Kevin Tran | 001 | Accidental video

[vates]

[ Kevin's been working for a few days without sleep on the tablet, so when he wakes up, he figures he must've just passed out from exhaustion. He gets all the way to sitting up before he realizes that he isn't in the bunker.

When the feed switches on, it starts first staring up at the ceiling, while in the background, someone is very clearly laying waste to the bookshelf in their room. Kevin steps into the frame as he swings the shelf he'd ripped out to use as a weapon, and he decides it's acceptable before he sets it down. He has a bunch of papers, and as he puts them into an empty pillowcase, the cuneiform symbols can just be seen for what they are -- that is, ancient and unreadable.

He reaches for his shelf again, and now his face fully comes into frame. He looks like a guy who hasn't slept or eaten real food in a few days, with an added couple layers of complete panic. He has no clue where he is, who might've kidnapped him, what they want to use him for, but beneath the panic there's determination.

He made it this far; he won't let them win now.

Once he realizes the phone is broadcasting, he curses loudly and switches it off.

This plan would probably have gone a lot better if he hadn't been Skyping it. ]

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[vates]

[ Kevin's eyes harden, and he looks away. While he understands why he's down there, and Kevin even worked with him, he doesn't like it. He wishes there were an easy answer, that Sam and Dean would just kill him, or let Kevin kill him, but a lot of his bloodlust dissipated after he attacked him with the hammer. Now he mostly just wants Crowley out of his life forever, however he can get that. ]

No. They're keeping him chained up in their dungeon, in case they can get him to be helpful. When they didn't finish the trials, they just never let him go.

[happytobleed]

[ Castiel frowns at that. ]

He can't be trusted. Even if he helps you, don't turn your back on him.

[ Something in his voice hardens. ]

Don't let Dean forget that.

[vates]

[ He frowns, not understanding the change in Cas's tone.

Like, Dean kicked him out of the bunker, but Cas doesn't know that. ]

Okay... I'll try. You can tell him too, you know. [ He assumes he and Dean still talk on the phone. ]

[happytobleed]

[ Castiel isn't sure what Kevin means. He doesn't think any of them will really remember anything when they go back. They hadn't the last time.

Oh. ]

I'm still alive?

[vates]

[ Oh, is that what Cas meant? He hadn't thought that Cas wouldn't know that. ]

Yeah, you're alive. I mean, you're human now, and -- [ He stops, closing his mouth, and then shakes that off. ]

You're alive. You work at a gas station.

[happytobleed]

[ He's alive. He doesn't think he deserves to be alive, but he's alive. They all are. ]

Neither of us were sure. Dean was brought here before we spoke again.

[vates]

Dean's here? [ That's news to him so far; he wants to find him too, but seeing Sam and Cas is good. Not that he and Cas are very close at all, and Dean booting Cas out while telling Kevin that they're the only family he's got is a little contradictory, but.

He likes thinking he's a part of any kind of family these days. He'll take Cas. ]

You kind of went missing for a little while, but Dean and Sam went and found you.

[happytobleed]

[ For the first time, Castiel almost smiles at Kevin. It's as if everything he needed to hear is just slotting into place. ]

I think Dean would expect me to take you back to where we live.

[vates]

[ Kevin has to bite back his Would he? He nods instead. ]

I don't want these falling into the wrong hands. [ His hand curls around the top of the pillowcase, tied to his belt loop. ] They're some of my notes on the -- you know.

[happytobleed]

You can use my bed. I'm not using it.

[ Not yet, anyway. ]