“This is your heaven, isn’t it?” Amy smiled as she walked towards Castiel, who just hummed, obviously content in this calm environment.

“Not really,” he answered a few seconds later. “I’m just borrowing it.” He breathed in deeply, savoring the fresh air of an afternoon in spring.

“It’s beautiful, Cas.” She took his hand, giving it a light squeeze. “I could spend a lifetime here.”

“Yes.” He turned around so that he was facing her, smiling lightly, like he was truly happy. “I’ve been running for a long time now, but this seems like a nice place to stay.”

“It might get a bit lonely,” Amy said, still holding his hand tightly in hers. “Time to go back home to the boys, don’t you think?”

Castiel gave her a sad nod, taking in another deep breath and then they were gone. The world was quiet there, an eternal spring, but that wasn’t what he needed. At least not yet.

I’ve been on my own here a long long time. I’ve had decades to think nice thoughts about you, the angel with the overcoat. Got a bit harder to stay charitable once I entered decade four.

After he had seen how bitter and angry she had grown in Appalachia, he regretted it, thinking that he and the hunting were the reason she became that way.

“What happened to you?” The Doctor’s question hovered between them, Dean just staring at the time lord and his two companions. “Dean. Please. What happened?”

“You didn’t come in time,” he answered, his voice rough from too many nights without sleep and too many nightmares during those few hours he actually was able to close his eyes.

“But I’m here now. I can still fix this. Where is Sam?” When Dean didn’t reply, the Doctor turned around, eyes searching and finally finding Castiel standing among the small group that had gathered around them. “Where is he?”

Castiel just smiled at him, too far gone into his own personal oblivion to register anything that was happening around him.

“Sam is gone, Doctor,” Dean said, rejection in his voice. “And you should leave, too. We don’t need you here. You wanted to save us and lost your chance, just like you lost my trust. I am going to save myself now.”

He turned around, walking back to his car. “Get back into your blue box and explore the universe, but don’t come back here or I swear, I will kill you. You gave me a promise and you broke it. You failed to save me, you failed to save Cas. You failed to save my brother. I’d rather die than accept your help.”

What does this mean? The image of an angel becomes itself an angel?