Angel - Supernatural

5x02 - Good God, Y'all

Hospital – Day

Bobby, wearing a bathrobe and ball cap, sits in a wheelchair and stares out the window. Sam watches him from the doorway. Dean arrives with a manila envelope in hand. "It's been like three days now?" Sam only sighs. "We got to cheer him up. Maybe I'll give him a backrub"

"Dean"

"Well, what, then?"

"Look... we might have to wrap our heads around the idea that Bobby might not just bounce back this time" There is pause before Sam looks at the envelope "What's in the envelope?"

"Went to radiology" Dean opens the envelope and pulls out the contents "Got some glamour shots" He hands Sam the contents of the envelope, a chest x-ray with strange writing on the ribs. "Let's just say the doctors are baffled"

Sam examines the writing, which is in Enochian "Holy crap"

"Yeah, well, Cas carved you one, too"

Sam's phone rings and he answers it "Hello? ...Castiel?"

"Speak of the devil"

"Ah, St. Martin's hospital. Why? What are you – Cas?" Sam hangs up. Suddenly, Cas walks past some passersby and stops at Dean and Sam's side.

"Cell phone, Cas? Really? Since when do angels need to reach out and touch someone?" Dean asks her.

"You're hidden from angels now – all angels. I won't be able to simply—"

"Enough foreplay" Dean, Sam and Castiel look over at Bobby. "Get over here and lay your damn hands on" No one moves. Bobby looks over his shoulder. "Get healing. Now"

"I can't" Bobby turns his chair to face Castiel.

"Say again?" Castiel walks up to Bobby. "I'm cut off from heaven and much of heaven's power. Certain things I can do. Certain things I can't" Cas explains.

"You're telling me you lost your mojo just in time to get me stuck in this trap the rest of my life?"

"I'm sorry"

"Shove it up your ass" Bobby turns back to the window. Dean turns to Sam "At least he's talking now"

"I heard that"

Castiel walks back over to Dean and Sam. "I don't have much time. We need to talk"

"okay"

"You're plan to kill Lucifer"

"Yeah. You want to help?" Dean asks her.

"No. it's foolish. It can't be done"

"Oh. Thanks for the support" Dean tells her sarcastically.

"But I believe I have the solution. There is someone besides Michael strong enough to take on Lucifer. Strong enough to stop the apocalypse" Cas tells them.

"Who's that?" Sam asks.

"The one who resurrected me and put you on that airplane. The one who began everything. God" Sam and Dean look skeptical "I'm gonna find god"

**********

Dean closes the hospital room door and turns back to Castiel. "God?"

"Yes"

"God"

"Yes! He isn't in heaven. He has to be somewhere"

"Try New Mexico. I hear he's on a tortilla" Dean jokes.

"No, he's not on any flatbread" Cas doesn't get the joke.

"Listen, Chuckles, even if there is a god, he is either dead – and that's the generous theory—"

"He is out there, Dean"

"—Or he's up and kicking and doesn't give a rat's ass about any of us" Dean continues. "I mean, look around you. The world is in the toilet. We are literally at the end of days here, and he's off somewhere drinking booze out of a coconut. All right?"

"Enough." Cas had enough "This is not a theological issue. It's strategic. With god's help, we can win"

"It's a pipe dream, Cas"

Castiel advances on Dean, "I killed two angels this week. My brothers. I'm hunted. I rebelled. And I did it, all of it, for you, and you failed. You and your brother destroyed the world—" Sam looks down guilty "—And I lost everything, for nothing. So keep your opinions to yourself"

"You didn't drop in just to tear us a new hole. What is it you want?" Bobby asks.

"I did come for something. An amulet"

"An amulet? What kind?"

"Very rare. Very powerful. It burns hot in God's presence. It'll help me find him" Cas explains.

"A god EMF?" Sam asks. Castiel nods.

"Well, I don't know what you're talking about. I got nothing like that" Bobby tells her.

"I know. You don't" Castiel looks at Dean, then drops her gaze to Dean's amulet, and back up.

"What, this?" Dean asks.

"May I borrow it?"

"no"

"Dean. Give it to me" Dean is silent, realizing Castiel is serious, then thinking it over. He takes off the amulet. "All right, I guess" Dean holds it out, then pulls back when Castile reaches for it. "Don't lose it" Castiel takes it.

"Great now I feel naked"

"I'll be in touch" Dean nods, then glances at Sam, then back. Castiel is gone. Sam sighs.

"When you find God, tell him to send legs!"

**********

Street – Day

Dean holds on to war. Sam draws Ruby's knife. "Whoa. Okay, that's a sweet little knife. But come on. You can't kill war, kiddos"

"Oh, we know" Sam slams war's right hand against the Mustang and cuts all four fingers off. The ring clinks on the pavement.

**********

Mountain Rest Area – Day

Sam walks over to the impala, grabs his backpack out of the back seat, and walks over to the pickup truck parked nearby. He says something inaudible to the driver and gets in the passenger side. The truck drives off. Dean watches it go.