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It's 2003. Sam is at Stanford and wants nothing to do with him. John is furious with him after a case gone wrong. Dean takes a month off hunting to clear his head, get some space, and explore his long-suppressed sexuality. There, he meets Castiel.
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"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection." –Johann Hari, Chasing The Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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It’s September of 2005, and Dean Winchester, in an attempt to outrun old mistakes and painful memories, finds himself in southern Kentucky on a wild goose chase. He’s completely certain this weird religious movement he’s “investigating” is a hoax, despite the miraculous healings people report, and he’ll be back on the road in a day or two. Things are looking up when he meets Cas, an awkward (and gorgeous) graduate student who’s actually doing honest-to-god research into the local tent revival meetings. When that research takes a weird and personal turn, Dean’s left to face two very serious realities: one, this may be a real case after all, and two, he’s fallen way harder for Cas than he should ever have let himself.
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17 Jul 2025
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Dean is grieving the loss of Castiel when he suddenly wakes up somewhere unfamiliar.
But familar, all the same.
It's the 90s. He's got the body of a twenty-two-year-old.
And Cas returns...but also regressed, in his own way.
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17 Jul 2025
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Sure, Dean’s cursed to die—cursed to have his breath stolen from him—on his twenty-fourth birthday. Uh-huh, thanks for that, Mom. Some real Rapunzel bullshit, there.
But here’s the thing: Dean’s a hunter. He’s got iron around his neck, jade on his wrists, and Latin on his tongue. Ain’t no fucking curse gonna take him and then move on to Sammy after.
He doesn’t expect that his curse has a name.
But what kind of name is ‘Castiel,’ anyway?
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Dean wakes up in 2003 in a motel room, overcome with grief at what he lived through and fearful that he'll have to do it again.
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A large warm hand was holding Dean’s shoulder, shaking him lightly.
“Dean.”
Dean swatted at the hand, mildly surprised when it didn’t let go. People usually gave him a wide berth when he was asleep now, unsure what reaction he'd have from being woken up suddenly. The hand dug in harder, could feel the blunt fingertips push in under his collar bone.
“Dean, come on.”
Dean opened his eyes, ready to tell off Cas or Sam— whoever it was— for waking him so soon after he lay down. John Winchester stared down at him, brows knotted together with a grim look. Dean nearly launched himself backwards off the bed, banging his head sharply on the motel headboard and pressing himself bodily against it— far away as possible from the spectre in front of him.
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