Prologue
New York City, home to 8.2 million people, including the one and only Dean Winchester. Dean was an ordinary guy. He had an ordinary job, ordinary apartment that he shared with his best friend Charlie and an ordinary girlfriend. The only thing not ordinary was his Boss, Robert (or Bobby) Singer. Dean was Bobby Singer’s assistant. He worked almost 18-hour days every day to make sure Bobby’s life was as simple as the birds and the bees. Sorting out his calendar, meetings, lunches, dinners, even his own son’s science projects – Dean didn’t even do his own when he was in school, now he’s stuck doing some random kids?! Anyway, he sucked it up and continued to work his ass off because he knew all of this would eventually pay off, and then, finally, he would be working as something closer to being the boss himself. (Take that Mark from third floor). Once he’s climbed to the top of the corporate ladder, maybe Madison (his girlfriend) would pay just a little more attention to him, and life would become just a little smoother.
Now, Castiel Novak was a man of many things, and ordinary was certainly not one of them. From growing up with more brothers and sisters than eggs in a carton, he has certainly had his fair share of adventures. Now at 26, he finds himself in New York City, a apart of that 8.2 million, on a journey he’s not so sure is leading him the way he first intended it to. Castiel works for a woman named Ellen Harvelle. Like Dean, he’s her assistant who’s entire life revolves around making sure that Ellen’s life is going absolutely swimmingly. Originally, Cas took the job because of his lifelong dream of becoming a writer for articles, papers, or really anything where his work is out in the public, and as Ellen is boss of the highest sports journalism companies, why not start there?
Castiel and Dean have been working the same tiring jobs, in the same building for 3 years now. The corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York City, The Bank of America Tower, and yet their paths haven’t crossed, too busy to even notice the other people actually working in that building. And yet, on the 22nd of April at exactly 11.56 PM, they’re (quite obviously) the only ones left in the building, stressing about trying to find their respective bosses dinner before all the restaurants close down for the night. (If you were to ask Dean, he would probably think Bobby is a vampire with the way he doesn’t ever seem to go home and sleep). And right there, this exact moment, is where it changes, it was kind of like a fundamental shift in the universe if you ask me (and also if you asked Cas, he seems to know a lot about this stuff). But now, let’s start from the beginning. – P.S Who knew how much of an affect truffle Mac n cheese could have?!