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It’s 2001. Dean Winchester is a detective within the Intelligence Unit of the Chicago Police Department. Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” is on every radio of the country, the Cubs haven't won the World Series in almost a century, and Georges W. Bush just got elected President of the United States. Dean has been dating Cas, his high school sweetheart, for almost ten years and together they raise a daughter, Claire, who’s about to turn 1.
Life, all things considered, is good.
It’s 2021. Dean Winchester wakes up from 20 years in a coma after taking a bullet into the head on a case gone wrong. 9/11 happened almost 20 years ago, the world is on fire, the Cubs won the World Series five years ago, and Bon Jovi put out 6 albums since “It’s my Life”. Dean’s baby daughter just turned 21, his brother married an incredible woman and has two kids he doesn’t know, and his boyfriend... Well, Cas is still by his side, but there’s stuff he’s keeping from Dean.
Of course, this would be enough to fill Dean’s plate if he didn’t also have to figure out who put a bullet into his head, 20 years back.
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15 Oct 2025
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Castiel Novak is 27 when he suddenly loses his twin brother Jimmy, and his whole world turns to ashes. How do you deal with losing half of yourself when your whole life always revolved around the two of you, like yin and yang and black and white? How do you deal with a broken soul and old demons looming over you with no one to hold you back anymore?
After 10 years as a Navy Special Warfare Operator and more than a dozen deployments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a battlefield injury forces 28-year-old Chief Petty Officer Dean Winchester to choose between being stuck behind a desk for the rest of his career or going back to civil life. When he learns about his friend Jimmy’s death, Dean makes his way back to Kansas with his heart in his throat and broken pieces at his feet.
Things are already complicated and painful enough as it is, but when former lovers Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet again after 10 years of radio silence and a galaxy of wounds and scars solidly standing between them, it feels like both a curse and a blessing has been placed on them both. Is there any hope in putting back their broken pieces together after a decade, and how do you deal with grief and broken dreams?
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- Part 1 of Patient Love verse
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06 Oct 2025
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Jack is distraught when a hopeless Dean meets his demise at the hands of a piece of rebar. As the new God, he knows all. He especially knows that Dean loves Cas as much as Cas loves Dean. So, discarding his commitment to remain hands off, he infiltrates the Empty to save his father, who he knows is the only person who can convince Dean to live again. But, when a sceptical Cas doesn't believe Dean reciprocates his love, Jack decides to show Cas some of the moments—tearing through Purgatory to find him, gazing at him through the window in Rexford, the aftermath of his death at the lake house, and so many more—that prove just how in love with him Dean really is.
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19 Sep 2025
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Max wonders if Oscar wears them under his fireproofs, if he's enveloped in lace and silk when he's in the car. He's pretty sure this is the sort of thing that would merit an HR meeting if he ever verbalized it, but he cannot help it, he's curious.
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16 Sep 2025
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Dean’s your typical half-orphaned, monster-killing 22-year-old until a trenchcoated stranger crashes into his back windshield one September night, claiming he’s an angel that knows him from the future and that he’s on the run.
Frigging fantastic.
(Or, in which Castiel gets stuck in Dean’s timeline preseries and Dean kind of hates it—until he doesn’t.)