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Ghost, under threat of another psychological evaluation from both his CO and therapist, has been forced to partake in a penpal programme with another soldier in order to "practise empathy" and "re-establish human connection." He hates it until he doesn't.
MacTavish willingly volunteers for the SAS's new penpal programme because what the hell, it could be fun. And when his penpal ends up being adorably emotionally constipated, well, that certainly doesn't hurt.
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He wades in it now, eyes still open, fixed on the speckled ceiling, begging himself not to crave bomb blasts and artillery fire in his childhood bedroom. Although…there might be something beautiful about it all, Johnny supposes, those noises in the thick. The gasps in between discharge that say: I’m here, I’m a part of this song too.
After a near-fatal injury, John MacTavish finds himself back in his hometown in Scotland. Fresh off an untimely discharge, he's forced to cope with disability, his dysfunctional family, and the lingering knowledge that there are some things he's just not ready to leave behind...
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- Part 1 of silver and gold
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Cas is back from the Empty, and Dean knows how to be grateful.
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05 May 2025
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When Sam Winchester prays for his brother, Castiel is finally sent on his very first assignment. But what should be a simple love match turns into much more and Castiel finds himself risking everything to ensure the happiness of his extremely frustrating charge.
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Dean showers for a long time, until the water turns cold and his skin stops itching. He towels his hair dry in front of the mirror above the sink. He brushes his teeth with his index finger. Eventually he decides to rip the band-aid off—so he opens the bathroom door again, boxers and t-shirt sticking to the damp spots on his back.
“I borrowed your clothes,” Cas says apologetically. “I hope that’s alright.”
Dean goes still.
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"The two of you are so stubborn you've made Heaven blink." Finally convinced that Sam and Dean will never say yes and accept their destinies, Heaven and Hell come up with a new plan, one that will redraw the Apocalypse and make everything run much more smoothly. All they need is Dean Winchester's soul.
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15 Jan 2025
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Dean has been working as a getaway driver for Crowley for 14 years, and has survived by developing a few simple rules: always pick the right music, keep an eye on the time, never give out his real name, and most importantly, make no personal connections with anyone on the job.
Making no personal connections with anyone new is easy when he has difficulty talking in his own words.
Enter Cas, who, in order to pay for his nephew Jack’s life-saving medical treatment, decides to break bad by joining Crowley’s operations. Unlike most of his brothers, he’s new to the world of crime, but their driver’s skills and quiet demeanor have a way of reassuring him.
Throughout the course of several months, their rules fall to the wayside as they fall for each other, each unable to say the words ‘I love you’ for differing reasons.
Cas’ past family life complicates things when Lucifer comes around wanting to know how Cas is getting the money to pay for Jack’s treatment. Everything comes to a head when Dean is kidnapped for one final job.
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29 Dec 2024
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The man he’s riding with is a nice guy, Dean thinks. Cas, is his name. About 30 years old.
Dean had thought he was nice from the first time the guy fucked him. He wasn’t too rough about it, even though he paid enough that he could be. He touched Dean’s hair when Dean blew him, which made Dean embarrassingly hard.
He doesn’t get a lot of affection, out here on the road, living truckstop to truckstop. It’s why even the hint of it had had Dean gambling, offering his ass up for the next few weeks if the guy agreed to take him along for the ride.
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Dean is a truckstop hooker. Cas is a trucker. He hitches a ride with Cas, planning to head out towards California and his brother. What he finds along the way, though, might make it hard to get out.
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- Part 1 of Ramble On
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- 20/20
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27 Dec 2024
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Castiel loved his job as a NYC cop. He loved the people he worked with and the ones he helped daily. His only problem was Dean.
Dean loved his job with the NYPD. He never thought of being anything else but a cop. If only he didn't have to see Castiel everyday. They don't get along, and the less they see of each other the better. Too bad they have one slight problem...
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- Part 1 of Surrender In Blue - Destiel
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15 May 2024
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And finally, Dean thought about Cas.
What it would all mean to have Cas in his entirety, in every way imaginable. To have him sleep caressed and sun-kissed beneath early morning sheets, the weight of his fingers tracing Dean’s palm down peaceful corridors, his scent cloaked in Dean’s very bones. To have his warmth as comfort and his hands as a guide that slid over Dean’s skin with familiarity. No more tentativeness, no more skimming the edges and tracing the seams of their story.
Peace. He wanted peace. But with Cas back from the Empty with his memories shredded, and Jack nowhere to be seen, what would peace even look like? And, after everything, was it something Dean deserved?
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14 May 2024
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"Castiel?" Sam calls out, carefully. Both of them lower their guns but don’t put them away, yet: there’s no sign of a struggle, but the guy did just break out of an insane asylum by squishing an orderly. With a bureau that he shouldn't have been able to move. "We're not gonna hurt you. We're here to help. My name is Sam. This is my brother, Dean."
There's a loud silence. Dean can hear the wind rustling through the structure.
A deep voice suddenly speaks up. It’s coarse and raspy and sounds like it hurts coming out; he’s never heard anything like it. It sends shivers down Dean's spine.
"Dean?” the man asks. “Dean Winchester?"
(A Season 4 AU: what if the fallen angel Dean and Sam ran into was Castiel, not Anna?)
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- Part 1 of Profound
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- 17/17
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19 Apr 2024
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It's easier to submit to your deepest desires when the circumstances are anonymous and businesslike. At least that's what Dean thinks and why he decides to pay for a service of an experienced Dom. What he doesn't know is that even with your hands tied and blindfolded you are not immune to feelings.
Castiel has been a Dom for years, he learned to read people well and there´s not much that can surprise him. Until Dean becomes his client and then much more.
This story is all about control. About giving it, taking it and losing it. Most of all it´s about the things we have no control over.
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11 Apr 2024
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So, the first thing that happens is Castiel comes back.
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"Right," Dean says eventually, gruffly. He looks down at his shoes. "I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life, man. It's—you know, yours. Do your thing, love who you love, whatever. I can't really stop you from loving me, if that's what you've decided to do, but I don't—I can't—"
"I know," Castiel murmurs, still just smiling a little, not looking heartbroken at all. "Don't worry about it, Dean, that's all I ask."
"So we're—" Dean risks a glance up, swallowing thickly. "We're good?"
Castiel hums. "We're good."
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08 Jan 2024
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Dean spent his whole life looking after Sammy, but now Sammy is dead, and everything is Dean's fault. After his failed suicide attempt, the hospital refuses to let him leave alone, so the dark haired, blue-eyed man who saved him volunteers readily. Little do either of them know that they will each be the salvation and the devastation of the other.
There will be no happy ending. That is not what this story is. This story is real and it's heartbreak. It’s Dean breaking down. It’s Cas falling apart. It’s the two of them falling in love only to tear it all up. This is fair warning.
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- Part 1 of My Fare Thee Well
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31 Dec 2023
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When no good deed goes unpunished, Dean ends up sentenced to community service for physically defending another Omega at his job. That is, at his former job. It's all a steaming pile of shit, and that's exactly what he has to clean up at the joint animal shelter and clinic he's been assigned to.
With a face full of allergies and a horrific mood, all Dean has to do is get through six weeks of this sinus-assaulting torture. That's not so easy with a smartass Alpha receptionist, but at least the weird Beta vet might just end up being kinda cool.
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17 Dec 2023
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Dean, Benny, Charlie, Garth, and Cas are old college buddies. In their thirties now, they meet up once a year to shed their adult responsibilities for a week. This year it's Garth's turn to choose where they go and he's still as obsessed with horror and weird shit as he was back in college. He ends up picking a supposedly deserted hotel in the friggin' mountains. The place is creepy as hell and as night falls, two things become increasingly apparent. One: the place isn’t as deserted as they first thought, and two: Dean’s college stalker is back from the dead.
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21 Oct 2023
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Dean is living the life of a middle-class suburbanite. He’s married with a kid and has his own successful business. He even has a house with a white (well, gray) picket fence. Life is pretty good. But then, shit happens--- and well, let’s just say that Dean, Sam, and Charlie don’t handle it in the most conventional of ways, nor do they consider the consequences. Next thing he knows, Dean’s making a deal with the devil wearing an angel's face and he’s at odds with everyone and everything he thought he knew.
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- Part 1 of Bitch Better Have My Money
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- 14/14
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20 Oct 2023
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Castiel valued his solitude, and was happy to stay hidden away in the mountains for the rest of his life. But when his seeing eye dog dies, that solitude is suddenly broken when Gabriel shows up not with another dog but an actual human slave. Castiel doesn't believe in slavery, but he can't turn away the very hurt and broken man he's given.
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- Part 1 of Keeping You in Sight
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- English
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- 136,374
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- 26/26
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20 Oct 2023
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Dean is a waiter in a strip club to put his kid brother through school. Castiel is dragged to the club as a part of his sister Anna's bachelorette party. Dean and Cas hit it off, but Dean thinks Cas is the one marrying Anna.
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16 Oct 2023
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Castiel Sant'Angelo has the perfect life. He's the young, handsome, and successful CEO of Goldman Sachs with a luxurious Upper East Side apartment and sweeping views of Central Park. He sorts his brand-name ties by color and keeps his kitchen spotless. Everything is just how he wants it: neat, orderly, and efficient.
Then Dean Winchester happens.
Anonymous sex in a seedy gay bar and Sam's drug problems lead to Dean and Castiel agreeing to a deal neither can refuse. Another twist of fate has them living together and nothing is neat, orderly, and efficient anymore. Instead, Castiel's life is forever upended by pie, Dr. Sexy, boxed wine and take-out.
Dean has become his Apocalypse of noise and chaos, yet he can't seem to care—not when Dean touches him like that.
This is a story about letting go and being kinder, about love and the power it has to change one's life for the better.
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- English
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- 59,407
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- 21/21
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15 Oct 2023