djinndreamsam:

Sam and Cas being understanding and supportive of aro Dean is like 99% of what keeps me going honestly.

Imagine if the three of them had been trying to work things out as a relationship because whatever was between them was pretty clearly more than just friendship. Except that no matter how much Sam and Cas included him  and told him they loved him, Dean never felt like quite as much of a part of it.

And so at first Dean thought maybe it was them, who didn’t want him involved- didn’t want him in the way of them, or something. It didn’t take too long, though, to realize that it was Dean that was the problem. He did a little research- ‘why don’t I fall in love”, “why do I hate romance”, and eventually stumbles across the term. Aromantic.

And he’s not sure if he believes it at first, not sure if he wants to believe it. Some part of him wants to want romance, but the other and more reasonable part knows he’d never truly be happy with forcing himself to deal with dating and relationship crap and romance.

It takes a lot of nerve for him to tell Sam and Cas. Because he does love them. He does. But it isn’t romance that he craves from them; no matter how much they want to include him, Sam and Cas are the ones that can give each other what they want.

After a lot of explaining and questioning and clarifying, they get things sort of worked out. Dean still sort of really likes the idea of having sex with them- hell, with both of them at once, if they’re up for it. But he leaves the fluffy, mushy romantic crap to the two of them.

And it’s not perfect at first by any means, but it works, for them, and in the end that’s what matters, right?