Tag: life goals

casthewise:

Okay but a fic where:

• Dean has been working at Bobby’s auto shop since dropping out of high school. He needed money for Sam’s tuition, but the kid is all grown up with a fancy house and a wife, and at this point, Dean is feeling left behind and in a total rut.
• Everyone is worried about him; the guy wakes up at 5am, gets into work by 6, then spends the whole day working before going home, microwaving himself a TV dinner, and conking out in front of the boob tube. He’s stopped passing by the Roadhouse. He’s stopped going to Charlie’s game nights. He’s lucky if he feels up to watching porn before falling face first onto his mattress.
• The only silver lining Dean sees in his fantastically empty life is the fact that his 84 year-old neighbour finally moves into a retirement home, putting an end to all the complaints about how loud Dean walks in his apartment. 
• Enter Castiel. Castiel is a travel blogger who recently decided to settle down close to his family. He’s thirty-six, vibrant, and ready to be the best Uncle ever to his twin’s newly arrived baby. He takes shifts at an independent bookstore while trying to find work as a journalist.
• He also has little to no boundaries, so when he sees some guy in his building come home with a veritable stack of Lean Cuisine meals, he makes note of where the poor bastard lives and ding dong ditches a tupperware of pad see ew.
• It smells so goddamn good Dean eats the whole thing.
• This continues for a good couple of weeks before Dean manages to catch the hot dude keeping him properly fed. At which point, he rudely asks the guy if he can make anything other than weird-ass ethnic food. When hot guy raises a brow, Dean clears his throat and, blushing, asks him over for an all-american meal.
• This kicks off a series of dates-that-are-not-dates which mostly involve hanging out and eating good food and watching movies. It turns out that Dean really likes to cook, and it turns out that all of Cas’s ethnic recipes are authentic.
• Dean really likes listening to Castiel talk, and Cas, for some reason, seems to enjoy Dean’s lame stories, too. Cas, it turns out, is actually amazing for Dean. He pushes him to become an engineer. They go out to fancy restaurants, and go to the movies, and go on weekend road trips just because they can.
• It’s on one of these road trips that Dean kisses Cas: just fresh from brushing his teeth, backlit by shitty motel lighting and wearing cookie monster boxer briefs. 
• Cas kisses back.