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There's a tearful but proud smile on Cas' lips as he grips Dean's shoulder and says, "Goodbye, Dean," as if these are the last words Dean is supposed to hear from him. Heavy, poignant, definitive.
After all of… everything he just told Dean?
Oh, hell, no.
Dean jostles himself out of his daze to make a split-second decision. Digs his heels in, loops his right arm around Cas' middle and tackles him like this is a rugby game; dislodges him completely as dark, gooey tentacle-y extensions shoot out of the portal and over their heads.
They stumble and fall and watch as Billie is wrapped up in black ooze. The portal pulses as it swallows her, and then it vanishes.
Cas sits on the floor, his back against one of the shelves, one knee propped up, and stares at Dean with wide eyes.
"Now what?" Dean asks, on his knees in front of Cas, still breathless, wiping tears from his cheeks as he looks around, waiting for the Empty to notice its mistake and return to snatch Cas away from him, after all.
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'Inherit the Earth' but the Empty didn't take Cas… yet.