So then the question isssss, why is Dad gone? Maybe he is already in hell, by the time this happens. Maybe that's why Cas is in trouble with the feds, because he is going kind of crazy trying to find him. And when Cas and Anna find out Dad is in hell, Cas freaks out and Anna is just shocked. So then the question becomes, why is Dad in hell? Because I'm pretty sure he didn't die, he got taken there. And there is no loophole to get Dad out of this deal with the devil, no way to trick the devil because you can't prank the original prankster. So Cas decides to be direct and just go down to hell himself to find him. Obviously Anna thinks this is a terrible idea.
The fic wherein Cas goes to hell is going to be rife with Orpheus parallels. In the final moment where Cas fucks up, and his dad is pulled back, and Cas is about to be pulled in too, or throw himself in after his dad (because if he cannot save his father, then he does not deserve to live anyway), that's when Dean grips him tight and raises him from perdition.
So, back in the world, fresh after the rescue, Cas is throwing a fit about Dean not saving his father. But Dean says, "Your dad chose this." And Cas says, "I choose my father." And Dean says, "That's now how it works, buddy." And then Dean says, "Call your sister, she's worried sick," and then the angel disappears.
Anna's voice in his ear is shaky and sharp: "Cas!"
Like an echo: "Anna."
"Cas, are you okay?"
But Cas's eyes are full of the image of his father being pulled back into the darkness of the flames, and he cannot say yes.
The first time Dean meets Anna, he puts on his Dazzling Smile (TM) and lays on some cheesy flirty line. Anna is just like, "...Is that how angels say hello?" And Dean says, "It's how I say hello." Dean just hits all over this family, basically.
Also, in some later episode, Cas is being volatile about something (perhaps he is exercising thinking for himself in sad and destructive ways), and Anna and Dean are talking to each other about trying to stop him, and Anna says, "What makes you think you can stop him, if I couldn't?"
"You're his sister," Dean says. "He's too used to saying no to you."
There's something heavy in Dean's voice when he says it, a weight Anna has not heard from him before.
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The fic wherein Cas goes to hell is going to be rife with Orpheus parallels. In the final moment where Cas fucks up, and his dad is pulled back, and Cas is about to be pulled in too, or throw himself in after his dad (because if he cannot save his father, then he does not deserve to live anyway), that's when Dean grips him tight and raises him from perdition.
So, back in the world, fresh after the rescue, Cas is throwing a fit about Dean not saving his father. But Dean says, "Your dad chose this." And Cas says, "I choose my father." And Dean says, "That's now how it works, buddy." And then Dean says, "Call your sister, she's worried sick," and then the angel disappears.
Anna's voice in his ear is shaky and sharp: "Cas!"
Like an echo: "Anna."
"Cas, are you okay?"
But Cas's eyes are full of the image of his father being pulled back into the darkness of the flames, and he cannot say yes.
The first time Dean meets Anna, he puts on his Dazzling Smile (TM) and lays on some cheesy flirty line. Anna is just like, "...Is that how angels say hello?" And Dean says, "It's how I say hello." Dean just hits all over this family, basically.
Also, in some later episode, Cas is being volatile about something (perhaps he is exercising thinking for himself in sad and destructive ways), and Anna and Dean are talking to each other about trying to stop him, and Anna says, "What makes you think you can stop him, if I couldn't?"
"You're his sister," Dean says. "He's too used to saying no to you."
There's something heavy in Dean's voice when he says it, a weight Anna has not heard from him before.