TEAM FREE WILL 2.0 FIRST AND LAST WORDS

• after castiel’s confession to a wooden dean and subsequent drag down to super mega uber hell or wherever he went, sam yeets dean into the passenger seat and they go on a drive bc he knows his brother needs to Process what just happened. they drive around aimlessly for a while and stop in the middle of nowhere. maybe a nice field 
• sam: are you okay? 
• dean: … he really loved me, didn’t he sammy?
• sam: i think he did yeah
• dean: i didn’t know he could do that 
• sam: me either, man. shit’s weird.
• dean: … 
• sam: dean?
• dean: we have some work to do
• the next few episodes look like typical monster-of-the-week shenanigans, except you keep getting glimpses of little side quests and shit, like dean and sam randomly acquiring and researching a ton of arcane magical nonsense and not mentioning what it’s for at all
• the dawn of the final episode: dean and sam open a portal to super uber mega hell. sam stays on earth to defend the portal and keep it open while dean heads in to find castiel, break him out, and drag him towards the entrance. whatever deity is lording over castiel tries to stop them. dean shoots it point-blank in the face with a winchester handgun loaded with an extra deadly bullet. he takes out its eye and drags castiel out of hell (nice throwback to castiel saving dean at some point i believe).
• in the process of saving castiel from super mega uber hell, he loses his grace/angelic nature. by the time dean and castiel make back to sam, castiel uses up the last of his grace to seal off the portal permanently. 
• dean: shit, cas, i - i’m sorry. you lost your grace, you - you lost it all. 
• castiel: dean, it’s okay.
• dean: how is it okay?! we went through all this trouble to save you and we couldn’t even do it right! you lost everything!
• castiel: not everything, dean
• castiel steps forward and puts a hand on dean’s face. dean closes his eyes and subconsciously leans into the touch
• castiel: i may be human now, but my mind - my heart - are still the same as they ever were. i still know you. i still -
• dean cuts him off with a kiss. sam reins in his brotherly teasing in this moment. does he take a picture for blackmail purposes? of course 
• cut to a montage of cas, dean, and sam travelling around the country and fighting monsters. we see sam’s wife (more than a faceless blur!) and her children; we see sam as a lawyer; we see dean and cas’s wedding, we see them settling down in their old age to run a car repair shop.
• dean is in bed. he is old. he does not look like he is wearing a spirit halloween costume. he closes his eyes. when he opens them, he is in a field. sam is standing there; it is implied that sam died first. sam and dean hug tightly. bobby (is that his name?) shows up and explains the new rules of heaven (which exist now apparently)
• dean: wait, where’s -
• the impala drives up from the distance. cas steps out of the driver’s seat. 
• castiel: this must be heaven, you’re letting me drive
• sam: can you all not be gross for five fucking minutes 
• they get in the car with bobby and sam in the back. castiel manages to wrestle the keys from dean. bobby points them in the direction of the little house where sam’s family is waiting. they drive off into the sunset. carry on my wayward son plays over the credits

how it should have ended