Castiel let silence hang in the air for a moment before he nodded.
"You're no fool and you've made your choice. I will not go against it."
No matter what Sam Winchester thought of him for it. No matter what his own, selfish, desires were.
"I can give you your last rites, when you need them," he offered a small smile with the faintest trace of humor there. "As an angel I slightly outrank a priest."