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While reading in bed one night, Dan wants Phil's attention. Phil obliges.
A bit of a part 2 to my last fic ;)
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02 Dec 2025
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Ghosts that we knew (we'll be alright) by Drake_Rhapsody
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
10 Oct 2025
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After the Empty took Castiel, Dean pushed everything he felt inside a Very Secret, Very Closed Box in his head and swallowed the key. The Box had been intact and hermetic for two years in its corner of Dean’s mind, and because of that, Dean had been able to stay sane and focused. More or less.
But now, with Cas back, with every day they didn’t talk about what's between them, the Box is starting to leak.Castiel isn't complaining, far from it: He has a roof over his head, good shower pressure and food. He’s so grateful he’s afraid. Because he believed to have all those things once before, human and lost and confused, only to have the rug pulled under his feet.
And there’s the fact that, the last time he died, he carved his heart out for Dean to take, and the hunter hasn’t said anything about it.
Maybe that’s as good an answer as he’s going to get.Series
- Part 1 of Mumford&Sons inspired Destiel fics
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02 Oct 2025
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After Castiel’s declaration of love before being sucked into the Empty, Dean is grief stricken, and also convinced that Castiel didn’t mean love love. Angels don’t feel things in the same way as humans, after all. When Castiel unexpectedly returns, Dean decides that the best way to deal with the uncertainty of said declaration is to avoid it, making for a very awkward atmosphere between them. Things only become more awkward when they get involved in a case in which they have to live as a couple in a quirky old house and a garden Castiel can’t help filling with roses. Other than the ghost they’ve yet to deal with, it’s everything both of them have ever wanted… if only their feelings weren’t one sided, it would be perfect.
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What happens when a pair of dumbasses don’t communicate, and take misunderstanding each other to a new level.- Language:
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02 Oct 2025
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Do Your Fingers Itch, Are You Pistol-Whipped? by paininthecass
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
17 Aug 2025
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Dean Winchester has decided that he is going to give himself over to Michael. Castiel has decided the opposite of that actually.
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01 Oct 2025
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“I’m not looking forward to it,” Rowena tells him, as though that will absolve her of anything, “he may have a better solution for this, but the spell requires a smidge of spilled Grace. He’ll need to be hurt for this to work, and — Dean, all joking aside, you may be the only person fit to do this.”
“Oh, this’ll be great — go ahead, tell me why I’m the only one that can get butt-fucked to save the world.”
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To keep Earth from being scorched and born anew, Team Free Will needs to complete an interrupted spell, reset the intentions of said spell, and unfortunately, a figurative virgin symbolic of the Earth needs to be 'fertilized' by the very literal celestial body of an Angel.
Don't worry, though, they've got Angel cuffs, and the Angel cuffs certainly will not fail. 'Cause that'd be nuts.
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- Part 1 of Then Comes The Rain
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13 Sep 2025
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Cas stretches out in the backseat while Dean takes up the front, and Dean’s pretty devoted to gritting his teeth until he can catch an hour or two of sleep, but sleep won’t take, and it just doesn’t take long at all for him to start shivering despite the layers.
After maybe half an hour of shivering, he hears rustling behind him, picks himself up by the elbows to peer over the back of the front bench, and sees Cas shedding clothes.
“... what are you doing?”
“I am preparing to share body heat with you,” Cas answers flatly, already out of his coat and jacket, unbuttoning his collared shirt and shrugging it off; his shoulders and arms look immense in the thin undershirt beneath.
“W-We won’t be doing that—”
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11 Sep 2025
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“How the fuck do you know my name?” Dean hisses.
The man doesn’t look scared. He is watching Dean like there is nothing else worth watching, lips a little parted, eyes a little soft. And blue. Real blue, like the ocean on a postcard.
The ice spreading down Dean’s spine makes him shiver.
“I suppose you could say I’m your guardian angel,” the man murmurs. His breath fogs pale between them. All of him is unnaturally warm, like Dean’s touching somebody with the sun sewn up beneath their skin. “I have known you, Dean Winchester, for a very long time.”
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Dean meets an angel who says he's from the future. It all gets a lot more complicated from there.
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12 Aug 2025
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So You Remember How It All Went Wrong by swishydetective
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
30 Sep 2025
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The year is 2014, Castiel and Dean are living in Camp Chitaqua and the world is infected with the Croatoan virus. The Apocalypse is here. Castiel, barely an angel, barely human, is reading his journal entries from when it all started to go wrong five years prior and reminiscing on the key moments of his and Dean's relationship.
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04 Jun 2025
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“I think,” Cas grits out, “that the spell requires me to say the truth. I’ve been trying to suppress it with my grace, but it’s… not working.”
“Got it,” Dean says, nodding, because he can work with this. “Yeah. Sure. So give me some truths. Some stupid little ones.”
Cas narrows his eyes. “Such as?”
“Like, I dunno, what’s your favorite color?”
Cas’s face somehow goes stonier. “Green,” he ekes out.
Dean clears his throat. Blinks a few times. “Oh.”
________Or: when Dean and Cas investigate a group of high school students getting mysteriously ill, Cas gets hit with a truth spell.
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15 Apr 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?
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14 Jan 2025
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Raging storm, boundless cornfield surging, churning, like an angry ocean crashing its waves over steep shores. Dean comes to in the passenger seat of his car with no memory of what could have possibly brought him to the oddly named bar on the outskirts of the small town in the middle of nowhere.
Investigating what first looks like a regular, run-of-the-mill missing people case and trying to bring back memories he’s lost, Dean ends up discovering truth he’d rather remain hidden.
Welcome to Half Empty, where nothing is as it seems, and even shadows have secrets of their own.
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15 Dec 2024
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[ This fic is written to coincide with the events of episode 9.06, Heaven Can't Wait, and occasionally retreads scenes and borrows dialogue directly from the show. The rest... let's call it canon conjecture. ]
When he picked up the phone, Dean hadn’t been banking on Idaho, or a case, or Cas. Now, he’s gotta contend with all three and it’s giving him a lot to think about. He’s living somewhere between memory and moment, locking horns with big nasty guilt every which way he turns. But it’s a case. And more importantly? It’s Cas.
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29 Oct 2024
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“It frustrates me,” Cas mutters, “how the same sensation can feel sometimes good, and sometimes not.”
Dean’s hand is still rubbing slowly down the length of his spine, like he’s petting the valley between the wings he can’t see. “Well, that’s just par for the course,” Dean rumbles. “Sometimes a body wants touch and sometimes it wants to be left the fuck alone.”
Cas always wants touch. At least from Dean. He doesn’t say so. “It frustrates me how much good and bad I can feel at the same time.”
“Oh, buddy,” Dean says. “Yeah.”
(After the perfect darkness of the Empty, Cas finds the world a little...overwhelming. Dean tries to help.)
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- Part 9 of author's personal favorites
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25 Oct 2024
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between the essence / and the descent by tothewillofthepeople
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Oct 2024
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He misplaced his angel. He didn’t hold on hard enough. He got Cas back only to lose him immediately.
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Cas comes back on a Thursday.
And then keeps coming back on Thursdays. He doesn’t seem to have much choice in the matter, actually. For the rest of the week, he’s stuck in the Empty, and Dean is left trying to figure out how to save him, how to talk to him—and how to get him out for good.
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- Part 1 of for thine is
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25 Oct 2024
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Dean can't sleep. Cas offers to tire him out.
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09 Oct 2024
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Jack pulls Cas out of the Empty, just in time to save Dean. With Dean unable to live without him, ready to die on that rebar, neither of them expected to live to speak about Cas’s confession. But he’s back.
After six months of pure hell without Cas, Team Free Will deserves a vacation. Along the road, with the confession looming and Cas unabashedly in love, Dean is forced to confront his own feelings and the trauma that made him the man he is. He’s tried for years to show Cas the worst of him, to warn him. To prove that he is not worthy. And yet, Cas always came back. He didn’t want the perfect, clean, Righteous Man. In his final moments, from the very first meeting, he saw straight through to the core of Dean.
And he loved it anyway.
This is the story of how Dean Winchester learns to be free.
This is how Dean learns to be loved.
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- Part 1 of The Mellow ‘Verse
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27 Sep 2024
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After the events of Castiel's rescue from the Empty, the bunker feels colder and quieter than ever, weighed down by the unspoken emotions lingering between Dean and Castiel. Despite the joy of having Cas back, neither of them is sure how to navigate the space between them. Dean struggles to express the depth of his feelings, afraid of ruining what they’ve built, while Castiel waits, patient but uncertain.
Through quiet moments, tender embraces, and late-night confessions, they slowly begin to break down the walls between them. But when a late-night walk under the stars turns into an emotional revelation, Dean realizes that some things can no longer be left unsaid.
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25 Sep 2024
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Look, is it impulsive? Yes. But when have they ever been something other than impulsive when it comes to this complicated, exhilarating, intense, irreplaceable thing between them? Exactly. Never.
So who cares if Dean proposes while half asleep on a random night without even a ring to show for it?
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11 Sep 2024
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someone posited a long time ago somewhere on tumblr that we should’ve gotten a chance to see a widower!cas arc; this is a replacement/re-do of Amara’s ‘gift’ to Dean when he goes to sacrifice himself
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- Part 5 of Tumblr Prompt Fills
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11 Sep 2024
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After spending two years researching a spell to rip Castiel from the Empty, Dean finally finds a way--only, Castiel won't stay awake for more than minutes at a time, a consequence of his Grace attempting to readjust. Desperate to get Castiel out of bed, Dean comes up with a plan. Deep in the Appalachians is a cabin, and he intends to take Castiel there, just to rest.
Rest, it turns out, isn't so hard to find.
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05 Sep 2024