Moving On (Destiel)

52: Mommy issues

TW: offensive against homeless people, which is not what *I* think, but one of the characters

Gabriel was a lighthead. He used to get into fights often in his Highschool time – he was weird, admittingly, and therefore a target. But he had shown them their way, and halfway through Freshman year he had earned a reputation that would keep the bullies away from him. But arguments with words? He couldn't stay away from those.

Things had gotten better with time. He couldn't argue with the customers of the candy shop he worked in all the time, and he wouldn't yell at Cas. That's why Cas was so surprised when he came home from the Bee club, right into a heated argument between Gabriel and their mother.

Wait.

Their mother??

Cas stopped dead in his tracks and listened, but her voice was unmistakable. It was Becky Novak.

"Mom?", he slowly entered the room and saw Gabriel who looked like he was about to have a stroke, and then his mother turned around to him.

"Oh, Castiel!", Becky called and immediately overwhelmed him with a tight embrace. But it only lasted short when she quickly took a few steps back, eyeing him up and down. "Where have you been, young man?"

"Out?", Cas replied uncertainly.

"I told you he was only with friends!", Gabriel said loudly, his anger and frustration very audible. He normally didn't dare to talk like that to Becky, but something was off. Gabe seemed fed up and tired, and Becky pressed her jaw together so hard that Cas wished he had just gone to his room in the first place.

"What friends?", Becky wanted to know.

"Um... I'm... you know I have got friends in the bee club? About the environment rights? Well, I was there with..."

"Seriously? That stupid childish group of nerds that your disappointment of a brother gathered years ago? Can you be any freakier, Castiel? I told you not to keep up the contact-" Becky rumbled off, but was interrupted by Gabriel.

"Stop it, mother! Be glad that Cassie has friends, at all! You may not be around, but a couple of months ago, they were his only friends, and I'm grateful they were there for him when nobody else was, when not even I could because I had to work-"

"But now he's got other friends, doesn't he?!", Becky spat. "You just said it yourself, Gabriel! Until a couple of months ago! Now he doesn't have to rely on those abomina-"

"For the love of God, Mother, shut it!" Gabriel threw his hands up. "You barge in here and just try to forbid Cassie contact to his friends – are you trying to isolate him even more or what now? Is that some-"

"What the hell is even going on?!", Cas yelled, silencing them both. "Mom – what are you doing here?"

"Can't I look after my boys when your dear daddy apparently doesn't give a fuck?"

"Sure you can! And we would be happy for you to be here," Cas lied to soothe the mood, "if you didn't cause fights! What is it about, anyway?"

"Oh great, now I am causing fights? Like it is my fault that you two brats are just deciding-"

"Mom freaked over the Winchesters," Gabriel summed it up toneless for Cas, whose shoulders dropped.

That was just... awesome. Cas pictured Dean saying that and it cheered him just a little. But it didn't help the situation.

Becky snorted. "May I remind you this is not your house? You can't just invite two homeless god knows where they are from street guys to live here when-"