The next morning, Cas got ready for his first day back to school. It amazed him how even after the news of Luther's escape, he still managed to reserve a special section of his nervousness for first-day-back jitters.

Cas gobbled down his cereal, then headed to the driveway as soon as he spotted a '67 Impala pulling in.

"You do realize that you didn't have to pick me up, right?" Castiel asked as he slid into the backseat.

"Yeah, because I'm just going to let you walk to school," Dean said sarcastically. "Especially considering that thing with your dad and especially on our first day back."

Cas didn't bother responding, he had no good response to that.

An awkward silence filled the car as Dean pulled back out of the driveway.

Sam filled it by suddenly piping up with, "You two should consider yourselves lucky for missing the mystery meat last week. I swear to god at least ten people went home with food poisoning. And that girl with the green hair in my LA class totally threw up in the teacher. It was pretty awesome, but really really disgusting at the same time."

Boy did Sammy have a knack for filling in the awkward silences, Dean thought to himself as he grinned.

"Just when you thought that the mystery meat couldn't get any more rancid," Dean commented.

"Never make that mistake," Cas told him. "That's like asking the universe to serve you some ground up dead people."

"That's nasty," Sam commented. "That just adds onto the pile of reasons that I am never again eating the mystery meat."

"An attitude like that is what makes you the primary ingredient in the next batch," Dean commented as he pulled into the school's parking lot.

"Ha ha ha," Sam said in a monotone voice. "You are so funny, Dean."

The trio entered the school together, Cas and Dean hand in hand. Sam quickly left them to go meet Jess at her locker.

"This is going to be weird," Cas stated. "I haven't been to any of our classes in like two weeks."

"Well you sure as hell better remember who you sit with," Dean told him. "It would be a shame to forget to sit next to such a handsome devil."

Cas rolled his eyes, "If I recall correctly, I hadn't sat with you for a long time before my absences."

"Yeah, well you'd better remember who you originally sat with," Dean rephrased. "It would be a shame if you forgot to sit next to this even handsomer devil."


When they entered Chemistry class, Dean and Cas instantly headed to the back of the classroom. Back to their regular lab table.

No one had seemed to notice their absence in this class. Or if they did, no one bothered to comment on it.

Cas wasn't sure if he was really happy with that, considering the lack of attention and questioning it attracted towards them, or if he was really upset that no one even cared that he had been gone for two whole weeks while Dean had been gone for one.

It was an easy first class back, since all they did was copy down notes from an overhead. Not exactly challenging work.


Dean and Cas walked to their next class, Math, each feeling a bit more confident about their day.

Once again no one seemed to care or notice, once again Castiel felt a mixture of relief and disappointment.

The class was assigned a list of questions out of the textbook and left to work on it. Dean and Cas worked on it, managing to finish most of it, up until the bell rang for lunch.


Cas and Dean were each amazed by the fact that no one came over to their table to bother them during lunch. It was like in their time away they had faded away into old news, like they had become invisible.

They sat down at the table with Sam and Jess. Jeremy wasn't sitting at the table with them, he had decided to sit with Sasha today.


The rest of the day went equally as smoothly and easily. The couple almost felt optimistic, but they knew that they wouldn't truly be able to until something was done about Cas's father.

When they got into the car, Cas asked Dean if he wanted to come over to work on the rest of their math homework together. Dean immediately agreed.

Sam told Dean that he wanted to have the car, that they could just go straight to Cas's and Sam could drive the car home and take it over to Jess's place later.

Dean looked his brother over suspiciously.

"You're not gonna have sex in my car are you?" Dean asked.

"Dude, no," Sam responded. "I was going to drive us to the movies, you pig. And besides, technically we share the car. Don't you remember?"

Dean sighed, he wasn't going to get out of this argument without a ridiculously time-consuming argument.

"Fine," Dean agreed. "But you had better take good care of her."

"I'll feed it. And I'll walk it everyday. And I'll clean up after it. And I'll make sure that it has plenty of water," Sam told him, imitating a small child that was trying to talk their parent into buying them a dog.

Dean rolled his eyes at his brother.


A few minutes later, Dean and Cas had their work station set up on Cas's bed, and were just beginning to work.

Castiel's foster mother was in the living room playing Candyland with his three younger foster sisters.

"Ha ha! I get to go all the way up to Princess Lolly!" Anna bragged.

"That's not fair," Whined Jo.

"Seems like a pretty intense game they're having out there," Dean commented with a grin.

"Are you suggesting that you want to be playing Candyland?" Castiel asked.

"Maybe," Dean said innocently.

"Too bad that they're already in the middle of a game. And that they've already reached the maximum number of players that are allowed to play," Castiel responded.

"Too bad," Dean agreed, before leaning across his work to kiss Cas hard on the lips.


Luther had been hiding out all day and he was at his wit's end.

All he had been doing during the day was sitting around thinking about Castiel's new family.

"What? I'm not good enough for the little fucker?" Luther muttered to himself. "All I ever did was try to help him and he repays me by finding a replacement family? The ungrateful little bastard doesn't deserve a new family... I wonder if they even know. I bet that they don't!"

Luther began to scratch nervously behind his ear as he continued to rant to himself.

"Someone has to tell them. I have to tell them. They can't go on with that monster in their house. Those little girls shouldn't be near him. Near his influence. He's a bad seed. Bad, bad seed. I have to warn them. They can't keep him in their house," Luther convinced himself.

"Someone needs to make them understand, I will make them understand," Castiel's father said with an almost inhuman grin.


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