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Castiel’s father is dying.
As a registered nurse, he’s the obvious choice out of the four Novak boys to uproot his entire life to care for him, despite the fact that Castiel hasn’t spoken to his father in nearly 20 years. So he’s stuck living in rural Kansas with a cranky former pastor and a car that won’t run. Luckily the best mechanic in town takes interest in the broken-down classic, even convinces the old man to restore it. And that’s not the only thing Dean Winchester takes interest in.
Except in Lebanon there are things you just don’t do and Dean knows the rules. You wave at your neighbor, your butt is in the pew on Sunday and boys DO NOT kiss other boys. Castiel can’t be with a guy who’s still in the closet and Dean can’t convince Castiel that it’s safer that way.
That’s just how it is in Lebanon.
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- Part 1 of In Lebanon Verse
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29 Aug 2025
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Between his fraught relationship with his sister and his tenuous place at his band's music label, Cas needs a distraction. He finds it in Dean, who's having his own issues with his brother's recovery from substance abuse and pressure from his dad (and band manager). After a stress-relieving one-night stand, Cas and Dean part on less than friendly terms, happy to never see each other again.
Months later, they find themselves back in close quarters as their rock bands tour together. With their negative first impressions behind them, Dean and Cas bond quickly, and with the allure of a convenient hook up, they fall into a secret friends-with-benefits relationship.
It's the perfect solution, until it's not. After all, Dean has a womanizing reputation to maintain, and Cas has been burned by closeted guys before.
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- English
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- 42,994
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- 10/10
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22 Jul 2025
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Dean Winchester has spent his whole life cleaning up his father's messes. Now that his little brother, Sam, is settled in California and Bobby's got a handle on the garage, they convinced Dean to finally do something for himself. After a chance encounter at the Air Force recruitment fair Sam dragged him to, Dean got hooked on air traffic control, and he gets stationed at Kansas City Tower for his final leg of training. There, he has to impress his on-job instructor Castiel Novak, the ex-Air Force captain who piqued his interest in ATC in the first place. (And only in ATC. He swears. Those blue eyes and dark hair and stupid hat have nothing to do with it.) If all that wasn't hard enough, just one week into his OJT, Dean gets a call telling him his father is dying and has to move back home to live out his final days-which could be more like years.
Dean has to decide whether to continue to let his life be defined by his father's mistakes and his misguided obligation to everyone else, or if he's brave enough-and strong enough-to find a life in his own shape.
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- English
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- 173,091
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- 25/25
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17 Jun 2025
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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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- 194,175
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- 31/31
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20 May 2025
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As a kid, Dean’s dreams were pretty straightforward: food, a roof over his head, and maybe – if he really let himself dream big – a family that wouldn’t kick him out the second he became more trouble than he was worth. College? Not on his radar. Suddenly he’s here, though – on a football scholarship and faced with the possibility that this time he might get to stay.
For someone more well-adjusted it would be a dream come true. For Dean it’s a nightmare of desperately keeping up appearances while he’s drowning in other people’s expectations.
At least until a game of Truth or Dare sends him face-first into the arms of Castiel Novak. Senior. Resident (ex-)drug dealer. Obnoxious literature major. Heavily tattooed and everything Dean is trying to leave behind.
Dean needs a favor and Castiel is all too willing to deliver. Unfortunately the offer comes with strings attached that go well beyond the fake relationship that Castiel asks for in return.
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- 25/25
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08 May 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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- 58,674
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- 14/14
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23 Apr 2025
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“What was it you said after the last time you had a conversation with yourself?”
Dean laughs and shakes his head. He remembers it vividly. It was after that weird African dream root thing when he ran into a shitty version of himself and shot a round into his chest.
“I said, uh, that I wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to fuck myself.”
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07 Apr 2025
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Dean wakes up one day to find himself living a happy, apple-pie life with Cas, with no clue of how he got there, and no idea how to get back to his own reality. Just when he finally accepts that he might be stuck there, and that maybe being stuck doing life with Cas is what he might actually want, Dean is dragged back to real life only to discover it was all just a djinn-induced dream.
Having gotten a taste of what life with Cas could really be like, Dean can't cope with their 'just friends' status anymore, but he doesn't know how to approach Cas about it, especially since the former-angel has been unusually standoffish and reserved these last few months.
Will Dean find a way to confess his feelings and go after the one thing he really wants?
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- 10/10
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- 15,980
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26 Mar 2025
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Some things I still can't tell you by andimeantittosting (Saylee)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
19 Mar 2025
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After Cas comes back from the Empty, Dean is determined to show him all the things he can't say. But after their first night together, he wakes to find Cas gone and seemingly determined to stay that way.
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- Chapters:
- 5/5
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23 Mar 2025
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MIT grad Dean Winchester is desperately trying to keep his late father’s garage from sinking, moonlighting as a bartender to pay the bills. He’s helping Ellen out again when his high school crush walks through the doors.
Castiel Novak owns a prestigious aviation company, and is only home for the holidays – begrudgingly at that. The last thing he expects when he walks into the small-town bar is to fall in love with the bartender.
Heightened emotions and holiday dread bring the two men close together, but will it be enough? Can they really make it last, or is Cas just his for the holidays?
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- English
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- 42,219
- Chapters:
- 20/20
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23 Mar 2025
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Dean gets to spend eternity sharing beers with Bobby on the Roadhouse porch and riding around in his Baby with Sam. He’s at peace… or he feels like he should be. But a few things nag at him: Where is Cas, and everybody else Dean had been hoping to see in Heaven? Why does he feel like he’s stuck in a loop, reliving the same memories over and over again? And who are the strangers wearing Sam’s and Bobby’s faces?
- Language:
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- 42,179
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 3
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- 971
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31 Jan 2025
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2006: Castiel Novak, a new transfer student at Franklin College, strikes up a friendship with popular senior Dean Winchester. He quickly falls in love, but Dean is still coming to terms with his sexuality, so Castiel resigns himself to pining from a distance. Just as Dean and Castiel’s relationship begins to change, everything falls apart, and Dean leaves town without so much as a goodbye.
2019: Dean hasn’t set foot in his old college town in more than a decade; not since the day Cas, the love of his life, broke his heart. When Dean finally returns to Franklin College for a job interview, he finds that Cas never left. Will the two of them be able to clear up the misunderstanding that tore them apart?
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- English
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- 41,878
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- 11/11
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31 Jan 2025
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One night, two strangers meet at a hospital. Charlie Bradbury has just said her final goodbyes to her mother, while Castiel Novak is waiting for news of his husband Dean, who’s been in an accident and is undergoing surgery.
Craving company, Charlie asks Castiel to tell her about Dean. What unfolds over the course of the next few hours is a love story like many others: a magnetic attraction, a shy exchange of smiles, passionate kisses and confessions in the dark. But unlike those other love stories, this one was never meant to happen — because when Dean and Castiel first met and fell in love, Dean was already married to somebody else.
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- 10/10
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31 Jan 2025
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Dean has a job he’s good at, and people he loves. Really, he’s got most things a man in his thirties could wish for. He also has a huge secret: he’s gay. The only one who knows is his best friend Charlie. Dean is content to keep it that way, until he strikes up an anonymous email friendship with a colleague who’s also closeted and struggling to come out.
As Dean’s feelings for his new friend grow, he begins to wonder if it might be time to let himself be seen.
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- Chapters:
- 31/31
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- 996
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- 10,690
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31 Jan 2025
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It took getting into Heaven for Dean and Cas to finally express their feelings.
Or did it? When Jack frees all the deserving and penitent angels from the Empty, Uriel reveals that there’s a significant gap in Dean and Cas’ memory: the first time they found their way to each other. It happened all the way back in 2009, when Dean was fresh from Hell and Cas was just beginning to have doubts.
When Uriel returns those missing memories, Dean and Cas have some reckoning to do.
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- English
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- 4/4
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31 Jan 2025
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Four months after the Croatoan virus wiped out most of the world's population, Dean's sole objective is to meet his brother at their agreed-upon rendezvous point in Idaho. But when he encounters a mysterious, blue-eyed man in a barn, Dean's plans begin to change. The end of the world is no time for romance, yet there's something about Cas he can't resist. The problem is, Cas has a secret—and it just might prove more deadly than the Croats.
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- English
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- 84,335
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- 19/19
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- 783
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05 Jan 2025
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Boy meets boy. And the rest, as they say, is history.
[If you read this anywhere but Ao3, you've been duped! Had! Swindled! This beast is free on Ao3]
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- Part 1 of Domination and Submission: A Love Story
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 196,309
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 126
- Kudos:
- 256
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- 94
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- 13,028
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28 Dec 2024
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Cas dies and Dean starts referring to himself as a widower. This is somewhat confusing for everyone involved.
(Inspired by *that* tumblr post; linked in notes)
(Canon MCD not tagged because it's temporary)
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- English
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- 26,988
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 305
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28 Nov 2024
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After Chuck's defeat, the lives of the Winchester brothers have fundamentally changed. Being truly free to decide their own destiny for the first time, they have to navigate that new-found freedom - together and individually. Before Sam moves in with Eileen to start a new chapter in his own story, the two brothers decide to go on a final road trip together.
There, on a beach in Mexico, begins Dean's journey of self-discovery and acceptance, of allowing himself to experience life - one that is truly his own - in all its facets.~*~
Season 15 finale fix-it in which Dean doesn't die on a rusty rebar. Destiel endgame.Series
- Part 1 of What It Means to Be Alive
- Language:
- English
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- 132,373
- Chapters:
- 40/40
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- 1,190
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25 Nov 2024
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For All You Young Hockey Players Out There, Pay Attention by thursdaysfallenangel
Fandoms: Supernatural
23 Jul 2022
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Dean Winchester knows two things about hockey, two things his dad made sure he knew. One, hockey is a guy’s sport, and two, hockey is family. Hockey meant Sam and Bobby and Benny and Victor and Gabriel and hell, his entire team. So when Victor gets traded, Russian-star-turned-new-teammate Castiel Krushnic becomes a threat. As much as Dean hates him for that, the longer he sticks around, the more he begins to threaten that first rule too. Dean’s been taught his whole life that those who play hockey should not be captivated by deep accented voices and the way a guy handles his stick, so how the hell is he supposed to justify what he’s starting to think about Cas? All Dean wanted at the beginning of the season was to win, and now all he wants to do is figure out how he feels about Cas and how to deal with it without ruining his career and tearing his family apart.
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- Part 1 of Pay Attention Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 146,526
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
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- Comments:
- 858
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19 Nov 2024