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Rising from Hell came as a shock to Dean Winchester. Castiel now stands before him in a human vessel, the shadow of his wings plastered against the wall of the barn. He preaches endlessly to Dean about being the future savior of the world. No matter how hard Dean tries, he just can't seem to escape him. The fate of the universe lies in his frail human hands. The angel still trusts him despite all odds. When problems arise with Sam, Dean and his angel discover a new bond emerging from the shadows. With the seals being broken, Lilith rising, and Sam being right in the middle of it all, Dean must find a new way to fight.
Or: The one where Dean Winchester fights the memory of his father to taste safety in his angel.
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In the midst of a hunt with his father, Dean Winchester finds himself stuck on the same drive, night after night, pursued by an entity he can't quite manage to catch or identify. Between that and the strange phone calls he begins receiving from a deep-voiced yet gentle man, Dean isn’t quite sure if the world he’s found himself in is his own; or if he can ever manage to get back where he came from.
All he knows is nothing good comes from being alone.
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casefic exploring a very repressed dean winchester in the middle of 2003
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Supposedly, not too far from the Bunker, there lay a field of daisies, left, it seemed, entirely undisturbed. A sea of white petals that stretched as far as the eye could see.
While Dean felt far too familiar with daisies to be impressed by the description, the little flowers sprouting just about wherever they pleased, something about the way Castiel had said it made him keep his thoughts to himself. His fingers twitched as he spoke, eyes far away, locked solely onto the image in his mind, as though possessed. It must have been something to behold with the way it left the angel at the edge of his breath.
So he agreed to be taken there.
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good luck, babe! (you’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling) by agrhgu_1246
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
25 Aug 2025
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title from (you guessed it): good luck, babe! by chappell roan
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Realizing his feelings for Cas after a spontaneous kiss, Dean drives to the closest bar and finds the nearest attractive woman to hook up with.
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“Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy,” John read from the shiny green book Dean had brought him.
He didn’t know yet it would be the last bedtime story he read to Dean. Didn’t notice the furrow in Dean’s brow or how much attention he was paying to the story.
Didn’t know that soon, a demon—one who had long ago twisted itself around the roots of their family tree and spread like rot—would kill his wife, upend their life, and leave him to raise two boys alone.
Didn’t know that the second he’d place baby Sam in Dean’s arms and say, “Take your brother outside as fast as you can and don’t look back,” that it would change their dynamics forever.
As he watches Dean grow up, growing around him and Sam, so eager to help, he starts to have terrible dreams of his oldest son ripping out clumps of his own hair, ripping off his skin, cracking open his rib cage, and handing it all to them, just to keep them safe and warm.
It was wrong.
But it was something he could use. And any ‘wrong’ he could use was an excusable wrong.
AKA, 5 times someone notices how much of himself Dean gives for his family, and one time that it doesn’t matter anymore.
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In 13.05, while he's in Billie's library, Dean finally takes a moment to process all of Castiel's deaths up to his most recent demise, and his own reactions to those deaths. He comes to the conclusion that he's been missing the point for quite some time now.
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Images of apocalypse Cas - human Cas, flash in his mind. He want's to shudder, almost, but instead he simply says, "Don't ever change."
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Over the years, Dean looked at his brother’s many times, but it wasn’t always Sam. Sometimes, it was something darker, and Dean still vowed to save him.
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Castiel is dead. There is nothing else to it. He is dead, and Dean is forced to deal with it. The only question; is he able to?
AKA, a look inside Dean's mind after Castiel's confession of love.
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the speed limit kept decreasing by ten by NotEvenALittle
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
15 Jul 2025
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Character study of Dean from Sam's POV, set during s13e05 while Dean is dead on the floor (and shortly after he's revived).
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“Maybe I know some things about myself,” he says. “And maybe you know them too. From– from rebuilding me or being in my head or just– from knowing me. From–”
“From loving you,” Cas supplies.
Dean looks at him and nods.
“Knowing and saying are not the same thing, Cas. Does that make sense?”Or: Dean Winchester comes to terms with some gender stuff.
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“It wasn’t healthy, and it sure as fuck wasn’t a life. But, Dean had never really counted on life without Sam and when he did get a break from the nightmares, in his dreams he would gank the Devil then die with a smile on his face. Easy as fucking A.
Or, it would’ve been. Because yeah, nowadays Dean didn’t care about a whole lot other than the couple thousand ways he wanted to watch Lucifer choke on his own blood, but there was still one thing he found himself holding onto, one thing he didn’t want to lose, no matter how much he’d changed, how much he’d let go of.
And that was the person currently going full on casa erotica between his legs. The Angel Castiel, or what used to be. Cass. High on bath salts, cut off from heaven and newly turned friggin’ whore of damn Babylon.
Yeah, these definitely were the end of times.”
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The Endverse Dean character study on his relationship with Cass that the people need.
(okay it might be just me that needs it, but here you go anyway.:
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The Life and Loss of Dean Winchester by mauradersfangirl
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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Dean Winchester grows up in fragments — hungry, angry, desperate, and alone. He knows love, and he knows what it means to lose it. From the flames that burned his family apart to the day he finally understands what it means to let himself love someone who stays. A life in snapshots — broken, brutal, and almost beautiful.
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A demon put the thought in Dean’s head and afterward he could never get it out again.
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One drink to start off the day, that’s what he always did. Getting to his feet had been an arduous task. Limbs pliable and shaken. Joints stiff and unwavering. Like opening up a clam with one's bare hands. Fingernails broken. Dean made it to his feet eventually. By the time that he did, he almost expected Sam to walk into the kitchen, with his sleep tousled hair an afterthought to the waking world. Their morning would begin like it always did. The glass between Dean's fist would burn his skin, and he’d try not to feel the shakes as his mouth twitched out a greeting, only half relieved that his words came out at all.
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a study in blue (and gray like a storm) by itsafunnything
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
14 Jun 2025
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a series of essays and analyses—just my thoughts
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When Everything Just Falls in Line by SheldarpCauseFuvkIt
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
27 Apr 2025
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Dean’s subconscious (often slutty) dreams of Castiel and a little fuck up that makes those dreams come true.
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“Man, look—you make fun of me for doing girly things like—like eating vegetables, or whatever, right?" Sam says. "And I’m still a guy. I feel like a guy."
“I don’t even know what that means, dude,” Dean replies, taking a pull from his beer. “I’m just a dude because… ‘cause I am.”
“Yeah, but also ‘cause you feel like it.” Sam insists. Then he frowns at him, studying his face. “You... You don’t… feel like a guy all the time?”
Or, Dean and Gender: a Chronology.
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A character study of Dean Winchester, told from the eyes of the lovely Castiel.
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In the middle of what should be a run-of-the-mill case, Dean Winchester loses his memories. All of them. But getting his memories back proves to not be as straightforward as they hoped. Is this a chance at a fresh start? To finally live the apple pie life? Does Dean even want that? Does he still want to be a hunter, the only life he had ever known? And what does all this mean for the people that love him?
Stay tuned for brotherly shenanigans, processing trauma, Destiel idiocy and feels, and Dean Winchester being excited by everything!
takes place somewhere in the middle of season 11, but everything that happens in the show with The Darkness, God, and Lucifer, doesn't happen. And also Charlie lives because I said so.