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Leading his regiment across the continent against Napoleon was all Dean Winchester cared about, for years. Until his father died, and the Earl of Winchester was needed at home.
A letter out of the blue saves Dean from having to face the ghosts that await him at Winchester Hall. Castiel Shurley, who has fallen from the heights of society, makes an exceptional Estate Steward, enabling Dean to keep his position in France for at least a while longer.
“A while” becomes a year, and then more, as the war trudges on.
But one day, Dean must return home. And there waits the man whose letters have kept him whole while the war took a piece more of him every day.
Now, away from his men and his guns, Dean needs a different kind of courage. How does Dean tell Castiel that he didn't return for his title—he returned for him?
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08 Aug 2025
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When Dean swipes right on Castiel, he expects the usual—some playful banter, maybe a date, nothing serious. But from the first message, Castiel is different. He’s sharp, confident, and knows exactly what to say to leave Dean restless and wanting. Their chemistry crackles through the screen, teasing turning into something charged, something neither of them can ignore. But when they meet in person, Dean realizes he’s not just flirting with trouble—he’s walking straight into it.
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Dean: So, do you just come with the warning label, or should I start drafting one myself? Something like: “Caution—may cause shortness of breath, excessive blushing, and uncontrollable moaning.”
Castiel: I bet the sounds you make are as pretty as you are.
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Yeah, he's definitely in trouble.
Under Construction!! Going through the first few chapters because the format is all in italics.
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- Part 1 of A Bad Habit
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30 Jul 2025
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And then Dean had shivered - actually fucking shivered, like he was some love-struck teenager - and Castiel had noticed. Something had changed in his expression, in the way he was holding his body, and his tongue had darted out to wet his chapped, dry lips and it was fucking on.
Since then, they’d fooled around in every apartment that Dean had shown Cas and Cas had subsequently rejected. And it’s not like Dean was doing it on purpose: picking places he knew Cas wouldn’t like so they could keep seeing each other and keep having sex like bunnies at every viewing.
Except, of course, he totally fucking was.
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30 Jul 2025
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In the Kansas Smoky Hills in 1911, bachelors Dean and Castiel have fallen into an easy rhythm: Dean helps Cas on his farm, Cas helps Dean on his, and if they help each other in more intimate ways… Well, no one else has to know.
They might not speak about what their arrangement means, but Cas is content—until Dean announces that he has a mail-order bride coming on the next train, and everything Cas has taken for granted is thrown to the wind.
With the arrival of Lisa comes a swirl of jealousy and confusion. Neither Dean nor Cas can keep their hands off each other, but their once quiet relationship is now volatile and tense, and Cas is left to wonder—can their bond weather the storm?- Language:
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29 Dec 2024
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A hundred times the creatures of purgatory fuck Dean, and how Cas keeps him sane through each one.
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- Part 1 of Don't Count On It
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02 Jun 2023
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Prompt: You broke up with your ex and the love of your life…200 years ago. Neither of you realized the other was immortal until you meet again while grocery shopping.
The Greek God of War, known to his friends (if he had any) more simply as Dean, reluctantly leaves behind the man of his dreams after a hot summer fling in Paris of 1820, and he's never stopped wishing things could have been different. Two hundred years later, he's a very different man—teaching Kindergarten and living like a regular mortal instead of building weapons and turning neighboring countries into bloody enemies, but one thing hasn't changed, that's how much he misses Castiel.
Oh well, at least he can eat his feelings—time for a grocery run!
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22 Sep 2022
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17 Dec 2021
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Twenty years ago, Dean spent a summer in Porto Azzurro, Italy. He was a scrawny thirteen-year-old and totally bowled over by Cas, the blue-eyed boy who lived just outside town with his eccentric aunt.
Now, many failed relationships later, Dean still thinks about Cas sometimes. When he finds an online service that specializes in tracking down lost loved ones, he signs up, figuring it couldn’t hurt to see where Cas lives and how he’s been.
There’s just one complication: his growing bond with another user of the service, Jimmy0918, who has spent years pining after the one that got away.
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19 Sep 2021
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Dean and Cas versus food, dinner parties, and each other.
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04 Jun 2021
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Ever since Dean confessed, Cas has caught Dean looking at him from the corner of his eye.
Or, Claire is coming over for dinner, Dean is trying to be Julia Child, and Cas is just along for the ride. Mostly.
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- Part 2 of grocery revelations
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04 Jun 2021
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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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14 Apr 2020
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16 months ago, Cas became human.
12 months ago, Cas left the bunker and a broken-hearted Dean behind.
Now they must work a case together, where married couples are dying mysterious deaths and the only way to earn the neighbors' trust is by pretending to be married. Slowly, Dean finds that he loves being in a relationship with Cas, fake or not, and Cas finds his loneliness retreating, despite the harsh reality looming right around the corner. As Dean and Cas navigate this fake, but all too real, relationship, can they find the monster that is on a mysteriously motivated killing spree before it’s too late?
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26 Nov 2019
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Dean Winchester’s been camp manager of a science research station on the Alaskan tundra for thirteen years. Dean likes his job; fixing the camp trucks, troubleshooting the generators, keeping clueless undergrads and NSF bigwigs from walking into grizzly bears or getting lost in snowstorms — it’s all in a day’s work. It keeps him pretty busy, and this year his brother Sam's visiting too, so he's even busier. So it’s really not any of Dean’s business when some weirdo antisocial ornithologist sets up a tent a few miles away, a dark-haired blue-eyed guy who’s doing a “very long-term" study on birds or wings or something, and who never, ever takes off his big lumpy backpack. But then the new guy starts dropping by camp for coffee and... well, he’s not officially part of camp; he's not Dean’s responsibility; he’s really not Dean’s problem at all, but when a strange blizzard comes sweeping in, Dean gets worried and goes to check. Thing is, Dean's spent years in the sweeping vistas of the Arctic. He knows all about the midnight sun and the northern lights, the ice caves and avalanches, the rough-and-ready Haul Road truckers and the even rougher-and-readier wild animals. But even so, what he finds is much more than he bargained for.
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03 Sep 2019
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Just as Dean is starting to get comfortable at his new mining job in Nevada, the site is shaken by the announcement of a six-week visit from a team of consultants hired to make changes to the practices and procedures of the mine. Among that team is Castiel Novak, one of the most coolly infuriating, stuck-up, unfairly attractive men Dean has ever met.
The friction between them comes to a head during an unexpected but scorching hot makeout session at a company picnic, and they soon fall into a pattern of hooking up at the site or after work at Castiel’s hotel. But it’s just sex, or so they keep telling themselves. Castiel is only in Nevada for six weeks. They’ll have their fun, and then it’ll be over. But as those six weeks go by and they gradually get to know each other, both of them find themselves wondering if there might be a chance it could become something more.
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08 Jul 2018
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“I think we should have a garden,” Cas says.
Dean looks up from his beer. He hasn’t had that much to drink, but Cas still has a vague look of unreality about him, a splash of living color that doesn’t fit in the bunker’s echoing stillness. Dean didn’t hear him coming. A lot of the time, Cas is so unobtrusive it feels like Dean has the bunker to himself, with Sam away.
Dean shakes his head to clear it. “A — garden?” he repeats.
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05 Jun 2018
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Castiel's neighbor is a nuisance. He mows his lawn at six in the damn morning and Castiel, frankly, is tired of it.
That is, until he sees what his neighbor wears while mowing the lawn.
His ass is eating those shorts for breakfast.
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31 May 2018
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With the help of a few unlikely allies, Dean has left his old life in a seedy London brothel behind him and settled into a new routine with his lover, Lord Castiel Milton. He has everything he has ever dreamed of-- and yet, he is not satisfied. There is an empty place inside him that he knows can only be filled by learning what happened to his younger brother, who he has not seen in over six years. And so he and Castiel embark on a journey to discover the truth about Sam, a journey that will test not only their own personal strength but also the strength of their newfound happiness together.
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- Part 2 of Regency Romance
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27 May 2018
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Grace isn't meant to be manipulated, and converting humans into Angels is strictly forbidden by heaven. But two months after Sam and Dean disappear, Castiel finds just that in his flower garden--Dean protecting Sam while the two of them are soaked in blood, and Dean bearing wings.
With their miraculous survival, though, comes their worst nightmare: Af, one of Castiel's oldest comrades and the only angel capable of such blasphemy, has fallen to Earth and is leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, all to attain his true goal. Now with both Dean and Sam as fledglings, Castiel finds himself falling of his own volition, and the timing couldn't be worse.
Their mission couldn't be clearer: the Winchesters and Castiel must destroy Af and restore their souls. But do they have what it takes to defeat a Seraphim and make it out alive?
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02 May 2018
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“Do you guys ship students?” Charlie can't help but ask.
Ms. Hanscum throws her head back and laughs. “Oh, that's is the most popular topic.”
Charlie is positively bouncing in her seat. “So who's your favorite couple of everyone?”
“I don't think that would be the most appropriate topic for us, kiddo,” Ms. Hanscum says apologetically. Charlie frowns and Ms. Hanscum can't help but feel bad. “How about I tell you about my favorite couple? They're older, so you won't know them. They got married last year.” Charlie perks up, and so do some other students.
“Well, it was about twenty years ago now, mid-way through November and there was a new student…”
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During a dull day of school, Donna gets asked about her favourite student couple. She immediately thinks of Dean and Castiel, two students she introduced back in 1997 because she thought they'd be nice together. She never would have guessed her whim would lead these two on a path to love... One day.
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15 Apr 2018
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It’s the sun rising. It’s what he thinks as he’s walking back to the cabin, where Jack and Sam will pretend that his eyes aren’t swollen red, where they’ll pretend that they didn’t see him cry as hard as he did. But the great light that comes from behind him isn’t that. The fire that ignites from the heart of the pyre isn’t the goddamn sun.
It’s Cas.
(fix-it coda for 13.01 where Cas comes back because I miss him)