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Title: Life Is Not A Piece Of Cake (Unless You’re Fucking Dean Winchester)

Written for: @rosemoonweaver‘s fic-o-ween

Rating: T

Words: 4911

Ships: Castiel/Inias, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel/Inias/Dean Winchester

Characters: Castiel, Inias, Dean Winchester, Claire Novak, Jody Mills,

Tags: food, baking, alcohol, accidents, enemies to friends to lovers, grumpy Castiel, enemies to friends to lovers, graphic depictions of culinary mishaps,

Prompt:
Character A is in charge of bringing
snacks for their child’s “fall festival” at the
school/daycare/activity (such as scouts or soccer or whatever). It
would be easy to just pick up soft cookies and a bag of candy at the
store, but last year their archrival carved a cake to look like a
real pumpkin and they’ve been insufferable about it ever since.
Character A decides to make their own special fall treats for the
kids and it’s definitely going to be better than their rivals. The
only problem? They’re a disaster in the kitchen.

Summary:
Castiel hates Dean Winchester. Not only is the man frustratingly perfect
he can bake amazing cakes that look like they belong on one of those
cooking shows. This year Castiel’s going to show Dean up. He’s going to
bake the best desserts for his daughter’s Girl Scout party and Dean is
going to be so impressed. Only Castiel is a disaster in the kitchen. 

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12774135

Under normal circumstances Castiel
supposes that he and Dean Winchester could have been friends. However
these are not normal circumstances. Then last year Dean walked in
with that fucking perfect cake shaped like a jack-o-lantern. Castiel
probably would have enjoyed the cake too if it hadn’t shamed the
cookies he’d brought from the nearby bakery. Yah the kids loved the
cookies but the fact remained that Castiel had not baked them with
his own two hands. And despite being devastatingly handsome and
frustratingly friendly Dean was also apparently gifted in the baking
department.

As if those few tidbits about Dean’s
life aren’t frustrating enough it seems that every new piece of
information Castiel learns paints Dean as even more of Disney Prince.
He’s a widower and owns his own business. He put his little brother
through law school. Although many of the single mothers both of the
Girl Scouts and of the kids at school are constantly asking Dean out
he politely declines them. He’s just so frustratingly kind. And
handsome. Way too handsome for a single father who works full time.
Castiel is married and shares the responsibility of raising his
daughter with an amazing husband and he still feels
like he hasn’t slept a full night in over a decade. His daughter’s
only 7.

Earlier that fall when Castiel had
run into Jody Mills he’d probably looked like a man possessed when
he all but begged her to schedule him and Dean to both bring treats
to the Halloween party. The Girl Scout troop leader had eyed him
warily but when he’d volunteered to do extra work for every Girl
Scout cookie drive she’d agreed. Who was she to refuse free help.

Now he has a plan and he’s going
to show Dean up. He’s been working on it all year. His husband
thinks he’s being a bit too serious about this but what does Inias
know? Dean is just so aggravatingly perfect at everything and all
Castiel wants to do is knock him down a peg.

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