Chapter 11

There will be no more supernatural monsters in this story (hopefully), it will be just them being teenagers as they grow up and their relationships developing plus drama and yada, yada. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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September rain was a blessing for the small town since summer days were hot and dry; the skies were hidden by dark clouds, rain was expected all day through tomorrow and perhaps another day. This was quite unfortunate for the soccer team meaning practice would be cancelled due to the weather and it was impossible to do it in the rain since the temperature dropped seldom to lower than fifteen degrees Celsius making the water drops cold enough to make you sick for days. Dean, however, thought it a great opportunity to spend the morning before school started with his boyfriend and best friend.

Castiel opened the door and stepped out of the car wearing a tan trench coat for the cold and a black brolly in his hand. Anna and Gabriel each had their own too and nearly ran inside to avoid the rain on their uniforms or mud on their shoes, Castiel, however, stood in the parking lot noticing something along the distance; a girl kneeling on the ground drenched from the rain a boy stood next to her and although Castiel could not hear what was coming out of his mouth he could tell they guy was yelling at the girl. Suddenly he lifted up his hand to smack the girl across the face causing her to land face down on the gr. Castiel felt the sudden urge to break every bone in this guy's hand; he started walking towards them and stopped once he was close enough for them to notice him.

"Let go of her." he said in a low growl, the guy, Gordon Walker, glared at Castiel making a fist by his side.

"This is none of your business, fuck off, Novak!" Castiel made a small sound mimicking a chuckle and looked at the guy with a blank expression.

"It would be an unfortunate mistake of you to contend against me, let go of her and walk away."

"Or what?" he snarled with mockery, "You're gonna call all your little cousins to go against me?" he tightened his grip on the girl's wrist and she let out a shriek from the pain.

"I suppose that would be an option, however, quite gratuitous. You are hurting her, let go."

"Listen, Novak. This doesn't concern you so I suggest you walk away before I fuck up your face." Castiel stood there without moving, simply staring at Gordon as if looking into his soul.

"Wouldn't you like that?" he tilted his head to the side narrowing his eyes. The guy stepped forward with a fist aiming for Castiel's face but Castiel caught it with his own hand, Gordon fixed his eyes on the deep blue ones and felt a cold shiver down his spine from that heavy gaze starring into his soul, it was enough to distract him and Castiel reached with two fingers lightly placing them on the posterior aspect of Gordon's neck, below the occipital bone just behind the ear; Gordon fell to the ground unconscious.

"Are you alright?" Castiel turned his eyes to the wide eyed girl on the ground shivering from the cold and obviously frightened, she nodded.

"Thank you." she managed to say still shivering and he gave her a small smile; Castiel took off his coat and put it around her shoulders taking her under the brolly they walked into the building.

"I shall accompany you to the nurse and perhaps it would best you tell the headmaster of this incident before it occurs again." he said once they were inside, she stared at him with anxiety and Castiel could see something was obviously wrong, tears built in her eyes.

"Look at me," he said in a soft tone and she did, "he can not hurt you if you speak to the headmaster of this serious matter, it is possible for him to get suspended and even if he didn't, I would take responsibility of your safety. Whatever he could possibly do to you, I will return it ten times worst." she wiped away her tears with a handkerchief Castiel offered her and she nodded.

"Thank you for through all this trouble for me, really… it can't keep going like this but I'm scared he will over do it one day and kill me…"

"How long has this happened?"

"About six months." she lowered her head, Castiel sighed and turned his head from her.

"Why have you allowed this?"

"He threatened if I told anyone he would hurt me even more…" they heard footsteps and voices down the hall and Castiel recognised them, Lillith and Ruby were coming their way. Lillith raised her eyebrow noticing Castiel standing with a girl whom she recognised as one of her friends in tears.

"Destiny?" she looked at Castiel with a questioning look, he gave her a slight frown. "Not that asshole again, is it?" everyone was silent. "Destiny, what the hell? You need to stop this."

"Where is he?" asked Ruby.

"He has been taken care of." replied Castiel.

"We'll help her." she nodded to Castiel, "Come on, let's get you to the nurse." Lillith wrapped an arm around Destiny's shoulder and left with Ruby following. Castiel stood there for a moment before walking to the lunchroom where he supposed Dean and Gabriel were.

"I thought you had gone to the library." said Dean when Castiel sat down next to him.

"Not at all. I had something to take care of." he gave Dean a slight smile.

"You okay, Cass?"

"Yes, Dean, how are you this morning?"

"Glad I don't have practice today, that means you," he took Castiel's hand in his, "and I get to spend more time together after school." he kissed Castiel on the cheek and the younger boy smiled.

"Cassie, you're stealing my best friend." pouted Gabriel and crossed his arms.

"It's Castiel and I am not stealing your best friend, Gabriel." he rolled his eyes.

"Yes, you are. We don't even hang out that much anymore, Dean-o. What happened to bros before hoes?"

"Um.." Dean looked at Gabriel then at Castiel.

"Gabriel, I am your brother and I am NOT a prostitute!" Castiel glared at Gabriel who was now giggling.

"What, are you jealous, Gabe?" Dean winked at Gabriel.

"Oh yeah, big time, bad boy." he said with a serious face but humour in his eyes.

"Sorry, darling, I'll make it up to you." he made a kissy face at Gabriel who in return did the same, Castiel sat there awkwardly staring at them until they both turned to him and burst out laughing.

The time came for classes to start, Gabriel waved at them goodbye and walked ahead being greeted by almost everyone on his way. Dean grabbed Castiel's hand, they shared a small smile before heading out to class; girls at the school had been disappointed that their charming prince Castiel and the god-like Dean were dating, most girls sighed as they passed by holding hands, others giggled at how cute there were and others who literally cried for days. Becky was the one person who constantly reminded them how perfect and adorable they looked and proceeded to squeal or giggle making the situation awkward for them. Luckily, they shared algebra on Mondays so they walked in the room still holding hands, girls around them giggled and waved at them.

The day went by rather slow for their liking, classes had been uneventful and dull with the constant speaking of the teachers and their long lessons, assignments, labs, more work, another lesson, and so on. Dean was relieved when the last class was dismissed. Castiel was usually by his locker at this time getting things he needed to take home, it had become a routine for both of them to meet after school at Castiel's locker, they'd share a small kiss and head home together. They had decided to stay at Dean's house today until Castiel had to go home.

"Hey, Dean! Hey, Castiel!" said Sam as he approached the two teens standing by the Impala.

"Hello, Sam." said Castiel.

"Hey, Sammy. How was your day?"

"It was good," he smiled like a little dork, "Jessica and I have a project together and we have a study-date this afternoon!"

"At our house?"

"Um, yeah…" he blushed, "think mum will let us study in my room?"

"As long as there's no funny business going on, yeah." Sam cleared his throat embarrassed.

"I'm only fourteen, Dean."

"Doesn't matter, Sammy, hormones get to you sometimes." Dean joked with a smirk on his face, Sam's face was red and he shifted in his seat uncomfortable.

"Anyway." Dean chuckled as he drove. The rest of the way home was almost quiet with a few conversations between Sam and Castiel. Mary was already home and preparing dinner, John was still at work but he was expected to arrive in an hour. They entered the house and were greeted with tight hugs from Mary, Sam ran upstairs almost tripping over everything after greeting his mum with a kiss on the cheek.

"Why is he in such a hurry?" Mary raised an eyebrow.

"His girlfriend is coming over, they have a 'study date'"

"Oh, that is wonderful!" she smiled wide and looked in Sam's room's direction. "I'll make some snacks for them and for you boys."

"Thanks, mum." he kissed her cheek, "We'll be in my room doing homework."

"Don't do anything you boys are not supposed to do!" she eyed them with a smile, Castiel blushed and Dean cleared his throat.

"Yeah, okay mum." he grabbed Castiel's hand and both walked upstairs quickly before Mary could embarrass them even further.

Dean's room was not the impeccable but neither was it the typical teenage mess, there were a few books on the floor and shoes but everything else was organised somewhere in the room. There was a big collection of Metallica, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and other CD's of his favourite bands on a shelf, a flat screen TV on the wall facing his bed, a black leather loveseat in the far end of the room and a glass coffee table with a few Motor Mania and Classic Cars magazines on top.

"Sorry about my mum." he said putting his backpack on the chair of his desk.

"It's fine, Dean." he smiled. The boys settled down and took out their books to do their assignments, which were not many but still required their time. Mary had come to leave snacks and drinks at some point and they thanked her. Castiel and Dean had stolen a few glances at each other while the one of them wasn't looking and when they caught each other's glance they smiled.

"Boys, dinner's in five minutes." John knocked on the door which Mary insisted needed to be left open.

"Oh, okay, dad."

"Hello, Castiel."

"Hello, Mr. Win- John." he remembered John telling him not to call him Mr. Winchester because it made him feel old, which he was but would not admit. He gave Castiel a small smile and then left.

"My eyes hurt." complained Dean rubbing his eyes.

"We have been studying for a few hours. Are you alright, Dean?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." he blinked a few times then smiled at his boyfriend. They shared a small kiss before going downstairs where Mary had already set up the table and were waiting for them, Sam was already there and so was Jessica. Mary had prepared one of her best Cedar Planked Salmon with seasonal veggies (which Dean avoided), Caesar salad (also avoided by Dean) and frozen strawberry-lemonade (Citron pressé). Everyone complimented Mary on the delectable dinner.

Dinner was not as awkward as Dean expected, Mary and John had made small conversations with Jessica and Castiel but thankfully it had not been anything to embarrass either of the two Winchester boys. As they finished with the dinner, Jessica and Mary took everyone's dishes to the sink and Sam brought the pie to the table. Castiel and Dean were sitting next to each other and John at the first end of the table, he noticed the two boys share a smile before staring into each other's eyes unblinkingly for a few minutes. John shifted in his seat and cleared his throat to get their attention but they neither heard, nor were aware they were once again trapped in a long trance for each other. Sam placed the pie on the table and John squinted his eyes at Sam as if asking what they were doing.

"Um… they do that a lot…" Sam scratched his head, "they stare at each other for a long time… usually someone has to break them up…"

"I see…" John nodded feeling definitely crept out by the two teens next to him. Mary sat down and started serving the pie to each one until she noticed Dean and Castiel had their plates in front of them with pie, the pie Dean would die for had not been touched since it was placed before him.

"Honey…" she looked at Dean and Castiel, then at John who simply shrugged.

"Dean!" said Sam clapping his hands, Castiel and Dean blinked and turned their heads to see everyone staring at them.

"What?" Dean eyed everyone. "Ooh pie, I like me some pie." he grabbed his fork and began eating his precious pie. Mary smiled, John shook his head, Jessica giggled and Sam sighed.

After dinner, Dean and Castiel helped Mary with the dishes while John took Sam and Jessica to her house as it was getting late. Mary was a wonderful mother to her kids and even Castiel she treated as her own, which he indeed embrace. Mary had known Charmeine, the Novak children's mother, before she even had given birth to Michael; she was a beautiful woman with light auburn hair colour, sapphire eyes and ivory complexion, Castiel and Anna resembled her the most out of all their siblings. Mary and Castiel bonded very well, she was like the mother he never had and Mary loved him dearly.

"Dean, what is this?" asked Castiel sitting on the passenger seat of the Impala, they had decided to drive around after they had finished helping Mary and John and Sam had returned.

"That, Cass, is a Legend." he smiled wide.

"Oh?" he tilted his head to the side which Dean found endearing, "What is this Legend about?"

"You have to listen to it in order to know, here, let's put it in." he grabbed the CD from Castiel labelled Metallica Kill 'Em All. Dean turned the volume up at the crescendo of the electric guitar, the bass and the drums

"Just wait for it, you're gonna like it." he grinned, Castiel smiled and Dean started playing the air guitar along the solo which made Castiel laugh. They came to a stop in front of the lake and sat in the Impala listening to every song of the Metallica album. Castiel liked a few of them and joined Dean on the epic air guitar solos while both laughed.

"You have a beautiful smile." Dean wasn't the type for chick-flick moments but he didn't care if it was with Castiel, his smile was the most precious thing he could have ever seen.

"Thank you, Dean." he couldn't help to smile wider, Dean leaned to give him a soft kiss that lasted for a minute. The last song played and which Dean hummed along while Castiel sat there staring at him wondering how was it possible for a human being to be so wonderful, so perfect and beautiful like his boyfriend.

"So, what do you think?" Dean asked referring to the Metallica album.

"It was very nice, I liked a few of the songs, although it is much different from what I listen to." he smiled.

"What type of music do you listen to?"

"Have you ever heard of The Black Keys or Heartless Bastards?"

"I don't think so."

"Do you want to hear one?"

"Sure." he smiled, Castiel took his iPod from his bag and attached it to the speakers of the Impala. The song started with the soft sound of the guitar for a few seconds before the voice of a contralto voice started singing the lyrics which Dean paid close attention to. He stepped out of the car and walked to the side of Castiel's to open the door extending his hand in invitation for a dance.

Been a while since I felt this way about someone,

I'd really, really like to know you, more

Oh, oh, know you, more

Oh, your eyes, they sing a song to me,

I'd really, really like to go to it, oh, go, ohAnd I will oh, open my heart

And I will oh, only for you

Their bodies were closely touching, their foreheads pressed together with their eyes closed and their feet moving along with the rhythm of the music. Their lips were centimetres apart and they could feel each other's warm breath, their lips slightly touched as the song ended; neither opened their eyes nor moved, simply stood there holding each other until for a second again their lips met for a soft peck until finally for a soft kiss. Their hearts beat harmoniously at a slight accelerated speed, they deepened the tender kiss; Castiel moved his left hand to cup Dean's face as the other boy wrapped his arm around his boyfriend's waist while the other rested on the back of Castiel's neck. Their love was demonstrated in their long kiss, holding each other for as long as they could under the starry night.

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There were pizza boxes around the living room at Castiel's house, which only meant one thing: his cousins were there and were having a major dual on Dance Revolution for wii. Castiel and Dean entered the house and were welcomed by a hyper Gabriel munching on a Twix and a glass of Pepsi on his other hand.

"Cassie! Dean-o! How very wonderful of you to join us!" he giggled like a kid scheming a stunt. "Balth, don't start without me!" he handed the boys the drink and the chocolate and ran towards Balthazar. The song, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, started playing, Balthazar and Gabriel were dancing to it like there was no tomorrow determined to beat each other. The others were gathered around cheering for their team, team Balthazar and team Gabriel. Balthazar was a really great dancer but Gabriel was a little too high on sugar and beat his cousin in the blink of an eye. He celebrated by taking a swig of the drink he had handed to Castiel then proceeded to unwrap another candy bar.

"Dean and Castiel should try next!" said Anna.

"No, no, I think Michael and Lucifer should." smirked Balthazar.

"Michael and Lucifer are still gonna dance the Lambada but first, you boys!" Gabriel turned to Castiel and Dean, "Gotta go against Balthy and I."

"Um… I'll pass." said Dean looking around the room.

"No excuses, come on!" they pulled Castiel and Dean to the spotlight, they were going against Balthazar and Gabriel. I'm Coming Out started playing at which Dean made a face but the others seemed to like. Castiel and Dean gave their best but were still beat by a hyper Gabriel and a forever-drunk-like-attitude Balthazar.

"Seriously, that song?" asked Lucifer.

"Oh hush, I like that song." said Balthazar.

"You're such a girl, Balth."

"Oh whatever, at least I have this fine arse." he wiggled his hips and winked. Everyone in the room laughed, they spent the night competing against each other until it was late in the night, unfortunately they had school the next day so Balthazar and Gabriel ended the last round being tied. Gabriel will still say he won but then again, so does Balthazar.

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