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Person A: *bursts into the room* "Oh my god—B! I'm here, I’m here, you're okay now—"
Person B: *flinching at the sound, trying to craw back* "Don't touch me-please-"
Person A: *freezes, hands raised* "It’s me. Just me. No one’s going to hurt you anymore."
Person B: *voice shaking* "They said you wouldn't come. That you'd forgotten me. I-I believed them."
Person A: *kneeling slowly, tears in their eyes* "I would tear the world apart before I'd let that happen. I'm sorry it took me so long."
Person B: *finally looking at A, eyes glassy* "I kept calling for you. I thought—I thought if I screamed loud enough, you’d hear me."
Person A: *voice cracking* "I did. I heard you. Every second you were gone, I felt it. I swear."
Person B: *whispers* "It hurts."
Person A: *gently, reaching forward* "I know. Let me help. Please. Just let me hold you."
Person B: *collapsing into A's arms* "Don’t let go."
Person A:*holding them tightly, as though the world.* "Never."
Jack: Today’s question is, how do you deal with a crush?
Sam, Cas, Gabe, Dean: *facepalm* not again
Jack: yes again. So dads, what do you do when you have a crush?
Sam, takes the lead to do a little teaching of good values and crap: well, Jack, what I try to do is understand my feelings before I talk to them, and when I do approach them, I am always respectful and mindful of their wishes and I tell them how I feel and compliment them -
Dean, snickering: yeah, right
Sam: Shut up Dean.
Dean: why you gotta lie to the kid, Sammy? We all know that when you have a crush, you get as far away from the person as you can, otherwise they’d start liking you back and then you two’d end up banging and ta-da, they’re dead
Sam: …I hate you
Dean: *shrugs*
Jack, nodding and absorbing: what about you, Dean?
Dean, promptly: Well what you gotta do is judge if they’re in your league or not
Jack: if they are?
Dean: you put on the charm. Remember the blue-steel I showed you once?
Jack: the face I caught you practising in the mirror and you begged me to forget, but I never did?
Dean: yeah that’s the one
Jack: and what if they aren’t in my league?
Dean: you wait for the crush to go away
Jack, nodding: how long does that take?
Dean: depends on a lot of factors. Could be a week, or could be -
Sam, interrupting with a smirk: 10 years, inclusive of time spent in other realms such as purgatory
Jack: that LONG?
Sam, smirking wider as Dean goes red: oh yeah Jack, 10 years and running
Jack, nodding and accepting: I see. What about you, Castiel?
Cas: I…*thinks about raising Dean from hell, rebelling, fighting his garrison, falling from grace, disobeying Naomi, disobeying direct orders from Heaven, choosing him over an entire army, annoying a cosmic being enough to be brought back, healing every little bruise on his perfect face* I believe in grand gestures, Jack
Dean: *narrowing his eyes*
Sam, feeling pity for his brother: No Cas, you don’t. You’re a deathbed-confession guy
Cas: oh yes. That.
Jack, nodding: cool.
Cas, wistfully: but that didn’t work either so I don’t know if anything ever will.
Jack: why don’t you try doing something he likes with him?
Cas, touchy about the topic: You mean, like, cowboy around with him with a hat? Dress up as a medical practitioner to satisfy his kinks?
Dean, growing suspicious: that’s weirdly specific Cas
Cas: I can’t eVEN
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Jack: what about you, uncle Gabe? What do you do when you have a crush?
Gabriel, thinking about all the weird shit he’s done to Sam, ranging from killing his brother 104 times in a day to picking his side over the rest of his family’s, from giving him genital herpes to making him suffer in Nutcracker, and so on and so forth: heh
Jack: what?
Gabriel: …archangels don’t get crushes hehe
Jack, nodding: okay thanks
*in another corner of the room*
Dean and Cas, at the same time: its okay Sam - NO - DON’T try to strangle yourself it’s fine he’s just dodging the question - nO SAM don’t try to strangle him either - sAM you’re scaring us now please start b r e a t h i n g