A/N hey guys, so here it is finally, the next chapter of Because of you, hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 7

Five Weeks Ago

The soft buzzing of a phone from his right that morning had Dean groan softly under his breath, the light from outside already starting to shine in the window in a way that Dean was supposed to take as it's time to wake up but ever since seeing Castiel and finding out the other man had a boyfriend, Dean had found that he really just couldn't make himself leave his bed, he didn't want to leave the comforting lull of soft sheets below him or his pillow that he had slowly started to snuggle into.

Hearing the buzzing stop just as soon as it had begun, Dean heaved a huge sigh of relief and rolled over quickly, just in-case the phone rang again when sure as fate would have it, the phone instantly started buzzing away again, making Dean wonder just who exactly would be phoning at this time of the morning.

Letting his arm fall out, ready to pick up the phone in question, Dean was rewarded with a dull, thumping ache in his arm as it whacked against the night-stand drawer side instead of the top where he had been reaching for in the first place.

Sighing at the thought of sitting up, Dean slowly pulled himself up in the bed, blinking his eyes open a couple more times to make sure he could see what he wanted to before finally reaching over and picking up his phone, hitting the answer button right away.

"Hello?"

"Stay the hell away from him"

The voice that answered Dean that second instantly had him on red alert, wondering if maybe the person on the other end had maybe gotten the wrong number of something, he didn't know anyone that he had to stay away from for any reason.

"Did you hear me stay the hell away from Castiel."

There was a click that second and the other end went quiet, Dean only hearing a short dial tone on the other end of the phone call before he hit the end call button and placed the phone back down onto the night-stand next to him, sure beyond any doubt that his face was as white as a ghost.

That voice was Balthazar's, he realized the second time around, when the voice had continued to speak, he could clearly remember how the voice had sounded the very first time he had spoken to the other man, how the man had a very faint British accent and how he seemed to speak in that oddly posh way that informed others that he seemed to know better than anyone else or so he thought.

Taking a couple of deep breaths to calm his breathing back down, Dean tried his hardest to think back on what exactly he could have said to Balthazar when he had met him that could have caused the other man to threaten him like so.

As far as Dean could remember, he had been really nice to Balthazar, he hadn't made fun of the guy or even spoken about Castiel in the wrong way despite the fact that he...

Stopping his thoughts right there, Dean closed his eyes, willing away the images of Castiel in his house, of the dreams that he had been having ever since Castiel started working for him and the worst nightmare from a couple of days ago of Castiel bragging in his face that he loved Balthazar better and always would.

Now

The Novak household was nice and quiet for once Gabriel thought to himself as he once more went round the small living room that he had called his own ever since he had moved into the small apartment almost 5 years ago now after leaving high school and managing to start up his own candy shop business.

Currently he only had four customers, his brothers and sister when they came to visit him but it was better than nothing, at least they as his family gave him advice about what they thought of the chocolate crispy cakes that he made on a weekly basis and would always let him know when he was being stupid when trying to make up a new name for candy and cakes that had been around for too long now.

The buzzing of a phone that second brought Gabriel out of his memories as he quickly walked into the kitchen, trying to pinpoint where the buzzing was coming from when he saw Castiel's phone sitting on the kitchen table where it had been left earlier after Anna had mostly had to wrestle the device from Castiel's hand after he had been trying to call someone by the name of Dean because he was sorry and needed to tell Dean that he was sorry.

Shaking his head at how Castiel had been acting like a drunk, love sick puppy despite being very sober, Gabriel quietly picked up his brothers phone, looking at the caller id for a few seconds before pushing the answer button and holding the phone in question up to his ear.

"Hello Castiel's phone, his very awesome and sexy brother Gabriel speaking. How can I help you?"

Gabriel almost had to laugh to himself at how right away after saying those words how the person on the other end of the phone seemed to be almost at a loss for what to say, this Dean person that the caller id said his name was seemed to take a couple of deep breaths before finally addressing him.

"Hi my name is Dean Winchester, I don't know if Castiel has mentioned me but I employed him as babysitter and was just wondering..."

Here Dean seemed to take in a deep gulp of air as if he were afraid of what he might have to say next.

"I was just wondering if I could possibly speak to him" Dean finally spat out to the voice on the other end that had announced itself as Castiel's brother Gabriel though Dean had never heard of such a person despite Castiel not having worked for him for that long.

"Yeah sure. I'll just get him for you"

Gabriel's reply was short and quick, something that Dean liked as it gave him some more time to think about what he could possibly say to Castiel without sounding like a massive creep.

Gabriel began to take the short walk from the kitchen to Castiel's new bedroom wondering why exactly this Dean person was phoning his little brother when Castiel had never mentioned this sort of person in the slightest despite for tonight when he was going on about phoning a guy by the name of Dean to tell him that he was worry but Gabriel had thought that Castiel was maybe talking about Balthazar and had tried his hardest to talk his little brother out of it for fear that Castiel would get back in with the wrong crowd or something much worse.

Reaching the door, Gabriel quickly rapped his knuckles against the door twice, indicating to Castiel that he was coming in before turning the door knob and opening the door inwards, wondering just what exactly he would see once inside.

The reality though was Castiel lying on the bed - ready for him when Gabriel caught word that Castiel would be staying with him for a little while – eyes shut and breathing coming out in soft little wisps of air that made Gabriel aware that Castiel was asleep and would be for quite some time now.

"Hey Dean is it? Castiel's asleep so you'll need to phone back later. Goodbye."

And with that Gabriel hung up.

A/N Okay guys, I know that you are thinking that this chapter was really short but don't worry guys, the next chapter should hopefully be longer and we shall see some good things happening to our boys.

Stay tuned

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