Re: Dean + open (before the Incident with Gabe)
Touching Lucifer or the kid wasn't at all like touching Cas, but there was still that moment, that brush of skin to skin contact that sent warmth radiating through him, like he could feel some of Lucifer's energy coming into him and some of his own going into the other man. It was poetic and weird and he'd never say it out loud. But what he would do was stretch his fingers to briefly and slightly lace with Lucifer's for that moment.
There was a moment of heavy thought from the hunter, clearly weighing on him as he lifted his head again and met Lucifer's gaze. "I love you," he whispered, barely loud enough for the devil to hear (though certainly loud enough for imagination's smug ass over there) but...proof that Dean was trying, that he was maybe working on starting the year off being a better person, one who could and would tell people how he felt about them without...without just hoping they knew and regretting it later.