Cas is lazy about maintaining his car. As long as it runs, he ignores all of its problems, but the check oil light is coming on and the car is making weird noises, so he bites the bullet and heads to the auto shop by his house. The mechanic that wor...
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Every Sunday for the next six weeks Cas brought his car in. Dean would be waiting, a smile immediately forming the moment he would spot Cas, and it gave him a warm feeling every time Cas saw it. He would bring coffee and breakfast, something new each time, and after they ate together Dean would get started on whatever it was he was fixing that day. Cas went from sitting idly in the waiting room to sitting on a stool a few feet away from where Dean was working, and they would talk about anything that came to mind. Dean was curious about what Cas wrote, so he told him. To his surprise Dean went out and bought one of his books, and before the following Sunday, he had read it and was eager to talk about it. They discussed family, and Cas learned that Dean owned a house a few blocks away but he lived alone. His brother Sam had lived with him for a while but Sam had moved to Illinois when his girlfriend got a better job out there, and now Sam worked at a law firm out there. He was happy for his brother who had recently gotten engaged. Their youngest brother Adam was a freshman in high school and super smart. He was proud of the kid.
Dean learned that Cas was one of eight children and was the youngest boy. He had one sister younger than him. Cas was close with the brother that was two years older than him, Gabe, and his younger sister Anna. The rest he wasn't on good terms with. Not wanting to pry but being exceptionally curious considering he had a good relationship with both of his own brothers, Dean had asked what happened. Cas openly admitted that he'd grown up in a deeply religious family and they frowned upon anything they deemed sinful. When Cas came out as bisexual at the age of twenty two, his father had essentially cut him out of the family. His older siblings had been too scared to disobey their father, so they had cut ties with Cas as well. All except Gabe and Anna who never gave up on him. Later he realized he wasn't bisexual but actually gay, they still stuck by him. Dean learned that Cas published his first book at twenty five, and since then he had published a total of six novels. It turned out he didn't live far from Dean at all, only three blocks away in a Colonial style house where his biggest hobby was gardening. Dean admitted he too liked to garden and they spent an entire Sunday afternoon shooting the breeze about what vegetables they grew and Cas went on a tangent about the bane of genetically modified foods and was delighted to learn that Dean avoided them too.
On the last Sunday before he was set to leave on his six week tour, they were both rather subdued. Cas was the first one to bring it up.
"You're awfully quiet today."
Dean looked up from where he was standing, leaning over the engine and smirked.
"Same could be said of you."
"I know. I find that I enjoy these Sunday mornings, and talking with you while you work. It's silly, but really, all I do is sit at home and write. Since I started coming here though, I completed the book I was working on. Submitted it last Monday to my editor and she is now officially off my back. Well, at least until the next book is due." Cas said with a chuckle.
