closed starter for @spngroupie!
Nine times out of ten, Becky came over to his place. Chuck didn’t mind -- he loved having her over. But going ’round to hers was great, because he got to look at her stuff, see how she lived when she wasn’t with him. He loved getting that insight into her mind. Seeing what new books she’d bought since he was last over, how messy the place was, what kind of food she was stocking. It didn’t matter how many times he told her he’d conjure whatever she wanted -- all she had to do was ask -- she still insisted on buying food. It was adorable, and so normal, and he loved it.
So, now he’d come over after she’d finished her shift, he was sitting on her couch while she made coffee (again, he’d told her he could just conjure it, but she had a whole thing about eating and drinking stuff he’d conjured) and looked around at the pictures on her mantelpiece. He sighed loudly, and leaned his head back against the couch. Man, actually making coffee took for-freaking-ever. He was getting restless, so he stood up and wandered across the room to the bureau in the corner. He opened it and peered inside. What was hers was his, right? That was how this dating thing worked.
There were piles of junk mail... a couple of photographs... And a cardboard box. Chuck frowned at it, instantly curious, and picked it up. It was heavy. Huh. He shook it and it rattled. It sounded like metal hitting metal.
He put the box down again and opened it, and there was a gun lying inside, surrounded by loose bullets. A silver pistol with the serial number scratched off, like something the Winchesters would own. For a second, Chuck just stared at it, blinking, in total disbelief. Then he gestured in a quick upwards motion, and made the gun fly out of the box and hang in the air, revolving slowly so he could look at it from all angles. Yep. It was a real gun. Not a prop, or a toy. An actual gun. In Becky’s house. He reached out and plucked it from the air, and held it in one hand, just staring. Where had she got it? What the heck was she doing with it?
“... Becky?” he called to her, not tearing his gaze away from the gun. “Could you come in here for a second?” He paused, and then added, in a sharper tone, “Now!” And, when he heard her footsteps, he looked up and raised his eyebrows at her, holding the gun out loosely by the handle, between his forefinger and thumb, so she could see it. “D’you wanna tell me why you have a gun?”