[ castiel's initial reaction is instinctive, sudden, his body snapping tight and tense, his hands moving to his hips for the handgun that isn't there - but it passes just as quickly as it came on.
this isn't lucifer. cas might not have much grace left, but he's got enough to see that much, which means this must be - ]
.. Sam?
[ from the look of it, he's just as shocked as sam. it's been.. years since he's seen his face, and sam looks different, feels different, older, his signature familiar but changed. castiel's shoulders slacken and his eyebrows lift, his eyes raking down and up sam's body like a scan, his hands falling harmlessly to his sides. it's all the weirder, given how recently he's seen dean - not his dean, young dean, the other one-- nevermind. at any rate, he exhales hard. this gets no less weird, for practice. ]
shh we do what we want
this isn't lucifer. cas might not have much grace left, but he's got enough to see that much, which means this must be - ]
.. Sam?
[ from the look of it, he's just as shocked as sam. it's been.. years since he's seen his face, and sam looks different, feels different, older, his signature familiar but changed. castiel's shoulders slacken and his eyebrows lift, his eyes raking down and up sam's body like a scan, his hands falling harmlessly to his sides. it's all the weirder, given how recently he's seen dean - not his dean, young dean, the other one-- nevermind. at any rate, he exhales hard. this gets no less weird, for practice. ]
Whoa. It's, uh.. it's been awhile.