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Castiel sees his a coworker on a dating app and swipes left to avoid humiliation. Months later, a stray comment outs him to the same coworker, Dean Winchester.
As misunderstandings pile up and avoidance becomes its own kind of harm, Castiel is left asking: how much of the life he’s built is peace and how much of it is just practice at staying unseen?
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Dean came for the pool tables. He stayed for Cas, the older, tattooed bartender who never flirts but always steps in when Dean gets in over his head. One night, things go too far, and Cas crosses a line of his own. It could break Dean down… or be his lucky break.
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Dean Winchester fixes things. Keeps his head down. Follows orders, mostly. Doesn’t ask questions. He can’t afford to, not with a father watching his every move, a brother he’s desperate to protect, and a past sealed behind a NDA.
So when a repair job sends him to a brothel on the edge of town, he tells himself it’s just work. Just another job.
But the android he’s sent to fix doesn’t behave like the others. It looks at him too long. Hesitates before it speaks. And when it touches him, Dean forgets that machines aren’t supposed to feel.
He knows better than to get involved. He does it anyway.
Now he’s tangled in something bigger. He’ll have to decide if being human is about what you’re made of or the choices you make.
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The night John Winchester dies, Dean drives aimlessly through the city until he finds himself stopping at a bookstore he’s never noticed before. He doesn’t know why he stops. He doesn’t know why he goes inside.
The place is warm and inviting, even if the shopkeeper is a little robotic. While browsing the shelves, Dean finds surreal books like histories where the Titanic never sank and JFK was never assassinated.
And then he finds his shelf: rows of books bearing his name. Some are pasts he never lived. Others are futures he never could have dreamed. All of them are impossible lives. The shopkeeper tells him the only way to leave is to choose one. When Dean refuses, the bookstore turns against him, plunging him into a nightmare with only one way out: choose.
What does free will mean in a place like this? And what happens to those who refuse to choose?
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Dark Blue (Have You Ever Been Alone in a Crowded Room?) by WhoIPretended2Be
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
03 Sep 2025
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Castiel is a shapeshifter, haunted by his mother’s murder and terrified of becoming a monster himself. Survival means pretending, and he’s learned to be anyone but himself until the night he meets Dean Winchester.
Dean is a hunter, raised to follow his father’s orders and become whatever the job demands. He doesn’t know who he is when he’s not performing, until he meets someone he calls “Blue”.
What begins as a quest for revenge turns into something else: the collision of two men hiding from the world, each desperate and terrified to be seen beneath their disguises.
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Blood—All Dean remembers of the incident is blood, and all he feels is the pain of wounds he can't see unless Sam holds a mirror up to his back. Banishing Castiel away from Billie and the Entity worked, maybe a little too well. Meanwhile halfway across the country, a mysterious man washes up in the middle of a freak storm off the Florida coast, paralyzed and mute, but with the ability to tell his nurse just who he is.
Almost half a world away, Castiel crashlands, and Dean believes in his heart that he killed him. But the world is small, and maybe, just maybe, for once, Dean is wrong.
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half a world away by loversantiquities
Beautiful alternative ending to "Despair". Painful in the way sometimes you need to break something to set it right.
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2014, Camp Chitaqua. Upon meeting the past version of Dean sent by Zachariah, Castiel knows only one thing for certain:
Very soon, he's going to die.
So he decides he might as well go out with a bang and enjoy one last night on Earth with this more innocent, less cynical Dean.
What he doesn't expect is for a single night of desperate passion to leave him pregnant, carrying a child who ends up saving both his and Dean's lives.
2015, Lebanon, Kansas. Castiel, Dean and Sam have been carrying on with "saving people, hunting things" along with dodging one apocalypse after another for years. While hunkered down in the bunker recovering from Rowena's mad dog spell, Cas is surprised to have another Dean, along with a heavily pregnant version of himself, come stumbling through a fiery rift and into their lives.
In the process of preparing for the birth of a powerful nephil, secrets of the past are revealed and relationships put to the test in ways none of them could have ever anticipated. Meanwhile, the threat of The Darkness looms and leaves them wondering: could this child be the one to save them all?
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Playing for Time by sidewinder
Lucifer kills Dean. Cas is pregnant so when he should die, he doesn't. He gets to Dean and he's dead, but the baby allows Cas to bring Dean back. Then Dean and Cas go off and hide from Lucifer. Cas hides the pregnancy for awhile, but eventually tells Dean.
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The Things That Hunt You in the Night by FriendofCarlotta
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Dec 2025
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1993: Twelve-year-old Castiel Novak would follow his best friend Dean Winchester anywhere — including to a cabin in the woods where they find a mysterious board game inspired by their favorite book, Carnival of Terror. When Dean disappears while playing the game, Castiel is forced to confront a new world: one where his memories of what happened to Dean are dismissed as the fictions of a traumatized mind.
2008: Living in a new town, under a new name, Castiel is doing his best to move on with his life. But when Dean’s younger brother Sam appears on his doorstep in search of answers, Castiel needs to make a choice: does he truly want to let the past go? Or should he play the game one final time and hope that Dean will return to him?
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The Things That Hunt You in the Night by FriendofCarlotta
Goosebumps meets Jumanji.
Loved this fic. It’s about how you move past horror and trauma. Also strong mirrors and parallels.
I feel like this fic was about generational trauma at its core.
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In 1942, the City of New York banned pinball games.
For newly returned WWII veteran (and avid pinball player) Castiel Novak, it's just one more thing that's been taken from him. He finds a place of refuge at the Village Laundromat, an establishment run by best friends Charlie Bradbury and Dean Winchester. The illegal pinball arcade in the laundromat's back room soon becomes a second home for Castiel.
Over the ensuing decades, it also becomes the place where Castiel falls in love, grows old, and witnesses changes he never even dared to imagine.
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12 Dec 2025
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Pinball Wizard by FriendofCarlotta
On the surface yes this is a romance with Dean and Castiel and pinball being banned in NYC.
But that’s only the surface level. Beneath it are all the moments that define the generation. The history we haven’t lost. The progress that at times feels tenuous. And just how much things can change in a single generation.
Lovely, lovely story.
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09 Dec 2025
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Hot BDSM with Dom Dean and sub Cas but with bottom Dean and top Cas.