Castiel is my baby daddy

There's a line Dean is trying not to cross

Castiel is using that line like a jump rope, dressed like a wet dream, on a Thursday night

He's been in the future for a while. Longer than he's been in the past. And somehow, hanging around like a drifter in Castiel's lovely domestic home is more torture than being thrown into the past to meet his mother and father again

Maybe this was his punishment for saying his mom was a babe

Throw him back to hell NOW before he does unspeakable things to his MARRIED MALE BEST FRIEND

Like, he HAS to be doing this on purpose. but WHY. Why would Castiel, Angel of the Lord, 'Social Skills' are 'Rusty', 'I love my cowboy husband' Last Name Unknown go out of his way to act like...

like...

This!

.... Is he even wearing anything under that...

God Winchester, you are a FREAK

HOLD IT TOGETHER

Meanwhile, Castiel casually doesn't read his book and starts a bet with himself to see how long it will take before Dean cracks

He's giving it another week

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You'd think retirement would've made S16 Dean rusty, but you can't really unlearn certain things

There's always work to be done and monsters to kill. Dean knows that, has always known that, and he knows he needs to have Sammy's back, even when he's a soulless bitch

So when a case lands on their lap (Mysterious disappearances and kidnappings), Dean finds himself falling back into certain... behaviors

The Mark of Cain may be gone, his time in hell may be a distant memory, but the scars they left behind still run deep, deeper than bone.

There is no lust for blood

only residual anger that carries him

Sam witnesses Dean at his worst a lot earlier. He was expecting to tease his older older brother about being rusty and slow

Never did he think Dean would move in such violent ways, staring at danger and death with wide eyes and a sickening determination to finish what was started

The most interesting part was watching Dean get punched and blink away the impact like it was nothing

The aftermath was just as fascinating, as Dean stands over the corpses of monsters he's slain with a rusty axe. Sam keeps his mouth shut when they salt and burn the bodies and merely observes Dean as if he is an entirely different person. Different from the brother he grew up with, and definitely different from the happy, jolly man he came back as

Though Sam does cringe when Cas arrives from Dean's prayer and watches his not-brother-brother act all mushy and sweet with the angel

Castiel is merely confused, while Dean insists they should hug after he gets healed up

Sam thinks Dean let himself get punched

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Castiel would frequently throw Dean lines Dean used on him in the past

A little bit of payback, a little bit of a tease, and a whole lot of fun flustering

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Is Dean doing this consciously? Yes

Does he know that it's confusing Cas? Yes

Is he being a hypocrite to his past self? Most definitely

Does he fucking care? Absolutely NOT

Castiel is suspicious of future Dean's behavior. It... flusters him in a way he doesn't fully understand yet. And more than anything, he thinks future Dean knows what Castiel is up to and is trying to get the truth out of the angel through a weird, human affectionate type of subtle interrogation.

But Castiel will not be swayed to the truth so easily! No matter how much Dean's attention makes his vessel tingle in funny pleasant ways!

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Future Dean already knows what's gonna happen. He can't change it, so he's going to enjoy the time he has with the past version of his husband. He's gonna take the opportunity to give past Castiel all the care and love he should've given him years ago. Castiel is confused by how openly affectionate Dean becomes in the future

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