Imagine,
Alternate timeline 2014 deancas takes 2009 dean aside. And they both give him a speech about how precious life and love is. They both talk about how they regret not letting each other know they love the other until the literal apocalypse. Really pushing that dean needs to get over his issues and accept love. Accept that people care for him, want him, love him and will cherish him like he deserves. Because one day it will be too late.
One day he will loose everything, home, friends, brother.
But accepting love and working together with those who love him may change everything. Being with Cas will change everything.
So dean gets sent back home. But he is changed. He has seen what desperation and too many years of struggling has done to him, to his Castiel. And he decides to change it.
He decides that he finally, after all this time, deserves to be loved.
And you know what? He is finally ok with that.













