CHAPTER 22
Dean and Sam came back to the manor at around six to pick up Leigh. Dean got out of the car to give Paige a kiss, which she responded to eagerly. Sam got out of the passenger seat and opened up the door of the back for Leigh. He wanted to give her the front but she preferred to sit in the back – another thing she had told him that he remembered.
She got in and Dean got in not long after with a satisfied smile on his face. Castiel texted Dean the name of the diner and they headed over there. It was still decorated with hearts and cherubs/cupids from Valentine's Day. It subtly annoyed Leigh now. She wasn't a huge fan of V-day before, but now she hated the thought of it.
They sat down at a small booth where Castiel was waiting there, talking to a waitress. She took the three's orders and once she left, Dean and Sam greeted Castiel and introduced him to Leigh.
"Leigh, this is Cas." Sam said nodding to the guy in the trench coat who was sitting beside him.
"Hello, Leigh-Anna." Castiel replied in monotone.
"Uh, hi." She replied cautiously "Can I just say, you're not what I expected when they said 'angel'."
"Yes, the modern stereotype has given humans the perception that we all wear white and have large white feathered wings. We do have wings, but humans cannot see them, also we do not play harps."
"Okay." She said as the waitress came back with their food. Sam was still amazed that Leigh ordered a burger and fries, the same as Dean, and Leigh still felt like laughing when she saw Sam's salad.
"So what, you just happen to know cupid likes the cosmos at this place?" Dean asked Cas sardonically.
"This place is a nexus of human reproduction. It's exactly the kind of garden," he stopped briefly mid-sentence to stare at Dean's burger "that cupid would come to," he stopped again, watching Leigh dip her fries in tomato sauce "to pollenate."
Dean picked up his burger to take a bite. He put it down again and pushed the plate away from himself. Sam smirked, but looked confused.
"Wait a minute, you're not hungry?" he asked Dean.
"No." Dean said.
"Is that unusual?" Leigh asked, covering her mouth with her hand because she'd just taken a bite of her burger.
"Yeah." Sam laughed.
"What I'm not hungry?" he said in a loud, defensive way.
"So you're not going to finish that?" Castiel asked. Dean shook his head and Castiel picked up his plate from across the table and put it before himself. He was about to put it in his mouth when he stopped. "He's here."
Sam Dean and Leigh looked around. There was nothing out-of-the-ordinary that they could see, except that it looked like a breeze had gone through the diner.
"Where? I don't see anything." Sam said.
"There." He nodded in the direction of a couple making out in a booth.
"What you mean the same side of the booth couple over there?" Dean asked.
"Meet me in the back." Castiel said and when the other three turned back, he was gone.
They got up from the booth and left the diner, Sam leaving the bill and the tip for the waitress on the table. They walked around to the back of the building and saw Castiel standing there with his hand raised in mid air.
"Cas where is he?" Sam asked.
"I have him tethered." Castiel replied. He then said something slowly in Enochian. "Manifest yourself." Castiel lowered his hand and looked expectant.
They all looked around. "So where is he?" Dean asked a second before a chubby guy crushed him into a bear-hug from behind. The guy was scarily happy and completely nude.
He was holding Dean slightly off of the ground. Dean looked uncomfortable and struggled to get out of the naked guy's grip.
"Help!" Dean shouted.
"Oh, help is on the way yes it is." The guy replied as if he were talking to a child and shaking Dean. He then looked up and saw Castiel and let Dean go.
"Hello you!" he said loudly and happily and paced towards the angel. Dean struggled for breath and looked mortified as he saw the man's naked ass walk in front of him. The nude guy pulled Cas into a hug and lifted him off of the ground too.
"Is this cupid?" Dean asked, disturbed.
"Yes." Castiel replied.