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“Me and you,” Dean blurts out. “We’re— we… ”
When Dean doesn’t finish the question, Cas gives him a long, level look, and then he says, “Not in a while.”
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19 May 2026
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A year after the Empty took Castiel, Jack finds a way to get him out.
Castiel is returned to the bunker, much to the surprise of Dean, Sam, and Eileen.
Dean is... Fine.
Okay, so he went a little insane while Cas was gone, but now the angel is back and seemingly for good, so he's fine. Just fine.
But he would be great if his brain could calm the fuck down and quit it with the heated daydreams, involved fantasies, and the kind of dreams that have had Dean waking up in the middle of the night covered in sweat and aching for Castiel.
Also, why is the long-faded handprint he got as a souvenir from Hell back on his shoulder, bright and angry as the first day he found it?Bookmarked by ablator
19 May 2026
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Dean’s quiet time in the bunker is interrupted by some stranger-than-usual behavior from his angel.
Oh, and feathers...there are a lot of those, too.
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06 May 2026
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A week ago, Dean was pulled out of Hell. Now, he’s apparently woken up in 2018, and the angel that a mere twenty-four hours beforehand had threatened to chuck him back into the pit is sleepily pouring himself coffee and wearing Dean’s second-favourite Zeppelin shirt. It all seems like a perfect happy ending, but with Hell’s scars still so fresh, Dean can’t imagine how he could have possibly gotten there.
At the same time, the Dean who went to sleep in the bunker, right next to Cas, wakes up on Bobby’s couch in 2008. He’s instantly bombarded with questions by a Lilith-obsessed brother and a man who’s been dead for years, and must decide between keeping his finally-perfect life intact, and the lives he could save by re-writing history.
Regardless of these choices, both Deans are trapped in the wrong decade, and their only way back lies with a Castiel still very much under Heaven’s thumb – one who might find the future Dean describes difficult to believe.
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06 May 2026
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So, the first thing that happens is Castiel comes back.
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"Right," Dean says eventually, gruffly. He looks down at his shoes. "I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life, man. It's—you know, yours. Do your thing, love who you love, whatever. I can't really stop you from loving me, if that's what you've decided to do, but I don't—I can't—"
"I know," Castiel murmurs, still just smiling a little, not looking heartbroken at all. "Don't worry about it, Dean, that's all I ask."
"So we're—" Dean risks a glance up, swallowing thickly. "We're good?"
Castiel hums. "We're good."
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06 May 2026
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Runs, when the idea was first proposed, were heavily protested, mostly by angry betas and omegas who thought the whole thing was disgraceful, disrespectful, humiliating and degrading. The first Run proved everyone wrong. It was emboldening, powerful, freeing. To pair omegas biologically with an alpha was not only smart, but diplomatic. To give them the opportunity to make the alpha work for what they wanted was a unique twist on the archaic gender roles and stereotypes, and over the next decade, Runs became a popular way for young and healthy people to find the mate best suited for them.
As soon as Dean presented as an omega, he knew it was what he was destined for.
Dean Winchester has never been caught.
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03 May 2026
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The man was dead, and it was wrong.
A lot can happen in a day. A hunt leaves Dean broken, bleeding and clinging to life. In the days that follow, he finds his typical life of mundane monster-hunting turned on its head, as he is trailed by blue lights and radio static. To make matters worse he worries he might be becoming the very thing he's spent his life hunting.
Castiel is an angel with a mission. He needs to keep Dean alive, a task which is more difficult than he had anticipated. To rub salt in the wound, he might be falling from grace. Angels aren't meant to have human emotions but he is beginning to want things.
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07 Apr 2026
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Cas is back from the Empty, and Dean knows how to be grateful.
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03 Apr 2026
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Getting used to Heaven is something of a marvel. It ain't perfect, and Dean thinks he'd hate it if it was, which is probably why it isn't.
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"You don't understand," Dean whispers, exhaling shakily. "I know you don't, because even I don't. The instant you were gone, I wanted you back. Cas, I wanted you back. I wanted—I wanted—"
Cas stares at him, searching his face. After a moment, his own face falls slack, eyes widening just so. "Oh," he breathes out.
Dean wants to be furious that Cas has figured it out before he has—whatever it is—but he's not even that surprised. Cas knows him too well, always has, even more than Dean knows himself. He's been kicking Dean in the goddamn teeth with how deeply he understands him, even about the things Dean doesn't, ever since they first met. You don't think you deserve to be saved, that's what Cas had said. All bundled up in impossibilities and power, this being that looked at Dean Winchester and knew every single inch of him, as if he had a right to each part.
"What?" Dean grits out.
"I love you, too."
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03 Apr 2026
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Stay away from the light-beds. Stay in the deep.
It is the first thing hatchlings are taught the moment their fans unfurl and they can swim without their parents to buoy them along. It is the first rule, the first law. It is the beginning of every boogey-monster bedtime story told when they settle against the cliffs to sleep.
Castiel should have listened better.
(Dean's Drabbles - certain scenes from Dean's POV.)
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- Part 1 of Out of the Deep
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03 Apr 2026
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“Take me,” Dean says. He doesn’t have to think about it. “Take me as your vessel, Cas.”
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or: Cas is cursed into an endless sleep. Dean offers himself up as his vessel while they try to break it.
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03 Apr 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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03 Apr 2026
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It’s September 18, 2008. Castiel is being deployed to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
He lands in Dean Winchester’s motel room in 2003. Things go from there.
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03 Apr 2026
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"We might," Cas starts slowly, pausing like he's choosing his words. "We might have to kiss."
Dean just stares at him.
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03 Apr 2026
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Dean is a waiter in a strip club to put his kid brother through school. Castiel is dragged to the club as a part of his sister Anna's bachelorette party. Dean and Cas hit it off, but Dean thinks Cas is the one marrying Anna.
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03 Apr 2026
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Dean can't sleep. Cas offers to tire him out.
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03 Apr 2026
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‘Alpha Needed: Looking for an alpha with a calming scent, preferably mated, for scenting purposes. Twice a week, one hour. Pay: $20 per hour plus expenses.’
In order to get his anxiety attacks under control, Cas is supposed to regularly scent an alpha whose scent makes him feel safe.
Dean could really use the extra cash and the ad sounds like the easiest 20 bucks an hour Dean has ever made.
But then things get complicated…
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03 Apr 2026
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As a grease monkey turned college freshman, Dean's constantly three seconds away from being stressed out of his mind. It hardly helps that he's finally figuring out his sexuality in his thirties.
What might help with that stress is a little phone number (and a big credit card bill). If he can't figure out how to be bisexual in person, he can at least give it a go over the phone, right?
(It's probably a bad idea, but he really can't help himself.)
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- Part 1 of talk
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03 Apr 2026
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All Dean wants is a little privacy. Cas doesn't understand.
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03 Apr 2026