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It's been two months since Cas was taken by the Empty. Two months since Chuck was defeated. Since Jack left. Since it became just Sam and Dean. Again. Back to basics. Dean should be happy. He thinks he should be happy; the world has been “saved.” The ultimate enemy has been defeated. But he isn’t happy.
Eileen convinces him to do something for his birthday. Nothing big. Just a pie — not cake — and some pizza.
“Can we dig into the pie now?” Dean sticks out his bottom lip, playing it up. This may be the most he’s talked in months, but the dinner has been fun, teaming up with Eileen to tease Sam always lightens the mood.
"Hello!"
All three adults in the room startle at the greeting and turn to find Jack standing at the top of the kitchen stairs, his hand raised, a small smile on his face. “I brought someone with me.” He moves out of the doorway and Dean hears the familiar sounds of shoes on concrete before he sees Cas step around the corner.
AKA: Two months after Castiel is taken by the Empty, Eileen and Sam pull Dean enough out of his depressed state to celebrate his birthday. Dean’s birthday present ends up being the return of Jack and Cas.
Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
26 Jan 2026
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"Sir," the guy said, tone already 50% aggravated. "Why are you yelling?"
Shawn took a slow step back, eyeing him. "Follow-up question: why are you standing in front of my motel room at 3 AM?"
The guy’s brow furrowed, like that was somehow a ridiculous thing to ask. "It’s not 3 AM."
Shawn held up his phone. "It definitely is."
The cop glanced at his watch. "It’s 9:42."
Shawn blinked.
Or...
Shawn Spencer sees a man die before it happens.
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
18 Jan 2026
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When something goes wrong on a hunt and Castiel is exorcised from his vessel, there’s only one option to save him: saying yes. And of course Dean’s going to say yes and let Castiel in. That’s his best friend. He just didn’t account for the whole “seeing each other’s thoughts and feelings” part of possession. Oops.
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- 58,846
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- 17/17
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
25 Dec 2025
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BAM! Cas is back! Yep, just like that. Thanks Jack.
Dean Winchester is basically a functional mute with more issues than the Impala has miles on it. The wordless man needs to tell Castiel he loves him too - so he hatches a brilliant plan.
Operation: Lie Your Ass Off For The Greater Good.
What's the worst that could happen?
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- Part 1 of Good Things Do Happen
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- English
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- 34,000
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
25 Dec 2025
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“Take me,” Dean says. He doesn’t have to think about it. “Take me as your vessel, Cas.”
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or: Cas is cursed into an endless sleep. Dean offers himself up as his vessel while they try to break it.
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
25 Dec 2025
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Returning his gaze, Dean is startled to find that Cas has closed the distance between them. He focuses on the bright blue eyes in front of him for a moment, and then it hits him. A literal flash of genius.
“Dude, yes. Get in me.”
Cas narrows his eyes and tilts his head in confusion, “Dean. There isn’t time for...that."
Dean bites back a chuckle. His lip ticks up into a lopsided smirk, “Cas, I’m the Michael sword. I’m a strong vessel. Get in me and I’ll keep you safe until we can find a way to get your body back. I’m saying ‘Yes’.”
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Dean says "Yes" to Cas as a way around the empty deal. Cas rides shotgun in Dean's head through 15.19 (the finale doesn't exist because it shouldn't). This is the equivalent of locking the boys in a room together until they talk about their feelings...only the room is Dean's brain.
*And yes, my chapter titles are a nod to the movie The Prestige. Specifically for the line, "Making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back."
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
25 Dec 2025
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“I’m not looking forward to it,” Rowena tells him, as though that will absolve her of anything, “he may have a better solution for this, but the spell requires a smidge of spilled Grace. He’ll need to be hurt for this to work, and — Dean, all joking aside, you may be the only person fit to do this.”
“Oh, this’ll be great — go ahead, tell me why I’m the only one that can get butt-fucked to save the world.”
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To keep Earth from being scorched and born anew, Team Free Will needs to complete an interrupted spell, reset the intentions of said spell, and unfortunately, a figurative virgin symbolic of the Earth needs to be 'fertilized' by the very literal celestial body of an Angel.
Don't worry, though, they've got Angel cuffs, and the Angel cuffs certainly will not fail. 'Cause that'd be nuts.
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- Part 1 of Then Comes The Rain
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- English
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- 20,369
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- 8/8
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
18 Dec 2025
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Getting used to Heaven is something of a marvel. It ain't perfect, and Dean thinks he'd hate it if it was, which is probably why it isn't.
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"You don't understand," Dean whispers, exhaling shakily. "I know you don't, because even I don't. The instant you were gone, I wanted you back. Cas, I wanted you back. I wanted—I wanted—"
Cas stares at him, searching his face. After a moment, his own face falls slack, eyes widening just so. "Oh," he breathes out.
Dean wants to be furious that Cas has figured it out before he has—whatever it is—but he's not even that surprised. Cas knows him too well, always has, even more than Dean knows himself. He's been kicking Dean in the goddamn teeth with how deeply he understands him, even about the things Dean doesn't, ever since they first met. You don't think you deserve to be saved, that's what Cas had said. All bundled up in impossibilities and power, this being that looked at Dean Winchester and knew every single inch of him, as if he had a right to each part.
"What?" Dean grits out.
"I love you, too."
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
18 Dec 2025
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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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- English
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- 190,842
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- 17/17
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
16 Oct 2025
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Under the cover of a masquerade ball, Castiel has five nights to recover the key to his people's freedom. The world has changed greatly in the six centuries since their banishment into the void, but the task isn't impossible. Unfortunately for Castiel, this is going to involve talking to people - especially the Knight Prince who has taken an interest in Castiel and his "costume" wings.
(Destiel Cinderella AU)
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- 14/14
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
05 Oct 2025
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“My mom used to tell me that angels were watching over me.” Dean clears his throat and looks at the gargoyle statue that has become his friend over the past few months. “Maybe instead of angels we need gargoyles. With angelic names."
While on lunch at Dean's new part-time job, he is driven out of the museum breakroom by his incessantly annoying boss. He seeks solace on the roof of the building with only a few gargoyle statues for company, and is especially drawn to one named "Castiel."
Dean soon finds himself spending all of his breaks on the roof, talking to the statue. As time goes by, he even starts to view Castiel as a sort of confidant.
But everything changes during Dean’s first night shift.
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
05 Oct 2025
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Castiel is a man on the run from his family and his past, hiding the secret of his angelic nature. Dean Winchester is a man out for retribution for the death of his mother, harboring secrets of his own. Their worlds collide in the seedy back room of a strip joint, amidst a mess of blood and glitter, and each find themselves inexplicably drawn to the other. But secrets are hard things to keep, especially when their lives are on the line...
Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
04 Oct 2025
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Sam Winchester has watched his brother Dean and the angel Castiel ignore their feelings for each other for years, and he is losing patience. When one day he can't take it anymore he decides to give them a helping hand, a push to get them to do something about it. So begins a week of torment for Dean, but for the best possible reason.
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
04 Oct 2025
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Castiel used the last of his angel mojo to make his wings corporeal. But even once he became human, the wings remained. Now clumsy, deeply inconvenienced, and constantly itchy, Castiel is decidedly not a fan. He's almost ashamed of the things. Dean, however, sees the wings differently. Armed with Sam's hairbrush, some pet shampoo, and a desire to change Castiel's mind, Dean gives his buddy a bath and helps him make peace with his body. But if Cas happens to find Dean's touches pleasurable, well...
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
04 Oct 2025
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Dean to Sam in s15e20, about missing Jack and Cas:
“You know what? That pain's not gonna go away. Right? But if we don't keep living, then all that sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.”
Not much later, Dean honors the sacrifice by getting himself killed on a regular hunt.
A Destiel fix-it fic featuring Castiel’s mixtape, praying Sam, Heaven-rebuilding Jack, three new (or old) archangels, the fabulous Queen of Hell and just for the fun of it, Crowley too. Canon compliant until that damned REBAR.
Or; the story in which it takes a village to raise Dean above his issues and push into the arms of Cas.
Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
04 Oct 2025
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Dean Winchester has spent decades hunting the vampires who destroyed his family. Armed with half-memories and a perfect plan, he sets his sights on a charming bloodsucker in a quiet New York town. One drink, one date, and Castiel Novak will be dead. That’s the plan.
But Castiel isn’t what he expected. Stoic, disciplined, and impossibly old, Castiel hasn’t tasted human blood in centuries—until Dean. One bite shatters the past. Memory magic falters, and suddenly, Castiel finds himself drawn into a mystery that blurs the line between vengeance and something dangerously close to desire.
When an enemy from the past threatens Dean’s life, long-buried truths begin to surface. If they want to survive, Dean and Castiel will have to face the shadows they thought they left behind—and decide if love is worth the risk of becoming the very thing they fear.
Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
02 Oct 2025
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Society if Dean hadn't kicked Cas out of the bunker etc
Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
08 Mar 2025
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Dean should be scared. The being in front of him was terrifying by all means and yet for some reason, as he stared into the creature’s eyes, Dean felt a warm sense of comfort wash over him. Because those dazzling, glowing blue eyes were so familiar, the pain in its eyes mirrored with Dean’s. Which is why, when it reached out one long, dripping black hand out to him, Dean reached out, too.
Dean didn’t know if it could talk. It didn’t need to, anyway. Dean knew what it was asking, and he answered the silent request without a second thought.
“Yes.”
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Faced with death, Dean makes one last ditch effort: praying to an Angel he knows wont hear him. Deans prayers are answered when a vessel-less Castiel forces himself out from the Empty, taking possession of Dean's body in order to heal him.
Castiel's grace is running finite however, charged down after saving Dean's life. Now Castiel resides within Dean's mind, too weak to survive a transfer to another vessel, leading them to a desperate search for a way to rebuild his body. Time is of the essence, with Castiel's grace burning out with every passing day...- Language:
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
21 Jan 2025
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‘Beware the deep sea, that’s where the monsters come from.’ Dean had heard these words since birth, his father’s warnings shaping him into the man he is today.
That’s not the root of Dean’s hatred for merpeople, though. Twenty years after the day tragedy had touched the Winchesters’ lives forever as well as the end of the Great War between humans and mer, Dean is still haunted by that moment. But loving the sea is just as much a part of him as the dread for the merfolk, so when he isn’t working at the local bar, he is there, underwater, immersed in the vast blue his mother used to speak of in her bedtime stories.
Dean knows, however, that the sea can be as ruthless as it is soothing. When he is caught in the middle of a storm and faces the anger of the waves, the mysterious appearance of a stranger with blue eyes as clear as the waters Dean loves losing himself in forces Dean to question the truth behind his father’s old mantra.
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- 110,292
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
23 Feb 2022
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Cas Novak graduated with a 4.0 in Mathematics, but not even Naomi Novak’s money could help him at job interviews. Anxious and dissatisfied with life, at nearly thirty he’s still washing dishes in the back of his best friend Hannah’s café.
Until one night when his cat drags an injured bat into his apartment.
Dean may be a vampire, but he’s not an asshole (well, not much.) He feels like he owes the awkward guy for rescuing him from the cat’s clutches, so he sets about changing Cas's life.
A silly story about families who aren’t quite what they seem, fake boyfriends, and falling in love with someone who’s never, technically, met you.
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- Part 1 of Bat Dean 'Verse
- Language:
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- Words:
- 34,248
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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Bookmarked by Wendy Winchester (Songbrd21)
15 Nov 2021