Angel - Supernatural

4x21 - When The Levee Breaks

Bobby's Salvage Yard – Night

"Well, it's about time. I've been screaming myself hoarse out here for about two and a half hours now" Dean complains.

"What do you want?" Castiel cuts to business.

"You can start with what the hell happened in Illinois"

"What do you mean?"

"Cut the crap. You were gonna tell me something"

"Well, nothing of importance"

"You got ass-reamed in heaven but it was not of importance?" Dean asks.

"Dean, I can't. I'm sorry. Get to the reason you really called me. It's about Sam, right?" Castiel asks.

"Can he do it? Kill Lilith, stop the apocalypse?"

"Possibly, yes. But as you know, he'd have to take certain steps"

"Crank up the hell-blood regimen"

"Consuming the amount of blood, it would take to kill Lilith would change your brother forever. Most likely, he would become the next creature that you would feel compelled to kill. There's no reason this would have to come to pass, Dean. We believe it's you, Dean, not your brother. The only question for us is whether you're willing to accept it. Stand up and accept your role. You are the one who will stop it."

"If I do this, Sammy doesn't have to?" Dean asks.

"If it gives you comfort to see it that way"

"God, you're a dick these days" Dean walks a few steps away and sighs. "Fine, I'm in"

"You give yourself over wholly to the service of God and his angels?"

"yeah, exactly"

"say it" Castiel orders.

"I give myself over wholly to serve god and you guys"

"You swear to follow his will and his word as swiftly and obediently as you did your own father's?"

"yes, I swear. Now what?"

"Now you wait, and we call on you when it's time" Castiel tells him.

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Bobby's Panic Room – day

"Monster, Sam. You're a monster" Hallucination Dean says to Sam.

"dean, no"

"And I tried so hard to pretend that we were brothers. That you weren't one of the filthy things that we hunt. But we're not even the same species. You're nothing to me" Hallucination Dean says.

"Don't say that to me. Don't you say that to me" Sam looks around, but the room is empty.

The light changes: nightfall.

The cuff on Sam's left arm snaps open, then his left ankle, then the other two. The door opens. Sam sits up, staring, he didn't do this. "Hello?" Sam gets up and slips out the door. "Someone here?" Sam hurries quietly out of the basement without noticing Castiel behind the stairs. From a distance Castiel closes and locks the panic room door.

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City Riverfront – Night

Castiel stands at a railing, looking over the water. The streetlights flicker. She turns and Anna is there. "What did you do?" Anna asks her.

"You shouldn't have come, Anna"

"Why would you let out Sam Winchester?"

"Those were my orders"

"Orders? Cas, you saw him. He's drinking demon blood. It's so much worse than we thought. Dean was trying to stop him"

"You really shouldn't have come" Castiel tells her again, as two angels appear on either side of Anna. White light illuminates Castiel, when it's gone, so are the other three angels. Castiel turns back to the river.

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Honeymoon Suite – Night

Sam and Dean fight, Sam dominating. Anything in the room that can break does. Dean hits the floor and doesn't get up. Sam pins him down, choking him, then let's go.

"You don't know mw. You never did. And you never will" Sam walks away.

"You walk out that door, don't you ever come back" Dean tells him, using the same words their father had said when Sam left for college. Sam stops at the door and turns back, then he leaves.