#it's going to be flashbacks of their childhood and basically will have cas interwoven into dean's childhood trauma

[wanderingcas]

@prosopopeya encouraged anyone to do this wip challenge who needs motivation to finish so here is my 'cas and dean grow up as childhood friends in the spn universe au' where dean and cas are reuniting after 10 long years apart

Dean walks toward the car. Opens the driver’s side, tumbles in. Reaches over the bench seat to unlock the passenger door. When Cas comes in to sit, Dean gets a whiff of his deodorant. Old Spice, from the smell of it.

Dean hangs onto the steering wheel for dear life and just tries to breathe through it. 

“Are we going to go?” Cas finally asks. 

Right. The engine. The thing that makes the car move. Grumbling a curse under his breath, Dean inserts the key.  

On the tape deck, Led Zeppelin picks up where they left off, the Immigrant Song’s chorus blaring as the Impala roars to life. Dean takes a left on the main road, in the direction of town. The loud music filling the Impala’s cabin soothes Dean enough for him to roll out his tight shoulders. 

The questions, whizzing a thousand miles a minute in Dean’s brain, makes him incapable of getting a word out. His brain just spins around like a dog chasing its tail, his eyes staring unseeing at the painted lines on the road getting eaten by the car as they move forward, wondering maybe this is the ninth circle of hell he’s stepped into and—

Cas turns down the radio. Dean feels his heart drop into his shoes. “I’m not expecting us to talk about it,” Cas says. 

Oh. Well that’s a fucking relief. 

Except it’s not a relief at all because Dean still feels like he’s having a heart attack.

“So you quit hunting,” Dean grits out. 

“I never started.” 

Dean huffs out a bitter laugh. “Last time I saw you, you were chompin’ at the bit to get out there.” 

Cas shifts in his seat, leather creaking. “Things change.” 

Ain’t that an understatement.

tagging literally anyone to do this. i'm serious!! tag me in all your wonderful works. i got my cheerleading costume on i am READY