"Yeah, let's do that," Ben said, then impulsively hugged Castiel one more time, short but fierce, before finally stepping back.
He awkwardly ran his hand over his hair in a very Dean-like gesture as he waited for Castiel to do his angel thing, clearly signaling an invisible dividing line between the crying/hugging and going back to his house. Now that he was going back, and there was a chance that people had noticed he was gone, he had to man up again. He'd failed to do what he'd come to do, so that feeling of failure, of letting his family down, started to settle in.
He hoped they wouldn't be completely disappointed in him for messing up this whole 'take care of Ruby' thing.
[ooc: Yes please! Just go ahead and have them essentially disappear from this thread as the conclusion to it, then their reappearance can be in the other one – I'll poke you via email when we're ready!]