Destiel, kinda 15x18 coda, gratuitous fluff. Clowning hours are OPEN, people.
It feels like it happens in slow motion.
Cas has stumbled to his feet, touching his chest and trenchcoat like heâs confused by their tangibility. He turns just in time for Jack to tackle-hug him, and for Sam to lope over and wrap his freakishly long arms around them both. Dean thinks theyâre laughing, but itâs hard to tell over the rushing in his ears. He feels like heâs walking through molasses.
There are so many things he wants to say, but the words get caught in his throat like an inconvenient, gay traffic jam and itâs all he can do to put one foot in front of the other. Sam and Jack drift away. Cas turns.
And then itâs just the two of them.
Cas looksâalive, which is really all that matters. Same blue eyes, same wild dark hair, same clothes. Heâs wearing this beaming smile thatâs fading in his mouth but staying in his eyes, despite the fact that his shoulders start to tense. He is deliberately, inhumanely still. Heâs nervous, Dean realizes. Â
Deanâs thought about this a lot. Years. Heâs lost sleep over it; not only his own confession, but the idea of⌠them together; how that would work, what itâd look like. Itâs been a source of anxiety and comfort and desire, and now that everythingâs over, now that he gets to have his big frigginâ moment, everything heâs ever imagined flies out the goddamn window.
Dean moves before he understands what heâs doing, crushing Castiel to his chest, arms tight around his shoulders, squeezing squeezing if only to convince himself that this is real, heâs here, heâs alive, heâs here. It takes a breath for Cas to hug back, but he does, seemingly content to stay there forever whichâsure, but no, because Dean reaches up with one stupid, shaking hand to cradle the back of Casâs skull, and then he pulls away with just enough space to look into those dumb, gorgeous, blue eyes andâ
It isnât a single kiss.
Sure, thereâs the first one; hard and dry and desperate. Clinging. But then thereâs another, and another, and heâs calling Cas an asshole and an idiot and saying shit like donât you ever do that again. And they keep kissing, because now that Deanâs started, he canât stop; he wants to kiss this man until he gets fucking stubble burn and then kiss him some more. Wants to take him out on a date. Wants to take him to bed.
âHow could youâafter everythingââ
Cas twists his fingers into Deanâs overshirt.
Cas nods against his mouth.
And then Deanâs gay traffic jam becomes decidedly un-stuck.
He wrenches away, hands pressing to Casâs chest when he tries to follow. Heâs gorgeous like this; disheveled and flushed to hell, and Dean spares a moment to be embarrassed for them both when Cas drifts forward again like he just canât help himself. Deanâs fingers press against his reddened lips. âYouâre oblivious,â he breathes. His hand moves to trace the line of his brow, the apple of his cheek. Cas watches him raptly, caught somewhere between elation and awe. Dean thumbs the bolt of his jaw. âYou need to pay better attention.â
Cas clutches at his wrist. âDeanââ
âHow could you ever think I donât love you?â
Cas flounders, mouthing moving like a fish out of water. âI-Iâll endeavor to do better in the future,â he says. Swallows thickly. Watches as Dean drifts close and brushes their mouths together in an impression of a kiss, something vulnerable and delicate and fucking terrifying.
ââŚGood,â Dean says. âIâIâll do that, too.â