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godless_son ([personal profile] godless_son) wrote2014-10-02 01:56 pm

Wedding

Two weeks ago Castiel had been sure, at least for a little while, that this was not going to happen. The difference between knowing about your fiance's massacre and seeing it in full screen is very different, but Dean is forgiving and he is a good partner and as Castiel tries and fails yet again to make his hair lie flat, he decides not to include that particular tidbit in his vows.

Everything is reportedly set up, thanks to Mike and Neil, and he can hear the murmurs of the guests walking through the house to the backyard where the tables, chairs, and food await. The documents are signed, he and Dean having chosen to do that in private yesterday after Castiel's last class but the vows are different, he feels. Neither of them are terribly verbally demonstrative but he hopes very much that his are deemed appropriate. He carefully slips on his jacket, knowing that Robin will have words for him if it's not kept neat for at least the vows and fusses with the blue tie and pocket square that he'd been warned by Robin was not to be utilized for any rag-like purposes. Letting out a steady breath he stares at his reflection, at the very human looking man about to engage in a human ceremony with the Righteous Man he pulled from Hell. He frowns, head tilting as he looks for himself in all of that, for the thousands of years old warrior of the Lord with the wrath of Heaven behind him and decides he rather prefers the version that is still having trouble keeping his hair neat and whose biggest worry of the day is avoiding embarrassing himself during the vows. It is very strange and Heaven will never forgive him for it and he could not be happier.

He gives the stubborn curl spring up in front of his ear a furious swipe with his thumb and checks once more that Dean's ring is in his pocket before stepping out across the hallway to knock on their door. "Dean," he murmurs, "Are you ready?"

Dean feels half strangled by the tie. Long gone are the days disguises and aliases were needed - the last tie he bothered to throw around his neck is probably years past, but this is his wedding, and he means to look nice.

“Yeah,” he calls, adjusting the green silk at his throat a last, futile time. “Just.” He releases it with a sigh. He knows himself well enough to know he’s only nervous, and he passes a hand through his combed hair and takes a few deep breaths before he turns to the door, pausing with his hand on the knob.

“Am I supposed to see you? Is that a thing?”
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[personal profile] phosphor 2014-10-07 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Rin's never been to a wedding before. And, truthfully, he's just happy to be at one. The fact that it's a wedding for Dean and Castiel is better. He likes them, a lot -- Dean and Cas. Maybe even something deeper than that that's hard for Rin to really understand; the same kind of whole and complicated love he feels for his friends back at home, people like Shiemi and Suguro. Dean is a lot of what Rin's father was, and everything Rin wants to be, and Castiel earns Rin's respect, in a way that still makes Rin a little nervous.

The ceremony is nice, and small, and weirdly comforting, and now Rin has a chance to dig into the food, and get himself hamburger, and pie, and a bunch of things that were normally too expensive for him to have had every day as a younger kid.

He stops with a loaded plate of food in front of a bucket on a table, full of ice and a bunch of beer, in different colored bottles. The labels are colorful and the names are curious. Rin stares at them for a little too long, considering whether he could get away with it. The last time he'd drank, when he'd ended up accidentally downing some of Shura's wine coolers, he'd ended up moody. But this was different than back then.
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[personal profile] contrition 2014-10-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yukio follows Dean's gaze, taking another swallow of his beer in spite of the look on Castiel's face. The closest comparison he has is perhaps the look that Rin gets on his face whenever he's feeling especially disappointed, often wide-eyed and pleading. But Yukio's had sixteen years to learn how to combat such a look.

"What's the term for that in English? Whipped?" Yukio remarks, letting the cool surface of the can rest gently between his fingers. It's strange, the roguish feeling all of this gives him. Not at all like the stern, rigid treatment he received with Fujimoto.

"But I guess having an angel give you a cheat day is also its own display of love," he says, tilting his head. "Have any plans for a honeymoon?"
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[personal profile] vivememorleti 2014-10-08 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Kisuke is glad he was invited, and glad he came. Although he makes a pointed effort to avoid Kuchiki Rukia, for her sake, more than his own. He knows better than to think he's made it off a shinigami's shit-list quite so quickly, especially if that shinigami happens to be a Kucchiki in spirit and name.

He's never been to a wedding quite like this one. A western one. He'd attended hundreds in Soul Society, many of them for people of great social standing. Now that he's here, he finds he likes it. The lack of formality, the casual friendliness. The terrible food.

It's not too pretty or too precious or too planned, but it has all of the love and human vulnerability and joie de vivre that it needs.

He brought a special gift for the two grooms. He'll hand it over later, in quiet. For the time being, he lets himself socialize. And drink too much.

He watches everyone during a short break, butt seated on the surface of a table set temporarily out for the party, as he noshes on what may very well be the last slice of watermelon he has until the next summer.
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[personal profile] goodfella 2014-10-08 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"No, it's fine," Robin says to Castiel, in the sort of voice which suggests that it is only fine because Robin is exhibiting deep, patient charity about something that is not to his preferences. It's a voice that many of Robin's friends know quite well. He waves a hand dismissively in the air.

"I used to be a pretty rustic fellow myself. In another century. Are you happy?"

He asks the question with uncharacteristic earnestness.
phosphor: (this is my kingdom come)

[personal profile] phosphor 2014-10-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Rin gives a small wince at being caught out -- knowing very well he's under the drinking age -- and his tail gives a defensive swish, but he turns to face Castiel with a broad smile on his face; innocent and trying a little too hard, especially against the backdrop of pointed teeth.

"Thank you for inviting me," he says to Castiel, folding his free hand behind his back, instead of reaching for one of the tempting bottles. "I've never been to a wedding before. People my dad knew didn't get married very often, because of the whole ... stuff. Um. Congratulations."
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[personal profile] vivememorleti 2014-10-08 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Castiel is a little nervous about him -- Kisuke can tell; and, truthfully, it's no wonder, although they come from strangely similar backgrounds. A universe and a culture apart. He presses his lips together, before offering Castiel the sunniest smile he's capable of. Something that manages to be without the bitter tiredness his expression tends to carry.

It's a happy day. It's a celebration of love, mortal or otherwise.

"It's not what I'm used to," he tells Castiel, before making it a joke. "The guests are better-behaved and less dead. Congratulations on your life together. I hope it's as long as it needs to be."
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[personal profile] goodfella 2014-10-08 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Robin stared across the distance at Dean over the dark frame of his sunglasses. He did look relaxed, and happy, and other things that Robin could hardly have imagined of him when he'd met Dean Winchester. That Dean had been hollowed, husked, too tired to be even properly hateful. As mistrusting of a puck as someone with experience ought to be.

Today, Dean was happy and Robin was his guest.

"Ishiah and I? We'll get there. We're old and we're not going anywhere. The moment is more important than anything else -- the right moment. You know what I mean?"
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[personal profile] goodfella 2014-10-08 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Calm down," Robin says, reaching out a warm, broad palm to press it against the center of Castiel's chest. He smiles.

"What if there's a way to make him stay? Would you take it, or?" Robin wonders, not to be cruel or pushy, but because Heaven had never been a place that Robin could get to to begin with. It wasn't the only afterlife, where Robin had come from, at least.
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[personal profile] goodfella 2014-10-08 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Robin raises both dark brown brows before taking a long draw on the drink in his hand.

"I'm not suggesting you get it resolved immediately," he says. "But have you considered, you know, a different afterlife? Something like that? Have you considered that the both of you could possibly go the same place, if you had to go anywhere at all? It must be hurtful, or frightening. Thinking about all that time stretched out in front of you, not meeting one another again. I know how it is. To lose someone like that."
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[personal profile] goodfella 2014-10-08 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry to hear that," "Robin says, voice a little melancholy and a little breezy, but mostly caring. "And I'm mostly sorry that there isn't any way that either of you can get out of that sort of fate. It's terrible to look in on. From where someone like me is standing. It's terrible to look in on, the whole business with Heaven, and Hell. If I could send both of you to where I belong when I go, I would. There isn't any Hell for paien kind. Some of us have one Heaven, or two, or a thousand. But none of us have a Hell."

He leans across the distance and, unusually, plants a chaste kiss against the side of Castiel's rough cheek.
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[personal profile] phosphor 2014-10-08 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Rin's pale face colors a little, at the idea that Dean is especially glad that Rin shoeed up to bring him a shitty gift and eat all his food.

"I don't really know what's traditional or not either way. But I'm glad you had it here, like this." Rin leans closer, lowering his voice, a little conspiring. "I can't always go in churches or church property and things. Because of, you know. So you and Dean have known each other for a long time? How'd you meet him?"

He asks the the naive boldness of any other teenager.

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