p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px auto 1.286em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Originally posted on AO3 for a secret Santa fix challenge. Prompt: Dean and Cas are teachers and their kids plot to get them together through the Secret Santa activity the school does every year (With some help from the other teachers who are tired of the sexual tension, of course)/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"List of Teachers at Lawrence High School:/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"English - Dean (Squirrel)br /Mathematics - Kevin (Advanced Placement/AP)br /Science - Gabriel (Loki)br /P.E. - Benny (Cajun)br /Art - Charlie (Red leader)br /Drama - Crowley (King of Hell)br /Dance - Rowena (Scarlet Witch)br /Debate - Sam (Moose)br /History - Cas (Angel)/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Secret Santa was always fun at Lawrence High School. The teachers were each assigned another teacher and were expected to spend more time than money on their presents. Last year Castiel had been in charge of Charlie Bradbury's Present. He'd handcrafted a miniature Hogwarts Castle for the redheaded Art Teacher out of popsicle sticks. It had cost $5 but had taken two months./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"This year was going to be difficult for Castiel. He had been assigned Dean Winchester. The problem wasn't that he didn't know what Dean liked (because he definitely did). The problem was that he couldn't decide which of Dean's many likes to use. Should he create a Death Star made out of toothpicks? Or an appropriately detailed model of the Impala Dean loved so much? Castiel had been debating what to get Dean for almost a month now./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"While turning the thoughts over in his mind, he wandered aimlessly through the halls. Turning into his classroom, Castiel's meandering thoughts abruptly came to a halt as he looked on in wonder. His entire classroom had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Snowflakes hung from the ceiling, a fake fireplace had been erected and hung by the fireplace was a single stocking with his name on it. Castiel walked over to the stocking in a trance and looked inside. There was a single envelope with his name on it. Opening it he found a note:/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
center style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Dear Cas,/span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy your winter wonderland. As your Secret Santa for the year, I spent a lot of time on it. For the next Twelve Days (before Christmas Break) I'll be leaving you a new present every day. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy your smile. Every single day, I am grateful for you. Christmas is the season of love and giving. What is love? Those who don't like it call it responsibility. Those who play with it call it a game. Those who don't have it call it a dream. Those who understand it call it destiny. And me, I call it you./span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"With Love,/span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Your Secret Santa/span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Castiel stared at the note trying to figure out who it could have been. There weren't many single teachers at the school and only a few teachers were even involved in the Secret Santa. Trying to figure out who could possibly have had feelings for him Castiel started to list off those teachers who were a possibility. Ignoring the women, whom he had all informed when he began working at LHS that he was gay, there were 6 other teachers involved in this year's Secret Santa. Sam and Benny were married (both to their high school sweethearts). So they weren't a possibility. Crowley… Cas shuddered. It couldn't possibly be Crowley; he hates his guts. Gabriel was his brother so Cas certainly /spanspan style="font-style: oblique; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"hoped/spanspan style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;" he hadn't been the one to send the note, although he was a horrible prankster Gabriel wasn't cruel./span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"The only two teachers left were Kevin and Dean. Dean, who knew how much Castiel missed the snow. Dean, who had just yesterday, listened to Cas complain about the lack of Christmas decorations in the school. Could it possibly have been Dean? Cas looked back at the note trying not to hope. When Dean had come out as bisexual last year, Cas had hoped Dean would make a move on him. But Dean hadn't so Cas had tried to ignore the feelings he'd always had for the eldest Winchester. But if this was Dean…/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Cas threw off his trench coat and sat at his desk. He'd need to begin on Dean's present immediately. He grabbed a blank piece of paper and began planning./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"In the hallway outside of Castiel's classroom, a tall man with floppy hair spoke into his radio, "Red leader this is Moose. The Angel has fallen. Repeat, the Angel has fallen."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"List of Teachers at Lawrence High School:/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"English - Dean (Squirrel)br /Mathematics - Kevin (Advanced Placement/AP)br /Science - Gabriel (Loki)br /P.E. - Benny (Cajun)br /Art - Charlie (Red leader)br /Drama - Crowley (King of Hell)br /Dance - Rowena (Scarlet Witch)br /Debate - Sam (Moose)br /History - Cas (Angel)/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Secret Santa was always fun at Lawrence High School. The teachers were each assigned another teacher and were expected to spend more time than money on their presents. Last year Castiel had been in charge of Charlie Bradbury's Present. He'd handcrafted a miniature Hogwarts Castle for the redheaded Art Teacher out of popsicle sticks. It had cost $5 but had taken two months./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"This year was going to be difficult for Castiel. He had been assigned Dean Winchester. The problem wasn't that he didn't know what Dean liked (because he definitely did). The problem was that he couldn't decide which of Dean's many likes to use. Should he create a Death Star made out of toothpicks? Or an appropriately detailed model of the Impala Dean loved so much? Castiel had been debating what to get Dean for almost a month now./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"While turning the thoughts over in his mind, he wandered aimlessly through the halls. Turning into his classroom, Castiel's meandering thoughts abruptly came to a halt as he looked on in wonder. His entire classroom had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Snowflakes hung from the ceiling, a fake fireplace had been erected and hung by the fireplace was a single stocking with his name on it. Castiel walked over to the stocking in a trance and looked inside. There was a single envelope with his name on it. Opening it he found a note:/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
center style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Dear Cas,/span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy your winter wonderland. As your Secret Santa for the year, I spent a lot of time on it. For the next Twelve Days (before Christmas Break) I'll be leaving you a new present every day. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy your smile. Every single day, I am grateful for you. Christmas is the season of love and giving. What is love? Those who don't like it call it responsibility. Those who play with it call it a game. Those who don't have it call it a dream. Those who understand it call it destiny. And me, I call it you./span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"With Love,/span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-style: oblique;"Your Secret Santa/span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Castiel stared at the note trying to figure out who it could have been. There weren't many single teachers at the school and only a few teachers were even involved in the Secret Santa. Trying to figure out who could possibly have had feelings for him Castiel started to list off those teachers who were a possibility. Ignoring the women, whom he had all informed when he began working at LHS that he was gay, there were 6 other teachers involved in this year's Secret Santa. Sam and Benny were married (both to their high school sweethearts). So they weren't a possibility. Crowley… Cas shuddered. It couldn't possibly be Crowley; he hates his guts. Gabriel was his brother so Cas certainly /spanspan style="font-style: oblique; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"hoped/spanspan style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;" he hadn't been the one to send the note, although he was a horrible prankster Gabriel wasn't cruel./span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"The only two teachers left were Kevin and Dean. Dean, who knew how much Castiel missed the snow. Dean, who had just yesterday, listened to Cas complain about the lack of Christmas decorations in the school. Could it possibly have been Dean? Cas looked back at the note trying not to hope. When Dean had come out as bisexual last year, Cas had hoped Dean would make a move on him. But Dean hadn't so Cas had tried to ignore the feelings he'd always had for the eldest Winchester. But if this was Dean…/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"Cas threw off his trench coat and sat at his desk. He'd need to begin on Dean's present immediately. He grabbed a blank piece of paper and began planning./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.229999542236328px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"In the hallway outside of Castiel's classroom, a tall man with floppy hair spoke into his radio, "Red leader this is Moose. The Angel has fallen. Repeat, the Angel has fallen."/p