[ Eyebrows raise and green eyes widen. Disappointment is inevitable, but mostly he doesn't know what to do with that information. It's complicated in ways that start to thread panic through him. God he's not strong enough and he knows it, but he's pushing himself upright anyway and walking the distance between them. ]
What do you mean you don't have your powers right now?
[ Last time Dean watched a Cas lose his powers... the result of that is the ex-angel somewhere in the house. Broken in ways that nobody can fix. Dean knows he never held a hand out to help him up from the mud, knows that he looked away one too many times until all that Cas knew to reach for was numbness in the bottom of a bottle - alcohol or drugs. Sex. He couldn't miss whose coping mechanism Cas had learned if he tried.
His throat is still dry, too scratchy with flu and he turns his head to cough against a balled up fist, breath catching awkwardly in the back of this throat before he turns his gaze back on familiar blue eyes. Something occurs to him belatedly. ]
Did you walk here?
[ The idea of Cas powerless and walking through the town just because Dean had asked him to show up makes his skin prickle with guilt. ]
cw: mention of substance abuse
What do you mean you don't have your powers right now?
[ Last time Dean watched a Cas lose his powers... the result of that is the ex-angel somewhere in the house. Broken in ways that nobody can fix. Dean knows he never held a hand out to help him up from the mud, knows that he looked away one too many times until all that Cas knew to reach for was numbness in the bottom of a bottle - alcohol or drugs. Sex. He couldn't miss whose coping mechanism Cas had learned if he tried.
His throat is still dry, too scratchy with flu and he turns his head to cough against a balled up fist, breath catching awkwardly in the back of this throat before he turns his gaze back on familiar blue eyes. Something occurs to him belatedly. ]
Did you walk here?
[ The idea of Cas powerless and walking through the town just because Dean had asked him to show up makes his skin prickle with guilt. ]