Prologue: Burning Bridges
It was dark out by the time Jimmy Novak stumbled into his agent's office. Agent wasn't really the word for it. Balthazar was more like the closest thing he had to a friend in this business. The business he was about to leave far behind him. He could just hear the rage in his brother's voice when Raphael found out that he'd disappeared. But this had to end somewhere.
"Ah, Jimmy,come back for a midnight soiree? Have you thought about my offer." Balthazar said in that eternally unaffected voice.
He sat down in the chair across from him and fidgeted nervously as he toyed with the papers in his hands. This was in truth far more difficult in practice than in theory. "Yes. I have." With shaking hands he slid all but one of the papers over to his friend who collected them gingerly and nodded.
"So the name change is already taken care of?"
"Everything's there. I have to get out of this life, Balthazar. And you were right. When you said I was either going to leave on a plane or in a body-bag."
The older of the two sighed and glanced into the young actor's blown pupils. He hoped that along with a fresh start, his constant need to escape the one he had would ease away. "I'm generally right when I say something. That's why we're friends." He said with a wry smile before signing the papers in a few places. "So that's it then." There was a clank of metal on polished wood as he set the pen down and straightened up. "Consider our contract terminated. I'm no longer your agent, and you're no longer my client."
Jimmy took a slow, deep breath to steady himself and stood up again. "Thank you." The ground wavered beneath him a moment as he moved and Balthazar's eyebrows drew together.
"Take care of yourself out there Jimmy." He said in concern.
A smile turned the corners of the actor's mouth up and he pointed to the legal document in his hand. The one he hadn't handed his friend. "It's Castiel now. Castiel Milton. I'm starting over remember?"
The words were met with a grin. Balthazar stretched back in his chair and yawned. "Have fun at college then. I'll try to make it down there every couple of months to see how things are faring."
Jimmy, now Cas, couldn't help himself. He did a little skip as he was hurrying out of the office to catch his plane. Was this really it? Was it really this simple? Why hadn't he left years ago then?
Hello! Thanks for reading so far. Promise the next chapter will have some actual Destiel. This is just, after all, a prologue. :3 Please let me know if you enjoy or leave me a review if you don't. :D It will be much appreciated. Ciao!
