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Castiel was sitting in the library after school had ended. He was making sure that everyone in the freshman class had gotten all of their books back with the check out cards while Chuck and Sam re-stalked some that the elementary school had borrowed the day before.
Somebody walked in a cleared their throat loudly. Cas looked up to see, surprisingly, his eldest brother Lucifer.
And when Cas said this was a surprise he meant it was something that he had never expected Lucifer in this universe or any other parallel one to do. Lucifer hated high schools. He had dropped out when he was fifteen to help care for Cas and Gabriel but he wasn't upset about it. He actually welcomed the good reason to do so. Cas and Gabriel also thought secretly that he dropped out to care for them so that his twin brother Michael could continue going to school. It was more important to him.
"Uh hello Lucifer..." Cas said squinting at him.
"Hello Cassie." Lucifer said leaning against the front of the library desk, "Why are you looking at me like I robbed a bank?"
"Did you rob a bank? Or do anything else illegal that would prompt you to actually step foot inside of a high school to talk to your younger brother that you could easily chat with when he got home?" Cas asked.
This small exchange of words had caught Sam and Chuck's attention, especially when Cas said the name 'Lucifer'. They leaned around the bookshelf they were at to listen.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Lucifer asked.
"You hate high schools." Cas dead panned.
"Okay, you're right. This place makes me wanna hurl and then set it and my vomit on fire, buutttttt, Gabe said you have a crush on someone." Lucifer said waggling his eyebrows.
"I hate Gabriel. I hate you both. It's nothing." Cas grumbled.
"Gabe said you gave him a 27 on the 1-10 hot meter Cassie, that's not nothing."
"Okay so I really like him but why are you here? We could have talked about this at home."
"Oh but Cassie, I'm here because I wanna see him."
Castiel's eyes widened considerably and he looked thoroughly uncomfortable so Sam and Chuck decided to save him.
"Hey Cas, Chuck and I finished." Sam said walking over with the smaller bearded boy behind him. The two boys gave Cas a knowing smile and Cas gave them a grateful one in return.
"That's awesome guys, I don't really have anything else you can do so just hang out until your rides get here."
"AHEEEMMMMM" Lucifer cleared his throat loudly and looked pointedly at his little brother.
Cas glared at him, "What?"
"Are you going to introduce me or not?"
Cas rolled his eyes, "Sam, Chuck, this is my eldest brother Lucifer, Luce these are two of the juniors that volunteer in the library. Sam and Chuck."
"Nice to meet you." Sam said smiling warmly. Cas shouldn't have expected anything different from the boy. He actually smiled at the devil like he was a long lost friend.
"Hey." Chuck nodded towards him, "Now Satan that's a new one. You're one of a kind around here."
Lucifer laughed and shot the boys a smirk, "I like them."
"So Cas, is your other older brother named after an Angel as well?" Sam asked.
Cas also shouldn't have expected anything less, again. Sam was so smart.
"Uh, yes. How did you know I was named after an Angel?"
"Castiel is the angel of Thursdays." Sam said with a shrug, "I watched a show on it once."
"Our other brother is named after an Archangel." Lucifer told them rolling his eyes.
"Yes and he will never let us forget it." Cas agreed, "His name is Gabriel."
Sam turned to Chuck, "You wanna come over? Ellen's cooking tonight so there'll be plenty to eat." Cas wondered vaguely who Ellen was.
"Yeah sure, my dad won't care." Chuck said with a shrug.
"Dean'll be here in like five minutes." Sam told the boy as they walked to a table, leaving Cas and Lucifer alone.
Lucifer was grinning at him.
"Gabe also said he was the brother of one of the students."
Cas scowled, "Why is it so hard for Gabriel to keep things to himself?"
"It's not hard for him Cassie, he just chooses not to." Lucifer chuckled, "I'm guessing it's the handsome kid, uh Sam's brother. Dean, he said?"
"Yes it is Sam's older brother Dean. But there's no point Luce, he's got a four year old son and a dead wife. I don't think he's looking for romance at the moment."
"Now Cassie! No need to be so cynical! That's my job. First of all you love kids, and second you don't know how long his wife has been dead. If she had died recently then he wouldn't have told you." s
"I guess you have a point."
"There is no guessing. I do have a point. Now, I wanna sit in your spinney chair."
Cas rolled his eyes again, "Sometimes I wonder how I am related to you and Gabriel at all."
Then Cas spied a little boy run into the library and then stop dead, looking up at Lucifer. It was Dean's son Adam, and he looked terrified.
"Hey Adam, It's Cas, remember me?" Cas asked running around the desk to lean down nd look at the little boy.
Adam nodded and kept looking at Lucifer.
"Don't worry, that's my big brother he won't hurt you, he's...nice."
Adam's fear immediately drained away and he beamed at Cas and Lucifer.
"I'll be right back Cas!" he said giggling and ran right out the door.
-x-
Dean watched Adam from down the hall as he sped into the library, but then a moment later he rushed right back out and was running towards him.
"Is everything okay, buddy?" Dean asked nervously.
"Yeah," Adam said grinning, "You gotta walk faster Daddy! Cas has his big brother here, just like you and Uncle Sammy!"
Adam grabbed Dean's hand and dragged him the rest of the distance to the library and inside.
"Whoa, slow down there buddy, Daddy can't run as fast as you." Dean said chuckling. In reality Dean was incredibly fast, but he was sore from work and didn't want to exert more energy than he head to.
Adam went around and tugged at Cas' sleeve, Cas' attention was already on Dean.
"Mr. Cas! Mr. Cas! You're a wittle brother just like Uncle Sammy."
Cas snapped out his trance and glanced away from Dean reluctantly, "Yes I am, but Uncle Sammy's big brother is much cooler than mine." Cas smiled and the little boy giggled. Lucifer huffed, pretending to be offended and Dean shot him a smile that made him weak at the knees.
"Daddy's not cool." Adam snorted, "Daddy's silly."
Dean pretended to pout at his son, and Adam giggled some more.
"Get over here you little shit." Dean grumbled and went after the little boy.
"Ooh! Daddy said a cuss word!" Adam practically shrieked, "Uncle Sammy! Where are you? Daddy cussed!"
Adam ran away from his father and into the labyrinth of a library to find his uncle.
Dean shook his head and looked at Cas and his brother.
"Sorry about that." Dean said sheepishly.
"It's fine Dean, Adam is so adorable, if he actually does cause some trouble his cuteness will out-way anything bad that he does." Cas told him with a wide smile.
Dean beamed almost as wide as Adam, "Yeah he's pretty damn cute."
"Good genes I guess." Cas said with a small smirk and Dean blushed a little.
"Got that right." Dean replied confidently and winked at Cas and then it was Cas' turn to blush, and much more deeply than Dean had.
"Oh Cassie, you're as red as Hell." Lucifer said with a chuckled and Cas glared at his brother.
"U-uh Dean this is my eldest brother Luce, Luce this is Sam's older brother Dean."
"Nice to meet you." Lucifer said holding out his hand. Dean shook it and said, "Like wise."
"So," Dean continued, "Cas is short for Castiel right? So what's Luce short for?" Dean asked and before Cas could say anything Lucifer looked Dean right in the eyes and said, "Lucifer." as seriously and dead panned as he possibly could.
"Um...uhhh, seriously?" Dean asked raising an eyebrow and looking at Cas.
"Yeah Dean," Sam said walking up behind them holding Adam's hand, Chuck right on their heels, "They're all named after angels. The middle one is named after the Archangel Gabriel."
Dean grinned at his brother, "Neatooo, Satan for a brother, man what I would give to be able to tell that to people."
Lucifer laughed heartily and Cas rolled his eyes, for like the fifth time that afternoon, "It's not exactly a crowd pleaser." Cas told him in his gravelly voice and Dean had to steel his mind and control himself or he was gonna pop a boner.
He hadn't had any sort of contact with anyone in any remotely sexual way and he was not about to preform the awkward boner shift in front if his son and his brother.
"I think it's a cool name!" Adam piped up because he didn't really know that Lucifer was the real name of the Devil and everyone chuckled.
"Thanks little man," Lucifer said smiling down at the boy, "Your name is pretty awesome too."
"Daddy says my mommy picked it out." Adam said proudly, "And she was bootiful and that makes me bootiful too."
Dean smiled sadly, as did Sam, and Lucifer and Cas looked on fondly.
"That's right buddy," Dean said picking him up, "You're right."
Adam squeezed Dean's cheeks together with his hands and Dean made funny noises and then Adam started giggling uncontrollably and Sam and Cas and Lucifer chuckled. Dean handed Adam over to Sammy and Sam put him on his shoulders and they left the library with Adam yelling, "Moose! Moose!"
Then Lucifer made his exit, "I'll be waiting in the car Cassie, gotta get the AC going or it'll really will be Hell in there."
Cas snorted and then turned to Dean, "I would say I'm sorry about him but it's really a waste, especially when Gabriel is much worse."
"It's okay Cas, I like him."
Cas beamed at Dean and leaned over the librarian's desk as he did so to get closer to Dean.
Dean turned and rested his forearms on the the desk, leaning over to face Cas head on.
"So Cas I was umm, well? Umm how do I say this..."
"I don't know because I'm not sure what you're trying to say.." Cas mused, cocking his head to the side in confusion.
Dean chuckled deeply and it made Cas shiver a little. Cas didn't realize that Dean noticed, but he did. It made him a little more confident.
"Listen Cas, I haven't well, uh, dated or uhm, gone out with anyone since my wife died and that was three god damn years ago and I, shit man, I really like you even though I've only talked to you like twice and I was wondering if you'd like to go to dinner with me sometime?"
The last part of Dean's offer was rushed and his voice shook a little but he was relieved that he had something at all. Sammy was right, it was time for him to move on, and he knew that not only would Jo have wanted this, but she would have liked Cas, which made it all the more better.
Cas' eyes widened in surprise and his cheeks reddened and then a giant grin spread across his face.
"I would seriously love that."
It was Dean's turn to be surprised. "Wait really?"
"Why are you so surprised?"
"I dunno, I just...I've got a four year old kid, I dress like a lumber jack that's obsessed with classic rock, I eat way too much pie and I'm best friends with my baby brother and an adopted sister that swears like a sailor and hits on anything that moves. I'm not exactly a catch." Dean said with a shrug.
Cas frowned, his lips pouted and his eyebrows furrowed, "Are you kidding? Dean, I've met you twice and you've already managed to keep a smile on my face the entire time we conversed. My cheeks hurt. Plus, in between Sam never stops talking about his awesome older brother. I think..." Cas moved closer, "That you,..." even closer, "Are more than worth my time."
Their noses were touching.
Dean lifted an eyebrow and his practiced charming grin crossed his face. He hadn't used it ina while, "I'm real outta practice." Dean almost whispered.
"Well, I haven't been on a date or in a relationship for a year and a half so you don't need to worry, so am I."
"Cas, I've been completely and utterly abstinent for three years, and I've barely got time to jerk off in the shower while Sammy and Adam are around. I'm in pretty bad shape."
"You seduced me pretty quick, with a smile like that you could weaken anyone's knees, no matter how out of practice you are." Cas replied. They could feel one another's breath on their lips.
"Yeah?" Dean said, giving him that smile, "Well, you're gorgeous and your voice almost gave me a boner earlier so..."
Cas hummed in reply and just as Dean was about to seel their lips together Adam ran back into the library.
"Daddyyyyy! Come onnnnnnnnn, me and Uncle Sammy have been waiting and he promised he would make me boy-scout bananassssss." Adam whined, tugging on Dean's jeans.
Dean sighed and pulled back from Cas, they both had an equally adorable pout on their faced and then Dean huffed, "Sammy doesn't even know how to make those. I have to make them."
"Well he pwomised." Adam said looking up at him.
"Alright buddy, go back to Uncle Sammy, I'll be right there."
"Pwomise?"
"Yeah, I promise." Dean said grinning and he linnked pinkies with his son and then Adam spead out of the room again.
Dean took a sharpie off of Cas' desk and pulled Cas' arm towards him, he wrote his phone number down.
"Call me, and we'll set something up," Dean said smiling, "And don't wait to long. I like you much more than most people."
"I will," Cas replied, "Until next time."
Dean winked, "Until next time."
Just as Dean was reaching the doorway he hesitated and turned back. Cas looked at him confused before he leaned down kissed Cas on the cheek.
So this chapter was really short but I loved it? did you? also, boy scout bananas are bananas cooked in the over with the coca powder you use in hot coca and their fucking delicious. review pleasseee? reviews are awesome because they make me happy. other fics will be updated soon. One Love.
Liz.