Anywhere but here

Part one

Traveling? Needing driver to drive from New York

to California, will furnish gas and car, you buy your own

food, if interested please call 555-9234 ask for Castiel Novak…

Dean looked at the ad again; he inched for his cell phone just as Michael came out the door.

"Hey babe, you ready?" his lover asked and Dean nodded as he folded the paper up, keeping the ad from Michael's curious eyes. He would have to call when Michael was at work.

Castiel had walked into his house to find his wife sitting at the kitchen table with a pissed off look on her face. "Hey Anna, what is the matter?"

Anna snapped her face to her husband and with a rage she stood up crossing the room in easy four strides. "What is the matter? I am hungry and there is no food on the table that is what the problem is." Castiel backed up away from her.

"I'm sorry I will cook something," Castiel said as he walked to the kitchen, he knew Anna was on his tale and he knew that his night wasn't going to be pleasant.

"Just never mind okay, I come home after a long and tiring day dealing with idiots at the office," Anna said slamming the door to the refrigerator, nearly catching Castiel's hand in it. "Order some pizza and have them deliver it, I'm going to take a shower." Castiel nodded going over to the phone.

Dean sighed as he walked through his luxury home. When he had first met Michael, he had been a struggling med student. Dean had worked and worked to help his boyfriend. And in the end they now had all this. And Michael had given Dean anything he wanted, but the one thing Dean wanted was for Michael to stay home with him, but the man couldn't be bothered with that, stating that things were so busy at the hospital that he would stay there for days instead of coming home.

Now Dean may have not gone to college or anything, but he wasn't stupid. He had went to the hospital once to take his lover some home cooked food and found Michael in his office with another man. He had been crushed, but he never told Michael. And his lover never said anything.

Dean sat at the kitchen table staring at the folded newspaper his cell phone sitting beside it. Did he want to leave? Where would he go when he got there? Sam lived in California; he could go and stay with him. He had a tiny nest egg save just for this reason. Dean picked up the cell phone and unfolded the paper and dialed.

"Hello you have reached the phone of Castiel Novak, I am sorry but I am unable to come to the phone at this time, please leave a message at the tone, thank you and have a pleasant day."

Dean nearly flinched when the tone sounded, but he had made a decision. "Yes this is Dean Winchester, I read that you needed a driver for your trip, I can help with gas and other things please call if you are still interested." Dean rattled off his phone number and slammed the phone down taking small but painful breathes. It was done, now he would have to wait.

Castiel lay in bed until he heard the door slam shut. Anna was gone for the morning and he jumped from the bed. Anna was once a wonderful girl and they had been so in love, but when Anna had wanted children and they had found out that he couldn't provide the necessary stuff in which to create a child. Anna had been so upset and then she changed.

He often apologized to her, saying they could have someone else to provide, but Anna wanted nothing more to do with it. She had slapped him for even suggesting adoption. So he had left it alone and with each passing year she became less like the woman he had married. He knew he couldn't deal with her much longer and he had created an account that she didn't know about and placed every dime he had, he still put money in her account to keep her fooled, his parents had been putting money in his account and he had enough to where he could go live somewhere else for a time.

As he got out of the shower he heard his phone buzzing with a voicemail. Listening to the person on the recording, he smiled…

Dean walked out of the bank when his phone started ringing. Looking down he felt his stomach leap when he saw the number. This was it… "Hello? Yes this is Dean, third and main, coffee shop, fifteen minutes, see ya there." Dean closed his phone and looked around. Going across the street he walked into the coffee shop and sat down. There he waited…

Castiel walked around the corner and into the coffee shop, he spotted a man sitting by himself and as the man looked up they caught each others eyes.

Dean stood up when he saw that another man walking toward him. "Dean Winchester?" Dean nodded when the man said his name. "Castiel Novak, please sit down and lets discuss the trip."

They discussed what to do, when to do it and what they would need. Castiel told Dean that he could afford the gas and the vehicle, he would drive first then let Dean and then it would be back and forth, the motel rooms would be pay as you go. They could share the cost if that would be more pleasing. And by the time their coffees were gone they had a plan.

Dean knew that Michael wouldn't be home tonight and that gave him an opportunity to get some of his stuff packed. Castiel knew that Anna would be home at six so he would have to pack in the morning. Castiel had been given directions to Dean's home, and told him that he would be by to pick him up at ten tomorrow.

"We are leaving that soon?" Castiel nodded, he didn't want to wait, he only had the courage to do this once and if he delayed, he knew he wouldn't be leaving. It was now or never.

"Is that a problem?" Dean shook his head, he had just hopped that Michael wouldn't change his schedule and come home early. And there were people that he wanted to go see before he left. He would have to call them, he guessed.

"Than I shall see you in the morning, ten sharp please be outside with your bags." Castiel said as he left.

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Meriadeth