Destiel Moments - Supernatural

Forgive & Forget

12x10 (There are too many Destiel moments in this episode, but I liked the end)

"Cas?" Said angel heard, and he groaned in pain, turning to his best friend. "Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Cas replied. "And Ishim is fully recovered."

"Yeah. Okay." Dean looked off, looking for the said angel. "Uh, maybe wish you hadn't had done that just yet."

"Wait, why?"

"This Lily chick? Says that her daughter was human. I think Ishim... I think he's playing you." Cas couldn't believe it. Over a hundred years, and he didn't know this.

"You're back." The interruption was sudden. Ishim had come out of nowhere. "So what's new?" Ishim tilted his head, as though he hadn't just heard everything Dean said.

"Is it..." Cas tried to stand, struggling, and Dean stood and helped him. "Is it true, Ishim?"

"Is what true?"

"Lily Sunder's daughter, was she human?"

"Who told you that?"

"She did," Dean responded. "Said you were pretty obsessed."

"Well, she's a liar." Dean hated the look on his face. The look of mock confusion, pretending as though he hadn't murdered an innocent little girl.

"Why would she lie?" Cas asked.

"She's human," Ishim responded, as though it were the most obvious answer ever. "It's kinda what they do." And it's not like Dean could exactly take offense to that.

"Well, if she's a liar, she's pretty good at it," Dean informed. "You, on the other hand, kind of suck."

Ishim inhaled deeply through his nose. "Who are you gonna believe?" He rounded on Cas. "Your brother, or some filthy ape; who's always talking down to you, mocking you..."

"You know, Cas and I might not agree all the time, but at least he knows who his real friends are." Dean saw Cas's glance-back in his peripheral vision. The hunter and angel had been fighting over nothing, Dean realized. Cas turned back to Ishim.

"Why do his words bother you so much, Ishim?"

"Who is he to question my choices?" Ishim replied. "Who is he to question yours?"

"Well, it seems that some of my choices may need to be questioned," Cas got right up close to Ishim. "Now tell me. The girl-- was she human?"

"Oh, you're not gonna like the answer." And that's what set Dean off. He pulled out his angel-blade, but before he could do anything, Ishim threw him back into the wall. Cas tried to swing at him, but Ishim ducked and socked Cas in the jaw. Dean watched as Cas fell back onto the church's pew, bleeding.

"I used to envy you, Castiel. You believe that?" Ishim asked, picking up the bleeding angel by the collar. He punched Cas again. Cas slammed their foreheads together, and Ishim only got more pissed. "You survived Hell. You were chosen by God." Another punch. "But now look at you. You're just sad and pathetically weak." He punched Cas again before throwing him down onto the pew. his eyes were slightly glazed over as his head dipped. "So now... I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna cure you of your human weakness. Same way I cured my own--" An Angel-blade slid out of his sleeve. "By cutting it out."

Cas's eyes were dangerously close to closing, and Dean couldn't bear to let him die. He had been drawing an angel-blasting sigil on the wall, hoping he could send Ishim away without hurting Cas. 

"Don't move," Dean commanded, showing off the sigil, his hand barely hovering over it.

"Do it," Ishim said. "You blast me away, you'll blast away every angel in the room. I'll survive. Castiel, on the other hand, he's hurt." Dean knew where this was going. Cas had managed to turn his head the other way to look at Dean. Behind all that usual self-sacrifice you-gotta-do-it-Dean, Dean saw the pain in Cas's eyes. The Terror. He was scared.  "He might live, or he might just end up a bloody smear on the wall. Roll the dice."

Dean had already made up his mind. He moved his hand away from the wall slowly.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." Dean hated the smug look on Ishim's face. He wanted nothing more than to thrust his blade through the angel's chest to wipe it off.

"Ishim! No." It was Lily, and Sam was behind her.

"Hello, my love." Ishim greeted, and they began fighting, Ishim completely forgetting about Dean, for the time being. Sam ran over to Dean.

"Hey, hey; I thought you were supposed to keep her out of this," Dean stated.

"Yeah, I changed my mind," Sam stated.

"Good call."

The brothers watched the two rivals as they dueled, but Ishim gained the upper hand.

"All right, Plan B, come on." Sam pulled Dean up. They both ran forward with their angel blades and slashed at Ishim's arm and leg while his back was turned before they were both thrown back again.

"It's over," Ishim told Lily, twirling his blade.

"No." She stated, taking off her eyepatch and revealing the milky-white eye underneath. "I will never be powerless again." And using, whatever power she had, she telekinetically pushed Isham against the wall behind him.

"You can't hold me here forever," Ishim stated, with a dark undertone. He began to fight whatever spell was activated and started moving back toward Lily again. Right before he reached her, an angel blade was thrust through his chest, and he died in a magnificent shower of light. His wings scorched onto the floor under him.

Cas was right behind him. Cas had done it. He fell to his knees, bleeding and broken. "You held him for long enough." He told her. And Dean scrambled up and ran toward his angel before he fell any further.

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"All right, so, uh... What now?" Sam asked, heading towards Dean and Cas. The pair were off to the side, Cas sitting on a pew and Dean standing a little too overprotectively behind him. Lily was inspecting the corpse with tears in her eyes.

"He's dead," Dean added. "Are you done?" She turned around.

"Revenge is all I've had for over a hundred years." She stated. "It's what I am."

"Wrong answer," Dean shouted. The last thing he needed was for her to hurt Cas now. Now, after Dean had forgiven him, and hadn't gotten to tell him. "You're done."

"Dean," Cas reprimanded. The hunter shut up, turning instead to the angel, waiting for him to continue. "I'm sorry. I was wrong. And... while it's true that I didn't know we were killing an innocent, ignorance is no excuse." Dean realized that Cas is actually really good at apologies. And, also, he doesn't make eye contact while doing so. He looks up between words and phrases to try to process how you're feeling but mostly avoids your eyes.

Lily came close to crying. Cas stood, and continued. "I really can't imagine the depths of your loss. This was your child. I can't envision the pain. So if you leave here, and you find that you can't forgive me... I'll be waiting."

"Thank you." And Lily left.