#and those shirtless cowboy posters prove she and dean have similar taste sooo

[magickastiel]

✨ B&B’S CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDAR ✨

3rd December - watch a Hallmark Christmas movie

I am, once again, attempting to write one story through different prompts. I really enjoyed it last time so let’s see if I can do it through December!

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Summary: Just a month after defeating Chuck, Sam & Dean are faced with their first real Christmas. Eileen, Jody, Donna, Claire & Kaia descend on the Bunker for a Christmas celebration like no other. But for Dean, Castiel’s confession still weighs heavy. It might be easier to deal with if Cas was actually around to talk to but he and Jack are busy in Heaven. Surely they don’t have time to come home for Christmas…do they?

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The Dean Cave is bursting at the seams.

Jack, Claire and Kaia have a blanket on the floor with more pillows than he’s ever seen in the Bunker before. He hands them one of his bowls of popcorn, earning him a small but genuine smile from Jack. It’s progress he’ll happily take.

“I can’t believe we’re watching a Hallmark movie.” Claire complains, slurping loudly from her beer. “We should be watching Die Hard.”

“That’s what I said!” Dean goes to throw his hands into the air but he remembers the other bowl just in time. “It’s the ultimate Christmas movie! It’s got guns and Bruce Willis and - ”

“Alan Rickman.” Jody says from behind him, struggling through the door with two dining chairs. “Now that’s a villain I can get behind.” She grins to herself. “Or underneath.”

“Ew!” Claire wrinkles her nose as Kaia laughs.

“I think it’ll be nice to watch something that isn’t violent.” Jack says, suddenly sounding so innocent that Dean has to squash the urge to ruffle his hair. “Something that makes us all feel good and happy. I think that’s how we should feel at Christmas.”

“Yeah.” Dean finds himself saying. “Yeah, maybe you’ve got a point. First Christmas free - we gotta do something good, huh?”

Jack smiles wide and Dean feels warmer. “Yes. Exactly.”

Maybe this won’t be so bad. In fact, maybe this’ll be great. A bit of light romance might just give him the shove to...do something. A strange fluttering ripples through him - part excitement, part nerves.

Dean always sits in the same place: in the middle of the couch, next to Cas so he can tell him all the best bits to look out for.

The thought of his leg being pressed against Cas’ for the whole movie makes him giddy. Maybe he might need to stretch his arm at some point too. Surely resting it on the back of the couch behind Cas would be totally legit? Nothing necessarily romantic about that at all.

Buoyed with optimism, he turns to sit in his usual spot. But his seat is already occupied.

Donna is squished right up next to Cas, watching him with enraptured intensity.

“...and then I was cast from Heaven.” Cas is saying, staring at the blank screen of the TV like he’s watching his life play out.

“Oh, boy.” Donna breathes and Dean notices with a jolt that her eyes are locked on Cas’ lips. “Bet that was real tough, huh?”

“Yes. It was very difficult to be cut off from my home so abruptly.” Cas blinks and notices Dean lingering near them. “Dean. Would you like to sit here?”

“Nah, nah, s’fine!” He waves his free hand. “Just, uh...wanted to see if you and, er, Donna wanted some popcorn.”

“Oh, sure!” Donna says cheerily, immediately nibbling on a piece. “You want some Castiel?”

Cas pulls his eyes away from Dean and stares at the popcorn. “No. Thank you. I...don’t eat.”

“Wow.” Donna says, eyes going wide. “That’s one hell of a diet! What other angel perks you got going on?”

Dean frowns. Cas eats popcorn with him all the time when they watch movies.

Does that mean Cas never liked popcorn? Maybe he was lying when he said he did. But it seemed true. It felt real. So maybe Cas liked popcorn once but now he doesn’t anymore. Maybe popcorn didn’t treat him right. Maybe if popcorn had been better to him -

“Dean!” Jody says with the tone of someone who’s been calling for a while. “I said, do you want one of these chairs?”

“There’s plenty of room on the couch, Dean!” Donna says brightly. He doesn’t let his eyes stray to Cas.

“Uhh...”

He can either sit on a hard dining chair for the duration of the movie and have his back hurt for the next few days or he can sit on the couch next to Donna who is openly, casually, happily, gazing at Cas like he’s the most amazing thing she’s ever seen.

“I’ll take the chair.” He sits down next to Jody, trying not to wince at the lack of padding. “Sammy, can take the couch - he needs the extra comfort for his old man legs.”

Mercifully, Sam and Eileen cram onto the couch and they totally block out both Donna and Cas for him.

Which is great. He didn’t want to see him anyway. Them, he didn’t want to see them.

He does, however, miss the popcorn he forfeit. They’re only a third into the movie but he’s considering sneaking out to raid the kitchen. Then he hears a rustle next to him and Jody pulls out a bag of unopened candy from her hoodie pocket. She quietly tears it open and wedges it between them with a wink.

The movie rolls along like Christmas movies do.

There’s a girl running her family’s cafe. She’s good at it and people like her but she’s starting to realise that maybe this isn’t what she wants. But what does she want? Then this cute doctor arrives in her little hometown from the city, all handsome and well spoken. He’s just here for Christmas, he says, to help out the struggling local hospital. He can’t stay here, he doesn’t belong here.

It takes Dean an embarrassingly long time to realise why he can’t take his eyes off the screen.

And of course he’s the chick. He resists the urge to roll his eyes in case he misses any of the meaningful looks between his new favourite characters.

There’s a great scene where they’re decorating the cafe and the girl slips on some tinsel. Luckily, the doctor is there to catch her just in time.

“Of course he just happens to be standing two inches from her!” Sam snorts and Dean thwacks the back of his head to shut him up.

When the girl and the doctor separate, there’s a mark on her shoulder where some of the glitter from the doctor’s badly designed card display has transferred from his hand to her Christmas sweater.

Dean’s own shoulder tingles.

When they kiss, Donna cheers.

When the girl decides to follow her heart by giving up her family business and moving with the doctor to the city, Dean nearly cries.

It’s almost enough to make him believe Chuck is still alive.