Castiel sighed despairingly as he threw down the broken hosepipe. He'd been attending to his flower beds on the front lawn all morning and now he was unable to water them. He looked up at the clear blue sky and for once was infuriated by it.

He smirked to himself and looked up and down the street to make sure that the coast was clear; no one usually was about at that time of day. Once satisfied he was alone Castiel snapped his fingers and watched the clouds begin to form.

Blue faded to grey and rain was soon cascading down on Castiel and his garden. He clicked his fingers again to summon himself an umbrella and stood back with a smile on his face as he watched his flowers get some much needed nourishment.

"I think that will do" Castiel mused after a few minutes.

He got the clouds to depart again and a warm summer day ruled over the street once more.

"Cassie!"

He looked up and saw the woman from across the street, Lilith, striding towards him in her ridiculous high heels despite the fact she'd have only been in the house all day.

Castiel bowed his head despairingly and grumbled a few regular curse words under his breath before looking up at the blonde woman with a faux smile.

Lilith thought that she was the queen of the neighbourhood. Her elitist nature made her almost unbearable; she didn't approve that Castiel and his mechanic husband could live on the same street as her and her lawyer husband. Castiel did have a part-time job writing articles for a gardening magazine, though, whilst Lilith preferred to host afternoon tea for the other housewives and yell degradingly at her maid.

She was the typical suburban monster and Castiel did not have the patience to put up with her right now.

"Hello, Lilith" he said as positively as he could muster. "And my name is still Castiel."

Lilith appeared to ignore the comment.

"I was just going to come and speak to you but then that shower came out of nowhere!" she explained. "And I've just had my hair done" she said as she flicked back the blonde curls with excessive enthusiasm.

"It looks lovely" Castiel said.

"I know" Lilith responded with a scoff. "It cost me almost three hundred dollars! But that meant I had a little left over to get my nails done too" she said, brandishing the golden polish in Castiel's face.

Castiel's eyes widened. "That seems excessive. I cut my own hair, and Dean's."

"Oh" Lilith said with a slight grimace. "How…economical."

"Was there something you wanted?" Castiel asked; he could feel his patience growing thinner.

"Well, you and your husband Dan-"

"Dean."

"Dean, have been living on the street for a few months now and it's just occurred to me that I haven't invited you over to one of our girl gatherings."

"Well why would you?" Castiel asked with an innocent shrug. "I'm not a woman and we don't know each other that well. I'd only be intruding."

"Surely one of you must take on the role" Lilith said with clear confusion. "And I just assumed since Dean worked it was you."

"I work" Castiel said defensively. "I'm a journalist and I keep this house running. We are equals in our relationship. Your ideas about roles are very misguided and outdated."

"Well, no matter" Lilith said, waving one of her perfectly manicured hands dismissively. "You should come over for lunch tomorrow. We must get to know you! We want to know everything."

Castiel took a deep breath and had to remind himself of the reason they had moved here in the first place. Despite every other fibre of his being telling him to storm back into the house and slam the door in Lilith's pretentious face, Castiel knew that he had to bite the bullet.

"I would love to" he replied through gritted teeth.

"Excellent! I better get back. I left the gardener trimming the rose bushes and I don't trust him enough to be alone."

Lilith turned and started to teeter away.

Castiel frowned but then when a sudden tempting idea came to him the corner of his lip curled up into a smirk.

He snapped his fingers and the rainclouds returned.

The heavens opened and Castiel watched with pure delight as Lilith shrieked at her new hairdo being ruined.

Castiel smiled to himself as he put his umbrella back up and ambled back into the house.

"I love being a witch."