[Dean doesn’t say anything for a long time. Instead he takes a long drink from the bottle and passes it back.]

Remember when you and Uriel told me to hand her over? We went into hiding after that. He came to me in my dreams. He gave me a choice.

Her or me. I told him ‘fine, take me back’. ...so he threatened Sam.

[And that’s when the choice had been made for him even though he wanted so badly to keep her safe too.]

There are times we're told to make choices and we don't always have options to make the ones we want to. Or we're scared to make them.

You were tortured, Cas. And while it wasn't right to turn her in, what's done is done.

Neither of you should have been put on the rack. And if I knew then what I know these days? I'd... [Not been able to do a damn thing.]

I'd have done something.