[ Cas answers after having investigated his room and found the trinket left behind. ][ un: winchester ] you saying I can push my chores off onto you any time I please?[ Cas contemplates the necklace already slipped around his neck. It occurs to him how strange and yet natural this feels - how they all slip into each other's spaces. In Camp Chitaqua, Cas' cabin was open to anyone as they pleased, but his small, cozy bedroom was his sanctuary, open to not a single soul but himself. Here in Deerington, he likes knowing he can slip into anyone's space in this house, and have them exist in his space, too. He's no longer marooned on an island in a scattering of cabins. Makes the itch under his skin more bearable, that need for a connection he lost when Heaven slammed shut and all he had left was the silence where once there'd been his siblings. ]it's beautifully made. i appreciate this, sam. you did well, on that day and on this.
[He smiles despite how heavy the gesture feels in practice.
And sincerely:]
Feel free to push chores off onto me any time you please. It's a good way to keep my hands busy.
[He doesn't trust them to be still, not for a moment.]
Won't even rat you out.
[... He scrubs the back of his head with blunt fingernails.]
It wasn't much really, you're a lot steadier on the carving. You're gonna have to show me how to simplify those wards and still get them to work right sometime.
though your room is a tragedy. hang up a poster, sam. we're stuck in this place and have nothing to return to back home - might as well enjoy what we can while we can.
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[ un: winchester ]
you saying I can push my chores off onto you any time I please?
[ Cas contemplates the necklace already slipped around his neck. It occurs to him how strange and yet natural this feels - how they all slip into each other's spaces. In Camp Chitaqua, Cas' cabin was open to anyone as they pleased, but his small, cozy bedroom was his sanctuary, open to not a single soul but himself. Here in Deerington, he likes knowing he can slip into anyone's space in this house, and have them exist in his space, too. He's no longer marooned on an island in a scattering of cabins. Makes the itch under his skin more bearable, that need for a connection he lost when Heaven slammed shut and all he had left was the silence where once there'd been his siblings. ]
it's beautifully made. i appreciate this, sam. you did well, on that day and on this.
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And sincerely:]
Feel free to push chores off onto me any time you please.
It's a good way to keep my hands busy.
[He doesn't trust them to be still, not for a moment.]
Won't even rat you out.
[... He scrubs the back of his head with blunt fingernails.]
It wasn't much really, you're a lot steadier on the carving.
You're gonna have to show me how to simplify those wards and still get them to work right sometime.
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You know, we could always think about gardening in spring. Greenhouse maybe. Some vegetables and herbs. Some weed.
And interest?
And in the meantime, that sounds like you're asking for study session in our little attic library and reading room. We can certainly do that.
Maybe I'll teach you how to write 'fuck you' in Enochian, and we can vandalize the entire town with it.
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I'm open to learning all the ways to cuss in Enochian, sure.
Between the gardening and the cursing, I'll be busy for weeks.
You really think we could get a greenhouse?
I really sucked at houseplants, but I was a full-time college kid at the time.
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which I still consider madness. we lived in some damn summer camp. I didn't even have a door.
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His own mind, he supposes.]
it's a lot to take in.
Growing up, I've only ever really lived in motel rooms, so.
Having a full house? It's
weird.
Not a bad weird, but weird.
Always wanted a house like this someday, I guess.
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though your room is a tragedy. hang up a poster, sam. we're stuck in this place and have nothing to return to back home - might as well enjoy what we can while we can.
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Caught red-handed.]
It's just a room.
The house is cooler than some room.
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[ It makes a difference. ]
if you don't decorate it, I will.
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It has a bed and a nightstand, it functions just fine.
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good talk sam!
[ There is no further answer, and for a few days, every time Sam sees Cas, Cas just smiles ominously at him.
To be continued. ]
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