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The morning after his lesson Dean sat at his desk going through paper work, or at least trying to. But he found that every few minutes his mind drifted from the figures and part requests on his desk to be instead invaded by Novak's, in one form or another.

First it was thoughts of Cas. These came in the form of Dean's mind conjuring images of him, smiling at close quarters in the cockpit of the plane as he explained something, the feel of a gentle touch on his arm as Cas guided his attention to the instruments, the image of him drinking that bottle of water… and damn did those images cause his head to go crazy, spinning round into fantasies of all that he would very much like to do with the guy before he pulled his mind back to the work on his desk.

Then the thoughts of Gabriel would intrude. And these were as different as the ones he had about Cas as chalk was to cheese. Because this time he was trying to work out just what the man was up to. You see in the hours since his last meeting, Dean had come to the conclusion that he and Cas had been getting on pretty well without Gabriel's input, in fact Dean thought that if Gabriel had kept his mouth shut he might just be having a date with the sexy Novak brother this evening. But no, Gabriel had to go and intervene and invite him out for dinner. And he couldn't say no, well he could have, but he didn't wasn't Cas to think he was using his brothers or that he had hurt him, but on the other hand he didn't want to give Cas the idea that he and Gabriel actually had a chance and therefore make the guy back off. Damn this was so freaking complicated. And then there was the fact that Dean was to have an actual dinner date with Gabriel that evening. He had been tempted to make Gabriel take him to the poshest most prestigious restaurant in town, after all it wasn't like Gabriel couldn't afford it, or they would turn the guy away. In fact the paparazzi would no doubt love to have a photo-op of Gabriel Novak with Dean on his arm, that alone had been a temptation, but after dreaming about that form of revenge for about a minute Dean had conceded that if Cas ever found out that he had done that to his brother, he would no doubt beat the crap out of him. As such Dean had decided that he and Gabriel would go to Benny's for their dinner date tonight, and when there he was going to have a little chat with the older man and find out just what the hell game he was actually playing, cos it had got to the point where Dean was really starting to question this trying to make Cas jealous to get them together plan.

"Argh, Damn it all to hell." Dean growled as these thoughts crossed his mind for about the hundredth time in the last hour and he slammed the poor defenceless paper he was supposed to be reading back onto his desk.

"That bad, hu? What's up?" Came a voice Dean knew as well as his own from the doorway. Looking up (and up), he finally found himself looking into the smiling eyes of his brother.

"Hey Sam, how you?" He asked smiling back at his brother and forcing all thoughts of all Novak's to the back of his mind.

"Uh-uh Dean. I asked first. So what's the problem?" Sam asked making himself comfortable in the chair opposite Deans anticipating that his brother was having some sort of financial issue.

"Well… I have a second date tonight." Dean mumbled, because however much he really didn't want to talk about the crazy situation he had managed to get himself into, he also needed someone's help to figure it out. And Sam was a clever bastard, surely he would have some sort of insight.

"And that's a bad thing? And hey, when did you go on the first?" Sam asked smiling at his brother, happy to see that he seemed to found someone, or at least someone he was willing to go out with for a second time. Which wasn't actually that easy, apparently.

"The night before last." Dean replied with a sigh which made Sam smirk as he put two and two together and got four, even if the answer was actually three.

"Wow, you must really like this guy hu? So where are you and Castiel going?" Sam asked just to make sure that his suspicions were right, but it wasn't like Dean had shown any interest in any other guy of late, and hey if Cas was going on a second date with him then that must mean something right?

"Castiel? Wrong Novak little bro." Dean replied with a smirk of his own as his brother's face morphed from one of happiness to complete and utter shock, at least that told Dean that Sam knew exactly who he was dating.

"What?! Your- wait what?" Sam spluttered at him in disbelief.

"Dating Gabriel Novak? Yeah." Dean replied with a nod still smirking, that look on his brothers face almost made it worthwhile dating Gabriel, almost.

"No you can't." Sam said resolutely shaking his head in denial which made Deans eyebrows rise.

"Why not?" He asked calmly wondering just what had gotten into his brother.

"Because… well for one thing he's straight and got a girlfriend." Sam argued, though he knew that while he may be a damn good lawyer, his brother was certainly going to win this one.

"And the other?" Dean asked curious now just what it was.

"I don't know what you mean." Sam mumbled feeling once again like the little boy confronted with his big brother demanding he tell him the truth.

"Sammy." Was all Dean said and then just looked at his brother until he caved.

"My company are his legal representation and he is one of our biggest clients. It's how I heard about the flight school, I was going through his portfolio and found it." Sam replied through clenched teeth.

"So what?" Dean asked with a frown. He didn't understand what any of that had to do with him.

"So one wrong word from him and it could end my career Dean." Sam explained in exasperation, surely Dean could see that.

"Don't worry, Gabe wouldn't do that." Dean replied with a wave of his hand dismissing the idea as simply as that.

"Oh my god, you call him Gabe, you've given Gabriel Novak a nickname. What the hell Dean? You were just supposed to get over your fear of flying, not screw the Novak's." Sam snapped at him for his blasé attitude to his career. Damn it, Dean could mess up everything with this.

"Okay first off I'm not screwing them. If anything Gabe is screwing me-" Dean started to say only for Sam to interrupt with a disgusted face.

"I so didn't want to know that."

"Not like that, bitch. Get your head out of the gutter." Dean replied with a frown at his brother, not so much that he went there, but more because he went there before Deans mind could and that was just the wrong way round in the elder Winchesters mind.

"Fine jerk. Then just tell me straight, what the hell is going on?" Sam asked because he was getting the feeling that this was really not as simple as it seemed. Not that it seemed that simple to start with if truth be told.

With that Dean told Sam all about Gabriel's crazy plan and all about Cas. At the end of it Sam felt like washing his hands of all three of the men in this screwed up crazy love triangle, but he couldn't because Dean was his brother, and well… 'Gabe' was Gabriel Novak. It was for those two reason that the next words left his mouth, of course once he had spoken them he wished more than anything he could take them back, if for no other reason than the hope and thankfulness he saw in his brothers eyes scared the shit out of him.

"I think Dean that I should come with you for your next lesson and see for myself what's going on at that place."

"Sounds good." Dean replied nonchalantly, but nothing could dim the look in his eyes and Sam just lowered his head in his hands as he groaned at the thought of even trying to understand the situation he had just got himself into. Why couldn't anything ever be simple?