amwritingmeta reblogged
do you think when cas was first tasked with rescuing dean, he went back through time and watched who dean was and what made dean dean and along the way cas began to admire him? and on his way down to hell, cas went from admiring dean to reverence? when cas first sets eyes on dean’s soul, it becomes awe. when he puts dean’s body back together, he suddenly feels a devotion he can’t quite describe. It’s only when they’re back on earth, starting to deal with the apocalypse, that the devotion becomes loyalty. and somewhere along their journey, between saving the world and purgatory and movie nights, that loyalty becomes love