[His eyebrows lift as he watches her reaction, corner of his mouth lifting ever so slightly.

As much as everything he was told was terrible, there's some...hope left in it's wake? It's small, but it's there. If all of this horrible is really behind them for good, then there's really nowhere to go but up.

And maybe it's already starting. He got Dean to stick around and even listen to him, after all.

Even if Rose was a part of all that too, shush he knows.]

Well, I'm not going anywhere. And I'll do whatever it takes.

[That won't ever change.]

But no, he's still in there. I can already tell that much.