Who: Cas and Dean (RW) What: Taking in their new situation Where: In their room When: Thursday morning Rating: TBD
Cas had been quieter than usual. Part of the reason was because he had fewer people to speak to than he had had. Anna and Jo were both more gregarious than both Cas and Dean and so he'd becomes used to chatting but, here, there was little to draw him out. Dean had been tense and Cas had been silent. He didn't talk about Jo or Anna to anyone who didn't know them from Ridgeway. As far as anyone else knew, even Sam, there had only been Dean. Cas didn't really want to share them with anyone else and he sure didn't want to answer the questions their situation would raise so he didn't tell anyone about his wife. He wasn't yet sure how that made him feel. He only knew he missed her.
But he had Dean. He loved Anna and he loved Jo but Dean was the one he needed. Dean was his centre and his purpose. The one who understood. They'd stuck close to each other since they arrived, aside from helping out the kids and his single trip to the doctor and to meet Sam's girlfriend. He didn't feel he should leave Dean for long, as much as he knew Dean could take care of himself. They'd both had their worlds turned upside down. It wasn't a wonder they were shaken.
Their comfort came from each other and from seeing their son safe. From seeing Sam doing well and from the presence from the knowledge that a new place you didn't choose didn't have to be the end.
For the moment, though, Cas just tried to keep himself busy, fixing food for the kids and trying to set the place up to be a little less basic. He figured they'd be there a while.
He sat on the bed with a magazine he'd found on cooking on a budget. Mostly he was just looking at the pictures, his focus all over the place. He vaguely wondered where Dean was, unwilling to go for long, yet, without seeing his husband. He was drawn back to the early days of Ridgeway when the only time he didn't feel tense was when he was wrapped around Dean. He was trying his best to keep to something more constructive. Dean needed his support and he had it. Beyond that he was still feeling his way, eager to have this awkward phase done.