AN: Tag to 8X22 Clip Show. I haven't seen the episode yet, just a few clips here and there so this could be totally wrong, or might not even be a scene in the episode, or it's totally right and I'm psychic. Unbeta'd. In Dean's POV because I imagined him being angry, yet still wanting Cas to have a 'movie experience'.


POPCORN

Sam is setting up the projector in the other room with Cas watching silently as his brother fiddles with the mechanisms of the ancient machine. Dean watches the scene for a few moments, Sam coughing into his arm, his face morphing into his kicked-puppy expression. Sam puts down the reel of tape and grabs a tissue wiping down the sleeve of his shirt, allowing him a glimpse of red staining the white.

Cas is looking at Sam with his brow pinched in concern before turning his gaze towards him. His blue eyes are just filled with sorry and he can't take that expression any more. As he told Sam, if anyone else tried to pull that stunt, they would be dead. He glares back, the twisted satisfaction burning in his heart as the angel looks down in contrition...and then looks back up, possibly more sorry that before.

"I think I almost got it." Sam says still fiddling.

"Great." Dean replies pushing himself off the wall and into the kitchen where he pulls out the lone bag of popcorn kernels...thank god for small mercies, he thinks as he takes in the empty pantry and mentally creates a list. Movies need popcorn and dammit Cas will get popcorn, he thinks sourly.

He jams the bag into the microwave not bothering to read the instructions. God knows he's done enough movie nights with Sam to have them memorised to the letter. He angrily stabs the buttons setting the time and steps back, the yellow light beginning to illuminate the bag.

Yes, he's pissed. Fucking furious in fact but he will be damned if he let's Cas watch his first film without popcorn. This wasn't what he had in mind when Sam had asked to go out to the movies and if Cas was in town, he could join them. That had been just after the first trial when Sam was slightly loopy, though he'd discovered that Sam had meant it, including the part with Cas. So yeah, for Cas' first movie he didn't want to be angry, or hurt, or worried about Sam and these frigging trials. Cas wasn't meant to have been found bleeding in the street and fuck, he didn't have to hide the fucking angel tablet in his fucking stomach.

Then again, maybe his emotions get a free pass because maybe this isn't Cas' first movie. Meg probably showed him movies when she looked after him.

He watches the bag slowly expands in the microwave. The popping of the kernels slowly build up in sound, the bag beginning to jump slightly as its volumes expands. The bag begins to jump, the seconds coming to a close.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Beep.

The bag is torn open, white puffy kernels dropped into a bowl and sprinkled with salt. With the bowl in hand, he walks into the room where Sam is settled into his seat ready to begin. Sam tilts his head to the side watching as he goes up to Cas and drops the bowl on the table before him. Cas looks confused, hand moving towards the bowl before he stops, fingers freezing just over the popcorn pieces as he watches him sit on the other side of the table.

He still hasn't addressed Cas and Sam gives him a look, filled with disappointment, which he ignores. Sam lets out a sigh and begins the film reel, the sound of exorcism filling the room.

Cas take a small handful of popcorn.


AN: Hope you enjoyed this. remember, reviews are like popcorn, nice and fluffy...actually that works for Cas' hair too...