Hey, so it may have been slightly longer than a week since the last update, so sorry about that. I'd like to say we had an excuse but neither of us really do. Anyway the first section is from Gabriel's pov and the rest is in Dean's. The end of this got a little bit angsty, and may have slight homophobia, just an fyi. Enjoy!
So after my heart to heart with Sammy, Castiel and I were told to bop over to some small park in a town called Conifer. Apparently good ol' Joe had decided to go on a spur of the moment hiking trip in some place 50 minutes away that isn't even all that big or good for hiking.
When my younger bro and I landed, we startled a very young, very loud and obnoxious kid who started to scream his chubby little head off. So we had to hightail it out of that specific section of the 'park.' The officer at the station hadn't told Sam or I exactly where Joseph was found, so it took all of about 3 minutes until my brilliant mind started working and we found the most likely area where a hiker could get lost. I had to figure that if a leviathan had killed Joseph, it wouldn't be in public, I mean, what kind of idiot would eat someone in public? Unless they were in a tribe of cannibals, in which case there's probably some initiation ritual where you have to eat, like, your father or your greatest blood rival or something like that. That's besides the point…
As I was saying, the place where Joe's body would most likely be found would be kinda isolated and probably pretty far from the front, although it didn't have to be very far because only a few people ever showed up to the park. I mean, it's a Saturday in the middle of June, around lunchtime, and there is only one, yes, one family here. And of course we just happened to bump into that one family. Anyway, so there was one part of the park that was a little bit off the beaten path, about a mile from the front of the park, and was surrounded by trees. Not only that, but there was a river that went throughout the entire park and the widest part flowed through this one spot. If I were to brutally murder someone, this would be the place I would do it. Like I said, this whole thought process, plus looking through the park for the layout, took me just 3 minutes. But it took me another 5 to explain to Castiel how I made my "deductions" (I swear, he could be just so dumb sometimes). And I think that proves that I'm the perfect guy, I've got brawn and brains.
Even though I had decided to help the Winchesters, I couldn't see why we were even out here, searching for a body. If it was a leviathan in that town, then he would have almost certainly eaten the kid; as much as my amazing deductions might have proved otherwise, I couldn't really care less about these leviathans. I wasn't lying when I told gigantor that I was only here for Cas and Dean. As far as I'm concerned, if this leviathan thing doesn't have anything to do with me, why should I have anything to do with it? That was generally a motto I lived by. The only reason I was still around was because this lust spell thing did involve me, so I have to see it through.
"So what should we do now?" Cas asked me after about a minute of awkwardly standing around, just kinda looking at all the trees.
"Isn't it obvious?" Insert blank stare here. "No? Well now we look for a body that isn't actually here." I replied with as much sarcasm as I could. We actually did start looking though, and I decided that I would only look for about half an hour until I told Cas to give up, because I really did believe that our search was useless. We didn't reach that point though, because after about 20 minutes, Cas, being the good little soldier that he is, found a pile of bones. Well, mostly just bones. There were actually two "bodies." One, the one I'm assuming is Joseph Nethel, was completely bones, with a leg that was snapped in two, while the second hadn't completely decomposed. That's how Cas had found them: the second one, which appeared to be female, was in the stage of death in which it smelled like, well death (not the horseman though, he smelled surprisingly good) and gave off enough of a stench that it could be smelled from a few feet away.
"What I don't understand," Cas said after a moment of just looking at the bodies, "is why the leviathans wouldn't just eat the humans, like they normally do. There is absolutely nothing to indicate why."
"Well I wouldn't say that, Cassy." My brain was going into overdrive yet again. "It looks like our guy over here has a broken leg; the injury looks bad enough that he wouldn't have been able to walk, and as far as we know, he could have been bleeding too. Maybe our theory that the leviathan specifically choose Joseph is wrong, and that in reality he was just the easiest target. There are plenty of places where a person could trip around here and it's not like there is anyone around to help you if you couldn't walk. And there's absolutely no cell service here, which is a great travesty. If a guy were to, say trip, fall, and break his leg enough that he wouldn't be able to walk, along with maybe hitting his head on a sharp rock that not only made him bleed but gave him a concussion, how long would you say he could survive out here on his own? I would give him three days, tops, and maybe by the time the leviathan found him (what he was doing out here in the middle of nowhere only dad knows) the dead guy was decomposed enough that he was recognizable, but would give you nasty food poisoning." Cas looked mildly surprised by the time I was done, which I found slightly offensive, but agreed with me.
"That does seem a more than likely theory, but what about the female?" He had me stumped there. I had absolutely no solution for that.
"Your guess is as good as mine there, buddy." Shortly after, we decided to report back to the others.
Sam and Gabriel told us that the Conifer police had found Joseph in some park about 50 minutes away. We decided that Cas and Gabriel would pop over and check it out, see if they could find the kid's body, while Meg, Sam, and I stayed behind to stake out the house and the library.
Meg and Sam got to check out the library and make sure Joseph didn't decide to skip town, which was the easy job. That meant I got the Nethel household. Just as I drove up, I could see that the mom and the other kid were leaving. I waited until they were gone for ten minutes, then it was fun-time for me.
The lock wasn't too hard to pick, then I'm in. Except for the dirty cups in the sink, nothing has changed since I'd been there. Maybe their rooms have something.
I started with Joseph's room(which, by the way, is weird as hell because who lives with their family at twenty-something?) Only one thing was weird about the room. The bed was perfectly made. With dust on it. Actually, everything was covered in a thin layer of dust. Alright, maybe he doesn't live with his parents. Looking at his pictures, there was one thing that stuck out. A super hot chick. And I mean smokin'. Like I'm not sure if even I would have a shot with that in a bar (but c'mon, I could probably get into her pants (with her consent of course) if I tried hard enough). Due to the way they held each other, they were probably a couple.
And since this guy's whole room was covered in dust, he had either been getting some since he came back, or he's leviathan. Probably leviathan, from the looks of him.
A quick look around the rest of the house proved normal, if not scarily neat. The other girl spotted with Joseph in the report had probably been the girl from the pictures. Well, at least thats a new lead! If she was the shape-shifting one in the lead, I'll bet she's leviathan too. Great job Dean!
After about an hour, Gabriel and Cas showed up out of nowhere, wings a blazing (well thats what I imagine at least, seeing as their wings don't actually exist to the human eye)with wind blown hair. Cas' hair was usually wind blown, giving off the vibe that he had just had hardcore sex or something, which I can't say I entirely hated. I have had more than one late night fantasy where I was the person giving him actual sex-hair. And why oh why, in the name of God, was I thinking about this now? Oh ya, because some idiot angel had cast a spell on me, and Cas was standing about five feet too close right now.
"Hey, Cas, personal space? We've talked about this." He backed up a few steps with an apologetic face and started to brief me on what they had found.
"Hold on, two bodies?" I asked when he was finished, "Who was the other one?" No one had an answer for me, so I told them about Joseph's possible lady-love, and how she might be a leviathan too.
"That's a great theory and all, but unless we figure out who this girl is, it doesn't help us." Gabriel pointed out with a much too smug look on his face.
"You think I don't know that?" I asked, my pent up rage showing the slightest bit. Truthfully, I had just about had it with this dick angel. Not only had he decided that it would be fun to torture Sam by killing me, apparently a lot, but he had also decided to cast this stupid lust spell on us for God knows why. And if that wasn't bad enough, this spell was multiplied whenever we were around each other. I mean, I freaked myself out enough with how much I thought about Castiel as more than a friend, but now it was just intolerable! He was probably the closest thing I had to family outside of Sammy and Bobby (and don't even get me started on that situation! I had had to live through Bobby's death, and then he decided to stay behind as a ghost? He knew what happened to spirits with tabs to settle!) Cas was also my best friend. And even though he could be a dick sometimes, and yes he had made mistakes, (who thinks they could become God?) I couldn't lose what I had with him over some feelings that may or may even exist! Hell, I don't even know if what I feel is just some stupid grief mechanism or some bullshit like that. And every time I thought about Cas as anything more than just friends, I thought back to my dad, and what he would think about the whole thing.
I wouldn't say that my dad was necessarily against gays or anything, (not to say that I was gay, because, girls, y'know, I love them) but I always get this feeling that he wouldn't accept it. He had always had very set standards for me. It was always "look after your brother, Dean" or "make sure Sam is alright, Dean" or something like that. I loved my dad. I really did, and still do. But sometimes it became hard following every single one of his orders. And that's why I grew so attached, what some people might even call codependent to, Sam. Because he never judged me as harshly as Dad or expected me to be anything more than I actually was. Thats why it was so hard when he told me he was going away to college, because I needed him. I guess I had just hoped that he needed me just as much. And I thought, for some crazy reason, that Dad would think that it was my fault that his little Sammy didn't want to be a part of the family business. That he wanted to have a normal life, meet a girl, settle down. And of course I was happy for him, he found a way out. He found what I never could. But it's all a sham, isn't it? A hunter getting out of the business? It never happens. And to protect others, a hunter is taught not to get too close to anyone, because they usually end up dead (I think that rule has held up pretty well so far.) And thats why I felt so close to Cas. Not only had he saved me from hell and give me back to Sam (which I didn't really deserve), but he always came back. Many of my friends, and even my family, had died, some multiple times (how messed up is that), but Cas had kept coming back, time after time, mistake after mistake, he always came through when we needed him. When I needed him. Maybe that's why I had some of the not-so-holy fantasies about his holy-
"Dean?" I was pulled out of my thoughts by a slightly alarmed, gravelly voice. "Dean? Are you okay? Dean? Answer me." It was Cas. He had stepped closer again. Apparently I had gone a little bit too far into my thoughts.
"Hmm? Ya. I'm fine. Just a little hungry I guess," I lied so that he wouldn't question me anymore. And there was Gabriel, standing a few feet away, smiling. What the hell could he have to smile about at a time like this?
"We should go check on Sam and Meg. See if they've found anything." I quickly said so that we could get out of there as quickly as possible and I could leave my thoughts behind.
So how was it? Be sure to tell us. I'd like to say we will update soon, but who knows. We will try though. I promise that a chapter centered around more of the lust spell and less of the leviathans will be coming up soon.
Important: We changed this to an M story just to be safe and because of the themes and suggestions. I do however doubt that either of us will write and actual sex scene.