#destiel engagement

[jason-please-see-a-psychiatrist]

i cant keep doing this

[watchandread02]

For the "Holidays with the Winchesters: A very Destiel Advent Calendar" by @archervale and @wormstacheangel

Day Twenty five: Announcement

Ao3

Sam stops in his tracks as he is about to pass the living room. There lying on the couch all snuggled up together, were Dean and Cas. Cas arms are wrapped protectively around Dean, as Dean’s head lays pillowed on his chest. Sam rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but no, the two of them were still there. He walks into the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee and waits for everyone else to wake up. Though it would probably take some time, as they had stayed up pretty late last night, it being New Years Eve. Slowly everyone else trickled in and by the looks on their faces, they had seen the pair snuggled up on the couch as well.

“Do you think they finally admitted their feelings for each other?” Jack asks, after everyone has settled around the table, while being varying degrees of awake.

“To be completely honest. I don’t know,” Sam says while running his hand through his hair, “they have always been pretty up in each other's space, though Dean always tries to deny it. It could be that they just fell asleep on the couch together, after everyone else already went to sleep.”

“We’ll just have to wait and see, until the two wake up,” Charlie voices.

A few minutes later they all look towards the doorway, as they hear footsteps approaching. Dean comes into view, though the former angel is nowhere to be seen.

“Good morning, to all of you too. You good there?” Dean asks as he walks towards the coffee machine, to pour himself a cup of coffee.

“Yeah all, good. Everything alright with you?” Jody asks, the first to recover and stop staring after Dean.

“Jup. Slept pretty good,” Dean answers, as he begins to make breakfast for himself, pulling eggs and bacon out of the fridge. “Are you still expecting something, or why do you all keep looking towards the door?”

“Oh, uh, I guess. Still waiting for Cas to show up,” Claire replies.

Dean starts scrambling the eggs as he says, “I’m sure he’ll be here in a moment. He’s still adjusting to being human after all. Takes him a bit longer to wake up in the morning.”

And true to his word, Cas walks through the door a few moments later. Cas still looks half asleep as he trudges up to Dean, who without looking up hands Cas his cup of coffee. Cas takes a sip, before putting the cup down and to everyone's shock hugging Dean from behind, resting his head between Dean's shoulder blades.

Dean huffs out a laugh, as he works around the arms now encircling his waist, “you alright there, Octopus?”

Cas mumbles something unintelligible to the people sitting at the table, with their mouths dropped wide open in shock at the scene before them. Dean seemed to have understood though as he says, “I’m almost finished here Cas, why don’t you take the coffee to the table and i’ll join you in a moment?”

Cas does as he was told, taking the cup and heading for the only two seats still open. Dean finishes up at the stove and plates up the food, before moving to sit down next to Cas. After Dean placed the plate on the table, a hand on his wrist stops him from sitting down. Cas uses that hand to pull Dean into his lap and wraps his arms around Dean. Instead of tensing up and shooting up like Sam thought his brother would, he just relaxes into the hug and starts eating, occasionally feeding Cas some food. When the two are finished eating, they finally look around the room, noticing the silence for the first time.

“Do I have something on my face or something?” Dean asks, though Sam can detect the nervous tone in his brother's voice.

“Nah, just didn't expect you to act so domestic, Deano,” Gabriel answers.

Donna pipes up, “we kind of thought you would deny what we all saw, when we walked by the library. We didn’t take you for the big PDA type of person, Dean.”

Dean turns to look at Cas, who is watching him with literal heart eyes, though Dean isn’t far behind.

Finally Cas speaks up for the first time, “Dean and I got engaged yesterday. And we figured since there isn’t going to be anyone after us anymore, it would be okay for us to show our affection openly.”

There is silence as everyone takes in that new information.

Cas and Dean share a look and Dean breaks the silence by announcing, “Well surprise, I guess. We got engaged!”

“Wait!” Sam screams out.

Twin confused looks are turned towards Sam, “what do you mean wait?”

“You’re engaged?” Sam asks.

Dean rubs the back of his neck, “yeah we are. We thought you had all seen the rings,” they both hold up their left hands, where the rings placed on their ring fingers glimmer in the light.

“We thought you had finally gotten together. Don’t you think that immediately getting engaged is a bit fast? I mean we all know that you have loved each other for years. But we thought you would take it at a slower pace,” Claire explains.

“What do you mean by us just getting together? We have been together for years,” Cas says.

There is a beat of silence, before Gabe speaks up, “yeah none of us knew about that, Cassie.”

“We both thought that all your comments were to tease us about us getting together. All of you have commented on our relationship in some way. And we always thought that being discreet about it, would maybe keep some of our enemies from using our love for each other. And well, we just didn’t think we had to announce it to anyone. I mean come on, Sammy, Cas told me he loved me right in front of you. A lot of you have seen the way I acted when Cas was dead. Did seriously none of you know that Cas and I were together, before today?” Dean asks.

“Well apparently we hid it better than we thought we did, ” Cas voices, looking towards Dean, who is still sitting on Cas’ lap.

“Yeah I guess so,” Dean says, staring back at Cas.

The both of them move in and share a gentle kiss.

Sam is kind of weirded out by this. He had never thought that his brother could be this domestic with someone. Especially with Cas. Sam thought that he would never see the day his brother would be so comfortable in his own skin. And now in just a few hours, he had seen his brother cuddled up with Cas on the couch, sitting comfortably on Cas’ lap with everyone else's eyes on them and then sharing a kiss in front of all of them. And also finding out they had actually been together for years and gotten engaged. It will take some time for him to actually get used to this. Though he is still immensely happy for his brother and Cas.

Dean wiggles on Cas’ lap a bit, settling in even more, “you know that you’re actually really comfy, Cas?”

“Did you just call me fat, Dean?” Cas questions with an offended look on his face.

“I think I did. What are you gonna do about that?” Dean asks, a mischievous smile spreading across his face.

Cas releases the arms he had wrapped around Dean, “You better start running, I’ll give you a 5 second head start.”

Dean stares at Cas in shock for a moment before springing up from the angel's lap and running out of the room.

Cas looks at all of them for a moment, before getting up from his seat and calmly walking to the doorway, “If you would excuse me I’ve got a hunter to catch.”

With those words Cas too walks around the corner, his fast footsteps echoing down the hallway, before stopping completely, as a door slams closed, presumably Deans.

“I honestly don’t know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t that, ” Sam voices, finally breaking the silent stupor they had all been sitting in. Though he feels a smile spreading across his lips, “I am happy for them though.”

The other let out an assortment of agreeable noises. Slowly they all get up from the table and start going about their day. All of them avoid getting too close to Dean and well apparently now also Cas’ room.

—

The night before

“Happy new year again, guys,” Sam speaks up, breaking the comfortable silence that had settled over the three of them after Jody and Donna had gone to bed, a few minutes before.

“Happy new year, Sam,” Cas says, while Dean just nods, still reclined in his chair.

Sam finally stands up from the couch, “I’m gonna head to bed as well. Don’t stay up too late, okay?”

“You can’t tell me what to do, bitch,” Dean answers, to which Sam just gives him a bitch face and then leaves the room.

Dean waits a moment for Sam’s footsteps to fade away, before moving over to sit down beside Cas on the couch. Cas immediately pulls him close to his side and Dean snuggles in close.

“You know, I don’t think it would really bother anyone if we showed our affection

“I know that. But deep down, I still have this fear that some big bad will pop up. And that you will be used to make me suffer,” Dean admits, as he buries his head into Cas’ shoulder.

Cas pulls Dean’s face up from where he had been hiding it and makes him look into his eyes. Dean can see the love shining in them.

“I can totally understand your concerns, especially knowing what your life has been like. But be assured in the knowledge that even if there ever comes another ‘big bad’, none of the people in the bunker right now would ever rat our relationship out to anyone else. They haven’t over all the years we have been together, so they won’t start up now. So it should be alright for us to act at least a little bit more affectionate in front of everyone else,” Cas explains.

Dean just nods and cuddles close into Cas’ side again. Freely taking the comfort he needs at the moment. Dean palms the box in his pocket, nervously, debating if now is the moment.

Coming to a decision, Dean asks, “Hhy Cas, can I ask you something?”

“You just did,” at this Dean gives Cas a gentle shove, “go ahead, Dean.”

Taking one final fortifying breath, Dean gets off the couch and gets down on one knee.

Taking the box from his pocket and opening it up, Dean begins his speech, “I have loved you for so many years. So many of them in secret. Because we always had to look over our shoulders, in case anyone would be able to use our love against each other. But now that everything is calm, I want to show the whole world that I love you. It might still take me some time to do so fully in public, but I promise you that I will always do my best. I want to be able to tell people that you aren’t only my best friend, but that you’re also the love of my life. I want to be able to tell people that you’re my husband. So what do you say, Cas? Will you marry me?” Dean asks.

Cas nods with tears already starting to make their way down his face, “yes of course, I will! Of course, I’ll marry you!”

Dean places the ring on Cas’ finger with shaking hands, his vision is a little blurry because of the tears gathered in his eyes. Once the ring is securely placed on Cas’ finger, Css tackles Dean to the ground. Dean lets out a loud laugh, as Cas starts peppering his face with kisses. After a few moments Cas’ onslaught stops and they stare at each other for a moment, before moving in for a deep kiss. After they seperate for air, Cas pulls Dean up into a sitting position.

“You know I wanted to ask you something as well,” Cas says.

“What is it?” Dean wonders.

Cas rummages in his pocket for a moment, before pulling out a ring, “will you marry me as well, Dean?”

“Of course, sweetheart,” Dean answers as he holds out his left hand so Cas can put the ring on it. Dean pulls Cas into a kiss, both of them smile into it.

After a few minutes of just basking in this new feeling, they finally get up from the ground and settle on the couch again. Dean starts to play with the fingers on Cas’ left hand, stroking his finger over the ring every so often.

“It’s kind of funny that we both had the same thought.” Dean says.

“I take this as a sign that we are both ready for the next step in our relationship. It’s actually very reassuring.” Cas says.

They sit in silence after that, both encouraged by Cas’ words. After a while Dean can feel his eyes starting to slip closed and his head comes to rest on Cas’ shoulder.

Cas lays down on the couch, pulling Dean down on top of himself. They lay there with their left hands entwined between, their rings resting against each other. As Dean listens to Cas’ heartbeat, he slowly starts to drift off, not being strong enough to make it back to his bedroom right now. A soft smile settles on his lips as he imagines the reactions they will get, when they announce that they are engaged tomorrow.

[scoobydoodean]

Bibros love to call anyone who disagrees with them about anything ✨delusionsal destiel shippers ✨ while they pompously throw around what are at best tenuously supported takes about the brothers bond but what are often just outright WRONG takes. I just had to read someone say Dean would wrap Cas’s own intestines around his neck and choke him to death to save Sam. Babygirl that isn’t the canon source material it’s your jerkoff fantasy stop demanding all of us collectively treat your kink as reality.

[artemis-pendragon]

My deepest and sincerest apologies to my followers that ironic toxic old man yaoi is how I'm dealing with the horrors of American politics. Unfortunately I was raised by spn and this is simply me continuing the cycle of violence. Alas.

[plaguemaggot]

my personal opinion is that it's impossible to "misinterpret" SPN canon because SPN canon is 13 different canons in a trench coat, 8 out of them actively hate each other, 3 of them are only present in interviews and bts content, 5 of them only share one brain cell and at least 4 have been tulpa'd into existence by popular (fandom) culture

[annmariethrush]

Born to listen to Sufjan Stevens and write the most unbearably sad drabbles about Destiel

Forced to actually write another 7,500 word paper for my master’s degree

[nobodymitskigabriel]

I've gotten accustomed to reading Jack's childhood skip as a narrative hand wave so he can function on more or less the same level as the other characters and since he's not human and we're watching supernatural it feels permissible to take that leap in logic and go ahead and read him as a young adult. He is highly naive and inexperienced and there is a very large power imbalance involved with him and his caretakers and those are core aspects of his character that make him uniquely vulnerable to the abuse and trauma that he suffered, but those things don't necessarily make him an infant and I don't think that's how he's meant to be read.

[papillon-de-porcelaine]

Did anyone watch strange a*ons (censoring so it doesnt show up in the search/tags) new video on superwholock ? I can't bring myself to do it, judging by the comments they're using those old ass vids of Jensen to claim he's homophobic and hates the fandom or something

[heartsburst]

WHY MUST I ALWAYS GET INTO THE SADDEST FUCKING SHIPS WHY DO I KEEP DOING THIS TO MYSELF

[t4tadrienette]

I truly understood that my cousin and I are just on two different levels when once, asking me about a favorite character of I don't remember which show, I said oh my favorite is x, and she looked at me and went "but they're ugly," and I looked at her like this 🤨, so what if they're ugly, you want to tell me you only have a favorite if they're pretty, and not because they make you insane???

[hawkland]

How do you not get bitter seeing jensen comment on jareds post and you never see him comenting on any post from misha anymore? Also feeling extra bitter That it was a post about it being 4 years ago since last filming day and misha was suposed to be there. Not all those other people on That stupid bridge 😒

[threefuckencrowsinaleatherjacket]

Realizing how much more traction my posts get when it’s the destiel meme. Maybe all my posts should be like that from now on no matter the content

[malepresentingleg]

I dreamt Sam, Dean and Cas were all standing at the edge of a cliff and Cas had to sacrifice himself for something. Dean was extremely upset by it, and gave Cas a Bro Protection Ring to keep him safe which made Sam look very exasperated. Also, the ring looked exactly like my friend's engagement ring.

A wooden platform then started lowering Cas from the cliff to the swamp below, and the lower it went the more upset Dean became. When it reached the bottom Deam jumped down to the "shore" of the swamp and went in and toward the platform, instantly becoming covered in mad and swampness. He was desperate by then and tried telling the person taking Cas on the platform to take him instead but Cas just looked at him sadly, showed him the ring again, and drifted away.

(I feel like it's important to note I haven't watched any Supernatural since 2013 and also that I never shipped destiel???)

[denimshortsdean]

The thing about me is that I am constantly terrorising the groupchat with destiel ideas that come to me out of nowhere. I say sorry but we all know it will happen again in like. 6 hours

[sammywlw]

i cannot stand this fucking "based on your likes" shit that bc everyday ill get halfway through reading one of the dumbest spn takes ever written wondering who the fuck im following would say something like that before realizing that its from some random blog like i have a perfectly curated list of beloved blogs that i follow and i would like to see their content! if i wanted to see other random peoples content i would simply use the page that shows me exactly that!!

[almond-tofu-chan]

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