19 Bookmarks by Shattering_Forces
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Coda to 13.06 (Tombstone). In which Castiel reckons with the aftermath of Dean's grief.
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- Part 1 of Supernatural Codas
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29 Oct 2025
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"Didn't feel like I deserved to wear it," Dean says gruffly, the amulet dangling from his fingers, glinting as it swings. "Should've given it back sooner."
"I don't want it back," Sam says.
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26 Oct 2025
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It’s been years since Dean prayed to Cas. Really prayed, with his heart in his throat and his back against the wall. In a hospital chapel: Whatever you did or didn't do, it doesn't matter, okay? We'll work it out. Please, man, I need you here.
He’s done with that. What Cas did matters. Something went wrong, Dean’s ass.
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- Part 16 of Supernatural Codas
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25 Oct 2025
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Apparently I can't even write a one-shot sex scene without it turning into a 7k slow burn. So... Merry Christmas?
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"You are a good man, Dean," Cas whispers, his mouth pressed to Dean's heartbeat. "You are so beautiful and good and worthy."
Dean can't take it.
"Cas," he says, and it comes out a plea, a prayer, begging. It's just his name, but it's full of the need for affirmation, for validation, for all the things Dean's not allowed to ask for. All the things he never received when he was younger, all the love and attention he doesn't deserve.
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25 Oct 2025
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Dean Winchester has been alone for a long, long time.
When he and Castiel happen to find each other - a couple of survivors in a world that’s been all but wiped clean - Dean’s looking for his brother; Castiel is looking for something to look for. They stick together, because neither of them much wants to be alone. They hate each other at first, of course. Dean hates Castiel for being weird and quiet and ironic and antagonistic and proud. Castiel hates Dean for being blunt and reckless and coarse, for drinking, for refusing to talk about how he feels and just pretending everything is fine. Most of all, they hate themselves and each other just for being alive. What right do they have to be alive? No one else seems to be.
But against his own will, Dean starts to notice things about Castiel that he likes. Starts to hope that Castiel might like him, too. And together, they start to fight for a world where they're both alive - and that's a good thing.
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25 Oct 2025
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The Heroes' Journey (or, There and Back Again) by FriendofCarlotta
Fandoms: Supernatural
01 Sep 2020
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When you perform a spell to defeat God himself, there’s bound to be side effects — such as every version of Team Free Will getting zapped to an alternate universe.
The former residents of the Endverse find themselves in an underground bunker full of the kinds of food they haven’t seen in years and clothes that magically fit them. As Dean adjusts to life in a world where Croatoan never got out of control, he faces some tough questions: Can he forgive Sam for saying yes to Lucifer? And is his relationship with Cas really beyond saving?
The residents of the bunker, meanwhile, wake up as employees of HunterCorp, whose CEO is one John Winchester. Being around people Dean lost years ago is no picnic, and it’s changing the dynamic of his relationship with Cas in ways he never expected. But is the change meant to last, or will they fall back into old patterns when they return to their own universe?
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18 Oct 2025
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there's no such thing as a clean break, when your heart starts bleeding out by according2thelore
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
10 May 2023
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“One second,” Sam says, away from the microphone, talking to his perfect, smart, bloodless friend. “What’s up?” Sam asks, to Dean again.
What’s up?
Dean’s holding his guts in with a hoodie. He’s in a ditch on the side of the road, amidst miles and miles of farmland on the side of a highway Dean’s forgotten the number of. A werewolf had done it, so at least Dean gets to look up at a full moon as he dies. After Dad hadn’t picked up, Dean knew there was only one person he wanted to hear from. Only one person who mattered.
“Nothing much,” Dean says, a little strained as a throb of agony rolls up his body. “Thinking about hitting up a bar in a few and thought I’d check in.”
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- Part 6 of sleep, now, under my skin
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09 Sep 2025
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“You pathetic little worm,” Michael snarls, and Adam hopes he looks defiant, jaw tightly clenched as he stares back at the being who was the entire reason he was in this mess. “You presume to know me? Me? You don’t. You’re nothing."
And the archangel is smug, for all of a moment, before Adam leans forward—as much as he can—and tries to keep his voice from trembling as he spits out his retort.
"Yeah? Well, down here, so are you.”
Or—a human, an archangel, and the story of a thousand years in the Cage.
They only have each other, don't they? Might as well make the best of it.
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06 Sep 2025
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Secrets don’t kill you. How are none of these people getting it? The honesty does. Mary doesn’t kill you with a secret, she kills you by breaking it free. And most minds and bodies just can’t take that.
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28 Aug 2025
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A week ago, Dean was pulled out of Hell. Now, he’s apparently woken up in 2018, and the angel that a mere twenty-four hours beforehand had threatened to chuck him back into the pit is sleepily pouring himself coffee and wearing Dean’s second-favourite Zeppelin shirt. It all seems like a perfect happy ending, but with Hell’s scars still so fresh, Dean can’t imagine how he could have possibly gotten there.
At the same time, the Dean who went to sleep in the bunker, right next to Cas, wakes up on Bobby’s couch in 2008. He’s instantly bombarded with questions by a Lilith-obsessed brother and a man who’s been dead for years, and must decide between keeping his finally-perfect life intact, and the lives he could save by re-writing history.
Regardless of these choices, both Deans are trapped in the wrong decade, and their only way back lies with a Castiel still very much under Heaven’s thumb – one who might find the future Dean describes difficult to believe.
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16 Aug 2025
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Pretending Cas is just his friend has been the only thing keeping Dean's head on straight for years. He never realized how much doing that depended on him making himself scarce in the morning ─ not until Cas came back and moved into the bunker.
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16 Aug 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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12 Aug 2025
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Despite Zeke’s threats, Dean doesn't tell Cas to leave the bunker. He revels in their burgeoning relationship, content to end his day with Cas asleep on his shoulder, even if they'll always sleep in separate rooms. Cas is it for him. But when Cas begins to experience physical urges he can't control, he asks Dean for a hand—metaphorically, and later, literally.
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07 Aug 2025
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you look back at me, i look forward to you by fleeceframe
Fandom: Supernatural, Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Nov 2023
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06 Aug 2025
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Dean dies with the Mark of Cain on his arm, waking up with black eyes and hellfire licking at his heels.
Cas, sick on the stolen grace that's rotting inside him, gives chase.
As his pursuit and Dean's evasion ebbs and flows, they begin to figure out the difference between marks given and marks received, and what it means when one such mark is faded but not forgotten.
Written for the 2015 DCBB.
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25 Jul 2025
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The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’
Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.
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16 Jul 2025
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“Shut up and listen,” Bobby says. “I ain’t calling about some monster, I’m calling about Castiel.”
Dean freezes in place. “He’s alive?”
“More’n that, Dean. He’s human.”
On instinct, every atom in Dean’s body is on high alert. He starts moving, fingers already reaching for the keys he hangs up on a loose nail next to the door. “Where is he?”
or, in which after lucifer hitches a ride to hell on sam's back, dean makes good on his promise to settle down. so what if it's with cas instead of lisa?
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- Part 1 of kids are coming home
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14 Jul 2025
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Being the person heading toward that, going down that road, it’s literally killing Cas. They might not even make it to the end of the road before he gets there. And Dean is fine making that decision for himself, but what kind of person has he become, that he’ll make it for Cas, too?
He thinks, for the first time, What the fuck am I doing here?
He can see it now, that there’s a third option. He isn’t going to save the world. He’s not going to kill the devil, he’s not going to get Sam back, he’s not going to change anything for everyone. But maybe he can change something for someone.
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11 Jul 2025
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House and, among other things: green couches, being kissed by Wilson, lightning-fast overthinking, and talking to himself.
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30 Mar 2025