Title: And You Can Leave Your Wizard Hat On
Author: @tikistitch
Artist: kuwlshadow
Rating: G
Length: 34k
Pairings: Dean/Cas (Sam/Jess)
Warnings: N/A
Dean Winchester is a student at the Chuckworts School of Wizarding Arts and Long-Haul Trucking. And he has a problem. Actually, he has a few problems: he's failing several classes, and this might put his and Sammy's scholarship in jeopardy. But his biggest problem is his rather obvious crush on a fellow student named Castiel.
Cas is a brilliant wizard with big blue eyes, but his brothers (who all go to the school) are pretty obnoxious, and every time Dean runs into Cas, he ends up doing something ridiculously un-cool. Imagine Dean's discomfit when he is entered in the Tri-Wizard Trucking Tournament and finds out his co-driver will be none other than Castiel … who can't even drive, we should note!
It will take everything Dean's got to go up against Lucifer and his nasty friends, save their scholarship, save the school, and maybe – just maybe – actually look awesome in front of Cas.
Summary: Dean Winchester is a student at the Chuckworts School of Wizarding Arts and Long-Haul Trucking. And he has a problem. Actually, he has a few problems: he's failing several classes, and this might put his and Sammy's scholarship in jeopardy. But his biggest problem is his rather obvious crush on a fellow student named Castiel. Cas is a brilliant wizard with big blue eyes, but his brothers (who all go to the school) are pretty obnoxious, and every time Dean runs into Cas, he ends up doing something ridiculously un-cool. Imagine Dean's discomfit when he is entered in the Tri-Wizard Trucking Tournament and finds out his co-driver will be none other than Castiel … who can't even drive, we should note! It will take everything Dean's got to go up against Lucifer and his nasty friends, save their scholarship, save the school, and maybe – just maybe – actually look awesome in front of Cas.
Summary: Dean Winchester is a student at the Chuckworts School of Wizarding Arts and Long-Haul Trucking. And he has a problem. Actually, he has a few problems: for one thing, he's failing several classes, and this might put his and Sammy's scholarship in jeopardy. But his biggest problem is his rather obvious crush on a fellow student named Castiel.
Cas is a brilliant wizard with big blue eyes, but his brothers (who all go to the school) are pretty obnoxious, and every time Dean runs into Cas, he ends up doing something ridiculously un-cool. Imagine Dean's discomfit when he is entered in the Tri-Wizard Trucking Tournament and finds out his co-driver will be none other than Castiel … who can't even drive, we should note! It will take everything Dean's got to go up against Lucifer and his nasty friends, save their scholarship, save the school, and maybe – just maybe – actually look awesome in front of Cas.
Keep reading for a sneak preview!
Dean had been late for class. Because of quidditch practice he was usually late for class, and he had charged right into the smaller boy, knocking a good shelf-worth of library books out of the little bookworms arms. He paused to help pick up the mess. Hey, he was a klutz, but not an asshole!
He squatted down and grabbed a couple of the books. It was mostly arcane stuff, but there was also a paperback with a really odd title, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dean stared at it for a beat too long, only to have a pale hand reach out and snatch it away.
“Hey, dude, I'm really sorry,” Dean explained, gathering the rest of the musty books into his arms.
“It's all right, Dean,” intoned the skinny kid. “I was obviously carrying too many books.” They stood, and the kid glanced shyly into his eyes.
It was hard to explain what happened just then. If Dean had been his dad's pocket watch – which he wasn't, of course – then one of those little springs would have gone “sproing” just then and set time all to hell. If he had been a muggle motor car – they were quite cool, you had to admit it – then one of the pistons would have shot out and everything would have ground to a halt right then and there.
But Dean was neither a pocket watch nor a Chevy, and so he could only stare and stutter and grip the stack of books until the other boy finally took pity on him or whatever and began to pile them off Dean's arms. Dean watched dumbly as his pile of books was reduced to four – three – two – one books, and then no books, and then as he kept a grip on that last damned book, finally the paralysis released and he managed to stutter out, “And, uh, you're-?”
“Castiel.”
Well, of course. Of course. Of course this boy had a name like Castiel, which wasn't even a name but more like something pretty you'd say in a poem, if you were to write poems, which Dean didn't, but maybe he could ask Sammy about it?
“Castiel,” Dean repeated dumbly. And then the boy nodded and shuffled off to his seat in Potions without a backwards glance. No, actually, he did glance backwards once, as he deposited the pile of books on the corner of his lab bench.
An oldie but goodie for fan creator appreciation day: Hungry Ghosts by @tikistitch is a hell of a ride from start to finish. I don’t throw the word ‘zany’ around lightly but...
D: Cas! What the hell?? S: Um... C: My apologies, Dean, and Sam, but I believe we are engaged in a "hug war" by invitation of a lady known as @tikistitch D: sure, okay, but..! S: uh, can you tell the Sock Monkeys to put us down? D: urp! C: Dynomite, short arms are no excuse to bite.
Every cop has one case that haunts him. For Dean Winchester, that case was the abduction of little Justin Fogler. Then one morning, he meets an odd man with an even odder name, Castiel Stephen James Emanuel Clarence Novak, and his life is swept up in magic and mayhem.
Words: 1765, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Raphael (Supernatural), Ezekiel | Gadreel, Chuck Shurley, Bobby Singer, Jessica Moore, Charlie Bradbury
