One moment he's kissing Dean and it's perfect and the next, Dean is pulling his hair so tight that it's painful. He starts to struggle, but then Dean's words sink in.

His heart sinks and tears start to build up in his eyes. He tells himself that they're from the pain in his scalp and not from Dean's words, true as they are. Dean won't be coming back, because it takes magic to make Dean want to be here at all and some awful part of him is disappointed that he hadn't just taken advantage of that.

"Please..."

And that's when Dean's face transforms.

Castiel closes his eyes and waits for the thing to devour him and then suddenly he's gasping awake.

"Dean--"