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Chapter three

Dean led Cas into the living room. He was still surprised the effect this one man had on him.

He decided to wait for Cas to start, not yet willing to admit to the man in front of him how he made him feel.

Cas began to wonder if this was a good idea. He had just been led into a vampire's home by said vampire. Things like this, putting himself in danger for a man? Yeah so not him!

He realised dean was waiting for him to start, so before he lost his new found bravery he stormed ahead.

"I am sorry I left earlier the way I did, after you saved me you didn't deserve that." He began, the guilt he felt eased slightly with his apology.

"Already forgotten," dean replied but his eyes were downcast giving the impression that may not be the truth.

Cas did feel guilty, he meant what he said. Dean deserved better.

"I also want to thank you, although I am unsure why you did it, I am grateful you were there and saved me. I still unsure who did this and why and I let everything get on top of me and I took it out on you." Something that never happened, he thought to himself.

"Seriously man, I couldn't leave you like that and after what you've been through, I think I can handle being your theoretical punching bag on this occasion." He meant every word. "Anyway I thought you didn't want to see me at all?" He felt he needed to know the reason Cas came tonight. Did he feel the pull dean did?

"After I left I could not stop thinking about you." Cas looks down as a blush tainted his cheeks.

Dean's breath caught in his throat, Cas was beautiful. He zoned out but quickly realised Cas was continuing.

"...I know it's to do with the bond and not really real but how long will it last and what do we do in the mean time?"

Dean was perplexed. Not real? In all his years of a vampire he had never heard of a bond creating feelings in those involved but he had a feeling Cas would not believe this so he kept it to himself. For now. He just needed to figure out a way for as to stay around until the end of the bond an then he could work on him staying around for longer.

"It lasts for around 6 months, I know you said you didn't want me near you but maybe we could try and be friends. We should also try and work out who did this to and make sure they won't try again. I might note there next time to save you."

Cas exhaled deeply, after everything that had happened it hadn't let the possibility of it happening again to cross his mind. If only he could remember who he had seen it might give him some answers to the questions he had.

Dean had suggested they could be friends but he was unsure if it would work. Not because of the feelings he was hoping would go away before Dean full on rejected him but because if had never really spent any inordinate amount of time with anyone but Balthazar and that was mostly down because the lived together.

Well it was only for six months and then whatever was causing these feelings would leave. He had no doubt it was the bond they had formed as he refused to believed he could develop feelings for someone that quickly when he had never met and felt attraction for someone so deeply before.

He decided to take the plunge, he could always return to self-imposed solitude after the six months were up.

"Friends then," he spoke clearly and confidently despite his mixed feelings on the inside.

Dean broke into a full on grin then, he could not believe how sappy one man could make him. Contrary to popular believe (his brother Sammy) he did want just one person warming his bed and his heart and through all his years, as a vampire and human, he had never felt anything close to what he was feeling now, especially this quickly. He reached out to embrace Cas as a sign of the new found friendship. At first Cas hesitated but eventually he gave in and fell into Deans enveloping hug.

It was that moment that a giant of a man walked into the living room. Caught up in their closeness neither Dean nor Cas saw or heard him so it took for him to clearly his throat for them to spring apart.

Once again Cas had to look down to hide the blush on his cheeks.

"Sammy!" Dean exclaimed surprised as he hadn't heard his brother arrive.

"Dean," Sam whined, "Don't call me Sammy," it literally went like this every time they greeted each other. "Can I talk to you in the hall for a moment please," Sam was unsure what he had walked into but he needed to get to the bottom of it.

"Of course, I'll be right back Cas." Dean followed his brother out to the hall before Cas could protest. He was now left on his own and who knew how many other vampires lived here! The may not be as kind as dean were.

"What is it Sam?" Dean asked.

"Don't act coy Dean. Why is he still here? I thought we discussed what you were going to do."

"No Sam we did not discuss anything you told me what the best solution was and I decided against it. He had almost lost he life, he deserved to know.

"Don't give me that. This is just you playing the swooping hero so you can get him into bed. Have you thought about what will happen after you kick him to the curb? No of course not."

Dean was fuming. It had been a long time since Dean had been with anyone. But Dean would always see him as a playboy through and through. Why could no one see he had change?

"Fuck you Sammy, It's not like that. When was the last time I had anyone in my bed? But of course you wouldn't notice that, you just see the old me. You best get use to this Sam, Cas will be around until the bond wears off at the earliest." Dean was hoping a lot longer too.

Sam had forgotten about the bond, for Cas' sake he wanted to believe his brother. "Ok I am sorry, I will trust your judgement on thus

"Bitch," dean said, not able to stay mad at his little brother for too long.

"Jerk," Sam replied, knowing he had been forgiving.

Dean headed back to the living room. He found Cas in the same place as he left him, worry etched across his brow.

"Cas? You alright?" He asked, almost expecting another blow out like earlier.

"Oh, yes I am fine, but can I ask you a question Dean?"

"Fire away."

"Um…" Cas began nervously, "What do you eat?"

Dean was actually surprised it took this long to ask, he answered him easily.

"We have somewhat of a genius amongst us vampires. His name his Kevin Tran, he created a synthetic blood that apparent tastes as good as Human blood. Some vampire still feed from humans, willingly or not. And it can also be used for mating rituals. But most still to the manufactured blood."

If Cas was surprised by the answer he did not show it, but he was relieved he did not need to worry so much when he came to see Dean, as he anticipated not being able to spend much time apart from this enigma of a man for too long in the next six weeks.

"Who was the man just now?" a twinge of jealousy hit Cas, thinking it could be a Vampire lover.

Dean felt the twinge, but thought it came from himself, thinking Cas may like him. Damn this whole feelings thing, making him think irrational thoughts.

"That's my brother, Sam. Why? You like him?" He joked with a wink but held his breath for the answer.

Once again Cas blushed, That's becoming a habit he thought as he felt his face heat up.

"Of course not!" he shouted, "I was just curious is all." He replied.

Dean breathed a sigh of relief. Right there and then he decided that he needed to keep Cas from being anyone else's but his. Sure it was crazy seeing as they had known each other less than a day but he had a feeling this was it for him. Call it vampire senses.

Now he had found a mission in his undead life; Make Castiel Novak fall in love with Dean Winchester.

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Also who would you preview Sam to be paired with. I love Sabriel, but if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them.