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After being laid off after the pandemic, thirty-year-old Novak has been stumbling to get back onto his feet. Never one to ask for help and a month behind on rent, a new job opportunity opens up: personal assistant to Dean Winchester, a well-known genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. With so many other applicants—younger, smarter, and way more beautiful—why did Dean pick him?
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- Part 2 of Make a Wish
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- English
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- 132,107
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- 30/30
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30 Jun 2025
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A ghost hunt goes wrong, and Dean ends up fighting for his life in an icy river. A certain angel somehow knows he's in trouble and shows up to help, but doesn't have enough power left to warm up Dean. It's just a simple cold night in the woods, but things can go wrong fast at night in the woods, and soon Cas and Dean must each decide what they'll risk to save the other. And they just might end up so exhausted that they accidentally start talking.
Canon compliant; focuses on the Dean/Cas breakup of S15E03, but takes place 2 months later. It's a couple weeks after "Golden Time", S15E06; Eileen has just been brought back; Cas/Dean breakup was 2 mos ago; short FBI phone convo was a couple wks ago. Sam/Eileen implied gently in the background. Warning: NO SMUT and not a totally happy ending yet, but it ends hopefully.
(This fic will probably be rendered irrelevant by canon immediately, but I wanted to put a pin in the map right now, before the show ends, & think through my own take on the possible reasons for all the Dean/Castiel tension of the last two years. And see if I could make it all make sense.)
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- English
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- 32,290
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- 13/13
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10 Dec 2023
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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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- English
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- 85,217
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- 11/11
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- 12
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30 Jul 2023
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When Dean finds a deactivated sex bot, he knows it's his lucky day.
Set in a Cyberpunk world where global warming and climate change has driven most of the human population into domed cities, Sam and Dean hunt rogue tech and science experiments gone wrong in the shadows, protecting the lives of those the government doesn't care about anymore. On a trip to the dump to scavenge for valuables Dean finds Castiel, an Angel Industries sex bot, which is worth his weight in credits. But when he turns the sex bot on, he learns that Castiel is sentient.
Artificial Intelligence is illegal, and for good reason, but Cas doesn't put off dangerous vibes. That doesn't stop Sam from researching his creators while Dean's off making friends with the android. If there's someone out there creating a robot army unconstrained by the 3 rules of robotics, Sam's going to make sure the operation is shut down for good.
Castiel just wants to exist. He wants to read and work in the Winchester's greenhouse and have movie nights with Dean. But he also wants to understand. Himself. His unexpected reaction to Dean. What it it means to feel.
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- 35/35
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28 Jul 2023
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Working as a prostitute (that’s ‘sex worker’ to the decent folks), Castiel has heard more than his fair share of odd requests. When he’s paid to spend a night with Dean Winchester (handsome, dork of all dorks, has a nice car... secretly a cop), the last thing Castiel expects to hear are the words “I wanna make love.” That's the one thing he’s never done before – so Dean is going to show him how to do it. But then, barely a month after that night is over, Castiel finds himself in a difficult situation, and Dean is mistakenly summoned to help. They begin to share again: Dean’s apartment, the spare bed, their deepest secrets. Over time, with the support of Dean’s brother Sam, a mystery dog, and lots of cuddles, kisses, comfort, and tea, maybe Cas can finally be loved the way he deserves.
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- English
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- 93,115
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- 14/14
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02 Mar 2023
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In the spring of 1944, the 104th Medical Battalion of the United States Army is disbanded, and its men reassigned to various infantry companies in preparation for their invasion of occupied France. For First Lieutenant Novak, this is less than helpful, as he has so far met his platoon’s designated medic a grand total of twice, and has both times found Sergeant Winchester to be the optimum combination of reckless, arrogant, and downright insufferable so as to make cohesive platoon function near impossible. When the time comes to move out, however, Castiel has to reconcile himself to the fact that men are going to go down and trust that Dean Winchester may well be the only person who can put them back together again. WW2 ETO infantry AU.
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- Part 1 of Ninety One Whiskey
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- 401,183
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- 20/20
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- 15
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24 Aug 2022
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Life is already hard enough on Dean just keeping his position as the first omega to run a pack as its Alpha.
Hearing that the world is due another apocalypse and finding an apparent True Mate he's not sure he'll be able to bring himself to even like are exactly the kinds of complications Dean doesn't deserve to start happening to him.
It's a shame destiny doesn't seem to be listening to any of Dean's concerns.
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- Part 1 of as we go
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- English
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- 133,254
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- 52/52
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08 Jun 2022
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In the far future, Castiel has forgotten everything.
Dean and Sam hatch a plan to get him back.
Dean will enter the Shining City as an offering to the angel, and by telling stories of Earth, of their past, and the friendship shared between them, Dean hopes to call him home.
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- English
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- 148,381
- Chapters:
- 150/150
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25 Apr 2022
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Dean’s eyes crack open in the dim lights and he feels a slight chill.
Dim lights? He shakes himself awake. It’s supposed to be pitch black. His breath stalls in his throat. It’s Sam, eating his pie.
Light shuffling comes from the fridge followed by a pause, as though Sam is just standing there in indecision.
He finally hears the foil peel back from the baking dish. Dean winces as he hears the moaning noises coming from the fridge, almost immediately followed by the crumpling of paper. What’s he doing? Eating the whole damn pie?
He did make about five or six this time, so Sam probably assumes that he won’t notice if one goes missing. But shit, a whole pie in one sitting? Dean is grudgingly respectful.
More noises of appreciation come from behind the fridge door until, finally, he feels the chill begin to ebb and the lights begin to dim once more. Soft footfalls sound as Sam exits the room, stepping carefully over Dean’s trap, as though it wasn’t there at all.
“Freeze! Pie bandit!” he shouts, holding up his spatula like a sword.
Dean blinks in confusion as he sees Cass standing there, staring at him, confused. “Hello Dean?”
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04 Mar 2022
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Dean is fine. The way he sees it, things are simple. He had a house and a family and food in his stomach, and now he doesn't. And yeah, that's a downer, but he's not going to let that stop him from being fine, because he's in control of the situation. He definitely doesn't need anyone to save him. And it's not like the weird guy with the nice butt from down the road is the knight-in-shining-armor type, anyway.
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- English
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- 60,299
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- 7/7
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- 9
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03 Mar 2022
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Just west of the town Porthgwarra, Cornwall, Robert Singer’s farm lies, a mess of ravaged land gaping out onto a fretting sea. Robert's orphaned godson, Dean Winchester, is named sole beneficiary of the farm - and though he hasn't seen his godfather in fifteen years, he travels across the Atlantic with his brother and half brother to care for Singer in his old age and tend to the farm. All of them hope to leave behind the squalor and famine of their old life.
What Dean meets is the bird-infested home of a widowed eccentric, and a new shepherd whom he can neither stand nor see any use for - stoic, rude and conceited, Dean plans to fire the mysterious and wandering Mr Novak the moment he comes into legal possession of the farm. But upon the shepherd's offer to teach him the trade, in anticipation of Dean replacing the man himself, Dean finds in the wild and roaming man a steadiness and certainty his own life has never yet contained. And one day Dean will have to ask, not tell, the shepherd to stay.
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- Part 1 of Singing in the Dark
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- English
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- 194,175
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- 31/31
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18 Feb 2022
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For the last five years, Dean has been great at avoiding his family. For five years, he’s been able to feed them the lie he’s found an alpha, making damn sure they steer clear of something as archaic as match-matching. He refuses to be sold off like livestock!
Dean’s luck has run out: Sam is graduating Law School and everyone (Dean means everyone) is heading to Palo Alto to celebrate. The only person Dean can turn to for help is his best friend, Cas—and thank God, he actually agrees. When Dean began bullshitting his parents, well, Cas was (and still is) the inspiration behind Dean’s ‘make-believe alpha.’
It becomes clear pretty quick...there isn't much pretending in their performance. What else starts sinking in, is that he and Cas kinda act like a mated couple already. But the one thing that surprises Dean the most: he might not be alone in his big-giant-stupid crush. Maybe the feeling is mutual.
Maybe he and Cas have a chance. If they can make it through the visit alive—fighting the insane awkwardness, unbearable sexual tension, ridiculous booze-fueled clubbing (thanks, Sammy!), and meeting the family—just maybe...they can be real.
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- English
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- 68,893
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- 12/12
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13 Feb 2022
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The Place Where Light & Dark Begin to Touch by bappy211
Fandoms: Supernatural, Supernatural (TV 2005)
15 Jul 2021
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Castiel owns The Garrison, a popular club in a midsized Midwest town. He also has a dark past he can’t quite get away from and a darkness within, a dark, oily sludge, he's never quite been able to rid himself of.
Dean is in yet another new town, his brother just left for college on the other side of the country and his dad just up and vanished in the middle of the night without warning. He’s alone, angry, and bristling with a recklessness that mimics the untamed inferno raging behind his ribcage, something he’s fought to tame his entire life.
Does darkness always equate to evil? Does light always allude to purity?
Or do both extremes consume entirely, simply in different ways?
Can Castiel and Dean help contain the others demons before they become too much?
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- English
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- 135,818
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Comments:
- 216
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30 Jan 2022
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Cas is an overworked teenager who just lost his father, and is trying to run the tavern that's been left to him on his own. Dean knows nothing but mistreatment, and will do anything for a full stomach and a warm place to sleep.
Wander Home is a verse set in a vaguely medieval setting, with historical accuracy that depends on how much research I feel like doing that day. It is a hurt/comfort Destiel verse, with an autistic Cas and severely abused Dean finding each other and helping each other survive and heal <3
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29 Jan 2022