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As a kid, Dean’s dreams were pretty straightforward: food, a roof over his head, and maybe – if he really let himself dream big – a family that wouldn’t kick him out the second he became more trouble than he was worth. College? Not on his radar. Suddenly he’s here, though – on a football scholarship and faced with the possibility that this time he might get to stay.
For someone more well-adjusted it would be a dream come true. For Dean it’s a nightmare of desperately keeping up appearances while he’s drowning in other people’s expectations.
At least until a game of Truth or Dare sends him face-first into the arms of Castiel Novak. Senior. Resident (ex-)drug dealer. Obnoxious literature major. Heavily tattooed and everything Dean is trying to leave behind.
Dean needs a favor and Castiel is all too willing to deliver. Unfortunately the offer comes with strings attached that go well beyond the fake relationship that Castiel asks for in return.
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13 Oct 2025
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“We did good, Dean,” Sam says. “We got him back.”
Dean huffs a hollow laugh, because yeah, that’s always what it’s about, isn’t it? Cas or Sam or Dean getting themselves lost or dead, and then taking turns dragging each other back from the brink. He shrugs, shoving his hands into his pockets.
“We got him back, yeah,” he says. Sam nods, watching him. “So now what?”
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- 10/10
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16 Mar 2025
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Dean teaches Castiel about wayfinding using a very "hands on" approach.
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- Part 2 of Blue Hair 'Verse
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14 Nov 2024
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Cas is human now, and things aren't going to plan.
(Not that Dean had a plan. Nope. No plans of any kind.)
Anyway, what's a Winchester to do when everything he tries seems to blow up in his face?
Go hunting. Obviously.
(Posts on Fridays until complete)
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- 6/6
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30 Apr 2024
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23 Apr 2024
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When Dean allows Cas to possess his vessel, Cas decides to treat Dean’s body to horrible things like… healthy food and… a spa day.
What the fuck, Cas.
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04 Apr 2024
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Castiel is content - sort of - with his quiet life in Boston...at least, until his new neighbor moves in. It's Dean Winchester, the cliched long lost love of his life. Can these two idiots find their way back to each other after eight years, after fame and loss and heartbreak? After Dean has found love again with Cas' neighbor, Lisa?
Fate can be a sadistic bitch, they've both learned that, but maybe they've matured enough to be able to handle it this time. The sparks, the attraction, the tension.
...or maybe not.
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- 9/9
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27 Jun 2023
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Castiel Novak is 27 when he suddenly loses his twin brother Jimmy, and his whole world turns to ashes. How do you deal with losing half of yourself when your whole life always revolved around the two of you, like yin and yang and black and white? How do you deal with a broken soul and old demons looming over you with no one to hold you back anymore?
After 10 years as a Navy Special Warfare Operator and more than a dozen deployments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a battlefield injury forces 28-year-old Chief Petty Officer Dean Winchester to choose between being stuck behind a desk for the rest of his career or going back to civil life. When he learns about his friend Jimmy’s death, Dean makes his way back to Kansas with his heart in his throat and broken pieces at his feet.
Things are already complicated and painful enough as it is, but when former lovers Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet again after 10 years of radio silence and a galaxy of wounds and scars solidly standing between them, it feels like both a curse and a blessing has been placed on them both. Is there any hope in putting back their broken pieces together after a decade, and how do you deal with grief and broken dreams?
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- Part 1 of Patient Love verse
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- 21/21
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19 Dec 2022
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Once upon a time, there was a green-eyed prince, locked away in a tower of monsters for the sin of refusing his angelic betrothed.
Once upon a time, there was a blue-eyed wizard who had erred, and in doing so had lost, and lost, and lost, until he had little left to lose.
Once upon a time, there was a Princess of Mondoor, cursed to live as a red dragon. Or perhaps she was a red dragon who had been born in the shape of a Princess of Mondoor. Hard to say.
These were all separate stories.
Until they weren’t.
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27 Nov 2022
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Dean and Cas, a long stretch of highway, and 36 questions empirically designed to make two people fall in love.
As if they weren't already.
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- 9/9
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22 Apr 2022
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“So- so you’d basically be using some sort of sigil to mask our human souls from the Empty?” Sam’s voice interrupts Dean’s desperate train of thought and startles him back to the present.
“Yes.” Jack is nodding, smiling, all gap-toothed and kindergarten positivity.
“And the only parts of us the Empty would see are whatever dead leaves the angels and demons left in our gutters?” Dean raises his eyebrows.
“Exactly.”
He lets out a low whistle. There’s a living warmth finally coming back into his complexion. Not done yet, Winchester, still one more rescue mission. “It’s gotta be me. I’m going.”
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- 1/1
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- 315
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04 Feb 2022
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21 Jan 2022
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The world's already over and they're already dead. All they're doing now is marking time until the end.
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- Part 1 of Down to Agincourt
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- English
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- 154,411
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- 11/11
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- 904
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16 Jan 2022
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Castiel is in love with humanity. At least, so long as he's not the one experiencing it.
A lighthearted smutty romp wherein Dean helps Cas navigate the tricky minefield of human needs.
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- English
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- 22,387
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- 4/4
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06 Jan 2022
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“Well, it’s a silly thing to be worried about. The way that you enjoyed the company of women earlier on in your life has nothing to do with the way we are now. And, besides-” Cas’s voice drops to a shy murmur, matching the bashful, knitting rhythm of the way he’s currently playing with Dean’s fingers- “I think I’d like to hear about it.”
Alright, Dean likes to think he’s pretty good at handling surprises, but he’s not even sure if his eyeballs are still in his skull at this point with the way they’re popping out.
“Hear about the way I enjoyed the company of women,” Dean says like he’s waiting for the punchline.
“Why not? What’s wrong with that?”
“Cas, normal people don’t wanna hear about their boyfriend’s exes.”
or the one where dean's a little insecure about his sexual history, cas wants to know about it, dean loves eating pussy, and cas loves dean
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- Part 2 of you see me in the lovely garden tending
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- 12,335
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- 1/1
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04 Jan 2022
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This year, husbands Cas and Dean decide to get one of those kinky couple’s advent calendars, to make the wait until Christmas more entertaining.
Or,
The one where the thirst is real.
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- Part 1 of The calendar fics!
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- English
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- 43,814
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- 25/25
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26 Dec 2021
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From the outside Castiel Novak looks like a regular guy: a good job, two teenage kids, a nice house and a crappy car he’s way too attached to.
But there’s one thing no one knows about him: that, over twenty years ago, he used to live next to none other than Dean Winchester – back then a brash and loud-mouthed boy and nowadays a huge movie star and Hollywood’s sweetheart.
Castiel never bothered to tell anyone about his childhood friend because frankly, who would believe him? Probably even Dean himself already forgot about his former awkward and weird neighbor, so Castiel seriously doesn’t see any point in mentioning the whole thing ever.
But then an interview on national TV happens where Dean reveals way more about his past than ever before … and Castiel - as well as the rest of the world - suddenly realizes that he left a much bigger impact on Dean’s life than he originally thought.
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- Part 1 of Starstruck
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- English
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- 203,515
- Chapters:
- 50/50
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- 2
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19 Dec 2021
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He's about to ask who the hell she is, what the hell she thinks she's playing at— but then she squints, like she's trying to look past Dean's eyes to see right into him, and her head cocks birdlike, just so, and it tugs at something under his ribs, blooming into an ache that feels as good as it hurts, because somehow, it's him. It's Cas.
The Empty sends Castiel back different.
- Language:
- English
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- 47,606
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 4
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- 401
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11 Dec 2021
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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?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 123,624
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 5
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- 393
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07 Nov 2021
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Castiel is in the Empty, leaving only his confessions and his handprint behind. To Dean, everything seems black.
Until it's not.
(A Season 15x18 coda/fix-it fic.)
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- English
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- 1/1
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07 Nov 2021