you don’t think you deserve to be saved.

I don’t know how to fix it.
You got to look at me, man. You got to level with me and tell me what’s going on.
You will report in to me regularly and you will never remember having done so
nothing you could have done could have saved me.

This is possibly the most heart-wrenching expression of the entire episode.
This is the face of someone who is scared to death because unknown angels took him from Purgatory without his consent. This is the face someone who is being told he’s revealing precious information about the Winchester’s mission to a complete stranger. This is the face of someone who is learning his memory is about to be wiped and can do nothing to prevent it. This is the face of someone who has been punishing himself over and over and over for his sins and is realizing he may be about to commit some more. This is the face of someone who knows he is not going to have any control in his repentance for those actions.
But most of all, this is the face of someone who is absolutely terrified, devastated to near tears, because he would’ve accepted living out the rest of his days in Purgatory rather than this-
This is the face of Castiel, finding out he could possibly betray the people he’s come to care about the most in the entire world.
For a second time.
So, what? I’m Thelma and you’re Louise, and we’re just going to hold hands and sail off this cliff together?
#castiel knows hundreds of languages #and thousands of ways to say any given thing #but i don’t think there was ever a word for him #that meant as much #as ‘dean’
I do everything that you ask. I always come when you call. And I am your friend, still, despite your lack of faith in me and now your treats. I just saved you, yet again. As anyone but your closest kin ever done more for you?
“Dean?”
#destiel #this part kills me #it will always kill me #because at this point Cas is holding back the Leviathans #he knows that he won’t be okay #and what does he do? #makes a promise to Dean #but it isn’t even that #it’s his FACE #he’s looking at Dean - for what he knows is possibly the last time - and you can just see him memorizing every little feature #the freckles - his nose - the way his hand is so soft on his arm #and Cas is just #in this moment #wants Dean Winchester to be the last thing he sees before he dies #AND I CAN’T

just think
you’re a cosmic being, as big as any human skyscraper and far superior to any of them, saddled with watching over this righteous man who is a complete pain and far below you
who would have predicted that in a few short years, you’d be lying in the mud screaming his name like it was the only word you knew?
