Actual Doctor: So What's Your Prognosis Dr. Novak?

Actual Doctor: So what's your prognosis Dr. Novak?

Doctor!Castiel: I'm glad you asked. The Other Mr. Winchester, Dean, is suffering from dumb bitch disease

Dean: I can hear you dumbass

Doctor!Castiel: Oh so your ears are working, just not your brain

Dean: Look at you, getting all uppity because you finally got to wear something new this DECADE

Doctor!Castiel: I have had dozens of wardrobe changes! Dozens!

Dean: Yeah, into other trenchcoats

Doctor!Castiel: That's it! Get out of my hospital!

Actual Doctor: This isn't your hospital Dr. Novak

Dean: Fine! I wouldn't be caught dead here!

Castiel: As if I'd let you die! I love you, you asshole!

Yes! I thought the exact same when I first saw the gif of Cas’ face. He just realized something (!!)

Reading your post now, it makes sense to me.

Okay. Am I the only one who thinks Cas realized something when Dean didn’t say anything after his “So this is a goodbye?” and just gave him that look

Like Dean saw in Cas’ eyes how much this would hurt him and he just can’t let that happen. And he is “no, Cas, it’s not”.

Because look at his face

He is like “oh my god he changed his mind, he won’t do it” and Cas saw that in his eyes.

And Dean

“Don’t give me that look. Yes, I did change my mind. Happy?”

And also

HE IS LOOKING AT CAS BECAUSE IT’S A MIRACLE THAT HE CHANGED HIS MIND.

And Cas knows. He already knows Dean won’t do it. He knows that he said enough and hd knows Sam is going to say more. And Dean would be “okay assholes, you did it, my suicide plan is plan B now”.

(GIF courtesy of @magnificent-winged-beast)

u know, after some thought, i think the worst part about when dean teases cas by greeting him with that softly uttered “doctor” is the look on his face. like we joke that dean’s losing it because cas is basically dressed up as dr. sexy incarnate, but dean’s not really losing it. 

instead of dean being completely overwhelmed with his fantasies about the medical field and its attractive doctors, he’s looking at cas with fondness in his eyes. he’s looking at cas, knowing that he’s gonna bury himself in the ocean, and when he does, he’s not going to be able to see cas like this again. he’s never gonna walk in on a case anymore, amused to find that cas is already there, dressed up and deeply-entrenched in the mechanics of being a good hunter. 

and so this scene becomes an example where dean isn’t simply taken off-guard by cas’ antics, even if that’s the first interpretation that would fit. instead, it’s a scene that concludes the farewell tour that dean started with his brother, sam. it’s an exchange that could function both as the beginning of a conversation or an exchange that could serve as its end:

cas: “…mr. winchester.”

dean: “doctor.”

instead it’s dean saying good-bye in a way where words can’t fail him. it’s his own private good-bye, for himself, and not for cas, because this good-bye’s not meant to be reciprocal. it’s meant to be dean taking cas in, as the image that he wants to remember, knowing that cas is healthy, knowing that cas isn’t that same bumbling beginner hunter who once had trouble playing good cop, bad cop. 

that cas is ready, that cas will be okay, and that dean’s family, the one that dean worked so hard to keep, will remain intact because cas will be there in his stead to take care of them. 

dean and cas // sam and jess

shout out to ace and aro kids who are constantly bombarded with the opinion that sex and romantic love are directly connected to living a happy life.