part I part VIII (previous)
He entered the bedroom as Dean's dom, collected and completely put together, calm, even though he wanted to grab the man at his neck again and throw him into something for being dumb enough to take Castiel for a fool. Instead he tossed the well used pair of handcuffs at the naked figure kneeling next to the bed, watches him catch them single-handed. There was a short, slightly confused glance upwards that made Castiel's eyes harden as he nodded a single time. Dean scrambled to is feet, a second later he was on the bed, fumbling to wrap the cuffs around the bar at the headboard, clicking them shut around both wrists. Eager, but it didn't impress Castiel anymore, he didn't let it impress him, even as a familiar warmth floods his chest.
Now was not the time for pride. It was time to take out his gun and set it down on the bedside table, a silent threat, a stern warning. Dean's gaze shot up again, this time not just slightly confused, but Castiel ignored it as he settled down on the bed right next to his sub, not touching him. Just waiting a few moment until the realization hit that this was not a scene by all means.
"Cas, what's the-" "Your assignment's still active. You are still active." A few minutes of silence again until Dean's brows twitched and he groaned. "Course I am! Told them I'd try and infiltrate your circle, find out who you're working with, where your hideouts are. Needed more time after our first encounter, more time and a heart still beatin' to get near you! You think I wanted them after me, too?" "I guess you expect me to believe you..." His answer was immediate and he got up slowly, reached for the gun, not intending to kill Dean right away. There was more to this, to him and that brother of his who'd vanished from the archives. However the situation at hand needed to be dealt with and he wasn't yet sure what exactly the right course of action would be.
"For the record: I don't. Not a word. I think you've lied to me all this time. They'd never let someone who failed their job as miserably as you did work on something the like. You've been set up for this from the start, am I right? Oh you're good, so much better than you acted the first time we met. Of course, part of the plan. Should've just killed you right in that alley."
Castiel started pacing, the gun clutched tightly at his side to keep his fingers from trembling. "I also think there's no Sam Winchester. You wanted to lead me right into a trap, correct? But why not just - ohhh." Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks and spun around to look at Dean, still naked and chained to the bed, intently listening to the words of his almost-partner, blinking lazily. "They don't want me dead."
For a second he just stared at the other man, thoughts racing. Then he stormed out of the bedroom, threw the door shut behind him, ignored the voice calling "Wait Cas, I can ... Cas, where're you going?" The number was dialed as soon as he held the phone in his hand. Four or five times the free-line signal beeped, made him more and more nervous each time until he was pacing again, up and down the short corridor, then into the living room where he threw the gun aside and pulled the laptop out.
"Cassie, what's the matter?", Balthazar sounded surprised and a little worried, never getting called by his cousin in the evenings. "They know about the chip. Dean's set up to infiltrate my circle and lure me into a trap, they don't want me dead, they want the chip back." Cramming the small phone between ear and shoulder he logged onto his computer and opened a program. "Wait, slow down. First: Told you he's a bastard. Second: What chip?" With just a few hot keys a list was loading, consisting of ten names with matching e-mail addresses, Gabriel, Meg and Balthazar among them. He pressed enter, sending ten identical e-mails out to the people on his list, e-mails written while he'd done his last big job, the one that earned him ten million dollars. E-mails to let his former partners know something crucial had come up.
"The microchip I copied all the hidden files onto. Our backup." His voice was hushed now. If Dean didn't already know about the single most valuable object on the planet, he didn't need to learn about it this way. "I just sent e-mails out to everyone but I got a favour to ask you." "Anything, Cassie." Castiel took a breath, fingers shaking again. "For now we have an insider, I have no idea how much he knows, I'll find out about it. But come time, you have to kill him for me."













