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    “What you do is good,” because Dean’s not so great in the words department. It doesn’t seem to matter, Cas looks touched by the sentiment either way. “And what you did- too. I mean, what you said, did you really…Ya know. Carry my burning soul?

    “You don’t remember?” Cas seems genuinely surprised. As surprised as he can, at least, with that perpetually bird-like way he has about him.

    “What, you yanking me out? Nah. There’s nothing there.”

    “Yes, I carried you out of Hell.”

    “My burning soul.”

    “Yes.”

    “What was- What was that like?”

    or the one where dean gets captured by demons while the apocalypse looms, and castiel rescues him from both hell and his existential crisis

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    26 Feb 2026

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    In which Dean is forced to deal with his trauma and come to a reckoning with himself. Also, Cas is there.

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    "No one hates you as much as you do," Crowley told him once. That's Dean's whole M.O. right there. His two fundamental truths are that it is his job to save everyone, and that no matter how many people he saves it will never change the fact that he is 90% crap.

    Dean knows who he is. Yeah, he's done some good for the world, okay, he gets that. But deep down? The person he is inside is still worthless. Dean will never be good enough, never be any kind of role model. He's never going to shake that, so if that's what this whole seven trials angelic bullshit is about, then he and Cas might as well hold hands and drive off the cliff now.

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    22 Sep 2025

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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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    01 Sep 2025

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    Dean had said, “I’m right there with you, I don’t like loud noises either. I mean, being afraid of loud noises is a good thing, though. It’s just your body telling you something big is happening and that you might need to get somewhere safe. Is that what happened on Tuesday when all the lockers went crazy?”

    A pause.

    “Did you see anything that seemed weird, or did you make yourself safe in one of the rooms?”

    And it struck Castiel then how Dean phrased that. How he didn’t say Did you hide? as in Did you run away? as in Were you not brave enough of a little soldier to stay and figure out just what was trying to hurt you?

    He had said- Did you make yourself safe?

    or the one where dean and cas are investigating a haunting in an elementary school, things are still new between them, and cas has more love than he knows what to do with

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    01 Apr 2025

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    While collecting research material for his dissertation on queer aesthetics and desire in the pre-Stonewall era - in a word, old nudes - Castiel comes across a set of photographs irrelevant to his research but very relevant to his own desires. The last thing he expects is to run into the model in those photographs or to find him even more captivating in real life.

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    28 Mar 2025