[He pushes his own hurt to the side for now and finishes closing up the distance between Rei and himself. He doesn't hug her, not yet anyway, but he puts his hand on her arm and rubs gently.]

It'll be alright. Cas is a tough guy. He always bounces back.

[He should have known it was Raphael. He fooled himself into thinking that maybe Raphael wasn't so interested in what was happening back home, that maybe they were actually a good person in that twisted little world of theirs, but they just didn't stop. First Cas's Grace and now his life? What else were they planning on taking from him?]