So, this idea came to me one night a couple of weeks ago when I couldn't sleep and The Odd Couple was playing on TV. I could totally see Dean and Castiel in the characters of Oscar and Felix. So this story will be loosely based on the movie. Still deciding if there will be Sabriel in this story or not.

"I'm tired of competing for your affections, I'm through with it. I want you to move out."

Castiel stared at Meg in confusion. "You want me to move out? Competing for affections? I don't understand, what's going on?" Castiel stalked after Meg as she walked into the bedroom and grabbed a duffel bag out of the back of the closet. She started throwing Castiel's clothes in the bag which in turn, he would grab them and take them back out.

Meg slammed one of his Oxford shirts down on the bed and growled in frustration. She whirled around to where she faced him; her brown eyes stared back at him accusingly. "You really don't know what's this is about, do you? You'll just never let me in. We've been together for two years and you never once told me you loved me. It took me a while to figure it out, but I eventually did. God help me, I figured it out. I should have known there was somebody else. It just wasn't who I was expecting."

"Somebody else? What are you talking about? I've never cheated on you. I've been nothing but faithful to you!" he couldn't help to shout, feeling vexation overtake him.

Meg huffed out a humorless laugh. "No Clarence, you haven't cheated on me. How could you when all you do is work all day and you come home to either grade papers or you're at Dean's. However, I know there is only one person you've ever let into your heart and I know for certain, it's not me."

Castiel bristled at the nickname that Meg would use just to piss him off. "Just be up front with me and tell me…who do you think I have "let into my heart"? I would love to know." He asked sarcastically, using his fingers as quotation marks.

"Oh Cas, I'm not going to spoil the fun. That's something you're going to have to figure out on your own. Now, get the fuck out." She shoved the over flowing duffel bag into Castiel's chest, causing him to grunt slightly from the force.

Castiel stood there, frozen. Meg just glared at him with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Fine. It's poker night at Dean's. I'll go there for a few hours to let you cool down."

"Yes, run off to Dean, like you always do." Meg muttered under her breath.

Castiel stopped when he got to the front door. "What is that suppose to mean?"

"Nothing. But don't bother coming back." She stated as she slammed the door in his face.

Castiel pounded on the door. "Meg, come on, you're being unreasonable!" he shouted. When he heard no response, he gave the door a good kick before walking away from the apartment to his gray 1990 hatchback Ford Escort. He threw the bag and his phone in the car and slammed the door.

Cas stuffed his hands into the pockets of his coat and slumped against the car, dejectedly. Sure, he knew that they weren't the perfect couple, but he didn't think he was worse off than a lot of others. Granted, Dean reminded him often that he needed to find a sweet girl like Tessa that worked in the library at the high school where he taught American Literature to juniors instead of a "she-devil" like Meg. Dean's words, not his own, but at the moment, he was starting to see Dean's point.

We've been together for two years and you never once told me you loved me. Meg's words rang in Cas's ears. It was true, he'd never said the words to her, but in all honesty, he wanted to mean them when he said them for the first time to anybody. He didn't love her yet, but with time, he might have. He knew he cared for her. Couldn't that have been enough for now?

Cas decided the best course of action was to go talk to Dean. When anything in his life happened, he always gravitated toward his best friend. Even if he couldn't give him any advice, he always managed to cheer him up.

He felt slightly better now that he decided on a course of action but was surprised that the whole time he was contemplating the Meg issue, he had been walking aimlessly around town. When he stopped to take stock of his surroundings, he found he was just a few blocks away from Dean's house.

He strode determinedly toward the direction of where his best friend lived.

"Cas is late. The dude is never late." Dean worried about his best friend. The poker game had been going on for over an hour and no sign of him yet.

"Have you called him?" Bobby asked, eyes never leaving the cards in front of him.

"Yeah, I left a couple of voicemails and even sent him some text messages. Haven't heard back yet."

"Maybe he got tied up at work. Isn't it finals are some shit this week?" Gabriel asked, grabbing his beer and taking a sip. "Damn it Jo, did you fucking slip a different card?"

"No, I didn't, you little shit!" Jo threw down her cards and bent over the card table to glare at Gabriel.

"Jo, calm your ass down, all you're doing is giving Rufus a good look down the front of your shirt."

Jo promptly straightened up and sat down, now glaring at both Gabriel and Rufus.

"Damn it Bobby, why'd you have to open your big mouth?" Rufus grumbled, eyes going back to his cards.

"Guys, will you knock it off? Do you think something happened? Jo, will you call Meg and see if she knows where Cas is?"

Jo groaned. "Why do I have to call the bitch?"

"First, you were the one that introduced Cas to Meg. Second, for some reason, Meg hates my guts."

"You're just never going to let me live it down that I introduced them are you? I met her through one of the guys that worked for me. I didn't know at the time she was such a devil spawn." Jo was a contractor who took over the business when her father died.

"Just call her."

Dean and Jo had a stare off. Gabriel, Bobby and Rufus stopped to watch them, waiting to see who would give in.

Jo looked away first. "Fine, I'll call her." She walked away from the table to dial Meg.

"You playing?" Rufus asked with a cigar clamped between his teeth.

Dean paced the room. "I'm out of the mood right now. Maybe I'll join in a little later."

Dean continued with his pacing, occasionally looking out the front window to see if he could spot Cas's death trap of a Ford Escort.

Dean was a mechanic that co-owned a shop with Bobby so he knew what shape that car was in. He fixed it plenty of times for Cas. He kept telling him to buy a new car, but Cas would stubbornly refuse stating it was his first car he ever bought.

What if he wrecked? Dean felt cold panic flood him. Cas had been his best friend since he was five years old. The guy was practically his brother. He would feel the same way if he thought something was wrong with Sammy.

Dean almost attacked Jo with questions when she walked back into the room. "Did you get a hold of her?"

"Um, yeah. Meg doesn't know where he is."

"Why doesn't she? She seems to know every move that guy makes."

"There's a reason why she doesn't know. They broke up tonight and she kicked him out."

"What? Why?" Dean asked, feeling bad for what Cas must be going through at the moment.

"How should I know? I don't know the details of their relationship. You'll have to ask Cas."

Dean nodded and headed toward the door. "You guys keep playing. I'm going to look for Cas and bring him back."

"Want me to go with you? I drove the squad car over." Gabriel offered. Gabriel was one of the newest additions to the Sioux Falls Police Department, moving from Nashville a year earlier. They had met at Rufus's bar when he first came to town and they all became fast friends with the police officer, especially Dean and Cas.

"Thanks Gabe, but I'll find him. I know of a couple places I can look." Dean appreciated Gabriel's offer to help, but figured he should go alone.

He didn't have to look far for Cas. All he had to do was open his door to see Cas raising his hand in preparation to knock.

"Cas! Where have you been?" Dean took in Castiel's pale face and rumbled appearance before grabbing the lapels of his trench coat and pulling him inside. "Did you walk here?" he asked when he didn't see his car parked out front. Cas just nodded silently.

Dean guided Cas to the couch as Gabriel jumped up from the table to get a cold beer for Cas.

"Come on kiddo, drink this. You need a little alcohol therapy." Gabriel grabbed Cas's hand and curled the fingers around the bottle.

Cas just stared at the bottle blankly for a moment and looked around the room at the concerned faces of his friends. He turned to Dean where he felt like he was going to be swallowed up in Cas's big, sad blue eyes.

"She broke up with me."

"I know buddy. Jo called her to find out where you were and Meg told her what happened." Dean rubbed Cas's shoulder consolingly.

Jo sat on the other side of Cas. "Do you want to tell us what happened?"

Cas immediately shook his head. He loved all his friends, but Dean was the only one he really felt comfortable talking to about this. He knew Dean would understand especially since Dean had a nasty breakup with his long-term girlfriend, Lisa, a few years back.

Jo, being the perceptive woman that she was, nodded and told the other guys to call the night short and meet up next week. Dean thanked Jo as they quickly cleaned up their mess and let themselves out.

"Cas, if you need anything, let me know. I bet if I look, Meg has a record. I probably could book her on something." Gabriel half jokingly told Castiel as he headed toward the door.

"That will be unnecessary, but thank you." Castiel said dully from the couch.

Dean and Gabriel exchanged concerned looks over Castiel's head. Gabriel gave one last look at Castiel's morose form before he quietly shut the door behind him.

"What happened?" Dean asked as soon as he heard Gabriel's car pull away.

Castiel's thumped the back of his head against the couch. "She was upset that I never told her I loved her and she's convinced there is somebody else."

"Somebody else? What the hell? You're the most loyal guy I know. You would never cheat on her. Hell, putting up with Meg that long, you should be a saint."

"She doesn't believe I've physically cheated on her, she believes I'll never love her. She kept saying there is only one person I've ever let in, but when I asked who that was, she got all cryptic on me and said I needed to figure it out myself."

"Do you love her?" Dean asked quietly, not for sure why the answer seemed so important at that moment.

"No, but that didn't mean I wouldn't come to love her."

Dean snorted. "I find it hard for anybody to love her. You know what I say? She did you a favor."

Castiel's head rolled around to stare at Dean in confusion. "She did me a favor? Yeah, big favor that was. I'm almost thirty with just my car that's about to break down at any moment and now I'm alone and homeless. Big favor she did me." He quipped, sarcastically.

Dean leaned back against the couch and gave a chuckle. "Dude, we'll get you a new car and you can stay here with me. I have the room. As for being alone, stick around me long enough, I'll make sure you find a woman. Actually, several if you're up to it." He winked.

Castiel gave out a short bark of laughter that warmed Dean's heart. He knew he wasn't really broke up about Meg as much as he claimed; he was just upset about the interruption in his routine.

Castiel gave Dean a small smile that actually managed to reach his eyes. "Dean, most of the women you know are of the loose variety. Not really my thing."

"Hey, I didn't say you had to marry them." Dean wiggled his eyebrows squeezing another laugh out of Cas. "Okay, so you don't want my help with women, but you can still stay here."

"What about Sam? I know he's graduating soon from Stanford and moving back home. Won't he be staying with you?"

"Nah, Sammy already found him an apartment. He said he got so sick of roommates that he wanted to live alone for a while. So, that spare room is all yours."

"Thank you, Dean. I appreciate it. I'll try to make it up to you and not be a burden."

Dean swung an arm around Castiel's shoulders and gave him a one armed hug. "Stop, you're my best friend. You were there for me when things went bad with me and Lisa. Now I get to return the favor. Now come on, I'll drive you to get your car and things."

Dean smiled down at Castiel's grateful blue eyes and was happy to see the lingering sadness had disappeared.

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