"What about this one?" Lance waves his hand to the door, Keith hesitates but opens the door as Lance elaborates. "It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, a small laundry room, one bathroom, one half bathroom with laundry machines in it, and a medium sized living space. What do you think?" Keith turns in a circle looking around.
"I think it's cool." he says.
"But?" Lance prompts. He steps next to him and nudges him with his elbow.
"I just can't believe that everyone else wanted to stay in space. Hunk on the Balmara half the time, the other with Shay and their cooking empire. Shiro is patrolling the universe with his husband, Pidge and Matt are doing this cool space rangers thing and I just, I know my mom wanted me to stay in space with her, but I missed earth. And-"
"And you don't like to listen to people when they tell you what to do." Lance smirk and Keith rolls his eyes at the darker boy.
"I was going to say, I didn't want you to be left alone on earth. Who knows what kind of trouble you'll get into." Keith walks down the hall to the bed rooms. Each one has a queen sized bed a closet a nightstand and a desk. "How much is this?" Keith asks.
"Uh, well you know, it costs as much as any other apartment." Lance lies. Keith gives him the look that says 'yeah right, tell the truth' Lance lets out a low breath. "It's somewhere around like 20,000 a month." Lance rubs the back of his neck.
"Lance you know we can't pay for that." Keith says turning to him. "We need to go to the next one." he says, but before they even reach the end of the hall the real estate agent that showed them in enters with two men.
"With two master bedrooms." she finishes her sentence. The shorter one stops her from continuing to ask;
"But how much is it?" he asks. Her smile wavers, she likes to wait till after they see it to tell them the price. Waste people's time.
"Around 20,000 a month." she says not losing the happy note to her voice. The taller one shakes his head to the other as to say no, then says;
"No Cas. we can't do that. We'd only have enough for like, half of that."
"But, Dean, it's so perfect, it has a washing machine!"
"There's laundromats for that." the one known as 'Dean' says.
"Excuse me," Lance walks up to him. "I couldn't help but overhear your conversation, my friend and I seem to have the same problem." Keith shakes his head moving his hand across his throat trying to get him to stop talking to these people Cas smiled brightly, turning to Dean.
"We can all get it together."
Dean immediately shook his head violently, but Cas wasn't paying attention.
"That's what I was thinking!" Lance smiled wildly, Keith slapped himself in the face and shook his head.
"Lance, that means we have to share a room with someone." Keith places a hand on his shoulder.
"Well this guy seems cool enough." Lance teases gesturing to Cas.
Dean had gone pale at the mention of sharing rooms. "No. No no no no no."
"Dean." Cas started.
"I'm not done yet. No no no no no."
"Or two of us can use the couches," Lance shrugs his shoulders. "or the floor of the bed room, I could always use the bathtub."
"Lance last time you did that I had to save you from drowning." Keith deadpans crossing his arms over his chest.
Dean, who had been doing the same, immediately uncrossed his own. Not wanting to match this "emo ass kid". He's not a kid.
"Sounds like a plan." Cas concludes with a happy grin.
"Not a plan. Bad plan. Worse than your last plan, and that was pretty damn bad." Dean says, quickly waving his hands
"Please Keith?" Lance turns around to beg his friend and comrade. Keith looks at him for a moment, holding his ground, But then he caves.
"Fine, only if they agree." Keith rolls his eyes and looks away from the large blue puppy eyes that belong to the boy on his knees in front of him.
Cas nods enthusiastically, but Dean turns to walk out. "I'm sleeping in the alley out back."
"But Dean, it's snowing," Cas grabs his shoulder to turn him around. This time Cas tries out the puppy eyes Lance had just demonstrated. "please Dee?" he falls on one knee.
Dean's shoulders tense. Pulling the Sammy card, of all things... "Not cool, Cas. Not cool at all."
"Is that a yes?" Lance asks offering his puppy eyes to the mix.
All Dean says in response is "Son of a bitch." Keith smiles, he had a feeling this was actually going to work out for the better. Even if they couldn't really talk about their space adventures or anything, they were going to make a great group of friends.
"I've never understood why you say that, Dean," Cas says, cocking his head. "What do male puppies have to do with anything?"
Keith just rolls his eyes and turns to the real estate agent to make the offer.
**Time skip brought to you by: 90's Voltron!**
"You know, Dean," Cas says, looking at him across the table they're sharing with Keith and Lance. "That really is unhealthy for you."
Dean glances up from his plate of bacon. "Do I look like I give a shit?"
Keith looks at Lance about to ask if he can get a plate of bacon, but Lance shuts him down just as his mouth opens
"No." he says cutting into his pancake. Keith pouts.
"Says the guy who bought a cow at a space mall," Keith mumbles before getting elbowed by his friend in the ribs. "Ow, what was that for?"
Cas just says, "Space malls are dangerous." Dean chokes on his bacon.
"You mean that wasn't a joke?" his eyes are wide.
Keith and Lance exchange glances. Keith didn't think they could hear him. "Uh…." they both say
"So have you been to one?" Lance asks leaning forward.
"No, I just see everything I want to from heaven." Keith just happened to be taking a drink and spat it out onto Lance.
"CAS!" Dean shouts, "what the hell is the matter with you?!"
"So let me ask a quick question," Lance places his elbow on the table and does a sassy hand, ignoring the fact he has milk on his shirt now. "your telling me, you have seen a space mall….. from heaven?" he asks both Keith and Dean's eyes are wide open.
"Well, of course." Cas says like it's the most natural thing in the world, while Dean waves his hands frantically to stop him. "I'm an angel of the Lord." Dean puts his head down on the table in defeat.
"I'm a paladin of Voltron… the blue paladin to be exact, and Keith is the red paladin, leader of Voltron."
"Bullshit." Dean says. "I used to watch that TV show."
"Lance, would you stop blabbing." Keith tries to hide his face with his hands.
"Yeah, that show was based off of us. Well kind of, it's complicated."Lance says tailing off, he was about to go on a full rant, but Keith's hand on his shoulder stops him.
"Wait, how can you belong to something that doesn't exist?" Keith turns his attention to Cas.
Getting into this whole, 'my job is better than your job' thing, Cas says, "Dean hunts demons and ghosts and vampires and werewolves and-"
"Cas. Shut up." Dean says.
"Keith is part Galra and is a member of the Blade of Marmora and-" Lance tries to contest in the 'my boyfriend is better than your boyfriend battle.
"LANCE, WOULD YOU SHUT YOUR CAKE HOLE?!" Keith shouts at him
"Dean's the Righteous Man from the ancient legend, and he killed Azazel."
"Keith traveled through the quantum abyss and lived there with his mom for two years but it was only two months for us."
"Dean was tortured in hell for four months, but for him it was forty years."
Dean went white, then got up.
"I'll see you guys at home." He walked out without another word.
"Dean." Keith got up followed by Cas and then Lance to follow him out being only like two blocks away from the apartment they had all only just moved into and never slept a night in, dean broke into a full on run and was out of sight when the other three reached the sidewalk.
"Follow that man!" Lance shouted pointing in the direction of the apartment in an overly dramatic way, but lucky for him no one really paid him any attention other than his two friends. They all three speed walked down the walk.
They reached the door and it was locked, Cas fumbled with his keys and opened the door to see the lights were still off, but the T.V. glowed with an old cartoon
They moved in side to see Dean sitting in the couch looking sad, but mad, but about to cry, but also not gonna let a single tear run down his check.
"We need pie, we need beer, and we need to hurry." Cas said pushing Lance out the door to drive him closing the door trapping Keith with this supposed demon hunter. He stood there awkwardly for a moment before walking over and sitting next to him.
Looking closer Keith could see the cartoon he was watching was Scooby Doo. An old favorite of both these adult males. Dean shifts his position.
"This was my favorite episode to watch." he mutters running a hand through his hair.
"Which one is this?" Keith asks crossing his legs beneath him to get comfortable.
"Jeepers it's the creeper, the one where they're going to a barnyard dance and stuff." Dean mumbles
"That was like my favorite episode man, Velma was always my favorite character." Keith admits with a small smile on his face.