The Writing on the Wall
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The writing was on the wall—and now Dean just had to try and understand it. A Post-Season Six alternate universe, going a different route from what happened in Season Seven and exploring a long and difficult relationship between Dean and Castiel. Canon-compliant up through the finale of Season Six, with some Season Seven thrown in.
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- Part 1 of The Writing on the Wall
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The boys take steps to keep Cas safe, and Dean hides. A followup and expansion on some of the events referenced in “The Writing on the Wall.”
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- Part 2 of The Writing on the Wall
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Cas copes—or rather, doesn’t—with guilt and his new humanity. Bobby and Sam try to help him deal, and Dean is still hiding.
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- Part 3 of The Writing on the Wall
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Three months after the events of “Writing on the Wall,” Dean finally talks to Cas.
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- Part 4 of The Writing on the Wall
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After Cas helps out on a hunt, Dean sucks it up to go say thank you.
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- Part 5 of The Writing on the Wall
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Almost two years after the events of “Writing on the Wall,” Dean finally gets the relationship moving again.
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- Part 6 of The Writing on the Wall
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Cas loves Dean, and he wants nothing more than to show it. Too bad Dean won’t let him—at least, not at first. A fic chronicling the time and trouble it took for Dean to finally commit to a two-way relationship.
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- Part 7 of The Writing on the Wall
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It’s been five years since that night in the field, and Dean and Cas have settled into a placid little relationship and are maintaining the status quo. But when Sam gets laid up in a hunting accident, Dean takes Cas out on the next job, just the two of them. And once they’re alone, Dean realizes that the past five years of near-celibacy have been frustrating him more than he thought.
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- Part 8 of The Writing on the Wall
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Cas has a fixation and an accident. Dean is appalled.
With all the new things “allowed” in their relationship, stands to reason that they’d run into a few hitches.
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- Part 9 of The Writing on the Wall
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Alone on a hunt, Cas tries taking the lead, and Dean pays him back.
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- Part 10 of The Writing on the Wall
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The Mark of Cain keeps Dean on the road.
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- Part 11 of The Writing on the Wall
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After the long stint away from home in “Wheel in the Sky,” Dean and Cas have their reunion, and Dean decides to make it special.
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- Part 12 of The Writing on the Wall
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After eight years of treating Cas like his brother outside of the bedroom and refusing to acknowledge his feelings, Dean finally realizes that he’s been taking him for granted, and that if he isn’t careful, he could drive him away.
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- Part 13 of The Writing on the Wall
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Six months after the explosion in “Holy Water,” Cas raises one of their unresolved issues. Needless to say, Dean doesn’t take it well.
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- Part 14 of The Writing on the Wall
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Every time Cas has suggested something new in bed, he brought it up in the worst way possible and sent Dean running. This time he does it right, and gets more than he bargained for. Pure porn.
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- Part 15 of The Writing on the Wall
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Dean is getting comfortable with the new physical aspects of his relationship with Cas, and Cas is testing the waters with his new freedom. Really just another excuse for smut.
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- Part 16 of The Writing on the Wall
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It’s been twelve long years since Cas became human and he and Dean embarked on their long and difficult relationship. And after all that time, it’s only when faced with losing him forever that Dean fully realizes what he means to him. The finale of the Writing on the Wall verse.
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- Part 17 of The Writing on the Wall
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A collections of drabbles, asides, outtakes, and alternate POVs from our "Writing on the Wall" verse. This is just a catch-all for all those little fics that don't fit into the main narrative, fics where we see what Cas is doing when Dean isn't around, or fics that otherwise show what goes on outside of Dean's admittedly limited worldview.
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- Part 18 of The Writing on the Wall
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The first collection of fics in the very porny continuation of “The Writing on the Wall” universe.
Now that Dean is fully comfortable with his relationship with Cas and has thrown almost all of their rules out the window, he has to get used to the idea of Cas taking advantage of his new freedom every chance he gets—and setting some new boundaries as well.
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- Part 19 of The Writing on the Wall
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When you take an alcoholic hunter who bottles up his anger until he can’t contain it any longer and pair him up with a needy ex-angel who refuses to acknowledge that any kind of sex can be “wrong”, it is inevitable that disaster will strike. A set of fics chronicling the darkest time in Dean and Cas’s relationship.
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- Part 20 of The Writing on the Wall