(Chapter One, The Build)

Cas and Dean had always been friends. Cas didn't have a memory without his burly other half. They went to the same daycare together, and kindergarten, ended up being neighbors and best friends. In all this time together Cas had never stopped and thought, I'd like to fuck Dean Winchester. He'd never wanted to kiss him, not even once, neither had Dean as far as Cas knew.

Sure they'd had some weird encounters over the years, even had sex in the same bed once. Going at it with your best friend beside you might seem weird, but to them it really hadn't. They were close enough to deal and it's not like they'd never seen each other naked over the years (Skinny dipping at Manitoc lake was a yearly tradition). And really everyone knew how close the Masters sisters, Meg and Ruby, were, well if the rumors were true. So for them, one bed worked just fine.

Everyone also knew how crazy their dad Azazel was. So when Cas came too loud and Lilith, their mom, came in the boys high tailed it out of there. (Did he mention it was their parent's bed? Yeah neither had the girls.) So even when both boys ended up half naked in dean 67 Chevy Impala It should have been weird but it wasn't. The boy's ran for their lives to the car. Dean watched to make sure they weren't being fallowed, clapped Cas on the back, and laughed long and hard.

"What?" Cas had asked.

"Nothing, just haven't had that much fun in while, years." Dean had said.

"Perhaps in the future Dean, you should let me pick which house of iniquities we visit." Cas said with a deep serious voice.

"You were complaining ten minutes ago man, now get your damn pants on."

Yeah Cas and Dean were closer than Cas was to any of his actual brother. It's not that he didn't love his family but they weren't Dean. Dean had always been the one to look out for Cas. When Cas' cousin Uriel used to push Cas down and tease him for being such a little 'angle' Dean had put a stop to it, getting involved when even the teachers hadn't.

Dean had no problem jumping from the firemen's pole and landing on Uriel. He hit Uriel till he cried and begged Dean to stop. Dean did only after Uriel agreed to tell Cas how very sorry he was. Uriel did and had liked Dean since that day. Even if it was very love and hate and he'd never admit it. Dean had been the one to help Cas stay an 'angle' as long as he wanted to and when Cas decided to stop, well Dean helped him there too.