(This is a VERY VERY RIDICULOUS "how they meet" sort of AU. Originally I was writing something canon and very different, and maybe I'll finish that, but somehow I started writing this. Idk.)
"I don't know, man. Just… something that isn't a gift card."
For the fifth time this week, Dean awards himself the Best Fucking Older Brother In The Goddamn Universe Award. Sam with limited mobility shouldn't be a needy Sam, considering he's umbilically connected to his laptop and Dean has a gigantic TV in his first-floor apartment that Sam's co-opted for the duration of his stay. Only he's been given four impossibly long lists of books to acquire from the university, and a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions, and then Sam had gazed at him with those doleful, betrayed eyes of his and said Jessica's birthday was coming up in a couple days, too late to order anything online, and could Dean please go find something
( ... )
"How can I help you?" The question is bored, and perfunctory. "I hope you found everything you were looking for," and the guy's tone suggests that Dean better have found it
( ... )
"So, that what you're supposed to be doing today?" Dean tilts his chin at the book. Cas looks up from stuffing the receipt in a mostly-empty drawer to nod. "I'm finishing my dissertation this year," he says, "assuming this day ever ends."
"You know what helps with that?" Dean asks, and the blank look on Cas's face tells him no he doesn't; the heavy, heady thump of blood in his head tells him this is a bad idea. It's bad and good, really, and he might as well get something out of it, even if it's a weird half-conversation with Cas. "Lock up for a bit. We'll get coffee."
"The owner really doesn't - "
"Come on, Cas," Dean coaxes, "live a little."
"Maybe a little," Cas agrees, and eases out from behind the counter, expression one of wariness, like the mall aisleway is the path to temptation and Dean's the one about to lead him down it. But he comes, is the important thing, book tucked in one hand and the shop key in the other.
* * *It's two hours and three coffees later, and Cas is telling him about a trip he'd taken to Jerusalem
( ... )
Awwwwwww this is so lovely! They're both perfectly IC and I just loved the setting. (Eh, well, I like AUs. ;) ) And Dean leading Cas into the path of temptation was a brilliant line. Anddd, awwww again because it deserves more awww-ing. ;)
Re: Seventh heavenlexhibitionMay 31 2010, 10:23:23 UTC
Here is a list of the things I love most in the world right now:
1. Cas being grouchy and irritated at things like registers and sick sisters 2. The vague implications of Dean's military history 3. Actually, this whole thing.
OMG, I love this so much! Thank you so much for filling this prompt! Both Dean and Cas are so wonderfully grouchy and adorable. I also love the idea of veteran!!Dean and gradstudent!Cas.
*hearteyes* Adorable! I lol'd at 'Seventh Heaven', and cranky!Cas is the best, and I have a huge soft spot for Dean being a veteran in AUs (it just makes so much *sense*). And the way Dean thinks coffee is a bad idea but just leaps in anyways... ♥
"I don't know, man. Just… something that isn't a gift card."
For the fifth time this week, Dean awards himself the Best Fucking Older Brother In The Goddamn Universe Award. Sam with limited mobility shouldn't be a needy Sam, considering he's umbilically connected to his laptop and Dean has a gigantic TV in his first-floor apartment that Sam's co-opted for the duration of his stay. Only he's been given four impossibly long lists of books to acquire from the university, and a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions, and then Sam had gazed at him with those doleful, betrayed eyes of his and said Jessica's birthday was coming up in a couple days, too late to order anything online, and could Dean please go find something ( ... )
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"You know what helps with that?" Dean asks, and the blank look on Cas's face tells him no he doesn't; the heavy, heady thump of blood in his head tells him this is a bad idea. It's bad and good, really, and he might as well get something out of it, even if it's a weird half-conversation with Cas. "Lock up for a bit. We'll get coffee."
"The owner really doesn't - "
"Come on, Cas," Dean coaxes, "live a little."
"Maybe a little," Cas agrees, and eases out from behind the counter, expression one of wariness, like the mall aisleway is the path to temptation and Dean's the one about to lead him down it. But he comes, is the important thing, book tucked in one hand and the shop key in the other.
* * *It's two hours and three coffees later, and Cas is telling him about a trip he'd taken to Jerusalem ( ... )
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So wonderfully adorable!
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CAS'S TRIP TO JERUSALEM.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS.
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AND DEAN.
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1. Cas being grouchy and irritated at things like registers and sick sisters
2. The vague implications of Dean's military history
3. Actually, this whole thing.
SO GOOD
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