Dean's day started off really good, like really really good, but then got gradually worse. First he was almost last to work so he forgot to ask for Cas' number, then he had to punish the whole class by making them take a quiz no one was prepared for and now he's stuck in the parking lot because his baby doesn't want to start. And the worst part was that he forgot his phone at home this morning because he was in a rush so now he can't call Bobby to come pick him and baby up with his truck. Thankfully Charlie was still there "Sup bitch, car's not working or what?"
"Yeah, and I forgot my phone at home. Could you give me a ride?"
Charlie and him had met during their freshman year in college and have been friends ever since. They bonded over their nerdiness and for almost 10 years, they still have a movie marathon every Saturday night.
"Thanks for the ride Charlie" told her Dean when they arrived at his house "Wanna come in to eat something?"
"Actually, I have to go and get ready for a date!" She said excited
"What ? Since when do you have a date tonight? Why didn't you tell me before?" exclaimed Dean loudly "So, who's the lucky girl?"
"Her name's Gilda"
"Wait, THE Gilda? The super hot one from the gym? So you finally worked up the courage to ask her out then, your school girl crush was getting kinda lame to be honest" teased her Dean.
"ha ha very funny. She's actually the one who asked me out"
"Oh man, that's just embarrassing! I knew you didn't have the balls to ask her out" he teased her, still laughing "Anyway, thanks for the ride! You're still coming tomorrow right?"
"Dude you know me, I'd never miss the chance to marathon the lord of the rings"
"Have fun tonight. See you tomorrow then loser!" He said as he got out of the car and waved Charlie goodbye.
It felt good to be home after such a long day and not so pleasant day at work, he could finally just sit on his couch and relax. But before that he needed to find his phone in order to call Bobby to tell him to go pick up his baby from the school's parking lot. Bobby's like a father to him and Sam, he took care of them when their father couldn't. He and Ellen were the only family they had left, their dad passed away when Dean was still in high school. If it wasn't for Bobby pushing him to graduate high school and go to college, he would've probably ended up working at the garage with him, not that it was a bad job, Dean was very good with cars, and he was the one who restored the Impala all by himself after the accident. He still helps Bobby at the garage from time to times or when he has too much time on his hands or he just wants to clear his mind.
He took his clothes off and stayed in his boxers briefs only because he's an adult now and he can totally just walk around in his underwear nobody's gonna mind. He put his phone on charge because fucking smartphones' batteries are shit, not like his old cell, and need to be charged every single day or else they're useless. When he turned his phone on he saw that he had a few missed calls from Sam and two texts his brother sent him this morning
"Forgot my coat at your place yesterday, I'm coming to get it before going to work" – 6:42am
"Dude you're fucking loud. But anyway, kudos for scoring last night, you whore ;)" – 7:28am
"Fuck" said Dean out loud, it's not like it was the first time Sam caught him having sex, but still it's quite embarrassing. At least he didn't actually walk in on them having sex because that would've been a lot more awkward and weird. Sammy also left him two vocal messages "Hey, I guess you forgot your phone home since you didn't answer neither my texts nor phone calls. Anyway, Jess' parents came over to congratulate us on the engagement and Ellen invited us all to dinner to celebrate, 7:30pm at the Roadhouse, you better not be late jerk"
"Man if you don't answer me in the next two hours I'm coming to your place and I'll drag you to the Roadhouse, fucking answer jerk!"
Dean decided it was best to call his brother because he would very much like to avoid having a conversation with Sam about his sex life and he knew that the presence of his brother's future parents in-law will prevent Sammy from bringing the subject up.
"Hey Sam, before you yell at me, I forgot my phone at home"
"Yeah I kinda guessed. So, you better not be late and dress nice"
"Hahahah, are you trying to use my good looks to make up for your lack of and impress your in-laws?" teased him Dean
"Very funny jerk"
"Bitch" replied Dean. He was about to say bye to his brother and go get a shower before going to dinner when he remembered that he still needed to call Bobby to tell him to get the car
"Oh shit baby, I need to call Bobby. See you later bitch"
"You know that Bobby is going to come to the dinner. I'm sure the car can wait and besides, it was already hard enough to convince him to put some nice clothes on so you're not going to call him now otherwise he's going to end up having grease all over his clothes like he usually do." Menaced him Sam "Don't call Bobby, bye, see you later Jerk" he finally added before hanging up.
The Roadhouse was quite close so he didn't really need his car to go there but still, he didn't like leaving his baby at school.
An hour later, Dean had showered and was ready to go. He arrived at the Roadhouse before the rest of the guests so he helped Jo set up the table and got himself a beer. When everyone arrived it was nice and they all sat and ate their amazing food, Ellen really knew how to make awesome burgers. Dean got up to get beers and Sam followed him.
"So, were you planning on telling me you hooked up last night or did you plan on me finding it on my own? I have to tell you, I'm not a fan of hearing you and some one night stand having sex in the shower" teased him Sam
"Who had sex in a shower" said Jo quite loudly "Oh Dean, you got lucky last night" she winked at him.
"Oh for fuck's sake, are all of your sex lives so boring that you have to talk about mine. To clear things up with you" he looked at his brother "yes, I hooked up last night, picked up someone at the bar; it was like 5 minutes after you left"
"Was she hot ?" asked him Jo visibly very interested in talking about his one night stand.
"From what I heard this morning I would say that it was more of a 'he' but you know, never assume a person's gender based on their voices however deep it sounded" said Sam to Jo with a smirk and wink in Dean's direction. Dean went red and prayed to every god that some miracle would make them both shut up and redirect the conversation they were having. But it didn't happen as Jo and Sam were even more interested that before in hearing all the dirty details about last night.
"Fine, it was a guy, his name was 'Cas' and he is fucking hot. Happy now? Can we talk about something else?"
"How hot?"
"Oh for god sake Jo. I don't know, like he was really hot. Like super blue eyes, crazy sex hair and muscled muscled body. It's not like we talked much"
"Ok I'm out" said Sam widening his eyes, he left the conversation and went back to the table. Dean knew that the only way to get rid of his annoying brother was to start talking quite explicitly about his sex life then his little brother would get quite flustered and just leave.
"Ok, now that Sammy left, are you gonna give me more details or what" Dean simply glared at her and carried on drinking his beer "So, bottom or top?"
Dean choked on his beer, he could feel his face reddening, oh god, fuck my family
"Suck it Jo, none of your fucking business" Jo stood there laughing at him while he decided to return to the table, it was almost dessert time and he could kill right now for some of Ellen's pecan pie.
Castiel had to wake up quite early on Saturday morning, Claire had an extra training session and he needed to get her to school. He liked spending time with his niece and driving her around but he still secretly wished she was 16 so that he wouldn't have to wake up at 7am on a Saturday morning to drive her. When he got back, he didn't have much to do so he decided to go for a run; it always helped him clear his mind as the very old saying goes "Mens sana in corpore sano". He loved the slight buzz he got after a long run. And besides, exercise is always good and it is even better when you enjoy it. He was lost in his thoughts when his phone rang
"Hello, this is Castiel" he answered panting, trying to catch his breath.
"Am I interrupting you doing some naughty things or what" said Balthazar, his manager, half laughing.
"No Balthazar, I was running." He said rolling his eyes
"Ugh, I really don't see why you like running, it's awful. Anyway, I was calling to tell you that there's a club opening on Tuesday and you have to go, EVERYONE is going to be there!"
"I can't, I have Claire's parent-teachers night to attend to. I'm sure everyone is going to have fun even though I am not there. Nobody will notice that I am not there"
"You are no fun Castiel, well, have fun meeting teachers and judgemental parents while I'm partying. Anyway, I'll leave you to your running. Don't forget our meeting Wednesday. Bye Cas"
Dean woke up quite early for a Saturday morning; he just couldn't sleep knowing that his baby was still on the school's parking lot since he forgot to ask Bobby to bring her to his shop because he was too busy avoiding Sam and Jo's intrusive questions about his sex life. Bobby knew what the Impala meant to Dean so he obviously didn't refuse to drive all the way to the school in order to pick up the car, even though he was quite grumpy because he was planning on going to work later but family always comes first. Dean loved his car and loved taking care of her. When he was feeling anxious or just wanted to clear his head, all he had to do was work on the Impala, he could just get lost in his thoughts and relax all the while doing something useful. It turned out that the impala didn't have any major problems and it only took Dean about 30 minutes to fix her so he spent the rest of the day helping Bobby with the few cars he needed to repair.
He went groceries shopping and it looked like the whole city decided to do their groceries at the same time in the same shop which caused him to arrive home quite late. He was in the shower when he heard a knock on his door followed by a "Sup bitch, the queen is here" from Charlie who like always just invited herself in without waiting for Dean's response.
"I'm in the shower" he yelled from the upstairs bathroom "make yourself at home"
"I don't need you telling me to 'make myself home' dumbass" yelled Charlie back.
He quickly finished showering and dressing up, when he got downstairs to the living room, Charlie had already set up junk food on the coffee table and was watching some show about movie stars on E!.
"So, how was your date last night?" Asked her Dean when he sat next to her on the couch "Did you get some?" he added with a wink.
"I'm offended Dean, I don't do it on the first date" she said sarcastically with a smirk "I'm not a whore unlike a certain someone here I heard" she stared at him with a knowing smile "Why did I have to learn that from Jess of all people that you had some naughty one on one action the other night and you didn't even tell me! I thought I was your best friend you dumbass" and pretended to be hurt.
"Oh my god, will you people please stop talking about my sex life, and how does Jess even know that" oh Sammy right, he thought. His brother had the bad habit of telling everything to Jessica "Anyway, yeah I got laid. You happy now ?"
"Nope, details"
"Only if you tell me about your date"
Charlie was kind of the only person he was comfortable talking about his sex life because she was not his sister, unlike Jo, well, he and Jo weren't related by blood but like Bobby say 'family doesn't end with blood'. Dean and Charlie shared the same sense of dirty humour and they both liked to gossip even though Dean would never admit it in a hundred years.
"Fine, she took me to this super nice restaurant in downtown LA. We had a lot of fun and then she drove me back to my place. I did invite her in but she politely declined saying that she'd rather take me out on another date before. So yeah. Now your turn"
"Well, I was at the Roadhouse with Sammy, we went out to celebrate his engagement. I stayed to finish my beer after he left and then this guy sat next to me at the bar. Amazing blue eyes, full on messy bed hair, the dude was just hot, like there's no other word to describe him. We came back here and yeah. Well, the morning after, I had to go to work so he decided to join me in the shower and we had sex and I didn't know that Sam was coming by so he heard us"
"Man that's embarrassing for you hahah, I didn't know you were loud" Charlie found it hilarious and it made Dean go red, he was easily flustered. They kept talking a bit and gossiping about their colleagues when something on the tv caught Dean's eye. They didn't turn the tv off, just the sound so when he saw the quite familiar face splashed on the screen he froze and just stared at the TV. Charlie raised an eyebrow and turned her head to look at the thing that made Dean go silent.
"Oh fuck" was all Dean said "That's him" he added incredulous. His face was even more gorgeous in the picture, it looked like it was taking for a magazine photo shoot. When Charlie realised what Dean meant, her eyes shot open "No way, blue eyes-sex hair-hot guy ? Fuck Dean, good job on that one man". She was laughing so hard her eyes started weeping, there was no stopping her.
Dean grabbed the TV remote and turned up the volume
"It was confirmed today by his agent, Castiel Novak will be the lead actor in the movie adaptation of the classical French novel 'Germinal'. The movie star who usually plays in romance comedies decided to change path and go for a more 'serious' role." The blonde reporter kept talking about other trivial stuff like the rest of the cast, the director and what the movie was about. Dean couldn't care less about all of that, all he could think about was that he slept with a famous guy, if he had known that at the time he certainly wouldn't have done it.
He didn't even realise that Charlie had stopped laughing and got out her phone to call Sam
"Hey Sam, you'll never realise what we just found out. Remember the guy Dean slept with the other day ? Well it turns out it Castiel fucking Novak"
Dean heard Sam yell through the speaker of Charlie's phone "WHAAAATT ? HE SLEPT WITH CASTIEL NOVAK"
"Give me that damn phone Charlie" said Dean wrestling Charlie in order to take the phone away from her.
"Dude keep your mouth shut" he told Sam after snatching Charlie's phone away.
"Oh man, Jess is gonna freak out, she loves the guy!"
"What the hell ? Am I the only one who didn't know who he was or what?" sighted Dean
"You're not exactly a rom-com fan, and besides, I only know who he is because Jess made me watch all the movies he was in" said Sam from the other side of the line "it's not my cup of tea either, but I have to give it to you, he is quite good looking"
"You better keep this to yourself and not tell Jess. I mean, unless you want your fiancée asking me questions about how he is in bed and all that, because I would gladly tell her all in explicit details" Dean knew that Sam would keep his mouth shut after the
"Oh fuck Dean, I don't want to hear anything about you and movie star having sex. And I know that I wouldn't hear the end of it if Jess knew. Don't worry your secret is safe with me"
"Sorry to break it to you guys" said Charlie "But I kinda sent her a text before calling you Sam"
Sam let out a huge sighed and Dean stared at her, is he could kill by staring at someone, Charlie would've been Dead yesterday.
"Oh my god Charlie I can't believe it, you're not the one living with her. God, she's gonna talk about it for the next 20 years" Sam sounded really pissed.
"Well fuck then, bye Sammy, we've got some movies to watch. See you later bitch"
"Jerk" replied Sam before hanging up.
Castiel was watching a documentary on National Geographic when his phone started ringing, he let out a loud sigh when he saw that Gabriel was the one calling him
"Hello Gab, what do you want?"
"Oh Cassie, nice to hear that you are excited to talk to me. Anyway, why didn't you tell me you were cast in a weird movie? I had to learn that from E!, can you believe it, people at E! Knew before your own brother"
"What ? I thought they were gonna reveal the cast when we start filming, that's weird. Anyway, I didn't tell you because I thought you already knew since you seem to spent most of your free time at my place snooping around my things and besides, it's not the type of movies you usually enjoy watching."
"Yeah I saw that, are you seriously gonna star in a movie about a revolution that happenend in France in the 1800's, man, Les Misérables is so 2013."
"Ok, first of all, it's not like Les Misérables, and it's none of your business what movie I star in. I don't want to do rom-com for the rest of my career"
Castiel kept watching his documentary when he was yet again interrupted by his phone, Balthazar had just sent him an email that said
"Sorry Cas, I would've told you before if I knew but I just found out like half an hour ago" there was a pdf file attached to it. It contained the final cast for the movie, when he saw one of the names, he understood why Balthazar apologised, Michael was one of his co-star
"fuck" he whispered out loud, he really was looking forward to filming this movie but now it seemed like things were about to get quite complicated.
Like every week for a few years now, Dean woke up on Sunday morning on his couch with Charlie sound asleep and half slumped on him. They both must've passed out some time the return of the king. Dean woke up, went to the bathroom and started preparing the pancake mix. He got his computer and set on the table to look Castiel Novak online, he didn't know why, but he wanted to know more about the guy. After clicking on his Wikipedia page he felt bad, he didn't know why, but in this case he felt like it was a huge invasion of his privacy even though the information was on the internet for the world to see. So he just ended up on google images looking at photos of him
"Oh, I didn't think I'd ever see the day when Dean Winchester is stalking a crush online, wow Dean, you're like a teenage girl" surprised him Charlie by walking in on him "Get your shit together man, it's not like you're going to see him again"
And she was right thought Dean, it's not like Castiel Novak was going to remember where he lives and come back for a third round.
As usual, Castiel woke up early Tuesday morning and went out for a quite run, when he came back Claire was, as usual, not up yet and he had to go and wake her.
"Hey Claire, hurry up or you're gonna be late" and as usual he was welcomed by intelligible words from the young girl.
He remembered being a teenager and never having time to eat breakfast, so he went down to the kitchen and prepared some food for him and Claire. When she joined him in the kitchen, he could see that she was in a bad mood.
"Something wrong?"
"It's Tuesday" was the only answer
"And? What's so bad about Tuesdays?" asked her Castiel who didn't understand why it was such a big deal
"Tonight is parents-teachers conference and Mr. Winchester is gonna give you the stupid test he made us take. It's gonna lower my grade like so much, ugh I hate him, he's such a jerk"
"Well, I'll talk to him tonight. Don't worry too much about your grades, you're gonna pass the year with flying colours!"
When his class started on Tuesday morning, he could see that all of his students, no exceptions, were glaring angrily at him. Ok, he was kind of a jackass for making them take a surprise quiz as a punishment for the whole class but he wanted to teach them a lesson. His plan was to let his students freak out the whole weekend and tonight and wait for their parents to come back from the parents-teachers conference they had. He wasn't a complete ass, after correcting the test he saw that most his students had kind of understood the subject they were studying right now because it wasn't so bad considering they only started it two weeks ago so he decided not to count the test for anyone and just tell the parents that their kids didn't do their homework and give them the 'test' back. But of course his students didn't know that so they spent the whole morning hating him.
After the long day at work, he only had two hours left before the parents-teachers conference. He quickly went back home to shower, change and eat and then head back to the school. He hung out a bit in the teachers' room with his colleagues and then it was the dreaded time, time to face the angry parents who were mad at him. It went surprisingly well, when he explained the situation to them, most parents understood why he did it.
He took the time in between parents to write a few things down about the students. When he hear his classroom's door opening and someone saying
"Hello, I'm Claire Novak's ..."
Fucking hell thought Dean when he turned around to get a better look at the person who just came in this can't be happening
Castiel was a bit lost in the school; he had met up with most of Claire's teachers and they were all very nice and understanding of the situation. He just had one more teacher to see and then he'll finally be able to go home and relax, he never thought that talking to teachers could be so tiring but it is. He went up to the infamous Mr. Winchester's classroom. He sat on one of the chairs outside the room waiting for his turn, he was responding to an email on his phone when a couple sat beside him and the wife looked at him with wide eyes "Excuse me, but aren't you Claire's father? I thought..." she didn't finish her sentence and she also didn't need to, Castiel understood what she meant.
"Hi, actually no, I'm her uncle. Her father was my twin brother." The woman looked sorry en embarrassed for asking that "Don't worry, it's not a big deal, a lot of people who knew my brother get a bit of a shock when they see me" He tried to give her his best reassuring smile. It was hard on him sometimes, especially when he was reminded of his brother's death. The classroom's door opened and a couple came out, Castiel didn't notice that it was his turn to go in "Sorry Mr. Novak, it's your turn actually"
"Oh thank you. See you later" He got up and walked in without bothering to knock on the door.
"Hello, I'm Claire Novak's..." When he saw who Mr. Winchester was, he just stayed there standing up looking at him, he didn't know what to say or do. Castiel wasn't an expert on parenting but he was pretty sure that 'sleeping with your child's math teacher who happens to be an ass' is not ok.
The other man looked as equally confused, they were both just staring at each other trying to come up with something to say.
"oh... Hi" was all Dean could come up with, and then he realised Novak, Claire Novak. Fuck I slept with one of my student's parent. "So, you are Claire's father?" he added trying to contain himself and not do or say anything stupid he might regret later.
"Well, not really, I'm her legal guardian. She's my brother's daughter, both her parents passed away a year ago. So now, I have the custody" Castiel shock his head, he couldn't lose composure right now, they both needed to clear things like adults. "Look, we need to clear things"
"I agree with you" told him Dean matter-of-factly "Please, sit" he added waving to the chair in front of him. "So, what happened the other was clearly not intended, we're both consenting adults and we both didn't know who we were"
"Correct" replied Castiel, Dean had a point, and they didn't know who they were the other night "I mean, I had a great time with you and all but..."
"But we're here to talk about Claire" cut him Dean with a smile
"Yeah, right, Claire. So, she told me that you made her take a test as a punishment even though she had done her homework, is that correct?"
"Oh, about that, I did. But I never intended on counting hers in the grade because she did do her homework. Actually I have it right here, hold on a sec" He looked through the pile of paper on his desk "Here you go; I graded her homework when I corrected it. And you can also give this to her" he told Castiel handing him the homework and the test.
Castiel looked at the paper that was handed to him, a big red A+ was written on the homework with a message underneath it saying good job Claire! And on the other one Dean had written sorry for making you take the test too, but I had to make a point to your classmates. Castiel was in awe, not only was he very good looking Claire was right he thought he really is hot, there is no denying it but he was also a very good and kind teacher.
"I'm sorry for the trouble I caused to Claire, and the other students who did their homework, but I had to make a point and asses my authority as a teacher." said Dean apologetically.
"It's ok, no harm done" besides possibly ruining Claire's education if something bad were to happen because of the other day's 'activities'.
"So, is there anything else you'd like to know?" asked him Dean "I mean, concerning Claire" he quickly added.
Castiel really wanted to see him again, but he was sure that it was not an appropriate thing to do "Mmmh, not really" they sat there looking at each other in an uncomfortable silent
"I should probably go, there are other parents waiting outside the class" said Castiel getting up from the chair he was sat on.
Dean stood up go and open the door "Just wait a sec" he said right before they reached the door "I knew we probably shouldn't do this but I would really like to see you again"
Castiel knew Dean was right, they shouldn't do it, but he'd probably end up regretting it if he didn't give Dean another chance "Yeah we should"
Dean was a bit surprised that Cas agreed to go out with him, he got his phone out and gave it to the Castiel.
Cas entered his number in Dean's phone and then gave it back, he was actually looking forward to going out with him. He just needed to keep it to himself which meant not leaving his phone out otherwise Gabriel will find it out.
