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Chapter 27 – Mr. Darcy

Dean rose from his seat and left Castiel alone at their table. Despite being curious as to why Dean suddenly left, Castiel made himself stay in his seat; if Dean left all of a sudden, following him would make him suspicious, and Cas didn't want that.

A bit frustrated for not being able to follow Dean, Castiel stayed in his chair for a while longer.

Why did he walk away? I was only helping him... Sure, he stayed until the end, but why did he left after it was done?

Not really wanting to admit he was a bit hurt by Dean's actions, Castiel didn't notice when Gordon walked up to the table.

"Hey, Castiel!" Gordon greeted as he sat down in front of Cas. "Mind if I sit here?"

Cas was shocked that anyone would approach him all of a sudden. Did people suddenly lose their respect for him? He couldn't have that happening…

"Get the hell away from my table!" He yelled at the teen in front of him. He wasn't thinking clearly, and having someone there would only distract him. He didn't have patience to listen to other people rant about their usual lives and how Castiel was so much better than them. It annoyed him to no end when others started doing so. He already knew he was better than them; he didn't need them to remind him, just because they wanted to be in a good place at the school hierarchy.

Gordon walked away as soon as Castiel spoke. He didn't want to risk being on Cas's bad side, he was a bit afraid of being in that position; he liked quite much how things were in his life right now.

Castiel sighed once he was left alone once again. His mind started to go back to his and Dean's conversation and he smirked. Dean had no idea what Pride and Prejudice was. That made him curious… What was he going to do with Castiel's information? Shove it away? Pretend he hadn't listened? Castiel had no idea. After a while, Cas got tired of sitting there, and decided to go home early. He didn't have classes that afternoon since his math teacher had gone home with a fever… He was free for that afternoon.

Before walking out of school, Cas went to the bathroom to check his face on the mirror. He smirked once he remembered some other conversation about Pride and Prejudice, inside a bathroom.

A month earlier

Castiel walked around school, no place in his mind until he saw Anna. She was talking to her girlfriend before she smiled and walked away. Ever since they stopped talking, Cas had wondered how Anna had been. His feet decided for him and he started following Anna. They ended up inside a bathroom, and once Anna noticed he was behind her, she turned to him, annoyed.

"What do you want, Cassie?"

Castiel rolled his eyes and huffed. Anna always used that name when she was annoyed with him, and of course, after not talking for so long she held a grudge against him or something… Perfect! Annoyed!Anna was always something fun to watch!

"Hey Castiel! How are you?" Cas said in a girly voice, copying Anna's tone. "Good! Thanks for asking! How are you, Anna?" He continued, this time in his own tone of voice. "I've been good too, you know! I have a girlfriend!" He paused and looked at her; she was standing in front of his, her cheeks tainted red from embarrassment and he decided it was enough, Anna always knew how to get revenge if he went too far.

Anna looked at him, and for a few seconds, she could still see her friend. Until their sixth year, Castiel and Anna had been best friends, they were always together and used to tell each other all their secrets, but at some point it all stopped. Anna always wondered what happened to her 'little Cassie'.

"Why did you have to change so much?" She asked all of a sudden. She missed the sweet Castiel that used to hang out with her; the sweet boy who always complained when his brothers wouldn't let him do anything by himself… And the question was asked without her even noticing.

Castiel was a bit taken aback with her question. He never realized that Anna missed having him around, but he simply couldn't do it… It wasn't possible.

"What makes you think I changed so much?" He asked her, curious to know what she thought of the situation.

Anna tilted her head and focused her eyes on Cas's.

"You're not the same… You're cruel, evil, mean… I don't know this person in front of me… You're all I despise Castiel." She said, her voice tainted with cruelty. She didn't even restrain herself from not saying what she thought. She knew Castiel liked honesty and she always told him whatever she thought about the situation.

Castiel smiled widely. He was proud of himself, if Anna thought that bad of him, of course he was the King of school!

"Why the fuck, Castiel?! Why are you smiling?" Anna was outraged with Castiel's attitude. She was shocked of his reaction and above that, why was he so please with himself?

"Oh Anna… There are thing I did that I'm not proud of… But this, you were fooled by Darcy's pride!" Castiel said as he laughed at his own joke. He felt amazing on how he got those words out.

Anna didn't know what to think… What did Castiel meant with that? Ever since… Well, ever! Castiel and Anna had read the same books and shared their opinions over them, it just happened that Pride and Prejudice was their book. They knew most of it by heart and the characters were too deep in their skin that they felt their emotions. Listening to Castiel say something like that… Of course it made Anna question both herself and what she knew about everything.

"What did you do?" It wasn't that hard to figure out why that was her first question. Anyone who had read the book knew how amazing and perfect Mr. Darcy was… But those who only read the first bits were fooled by Darcy's pride and liked Wickham better. Anna was sure she would never judge someone based on their attitude, yet there she was…

"My Anna… Do you really want to know? It might not please you…" Despite his mocking words, Castiel was afraid of telling her the truth. He was afraid of her reaction and the way the truth was going to impact the rest of his life… But the glare he received from Anna made him continue. "Alright… If you're sure you want to know…" Castiel paused and took in a sharp intake of oxygen into his lungs. "I'm sure you remember how close we were, how we used to do everything together… But I'm also sure you have no idea about what I'm going to tell you." With that, Castiel looked into the mirror to stare at his own reflection, trying to think about his past and getting lost in it for a few moments. "Half-way through our sixth grade something happened. It was something really big, so that's why we are not friends anymore." Anna looked at him annoyed, why didn't he skipped the boring details and just head up to the plot? Castiel simply ignored her and continued his tale. "Well, it happened that I overheard a conversation between Alastair and Azazel. They were pretty much annoyed because Crowley managed to convince his girlfriend into having sex with him, while they were still virgins. Now you might think that they would just screw each other and call it a night, but they had other plans." Castiel closed his eyes, as if it helped him think about that day better. "Alastair told Azazel that there were some pretty girls around school. So far so good, right?" Anna nodded, not really understanding Castiel's point. "Well, at that point I had decided I should just walk away from them, but they said they wanted to force a girl into having sex with them… At least those were their words, if it had been me, I would have said 'rape' it's kind of the same thing… Anyway, they were saying they wanted to fuck some girl and leave her to root. I wanted to run away from them and simply forget people as cruel as them exist but when they said the name of the girl they wanted, I just lost it."

Anna didn't know what to think… So apparently, Alastair and Azazel wanted to rape some girl and that made Castiel turn into the biggest douchebag ever?! In which world did that make sense?! None!

"Who did they want to rape?" She was afraid of knowing. It could be anyone, but it could also be someone she knew.

Castiel opened his eyes once more and sighed. His blue eyes searched for Anna's and rested on her face.

"They were going to rape you." The sentence came out as a shock, Anna was sure she heard it wrong, but she was afraid that she would have to listen to Castiel say it again. "At that point, I was too scared to do anything to them. I ran away from them and decided to become worse than them. If people were afraid of me, then I would set the rules and you'd be just fine. If I ever found out they tried anything on you I would kill them…" Castiel's voice was a bit emotional, but nothing exaggerated, it showed that even after such a long time, he dreaded the memory and wanted nothing more than to forget it. But that wasn't possible… He had come this far, he wasn't gonna back out now. "As soon as I got the badass title, I decided I could start making the rules, and you should be honored, Anna… My first rule was that you're mine… And you know what comes with that rule?" Anna shook her head; she knew it, but she wanted Cas to tell her anyway… "I proclaimed you as my toy so that everyone knew they couldn't just go and play with you."

Anna felt mixed emotions passing through her, the idea that she could have been raped still fixed in her mind… She just couldn't let it go and she didn't think she would ever be able to… The other thing present in her mind was that Castiel saved her. Just like Mr. Darcy would, he did everything in the dead of night and in the morning let the light shine without people knowing it was still there because of him… That moment made everything harder, she had hated him for so long that now she didn't know what to feel. When they stopped being together, she felt betrayed, she felt as if Castiel had used her… And now that she knew the truth, she was ashamed of what she felt back then. How could she ever be able to not think about what Cas did for her, without feeling ashamed? Her reaction to Castiel's words came with a soft cry from Anna. There was so much to process; her guilty heart was the worst thing. All she could do was to start crying.

I was so stupid. How could I ever think that Castiel could become like that without an actual reason?

"Cassie…" She called, stumbling towards Cas. "I'm sorry." And with those words she hugged him tight. She buried her face in Castiel's chest, crying softly into his t-shirt. Castiel stayed there and hugged her back. It had been so long since they had been this close… He couldn't forget the last time Anna had cried against his chest; it was when she realized she also liked girls, and told her mother… One might say that Mrs. Milton wasn't very happy to hear her daughter was queer, she didn't even think that Anna liked both boys and girls, the only thing Anna's mother heard was that her daughter liked girls. Castiel had been the one to calm Anna down and let her know that it was okay to like girls too… If Anna ever got herself a girlfriend had been because of Castiel's soft words back in their fifth grade. Carefully, Castiel caressed Anna's hair, letting her know he was still there, trying to comfort her. The action only made her feel even guiltier. How could she not? Thinking her best friend was a nutjob and hating him for years, when he was only trying to protect her, and yet there he was comforting her when she realized she had been wrong about him all along.

"It's okay…" Castiel whispered into her ear. It felt nice to be so close to Anna again. He missed her, she had always been a big part of his life, giving him the best advice and making him see that his green pants simply didn't go well with that stupid orange shirt Gabriel got him for his tenth birthday…

"No it's not…" She said as she gained control of herself. How could she ever repay Castiel for all he had done for her? It was because of him that she had the perfect first time with Charlie… She owed Castiel for letting her have a thing so perfect, while he suffered alone. All she could think of was the last time she had an argument with Castiel -in which she was wrong- and how that ended… She had decided she needed to repay him for being such a bitch… So she –for the first time in her life- gave him a blowjob. Despite being with Charlie and feeling that the other girl was absolutely perfect, Anna couldn't help herself once she got into her knees and pulled Cas's pants and boxers down. Cas hadn't had enough time to understand what she was doing until he felt a mouth around his dick.

For the second time in her life, Anna gave a guy a blowjob, and it happened to be the same person she had given it the first time… She was so focused on trying to make Castiel forget how she had hated him; but most of all, trying to make herself forget it too.

Anna started by sucking on Cas's cock, trying to pleasure him as much as she could. After a few seconds of sucking, she started licking Cas's length. I think I'm doing a pretty good job! Even after so much time, you still got it in you! Nice job, Anna! Anna thought to herself. All the while, Castiel was thinking too… Just not the same as Anna. Nope… I'm not feeling it. You call this a blowjob? Just by looking at Dean gets me harder than you Anna… You should go back to your girlfriend, maybe you'll be more successful in that field…

She was so busy with the task in her mouth that she didn't even notice when Charlie opened the bathroom door and saw them there: Castiel's cock in her girlfriends' mouth, fucking her mouth, and Anna not minding it at all… The sight broke her apart. She always thought Anna and her actually liked each other and that they would never betray the other, but the sight in front of her told her she had been wrong…

"Anna… You gotta stop…" Castiel told her, while pushing her face away from his member. "You don't need to do this just to try and make it all better… I regret that I let you do it that first time… Your friendship is enough for me."

Anna is a bit shocked to say the least. She wasn't expecting Castiel to react like that at all. A deep blush covered her cheeks as she realized that it sounded a bit stupid to simply go suck her best friend's dick after feeling like she was the worse friend in all humankind.

"Sorry." She said sheepishly.

Castiel smiled affectionately at her.

"It's ok… It's good to know you still care that much about me."

Back to the Present

The memory was good, it was the time when he and Anna started to become a bit close once again, the only difference was that Anna and him only saw each other after school, not letting his image lower at school… He still needed the respect, he managed to get Dean to be known as his toy, but as soon as people knew he wasn't what they thought of him he would lose everything… No one could know he had a soft heart. In the end, that was his problem… He cared too much. He hated that Dean had affected him so much. Why couldn't he simply stop caring about that boy? Why did he really need to know?

The answer to all his questions was the same as usual: He just needed to know. Once he found there was something off with someone his instincts kicked in and made him try to find out what was the problem to solve it. He didn't care which means he had to use to get to the end he wanted… All he wanted was to fix the problem. One could say started to abuse of his power –as the King of school- to get what he wanted… Which was the power to protect those he found that interested him. The problem was that he started to become addicted to power, and a few years after it, he started to become feared by people, because he actually hurt them. What made him change back to his protective self was Dean. He had Dean to thank for becoming himself once again, but he could only do it if he managed to save Dean of his problems… Whoever was hurting him was going to pay. He didn't care if he had to kill the person; he just wanted to protect the other boy.

Castiel shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts as he walked out of school, he decided not to go home just yet… He was sick of looking the same, if his personality changed back to how it was before; he wanted his exterior to look different too.

He walked around town, until he found what he wanted… He walked inside the shop and waited for the employee to attend him. It's not like there were other people in the saloon, but she was absorbed with some papers, and it looked rude to interrupt her. It didn't take her long to notice him there and she greeted him happily.

"Hello, sir. Do you want to cut your hair?" The young woman, probably in her early twenties, asked him gently, from across the counter.

Castiel smiled politely at her.

"Please don't call me 'sir'… My name is Castiel." He told her politely. "And no… I don't think so… I'm here to do something else to my hair…" His eyes travelled across the shop to the posters with both men and women with their hair painted. He pondered for a few seconds and decided what he wanted. "I want to dye my hair."

Madison, at least that was the name on her tag, nodded.

"Alright, Castiel… Do you know which color you want to use?" She asked softly.

Castiel nodded.

"Yes… But I'm not sure if I won't want a haircut after all… What do you think? Should I cut and dye it? Or just dye it?" He seriously didn't know. He usually liked when people walked around with dyed hair, but he wasn't sure if he should cut it too.

Madison smiled softly. Clients usually had their minds set, so she couldn't say anything to them. Once, a woman walked inside her shop and told her to go crazy and do whatever she thought would look good on her… About two weeks later, the woman's husband died and she couldn't even think about dyeing her hair… She simply went there to cut the hair now. She still felt she wasn't ready to do it again. Now having a young boy ask for her opinion, it made her very happy. She took a moment to think what would look nice on him and started ranting about her thoughts.

"Hmmm… Maybe Ten's hair would look nice on you… What color do you want to paint it?"

"Red." The answer was strong, and Madison nodded approving his choice.

"You want to go Charlieissocoollike? Or do you want just the ends?" Once Castiel tilted his head, she blushed a bit before explaining herself. "Charlieissocoollike is a YouTuber who painted his whole hair red…"

Castiel thought for a few seconds… He had an idea, but he wasn't sure Madison could do it.

"Do you have a piece of paper?" Castiel had his school stuff in his bag, but he didn't want to ruin his notebooks with his drabbles. He took a pencil-case from its case and waited for Madison to give a piece of paper.

It didn't take him long to draw himself –it was a chibi version of himself-; he was used to doing so, the only difference was that he needed to change his hairstyle this time… He tried a few times, and Madison kept hovering over him. There was no one else inside the shop apart from them and it seemed that this was the best time to get a haircut, no people waiting for their time… They could take as long as they found necessary to find the perfect hairstyle.

"No… I think it would be better like this…" Madison said as she grabbed Cas's case and took a rubber to erase a bit of Castiel's portrait. She then took Cas's pencil-case and drew what she had suggested. It took them around fifteen minutes, erasing and re-drawing the actual thing, before they were happy with it. After finding the perfect hairstyle, Castiel took his colored pencils and started painting bits of the drawing, showing it to Madison before continuing. "Wait! I have an idea!" Madison said as she dug into Cas's other case taking another colored pencil. She started painting the place above where Castiel had painted and looked at him, searching for his reaction. "What do you think?"

Castiel looked at the piece of art in front of him. He liked the way his hair was in it, and especially the colors they chose. The tones were gorgeous, and he hopped he could get his hair done soon.

"I like it, Madison." Castiel said, using the girl's name for the first time.

She beamed and started digging through her dyeing paints, to find the perfect colors.

"You can call me Maddie. You're such a sweetheart," Madison told him. Castiel was a pleasant fellow, and he seemed to a kind person. He gave his opinion to her suggestions and wasn't rude about it. He simply shrugged and gave the 'I don't know if that's a good idea' look, trying not to hurt her feelings, since she was giving her best to help him out.

Cas nodded.

"Alright… I like it, Maddie."

After a few minutes, she had the colors ready, and all that was needed was to get Cas the so desired haircut. She took out her favorite scissor and started cutting bits of Cas's hair.

"You know… The way we're gonna put your hair reminds me both of Arthur's and Merlin's hair…" Once again, Castiel tilted his head. He knew the series, Balthazar loved it and had been heart broken when he found out there wouldn't be a next season. But Castiel had never watched it. "Arthur has blond hair that looked a bit like your haircut before, and Merlin has a beautiful raven colored hair, a bit shorter than how yours is gonna be… You're kinda in between those two, but the sides are gonna be Merlin's and the rest is a bit shorter than Arthur's…" Maddie explained. Castiel nodded, he liked the feeling of looking similar to those characters, but still not exactly like them…

It didn't take too long for Maddie to get his hair just like they had imagined. Soon Maddie started preparing the colors and the necessary equipment to dye Cas's hair.

"You sure you want to do this?" She was a bit unsure, since Castiel looked a bit young, but if he wanted to do it, he could always do it at home… She preferred to do it herself and do it properly, instead of having him get a crappy paint in his head that would mess everything up.

"Yes." Castiel replied firmly. "Do it."

And so Maddie started. She grabbed the first bottle that had the first color she would use. She started with the sides of Castiel's head, since he wanted the back to look the same. As soon as Cas's locks were filled with red, she moved to the center of Castiel's head and got his bangs to start dyeing with the other color; the one she had suggested. The brush got the color and she started coating the black locks of Castiel's hair with a mix between turquoise and light blue. The front bangs were the ones that took most time to get done, they had decided to alternate between red and the mix of the other two colors, to make it as different as possible without it looking too strange. The drawing looked amazing, and Castiel hoped that he could get to look just as amazing as it was supposed to be.

During the whole thing, Castiel had his eyes closed. Not because he was scared of looking at his reflection, but because he didn't want to ruin the surprise. He wanted to see it when it was done, not while it was happening… After Maddie finished painting and putting those silver paper things in his hair, Castiel wondered if he should look to the mirror or not… Castiel took a while to think and ended up deciding against it. A surprise was a surprise, but he also wanted to know how he looked like. He got an idea and ended up asking Maddie a favor.

"Maddie, could you do something for me?"

She looked at him and nodded. It was then when she noticed he had his eyes closed. It took her a while to realize he couldn't see she had nodded.

"What do you need, Castiel?"

Castiel fished his phone from his pocket and unlocked it. He knew his phone so well that he didn't need to even open his eyes.

"Can you take a few pictures of how I look like right now?" He asked, a bit unsure of what her reaction would be. He didn't want to trouble her, but he also wanted to know how he looked at that moment. He wanted to think about it in a few years and remember the first time he dyed his hair, and pictures where always better than just remembering what he saw from the mirror.

"Sure thing." Maddie said as she took Cas's iPhone from his hands and touched the screen for the Camera application. She snapped a few pictures and smiled warmly. This Castiel kid is so cute! She couldn't help but think about the adorableness in Castiel.

She returned the iPhone to Castiel before they started talking about whatever topic Maddie decided. He found it interesting to find out more about some TV shows… Some his brothers watched and others were completely new to him… Was there really a TV show about a cannibal named Hannibal?! Did they make it rime on purpose!?

About half an hour later, Maddie decided it was time to remove the silver paper from Castiel's hair. His eyes remained stubbornly closed. He didn't want to spoil the surprise… He wanted to look at it, sure, but only when it was actually ready. He waited until Maddie took the last piece from his hair. He was about to open his eyes, when Maddie covered them with a hand towel.

"NO!" She yelled. Castiel jumped in his sit, not sure of what had happened. "I mean… Can you give me your phone again? I want to film your reaction…" She explained, a bit embarrassed that she thought Castiel might like the idea of watching his reaction later on…

As soon as Castiel understood why she suddenly started yelling, he calmed down. He took his phone from his pocket once again and unlocked it. Maddie took the phone from his hands and left him with the towel against his face.

"You can only take it off when I tell you, alright?" She said as she got the camera and started taking a few pictures of Castiel before switching it to filming mode. She pressed the screen and it started recording. "You can take it off." Slowly, Castiel took the towel from his face. His eyes were still closed, but he couldn't keep them closed for much longer. Now that it was safe to see, he was too curious as to how he looked like to keep his eyes closed. He opened them at the same time, his eyes fixing on the mirror in front of him. His hair wasn't wet anymore, so there was no point in dying it. The colors mixed well together and he couldn't find the words to express how much he liked the way his hair was at that moment.

He started shifting his head, to glance and see how it looked like from the sides. He still couldn't find the words he needed. He was silent the whole time. Maddie would have been worried he hadn't liked her work, but the way his eyes light up once he saw the final result told her he liked it. She beamed at Castiel's reaction and started walking around him, filming from different angles to show Castiel's hair.

"I take it you like it…" Maddie said after a while.

Castiel's eyes found hers and he grinned.

"It's amazing. Thank you!" He said happily.

They went back to the counter, and Maddie handed his iPhone back once more. Castiel paid for the haircut and the dyeing. He ended up giving Maddie a nice tip. She had been so helpful and nice to him… This was the only way he could repay her.

"Thank you, once again." Castiel said as he walked towards the exit door.

"You're welcome!" Maddie replied with an easy smile on her lips.

And so Castiel walked away from the hair saloon with a new haircut and his hair dyed. It might have been a bit crazy, but it symbolized the change he felt inside, and that made him feel happy.

A/N: Please don't hate me. I'm so afraid you won't like it. *sweats nervously* I've been meaning to get Cas to do this for a while, but only now I was able to. If you hate it I'M REALLY SORRY! But don't hate me too! *hides away from the readers*

If you want to follow me on tumblr, I changed my url to blowing-dean (on my main account, the other remains the same)

One more thing, I wrote two one-shots: Rapunzel and Where do babies come from? if you want, feel free to check them out ^^