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A thought struck him like a bell.
‘If I give him what he wants, then he won't go.’
Dean leaned down, watching as Cas’ eyes widened and breath hitched. He kissed him on the corner of his mouth, the briefest press of his lips, and pulled away just enough to see his reaction.
His lips went slightly numb as residual shadow clung to them. It was kind of gross, but worth it for Cas’ expression.
“Missed you,” Dean said. He had to get the truth out before he lied straight to Cas’ face. “Me too, okay? Just, uh, everything you said. Me too.”
____They get Cas back from the Empty, but Dean’s still scared he’s going to leave again. If its for Cas’ sake, if he can get him to stay, Dean will do just about anything, even pretend to be in a relationship with him.
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07 Jul 2026
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“I’m gonna go hit the books,” Dean informed and left before either of them could stop him.
“He hasn’t been taking it well,” Jack noted. Not a question, but an observation.
“How can you expect him too?” Sam asked and sighed heavily. “I don’t know if he’ll ever get over this. I honestly don’t think any of us will.”
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Or Dean loses himself in his grief for Castiel, cursing himself for not being able to do anything to stop his death or to bring him back.
Sam watches him fall apart and does his best to be there for him.
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07 Jul 2026
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It's been two months since they defeated Chuck. Dean and Sam are free to live their lives, but with Cas gone and Jack not answering their prayers, it's hard to find joy in their new life. When Jack eventually shows up, he has Cas with him, human but fully alive. Dean rejoices in seeing him alive again, but he remembers all too well what Cas had told right before dying. And now he has to face the fact that Cas is in love with him.
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“So you uh …”, Dean turned around and looked at Cas. Cas met his eyes with uncertainty. For a minute Dean found it hard to get a word out of his mouth, then he cleared his throat and said: “How’re you feeling? Better?”
“Yes, I feel more well-rested now.” Cas nodded and they fell into silence once more.
Dean hated silence. He wanted to fill it with something, to say something funny that would make Cas squint, but he couldn’t come up with a single thing to say. The silence stretched on and just as Dean was starting to contemplate making some small talk about the weather (he had no idea what weather it was today) Cas emptied his glass and got to his feet.
“I’m gonna …”, he didn’t finish the sentence and just left the room to Dean’s relief.Bookmarked by Fadingfrom
07 Jul 2026
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Cas comes back from the empty. Human, and without memory.
There’s resilience to be said about the human spirit, though, and how after everything- we still have our souls. They tie us together in ways beyond reason, and Cas doesn’t know why- but he knows these people, they’re important. He feels it.
With this work, my primary thesis has been expressing a parallel to Castiel's Despair confession with Dean's expression of feelings here. Because as I see it, Castiel's confession is less about him expressing himself and it's more about getting Dean to feel loved and earning of that love and understanding that he's made of more good parts than bad because that love exists. So essentially through the angst of Castiel's memory loss, we gain something else here- his ability to view his life and his relationships from an outside perspective. Unmarred by his previous transgressions and the years between them, there's a clearer perspective to be gained as to the extent of care surrounding him, fitting him in a place to newly see the depth of care for him.
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07 Jul 2026
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Dean finds a journal that Castiel kept before the Empty took him.
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06 Jul 2026
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“This isn’t how I was expecting my evening to go, huh?”
“No, I’m sure it wasn’t,” Cas replies.
Dean’s eyes drink him in. Dean doesn’t bother to hide it. “What are you doing here? Haven't seen you ‘round in a while.” The last of his words have a sarcastic blade to them in a way that they never would have before Hell, and he’s still getting used to the metallic tang in his mouth.
Cas’s eyes narrow. “I suppose I had a… hunch that you may be in need of company.”
or the one where s10 cas time travels back to give comfort to dean right after he was gripped tight and raised from perdition
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03 Jul 2026
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it dawns darling on the daffodil pastures by fleeceframe
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
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“You’re not usually one to shy away from fornication.”
Dean’s not usually one to get greedy. Usually he just pushes it all down, the little things. He’s just not there yet. Things like getting slapped during sex and wearing women’s underwear and putting on fun costumes are just part of Dean’s mystical little fantasy world that don’t need to be brought to the light of day.
And the precarious answer to Cas’s implied question is, “This is about more than just sex. Even though the sex is a bonus.”
“It’s about… you…” Cas says it slowly, like he’s trying to let Dean fill in the blanks.
“Liking it when you take care of me.”
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- Part 4 of you see me in the lovely garden tending
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03 Jul 2026
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Cas dies on a Thursday.
Two weeks later, Dean leaves the bunker. It’s Thursday.Or:
A study on grief through the eyes of Dean Winchester.Series
- Part 1 of Imagine being loved by me
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02 Jul 2026
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Castiel’s babysitter cancels. Again. Which is how he ends up frantically hiring Deana—a highly rated sitter with years of experience and a history of helping raise her younger brother, Sam.
Castiel expects a woman. Dean Winchester, apparently, expects people to read profiles more carefully. The typo in the listing was never fixed.
Dean is qualified, of course. Responsible, even. Disturbingly good with children. Castiel’s eight-year-old adores him almost immediately.
He spends significantly longer trying not to. Because Dean has a habit of lingering in the kitchen after Claire falls asleep, fixing things around the house that were never his responsibility and looking unfairly comfortable in a life that doesn’t belong to him.
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Castiel accidentally hires the wrong babysitter and watches, with increasing concern, as Dean Winchester slowly becomes part of everything.
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Previously named "Another Day in Paradise"
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01 Jul 2026
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Sam starts noticing that Cas is exceptionally caring when Dean is unconscious (not in a weird way).
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29 Jun 2026
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Castiel slips from his chair to kneel at Dean’s feet. He takes Dean’s hands in his, and there on the floor holding something with devotion, he understands Communion. He understands Eucharist. He understands believing in someone so deeply that to shelter a piece of them within yourself is an act of untempered faith, love and prayer and deep-wide trust.
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Cas comes back. Dean can’t stop touching him.
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28 Jun 2026
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Castiel has always known that there are things that Dean can’t say.
So when he says "I love you," he never expects he'll hear it back.
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28 Jun 2026
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How can he say more than the words that don’t even capture a fraction of the pain. You were dead. Three words that are too weak to hold up the agony. Cas, you were dead, and you weren’t coming back. I know because I burned the body.
“Okay, alright. You don’t need to speak. It’s alright- I’ll- I’ll just-” and then Cas is holding up a glowing hand that he moves over the vague shape of Dean’s body under the tangle of his bedsheets. “I can’t sense anything wrong. Nothing malignant, or even duress of natural causes. I don't- I don’t know what’s happening.”
Cas, man, it’s actually not as bad as it seems. I think I’m having a panic attack.
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27 Jun 2026
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A hazy memory triggers strange thoughts in John's mind.
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27 Jun 2026
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Dean smiles, teeth flashing. “Pretty girl,” he says.
Castiel stills.
or, dean has a problem. he's pretty sure he's found a solution.
cas is just along for the ride.
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24 Jun 2026
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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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24 Jun 2026
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Dean doesn't expect to see his one night stand again, but then again he also doesn't expect to find out he has an STD. Sometimes life is hilarious like that.
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- Part 1 of Cupcakes and Chlamydia
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22 Jun 2026
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When Dean gets knocked out on a hunt, and Sam gets a broken arm, the task of carrying the older Winchester back to the Impala lands squarely on Cas's very human shoulders.
This is a re-write of a story I posted to this site (“Backseat Squeezin’”) a little over two years ago. I hope ya'll enjoy the facelift :)
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22 Jun 2026
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Set right after Season 14, episode 15, "Peace of Mind."
Throwing himself into yet another angelic possession to save Cas was not in Dean's plans, but neither was letting Cas die in front of him. It was supposed to be a temporary fix. It was anything but.
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22 Jun 2026
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Dean wakes up cold and disoriented, tied up, unable to see or hear. Unfortunately, someone in his life has been waiting for an opportunity just like this.
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19 Jun 2026