises into the air with his angel blade wrapped in his fist. There isn't a trace of Cas behind those unyielding eyes.

"I know you can hear me. Cas...It's me. We're family. We need you." Dean pleads with every fiber of his soul, not for his life anymore but for the life of the angel he has come to love. In his mind, as if knowing it is near death, he gets flashes of his life. A memory floods his system and all at once he remembers what his mother told him all those years ago. "I need you."

Something behind Castiel's eyes flicker.

"Cas?" Dean pants out while blood pours down his chin.

The noise echoes as the angel blade bounces against concrete.

Dean closes his eyes and repeats the words he had promised his mother he would say to someone one day, I need you.

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I would like to cite that last scene was from Goodbye Stranger (Season 8), at least the dialogue is. All I did was write narration and my own spin as to a scene between Mary and Dean when he was just a boy.