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After Castiel’s declaration of love before being sucked into the Empty, Dean is grief stricken, and also convinced that Castiel didn’t mean love love. Angels don’t feel things in the same way as humans, after all. When Castiel unexpectedly returns, Dean decides that the best way to deal with the uncertainty of said declaration is to avoid it, making for a very awkward atmosphere between them. Things only become more awkward when they get involved in a case in which they have to live as a couple in a quirky old house and a garden Castiel can’t help filling with roses. Other than the ghost they’ve yet to deal with, it’s everything both of them have ever wanted… if only their feelings weren’t one sided, it would be perfect.
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What happens when a pair of dumbasses don’t communicate, and take misunderstanding each other to a new level.- Language:
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23 Aug 2025
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Dean knows better than to stay late at work, his commute home is dangerous any time, but especially after dark.
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- 25/25
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23 Aug 2025
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After losing their job a few years ago and working full time at the Gas-N-Sip to make ends meet, Castiel learns they are being evicted. With two young children to take care of and no money to their name, Castiel has to rely on their best friend, Dean, for help. It seems like no matter how hard Castiel tries life just keeps trying to tear them down. Will they finally be able to catch a break?
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- 39,386
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- 13/13
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23 Aug 2025
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Castiel Milton: Twenty-one years young, college senior, Romance Languages major, and virgin.
After a night at a party where things did not go quite as he'd hoped, Castiel is determined to never again be a shy, nervous, newbie to hookups. With there only being one person in his life he trusts enough to help him navigate all this, Castiel asks his best friend and roommate, Dean, to help him out.
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- Part 1 of Craving You
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- English
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- 112,793
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- 19/19
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23 Aug 2025
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Maybe he didn't need to wrap his arms around Cas at night. And maybe their legs didn't need to be so tangled. But Cas had read somewhere that being that close could synchronize their heartbeats and make them calmer at night and therefore it would help them sleep better. It was for scientific reasons that they were a heaped pile of grabby octopus legs and blankets every night.
Dean and Cas have been best friends since they were six. They're now twenty and in college and sharing a bed nearly every night. Yet, they still deny that they are together. Everyone around them knows Dean and Cas are in love with each other, they are just waiting for the two to figure it out for themselves.
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- Part 1 of Sleep Without You
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- 60,376
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- 9/9
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22 Aug 2025
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Castiel is finally about to finish his degree and graduate from college. His roommate, Sam, has an older brother who just needs a temporary place to stay for a while. Now Castiel has to deal with Dean, a free spirited playboy who couldn't be more different than Castiel. In his attempt to fix the relationship between the two brothers, Castiel discovers something about himself: maybe they aren't the only ones who need to be fixed.
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- 24/24
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22 Aug 2025
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A series of tragic circumstances left Dean with a pile of hospital bills and his brother to take care of. To make ends meet, he needs to take a new personal assistant job, one that's going to fly him halfway across the country to work for one of the nation's hottest new authors: Castiel Novak. Castiel isn't what Dean was expecting at all, and he comes to realize why Castiel has a reputation for being a difficult boss to work for. Time away from Sam, and getting to know his boss, make Dean realize he needs to reevaluate his life and what he wants for himself.
And that just might include the one person he cannot have.
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- 117,210
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- 14/14
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22 Aug 2025
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After an explosive fight with his wife, Castiel Novak finds himself divorced and unemployed at thirty-four years old. Reduced to living with his cousin, Gabriel, he runs into the last person he expected to see: his ex-roommate and best friend, Dean Winchester. In a fit of generosity, Dean makes an offer to Castiel: move out of Gabriel’s house and into his. At least until Castiel gets back on his feet.
Living with Dean is easy, and almost immediately, Castiel and Dean fall back into their old friendship. And living with Dean awakens other feelings in Castiel, ones that he once thought impossible (doesn’t everyone appreciate the aesthetic qualities of their roommates?). But the specter of one disastrous night in college hangs over them both, making it impossible for them to truly reflect on their friendship–and maybe making it impossible for them to move forward into anything real.
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- 14/14
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22 Aug 2025
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Like the rest of the world, Dean Winchester’s job sent him home with the supplies necessary to work from home and a vague farewell of “We’ll see you when this all blows over”. Unlike the rest of the world, Dean Winchester is entering into a quarantine with Castiel Novak, his incredibly hot and incredibly uninterested roommate. How is Dean supposed to concentrate on his job while Cas is just a few feet away, being...well, Cas?
Castiel Novak was already working from home, so the news of social distancing doesn’t affect him that much. What does send him into a panic is the knowledge that Dean Winchester, his stunning and straight roommate, will also be working from home for the foreseeable future. After spending so long trying to distance himself from Dean, Castiel now has to face a future where Dean is present. All. The. Time.
They’ve got food, Internet, and all the toilet paper they need, but neither one of them is prepared for quarantine.
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- English
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- 74,239
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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22 Aug 2025
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After growing up dirt poor, Dean Winchester seemingly has it all—brains, good looks, and multi-million dollar hotel chain. The one good outcome of a disastrous marriage was his son. With Dean’s busy schedule leaving it impossible for his son to attend regular school, Dean has to find a tutor that is willing travel across the globe with Dean and his son.
Castiel hated his job at the ritzy private high school tending to the spoiled brats of the rich and famous. He liked the simple things. The small ad in the paper caught his eye – travel, tutoring a young child – it seemed perfect. Only his new boss was fascinating and totally off limits.
Dean knew his son’s teacher was forbidden fruit, but damn, he was sinfully hot. As they travel to different cities around the world, the two men fight their growing attraction.
Castiel adores the boy in his charge and showers him with all the affection he was denied as a child. Will the three become a family?
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- English
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- 99,015
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- 27/27
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06 Aug 2025
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From the top of his 29 years-old, Castiel Novak has everything he could ever wish for. His band has been successful enough for the past decade that he's traveled the world several times, can have anyone he wants in bed every night, and can fund his sins without a blink of an eye. On top of that, he has plenty of friends and some resemblance of a family left.
That’s until Castiel’s twin brother dies in a tragic car accident, leaving him the sole legal guardian of Jack, his 2-year-old nephew, and Claire, his 7-year-old niece. Castiel has always been a great uncle, but there’s a difference between being the cool uncle they see once a week, and being a parent. How is he supposed to deal with this, on top of his own grief, and to keep the band and what’s linked to it running?
Enter Dean Winchester, experienced personal assistant who's basically seen it all already. But will he be enough to keep Cas clean, and his new family safe?
Between growing friendships that blossom into something else, maintaining sobriety and making sure the kids are happy and cared for, what could go wrong?
Everything.
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06 Aug 2025
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The first time Dean and Castiel ever agree on something happens when when their shared best friend Kelly asks them to be the godparents for her baby.
Being a godparent is mostly babysitting occasionally and buying gifts on birthdays, but then Kelly dies on a car accident, leaving her three year old son Jack with no one but his godparents to take care of him. Despite not liking each other at all, the two men take the responsibility left for them on paper, and find themselves on a situation neither of them had prepared for, co-parenting a three year old.
As they learn to take care of a toddler together, they learn a lot about themselves and about each other. It's definitely not an easy ride, but it eventually leads to something neither of them saw coming: a family.
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- Part 1 of life as we know it
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 92,380
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- 14/14
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24 Jul 2025
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Castiel was one of those Parents the other teachers referred to as a "hot mess" but Dean just thought he was hot, even if he did come off as kind of a dick sometimes.
When an accident lands him in the ER Dean comes face to face with his biggest crush when he discovers Cas is his nurse. It seems like fate that he manages to strike up a friendship with the father of some of his favorite students. But with Castiel still bitter over the way his ex used him up and then left him with nothing but 3 young kids to raise on his own he may be guarding his heart with too much caution to let someone new in.
Dean will have to find a way to thaw the ice around Cas' heart or risk letting his chance at happiness slip through his fingers.
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- 54,334
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- 13/13
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24 Jul 2025
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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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22 Jul 2025
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God is dead. Sammy finally has what he always wanted. The kid is alive again and trying to figure out the whole human schtick. Cas – Cas is complicated, like always. And Dean is barreling headfirst into a mental breakdown. It’s the end of the road so far, and the future never looked so frightening.
“I can’t,” Dean stammers into Cas’s chest. “With you – I can’t.” And Cas goes very still, stops rubbing his hand up and down Dean’s back. But I want to. Please, Cas, don’t leave me. Because I want to.
“Dean,” Cas says, still not moving. “I can tell you’re praying to me, but I can’t hear you. I’m sorry.”
An alternate ending to the series, focusing a lot on *feelings* and *mental health* and *processing trauma* – because, you know, what’s better than that?
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- Part 1 of carry on 'verse
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- 91,862
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- 18/18
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22 Jul 2025
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Or, a year in the life of Dean Winchester
Dean’s bi: sexual and polar. He’s got a string of hospitalizations under his belt. He’s a felon. He’s got a secret. And he just might have a crush on the wry, socially awkward, and devastatingly handsome artist who lives in the apartment below his. But Dean doesn’t have friends, and he certainly doesn’t have relationships. He has what his therapist Pam calls “impulsive, reckless sexual interactions.” His attempts at meaningful connection have resulted in ruined friendships, broken hearts, restraining orders, and lifechanging ramifications. Dean’s too focused on holding down a job and relearning how to live by himself after years of being babied by his little brother to worry about romance, right? Right.
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- Part 1 of silver linings
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- English
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- 50/50
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19 Jul 2025
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Army veteran Castiel Novak is a wreck after his tour in Afghanistan, brought home to his brother's apartment in Lawrence, Kansas with scars both mental and physical. He copes poorly, and during one night of bad decision making, meets somebody just as much of a disaster as he is -- a prostitute named Dean Winchester. And suddenly, two damaged men might not be as irreparable as they believed.
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- Part 1 of Pick It All Up 'Verse
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- English
- Words:
- 126,611
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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04 Jul 2025
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Castiel Novak is used to change. He's used to being the new kid in school. So when he moves with his family to the small town of Rail Pass, he doesn't expect things to be much different than the last three towns.
But then he meets Dean Winchester, an aggressive fellow student who sees Castiel as the shiny new toy he and his friends get to mess with. Castiel has had his fair share of bullies in the past, but nothing like this. He's never felt this way about a bully, or anyone for that matter, before. Maybe something's wrong with him, that he could feel so attracted to someone who makes his everyday life hell.
But then again, he sees the way Dean looks at him sometimes. And there's a lot more to Dean Winchester than meets the eye.- Language:
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01 Jul 2025
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Castiel Novak is a product of the system, having gone through too many foster homes since the age of seven. At fourteen, he lands himself in Sugar Lane Mobile Home Community under the care of Missouri Moseley. There, he meets one Dean Winchester.
A story about teenage hooligans, growing up, and finding a home.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 117,494
- Chapters:
- 23/23
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- 2
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- 868
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30 Jun 2025
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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
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 103,254
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- 13/13
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29 Jun 2025