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Dean slapped away the poking digit.
Nobody was putting a finger in any of his orifices unless it was for pleasurable reasons, certainly not to take his temperature!
Then Castiel's personal hygiene wasn't to be trusted. He didn't shower or change his clothes, he just kind of laundered himself with his angel mojo.
What was this shit anyway? Dean wondered, still nauseous from all his puking. Smiting sickness?
According to Castiel, it was the angel equivalent of a nuke!
Whatever! Dean had never encountered it before and he'd been in the vicinity of plenty of angel meltdowns.
However, Castiel had volunteered to investigate the outcome of Amara's little fight, so that left Dean to get out of range of the blast and go round up his baby brother.
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"Sam, Sammy!" Dean's deep voice reverberated through the bunker as he stalked the rooms, their very emptiness causing a feeling of dread to fill him.
If Sam had gone off on one of his solo crusades without waiting for him, Dean was gonna shake the little shit until his girly hair curled into ringlets!
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"Crowley! Where's Sam?" he demanded over the phone, his tone holding none of the respect an ordinary human might have used while speaking to the King of Hell himself, but then Dean was no ordinary human. Humans didn't die and be resurrected over and over as both Winchesters had.
"Ringlets, it's gonna be!" Dean cursed as he absorbed Crowley's words and committed to memory the demon's instructions on how to get into Hell, complete with a singing password which, Dean growled, Crowley was all too happy to insist he'd have to perform to get through the door!
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The Impala ate up the miles as Dean launched her towards what Crowley had assured him was a hell-gate.
"Sammy was in Hell with Lucifer." The phrase repeated itself in his head as he drove, and the worry for his little brother increased.
Why, why why, did Sam have to launch himself into shark-filled waters without waiting for him? But even as he formulated the question, Dean already had the answer.
Sam was trying to keep him safe, preferring to sacrifice himself rather than put Dean in danger, but two could play at that game.
The next time his baby brother even hinted he was going to do something foolish, Dean would chain him up in their handy dungeon until he saw sense!
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At the Hell Gatekeeper's insistence, he warbled out the song feeling like a complete idiot. Couldn't the demon have chosen some Black Sabbath or Metallica, more in keeping with a demon's status than this?
What he was forced to do to save his brother! Dean grunted, rolling his eyes, as a handsome woman opened the door.
"My name's Billie," she offered and Dean immediately bristled. She was the reaper Sam had told him about.
"Sam told me you want to kill us." he deadpaned.
"Not particularly, " she replied. "I just want to make sure when you die, you stay dead!"
Dean bit back the retort on the tip of his tongue. He wasn't here to argue with a reaper.
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When Lucifer yanked him into the faux-Cage, Dean's eyes were all for Sam.
His brother was on the floor, blood staining his face. Dean's vision narrowed to include only Sam, rushing over to hold and comfort his sibling.
He knew he should feel fear at being in such close quarters with Lucifer but he didn't. All his attention was focused on his baby brother.
If this was going to be the Winchesters' last stand, Dean was okay with it.
All he'd ever hoped for was to go out alongside Sam, entwined together when death took them, and going by their current situation, it seemed that was exactly how it would go down. Unless of course, Crowley's witch collar worked and Rowena came through with the spell sending Lucifer back into the Cage
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All of the brothers' attention was focused on each other, so neither noticed Lucifer's private little session with Castiel.
The conclusion of Rowena's spell coincided with the exact moment of Castiel's incredible and unseen acceptance of Lucifer's request to use Jimmy Novak's body as a vessel, leaving the Winchesters unaware of what had happened.
Lucifer was free and had a vessel. But how long could Jimmy's body resist until Lucifer needed a new host?
Naturally, Lucifer would gravitate towards Sam, his perfect vessel, so if Dean believed his baby brother was out of danger from the devil, and only Amara was on their agenda, he'd have a rude awakening, and just maybe that dungeon would see some chained up Sammy action!
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The End