Imaginary Lover

Chapter 8

A/N- I apologize for the lateness but I made sure I wrote a really long chapter. Due to exams coming up I might not be able to post a new chapter till Nov 24th but I guarantee a chapter bonanza around that time as a pre-Thanksgiving gift to y'all. I hope you enjoy!

Also there are certain parts here that may cause triggers. I will not be going into detail about them yet and will give proper warning when I do.

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Dean took Monday off just to get himself together so that he wasn't a wreck throughout the day. On Tuesday however, as he walked to get into his baby, a car honked behind him and he saw Cas smiling at him through the window. "Get in kitten we're going to do science stuff", he said loudly. Dean laughed at the reference to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner from the Avengers as he made his way to the car. He got in and put on his seatbelt. He turned to look at the Cas and saw he was smiling. Seeing him always took Dean's breath away- the sapphire eyes framed by smoky eyeliner, the lip ring just slightly to the left, the eyebrow piercing in his right eyebrow, his hair just sticking up in every direction possible, his neck covered in vine like tattoos... It was all too much to take in.

They rode in silence to college, stealing glances with hidden eyes. When they got there, Cas ran over to Dean as he stepped out of his side of the car, an expression of nervousness painted across his features. Dean recognized it and raised his eyebrows asking with his eyes, What? Cas let out a breath and started to speak, "My parents are gone for a couple of days, some work thing apparently. Gabriel and Sam made plans to hang out and I thought we could too?"

The words no parents at home and Gabriel and Sam want to hang out were stuck in his head. He knew what it meant, the implication was clear. They were going to have absolute privacy at Cas's house. A thin tendril of a long forgotten time trembled slightly but he suppressed it. He swallowed before answering, "Yeah sure. Plus, I haven't seen your room yet", he said with an easy smile. Cas smiled at him and kissed him lightly on his cheek before taking his hand in his and walking to Dean's first class of the day.

Dean went up and sat next to Charlie. "Hey Winchester! How are you this morning?", she said cheerfully. He smiled at her, "I'm good. I did miss my favourite ginger though.""Aww", she said as he leaned over and hugged her tightly, drawing a deep breath and letting her go. He had missed her a lot and was glad to see her again in all her nerdy element. She was wearing a Lord of the Rings tshirt today which had the entire Fellowship on it. Dean smiled and went on to ask her what her favoutite book from the series was. The conversation continued and they were having a rather intense and whispered conversation during the class about the significance of the second book as compared to the rest.

"Tolkien didn't have to go into so much detail about Isengard and Saruman. The entire book almost revolves around that... AND the tracking and visualization by Aragorn? Pretty unbelievable. It was awesome but when he described how Merry and Pippin escaped from the Orcs, that was a little difficult to comprehend-", Dean said but was cut off by Charlie. "Yeah I know but Tolkien had to write something about the biggest douche in the story right? The power hungry SOB? He couldn't have just killed him in a random way. This was the best one. But the emphasis on Minas Tirith was a bit overboard", she said.

He had been so absorbed in the conversation that he had all but forgotten what had happened in the morning. He turned to Charlie, "Hey, I almost forgot. Cas invited me to hang out with him today at his house. He said his parents were going out and so was his brother and we'd have privacy."

Charlie clasped a hand around her mouth to keep from shouting and squealing. She did flail around like a dying fish before breathing in deeply and calming herself. A sly smile lit up her face, "You know what that means right?" The way she waggled her eyebrows at him caused him to shift in discomfort and that same tendril flutter again. He shook his head and replied, "Yeah I do know what it means. But it could also mean that he just wants to hang out and have fun and get to know each other more." It sounded reasonable enough and jumping to a conclusion about that invitation, especially the obvious interpretation, didn't seem right to him. I mean it can't be right?, he thought. He kept biting his lip and Charlie huffed a breath and rolled her eyes. Class was dismissed and they were in the process of getting their things together.