plotted starter | @qapsiel
"Okay!" Chuck's slightly high, upbeat voice filled the hall as he walked and scribbled against a clipboard. "We'll say â fifth time's the charm? Castiel number five, I should- I should write... that... down," his steps slowed as he annotated that at the top of the paper and then resumed his brisk pace, "perfect. No discernible defects upon dissection and reassembly of the first four Castiels, so I am continuing my investigation with number five from-" he flipped up a page and squinted. "... I need a better naming system for my parallel universes. B90? What is- nevermind, it's not important. What is important,"
Sneakers turned down a separate hallway as he kept reading, "is finding out the how and why you pesky little Seraphs keep ending up as stars in my stories. And why, every time I don't rebuild you, a real main character gets all. Mopey. And suicidal. It slows everything down, it's annoying. I know I gave him a horrible life, but he got over everything else before you came along? That's- that's another matter, I'll dissect Dean later, right now, we're focusing on you, Castiel number 5, from universe B90. And you should be right... where..." Chuck slowed to a halt as a pair of all but melted doors greeted his eyes above the clipboard. It looked as if a meteor had crashed through them from the other side, and the celestial alloy operating table? Empty. The first four iterations must have weakened the Enochian restraints that dangled broken and useless off the side.
Another case was behind them, and all Dean wanted to do was close his eyes. Hell, he was half tempted to ask Cas to drive. Almost home, he told himself. They'd get to the bunker, he could shower the blood off, and it would all be-
Blinding blue-white light filled their world, and touched down in the center of the road ahead. Dean's eyes went wide as he slammed the brakes, and he threw an instinctive arm over Castiel's chest to protect him from the sudden halt in momentum. The car was still moving when the source of the light swelled. He caught sight of a head and elongated limbs before what looked like rings of energy expanded from it. Volatile and frenetic in their haste to grow, and the path they carved filled the night air with a sound that may as well have been that of a train derailing â it manifested the same promise that whatever the fallout would be, his human body couldn't take it. But he swore, in that second and a half, that a massive, spectral pair of wings fanned behind the anomaly, and those blue-white rings had eyes.
"What the FUCK is THAT!?" His hand left the angel's coat to spin the wheel and send the Impala's tires screaming to the left until they faced the other direction. The moment he switched gears, the light and rings were gone. Dean's ears were still ringing, but there was no sign of it. "... Cas, what the hell?" The hunter's head snapped around at the sound of birds scattering in the forest to their right. Even from what had to be a great distance, he could pick out a muted blue-white glow from within. The car was rolled at least off the road before the engine was killed and the door was pushed open. "What are the chances that," he threw up a hand as his mouth dipped into a comical frown, "that's all fine, and we don't have to do something about it, huh? Give me the over-under."