Castiel Novak has a love-hate relationship with the Cherryvale Small Business Owner's Association. He's already gained new clients since becoming a member, and made many valuable connections. Cherryvale isn't a big city by any means, nothing like Chicago. Still, it's not exactly small town America, either. Being the new owner of an accounting services firm requires that he reach out to the local business community. Since Cas is an Introvert with a capital 'I', networking is high up on his list of things he detests. Still, he wants Novak Professional Accounting and Tax Services to be the first name other people think of when they need help with their books or taxes. The CSBOA seemed like the easiest and best way to accomplish that, so he started attending, and the organization has met all of his expectations. So he has nothing but a healthy respect and appreciation for the Association itself. His love/hate relationship is with his fellow members of the Association – namely one Dean Winchester, owner and operator of Winchester Automotive Repair and Restoration.
Dean Winchester was excited to start his new job at Sandover. He was ready for a change, and this was a big step up the career ladder. Maybe the Employee Handbook was a bit harsh in some respects, but hey, he was there to make money, not to find a life partner, so the prohibition against intra-company dating shouldn’t be a problem, right?
No problem at all.
Well, maybe one little problem, in the form of the Director of Human Resources, hot-as-sin Castiel Novak.
Dean Winchester was a Familiar meant for the wide-open spaces of the frontier. An ad in the paper combined with increasing pressure from his grandfather to sign a contract with a Witch of Samuel’s choice was just the motivation Dean needed to leave the big city behind.
What he expects to find is a year of hard work and rough living cleansing the land of magics that corrupted it centuries ago. What he doesn’t expect is that the Witch waiting for him just might be exactly what he has been looking for his whole life.
Castiel Angelus is cautiously optimistic that the Familiar he’s agreeing to work with, sight unseen, will be a good fit for his power. He’s chosen to work on the frontier in order to escape his demanding family and their unceasing ambitions.
He finds that Dean’s compatibility is beyond his wildest dream. Their bonds, both magical and personal, will be tested to the limits as they encounter the source of the corruption and seek to defeat it, before it’s too late.
Castiel Novak had hoped that college would be a new start, that the invisibility he’d suffered in high school would magically go away, but that hadn’t happened. Instead he was still the same socially awkward loner with few friends. When a gorgeous guy started sitting next to him in General Psych, Cas suffered his crush in silence. When that same gorgeous guy showed up at his apartment door to pick up his roommate for a date, he continued to suffer in silence. Of course Dean would be dating Lisa. They were both members of that alien species called ‘beautiful people’. But when Cas learned that Lisa was just dating Dean as a springboard to bigger and better things? He couldn’t stay silent any longer.
Cas is looking forward to finally showing off a boyfriend at his cousin's wedding, thus getting his family off his back about his relationship status. When they break up only a week before the big event, Cas is more upset about the loss of his date than the actual breakup.
His long-time roommate and best friend Dean hates to see Cas upset, so he does what any good roomie would do. He volunteers to be Cas' plus one for the wedding of the year. Free food and entertainment, sounds like a good deal all around, right?
Best of all, he gets to stop hiding how he really feels about Cas, at least for a little while.
Semi-famous PBS TV show host Castiel Novak was successful now. 'Connections with Castiel' was surprisingly popular, considering its subject matter of history, art, and architecture around the world.
Dean Winchester had overcome many life challenges to finally make something of himself. He liked teaching high school English, and he was so proud of the successful life Sam had built for himself that he couldn't even begin to express it. His biggest regret was the way he'd panicked and blown up his relationship with Castiel Novak, a decade in the past. When one of his students introduced him to a popular new PBS show, he was floored to realize the host was none other than Castiel. His Castiel.
When Sam invited both Dean and Cas to dinner, would they finally get over each other once and for all? Or could this be a chance to finally reconnect for good?
Castiel cleared space on his desk by the expedience of sweeping the previous contents to the side. He set the bundle down in the center of the surface and studied the knots in the rope before expertly untying them.
The book was old, its leather bindings cracked and crumbling. He carefully opened the cover to reveal the pages within, each hand cut, the edges beautifully deckled, the text written in pen and ink.
“This is written in ancient Enochian.” Castiel looked up, gaze narrowed. “Where did you obtain a book written in ancient Enochian?”
“Is that what it is? All I could tell is that it sure as hell isn’t English.” Mr. Winchester grinned, a dimple flashing in his cheek.