This is not Chapter 10. If you have not read Chapter 10 yet (also posted today), go back and read that first!
Cas leaned back and dunked his rag into the water, taking the chance to admire his boyfriend's suntanned back as he tirelessly worked on his side of the car.
"She's beautiful, Cas," Benny said, coming up behind him and admiring the sleek black exterior of the Impala.
"Yeah, he is," Cas agree absently, glued to Dean.
"How does she run?"
Cas smirked. "Wanna find out?" Benny nodded in an attempt to be nonchalant, and Cas laughed out loud, earning an appreciative glance from Dean.
"Oh, hi, Benny!" Dean greeted the newcomer, drying his hands on his pants and holding out his hand for Benny to shake.
Cas had taken Benny's advice, almost to the letter, and ended up recruiting Dean to help him restore the piece of beauty just to make sure he was spending time with his boyfriend. In the process, Dean had learned an awful lot about cars, and as a result, Benny had offered to apprentice him at the garage, assuming he wanted a job. Dean, of course, leapt on the offer, and after a teasingly serious warning about no fooling around on the job, Benny had hired Dean as his newest mechanic.
"I was about to show Benny how pretty she runs," Cas explained. Dean grinned wildly.
"Can I come with?" he asked eagerly and little jealously.
Cas laughed again and explained to Benny, "He's gotten a little possessive of her, I think. He calls her his baby and everything!"
Dean shrugged half heartedly. "What can I say? She's the second prettiest thing I've ever laid a finger on in my life."
Cas blushed at the implied compliment. "Come on, Dean, let's rinse her off so we can take her for a spin around the block," he suggested.
Dean grinned playfully, and Benny quickly excused himself to get some things in order before he got caught in what looked like it was about to be the most massive water fight that the property had ever seen.
He wasn't wrong.
The two dripping wet boyfriends were waiting for him by the sparkling car when he got back, and they piled into the Chevy and started her up, all three of them mentioning the purr of her engine appreciatively.
"Where to?" Cas asked, pulling out of the yard cautiously.
Dean thought for a minute. "Wanna come over for dinner, Benny?" he offered. "I'm sure Bobby won't mind, and it'll kill two birds with one stone."
Benny shrugged. "I could eat," he agreed, and Cas quickly drove the short distance to Bobby's house.
Sam met them at the door with a grin a mile wide. "Is the car done, Dean?" he asked.
"Yeah, Sammy," Dean answered heppily. "She's next to perfect!"
Sam ran outside to look at the car, and Bobby came around the corner. "There you all are! Just in time, too! Dinner's going on the table as soon as Cas gets plates out for Jody to put it on," he greeted the guys.
Dean smirked. "You heard the man, Cas!"
Cas shrugged and placed a quick kiss on Dean's lips as he went to do what Bobby said. "that just means you get to wash the dishes after we eat," he reminded Dean over his shoulder.
Dean frowned then shrugged and went to call Sam in for dinner.
So it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn close, and he was pretty sure it was the best his life had ever been.
And it's done! I really don't know how to feel, but thank you all so much for the feedback and the comments, and keep them coming! Next up is finishing BHSW, so keep an eye on FFN for that one. (Once I get a couple chapters going, I'll create it on AO3 as well.)
I love all of you!
~Hailee
