A/n at the end of this chapter
"How many times a day do you normally do stuff like this" Dean jests from his position on a ladder replacing paneling
"It depends, some days I'll spend all day going from office to office fixing problems and installing security, but most of the time I sit in my office watching over the backup systems, you know, making sure nothing goes down." Cas hits the enter key as a download begins and swivels in his chair to look out of the large glass window at the buzz of the city in the morning.
"Hey! Mr. Novak could you come here for a minute? I need your expertise." A dark haired woman working on the opposite side of the room calls.
Cas gets up and makes his way over there. She shows him her laptop which is brightly lit on an open document
"Does line 405 have to correspond with the last group of numbers for the keys to work?" She points to a group of numbers on the screen, cas squints
"They don't necessarily have to as long as the program is downloaded and you've got line 6 and 27 lined up to download onto the cards, the rest are just formalities. "
"Thanks" the woman smiles
"No problem" cas smiles to himself and steps over a few toolboxes to check on the download, which is now completed. He sits back at the makeshift desk in the middle of the large room.
"Mr. Winchester" Ruby walks into the room, looking as professional as ever, her face looks different, cas thinks. If cas didn't know any better he'd think she's happy.
Dean climbs down from the ladder and strolls over toward the door,where Mrs. Hughes is waiting.
Cas goes back to his work, not wanting to eavesdrop on their conversation.
A few minutes later Ruby leaves and Dean returns working.
It's about 7:55 when cas finishes programming the employee key cards. There is still a bit of construction to do but that's not really cas' division, so he lets Dean know he's done and heads back to the I.t office. Garth isn't there so he must be on the floor somewhere. Cas stretches and yawns then lies his head oh his desk. He then falls asleep.
Cas startles awake when he feels someone shaking him, his blurry eyes notice a tall figure in a light blue t-shirt
"What time is it?" Cas asks, rubbing the sleep from his vision
"9:45, amigo" an amused voice answers
"Shit!" Cas wipes drool from his face and looks around to see Garths things gone but the lights on.
"Garth?"
"Your buddy left about an hour ago. I figured I come in and come get you since we have a date"
"A who?" Cas' sleepy voice answers
"You, me, eating, tonight. I told you I was taking you to eat this morning. I've got some questions."
"I didn't think you were serious. I don't think that'd be a good idea..."
Dean laughs
"Yeah, says the guy with a sticky note glued to his face" he removes the yellow piece of sticky paper from cas' cheek, crumples it up and throws it into the nearest bin.
Cas flushes
"Okay. Yeah. Just give me a second to get my stuff together."
Dean agrees and tells cas he'll be waiting outside the door.
As soon as Dean leaves the room Cas lets out an obnoxiously annoyed sigh. He pulls out his phone and uses the screen as a mirror to fix his hair so it looks semi decent. He checks over the computers and backup machines to assure they are running properly. He grabs his green messenger bag, glasses, and coat before turning off the lights and exiting the room to meet up with Dean.
"So we seem to be getting interrupted quite a lot, what with the phone calls, and other people" Dean takes a sip of his beer
"Yeah. I guess" Cas mumbles, the words inaudible over the noise of the street life and cheers from the inside of the bar.
"So, Cas, you said you had a cat at home...anything else? Anyone else?" Dean leans back in the aluminum chair, waiting patiently for cas' response
"Nope. No one else. Just my cat, box, and I." Cas takes a bite from his cheese burger
Dean erupts in laughter
"What?" Cas glares at Dean
"You're telling me you named your cat box? Box! Out of all the-" Dean continues his laughing fit
"Yes. Box. I don't understand why that's so funny. A box is where she came from so why not?"
"Box! Dude, that's like naming your kid, vagina!" Dean laughs more and this time cas begins to giggle a bit, too until he's laughing so hard he's crying.
Once the laughter dies down, Cas begins to speak
"I was uh-I was going to say I didn't not like the-the lip contact...I mean I haven't kissed anyone Like that in. .well a while and I figured you look like you do that kind of thing often."
"So what if I do? What if I've been doing it to everyone I meet?" Dean smirks at cas' visibly flustered expression.
"I'm just teasin' i've only done it to like 8 or 9 other people" Cas glares hard at Dean who gets another laugh from that.
"That's cute. You care. But I'm kidding. I don't just go 'round kissing people. Not my preferred method of getting a date." Dean finishes his glass of beer and calls the waitress for another
"So, dates. You get them often?"
"A fair amount. Though none quite as good as this one." Dean smiles at Cas who blushes and sinks into his chair
"I'm not usually this...what's the word...embarrassing? Coy? Idiotic? It's just no one has expressed interest in this old I.t guy who has worn the same jeans 2 days in a row in a long time. I um...I just want to thank you for taking me out, I guess. So-uh-thank you."
Dean looks awe struck like cas just told him they're getting married.
"Wow. That's-that's...I didn't think id get anywhere with my terrible social skills, this is actually a first for me. To be honest I was scared shitless about kissing you" Dean admits
"How'd you know I'd kiss back?"
"Lucky guess."
Cas laughs at that
"Wow. I thought you looked pretty cool, too"
"What, you changed your mind?"
"A bit. You went from Mr. Winchester-construction-voice-hard-hat to Dean the not-so-cool-construction- freckle-guy" Cas smiles
"Aw! No. 'Freckle guy?' How low. Id go with 'Dean the super-suave-super-handsome- super-cool-country-guy"
Cas rolls his eyes
"Eh that's pushing it." they both erupt in drunken laughter and spend the remainder of the night creating nicknames for one another.
Cas wakes up Saturday morning to box resting under his chin. He's careful to move her onto the bed beside him so he can sit up. He rubs his eyes and yawns. He smells his shirt and wrinkles his nose. Cas slides out of bed and makes his way through his small apartment to the bathroom to get cleaned up. As cas runs his shower, box paws at the door, As usual, to tell cas she's hungry.
"Hang on, box" Cas coos from the shower.
10 minutes later cas is out of the shower, in new clothes and filling boxs bowl with cat food.
Cas cell phone rings and echoes through the kitchen, he checks the caller i.d and it reads jo harvelle, so he answers
"Jo?"
"Hey, cas. What happened to you last night? I tried calling...i left a message"
"You did? Sorry, i was indisposed.."
There's a short silence
"Uh-huh. Who is it?"
"Sorry?"
"Who is it? Who'd you sleep with?" Jo sounds rather excited
"What? None-no one. I was invited out and i just hung out for a few hours and came home. Alone."
Her tone goes back down
"Oh. Alright. Anyway i was calling because i had an extra ticket for the midnight screening of that new scary movie and was wondering if you'd do me the honor of accompanying me?"
Cas glances at his clock, 3:00 already
"Yeah. I can do that." Cas smiles
"Great! Ill pick you up at 10. See you then."
"Bye." cas hangs up the phone and leaves it on the polished counter as he takes his bowl of cereal to the living room.
Dean is up early due to his inability to sleep. He got pretty drunk and cas had to call him a cab. Deans place is his sisters old apartment, she left it to him when she moved in with her husband.
Dean is reading the paper and eating in the kitchen. He doesn't have work today so his schedule is clear. He pauses mid bite and thinks about calling cas,
but we just hung out last night. If i call too much i might seem clingy...,
He dismisses the thought and finishes his lunch.
At around 9:40 cas gets a text from jo asking for his address. After he texts her back he begins getting ready. He throws on a grey led zeppelin t-shirt and considers going for a 4-day streak with his jeans but decides against it and opts for a cleaner pair.
Cas is pulling on his old slip-ons by the time there's a knock at his door. He opens it and invites Jo inside. Shes dressed casual with her hair in a ponytail as opposed to its usual clip,
"Nice place cas" jo admires the cleanliness of the small space as she steps into his living room.
"Thanks i try to keep it clea-"
Jo squeals, gaining cas' attention
"You didn't tell me you had such a cute cat!" Jo picks up cas' furry friend and begins to pet her
"I love cats, but my husband is allergic so we can't have any. She is so cute, whats her name?"
"It's Box."
"Box? That's adorable." Jo looks at her watch "ooh, but we've gotta go. Don't want to be late." She reluctantly puts the cat back down.
cas, finished with his shoes, grabs his wallet, keys and phone and leaves.
They arrive at the drive in theater 15 minutes before the movie starts.
20 minutes into the movie, there's a tap on Jo's car window that scares the shit out of the both of them. Cas looks out of Jo's window
"Dean?" Castiel's face twists in confusion
Jo rolls down her window
"Hey." She says, dean smiles and then looks very surprised
"Cas? What are you-"
Jo laughs
"Sorry, castiel, i probably should have mentioned, this is my brother, Dean. I also invited him out here."
Cas is nearly speechless so Dean answers, "yeah, i-uh- we've met. We have been working together for a few days. Remember that job I told you about, In the office?"
Jo unlocks the car door
"Get in. I think we need a proper introduction"
Dean opens the door and gets in the back seat of her dodge charger.
And hour and 40 minutes later the credits are rolling and Jo seems pleased with the movie
"How'd you two like it?" she asks excitedly
"The horror aspect was spot on" cas says
Dean just smiles
"Hey, cas, I've got to pick up my husband from work." Jo looks back at Dean "would you mind dropping cas off at his house?"
Dean shrugs in agreement
Jo waves them off as she drives out of the lot, down the main road.
"My truck is over here" Dean says approaching a grey pickup truck
Dean and cas get in and Dean starts the car.
"Its the yellow apartment" cas points out as they pull up to cas' address. Dean parks on the side of the road.
Cas reaches for the door handle and pauses before turning his head to face dean
"Did you want to maybe come inside? You don't have to or anything i just- "
"Yeah, i think can stay for a bit." Dean smirks.
They both walk up the concrete path in the cool night air to cas' door. Dean is sort of looming, which makes cas a bit nervous as he fumbles with his keys but eventually gets the door open. He and Dean get inside and cas begins setting his things on their hooks by the door.
"I have beer if you want it, or i made some tea-"
Dean is already on him, cas takes no time at all to kiss back frantically. Dean picks the dark haired man up and cas' back hits his living room wall. Dean begins trailing incredibly hot kisses down cas neck, cas moans in approval and starts removing dean's shirt trying to feel more of deans warm skin.
The taller man aids cas' struggling and removes his shirt then goes back to cas' mouth. Cas' tongue runs along the roof of deans mouth and dean moans into the kiss, carrying cas through the small apartment.
"Cat" cas pants into dean's ear
"What?" Dean is so turned on he forgets cas has a cat
"The cat, dean, vagina is around, don't step on her" cas breaths heavily into deans hair and dean laughs hard.
They make it to the bed, in the dark, and dean throws cas, back first, onto the bed and begins removing his own belt , shoes and jeans. The only light in cas' room in from a street light shining through his blinds. Cas takes off his own shirt, toes off his shoes, and dean begins to remove cas jeans, kissing his hips and stomach on the way. Cas' hands are deep into deans short brown hair. Suddenly cas flips their positions and is back on dean's lips. Cas is grinding against deans already hard member causing dean to grunt and slip his hand into cas pants and start rubbing
"GOD, DEAN!" Cas screams, not caring they might be heard
"Do you-you have-" cas doesn't have to finish his question before dean reaches over the side of the bed and pulls his jeans closer to get into the pocket and pull out a condom and lube.
Cas stops his hip gyrating to frantically remove his and deans underwear, roll a condom onto deans prick and apply lubricant to himself and then deans member.
Cas is moaning and being very noisy while preparing himself, which dean didn't expect but likes very much.
"Now, dean. Do it now" cas pleads as he lets dean take control. Dean latches onto cas soft lips again as he firmly grasps the other mans soft hips to flip cas back onto the bed. He starts out slow but eventually starts fucking cas feverishly. Cas uses his fingers to claw at deans shapely back and dean licks up cas' neck leaving a hot, wet trail in its wake.
Dean finds cas' prostate within seconds which drives cas wild.
a few minutes later they are both coming with each others names on their lips.
Dean collapses, exhausted, next to cas who doesn't even have his eyes open anymore but is breathing hard.
"Still think this is a bad idea?" Dean asks slyly.
Cas just moans in reply and shifts so his head is pressed to deans chest. Dean huffs out a laugh and curls up next to cas, draping a warm arm and sheets over cas' naked shoulder.'
This is the short version of this fic. There are going to be more chapters posted on ao3 (the fic goes by the same title).