okay i have to say it.
hester's famous quote: "why should we give you anything? after everything you have taken from us? when castiel first laid a hand on you in hell, he was lost! for that, you're going to pay."
this isn't a destiel line.
i can see how it's be interpreted as such, but look at her wording. why should we give you anything, after everything you have taken from us? hester's furious. she's filled with righteous rage, understandably so. the apocalypse was averted, a civil war happened, an archangel just died, and then castiel went crazy with the souls, committed mass murder in heaven, died, came back, and is suddenly insane. the angels are fumbling for even a shred of stability.
and then there's the line, that famous line, when castiel first laid a hand on you in hell, he was lost! she's not saying lost to dean, she's saying lost from them. from the angels. castiel's family for his eons of existence. and then she says, for that, you're going to pay. for that. for taking cas from them, from the angels, from heaven, she's making dean pay. she's mourning the loss of the brother she loved. the brother who isn't her brother anymore because he's batshit insane and filled with so much guilt and self hatred that he smiled when his sister was beating him to death (that meg saved him from, not even sam or dean) because it's his sister killing him, his sister who deserves that.
this isn't a line about dean and cas, this is about hester and cas. hester hates dean. she despises him. "when castiel first laid a hand on you in hell, he was lost! for that, you're going to pay." she hates dean for what he's done, taking her brother from her. when cas brought dean back from hell, that was while he had doubts. dean didn't make him doubt, cas has always been doubting, always been rebelling. we know this from naomi's line: cas being the famous spanner in the works, the one with the crack in his chassis. but hester blames dean, again, understandably so, and she wants justice. for castiel, and for herself.
this isn't a destiel line. this is yet another piece of proof about how tragic the angels are, how much they've lost. this is about hester mourning and avenging her brother who's been lost to humanity, ruined at the hands of the winchesters, but also hating what her brother has become.















