15 Works in Canon Compliant with Episode: s15e18 Despair (Supernatural)
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Post-Episode 15x18 "Despair"
After Castiel's confession, Dean carries a spark of hope telling him this can't be the end. This spark is the strongest weapon for Dean, Sam and Jack in this final war. The enemy is God. The battlefield is an Earth devoid of humans, a Hell in rebellion against its queen, and a Heaven betrayed by its creator. And the stakes are everything and everyone they have ever cared about.
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if you’ll just keep quiet it will stay like this forever (i feel certain of it now) by NotEvenALittle
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
03 Jun 2025
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After Cas's confession lands him in the Empty, Dean is consumed by grief.
On top of his emotional turmoil, he finds himself dealing with a debilitating case of tinnitus.
Or at least, that's what he thinks must be going on with his hearing. -
The Mercy Inherent in True Love's Kiss by Questiel (Quefish)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
27 Oct 2023
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The Empty is awakened and it is NOT happy, how can it get its most annoying resident to go back to sleep?
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- Part 28 of SPN Kinktober 2023
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Too Late He's Gone (He Won't Come Back) by DoctorTrekLock
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Sep 2023
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Dean wonders bleakly what he would have done if he’d known sooner. If, instead of using eye contact, self-sacrifice, and declarations that Dean could rationalize away to nothing, Cas had just reached out one day when he was standing too close and Dean hadn’t yet pushed him away and kissed him.
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It was over.
The world was saved. Again.
Maybe even for the last time.
And yet, they jumped right back into hunting just a few days later because Dean needed the distraction from his grief. He was not happy to have survived the last Apocalypse. He was not relieved. He was barely hanging on to his sanity.
Dean had been down this road enough times to know his disappointment would only cut deeper and deeper every time he made it out of a hunt alive, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not ignore the dark pit of despair that had opened up inside him since Cas's sacrifice three weeks ago.
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- Part 1 of a SUPERNATURAL LOVE story
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One night he wakes
Strange look on his face
Pauses, then says
You're my best friend
And you knew what it was
He is in loveIf only Dean had been able to say it.
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- Part 6 of Supernatural songfics
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“They had this song, before they got married, that they loved. Cheek to Cheek, you know? And they’d look so damn sad when it’d play on the record, even though he asked her to marry her to that fuckin’ song. Had to tell Sammy to stop playing that record cause they hated to be reminded of their marriage so much.” Dean swallowed. “Hell, the song feels more like a funeral march than anything else after a childhood of that. Promise me? Promise me we won’t be like that? Together and hating each other for it?”
Castiel took in a mouthful of smoke and lied. “I promise.”
Or: The American Pie (by Don McLean) fic
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Dean wandered, after. The night that Chuck died, subsumed into Amara, he had silently climbed into his car in the dead of night, walking past Jack's room, past Sam's room.
In his room, Sam laid in his bed with Eileen, and felt the air displace itself around where Dean slipped past in the hallway, instincts attuning him to movement just as they made Dean move soundlessly, without a thought to it. but Dean didn’t think of that. Dean only thought of moving, getting out, going -
Going to something the bunker couldn’t be, anymore. Something he couldn’t ever go to.
But he had to go.
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Cas is taken by the Empty. Chuck has dusted everyone. Sam, Jack, and Dean are alone, and must once again find a way to save the world and bring back those they love.
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Some time after Cas gets taken by the Empty, Dean finds a cache of love letters hidden in Cas's room (which he has. by the way).
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Dean finds faith. Enjoy!
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It's like being buried at the bottom of a very deep, very dark well. Castiel has lived enough, sinned enough, for the weight of his mistakes to pin him flat in the darkness. It's shame and guilt and grief and each memory anchors him with a razor specificity, there in the lightless silence. This is how it works, he supposes. His own thoughts will devour him alive until he sips oblivion by choice, out of sheer desperation, and the void will know peace at last.
But that was the bargain. He took that upon himself. His choice. Choice, he thinks, and would laugh if he still had a mouth to laugh with. Freedom is a length of rope.
Then, after what could have been many eternities or just one, a pang of agony comes that isn't his own.
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Or: the one where Castiel saves himself.
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- Part 7 of season 15 fix-its
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Iconic SPN fix-it rewriting from the moment Castiel is slurped by the Empty also Destiel/Saleen is endgame :)
We bringing back dead characters from the Empty, killing Chuck, and revisiting Billie
Jack doesn't become God at all (because realistically, why would Jack become God anyway) -
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"Ever since we met, ever since I pulled you out of Hell...knowing you has changed me. Because you cared. I cared. I cared about you, I cared about Sam, I cared about Jack, but...but I cared about the whole world because of you. You changed me, Dean."
"Why does this sound like a goodbye?"
"Because it is. I love you."
I love you too.
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- Part 1 of How Do I Live With Your Ghost?
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There it is, it's been said. It's true.
(Or, Dean's thoughts at the end of 15x18, "Despair")
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- Part 23 of In Medias Res