“Nah,”Castiel shakes his head as his sister turns around, the dress she’s trying ontwirling around her.
“But the color goes so well with my hair!” shesays and pouts
“I hate green,” Castiel murmurs.
“Why?” she asks walking back to the fittingroom.
“Hospital gowns are green.”
“So is grass!” she calls through the curtain.“And grass is good.”
The walls in his first foster home were green too. Annadoesn’t know that. He met her in his last home, the third one, the lesshorrible.
“Yeah, grass is good,” he grumbles.
“My date’s eyes are green!” she says excitedlyas she appears in a new dress. This one is yellow.
“You know I still don’t like the idea of you goingout with a stranger.”
She rolls her eyes. “He’s not a stranger. We’ve beentexting for a while.”
“Do you realize how easy it is to pretend you aresomebody else?”
She sighs heavily. “Fine, you won!”
“You’re going to cancel the date?” He feelssimultaneously relieved and guilty. It’s not like he doesn’t want her to find anice guy, he’s just worried she might get hurt while searching.
“No, but you can come with me.”
“What?”
“You can go to the restaurant with me and sit atanother table and check him out yourself.”
It’s crazy. But it’s also perfect.
“That… that would work.”
She beams at him. “Okay! Now the dress! What do youthink?”
“I think it’s great,” he smiles back.
“You think he’ll like it?”
“If he’s not an idiot, he’ll be stunned by yourbeauty.”
Anna claps her hands and runs back behind the curtain tochange back into her own clothes.
“You should try it too, you know?”
“What? The dress? I don’t think it would complimentmy figure.”
She snorts. “I mean the dating app, dumbass.”
“No.”
“Why? You could find somebody like Dean foryourself. Someone who knows how to live. Someone who would make you lessgrumpy.”
“I’m not grumpy.”
She pushes the curtain to the side to give him askeptical look. “Sure, you’re a beam of sunshine.”
“Exactly. Let’s go or we’ll be late for your date.”
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Castiel is almost as nervous as if it was his own date.He’s sitting in a corner where he has a nice view of Anna’s table, but he’s farenough to not be suspicious.
Anna spent the rest of the day telling him about Dean,about how he travels and how he pursued his dream and started his own businessrestoring vintage cars, how he takes cooking lessons so he can cook alldifferent kinds of cuisine and how he designs his own tattoos. Cas is actuallycurious to see the man. He sounds kinda perfect so he must be a sham.
Anna fixes her hair for the thousandth time. Cas checkshis clock. Dean still has a few minutes.
A waitress comes to his table and Cas orders a drink.When she leaves and stops blocking his view, there’s a man standing by Anna’stable and shaking her hand.
He’s painfully handsome, dressed with rugged elegance,tall and muscular. He says something and Anna laughs. She looks charmed andCastiel understands.
He spends the date watching Dean. He orders the firstthing on the menu and doesn’t even register what it tastes like. He drinks somewine but it tastes bland.
He’s fascinated by Dean, by the way his plump lips movearound words, by his eyes sparkling with interest, by the tattoo peeking out ofhis rolled-up sleeve.
He supposes the date goes well, Anna laughs a lot andsmiles and twirls her hair around her fingers like some girls do when they’reflirting.
Startledby the fact that Dean’s asking the waitress for a bill, Cas checks his watchand realizes it’s been almost two hours and he feels like he could spend daysjust like that.
Anna excuses herself and heads towards the bathroom, Casasks for his own bill and starts rummaging through his bag for his wallet.
“Did you enjoy the view?” a deep voice makeshim look up and Castiel’s heart stops when he sees Dean leaning on his hands onCas’ table so their faces are almost on the same level.
“I- I-” Cas stutters, absolutely at loss ofwhat he should say to save the situation.
“You know at first I thought you were watching mygirl and I was ready to punch you in the face, but then I realized you wereactually staring at me the whole time. Now I’m not sure if I shouldstill punch you in the face for being a creep or if I should give you mynumber.”
Castiel’s mouth falls agape and he blinks in disbelieve.He must look like an idiot.
“Cas?” Anna says over Dean’s shoulder. Castielcloses his eyes and heaves a deep breath hoping he might wake up from thisnightmare or get struck by lightning or anything thatwould end this awkwardness.
“Cas?” Dean repeats after her. “So this isthe brother you talked about? The one that should start to live a little?”he asks with amusement. Castiel opens his eyes to see the soft smile on Dean’sface as he looks at Anna who blushes a little and pushes her hair behind herear.
“Yeah, sorry. He didn’t like the idea of me goingout with a stranger so-” she gestures towards Cas instead of finishing thesentence.
“Oh, I see,” Dean says. Surprisingly, he doesn’tsound offended at all. He turns at Cas again and spreads his arms. “So?What do you think? Am I a serial killer?”
Castiel frowns and crosses his arms on his chest.
“That’s hard to tell. But you seemed to be who youclaimed to be online.”
Dean snorts. He turns his head just slightly in Anna’sdirection, his eyes still on Cas.
“You were right, he needs to loosen up.”
“Yeah,” Anna sighs.
Cas’ frown deepens.
“Okay,” Dean claps, “let’s go then.”He offers his hand to Cas. Castiel stares at it.
“Where?” Anna asks.
“I don’t know. Outside. To live. To enjoy thebeautiful evening. Come on, Cas, I know you secretly want to.” He givesCas the cheesiest wink ever. Cas laughs despite himself.
“I need to pay first,” he protests weakly.
Dean rolls his eyes, produces a twenty from his backpocket and throws it on the table.
“Dealt with, let’s go.” He extends his handtowards Cas again.
Cas’ heart is beating fast when he accepts it. Dean grinsat him and grabs Anna’s hand too. She giggles as Dean leads them out of therestaurant.
It really is a beautiful evening. The air is warm and fresh, the sky is only nowturning dark blue.
They start by obtaining a bottle of wine and drinking itwhile walking even though Cas protest. But it’s hard to say no to someone likeDean, even harder when he pairs up with Cas’ little sister.
They don’t do anything special, just small things. Theyshare a cone of ice cream, rent a scooter and ride it all three of them at thesame time, feed birds and climb trees in the park, sing off-key as Dean plays ona public piano, dance to street performers’ music.
Cas feels lighter than he did in years, maybe ever. Dean’sand Anna’s energy is intoxicating, their laughter contagious, Dean’s hand onthe small of his back makes Cas’ feel dizzy.
Whenthey arrive at the river, they turn quiet, calm in a content way. Dean helpsCas climb on the railing and holds his hand as he walks it like a tightropewhile Anna skips and twirls in her yellow dress on his other side, singingunder her breath, her shoes dangling from her hand.
Cas looks at the river, at the twinkling lights reflectedin the water and sighs. The world really is a beautiful place when you letyourself enjoy it.
His foot slips. He yelps and flails for balance, but he’sfalling.
Dean catches him, his strong arms wrapping around Cas’body.
“I’ve got you,” he murmurs into Cas’ hair asCas catches his breath.
“Thank you,” he breathes out and looks up intoDean’s face. His heart gives a hard thud and something flutters in his stomachwhen Dean smiles warmly down at him.
Then Dean lets go of him and averts his eyes. He seems toblush a little when he runs his hand through his hair and speaks.
“I-uhm-I’d like to talk with Anna. Alone. If you don’tmind.”
“Yeah, yes, of course,” Cas stutters, suddenlyfeeling cold even though the weather didn’t change.
He turns and leans against the railing while Dean goesafter Anna. Cas doesn’t look their way, he doesn’t want to see. There’ssomething ugly curling in his belly and he hates himself for feeling like that.
He loves Anna and he’s happy for her. She really deservesa great guy like Dean. But she was also right about Cas needing someone likethat for himself too. Someone who would make him smile, who would teach him tolove the world, even the color green.
As he’s deep in thoughts, he doesn’t notice Anna walkingto him and gets a little startled when she kisses his cheek. “Good night,Cas, don’t screw it up.”
Before he can wrap his head around what she said, sheruns towards the taxi that is standing by the curb.
“What the-?” he mutters as he watches her getin shooting him and Dean a smile and a little wave.
Dean places a hand on Cas’ shoulder to get his attention.
“Cas, look,” he starts softly when Cas, stillutterly confused, turns to him, “I really like your sister, she’s amazingand really beautiful-”
“Then why did you let her go?” Cas asks alittle too sharply.
Dean frowns a little before he continues.
“She’s amazing, but she… she doesn’t make my heartgo all wild. You know what I mean?”
“Oh-” is all Cas can say. He should feeldisappointed, sorry for his sister, but all he can focus on is the intense gazeof Dean’s eyes and his soft voice.
“Fortunately, I just met someone who’s beautiful andawesome too and they make my heart go totally crazy.” With that, he grabsCas’ hand and presses it against his own chest.
“Oh,” Cas breathes out eloquently as he feelsDean’s quick heartbeat. He knows his heart is beating just as fast as he’sstaring at Dean and his words finally start to make sense.
“Dean-”
“I’m going to kiss you,” Dean says and leanscloser.
Cas jerks his head back at the last moment. “Wait!Did you kiss my sister?”
Dean bristles up. “Of course not! What do you thinkI-” Cas cuts him off by pressing their lips together.
It’s a bit awkward at first, but they soon ease into itand fall in sync.
The kiss is like the whole of their adventurous eveningconcentrated into a few moments. Charming, fun, dizzying, warm and utterlyamazing.
They are breathless when they part. Cas looks Dean in theeyes. They are green. It might be his new favorite color.
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Hiya! First off: Worshippers of the Sea is a masterpiece, just as Worshippers of the Sky was. Question: will you be doing more parallel stories of this series? It’d be awesome!
Actually, originally I was supposed to do a whole God!AU series for each of the members. Kind of like The Service Series, but based around this universe. I had a lot of lore in my mind at the time too hahaa and a lot of different ideas. But then...Worshipers of the Sky didn’t do so well LOL. So I was like meh I’m not gonna invest myself six more times if people aren’t that interested.
But out of all the stories I had in mind, Jungkook’s was the best developed so I recently tackled it and then Worshipers of the Sea was born.
Whether I do the others or not, I’m still kind of deciding. I don’t have details worked out, but I got a general idea. It’s a big maybe though.
Thank you for being a source of happiness during 2020. Thank you for being legitimately the first person I think about when waking up, wanting to say hello, good morning, how has your day been so far. Thank you for the kind words you’ve spared me, the thoughts you’ve confided in me, the troubles you’ve voiced and the time you have shared. Your friendship is one of the things I value most, it’s one I want to keep during the new year. Happy New Year, Shey 💛 my hopefully by then wife :)
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@studio-hatter, I don't know what to say (as per usual?????) so what I'm going to do is virtually squeeze you in as squishy a hug as I'm capable of delivering (that didn't even make a lot of sense) and please KNOW that you're a source of joy for me too, and one of the loveliest, kindest, and most talented people I have had the chance to meet on here. innumerable days, you've made my day and lily, my lil bun, my summarine — I love you, and I wish you have the most wonderful 2021 because that is exactly what you deserve.
Heya honeybee 💛 Want to let you know I still love you lots and I hope you’re having an amazing day ok?
hiii pillowbun 💜💜 (yes, I've decided to go with that, I won't be taking criticism at this time >:3) I hope you know it's the same for you too! hope you have a wonderful day, and remember that I'm *strums air guitar real hard* NEVER GONNA STOP LOVING YOU!!!!
