Castiel didn't often roam the earth without Sam and Dean by his side. Or at least... he didn't used to. Now he was considered an enemy of heaven. A fugitive. He'd sided with humanity instead of his brothers and sisters. He didn't believe though, that his orders had been from their father. Instead, he had to believe someone was breaking rank and trying to make their own rules.
So now, he was rogue, and rather than sticking with Sam and Dean and putting a target on their backs, he was trying to blend in.
That was how he found himself in Hell's Kitchen. It was a place he felt no one would look for him. It was also a place where the evil of men was prevalent.
The angel never had been one to sit back and watch as people were hurt, and this night was no exception. He hadn't meant to kill the asshole though.
He'd seen a kid get attacked by several men that looked like they were going to hoist him into their waiting van.
So much for that idea....
The angel had fended them off easily, though his anger had gotten the better of him. Before he knew it, the jerk in his grasp had been beaten to no end, and his partners had run off. His chest heaved as he heard a quiet, muffled footstep behind him and he turned, coming face to face with someone he'd only seen in papers. The called the man Daredevil. The Devil of Hell's Kitchen himself.
His grip loosened on the assailant's shirt and he let his lifeless body fall with a sickening thud. Forgotten in the wake of the revelation his oceanic gaze was taking in.
"You....you're..." he started twice before he shook his head. On the brick walls of the buildings around them, shadows danced, cast from the smallest lights, and he could clearly see the outline of wings....but they were wrong. Off. He sensed no grace in this man, and he wondered briefly what he'd done to fall.
"I didn't mean to kill him. I was merely trying to assist the child....brother...." he breathed, testing the word on his tongue, seeing if perhaps he knew the truth, though he doubted it. Most angels, the moment they were cast from heaven, their memories were no longer their own.