Good Morning.

And at first he's majorly suspicious but he can read Cas as sincere when he just straight out says 'I enjoy your company' and whatever it's 3am, so he gets them each an orange juice and gets Cas to sit with him at the table to talk, both because 'I won't sleep with a stranger in the house. So let's make you less strange' and because he is a curious about him.

This bonding is all behind the scenes of team free will stuff btw nobody knows they're besties until Cas is like listing off the reasons he has to fight for humanity, 'my friends...no, my family. Bobby, the Winchesters, Ellen, Jo, Ash. Rufus.' and afterwards Dean is like 'why the hell did Rufus make the list. You met him once 6 months ago.' (Dean remembers bc Cas said in the car afterwards, unprompted and easy, 'I liked him.' and Dean, half joking half jealous, had said 'not as much as you like me.' and Cas had said nothing (not seeing it as a question) and Sam cracked up, 'ice cold' and Dean, embarrassed, had turned up the radio the rest of the way.)

Rufus comes to know about the nature of destiel because one time Dean is the one sat at the table with Cas appearing silently and Dean brings up their (Dean and Rufus's) night of passion (it happened, you're on board) and Cas, for the first time, knocks over a stack of books by accident bc he's so surprised and disappears when Dean spins around and sees him. Dean looks back at Rufus, freaked, and Rufus, quickly understanding and a bit of a bastard (affectionate) says 'ah I knew it. Cas has a little crush. On me.' and Dean is like. Losing it. 'I have to leave immediately.'

Rufus talks to Cas about it when he flies back in later that night, 'So. You and the Winchester boy.' and after a moment Cas just nods, and asks 'Do you think he suspects anything?' 'No, don't worry. I covered for you.'

Cas, who has become extremely good at reading both of them because they will explain how they're feeling if he's ever doubtful, translates out loud what they mean when they're snarky or flippant (like, ahem, this meg and cas fic of mine) and they both get fondly exasperated with this but the evidence that they do both care about and respect Cas a lot, and Rufus seeing that Meg is stuck in an impossible situation with trying to work against hell while Meg is coming to see Rufus as a figure of admiration as someone who did successfully almost entirely retire from hunting on his own terms because of his self respect all lead towards a weird little friendship of their own.

They have a major breakthrough after over a month of hanging out when Cas brings Rufus a bottle of aged scotch (he was so excited to see it while out with Meg that he immediately picked it up and zapped them both to Rufus's house. He does not recognise that this is 'stealing' as 'why should they claim to own it if they haven't even tasted it.') and Rufus stretches across the border of the devils trap to hand Meg a glass of it too.

#sometimes I think about hunter Cas aus altho they are not my bag and I think it is mandatory for

#Rufus to be his mentor

#People call him to complain about Cas when they can't figure out how to work with him and Rufus is always like

#Yeah I never had any issues you must be some kinda idiot I guess

#Cas is real good with things if you can explain why you're doing them but if he doesn't like your logic he'll just ignore you

#Rufus is generally better at arguing with him but also knows when he's beat

(from @an-android-in-a-tutu​)

HELLO?? I think our brains have melded together. SO true.

Canon Compliant: “This fic goes along with canon.” (Because I like it? Because I’m too tired to disagree by writing my own fic? Who knows? The author may or may not tell us.)

Canon Compatible: “Listen, I know it ISN’T canon, but think of it as Microsoft Office for Mac, it’s COMPATIBLE with canon, and that counts.”

https://youtu.be/HcA5S9DZnLg

moderately anticipated video rendition of whatever was going on in the notes of this post