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Brittle and battle-worn, Cas looks at him over coffee one morning and says, "I need to go," and Dean instantly knows that he's not coming back.
He's not really sure how he knows it, but he does. It settles into the pit of his stomach, curling hot and tight like something he instinctively wants to tear out with his bare hands. He takes a breath, and it gets stuck in his throat, hitching there. It hurts, hurts, hurts when he finally exhales.
"Yeah," Dean says, "of course you do," and he nods jerkily as he looks down at his phone. He doesn't say goodbye. He doesn't look up from the screen when Cas gets up and leaves the room. He doesn't finish his coffee, or move for a long time.
By nightfall, Cas is gone.
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10 Mar 2026
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“What else was I supposed to say, Sam?” Dean asks him. “I’m not...look, Cas is my best friend, and I care about him. That’s it.”
“And you renovated a house for him,” Sam continues. “And live with him.”
or: a year in the life, in which it takes some time, but they figure it out
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- 13/13
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03 Mar 2026
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It had been a night for the books. But as the people just kept coming, like circus folk out of a clown vehicle or something, Dean could feel his charm simmering down. It was getting harder and harder to turn it off and on in between takes, and he was beginning to curse ever agreeing to this arrangement. He could have been back in his apartment drinking beer and watching some other sucker from his season managing twenty seven singles.
Dean is the Bachelor. But it's turning out to be a lot less making out with beautiful people and a lot more about managing the drama that occurs in the mansion. In between fights, love declarations, and all the high intensity situations that go hand in hand with reality television he meets Cas. Cas isn't a typical contestant. But Dean can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing. Dean also couldn't tell you why he keeps giving the dorky man roses.
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- Part 1 of The Bachelor Series
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- English
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- 18,019
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 81
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23 Feb 2026
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Claire shows up at the bunker a day before Dean was planning to leave, with her hair cut short and a fresh tattoo on her left arm under a bandage.
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Chuck is dead, Jack has given up his godlike powers, and Cas is back from the Empty, which doesn't make it any easier for Dean to talk to him. Suddenly finding himself in a world without monsters, supernatural forces, or any need for hunters, Dean's solution is to go on a road trip. Claire tags along.
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- 2/2
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13 Feb 2026
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After a less than lucky encounter with a witch, Dean is thrown back in time to 2008. Not only that, but he's also thrown into his younger self's body. Not knowing what to do, or how to get back, he decides to play along with what he thinks he did the first time around. Luckily, he's not the only one from the future. Cas is in the same boat, and they decide to do things right this time around; stop the apocalypse before it begins.
But changing the future is tricky business, and keeping it a secret from everyone else is hard when your brother knows you too well and you're in a time where descripting your relationship with said brother as having 'trust issues' doesn't even begin to cover it.
Will Dean and Cas save the world? And if they do, what will it cost them?
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- 17/17
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13 Feb 2026
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Two Deans, one Cas - it's not as sexy as it sounds
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An ethics lesson from Hell
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The one where Dean from the past meets Dean in the present. They're not sure they like each other very much.
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- English
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- 21/21
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- 1,285
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05 Feb 2026
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In which Amara doesn't bring back Mary, she brings back John Winchester.
Dean is uncertain what Amara's meaning is when she brings John back, and struggles with coming to terms with the new family dynamic. Sam tries harder to keep the peace than he used to, and Cas does not get along with John at all- though he tries. Testosterone is at an all-time high as these four men struggle to coexist in the hunting world with very different ideologies.
We explore just how much the brothers have changed in the ten years without their father's guidance, the trauma they still haven't resolved, and the feelings that Dean and Cas hold for one another despite the very real and new barrier that is John.
This story begins 12x01 and ends around 13x06
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- 499,275
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- 26/26
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- 1,247
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03 Feb 2026
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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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- English
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- 67,547
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 3
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- 963
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28 Jan 2026
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Does it count as a midlife crisis when you buy a house and renovate it in secret, not telling your brother a single thing about it?
Well, Dean most certainly doesn't handle Cas' death very well and so somehow he ends up grieving in his own special way: by building a home and praying that one day he will share it with someone very particular.
Deep down Dean knows it's a futile hope and probably not really healthy to cling onto it so desperately, but at the end of the day dreams occasionally come true, even for a Winchester.
Right?
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- English
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- 8/8
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28 Jan 2026
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Dean has far too much on his plate, losing his mom, his best friend and now being a single parent to a newborn nephilim.
In which Jack is an actual newborn instead of a teenager.
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- Part 1 of Adventures of Supernatural Parenthood
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- English
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- 14,910
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 4
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- 360
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26 Jan 2026
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The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’
Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.
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- English
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- 85,217
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 12
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- 1,209
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- 10,167
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- 3,777
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24 Jan 2026
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“So, what’re you actually proposing here, Dean?” Bobby asked, greying eyebrows raised.
“I’m suggesting we watch the preview before we buy the movie,” Dean snarked.
Castiel’s look of confusion only deepened and, for once, Sam was right there with him. “…You know, skip a few chapters in the book. Check out the dessert menu before ordering dinner. I mean, if Zachariah can show us where the future’s heading, why not Cas?”
Dean's not thrilled about Sam's plan to say, "Yes," to the Devil and spend an eternity in the pit, so he proposes taking a road trip 15 years in the future to see how it all works out in the aftermath of the Apocalypse.
Sam had thought he was prepared for what awaited him in the future, but a pregnant fiancé, a human Castiel, and a married Dean were more than he'd been expecting.
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- English
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- 17,246
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- 1/1
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- 162
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18 Jan 2026
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counting days, counting days (since my love up and got lost on me) by Resacon1990
Fandoms: Supernatural
09 Jul 2021
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True happiness, he’d said, and Dean’s chest feels like its caving in as he realises, again and again, that is who he is to Cas, who he was. To Cas, he was happiness, true and bright, and it makes Dean ache.
I love you, Cas had said.
Yet Dean had been silent.
Or, death is never permanent, not even when it's supposed to be.
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 39
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16 Jan 2026
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“That’s —- never really how it’s worked for me. Happiness in the being.” Dean says, the words dragged out from his chest, excavated with effort and pain. He’s burned out of anger for now but every muscle in him is poised, on edge, ready for a fight, just like always.
(In which they actually talk about everything).
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- Part 1 of Just
- Language:
- English
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- 88,991
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 488
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- 1,602
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- 420
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- 37,497
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14 Jan 2026
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Dean Winchester, loving husband and father by impravidus for peterspajamas
Fandoms: Supernatural
02 Jan 2021
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Four times people think Cas and Jack are Dean's wife and toddler.
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- English
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- 5,628
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 6
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- 266
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10 Jan 2026
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Dean falls in love on a Thursday.
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- 1/1
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- 102
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10 Jan 2026
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The angels have fallen, leaving Castiel graceless and Dean with, well, more of other people’s problems. When a string of couples goes missing on the east coast, Dean and Cas decide to investigate—and find themselves trapped and hunted on a couples’ counseling cruise. Although battling monsters at sea is dangerous enough, sorting through emotional baggage proves to be far more deadly. (And, in which Cas embarks to find his missing grace and Dean is put out. Not necessarily in that order.)
Art by anobviousaside.
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- English
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- 392
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09 Jan 2026
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between sex and death and trying to keep the kitchen clean by ftmsteverogers
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
07 Dec 2022
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"I don't get you," Dean spits. "I don't get what you want. Just — just tell me. I'm a big boy, I can take it."
"I did tell you!" Castiel exclaims. "I told you, and then I died!"
(In which Castiel is rescued from the Empty, Jack gives up the powers of God to be a kid again, and Dean overcompensates.)
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- English
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- 13,411
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 6
- Comments:
- 428
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- 4,885
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08 Jan 2026
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Dean Winchester and Castiel retire from hunting to raise baby Jack. Dean struggles to allow himself the things he truly wants.
Jack is two, Castiel and Dean are idiots, and Sam's gotta solve everyone's problems.
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- Part 1 of it’s brighter now (babyjackverse)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,051
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 275
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- 5,435
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05 Jan 2026
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AITA for disapproving of my brother’s high sex drive? by birdsofthesoul, PlaidIsTheBestPattern
Fandoms: Supernatural, Supernatural (TV 2005)
06 Jul 2022
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Edit: …Please stop DMing me to ask for photos of my brother.
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- Part 3 of AmItheAssholeNatural
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31 Dec 2025