Seeing how Castiel's first priority had simply been to get away from Gabriel, he hadn't put much thought into where to go next. Part of that was because it was obvious. Having seen Dean and Gabriel already, Sam was the only one left. He realized that it might be fruitless to visit the younger Winchester, and yet he still had hope that he would be able to get through to Sam where he had seemingly failed with Dean.
Perhaps, if Sam wasn't distracted by a girl the way Dean had been--
That, however, did not turn out to be the case. He landed in a room again, removing his hand from Orihara as usual -- and yet the sight he took in with the aid of his flashlight was more or less the last thing that Castiel could have expected.
Ruby, who had gotten Sam addicted to demon blood and led them all to the cataclysmic end point of releasing Lucifer, was standing there and speaking with Sam like she hadn't died nearly a year ago on that fateful night. It was true that Castiel had not been present for her death, but Dean had told him about it later -- about how he'd plunged a demon-killing knife right between her vessel's ribs.
Both of them seemed far too comfortable with the situation, which was hard for Castiel to reconcile as he stood there, Orihara forgotten for at least the moment, and stared the human and demon down. He felt his small amount of Grace repelling against Ruby's presence and his whole body had tensed without him realizing it.
He needed to tell Sam that he was practically lying with the devil by conversing with Ruby, needed to stop her from spinning her webs of lies, needed to somehow prevent this from falling completely out of control again. He could think about why Ruby was alive later.
And so he advanced on her, not certain of what he was going to do and yet propelled by anger. "You."
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Seeing how Castiel's first priority had simply been to get away from Gabriel, he hadn't put much thought into where to go next. Part of that was because it was obvious. Having seen Dean and Gabriel already, Sam was the only one left. He realized that it might be fruitless to visit the younger Winchester, and yet he still had hope that he would be able to get through to Sam where he had seemingly failed with Dean.
Perhaps, if Sam wasn't distracted by a girl the way Dean had been--
That, however, did not turn out to be the case. He landed in a room again, removing his hand from Orihara as usual -- and yet the sight he took in with the aid of his flashlight was more or less the last thing that Castiel could have expected.
Ruby, who had gotten Sam addicted to demon blood and led them all to the cataclysmic end point of releasing Lucifer, was standing there and speaking with Sam like she hadn't died nearly a year ago on that fateful night. It was true that Castiel had not been present for her death, but Dean had told him about it later -- about how he'd plunged a demon-killing knife right between her vessel's ribs.
Both of them seemed far too comfortable with the situation, which was hard for Castiel to reconcile as he stood there, Orihara forgotten for at least the moment, and stared the human and demon down. He felt his small amount of Grace repelling against Ruby's presence and his whole body had tensed without him realizing it.
He needed to tell Sam that he was practically lying with the devil by conversing with Ruby, needed to stop her from spinning her webs of lies, needed to somehow prevent this from falling completely out of control again. He could think about why Ruby was alive later.
And so he advanced on her, not certain of what he was going to do and yet propelled by anger. "You."