500 Years

Healing

It wasn't the first time Dean and Cas had handled a case alone, but Dean worried when it came to nasty critters like dragons. He and Sam had been pretty lucky the last time they'd faced off against them, and he didn't think he and Cas would get through it so easy this time. Cas was still only at about half power and Dean didn't want a dragon hurting the angel. Sam had met a girl though, and she'd asked him to accompany her on a cruise. Dean had insisted that he go. Promised that he and Cas could hold down the fort all on their own, and so far, they had. They could handle cases without his brother. He just...worried.

Cas had the guns and ammo packed neatly in the trunk so that when Dean came out carrying his duffel of clothes and another bag of knives, all he had to do was toss them in the trunk and get behind the wheel.

"Will be we driving straight through?" Cas asked as he slid into the passenger seat.

"We'll have to stop for the night, it's already after three and it's at least an eight hour drive," Dean said as he started the car.

"I have looked into some places that I thought you might like to stop for food, and several motels along the way that are of a nicer quality than you usually stay at. I thought that since Sam was not with you, you won't need the second bed. What you save on the second bed you can instead spend on a nicer room." Cas was flicking through pages on his phone of all the things he had looked up.

"You need rest though, Cas. You're still not a hundred percent." Dean glanced over at his friend, who was still searching through his phone.

"I'll be fine, Dean. You don't have to worry about me."

"Like hell I don't. You're family, of course I'm going to worry," Dean grumbled. He turned his eyes back to the road, missing the look of affection Cas gave him.

"I will rest. I will check to see what rooms will have a couch or a reclining chair."

"Don't bother. The nicer motels and hotels will charge the same for a room with two doubles as they do one with a single queen. Just do that," Dean said.

"Alright. I found a hotel in Lafayette that is not far from the convent. I'll book us a room there now." Cas looked up, waiting for Dean's approval.

"Yeah, sounds good. But we're stopping for food at the halfway point."

"Of course," Cas smiled.