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Here is the next chapter, I'm sorry, it's a short one. I hope you like it.
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Dean drove up to the airfield later that day to pick up Gabriel. He thought he would have to go and collect him from the office but when he arrived he was already waiting for him. That alone set Dean on edge. How were they supposed to make Cas jealous if he didn't see them together? But before he could question him Gabriel got into the car and growled at him to drive. It seemed Gabriel Novak was not a happy bunny right now.
"Okay Gabe, what's going on?" Dean asked as he drove them out of the airfield and onto the road which would take them to Benny's.
"Nothing." Gabriel replied turning to look out of the window with a frown firmly in place on his face.
"Bull. Spill now or I'm kicking your sorry ass out of my baby." Dean growled back, he didn't need any more shit from the freaking Novak's thank you very much.
Gabriel was silent after that. What was going on was something he did not like to admit, even under the pain of death. He did not like admitting when he was wrong. But after his conversation with Castiel yesterday and throughout today he had been thinking, analysing and watching his brother. And he had come to the realisation that the path he was currently walking might not be the right one. That this might not be the way to get Castiel and Dean together. The only problem was he had no idea how to change the situation he had got them all into. Because from what he could work out it seemed that Cassie thought that Dean was using him and that he Gabriel really liked the guy, when in actual fact that couldn't be further from the truth.
"Gabriel." Dean snapped into the silence, pulling the car with a jerk to the side of the road and a halt. "Talk or walk."
"Damn it Dean. Fine. You want to know what's going on? Well I'll tell you, I think I've screwed up and I have no idea how to fix it okay?" Gabriel snarled at him with narrowed eyes. Though when he saw the confusion in Dean's he sighed and ran his hand over his face before taking a deep breath and trying again. "I thought that this would work, you and me pretending to date. But it's not, if anything it seems to be doing the opposite to what I wanted." He said on another sigh.
"How so?" Dean asked. Now Gabriel was talking he was going to get all the information from him he could.
"Castiel is worried that you'll hurt me because you seem more interested in him." Gabriel replied with a raise of an eyebrow and a 'go figure' look on his face.
"I am more interested in him." Dean smirked back at the older man.
"Yeah Dean-o, I'm well aware of that, thank god. But I think he thinks you're using me or something, and because he thinks this is my first relationship with a man he is being decidedly protective of me." Gabriel said with a shake of his head at the idea that he would need protecting from anyone. But it was kind of sweet of his brother he guessed, just not so helpful right now with his plans.
"So you're saying I'm not your first male relationship Gabe? I'm heart broken." Dean replied with a fake sorrow filled look on his face making Gabriel chuckle at him.
"If this was real Dean-o, you would be, never fear." He responded before going back to the serious point of the conversation. "I'm just not sure what to do now."
"You could tell him the truth." Dean suggested with a shrug. I mean that would work right?
"Err, noooo, I don't want my face rearranged thank you very much." Gabriel replied with a shudder and turned to look out of the window once more. Tell the truth? What was Dean-o thinking?
"I'm sure you could defend yourself against Cas, Gabe." Dean said wiry.
"Oh yes I could, but it would be his right to beat the crap out of me so I would have to let him." Gabriel responded with a put upon sigh at the thought of having to behave in such a gentlemanly behaviour, why did they have to be raised gentlemen? It would make life so much easier if he and Castiel hadn't been.
"Okay." Dean wasn't sure what else to say to that sentence. "So what are we going to do?" He asked instead.
"Well I suggest we discuss it over dinner, don't you?" Gabriel replied turning back to the man in the driver's seat with a sunny smile on his lips.
"Fine, let's go. But you're still paying." And with that Dean pulled the car back onto the road and drove them to Benny's.
And discuss it they did. They finally agreed on a plan, or at least the beginnings of one. The first thing they would do would be to stop the pretend dating and just be friends around Castiel, leaving Dean to flirt with him all he wanted. Then when Castiel questioned Gabriel about how he might want to date Dean, Gabriel would encourage him, telling him that he was right and he really wasn't interested in Dean in that way. And hopefully the two would get together. That decided Dean and Gabriel ended up having a rather fun evening, after all they did actually get along, and Gabriel decided to regale Dean with stories of him and Castiel's childhood exploits, which Dean of course returned with stories of him and Sam. Of course if either of their brothers ever found out about this trade in tales they would no doubt kill them both. But what the hell right? what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them as the saying goes.