Chapter 16
Happiness in the form of Pancakes
"Wait, so you turned down there offer? What happened to having to accept it because of God's will?" Megan asked as Exarp finished his tale.
"That's what I did at first," he said then took a breath of air. "But then Brap died."
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry," Megan said.
"It's fine. It was a while ago. But after he died they came and asked me again. I was pretty depressed, well, as depressed as an Angel can be. So I said yes. I have regretted it ever since, Exarp said.
"I know how you feel, being pulled into something so quickly because of God's will. At least I was excited about the job but…yeah, I suck at sympathy," Megan said, searching for something to say that could help her friend cheer up.
Exarp let out a small laugh. "It's okay, at least you're trying."
"Do you know what happened to Ben and Dexter?" Megan asked, curious.
"Nope, I haven't seen them since I left," he said.
"That sucks," Megan said.
"That lack of sympathy? Yeah, I'm seeing that now," Exarp said with a laugh. Megan elbowed him.
"Well, I may not be so good with words so maybe this will help," she said, moved closer, and then kissed him. It was a short kiss but it really was something different to kiss an Angel.
"That was really cheesy wasn't it?" Megan said with a laugh and The Angel of Air just smiled.
"Who cares," he said and Megan yawned. "You should get some sleep."
"Too…lazy…to get up…," she said, wrapping her arms around Exarp. "I'll just sleep here."
"Fine with me," he said and kissed her on the head as Megan slowly fell asleep, using Exarp as a pillow.
When Megan woke up she was stretched across the couch and a blanket on her, Exarp nowhere in sight. She rubbed her eyes and slowly sat up, her back hurting from sleeping on the couch. Note to self: never sleep on the couch again.
Everyone else seemed to be already awake. Megan could smell pancakes from the kitchen so she eagerly ran there. She had to suppress a laugh at the sight she saw.
In the kitchen was Dean. He was wearing a "kiss the cook" apron and flipping pancakes. He turned around when she walked in.
"Lose a bet?" Megan asked, laughing a little.
"No, I just like pancakes. And it's the only thing I can make," Dean said, turning back to the little circles of batter.
"Well, I'll take two please," she said and sat down at the breakfast bar, waiting patiently for the pancakes to be done.
"Hey…have you seen Exarp?" Megan asked.
"Why? You want a good morning kiss?" Dean asked, eyeing her.
Megan's mouth dropped a little before asking, "How did you-,"
"I left my phone down here before going to bed and I walked in on you guys," he explained. "And yeah, that was totally cheesy."
Megan's eyebrows frowned together. "Don't tell anyone," she said.
"Why?" Dean asked, flipping another pancake.
"I don't know if he'll get in trouble with The Powers or not. So just don't tell anyone, just to be safe."
"Okay," Dean said then stacked two pancakes onto a plate and slid it over to Megan.
"Thanks," she said and snapped her fingers to make some maple syrup appear. She quickly drizzled some on and ate the pancakes hungrily. "Hey Dean," Megan said, mouthful of pancakes.
"What?"
"You're my favorite House Wife."
"Shut up."
Megan looked up from her pancakes when the front door opened, Sam and Jinx coming through the door carrying a box.
"What's that?" she asked as they walked into the kitchen.
"Okay first, what the hell are you wearing?" Sam asked with a laugh as he looked over at Dean.
"If you don't like the apron then you get no pancakes," he said.
"Fine," Sam said, though he and Jinx were still laughing a little.
"So, box?" Megan asked, pointing at the box with her fork.
"Sam and I found it on the front step when we were coming back from doing our weekly sweep of the forest around the safe house," Jinx said, hovering over Dean's shoulder.
"Patients young skin walker," Dean said and Jinx frowned.
"Do you know who it's for?" Megan asked, inspecting the box. It was a medium sized box so anything could be in it.
"No, it's not addressed to anyone," Sam said.
"Well, then open it!" Megan said, making some scissors appear in Sam's hand. The younger Winchester gave her a look before slicing open the box. He then opened the box only to almost fall backwards when a bunch of confetti launched out of the box, covering everyone in the confetti as well as Megan's pancakes.
"Not the pancakes!" she yelled as she started to pick the confetti out of the maple syrup.
"What the hell?" Dean said, brushing some confetti out of his hair.
"Wait, there's a note," Jinx said as she retrieved a piece of paper from the now empty box. "'I thought this would be appropriate for the occasion.'" Jinx read aloud. "What does that mean?"
"Weird," Megan said.
"Balthazar, did you do this?" Jinx asked as Balthazar walked into the kitchen.
"Nope, not me," he said the strolled over to Dean. "So, can I get my kiss?"
"Piss off," Dean said as he unloaded all the pancakes onto a plate.
"We've located the Fire Tablet." Megan turned around in her seat to see The Powers, including Exarp, standing in the living room.
"Have a party?" Exarp asked, pointing at the confetti.
"PANCAKE PARTY!" Megan yelled while throwing her arms up in the air.
"Like I said before, we've located the Fire Tablet," Oro repeated, annoyed as usual.
Megan stuck her tongue out at him then moved over to the couch, the others following her into the living room. Castiel appeared back in the living room a moment later.
"So, where is it?" Megan asked, brushing the last of the confetti off her head.
"I'm sure you all will enjoy where we will be going," Oro said though he looked like he was dreading it.
"Where are we going? Disney World?" Megan asked with a bit of sarcasm in her tone.
There was silence from the trio.
"NO," Megan said in disbelief.
"Unfortunately, yes," Oro said.
"Wait, so the Fire Tablet is in Disney World? Awesome," Dean said and high-fived Megan.
"We should depart now," Luna said. "We've already informed Gabriel and he will be waiting for us there."
"Oh," everyone said at the same time. The trio and Castiel stared at everyone curiously.
"That explains the confetti," Balthazar said.
"Bastard," Sam said with a laugh.
"Okay, let's go," Megan said while standing up. "We're going to Disney World!"