Anna x Castiel
Castiel watched as the Angels took Anna away to prison. He had handed over many Fallen Angels to the Garason, but watching Anna vanish made him feel something. The look on Anna’s face when he had betrayed her, it was an emotion that he had never seen before. He was an angel, he wasn’t supposed to care about anyone. He was a solider, not a civilian.
“I’m sorry,” Castiel wanted to say but the words came out too late. After everything that he had been through with Anna this was the thanks he gave her. It was sickening. If he were to fall he would fall for her. Letting out a long sigh Castiel turned around and gripped the railings that stood firm behind him. He had refused Anna when she needed him most. Now he was paying the price: falling from grace. He knew then that he had two options. Castiel decided disobedience.
Adversaries
It is difficult to describe what Heaven is like. There are individual human heavens, of course, but underneath all of those is something else. The place where angels lived before humanity, before The Fall. To put it into terms that human senses would understand is impossible. But if Castiel were asked to, the first word he would reach for is “bright”.
The hospital room is very bright, the light of humming flourescent bulbs relfecting off the white walls and furnishings, but it’s very far removed from Heaven. Not as far as Hell, of course, though for Castiel it’s getting there.
Castiel stands by the window, looking out at the world where hundreds of people died by his hand, and who knows how many more were killed by leviathans. Where Sam and Dean are, somewhere, dealing with his mess alone. Castiel wishes he could do more to help them.
Uriel joins him. For a moment Castiel allows his guilt to slip to the back of his mind, and instead imagines that he’s back in the old days. The days before the Winchesters, when he was stationed on earth with the brothers he misses, simply watching. It’s pleasant, for a short while. Then Uriel speaks. “This all could have been avoided, you know. If you had joined me when I asked.”
Castiel smirks. “You must be running low on ideas. That is one decision for which I have absolutely no regret.”
“Is it?” Uriel cocks his head, giving Castiel a quizzical look. “But the Apocalypse would have been so much more effective at bringing about peace on earth than your own messy, ineffectual attempt.”
Castiel tenses.
“Surely you recognized humanity for the worthless, caniblaistic scum that it is,” Uriel continues, the rich melody of his voice contrasting with the ugliness of his words. “Isn’t that why you killed so many of them?”
Now Castiel recognizes the game that his brother is playing; it has become familiar to him over the past weeks. “I won’t defend myself,” he says grimly. “Suffice to say, I still despise all that Lucifer stood for.”
“That hurts my feelings, bro.” Lucifer is standing where Uriel was.
http://haruslex.dreamwidth.org/19471.html
Title: Together Again
Characters: Castiel & Anna
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1000
Summary: Michael scattered Anna across the universe. Castiel puts her back together.
