#mo fics

—-

Gabriel’s brother hadn’t been into the bake shop, not that Dean was complaining since Gabe had never actually paid for any of his daily coffees.  Dean’s days were nice but they were missing their usual dose of douchebaggery; so, Dean invited Sam over to help him move the big bags of flour from the back of his truck to the pantry.

"You did not need my help."  Sam lifted one of the bags onto his shoulder.  He walked it into the store and came back out in time to get the next one that Dean had moved to the back of the car.  "You could have moved these yourself."  He repeated the process and came out the next time with a bitchface perched on his expression.  "You were lonely."  Sam ducked back into the store.

"Was not!"  Dean shifted the last 30 lb. bag of flour to the back of the truck, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and balanced it haphazard while he closed the hatch.  He went through the door, closing it behind him, and hefted the last bag of flour onto the pile with the rest.  

Sam was picking through some cupcakes that Dean had been letting cool. 

"Hey, leave those alone unless you plan to pay for it."  Dean straightened some of the items on the pantry shelf before turning to see Sam chewing.  "Really?"

Nodding, Sam turned on his killer puppydog eyes.  ”They’re almost as good as mum’s.”

"Then go eat hers and leave mine to the paying customers."  Dean moved forward to pickup the tray and take it to where he had the bakery set up for frosting.  

Sam nicked another one, taking a large bite.

"Dude, stop."  Dean began to frost the first one only to turn and see Sam eating another and wincing.  Dean turned and crossed his arms, sinking a hip down and into the counter’s edge.  "Really?!?"

Sam had the decency to look ashamed.  ”They’re addicting Dean.”  He began to reach for another one.

Smacking his hand away, Dean began to question his idea to invite his brother to the shop.  When Sam reached again, Dean launched a full assault.  ”Stop eating my merchandise.”

Sam struggled to get to the cupcakes.  ”I wouldn’t say that so loud if I were you.”

Dean doubled his efforts.  They pushed and shoved and kicked, mostly with good nature.  But, as always, everything’s fun and fulfillingly violent until someone gets hurt.  Dean loses his grip on Sam’s shoulder and careened forward into a wall.  His hand, curled in a fist, made first impact and ultimately went through the wall.

His arm up to his shoulder was through the wall behind his industrial style mixer.  ”You’ll pay for this.”  Dean turned to his brother and almost growled.  ”And all of the cupcakes you’ve eaten.”

Sam looked like a moose caught in the headlights with another cupcake in his hand.

"Are you stuck?"  A voice sounded from the other side of the wall.

Dean startled and began to pull his arm out.  ”Nah, just upset with my brother.”  Once he was free of the plaster, Dean looked through the decent hole in the wall to see a vibrant pair of blue eyes.

The blue-eyed man replied.  ”I know the feeling.”

—-

Dean was baking a cake when he heard it.  

"Dude, you know I didn’t do that."  "I know you did, I saw you with the soda and told you to be careful." "I don’t know what you’re on but I don’t owe you shit." "You ruined 4 books and you have to pay for them."

Backing away from the stainless steel table in the center of his bakery’s kitchen, Dean found himself staring at the calender that he had moved to cover up the hole in his wall.  It was bad enough that he had a hole in the wall; but, it was in the wall he shared with Gabriel.  Gabriel was going to blow a gasket when he got back from dealing with his mother’s move.

"Sir, you break it, you buy it."

"I didn’t break shit."

Dean rolled his eyes.  He wasn’t sure why he did it; but, he unhooked the calender and leaned into the hole.  ”This store has FutureTECH security systems; pay the store owner and leave the premises.”

The punk yelped and pulled out money to slap on the counter.  Dean felt inproportionately proud.

The paper on the other side of the hole moved and Blue Eyes - Cas, his name is Cas - appeared.  ”You lied.”

Shrugging, Dean wrung his hands.  ”He and his friends have been harassing Gabe for a while now; it was the least I could do.”

The man on the other side gave curt nod and the corners of his lips twitched upward.  ”Thank you.”  Cas took a deep breath.  ”I’m sorry, but what have I been smelling all  morning that smells like heaven in pastry form?”

Dean glanced around his kitchen quickly. “Chocolate cake?”

Shaking his head, Cas sniffed the air again.  ”Something fruity and spicy.”

Biting his lip in thought, Dean took a longer sweeping look of his kitchen.  He caught sight of the bottom portion of one of his 3 double ovens lit up.  He snapped his fingers.  ”I’m making a pie.”

"That must be it."  

Dean turned back to see Cas licking his lips.  He was caught momentarily off guard by the little movement.

"I may finally go over there and check out the place if I can buy some of the fucking delicious-smelling pie."  Cas’s lips twitched again and his cheeks were flushed.

Nodding, Dean may have blushed a little in return.  Cas’ face disappeared and Dean heard the little tinkle that meant the door to the book shop opened.  He rushed around to pull the pie out from the warming oven.  And if he didn’t mention that the pie had been for dinner at his mother’s that night; no one needed to know.

—-

Dean came in from a long weekend to find that one of the steam pipes in the kitchen had busted and made the wall damp.  He should have know because he could smell the mold that was no doubt there but hidden.  Dean sighed and turned to go back out into the large outer part of the bakery and turn the open sign over to closed.  He would have to deal with this first.

He was happy that it was one of the walls that the previous landowner had superficially added to splint the large space into two smaller spaces; otherwise he would have to do more research before he could start cutting and fixing.

He kept a few tools in his car and he had a toolbox in the shop for the minor fixes in the heavy baking machinery.  Dean almost laughed at the irony in that statement.  He started by outlining the damp wall and then began to cut it out with the sawzall.  It wasn’t bad.

Belatedly, he realized that he probably needed to check what was on the other side of the wall.  He moved the calender out of the way and tried to see the other side of the wall from there.  When that only frustrated him and filled his nostrils with an intense smell of mold, he backed away, sniffed at a small jar of vanilla that had been left out, and moved to the door to go into the bookstore through the other entrance.

He stood at the front door and tried at the handle.  The door didn’t open despite that the hours posted were in session.  He tried again.  He banged on the door.  He knew that Gabriel got the half of the space that included the stairs to the apartment upstairs.  He had learned with Gabriel had a leak in his his bathroom and Dean had found it on the floor in his pantry.

A groggy version of Cas appeared in pajama pants, a coffee stained t-shirt, and bedhead.  Dean tried to gather control of his extremities and managed with varying amounts of success; his mouth watered more than it should but his dick remained pliant.  He opened the door.  ”What?”

Suddenly, Dean felt really awkward.  ”Hey, Cas, late start?”

Cas shrugged.  ”Actually, early.  I didn’t go to sleep last night; I’ve been reading in bed all night.  I just want to sleep today away.”

Looking Cas up and down, Dean couldn’t have guessed that the guy was one of the read-through-the-night types; but, that may present itself pretty well in se- Don’t go there, Winchester!  Dean swallowed.  ”Uh, one of the pipes in my kitchen busted.  I was going to just remove the wall and had even started, then I realized I should probably check what’s on the other side of said wall.”

Nodding, Cas looked toward the reading nook that was situated next to the cash register.  There was a poster of some random stack of old books and an artful quote.  It seemed out of place.  

Dean realized that it must cover the hole he put in the wall.  Dean rubbed the back of his neck.  ”Uh, yeah, coincidentally, it’s right next to the hole that I already put int he wall.”

Shooting a look filled with surprise and skepticism, Cas smacked his lips and waved him in.

Dean’s day then took a turn upward because Cas’ butt looked awesome in his sleep pants and Dean got to follow him to the wall.  Dean moved things under Cas’ instruction and waved Cas back to wherever he was sleeping.  ”I’ve got this.  You go sleep off your book-hangover.”

Smiling wider than usually, Cas’ eyes wrinkled affectionately at the edges.  ”Thank you.”

Dean was able to cut out the piece of wall; the pipe had done more damage than he had first thought and they ended up with a large irregular piece of wall missing.  No longer did they have a small window connecting their shops; now, there was a hole big enough to walk through two abreast if one person ducked a little - and if that person were Sam they ducked a lot.

—-

Almost six months after Cas and Gabe had switched places, about 3 weeks since the water damage to the wall had occurred, Dean finally got up the nerve to ask how long Gabe was going to be gone.

"Oh, that’s right." Cas was ringing someone up at the register in his store.  People that came into either of their stores had asked about the odd ‘archway’.  Dean’s archway was in the kitchen part separated from the rest of his bakery by half walls except of the closet-like pantry.  From Cas’ store it looked more inviting, nestled into a reading nook.  Dean was constantly shooing meandering bookies out of his kitchen.  Neither could complain about the jump in business though.

Cas handed the money over to the woman and turned to Dean.  ”He met up with an old flame, extended his stay.”

Dean nodded and turned back to his batter.  ”Oh, okay.”

"You trying to get rid of me?"

Dean turned to say something witty in return but was stopped by Cas’ proximity.  Cas’ face was blank; but, Dean had learned not to trust that.  ”No.”

Cas leaned away.  ”Good.”  Cas smirked and turned to walk back to his shop.  he swayed his hips when he walked and Dean couldn’t help but admire the view.  There was something between them.  Castiel was a lot like Gabe but uniquely different in all the right ways.  Gabriel had been grating doing the same things that Cas does that are endearing.  

Inopportune timing aside, Dean turned to see his mother shooting a skeptical yet lewd look.  He rolled his eyes and approached the counter that served as the boundary between his customers and his cooking.  ”What do you want, Ma?” He hissed.

She smirked.  ”I was picked to get the cake for a birthday at work.  When they found out my son was a baker they decided it was part of my job description.”  She laughed.

Dean followed suit.

His mother leaned close and made a short aside.  ”I do hope that he is part of your job description soon.”

"Ma!"  Dean flushed.

—-

Dean arrived on Saturday like he and Cas had discussed the week before.  They were going to finish with the wall.  At first, Dean had been worried that Cas was suggesting to board it up; but, he had been mistaken.  

Dean smiled when he saw Cas there in a dark t-shirt and tattered jeans.  Cas opened up with a gummy smile,  The more they interacted the more Cas’ face betrayed emotion.  It was an enjoyable transformation to witness.

Firsthand, Dean learned that Cas was just as lewd and innuendo-driven as his brother Gabe; but, he was calmer about it and moved his eyebrows around a lot less.  He blushed prettily when he was flustered and startled if Dean managed to sneak up on him when he was immersed in a good book.  

"You ready to make this something that will make Gabriel furious?"  Dean smiled knowing that Cas liked pissing his brother off just as much as Dean did.

Cas put on a pair of stylized safety glasses and grinned.  ”Hell yeah.”

He and Dean worked the entire morning moving books and bookshelves away from the wall, hacking more of the superficial wall down, and pushing Dean’s heavy counter-blocks around until the ‘archway’ connected to Dean’s customer area instead of his kitchen area.

At lunch the job was mostly complete.  Dean had to sweep and dust so he could make food in what only a few minutes ago was a construction zone.  

Cas hopped up on the counter next to where Dean was preparing sandwiches.  He shifted around and ended up nudging Dean with his knee.  Dean ignored it.  When it happened again, Dean realized it wasn’t a mistake but a planned gesture.  He turned to Cas.  ”What?  I know you’re hungry; that’s why I making sandwiches.”  Dean smiled.

Looking him over, Cas didn’t smile back.  Dean became uneasy; his movements with the sandwich fixings slowed to a stop and he found himself looking into Cas’ eyes.

Cas shifted slightly then thought better of it.  ”Tell me that I’m reading this wrong.”

Eyebrows pulled together in confusion, Dean tried to piece it together.  “What?”

Shifting, pushing the plates further down the counter and moving in such a way that Dean was between his legs, Cas spoke again, “Tell me I’m reading this wrong.”

Dean’s face heated up; his tongue and gut heated up.  His crotch heated up.  Dean leaned forward into Cas’ body.  ”I know better than to tell a profession reader and bookstore owner that he’s ‘reading something wrong’.”

Surging forward, Cas pulled Dean into him, lunch forgotten.