Who's Cas?

Chapter 4

"Really?" Cas looked around him, "this doesn't look like heaven."

"No, we're not in heaven."

"But earth would have been destroyed."

"Yeah, the apocalypse didn't really play out as planned. But hey, we saved earth. The vessels tricked both Michael and Lucifer back in the cage, they're gone."

"So who are you? I can't see you past your vessel."

"Yes well, that's kind of the point. How do you think I've gone undiscovered for so long?" Cas tilted his head and Gabriel sighed, "your favourite brother."

"Gabriel?" Cas stopped tilting his head after he said it. It finally clicked with him on who he was talking to, "Gabriel."

"I knew you were lying when you said Balthazar was your favourite," Gabriel smirked. Cas just sat there frozen, staring up at him now, "yeah, that's why I didn't tell you right away." Cas didn't look like he was listening, his eyes searched Gabriel to see if he was lying,

"This is a trick," he said,

"Nope, this is not a trick. Trust me, I tell much more believable lies."

"And this place? Where are we?"

"In a house, don't you see?" Cas rolled his eyes,

"Where?"

"On earth, I don't know. I popped in to help you, this is your friend's house not mine."

"I made friends with humans?"

"Oh yeah, this is Bobby's house." Cas looked around the cluttered space. The old wallpaper was peeling from the walls, the shelves were covered with books and old papers. The desk by the fireplace was littered with open books about witchcraft and angel lore and the whole place had quite an oily smell. A whiskey glass sat in the only small space of the desk between books with a small lick of alcohol sitting in the bottom. Through the doorway Cas saw there was a kitchen and through the window he saw the salvage yard, not that he understood what it was. He wasn't scared by these surroundings, just confused. The last he saw of the humans, they were living in smaller houses and did not have such an extent of books and knowledge, nor did they have cars so the salvage yard made no sense to him. He looked back at Gabriel,

"Was that who was just in here? Bobby?"

"Yeah," Gabriel smiled, glad Cas was starting to understand, "hey Bobby, come introduce yourself." The older man walked in and leaned against the desk next to them,

"He caught up?" Bobby questioned Gabriel,

"More or less." Dean wandered in not long after Bobby with Sam, both stayed closer to the door to not impose. "That's biggie small. He's big, he's small." Gabriel pointed them out,

"Really?" Dean looked at Gabriel, drooping his eyelids exasperatedly,

"Well that's how I tell you apart." Cas sighed too. Now was not the time. He needed to know all the details, "alright they are, the one, the only, Sam and Dean Winchester. Always there to spoil the fun. Grown up you is no fun either, you fit right in."

"I wonder why." Cas turned to Gabriel with a meaningful look,

"How is that my fault?!" Gabriel said with his arms out,

"Without you, there is just Michael and Raphael."

"Yeah but- you know," Gabriel sighed, folding his arms, "whatever. They're friends of yours. You pulled Dean out of hell."

"I pulled him from hell?" Cas searched his memory for any clues to why he would, Gabriel nodded at him. "The righteous man. Dean is Michael's vessel?"