Summary: AU. In high school, there is a hierarchy, and Dean and Castiel are at both opposite ends of it. While Dean's friends take delight in bullying Castiel, Dean soon grows tired of it. He can't help his feelings for the strange boy after all. Please R&R!

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural or its characters.

A/N: A new Destiel fic! Hope you like it! At the moment, my laptop's being repaired so I'm borrowing my mother's new one until it's fixed. Bless her, she's so kind.

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Opposites Attract

~Chapter One~

Castiel knows the score.

When he awakens every morning he knows that he will go to school, endure seven hours of torture and come back home to be smothered by his mother Anna and told to toughen up by his father Michael. His Uncle Balthazar gives him just what he needs, and it's such a relief to Castiel that he lives with them.

Balthazar is more of a father to him than Michael. Then there's Jimmy, who knows him inside and out, what with them being twins. Jimmy is older by several minutes yet he behaves as though he's older by several years.

Jimmy is so protective over him, and he really does appreciate it, but sometimes he wishes everyone would just let him be. Gabriel always plans his revenge against the people who torment Castiel at school, but since Anna packed him off to college, he's not had much chance to attack. But he will. He's certain of that.

Castiel has only five friends at school, all of whom he relies on more than anything. Chuck Shurley, his wide-eyed, sci-fi buff friend who writes his own stories. He'll be a novelist one day. There's Becky Rosen, Chuck's girlfriend, who is as crazy as they come. She's really over the top sometimes, but the others can't help but love her.

Jo and Ash Harvelle are cousins, and Ash likes to watch the cheerleaders practicing in his spare time. He's a bit of a pervert. That goes without saying. Then there's Crowley. Crowley, who is dating Jo, knows just how to bargain with people, and knows how to drop a line that can completely destroy anyone who tries to make a fool out of him or any of his friends.

The biggest problem Castiel faces is having to see Dean Winchester every day. Dean Winchester, the most handsome boy in Lawrence High. Dean Winchester who Castiel is head over heels in love with. He knows he's in love with him. And that's just the thing.

Castiel and Dean are on opposite ends of the pecking order in that school and Castiel is the one at the bottom. Dean is on the higher plains with the jocks and the slutty cheerleaders. He's probably had more ass than a toilet seat given the amount of girls he'd dated. As much as Castiel despises him sometimes…he can't help but love him.

But as Castiel arrives home this evening, Jimmy follows him through the door with a forlorn expression.

Balthazar appears from the living room and takes in his nephew's tearful eyes, knowing immediately that he's had a terrible day. He can't understand why so many people bully Castiel so. Maybe it's his quiet nature, or the fact that his social skills are a little underdeveloped. Maybe it was because they're so damn jealous of the fact that he's brainier than the lot of them put together.

"Cassie?" He says softly, "You need to talk?"

Castiel just sniffles and nods, blinking as tears fall down his face, Balthazar grimacing and rubbing his back as he walks upstairs to his room. Balthazar looks to Jimmy who just bows his head and goes to the kitchen to see his mother and father.

Balthazar follows Castiel upstairs and enters the room, finding him sitting on his bed with his head in his hands, his shoulders shaking with silent sobs. It tears his heart to see his nephew in such pain. Castiel is such a sweet, caring boy. It's such a shame that people can't get past the fact that he's gay.

"What happened?" He asks, sitting by his nephew and rubbing his back.

What shocks him is how Castiel just throws his arms around him and cries into his shoulder, and all Balthazar can do is rub his back and try his best to comfort him.

"M-Meg Masters…" Castiel stutters, "She…f-forced herself on me…"

Balthazar tenses for a moment at the words. How has she forced herself on him? He needs to know. He has to know how and why. He just hopes Castiel will tell him.

"She k-kissed me…And…" He stops for a minute to take a breath, and Balthazar gazes at his tearful, soulful blue eyes, "Sh-she let Alistair…He…"

"Castiel, what did he do?" Balthazar asks, his heart thundering in his chest at what might have happened to his nephew today.

"S-said I m-murdered my s-sister…"

Balthazar's eyes slide closed and he pulls his nephew closer, rubbing his back and pressing a gentle kiss to his temple.

"You didn't murder Rachel." He tells the boy, "You didn't Castiel, it wasn't your fault."

"I-I should've been h-holding her hand!" Castiel sobs while Balthazar just holds him tighter, if that's at all possible.

"Castiel, even if you had been holding her hand, it wouldn't have stopped her being shot, would it?" Balthazar whispers softly, "Nobody blames you. Nobody has ever blamed you, alright?"

Castiel nods quietly and wipes his eyes, taking in a shaky breath. Jimmy knocks on the door and enters with a glass of water, sitting by his brother.

"I'll let you have some time." Balthazar says quietly, smiling softly at Jimmy who passes the glass to his twin while Balthazar leaves the room.

Jimmy isn't surprised when Castiel just puts the glass down and curls up in his lap, and Jimmy just tenderly strokes his hair. Castiel doesn't know where he'd be without Jimmy.

Jimmy is his rock, his saving grace and the one thing he relies on more than anything. Jimmy would gladly put himself on the line for his brother, and does so every day. Jimmy has fought for him on more than one occasion, against all the people who treat his brother like something they've walked in. He can't stand to hear people say bad things about his brother, or to see them harm his brother.

Jimmy knows about how he feels about Dean Winchester, and he knows that behind that bravado, Dean wants to desperately stop what happens to Castiel. He also knows that there will come a day when Dean will break, and he will defend Castiel to the end. He just hopes that Dean will finally admit his feelings for Castiel, because Jimmy's no idiot, and he's seen the way that Dean looks at his brother. Dean's countless girlfriends are covers for the truth.

He knows that Dean loves Castiel. He looks at Castiel in the same way that Jimmy looks at his girlfriend Amelia. Amelia goes to a different school, yet she and Jimmy see each other every weekend. He knows that he'll see her tomorrow, but he's concerned that Castiel may need him more.

-TBC-

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