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The door was the only exit, and unfortunately it was slightly open. There were no windows. Halm scrambled up, trying to catch the soul again.
"Stop!" He yelled in the same voice.
The door was the only exit, and unfortunately it was slightly open. There were no windows. Halm scrambled up, trying to catch the soul again.
"Stop!" He yelled in the same voice.
The soul darted out the door and flew into the kitchen to hide. There weren't any exits to the outside world that it could tell, so it just buried itself in a cereal box.
Halm came bursting out of the bedroom, looking for the soul. He looked around, careful not to open any windows or doors. He started in the living room, and when he didn't find the soul there, he went to the kitchen.
"Where the hell are you?!" Halm demanded.
The soul kept quiet, burying itself further in the box to avoid being found. It knew it couldn't hide forever, but it couldn't worry about that right now.
Halm was taking his time. He knew just how small the soul was, and he figured it could be hiding anywhere. When he was done elsewhere, he finally started looking in the food boxes, slowly getting closer to the soul.
The soul had buried itself pretty far into the box by now, but it couldn't stop itself from glowing. It watched Halm rooting through the food anxiously.
Eventually, Halm got to the box the soul was hiding in. He had shifted it around slightly when he caught sight of the glow. In a flash, his hand was diving completely into the box, trying to catch the soul before it could escape again.
This proved to not be too difficult. The soul was growing cold and weak from being so far from Cas and from being separated for so long. It still struggled a bit in Halm's hold, but it couldn't do much to fight anymore.
Halm pulled the soul out, scattering cereal everywhere. This time, he actually did glare at it, and he stormed back to the bedroom.
"Cas is not fucking dying any time soon," he growled, "And you're not being fucking destroyed." He made his way back to the wardrobe.
It glared right back, but stayed curled up in Halm's hands. Its bad attitude had remained even if it was weak.
Halm took a deep breath, trying to calm down. He knelt next to Cas, lifting the soul up between thumb and forefinger to try to gently pat it back into the body.
Cas started shaking violently when his soul returned to his body, and he drew in a few harsh, shaky breaths.
Halm carefully put his arms around Cas, picking him up out of the wardrobe.
Cas coughed a bit and clung tightly to Halm, still shaking violently.
Halm made his way to the bed. He sat down with Cas in his lap. Now, now he was going to force the soul to behave.
"Don't be afraid," he said to Cas. Then, he was examining Cas's soul.
"Mmmmm… I feel like I'm gonna throw up…" Cas was breathing heavily and still shaking.
Halm nodded lightly, half listening to Cas. He carefully reached up, lightly touching the soul before holding it with two fingers again. With his other hand, he carefully used the energy around the soul to stick it in place. It was something his priestesses had done, long ago. It immobilized the soul. However, it also meant the soul would be able to address Cas directly instead of Cas's thinking it was his mind.
Cas froze, going pale when Halm touched his soul. "H-Hah…" He clung more tightly to Halm and started breathing heavily, trying not to throw up.
"It's going to be okay," Halm said gently. He finished soon. Now, Cas's soul wouldn't be able to move at all, and couldn't try to hurt Cas. He pulled his hand away, looking at Cas now. He rubbed Cas's back.
"It's over," he said gently. "Everything is gonna be okay."
Cas whimpered quietly and huddled closer to Halm, still breathing heavily. "What the fuck did you just do to me…?" He asked in a shaky whisper.
"Your soul had been trying to destroy itself, and kill you," Halm said quietly. "It was trying to get out of you, that was the tugging. It can't do that anymore." He wrapped both arms around Cas gently.
Cas drew in a shaky breath. "Trust my own soul to want to destroy itself… do you know why?" He asked.
"Because… It figured that it would be better for you to die now than continue and get old. It says you didn't want to. That you would be better off." Halm pulled Cas a little closer, protective.
"…Oh." Cas fell quiet and flushed a bit, resting his head on Halm's chest. "What did you tell it?"
Halm sighed gently.
"That I wouldn't allow it to destroy itself." he said quietly. "That I would work to help you."
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