Castiel Novak has had his tumblr for years. He's gone through a multitude of fandoms, as proved by his long list of inactive blogs that he's too sentimental to delete. At the moment, his favorite blog is his Marvel one. He's accumulated a few thousand followers over the last couple months, and though he occasionally gets some asks and tags, he doesn't talk with most of them very often.

That all changes with his face reveal.

Castiel doesn't think much of it at first. People do it all the time. He barely even gets any notes on the picture. He doesn't even find the small 1 in his messages alarming until he opens it the next day.

smithnwesson: Hi Castiel

The first time Castiel reads the message, he instantly drops his phone on his bed. Frozen in shock, he doesn't do anything at first. Someone knows who he is. He's never said his name online, so it's someone that recognizes him, and he already knows his friends don't have tumblrs. This could be bad. This could be very, very bad.

It takes him almost a full three minutes to pick his phone up again, just trying to process this. With shaking hands, he slowly types out a response.

marvelbutmostlyloki: How do you know my name?

Smith and Wesson replies almost immediately, which is almost a relief. At least he doesn't have to wait in suspense for ages.

smithnwesson: I saw your selfie

smithnwesson: & I go to your school

Castiel pulls his legs up to his chest, rocking back and forth slightly as he digs his toes into his mattress. Someone from school found his tumblr? His private tumblr, with secrets that would kill him to let get out? Oh, god, what does he do?

marvelbutmostlyloki: Who are you?

smithnwesson: Sorry, not giving out my name

marvelbutmostlyloki: What do you want?

smithnwesson: Idk mostly just to say hi

smithnwesson: That's why my first message was hi

smithnwesson: What's up Castiel

marvelbutmostlyloki: Please don't say my name.

smithnwesson: ?

smithnwesson: But I know your name

smithnwesson: Why would I pretend I don't?

smithnwesson: It's not like anyone else is gonna see my tumblr or anything

marvelbutmostlyloki: I still don't want you saying my name. It makes me uncomfortable.

smithnwesson: Y tho

smithnwesson: Unless you're trans and Castiel is your dead name I guess idk

marvelbutmostlyloki: No, I'm not trans, and that's still my name, but it makes me uncomfortable to see it online so please don't use it.

smithnwesson: M'kay whatever

smithnwesson: So you're pansexual?

And then Castiel suddenly doesn't know what to say. He's never told anyone that. Not even his family knows — not that that's surprising; they're super religious. He'd probably never be allowed to look at a guy ever again. But tumblr was supposed to be his safe place, where he could say that. He could put it in his bio, and no one would think less of him for it. He never thought anyone he knew would see it.

marvelbutmostlyloki: What do you want?

smithnwesson: I'm gonna assume that's a yes just cuz it's in your bio

marvelbutmostlyloki: What do you want from me?

smithnwesson: I told you I just wanna talk

marvelbutmostlyloki: Why?

smithnwesson: Idk why not

marvelbutmostlyloki: That's a nice nonanswer. I'm going to stop talking to you now.

Castiel quickly heads to his marvel blog page. He edits the word "pansexual" out of his bio, then searches through his tags on his blog to find and delete his face reveal. It may seem a bit too much, but just in case this Smith and Wesson guy wants to out him to the whole school, he wants to get rid of the evidence. Now he just has to hope Smith and Wesson hasn't taken any screenshots.

He starts scrolling through his feed, ignoring the notifications he gets to inform him of his new messages. He reblogs a few gif sets, including a very hot one of Tom Hiddleston — not that there's an ugly gif of Hiddles anywhere.

But eventually, the pop up messages get really annoying, and Castiel decides to block him. He opens up the conversation just to get to his profile, but, for some reason that even he can't understand, he decides to see just what Smith and Wesson has been spamming him with.

smithnwesson: No don't go

smithnwesson: I'm sorry

smithnwesson: I didn't mean to scare you away

smithnwesson: Do you want an actual answer?

smithnwesson: I can give you an actual answer

smithnwesson: Hello?

smithnwesson: Castiel?

smithnwesson: Whoops sorry forgot you don't want me saying your name

smithnwesson: Are you just ignoring me now?

smithnwesson: I see you reblogging stuff so I know you're still here

smithnwesson: You have an awesome taste in gif sets

smithnwesson: Tom Hiddleston deserves the world

smithnwesson: Hello?

smithnwesson: Don't leave

smithnwesson: I wanna talk to you

smithnwesson: Come back

Castiel sighs quietly to himself. He's going to live to regret this. He just knows it.

marvelbutmostlyloki: Why are you so insistent that I talk to you? No one cares that much about talking to someone if they're not friends or enemies, and seeing as we're not friends or you would have told me who you were, I'm going to guess that you're someone I don't like, and you're going to do something that I don't like, and I really don't want any part of this, so please leave me alone.

smithnwesson: Wait wut

smithnwesson: No why would I be a bad person

smithnwesson: I don't want to be mean I want to be friends

marvelbutmostlyloki: Then tell me who you are and we can be friends.

smithnwesson: I can't do that

marvelbutmostlyloki: Then you don't really want to be friends.

smithnwesson: M'kay so I'm just gonna be real

smithnwesson: We go to the same school

smithnwesson: And we don't really know each other very well

smithnwesson: But I see you around a lot

smithnwesson: And I've always thought you were kinda cute

smithnwesson: But I'm a guy and I just kinda assumed that since you and Gabriel are super religious you wouldn't want to hear it

smithnwesson: But then I found your pic on tumblr and I checked your account and you're pansexual

smithnwesson: Which obviously doesn't mean you're going to like me so I'm not going to tell you who I am because I don't want to ruin things

smithnwesson: Not that there's anything to ruin anyway because you don't really want to talk to me but I still have a little bit of hope

smithnwesson: But yeah so hi I'm your friendly neighborhood bisexual and it's nice to see that I have company here in the closet

smithnwesson: Also I totally get that this is probably kinda creepy but I really do just want to talk

Castiel just stares at his phone for a minute. Does he want to do this? A conversation with an anonymous classmate. It almost sounds like the plot of an angsty teenage movie. But what's the worst that could happen, right?

marvelbutmostlyloki: Okay.

smithnwesson: Wait really

smithnwesson: I was totally expecting you to tell me to fuck off or something

smithnwesson: Although I like this more so don't tell me to fuck off

smithnwesson: Please

marvelbutmostlyloki: Don't piss me off and I won't have to.

smithnwesson: Deal