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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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21 May 2025
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Twenty-six year old Dean Winchester works for his dad’s PI firm. Winchester Investigations gets hired to look into a bunch of missing omegas and when they get a little too close, taking down one of the smaller branches of the larger operation, Dean gets taken as punishment.
Fourty-two year old Castiel James Novak left Seattle after a divorce—left the police force, too, after years of undercover work and relocated to a small town in Northern Oregon to open a bar.
John Winchester asks his old friend to come out of retirement to help find his son. Castiel just needs to locate Dean and get him out of wherever he’s being kept, hopefully before it’s too late.
Not falling in love with his friend’s kid, who’s more than a decade younger than him should go without saying. Right?
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10 Apr 2025
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Dean's just about ready to say goodbye.
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05 Apr 2025
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It’s September 18, 2008. Castiel is being deployed to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
He lands in Dean Winchester’s motel room in 2003. Things go from there.
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29 Mar 2025
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Sam and John were fighting again.
Dean was no stranger to it, really. He’d just expected them to stop once the vampires had been taken care of. Actually, no, he hadn’t expected that; he’d hoped for it. The logical part of him knew that it would take a lot more stewing and angrily bitten out orders and slamming of doors before they got anywhere near their own special brand of ‘making up.’ It was just like before Stanford, and just like then, it was stressful and riled Dean’s inner Omega up like nothing else.
Dean hated feeling like he was going to be left behind.
(Set after the Winchesters kill the vampires in Dead Man's Blood, S1.)
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26 Mar 2025