As they entered the room, Gabriel snapped the fingers on his free hand, and the room went from rather spartan to opulent. The bed changed from a queen size to a bed that could fit all three of them and then some. It could have taken up almost all of the bedroom, if not for the fact that the dimensions of the room had changed as well. The room was twice the size it started out as and Gabriel had added a fire-place and sitting area to the room. The fire burning merrily away in the fireplace made shadows dance along the wall. The bed was made up with pale blue silk sheets, a dark blue comforter and piled with blue and white pillows.
"You really don't half-ass anything do you?" asked Balthazar, looking around the room.
"Nope. If we're doing this, we're doing it right." Gabriel replied.
"You're right, we are." Balthazar turned to Castiel and pulled him towards the bed, tugging at his shirt. Balthazar quickly divested Castiel of his shirt, running his fingers along Castiel's ribs, all while kissing him. Castiel gave a started bark of laughter at the touch, his wings mirroring his reaction.
"Ticklish remember?"
Balthazar grinned devilishly. "I know, that's why I did it."
"Naughty!" Castiel snickered, unbuttoning Balthazar's shirt cuffs.
"But that's half the fun." Gabriel countered, sliding up behind Balthazar and pulling his dress shirt off, quickly followed by his t-shirt. Gabriel pressed a quick kiss between Balthazar's shoulder blades and began to run his hands through Balthazar's feathers.
Balthazar shuddered in pleasure and kissed Castiel roughly in response, his wings stretching behind him. The muffled whimper made him slow down.
"Sorry, just been a long time since someone's done that."
"Sorry, didn't mean to catch you off guard." Gabriel said, nipping lightly at a shoulder.
"It's alright." Castiel whispered, undoing Balthazar's belt.
The three were soon undressed and on the bed. The sheets were a mess and pillows were thrown every which way. Gabriel was using one to prop himself up to watch Castiel and Balthazar. Inky black feathers mixed with burnished gold ones as the two lovers rubbed and caressed each other, setting each other's bodies back to memory. They had tried to get him involved, but Gabriel declined, saying that he would much more like to watch them together. Castiel blushed at that, he had sort of suspected about Gabriel's voyeuristic side, but to be the object of it was new.
"Unless you prefer I leave. I honestly have no problem with giving you two some privacy."
"Stay." both angels chorused.
Castiel turned his attention to Balthazar's chest, sucking on his nipples, smiling when Balthazar moaned and ground his hips against Castiel. Balthazar ran his fingers through Castiel's hair, fingers tightening, hips bucking up from the bed when he reached a particularly sensitive spot.
"Cas!" he gasped, wings spread across the bed, flicking up.
"Don't make me tie you up." Castiel chuckled, feathers brushing Balthazar's body, as he sat up and straddled Balthazar's hips.
There was a snap of the fingers and a small length of black silk ribbon fell in a puddle of fabric next to Castiel's knee. "You are inot/i helping." Castiel snorted, pointing at Gabriel and picking up the ribbon.
"Yes I am, you just don't know it yet." Gabriel replied, slipping behind Castiel and in between Balthazar's legs. He ran his hands up and down Castiel's back, kissing his shoulders. Castiel leaned back into Gabriel, head turned to kiss him back, the ribbon twisted between his fingers.
Gabriel's fingers brushed through Castiel's feathers, pausing at the base where feather's met flesh and pressed against one of the glands there, sliding the fingers of his left hand through the oil that it produced. Castiel groaned at the touch, rocking against Balthazar, the friction going straight to their dicks, and making them jump. Castiel pulled away and leaned up to get a hold of Balthazar's arms, pressing them above his head before tying them to the headboard.
"Not fair, been forever since I touched you."
"You're still touching me," Castiel stroked a hand along the length of Balthazar's cock, squeezing lightly. "Just not entirely."
Gabriel smiled to himself, rubbing his oil coated fingers together. He leaned forward, kissing as much of Castiel as he could reach and brushed a hand down Balthazar's thigh, as he opened his legs more to allow the other angel closer. Pressing a finger to Balthazar's entrance, Gabriel began to work him open. Balthazar slowly began to work himself onto Gabriel's fingers and whined in the back of his throat as Gabriel pressed deeper and Castiel did his best to distract him. Balthazar was soon moaning loudly and pulling against his bonds as Castiel stroked his length and Gabriel finished prepping him. Gabriel pulled his fingers out, using more oil to slick up Castiel. Castiel shivered and thrust hard into Gabriel's hand, Balthazar watched them, wanting for all the world, to touch them.
Gabriel pressed a gentle kiss below Castiel's left earlobe, his dick rubbing between Castiel's ass and his stomach, the blood pulsing heavily. Castiel slid out of his hand and Castiel guided himself into Balthazar, both hissing as Castiel slid home.
"Thought you were gonna watch." Balthazar growled out. He was surprised to get out a total sentence, every fiber of his being screamed for Castiel and the utter pleasure he could bring.
"Changed my mind, decided to play instead." Gabriel said, milking Castiel's oil glands again. At Castiel's nod, he made quick work of prepping Castiel and slicking himself up.
Castiel whimpered and moaned, rocking into Balthazar and onto Gabriel's fingers, the moan turning pleasurable when Gabriel pushed inside.
"Are you sure about this Cas? Absolute last chance for anyone to back out." Gabriel grit out, fingers burning into Castiel's hips. Castiel felt amazing, hot and wet and like coming home. "No hard feelings if you do."
"iNo./i I want this. I want us, now move" Castiel panted out, thrusting back hard and then forward.
Toffee colored wings flared upward at the thrust and Gabriel responded in kind. Castiel really could be such a bossy bitch, when he wanted to be, good thing Gabriel didn't mind.
Balthazar wrapped his legs around Castiel as best he could, pulling him as close as possible, before Castiel propped one leg up on his shoulder and began to thrust in hard rapid succession. Both angels moaned as Balthazar squeezed around him, when Castiel hit a sensitive spot.
"Cas! Don't stop, please!" Balthazar cried out, pulling at his bonds.
Wings shivered and shuddered, sweat gleaming in the firelight, as three angels moved as one and did their best to wring every drop of pleasure that they could from the other two. Soon three cries pierced the air like banshees and they collapsed in an exhausted tangle of arms, legs and wings.
Balthazar shifted in his sleep, caught between true sleep and wakefulness. Everything came to him slowly, the first thing to surface was the fact that there were two pairs of arms and two sets of wings wrapped around him. Opening his eyes, Balthazar saw a mix of black and light brown feathers cocooning him. This close up the feathers were a blend of black, light gray and silver, toffee, dark brown and honey. Balthazar reached out with one hand to straighten a few of them. He gently combed his fingers through the soft crooked patches and both Gabriel and Castiel sighed contentedly in their sleep, nuzzling Balthazar's skin, grace and wings pulling closer together.
"Morning." came a sleep rough rumble from somewhere around his collarbone. Gabriel nuzzled him sleepily.
"Morning. Still sleepy?" Balthazar asked, kissing Gabriel's head.
"Little bit, not much though. Mainly just enjoying this." Gabriel brushed a hand up and down Balthazar's arm. "Castiel still asleep?"
"I was until you two started talking." Castiel mumbled, his face buried in Balthazar's shoulder. "Could still be if people could shut up."
"Don't think that's happening, sorry."
Castiel yawned and Balthazar turned onto his back, kissing the top of Castiel's head. "Morning to you too Cas. Still not a morning person I see."
"And you still are, so not fair." Castiel blinked sleep out of his eyes and the three curled up together, Gabriel and Castiel lacing their fingers together on Balthazar's stomach.
"Um, we should probably talk about this shouldn't we?" asked Castiel, his head on Balthazar's chest. "About last night and us I mean."
"We should probably talk about a lot of things." Gabriel replied quietly. "Where do we want to start?"
"With us? How exactly do we want things to be with us?" Balthazar replied.
All three became quite lost in their own thoughts and just a bit afraid to be the first to say anything. Everything was very fragile right now and no one wanted to hurt the other or have something come across wrong. Everything was stuck in a weird limbo and they could all feel it, their graces, tangling and merging together, only to snap apart when the sensation because too strong.
"You can feel it right?" Castiel asked both of them. "I'm not imagining this am I?"
"No, you're not." Gabriel said, pressing at the mixture of grace between them, the energy bending and shifting at his touch. It was nice and alien all at once, the feeling made Gabriel slightly uncomfortable, he had been in threesomes before, had been with other men before, but nothing like this had ever happened.
"Either of you have anything like this happen before?" asked Balthazar, voicing Gabriel's thoughts. "Because I never have."
"No," came the reply from both Castiel and Gabriel.
"Okay, then. Next question, I know Cas has been with both of us, who else have either of you been with?"
"No fair! Why do we have to go first?" Gabriel asked.
"Because I asked." Balthazar replied. "So fess up."
"Um, you two and one of the other angels, Rachel. It didn't end well with her." Castiel said softly.
"Ugh, Dad. I remember iher/i. Little Miss Crazy... Hey, whatever happened with the little sister of The Fates?" Gabriel shuddered.
"Atropos? What about her, we were friends briefly, her sisters never liked me. And Rachel was not crazy, she was just really focused, that's all."
"Yeah, 'focused'." Gabriel snorted.
"She was! She just didn't have time for me is all, too busy with school." Castiel protested.
"The only time she was never 'too busy' for you, was when she wanted to get laid." Gabriel retorted.
Castiel felt a flash of anger and the feeling streaked through the fledgling bond directed at Gabriel.
"How dare you-"
"Both of you stop!" Balthazar snapped, sitting up in bed, the other two falling to the mattress. "This isn't going to work if you needle one another."
"Sorry." Gabriel said, wings twitching. "I just think he could have done better then Rachel, is all."
"I'm right here. Don't talk about me like I'm not." Castiel growled.
"It's true! She totally didn't deserve you." Gabriel hissed, sitting up. "She used you and like hell she was worthy of you. All she did was use you when it was convenient for her. She never cared about you." Jealously flared from Gabriel to counteract the spike of anger and the two feelings clashed between the three angels.
"You don't think I know that? What about all the women that you brought home? For a while your bedroom was nothing but a revolving door! What about Kali, Gabriel? One day she was there, the next she was gone. You not good enough for her?" demanded Castiel, pulling himself into a sitting position.
"Both of you stop now." Balthazar ordered. "Gabriel stop feeling jealous, why are you jealous anyway? Why didn't you like Rachel?"
"Because she was a snot nosed little workaholic who didn't know how fucking good she had it with Cas!" Gabriel burst out hotly. "She didn't need you, she didn't love you! But she sure as hell used you for your body and you let her! You could have done a lot better than her, but no, you settled for her and the minute she crooked her fingers you came running." He finished, a flood of emotions flooding the link between them in a tangled web of anger, resentment, confusion and love. Love for him.
Gabriel was in love with him. And jealous over something that had happened a long time ago, something that hadn't been that important in the long run, but had been a nice distraction for a bit.
The revelation of this little fact was like a slap in the face for Castiel, when had this happened? Why hadn't he seen it before? And how could he tell Gabriel the feeling was mutual?
"Don't you ever make assumptions of me Gabriel. Rachel and I had an agreement, and yes, while an actual relationship would have been nice, neither of us wanted one."
"What do you mean an agreement?" Balthazar asked.
"I met Rachel a while after we broke up. She lived on the floor above me in the dorms. One night we, after too much to drink, decided to be each other's stress relief, to put it politely. Gabriel and I were already friends by that time and he saw me hanging around with her. She was my way of forgetting about you for a little while and I was her way of dealing with stress from class. We knowingly used each other."
"Oh."
"It didn't last long, she moved on to one of her professor's TAs."
Castiel sighed and leaning over, tapped Gabriel's knee. "You had nothing to be jealous over, and why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I don't think I noticed at the time. I just remember feeling stupidly jealous and just knowing that she wasn't right for you."
"What about you and Kali? You two seemed pretty hot and heavy for a long time."
"We were. I loved her, thought she loved me. But it turns out she thought 'that I was too complicated' her words not mine, and she left for greener pastures. I came home one day and her stuff was gone, she had moved out while I was in class. Last I bothered to look, she was dating that jackass, Baldur."
"Ouch. You know you could've told me."
"I know that now, I should have. Kali was the only one that was important, but I've seen my fair share of people. Plus the two of you. Your turn Balthazar."
"The two of you, a girl named Serena and another named Julie."
"What about a threesome? You two are my first." Castiel asked, wings twitching slightly.
"Been there, done that. But it's been a while with other men and with ones I've cared about." Gabriel admitted.
"This is the third, but the first with two other men." Balthazar commented.
"Well alright then. How do we want this to work? Who gets to be in charge?" Gabriel asked, tossing out a couple of questions that were bouncing around in his head.
"We share Cas, and you and I also have a relationship?" Balthazar fired back. "Or we share Cas, you and I have a relationship, and you and ihe/i have a relationship as well?"
"I'm liking that, but I don't think that any one of us is or should be in charge." Cas said, stretching his wings out behind him.
"That sounds like a good start to me. What about dating? We wanna keep it like beforehand, group dates and pairing off?" Gabriel asked.
"That just reminds me, you and I have yet to be on an actual date." Balthazar replied.
"I have yet to have an actual date with Cas either, we'll need to change all that." Gabriel noted.
"What do you mean 'have yet to have an actual date with Cas either'?" Castiel demanded. "What about dinner at my place?"
"That's dinner with a friend, we need a date date." Gabriel replied.
Balthazar laughed. "I think you're being twelve now, Gabriel."
"I am not! It's totally true, we need a date date." Gabriel exclaimed, mock outraged.
"Fine, fine. We can have a date date." Castiel snickered. "Should I have my receptionist call you with a date and time?" he teased.
"Oh fuck you! You'll ask me out like a man." Gabriel snorted.
"I already did that. How's this weekend sound?" Castiel retorted. "Dinner and a movie on Friday at The Winchester Drive In? Popcorn and candy to your hearts delight and a viewing of Hitchcock's iThe Birds/i?"
"Awesome." Gabriel nodded. "The Birds is a good movie. Shadow of a Doubt and Rear Window aren't bad either, but I think I like iThe Birds/i the best."
"I always liked iDial M for Murder/i myself." Balthazar grinned. "Do either of you remember the tv show? My favorite episode was the one where the wife murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, hides the body in the deep freeze, and then feeds the murder weapon to the cops."
Gabriel laughed. "That was a good one. And not to bring the party to an end, but we really should get out of bed."
The three angels got dressed and reluctantly made their way out of Castiel's bedroom, Gabriel snapping the room back into order as they left.
"Breakfast?" Castiel asked, starting towards the kitchen. "Omelets sound good?" He pulled out a skillet from the cabinet and eggs from the refrigerator.
"It's been forever since I've had one of your omelets, count me in." Balthazar replied. Gabriel nodded his agreement.
At Castiel's instruction, they also got out butter, mushrooms, red and green bell peppers, some spinach for Gabriel (because he, believe it or not, liked fresh spinach in his omelets), onions for Balthazar and cheese for all three, and began to prep everything for the pan. They cooked and talked, Castiel sliding an omelet onto their plates when it was done.
"Cas, it's official, this is the damn best omelet I've ever had." Gabriel said, spearing his last bite with his fork.
"You're welcome Gabriel. How's yours Balthazar?"
"Delicious, even better then I remembered."
"Good. And for the record, you were right on using Portabella mushrooms." Castiel smiled.
"See? I told you."
Soon breakfast was over and Gabriel and Balthazar were getting ready to leave.
"Call me whenever you get the chance, I want to know how your date goes." Balthazar wrote down the number for the shop and his cell phone number, before pinning it to the cork board Castiel had hanging on the wall a few feet from the door.
"It'll be spectacular, if we're having sex, we'll make sure to call you during it." Gabriel reeled off.
"If you can do that while having sex, you're not paying enough attention to each other." Balthazar replied dryly.
"Excuse you? Who said we were gonna have sex?" Castiel asked Gabriel. "Do I look like an angel that puts out of the first date?"
"You're right." Gabriel amended. "That'll happen on the second date."
There was a soft chuckle from Balthazar as he kissed Castiel softly. "Don't pay attention to him, it just make him worse."
"I know. I'll call you soon, wanna talk with you again."
They kissed again before pulling apart so Balthazar could move towards the door.
"You are incorrigible." he said, kissing Gabriel lightly. "Stop teasing Cas like that."
"But at least I'm fun." Gabriel sighed, leaning up into the kiss.
Balthazar smiled at that and after saying his goodbyes again, left, the door shutting with a soft click.
"I should get going myself, still need to study for class." Gabriel said, turning towards Castiel.
"Could study here." Castiel replied.
"True, hang on, be right back." Gabriel left, coming back with his books after a few minutes.
"Sofa and coffee table are all yours." Castiel called from the kitchen, the clink of dishes in water telling Gabriel what he was doing.
Gabriel set his books on the table and settled into the sofa, cracking open a book and began to read and take notes.
After an hour of reading, Gabriel was bored out of his mind. While he loved being a Psychology major, there were days he wondered iwhy/i he picked Psychology and just what the hell possessed him to pick an interest in Human Sexuality. Putting aside his book, he picked up another one and flipped ahead to the chapter on the "Stimulation of the Sexuality of the Human Psyche Through Lights and Sound." Gabriel picked up a sheet of notebook paper and a highlighter and began to fold the paper into a complicated design, consulting the book every once in awhile. Sliding a pen into one end, he called Castiel to the living room.
"Hey Cas, come here! I wanna show you something."
"What is it Gabriel?" Castiel asked. "What did you do?" Castiel gestured to the pinwheel in Gabriel's hands as he began to spin it.
"Gabriel, what are you doing?"
"It's supposed to stimulate the human sex drive. No effect huh?"
"Of course not, I'm not human."
"Are you are sure?" Gabriel spun it faster and added in sound effects.
"I'm sure."
"Dammit. You're sure you're sure?" The pinwheel moved a little faster.
"Very." Castiel turned and went back to the kitchen table where he was doing his own homework.
"What about now?" Gabriel asked a little bit later as he moved the pinwheel to a different angle and spun it again.
"No."
"Now?" More spinning and sound effects.
"Still no."
"Now?"
"No again."
"Damn, that was supposed to work."
"Speaking of work, aren't you supposed to be doing yours?" Castiel asked.
"I'm bored!"
"Have you tried another subject? Reading a different chapter?"
"Yes! And it doesn't work, the pinwheel was an experiment."
"What's it supposed to do?"
"It's supposed to turn you on. Is it working at all?" Gabriel spun it again.
"No"
"Why not?" Gabriel whined.
"If we make out for a bit, will it shut you up?"
"It might."
"Yes or no Gabe?"
"Maybe?"
"Yes or no."
"Okay, yes."
"Good. Now come here." Castiel growled, grabbing Gabriel by his shirt and pulling him forward to kiss him.
Gabriel smiled, greedily sucking on Castiel's bottom lip, pulling the younger angel closer to him. They stumbled over to the sofa and Gabriel's legs hit it first, causing him to plop down onto it, pulling Castiel with him, humming in pleasure as Castiel scrambled into his lap. Castiel kissed Gabriel fiercely, rocking against him, snickering when Gabriel arched up as Castiel ran his hands through Gabriel's feathers. Gabriel shivered at the touch, his wings flexing in pleasure and the feeling beginning to run through the bond, making Castiel smile.
"Enjoying that?" he asked, stroking Gabriel's feathers, pausing to pull loose an old feather.
"I am and you know it." Gabriel growled, nipping at Castiel's throat, hands gripped tightly to his hips pulling him as closely as Gabriel could, rocking more insistently against Castiel.
"Good." Castiel murmured, rubbing a feather or two between his fingers and rocking his hips in time with Gabriel.
The bond snapped taunt between them and flared to life, causing both angels to shudder and growl. Castiel rested his forehead against Gabriel's, breath and wings shakey. "Why did this happen? What is it?"
"I don't know, but angels have bonded before, that's nothing new. Trios are rare though." Gabriel slowly rubbed Castiel's back to calm him down. Castiel's nervousness was beginning to make him skittish. "The making out is nice though. The knowing what you want or need is nice, a little scary, but it could be nice."
Castiel nodded in agreement, relaxing at Gabriel's touch. The bond began to quiet down and fade more into the background, soon becoming a faint staticy hum at the back of their minds.
"Isn't there anything in your books about bonding? There must be something about the mental state of a trio bonding."
"It's mainly human/angel bonding, but some of it transfers over. We'd need to look up empathic bonding, since it seems like emotion is what it's based on. Makes sense considering how it was formed."
"Need to look up biology as well." Cas replied, jotting down ideas to research.
"Good idea."
Soon they were at the library, books stacked up and scattered around the table they had staked out.
"I got your call, what did you want to talk about?" Balthazar asked, slipping into the chair next to Castiel.
"Our bond. We've been researching it and we wanted to get some input from you." Gabriel replied, as he wrote notes down on a legal pad. His hand had ink smeared on it and judging from the stack of papers flipped on the pad, they had been doing this for awhile.
"Really? Anything to do with what happened this morning after I left?"
"You could feel that?" Castiel asked, looking up from his book.
"I'm in my office filling orders when all of a sudden-"
"You could feel us making out." Castiel finished. He groaned and laid his head on his book. "Sorry."
"Don't be, it's nice knowing that you two get along so well." Balthazar grinned and ran a hand through Castiel's hair.
"I know, it was fun." Gabriel smiled and shutting his book, wrote down the last of his notes. "And it does sort of answer the question of how far can we be apart and still feel each other. How strong could you feel us? With Cas and I it was like we were one person, it felt stronger than earlier in the morning."
"It wasn't full detail surround sound, but I could tell you two were very happy and that you were kissing. After a bit you both calmed down and it faded away. I had to concentrate to feel you, the more I did, the more I could feel you. Right now I don't have to think about it at all, you're just there."
Both Gabriel and Castiel knew what Balthazar was talking about, with all three of them there and aware of the bond, they could feel it and its reaction to them being together. It had gone from a staticy thrum to a pleasant low hum, like a part of their psyche would begin to sing when another was near, as girly as that sounded. But it was true, so whatever...
"Okay, so according to the books, angel threesomes are rare. I knew a little about this, but I didn't know how rare. Apparently it's a one in a billion chance that three angels will be compatible with each other. Their graces need to be similar to begin with before they synch up completely." Gabriel read from his notes.
"Strong emotions get through the easiest, we already got that one figured out, a couple times over." Castiel picked up where Gabriel left off. "As far as biology goes, it's a little sparse for us, but as near as we can tell from the human and angel bonds and the regular angel bonds, our heart beats should synch up and our breath as well. Our health should remain the same, so no worries there."
"That doesn't sound so bad, but the bond doesn't feel, complete, I guess. Are we missing something?" Balthazar asked.
"It doesn't look like it." Gabriel and Castiel flipped through their notes. "Some pairings have said that the bond took a bit to get used to and that the new feeling of it faded as it integrated itself and bound the pair."
Gabriel tentatively reached out with his mind again and poked at the bond. Doing so made both Castiel and Balthazar wince slightly and push back. The bond was there alright and their graces were merging and tangling around each other and staying that way, more often than not. The feeling of both Castiel and Balthazar pushing back, felt like someone was watching him and Gabriel fought back the urge to turn and look behind him. He grimaced and waved his hand in front of him. "Stop it, both of you."
Both Castiel and Balthazar smiled.
Friday rolled around and with it Castiel's and Gabriel's date. They had a good time, talking and making fun of the movie.
"And what you can't see here is that someone is throwing stuffed seagulls at the phone booth from off set." Gabriel snickered, as seagulls drive bombed the blond woman currently trapped in a phone booth, screaming her head off. "Check it out, there's one of the wires they used to make the birds fly." Gabriel pointed to a thick wire in the background. "If they had gotten a better shot, we wouldn't be able to see it."
"Run away from the birds, not towards them!" Cas called to the screen, chucking a handful of popcorn, which hit his windshield and then bounced to the dashboard and floor.
"And we never find out iwhy/i they attack. They just start doing it." Gabriel says, drinking his soda.
"It's all the cheap, crappy birdseed people were leaving out. Some of it was poisoned, and instead of killing all the birds, it just turned some of them into zombies, and they started to hunger for human flesh." Castiel replied, completely straight faced.
Gabriel cackled at that. "Oh! I like that! Was it just the birds that were native or does that include the seagulls too?"
"Just the regular birds. The seagulls ate the flesh of the birds that idid/i die and that's how we got zombie seagulls." Castiel rattled off, chewing on a milk dud.
Gabriel just stared at him for a moment. "Where do you come up with this? Seriously, where?"
"Would you rather instead believe that the land birds and the seagulls were having raunchy sex and ithat's/i how it happened?" Castiel asked.
Gabriel inhaled his soda and coughed. "Oh. My. Dad. I think you've officially been around me too long. I'm so proud of you, Cas. Hold me." He giggled after he was done with his coughing fit.
"Shut up." Castiel grinned, and threw a handful of gummi bears at Gabriel.
As the credits began to roll, Gabriel swept up the remains of popcorn and candy into the empty bucket and tossed it into a nearby trashcan.
"Hey, I meant to ask during dinner, how are things with you and Balthazar? Things getting better?"
Castiel sighed, tossing his soda cup away. "Good, maybe? I don't know. There's so much old crap between us. I want to talk to him and yeah, I know I should talk to him. I will. I'm just-"
"Scared."
"Yeah, a bit. And for stupid reasons too."
"Not stupid, misunderstood, but not stupid."
"You called Castiel?" Balthazar asked, walking into Castiel's apartment.
"We need to talk. About us." Castiel replied, sitting down on the sofa. "Sit down?"
Balthazar swallowed the lump of dread in his throat and sat next to Castiel. "What about us, Cas?" he asked quietly. Things had been going well, at least that he could see.
Castiel stayed subdued, trying to get his thoughts in order and failing.
"I don't know what to say, other then I'm feeling stupidly insecure over nothing. I like you, I like being with you. I love you, but I don't know, I'm being a girl over nothing, because there's inothing/i to worry about, and if I keep picking at it, everything's just gonna fall apart."
Balthazar squeezed Castiel's hand. "You have nothing to worry about. I meant what I said earlier, I want to start over with you, I want us to have a new relationship. What brought all this on?"
"Honestly? Not a damn thing. Just old insecurities and I know this too, but couldn't help it."
Balthazar pulled Castiel closer and held him. "This is about how things ended last time isn't it?"
"Maybe. I just remember seeing you and Lucifer and feeling like I wasn't good enough for you." Castiel whispered. "It was stupid."
Balthazar sighed softly, the feedback from the bond washing over him. It was a tangled mess of old hurts, confusion and irritation at the whole thing. "It wasn't stupid. You aren't stupid and I'm sorry I made you feel like that. I love you Cas."
"Love you too, Balthazar."
Balthazar smiled, nuzzling Castiel's head.
"I need to get back to the store, you've got classes this afternoon, right?" Castiel nodded. "Okay then, I'll be back later tonight, that sound good?"
"Mkay."
The two kissed goodbye and parted ways.
Castiel sighed as he stepped back into his apartment later that evening, he was so happy to be back and not sitting in a desk anymore. Tossing his bag on to the sofa, he yawned and stretched his wings out as he walked through his living room, a quick shower and he'd be in a better frame of mind to start studying. Castiel silently stripped out of his clothing and headed for the shower. Twenty minutes and a new pair of boxers later found Castiel reading through the questions on the chapter he had been assigned in class. He always liked to look at the questions first it helped him keep an eye out for what needed to be answered. After reading for a bit, there was a knock at the door.
Castiel smiled, another thing he had been thinking about was Balthazar and ways to make up this afternoon to him. "I was wondering when you'd be here." he said opening the door wide. His grip on the door remained while all thoughts of making up fled his mind once he saw who was. Rachel stood at the door for a moment before walking in, not waiting to be invited. How the hell did she know where Castiel lived? It took him a second to remember that she had helped a friend move out when he had been moving in, she had seen which apartment he was going in and out of. It was then that Castiel's brain registered that she had not only come in, but had shut the door behind her and was taking off her clothes.
"Rachel, what the hell are you doing?" Castiel asked as he watched in a shocked daze.
Rachel's blouse dropped to the floor. "I'm reinstating our relationship. I just got dumped and I need someone to fuck right now." The zipper on her slacks came on undone and she neatly stepped out of them, the fabric making a soft whooshing sound as it came in contact with the floor.
Castiel stared as her. "What? No! I'm not doing this anymore, I'm with someone else, two actually." He began to back away as she stalked forward.
"Oh really? Who would date you, besides you look more than interested to me." she said, looking pointedly at Castiel's erection.
Castiel blushed violently. "That isn't because of you! And it's none of your business, but I'm dating Gabriel and Balthazar." He stepped around Rachel, who by this time was down to her bra, panties, and shoes, and began to pick up her clothing. "I'm not interested in fucking you anymore Rachel, you need to leave, now." A part of his mind realized that it was a nice pink and black set, and that while it looked pretty on her, he really just wasn't turned on by her anymore.
Rachel laughed. "Is that the best you can come up with? Gabriel and Balthazar? One, Balthazar's too old for you and he replaced you didn't he?"
Castiel had forgotten that he had told her everything one night after too much drinking and fucking each other's brains out.
"And two, Gabriel really, the party whore? Mr. Will sleep with ianyone/i if it holds still long enough? That's who you come up with?"
"Yes." Castiel replied, shoving her clothing into her hands and moving her towards the door. "Get out inow/i. You are not wanted, needed, nor welcome here." Castiel opened the door and shoved her out into the hallway. "Leave Rachel. And don't you ever darken my doorstep again." he ordered, slamming the door in her face.
Rachel stood there for a moment, shocked that Castiel would do such a thing, when normally he would welcome her into his bed. The creak of a door made her turn abruptly around and snarl at the guy across from Castiel's apartment. "What are you looking at?" she snapped.
"The monumental 'Walk of Shame' you're about to do." the guy replied lazily and shut his door as she began to get dressed.
Later the following week, while trying to take notes in class, Gabriel overheard a couple of students talking about something that had happened at the apartment complex.
"Yeah, guy across from me, tossed her out in her underwear and slammed the door on her. About an hour or so later a guy shows up and he lets him in."
"Are you serious, when did this happen?" Gabriel asked, all pretense of note taking gone. He recognized the other student as a neighbor, lived on the same floor as he did.
"Just this past weekend, during the evening." the guy replied. Michael that was his name. Michael then filled Gabriel in on everything that he had missed. Gabriel assumed that, that's what he got for studying at the library on a weekend night.
"Who was the guy?" he asked.
"Older, blonde. My neighbor just opened the door, he walked in and didn't leave until the next morning."
It was then, that it all clicked into place, the guy that Michael was talking about, was Castiel. But that was impossible, Castiel would inever/i cheat on him or on Balthazar.
"You're in 423, right?"
"Yeah, you're in 428 still right? The guy I'm talking about is across from me and three doors down from you, in 422."
Gabriel's heart sank, it was Castiel they had been talking about. Gabriel turned back around in his seat and blindly took notes for the rest of class. After class, Gabriel tuned into the rumor mill and the speculation of what all happened at the complex while he was gone; was flowing fast and deep as it filtered its way through his mind.
Yes, there had been a woman at Castiel's apartment.
Yes, he had thrown her out half dressed.
Yes, that woman had been Rachel.
And yes, a man had shown up and did not leave until the following morning.
Another thing that Gabriel had learned, was that prior to throwing her out, Rachel and Castiel had hot wild monkey sex and the reason he was throwing her out, was that he was expecting someone else to come over and he had to get rid of her.
The more Gabriel listened, the wilder the stories got (and the more panicked and wound up he became), but none of it was true right? There was no way that Castiel would cheat on either of the men he claimed to love, right? Gabriel tuned out of the rumor mill when stories of a wild threesome and wall shaking sex began to pop up. He needed a drink, inow/i. He had just settled in at his favorite bar when his cellphone rang. Sparing it a quick glance, he saw Castiel's name on the screen and snorting loudly, sent it directly to voice mail. Sipping from his glass, Gabriel turned his phone to vibrate and proceeded to ignore it.
Castiel swore softly as his call hit Gabriel's mail box and hung up before dialing a new number. His stomach clenched in pain and his heart thudded in his ears. A flood of fear ran through him, something was wrong with one of the others. He paced in his living room while he waited for Balthazar to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Balthazar are you okay?"
"I was just about to ask you the same thing." Balthazar replied. "I'm fine by the way."
"Me too. Gabriel isn't answering his phone. I'm worried."
"I'm closing the shop early, I'll be right over, keep trying to get a hold of Gabriel."
Castiel nodded, even if Balthazar couldn't see it, and hung up with him after saying goodbye and began to redial Gabriel, his worry over the other angel growing.
Gabriel's phone buzzed and moved across the bar. He ignored it, well into his alcohol by now.
"You gonna answer that?" the guy a couple of stools over asked.
"Nope. Don't want to talk to that person." A quick glance told him what he already knew, it was Castiel. Yeah, not talking to him.
"Anything?" Balthazar asked, walking into Castiel's apartment.
"No, my calls just keep going to voice mail. We should go out and look for him, he's supposed to back from class by now. Dammit, where is he?" Castiel growled.
"We'll find him." Balthazar reassured Castiel as he grabbed his keys and the two left, heading for campus.
He wasn't there. They had checked with his professors, Dr. Singer said that he had seen Gabriel in class, but the other professors hadn't seen him at all. The few friends that were still on campus said the same and added that Gabriel seemed worried and agitated about something, but that no one had seen where he had run off to.
Meanwhile, Gabriel was still at the bar and at this point, very inebriated. He was willing to talk to anyone that would listen and just talk in general. And it was all about Castiel.
"How could he? Seriously? After all that we've been through as friends and after everything it took to get things back together with his other boyfriend. He cheats with iher/i! That bitch Rachel. Rachel the skank, what does he see in her? Were we not good enough for him? Apparently not since he had to go running to the Whore of Babylon..." he muttered, slamming back another shot of vodka, he had switched from apple brandy sidecars to vodka shots a while ago. He was considering moving onto martinis next. Either a Lemon Drop or a Screaming Orgasm. Then again, maybe a Screaming Orgasm was a bad idea, it just reminded him of Rachel and his feelings just windmilled all over again. Gabriel growled to himself and mind made up, called the bartender over. "Lemme get a Blue Velvet." he ordered.
Some time, and several drinks later, Gabriel was on his way to Rachel's. He had been in the middle of his fourth White Russian when he had thought of it. By the end of it, that still seemed like a great idea, so off he went.
"Rachel!" He yelled, banging on her door. "Rachel! Open up!" he demanded. A few more minutes of Gabriel pounding on the door and it was opened wide enough to see who it was.
"What do you want?" Rachel hissed. She had been in the middle of studying when Gabriel had come pounding on her door.
"You bitch, how could you? How could you do this?"
"What the hell are you talking about Gabriel?"
"Castiel! How could you take him away from me and Balthazar?" Gabriel snarled, the fear of that slapping him upside the head and digging its claws in.
Rachel laughed. That was what this was about? That was why she had a drunk angel on her doorstep? Castiel, seriously? Guess he hadn't been lying about the three of them together. Rachel swallowed the last bit of her laughter and looked at Gabriel, he was pathetic when drunk, it was time to get rid of him.
"Actually, he isn't leaving you. But both Balthazar and he are."
"What? No, they aren't!" Gabriel sputtered, his mind violently rejecting what she was saying. It couldn't be true, it wasn't true. They wouldn't want her... would they? Gabriel's mind shuddered at the thought and his heart raced as the idea twisted itself around and around.
"Oh yes they are." Rachel smirked. "They don't want you anymore. You were fun for a little bit, but they've decided to move on. I guess after spending the night with me, they saw how pathetic you ireally/i are. Now get the hell out of here." She snorted and slammed the door in Gabriel's face.
It was true then. And straight from the whore's mouth to boot. Gabriel felt his heart break and ice over, followed by a blind rage so consuming that all he saw was white hot. There was a distant shattering sound and Gabriel was dimly aware that he had just punched his fist through Rachel's door. Coming back to himself, he saw that it was more like, he had totally decimated her door and a big chunk of the frame and brickwork around it. There was nothing but bits of wood and brick on the floor, brick dust in the air and a huge gaping hole where her door had been. Gabriel decided that this was a good enough time, as any, to leave. He headed right for Castiel's.
"Holy crap, did you feel that?" Castiel asked. They had had no luck finding Gabriel, and the bond was so muddled that they couldn't use it to track him, so they headed back to Castiel's to regroup and to keep trying his phone. It wasn't helping, they were still scared for Gabriel and it seemed to be getting worse.
"Yeah, I did, and it's getting closer. He's coming here." Balthazar whispered, as they felt Gabriel close in on the building.
Castiel ran for the door and flung it open to see Gabriel standing there, his wings completely unfolded and spread behind his back.
Castiel moved to hold him. "Gabriel, where have you-"
"Don't you idare/i fucking touch me." Gabriel barked.
"Gabriel, what are you, what are you talking about?" Castiel asked, as Gabriel came into the apartment, slamming the door behind him. The force he used caused the frame to crack.
"I heard about your little fling this weekend, did you think I wouldn't?" Gabriel demanded. "Was she worth it? After everything you said, after everything we've been through, was fucking her again worth it? She must have been, she said as much."
"Gabriel, calm down. What are you talking about?" Balthazar asked, stepping closer to him.
"Don't you touch me either." Gabriel lashed out. "You inever/i wanted to share Castiel with me, you said so yourself!" he accused. "You wanted him all for yourself, but you could share him with iher/i, and not me? Why? What was so great about that bitch? Why her?"
"Her who?" Balthazar questioned.
"Rachel!" Gabriel screamed. "Why her?"
"Nothing happened with Rachel." Castiel said softly.
"What? What did you say?" Gabriel hissed.
"Nothing. Happened. With Rachel." Castiel repeated. "I wouldn't go back to her. I don't want her, I love you too much to do something like that."
Gabriel was stunned into silence and his alcohol muddled mind sorted through what Castiel had said. "I love you too. But Rachel was really convincing, she said you both didn't want me anymore."
"That's not true." both Castiel and Balthazar replied, stepping closer to Gabriel.
"Rachel's a bit of a manipulative bitch." Castiel said, brushing back Gabriel's hair. "She's got a way of seeing your weakness and uses it to her total advantage. I don't think she's capable of loving anyone but herself. But no, I would never leave you or Bal for her. She's not what I want and she isn't worth it."
"Seriously?" Gabriel asked.
"Yes. I love you Gabriel." Castiel said, kissing Gabriel lightly.
"I love you too, Cas." Gabriel whispered back. His hands were shaking slightly as Castiel pulled him close and held him.
"I would never leave you or Balthazar, I promise." He kissed Gabriel again, putting everything he felt for the older angel into the bond. "Come to bed?" Castiel asked, pulling Gabriel towards the bedroom.
Both of the other angels followed.
When the three stepped into the bedroom, it was back to being like it was, the first time they had spent the night together.
"I don't know why I believed her." Gabriel mumbled, his wings beginning to relax as both Balthazar and Castiel pulled him to the bed and pushed him onto it.
"Again, because Rachel's a manipulative bitch." Castiel replied. "I'm so damn glad you're okay. You scared the hell out of both of us." He growled, crawling into Gabriel's lap and pulling at his shirt.
Balthazar slunk around to Gabriel's back and helped Castiel remove Gabriel's shirt. "I love you too; and from everything I've heard about Rachel, I wouldn't want anything to do with her anyway." He whispered, kissing along the shell of Gabriel's left ear and down his neck.
Gabriel tilted his head and shivered, feeling slightly overwhelmed by the rush of emotions from both Castiel and Balthazar. It wasn't bad, just daunting. He purred at Castiel's hands on his skin, before his brain kicked in and demanded that he got with the program and start getting rid of some clothing. Gabriel was more than happy to and made short work of Castiel's shirt, nipping at his neck and shoulders. The three angels moved further onto the bed and Castiel and Balthazar pushed Gabriel onto the mattress.
Balthazar ran his hands down Gabriel's sides, licking a wet stripe up his chest. "Don't you ever do that again. Not being able to find you and then feeling what you did at Rachel's was terrifying. Impressive, but terrifying. Should we apologize for the door?"
"No." chorused Castiel and Gabriel.
"She lied to and messed with Gabriel. The least she deserves is a pile of door and brick dust." Castiel grumbled, pulling at the remainder of Gabriel's clothing, before Gabriel obliged him in getting naked.
"So about you..." Castiel said, looking at Balthazar.
"This is not about me, it's about him." Balthazar replied, gesturing to Gabriel.
Gabriel snickered. "Still doesn't mean you can't have less clothing." He kissed Balthazar and began to remove his clothing. "Besides, you look good without any clothing on."
"Oh, so you're saying I'm ugly when I'm dressed, is that it?" Balthazar asked.
"No, I'm just saying that you need less clothing." Gabriel said, unbuckling Balthazar's belt.
"And this is all fascinating!" Castiel replied to both of them. "But less talking, more getting naked would be preferred."
"Bossy little bitch." Gabriel muttered to himself.
"Tell me about it." Balthazar agreed.
"I heard that." Castiel said, pushing Gabriel back onto the mattress and straddling him. Gabriel's wings twitched at the feel of Castiel's weight on him. That wasn't the only part of him that was starting to get interested in what Castiel was doing on top of him.
Castiel's wings arched over them and Balthazar slipped to the side to watch the two, his fingers brushing the edges of Castiel's feathers, as Castiel leaned down to kiss Gabriel and rut against him. Gabriel arched up and greedily kissed Castiel back, wrapping his arms around him and running his hands up Castiel's back. Castiel shivered and let his wings fan out a bit at Gabriel's touch. Gabriel's fingers brushed against Castiel's oil glands, gathering the oil that seeped out.
"Are we always going to use my wing oil?" Castiel asked, sitting up and looking down at Gabriel.
"No, but it's what's currently convenient." Gabriel replied, rubbing the oil on his fingers and stroking himself. He grinned as Castiel watched him. "Never thought you liked to watch Cas." Gabriel stroked himself a little harder, thrusting a little more into the down stroke and moaning softly when he did so.
"Maybe just you." Castiel replied, watching the oil glisten and slide against Gabriel's skin.
"I don't know, I'm having quite a bit of fun watching you both." Balthazar said from his spot on the bed.
"Good." Gabriel pulled Castiel to him. "Now come here." he demanded and pulled Castiel down for a kiss.
The kiss was rough, Castiel nipped Gabriel's bottom lip and licked at it to soothe away the sting, before slipping his tongue into Gabriel's mouth. The two angels rocked and moved against each other before Gabriel grabbed Castiel's hips and moved him up. It took a moment to adjust, but soon Gabriel was sliding into Castiel, inch by inch. Both shuddered at the contact as Castiel bottomed out and the bond flowed more strongly between the three. Gabriel thrust up and grinned at the moan he received in return as Castiel rocked back and leaned down to kiss him again. They traded lazy kisses before the desire for more took over and they began to move in earnest.
"Come on Cas, is that all you got?" Gabriel asked as more of the alcohol cleared itself out of his head and he focused on the fact that Castiel was nibbling on his collarbones and leaving a trail of butterfly kisses whenever he blinked.
"No." Castiel snorted and clenched around Gabriel sitting up to meet him thrust for thrust.
"You should know better than to ask that." Balthazar murmured softly as Castiel pick up the pace slightly, arching his back when Gabriel lifted him up slightly from the hips. Both angels moaned louder at the change in angle but it wasn't quite just right yet.
"Let go of me?" Castiel asked, shifting his weight. Gabriel did so, wondering why when Castiel got off him and pulled him into a sitting position.
"I thought we were having fun." he protested as Castiel reached behind him to where his oil glands were.
"It was enjoyable, but not what I really want." Castiel replied, kissing Gabriel as he milked a gland at the center of Gabriel's shoulder blade before nudging him back into lying down and setting between Gabriel's legs, stroking himself. Gabriel figured that Castiel would want to do this and moved his legs accordingly. After some prep, Castiel slid into Gabriel and kissed him, nipping at his bottom lip. "Much better." he said softly, moving his hips, picking up the pace when Gabriel let out a needy whine.
"Oh yes. Faster Cas." Gabriel panted, arching to meet him.
Castiel's wings fanned out behind him as the two angels moved together, a shudder ran down his back as he thrust into Gabriel and wrapped a hand around his erection, stroking him in time, thumb moving back and forth across the head keeping just the right amount of pressure on him. Gabriel moaned and writhed under Castiel's touch, his body rocking into Castiel's hand and tightening like a violin string before snapping and Gabriel's cry echoed in the room. Castiel soon followed after and he slumped on top of Gabriel, breathing hard, wings weak and trembling.
"Wow." Gabriel panted, staring at the ceiling. "We should have done that a ilot/i sooner."
Castiel pulled himself together long enough to pull out of Gabriel and roll to the side, his right wing draped lazy over the two of them, twitching once in a while with aftershocks.
"I could be persuaded to agree with that." he rumbled.
There were two sets of laughter, one from Gabriel, the other from Balthazar.
"Persuaded to agree?" Gabriel repeated, wrapping an arm around Castiel.
"Yeah." Castiel replied.
"Knew you two would get along." Balthazar quipped, watching them in the throes of afterglow.
Gabriel turned his head to look at Balthazar. "Enjoy the show? You're welcome by the way."
"Very much so and thank you." Balthazar crawled over to where they were and both Castiel and Gabriel could see that he was still very interested. He leaned down and kissed Gabriel and then Castiel. He pulled back only to have Gabriel pounce on him, pinning his arms to the mattress above him. Balthazar smiled up at him as Gabriel leaned close and kissed him lightly, nipping at his mouth before licking his lips with the tip of his tongue. Balthazar chuckled softly, opening his mouth to grant Gabriel access. They kissed long and slow before Gabriel began to move down Balthazar's chest, pressing kisses to his chest and abdomen. Gabriel bit lightly at Balthazar's hip, one hand wrapping around Balthazar's erection, stroking him lazily before taking Balthazar into his mouth and sucking.
Balthazar's hips bucked up on their own, a gasp falling from his lips. Watching Gabriel and Castiel had been a lot of fun, and had turned him on immensely. At the rate that Gabriel was going, he wouldn't last very long. Gabriel's tongue flicked back and forth quickly over his head causing Balthazar to moan, his fingers curling into Gabriel's hair. Gabriel smiled at this and began to suck harder and bob his head a bit, fingers still stroking what he couldn't reach. Gabriel moved faster over Balthazar, pulling back with a pop and letting his hand take over. As far as Balthazar was concerned Gabriel's mouth was gone far too soon, but his hands were divine. Balthazar's fingers clutched at the sheets beneath him as he growled in a mix of pleasure and frustration.
"Faster." he hissed, hips thrusting harder into Gabriel's fist in desperation.
Castiel, having regained his breath, scooted closer to the pair and began to kiss Balthazar, distracting him slightly from Gabriel. Balthazar kissed him back happily, one hand tangling through Castiel's hair, the other still clinging to the sheets. Between the two of them, Balthazar was soon weak and boneless, his cries fading away to join theirs. A quick snap of the fingers and the clean up was done, the three of them curled up together much like they were the first time, but with Gabriel in the center this time instead of Balthazar.
It was hard to tell where one began and the other ended, they were so tangled up. Three sets of wings molded and shifted together as they got comfortable and talked quietly before drifting off to sleep.
**Epilogue: A few years later.**
"Is it on?"
"Yeah, I think so. The red light means it's on."
"Hey! It's Graduation Day!" Gabriel grinned at the camera. He was wearing a blue robe and hat with a yellow tassel and sash. "I, of course, am graduating summa cum laude-"
"The hell you are!" came a shout from off camera, followed by a laugh.
Gabriel spun the camera around to where Castiel was standing in front of a mirror, adjusting his cap. His gown, also blue, still unzipped and he had a sash as well, but his had a blue stripe running down it. Castiel grinned at the camera through the mirror, hands moving to his tie.
"The summa cum laude sashes have two stripes, you giant dork." he laughed, sticking his tongue out.
"Balthazar, hold this." Gabriel said, passing the camera over and walking over to Castiel.
The picture became steady again as Balthazar took the camera."At least you're graduating." came the dry reply.
"You're hopeless with ties, let me do it." Gabriel muttered, batting Castiel's hands away. "And you are no help at all." he directed towards Balthazar. Balthazar laughed.
"Okay, so I'm really graduating magna cum laude."
"No, that's me." Castiel corrected as Gabriel knotted his tie.
"Okay, fine. Just take all my fun away."
"Cum laude, is just as good, Dr. Loki." Castiel adjusted his tie and zipped up his gown.
"I think I like Dr. Loki coming from you." Gabriel whispered, kissing Castiel.
"You two are cute and all, but we need to get going if we're going to be on time for the ceremony." Balthazar interrupted, shutting off the camera.
"Kirk, Jessica"
"Kohlenberg, Amy."
"Lane, Daria. Summa cum laude."
"Loki, Gabriel. Cum laude."
The camera followed Gabriel across the stage as he accepted his diploma amongst cheers and applause as Balthazar watched from the audience.
"Novak, Castiel. Magna cum laude."
Again the camera followed as Castiel accepted his diploma. Castiel and Gabriel both had job offers already, several in fact, it was just a matter of picking which one they wanted. Neither of them would see it, but Balthazar had the biggest smile on his face watching his boys graduate.
"Okay, we on? Yeah, we're on." Castiel held the camera facing him, he was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans and was a bit scruffy since he hadn't shaved yet. "Well, it's about a year after graduation, the three of us are still together, and we just bought a house." He panned the camera over to get a look at the house. "Two stories, on the beach."
The house was blue-gray in color, had black shutters (that were actual working shutters, not just for decoration), and a big wraparound porch. On the second story on the left side of the house, was a balcony. It also had a basement and an attic.
"Balthazar sold his shop about seven months ago to a national chain, and six months ago we found this place." Castiel narrated as he walked up the stone pathway to the front door. "We just moved in, so forgive the mess." he continued, opening the door to reveal the utter chaos inside.
There were boxes, packing material and furniture everywhere. "At the moment, we are just barely controlled chaos." he finished.
"Tell me about it." Gabriel replied as Castiel walked into the living room. He was in the middle of unpacking their DVD collection and setting up their entertainment center. "Bal, still at work?"
"Considering that he's setting up a new shop with Lucifer? Yeah, he's still at work. They should be able to do a soft opening in a couple of weeks." Castiel replied, watching Gabriel.
"We're still going?"
"Yes."
"Good, looking forward to it."
"You're just looking forward to fucking with people at the party." Castiel snorted and turned the camera back towards himself. "Genius here, has a degree in Psychology and would rather use it to mess with people's minds at the bar, than getting a job."
"Hey! I am doing a public service, Mr. Works at the University." came the off camera reply.
Castiel swung the camera back to Gabriel. "Oh really? And what, pray tell, is that?"
"Helping lonely singles get laid."
Castiel laughed and shut the camera off.
"Okay, there's the light." Gabriel held the camera this time, Casitel and Balthazar pressed in on either side of him. "We've only got five minutes of tape left, what do we want to do? I vote for porn."
"No. Besides, like you could do anything good in five minutes." Balthazar vetoed.
"And again with taking away my fun." Gabriel grouched.
"Just shut up and say hi to the camera." Castiel replied.
"Oh wait, I know what to say." Gabriel said. He made sure the camera was on frame with the three of them before saying, "And they lived happily ever after."
"Are you serious?" Balthazar asked, laughing softly."That is seriously cheesy, even for you."
"I was being sentimental." Gabriel answered, looking at Balthazar, indignantly as he could and only half failing, since he was trying not to laugh.
"I don't know, I have to back up Bal here, that iwas/i pretty cheesy, even for you." Castiel grinned.
Gabriel turned his head to face Castiel ."Shut up! You're both just jealous because I said it before you could." he replied, sticking out his tongue.
Both Castiel and Balthazar laughed at that.
"That's not funny." Gabriel snickered.
"Doesn't make it any less true." Castiel whispered, kissing Gabriel's cheek before the camera shut itself off.
The End.