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Ao3 Most Written Pairings in 2024 (with both Public + Restricted Fiction) by Randomist1031
Fandoms: No Fandom, Multi-Fandom
02 Jan 2025
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101 Ao3 pairings that are written the most from January to December of 2024 with the inclusion of both public and restricted fiction.
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05 Jan 2025
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In a sleepy mountain town, stitched together with fairy lights, Dean Winchester has been running Squirrel and Moose Coffeehouse since his Dad died. Next door, anchored by family obligation, librarian Castiel has been tasked with taking over Chuck’s Bookshop.
Wanting a distraction after his brother leaves town, Dean offers to help Castiel fix it up. It’s a job, something to get his hands on, it doesn’t matter that the librarian is hot and kinda weird.
Castiel doesn’t understand why Dean is helping him, but he’s happy that he is, and their friendship grows until he can’t deny what’s right in front of him. But when their time together is cut short, both face a decision they aren't ready for.
In a sleepy mountain town, stitched together with fairy lights, what's it gonna be?
Peace or freedom?
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- English
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- 55,794
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 1
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- 102
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- 531
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- 9,812
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28 Mar 2023
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Shortly after moving into his new house, Dean Winchester finds a strange, flickering light in the middle of his living room. When he touches it, he’s transported two years into the past, to the days when a man named Castiel Novak lived in the house.
Dean’s own time pulls him back eventually, but the gateway to the past keeps appearing, and Dean keeps visiting Cas — sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. They soon fall in love, but there is no possible future for them, for one simple reason: in a few weeks, Cas is supposed to die.
As the date of Cas’ death draws closer, will Dean be able to save his life? And if he does… will the two of them find a way to be together in the same time?
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- English
- Words:
- 54,272
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 2
- Comments:
- 617
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- 883
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23 Mar 2023
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Rowena calls Sam, asking for help. Her former lover, the powerful witch Leon O'Leary, has something of hers and she wants it back. When Sam agrees to help, the last thing he expects is for her to pull out a ring and propose.
To Cas.
Cas and Rowena move into the wealthy suburb of Lavender Pines and work to become the most well-liked newlywed couple on the block. Sam and Dean support them from the bunker. It’s a milk run of a case. Simple. Easy.
It’s not.
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- English
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- 30,609
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 1
- Comments:
- 145
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- 637
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- 132
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- 9,889
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23 Mar 2023
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In the Empty, you relive your regrets. But the worlds that it has dropped Castiel into aren’t familiar to him. Over and over, it sends him into universes he doesn’t recognize, although he expects that they exist — or existed — in some form or another.
Dean is always there, but it’s not his Dean, and maybe that’s the Empty’s point. What it offers him, if he’ll just be quiet, if he’ll just behave… it’s nice, it’s what he never thought he could have in reality, but it’s not real. It’s not Dean.
But when he finds himself in a world that looks like the Empty itself — a dark, eternal void — Castiel is confused. This isn’t some corner the Empty can try to tuck him away in, so long as he’s willing to accept a life he knows isn’t quite real. This feels different, more genuine.
And the version of Dean that comes to rescue him… he feels real, too.
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- English
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- 21,253
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 1
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- 94
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- 457
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- 115
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- 4,346
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20 Feb 2023
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Sam pulls Dean off the rebar. Dean wakes up, and Castiel is still gone. Nearly six months after Castiel's death, Dean finds himself staring down the barrel of addiction in a futile effort to relieve the pain from an injury that refuses to heal. Though, after a hunt gone wrong and one last bad decision, Dean finds himself nearly Baker Acted in Florida, forced into a recovery he doesn't want to face and memories he can no longer bury.
Halfway across the country, Castiel finds himself along the Oregon coast, seven months after Jack sent him back to Earth. When he embarks on what was meant to be a journey to discover both himself and Dean’s past, a dream sends him careening back into Dean’s path, to face a world he never wanted to imagine. While Dean comes to terms with his grief, Castiel scours the country, searching for any sign of him.
What he finds is Dean living out his retirement inside of a rehabilitation facility—and what Dean finds is the love of his life, brought back to him.
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- English
- Words:
- 30,204
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 2
- Comments:
- 126
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- 567
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- 7,477
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16 Feb 2023
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“What else was I supposed to say, Sam?” Dean asks him. “I’m not...look, Cas is my best friend, and I care about him. That’s it.”
“And you renovated a house for him,” Sam continues. “And live with him.”
or: a year in the life, in which it takes some time, but they figure it out
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- English
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- 103,254
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- 13/13
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- 8
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- 730
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04 Feb 2023
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Admitting it won’t make Dean any more inconsolable than he already is, and he’ll never feel Cas’ absence any more or any less acutely than he does in this exact moment. “He’s gone,” Dean finally admits, because it seems like the only thing left to say.
When the terrible, swollen vacancy of the room offers no recourse, Sam says, “I know.”
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- English
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- 43,442
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- 1/1
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- 2
- Comments:
- 273
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- 2,609
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- 38,368
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15 Jan 2023
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Dean can’t help it. Castiel’s laugh is infectious, washing over him and sweeping him up in its tide. His throat and stomach ache with the feel of it, unfamiliar muscles worked past their endurance. He hasn’t laughed like this in weeks, maybe years.
Cas doesn’t stop laughing, and Dean relishes it. It’s such a good sound, deep and throaty. It rumbles over him the same way that Baby’s engine purrs, to where he can almost feel it in his gut. Dean’s giddy, the kind of happy that hunters don’t get to feel, and if it weren’t for the ceiling, he thinks he might float away. Cas’ eyes crinkle when he laughs, and his smile goes wide and gummy. He’s so brilliant, so alive—
But you’re dead, Dean thinks helplessly. But you’re dead.
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Castiel Novak is one of the best hunters Dean Winchester has ever worked with. He's witty, whip-smart, and has enough knowledge about the supernatural to rival an encyclopedia. He's got humor dry enough to put the Sahara to shame and he's pretty easy on the eyes as well. All in all, he's the best partner Dean could have hoped for.
Too bad he's dead.
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- English
- Words:
- 89,411
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 532
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- 2,511
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- 844
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- 41,563
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31 Dec 2022
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Cas is back from the Empty, human, and convinced that his relationship with Dean is unsalvagable. Can Dean get his shit together in time to prove otherwise?
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Cas felt his heart racing as Dean approached.
Then Dean’s arms were around him. Cas wanted to live forever in that moment of closeness.
Which lasted all of four seconds.
Dean drew away quickly, and Cas swayed on his feet, unbalanced.
Dean gave him two pats on the shoulder.
“Good to have you back, buddy,” he said, his voice flat and mechanical.
Cas was dying all over again.
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- English
- Words:
- 11,201
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 193
- Kudos:
- 1,710
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- 340
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- 11,304
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22 Dec 2022
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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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- English
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- 167,722
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 312
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- 1,115
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- 362
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- 22,766
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19 Dec 2022
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Dean owns a twenty-four hour diner. Cas is a professor who does his best work at night. They bond over books and coffee, and teach each other to see the world in a new light.
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- 12,504
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- 3/3
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- 50
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- 361
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- 69
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02 Apr 2022
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Cas Milton is really good at managing things.
He managed being abandoned as a child and then placed in an abusive home. He managed his adoptive father going to prison when his aunt and godmother finally surfaced. And now, at twenty-five, he’s managing going to college and while working the graveyard shift at Chaney’s 24-Hour Laundromat in the icy town of Leadville, Colorado.
Life is manageable until one night a man covered in blood shows up at the laundromat, and instead of calling the police, Cas decides to handle it himself. Except this guy, one Dean Winchester, can’t exactly be handled. Against all odds, he and Cas form an unsteady friendship, and for once, Cas has someone to talk to about everything he’s managing.
The only problem?
Cas doesn’t really know who Dean is. And as it turns out, he doesn’t really know himself, either.
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- English
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- 20,385
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 2
- Comments:
- 62
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- 529
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- 116
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- 4,575
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01 Mar 2022
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When Dean and Cas find themselves sitting across from one another in their crowded college library, awkward silence and stolen glances follow. Eventually, strangers become friends who become best friends. But what happens when the years pass and the miles between you grow, yet so does your (not-at-all-platonic) love for your best friend? Are you doomed to pine forever, stuck in an endless heartache? Or do you risk it all for a chance at something more?
Because even after everything… you’re still falling for him.
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- English
- Words:
- 35,135
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 123
- Kudos:
- 512
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- 139
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- 6,385
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03 Feb 2022
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Dr. Dean Winchester, professor of Mechanical Engineering, was full of confidence in his own abilities when he decided to purchase a fixer-upper house to rehab and remodel on his own. Now, standing in the middle of his new house and praying the floors won’t cave in, he’s realizing that determination and academic brilliance might only take him so far this time. The bigger problem: his overconfidence in the face of other people’s doubts (ahem, Sam) means that asking for help now will mean swallowing a whole lot of pride…and he’d rather not.
Hiring a secret contractor to do the work without telling anyone seems like the perfect solution.
Accidentally hiring an amazingly hot secret contractor wasn’t part of the plan.
And when Sam overhears a conversation and starts connecting dots, a snap decision and another lie on top the first leads to a ridiculous balancing act of fake stories, pretend relationships, and one hell of a renovation tale.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 51,456
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 431
- Kudos:
- 2,313
- Bookmarks:
- 736
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- 32,023
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10 Jan 2022
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of all the coffee joints in all the towns in all the world by wincechesters
Fandoms: Supernatural
09 Aug 2014
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They meet in a coffee shop, though not exactly the way you’d expect. In fact, nothing about Dean Winchester is what Castiel expects, especially when he claims to hunt the supernatural. In spite of Dean’s outrageous claims and Castiel’s firm belief that he is either lying, insane, or in a constant state of intoxication, they wind up in a somewhat unorthodox relationship, and Castiel finds himself being forcefully thrown into a world of demons and vampires and all manner of things that go bump in the night.
For the 30 Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge #1 - Coffee Shop AU
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- Part 1 of 30 Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge
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09 Jan 2022
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Dean Winchester made a New Year’s resolution to tell his best friend, Cas Novak, that he loves him. He’s almost out of time. So he devises a series of big, romantic ways to do it over the holidays.
Of course, nothing goes to plan, and Dean is left morose…until Cas reminds him of something.
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- English
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- 11,437
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 198
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- 748
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- 136
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- 5,172
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29 Nov 2021
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Milton’s Paradise Found: a secluded resort for single alphas and omegas searching for that special someone. A tranquil romantic setting where connections can be made and true love can blossom.
Dean isn’t looking for that special anyone. He’s sworn off relationships since he found his girlfriend riding an alpha in their bed. But he can hardly say no when Sam ambushes him and sends him off on an all-inclusive, fully-paid vacation. At least there’s a pretty waiter he can ogle while he tries to find an alpha he doesn’t want to punch in the face.
Cas is helping out at his family’s resort while he tries to find inspiration for his next trashy romantic novel. Between attempting to kickstart his muse, covering for the mono-plagued waitstaff, and ensuring his brother doesn’t kill their increasingly dithering father, he has his hands full. Then he meets the green-eyed, foul-mouthed, plaid-wearing omega of his dreams. It’s love at first sight. Unfortunately, Dean doesn’t seem to realize it.
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- English
- Words:
- 40,885
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 116
- Kudos:
- 1,469
- Bookmarks:
- 356
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- 13,242
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24 Nov 2021
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When Castiel Novak’s wife dies, he buries himself in work and lets his formidable mother take charge of his daughter Claire’s care. Two years later, he realizes Claire has become a stranger to him and takes her on a road trip so they can reconnect.
They wash up in the small town of Lebanon, whose quirky residents include Charlie Bradbury, a sculptor with a vendetta against the town’s mayor; Bobby Singer, a grumpy antiques dealer; and Garth Fitzgerald, the town’s mailman, go-to babysitter and general jack-of-all-trades. But most importantly, there’s Dean Winchester, the handsome owner of the local diner and also a single father.
As time passes and Lebanon becomes home, Castiel realizes he and Claire may have another chance to be part of a family.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,789
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 650
- Kudos:
- 1,846
- Bookmarks:
- 552
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- 27,047
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19 Oct 2021
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Moving to Lawrence with his family is the most significant event of Dean Winchester's life. It brings a stability he's never known, and the only thing to have more of a profound impact on him is Castiel Novak: the two boys become fast friends the day they meet. But as Dean grows older, he dreams for something beyond the monotony and constraints of suburbia, and he is haunted by the inexplicable feeling that he was born for something more than what this life offers. As he struggles to reconcile the person he yearns to be with what his family and friends expect of him, a fateful choice exposes just how fragile his life in the suburbs is, and possibly risks losing the best friend he's ever had.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 104,885
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 234
- Kudos:
- 1,566
- Bookmarks:
- 574
- Hits:
- 36,218
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07 Oct 2021