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Family Don't End In Blood

Sam had to talk Dean out of heading down to the college and beating the holy living hell out of Ketch for harassing and blackmailing Cas. It wouldn't solve anything' was Sam's reasoning and that Dean would be no good to Cas in jail. That was true. He couldn't leave Cas as much as he wanted to kick the shit out of Ketch.

"This guy needs to be brought down," Dean yelled into the phone at his little brother.

He wasn't angry at Sam. He was just mad in general.

"I know, I will look into him. I have a friend at the police station. I'll find out what I can," Sam replied — trying to reason with Dean, soothing him over until they could find out what they could do about Ketch.

"Thanks, Sammy," Dean said, hanging up the phone.

Meg knocked on the office door, "Everything ok?" she asked.

She heard him yelling at the front desk and wanted to make sure he was ok. It wasn't like Dean to yell at the office.

"Yeah, I just need to defend my boyfriend's honor is all," Dean said as he rubbed his face, sighing in irritation.

How long has Cas had to deal with everything alone? Tonight they were going to meet Cas' parents and family for dinner. It had made Cas a nervous wreck. Dean gave him a pass. He knew how Cas' parents were from what he could get out of him.

Dean and Meg talked a bit more about what was going on. Meg was happy that Cas now had someone to talk to about this. Someone to help him figure out what to do. Dean finished up a few things he needed to get done since he wanted to get home before Cas; he had a surprise for him.

Dean was very excited that he managed to make it home before Cas, even if it was just five minutes.

"Hey," Dean said when Cas walked in.

"Hello," Cas replied with a sigh.

He was not looking forward to this dinner, not that he looked forward to having dinner with his parents in general.

"It's going to be ok."

Dean knew this was going to be hard on his boyfriend, and he was going to be there to support him all the way.

"You don't know my family. You should have heard them when I told them about you," Cas said, walking over to Dean.

Dean remembers that day when Cas came home. He had been so upset it took hours to calm him down and convince him that everything was going to be ok.

He wrapped his arms around Cas and kissed the top of his head. They had gone over this a dozen times in the last week, and Cas was still acting like Dean was going to dump him.

"We have been together almost six months, I think we needed to bite the bullet," Dean said.