"He's not coming back, Faith," Dean said softly. "He said yes. Then he held Lucifer down and jumped into the cage like he was supposed to." Like Dean had promised to let him on two occasions -- once to Death, and once to Sam himself.

He couldn't help that there was a hint of pride there. Sam had taken on the Devil and won, after all. But there was also the fact that they couldn't go poking at it. Not without opening up a whole other can of worms. Dean had known that from the get-go, and it was obvious he didn't like it, but it was what needed to happen.

"But he's in there with Lucifer and Michael. Trying to get him out of there ... it's not gonna happen."