Generations's (Spin Off/ Book FOUR)

Promise Wings

Castiel:

Looking over at my girlfriend in the seat next to me, carefully playing with her tarot cards, trying to find her cousin who had disappeared again, I wondered how I deserved her. She was the most perfect creature I had ever laid my eyes on in over 2 millennium, with her beautiful dark curls that she would hide her crooked smile behind when she was feeling shy, and her grey eyes, that same colour as her dearly departed mother.

I wished that I could so something, something to show her how I truly cared about her, because every time I tried to, that shyness I felt, that... Angel instinct to not show emotion like a human, it kicked in, and I felt my voice just dry up. "Hey, uh, maybe we could pull up at the motel up the road, sweetie. You've been at that all day, you need a rest before you burn out." 

"No, I can find her, I know that I can." Sue insisted, tracing her fingers along the deck, eyes tightly closed as she kept trying to find the one connected to Khalilah. There was no way she was strong enough for that, not with how strong my sister had been recently. So I took the cards from her and pulled into the motel parking lot. "Cassy!"

"You need to sleep, Sue. You've been doing that for 6 hours straight, and I know that you're worried, but so am I." Then I got out of the car, going around to grab her bag, where I had a few things of my own, not needing much, just a razor and wash things. "And don't think I didn't see those nose bleeds you tried to cover up with sneezes."

She sighed, getting out after and tried to take the bag from me, but I was her boyfriend, I was supposed to be the one who carried things, right? "I can't hide anything from you, can I?" 

I pecked her lips fondly with a smile. "Nope. Come on, let's check in. We can start again after a nice rest."

"Hmm, are you going to stay up all night and just want me sleep again?" Sue asked me, walking into the motel, seeing someone watching TV behind the desk. "Because waking up to see you staring at me, however lovingly, can be disconcerting. Love you." She kissed me softly now, and my arms carefully snaked around her waist, pulling her closer. "Hm, very nice. I'll be back in a second, I just need to pee."

Suzetta headed to the bathroom, and I went up to the desk to get a room, where the guy was looking at me. "Dude, you didn't say it back."

Frowning, I took out my credit card to pay for the night. "What do you mean?"

"She said love you. Normally, that's a queue for the guy to say it back. Even if they don't mean it."

"Oh. I do, I mean, love her. I just, it's hard for me to show emotion. How is best to tell her?"

The guy looked at me for a moment, considering me slightly, like he was confused how I had a girl as wonderful as Suzetta Harkness/Song, yet didn't know how to express myself to her. "What does she like? How did she grow up? Look like a religious girl to me."

Well, she was the leader of a whole religion in Space Vegas. "Mostly religious, but she gave that up to be with me, and I mostly gave up my faith to be with her. She comes from a very noble family, all balls and many diplomatic relations." To some degree of that, anyway. People threw her family balls for saving them from wars. "But that doesn't happen very much here."

He jerked his thumb to the side, where there was a big poster for a local ball happening the next night. "There's always that, dude. You should probably get tickets fast, before they sell out. There's a dress shop in town as well, if she wanted to get herself a jaw dropper."

Hm... Surely it was better if I kept it from her and then just surprised her? I could get her to go for a spa day, as she had a thing for hot tubs and massages, while I got her a dress, as I knew her size, and myself a suit of some sort. I knew that she loved dancing, the whole growing up as the daughter of the two campest people in existence helping with that factor, and she enjoyed dressing up. "Thank you, that's a very good idea. A room for two nights please."