Defeating Heaven

Chapter Seventeen

Sam and Lauren had hardly slept the night before. They were too excited talking about their future together and what they had planned. They talked about what the djinn had showed each of them and realized that they were eerily similar. And didn't djinns show you what you really wanted, deep down? So they obviously wanted to be together and that meant only one thing.

"We're getting married," Lauren said, a smile splitting her face as she gripped Sam's hand.

Dean stopped chewing his cereal and sent a sideways glance Zoe's way. "You are?"

Sam nodded and kissed Lauren's knuckles. "It's something we both want and we...well we want you guys to be our Best Man and Maid of Honor."

Zoe grinned. "We wouldn't miss it for the world." She was elated that her two best friends were getting married and was even happier that her and Dean would be in the center of it all. It would be sort of like practice.

"When's the big day, little brother?" Dean asked.

"We we're thinking three weeks from now," Lauren said. "It's not like we're planning anything major or inviting a ton of people so we don't have a lot to sort out."

Dean nodded. "Sammy's getting hitched in three weeks. You're growing up so fast." He ruffled Sam's hair.

Sam swatted his older brother's hand away. "I haven't been that little for a long time."

"Who are you guys going to invite?" Zoe asked.

"Well," Lauren sighed, "I was thinking that I should invite my dad. My real dad." The room fell silent at her words and then Lauren burst out laughing. "I'm just kidding. Crowley is not invited. Never would I want him to come to my wedding."

Sam let out a breath. "Good. I don't think I could get married with Crowley's stupid smirk sitting in the crowd."

"We've gotta invite Cas," Dean said.

"And Sage and Gabriel," Zoe pointed out. "Where are they anyway?"

"Who knows?" Dean shrugged. "Angels don't need to eat or sleep so...they could be anywhere."

Lauren sighed happily, letting her head fall onto her fiancé's shoulder. "So long as they show up for the wedding..."

"Wedding?"  Gabriel's overexcited voice interrupted the quiet reverie of the kitchen and made all the people already present jump in surprise.

Lauren look over at him with a smile. "We were just talking about you."

"All good things, I hope," Gabriel replied, moving to join the group at the table.

"Did you hear the news?" Zoe asked, sounding almost more excited than the bride-and-groom-to-be.

"I'm a celestial being," Gabriel replied with a smirk, pulling a large lollipop out of the air. "What do you think?"

Zoe sent a confused look Dean's way. "Uh...I'm not sure?"

Dean chuckled. "He heard."

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Zoe sauntered into the main room of the bunker where Dean was looking through a book on some lore. She had just finished in the shower, loving the warm feeling of the water as it pounded on her back. Now she was trying to get Dean's attention.

She was wearing a shirt that was lower cut than she usually wore and jeans that were so tight she was worried she'd have to cut herself out of them. She'd even put on some mascara and lip gloss that she'd dug up.

Dean didn't look up as Zoe entered the room but he did greet her with a quiet grunt.

"So I was thinking..." Zoe started.

Dean looked up then, his green eyes quickly scanning over her body before looking her in the eyes. "Go on."

Zoe's heart stuttered in her chest as she slid onto the table. "We haven't been on a date yet." Dean nodded and Zoe could imagine him drooling desperately. "This is the part where you ask me out," she tried to hide her blush by turning away and letting her hair fall in a curtain around her face.

Dean was pretty dumbstruck, his mouth hanging open and his eyes practically bugging out of his head. "Oh...uh, yeah. Okay. You wanna go out?"

Zoe hated that her face got more red when he managed to spit it out. "Duh." She slid across the table and grabbed Dean's wrist, to pull him out of his chair and drag him towards the stairs.

Meg came down the hall as they reached the door and looked up at them with a stupid grin on her face. "Where are the two of you headed off to?"

Zoe wrenched the door open. "We've got a date," she called over her shoulder, and then they were gone.

Seeing as they had opted out of going through the garage, they had to walk into town. The night was chilly but not in a bad way. Fall was coming and the evidence was there in the colored leaves and the orange sunset.

Zoe didn't hesitate to loop her hand in Dean's as they headed to the small diner in town. This wasn't awkward and it wasn't weird to be walking hand in hand with Dean Winchester down the streets of Lebanon, Kansas. In fact, it felt more natural and normal than anything she had done since meeting the hunters.

They found a booth in the back of the diner just as the sun finished setting. An older woman with tattooed eyebrows and far too much eye shadow sauntered over to the table with her pen at the ready to take their order.

"What can I get the two of you to drink?"

"I'll have a coffee, black," Dean told her.

"Hot chocolate?" Zoe asked, hoping that they served the beverage even though it wasn't winter.

The woman nodded and jotted those down. "And what'll you have to eat?"

"That, uh, bacon thing looks great," Dean replied, waving at the poster on the wall advertising a limited time only burger.

Zoe grinned and looked up at the waitress. "I'll have the same. Thanks."

She wrote it down, nodded, and walked back behind the counter.

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