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The Shadow Guild, Part I: The Beginning of the End by CreeperSpockJr (1stBorn_RalphSpockJr)
Fandoms: Grimm (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), The Originals (TV), Teen Wolf (TV)
20 Jun 2025
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After one of his friends go missing, Elijah Mikaelson enlists Sam and Dean to track her down. From there, they arrive in the city of Portland, Oregon where they meet Detective Nick Burkhardt.
And from there… well… all hell breaks loose. Again.
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- Part 1 of The Shadow Guild
- Part 5 of The Chronicles of Olympia
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Being stuck on a plane feels sort of like some twisted form of a Jigsaw trap, but Dean just has to keep reminding himself that in a little under than six hours, they’ll be in the damn Bahamas.
Toes in the sand, Dean. Toes in the sand.
(TLDR: Sequel to SBF! Destiel & family beach vacation. Fluff, some angstiness and grown men handling body-image problems, hurt/comfort, some more fluff, and smut ensue. Destiel-centric.)
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- Part 2 of SBF-verse
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Dean Winchester fixes things. Keeps his head down. Follows orders, mostly. Doesn’t ask questions. He can’t afford to—not with a father watching his every move, a brother he’s desperate to protect, and a past sealed behind a NDA.
So when a repair job sends him to a brothel on the edge of town, he tells himself it’s just work. Routine. Temporary.
But the android he’s sent to fix doesn’t behave like the others. It looks at him too long. Hesitates before it speaks. And when it touches him, Dean forgets—for a moment—that machines aren’t supposed to feel.
He knows better than to get involved. He does it anyway.
Now he’s tangled in something bigger. Secrets, loyalties, and everything Dean thought he understood about free will and humanity.
He’ll have to decide if being human is about what you’re made of—or the choices you make.
Updates every Friday with smaller bonus chapters now and then mid-week!
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“Dean,” A low voice echoed from behind him, “wonderful to make your acquaintance. We’re very excited to have you join us, as i’m sure you’ve already heard.”
Dean turned around to find that the deep rumbling voice came from a handsome, rain-drenched man in a trench coat.
“T-thank you, I’m excited to be here,” He said, trying to catch the name on the man's ID badge attached to a bee lanyard around his neck.
“My name is Castiel,” He stepped forward, stretching a hand out to Dean, “-but the kids call me Mr.Novak.” Dean met his hand where it was extended, returning the man's strong and sure grip. His striking blue eyes stared deeply into Dean's, so intensely that Dean had to break the contact and swallow.
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Dean is starting a new job as a special education classroom assistant,t and he immediately takes a liking to the teacher he's working for, Castiel Novak. The two become friends outside of work, and navigate trying to figure out if the other feels the same way. Castiel brings with him a world of Dominance and Submission, one Dean has yet to experience. Dean needs to handle his father, an abusive alcoholic set on ruining his life.
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In the wake of a brutal mission, Castiel Novak is consumed by the weight of his choices and the fear that his brother may never wake up. Haunted by guilt and uncertainty, he remains by Gabriel’s side, his only solace found in the quiet presence of Dean Winchester. Dean, battered and stubborn, refuses to let Castiel push him away, even as he grapples with his own doubts about his worth and what it means to be truly saved.
As the two men navigate the fragile line between friendship and something deeper, they begin to challenge each other’s self-destructive beliefs. Castiel is forced to confront the violence in his past and the fierce loyalty he feels for Dean, while Dean begins to see that maybe he deserves to be fought for too. In the warmth of stolen moments and the honesty of whispered confessions, they find hope for a future neither of them believed they could have.
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- Part 2 of Shadows
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All Dean Winchester knows is repression. At no time in his life has he ever felt safe to explore his attraction to other men. He has all but convinced himself that it doesn't exist--that heterosexuality is the only option. But try to deny it as he might, Castiel's presence in the bunker is a mounting reminder that he will never be the man his father wanted him to be. He doesn't know how much longer he can keep the charade...or even if he wants to anymore.
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i don't believe in god, but i believe that you're my savior
when you live a life that never allows you to understand the existence of home, you start to find it in other places. people, too. dean winchester's home is the driver's side seat of the impala, and always with sam next to him. bunny norton's home is across an ocean, and preferably as far away from dean winchester as possible. when sam asked her all those years ago for her help, she'd come running. but dean makes her wish every day that she hadn't stayed.
slow burn, enemies to lovers. someone's got a thing for priests but i'm not saying who. canon is followed whenever i feel like it, tags will be updated as story progresses. slightly OOC dean in the first few chapters bc i like when the pretty man angry…
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Haunted by his past, Dean Winchester takes on the job of Lighthouse Keeper in the remote lakeside town Port Maren. Away from people, away from problems, Dean’s finally free from his demons; that is, until he discovers a journal left by the previous inhabitant of the lighthouse, Castiel Novak.
A marine biologist by trade, Castiel Novak came to Port Maren intrigued by the local legend and hoping to study the local biology. He vanished under mysterious circumstances nearly five years ago and no one in the town seems to know exactly what happened.
Dean sets out to get to the bottom of the disappearance but strange things are happening and he can’t tell if it’s his demons or the purported monster in the lake that have come back to haunt him.
AKA a reverse Shape of Water AU with elements of body horror, monster fucking, and falling in love with someone without talking to them.
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Cas met Dean when he was Alpha Angel and Dean was Chevy in a bdsm club.
Eight years later, he's with Sam and they are moving to Sam's hometown.
What will happen when Cas meets Sam's brother?
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Castiel is heading home from his shop after a bad day, and to top it all off, it's raining. He's hungry and tired, and doesn't notice the dog that races out in front of him until it's too late. Castiel trips and falls to the ground, getting up just as the dog gets hit by a car. When checking on the dog, Castiel realizes, this isn't a dog; it's a familiar. And, Castiel just so happens to be a witch with a soft heart, so he takes him in to help heal him. Over time, he starts to gain the familiar--Dean's-- trust. But what was Dean running from in the first place? What dark past is he hiding? Is Castiel enough to keep Dean safe from the horrors creeping up on him?
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Dean has been Alastair’s slave, his play thing, his pet since he was kidnapped from John at the age of 8. Tortured, abused and broken over 16 years, Alastair turned him into the perfect, broken creature, barely a husk of a human.
Castiel thought slavery barbaric, the only reason he attended the auction was to satisfy his brothers. But when he sees his brother, Lucifer bidding on the broken, green eyed man, Castiel knew he had to save him from his brother’s cruelty.
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Even in Arcadia (You walk beside me still..) by Sparkleshudson
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
19 Jun 2025
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After dying and arriving in Heaven, Dean expects peace—but instead, he’s haunted by the absence of the one soul he needs most: Castiel. The pain of Cas’s final declaration of love still lingers, not because of what was said, but because Dean never got to respond. He searches for Cas through Heaven’s quiet roads and golden fields, unable to let go, tormented by everything left unresolved.
AKA - These two idiots finally get their shit together.
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Can Your Love Make the Withered Flowers in My Heart Bloom? by serrawn
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Jun 2025
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Dean Winchester is a single mom, café owner, and the center of his daughter Claire’s small but steady world. He bakes like it’s therapy and loves like it’s war—especially after everything Lisa left behind.
Castiel Novak is a philosophy teacher, a single dad to Emma, and the kind of Alpha who makes Dean forget how to breathe. Gentle, steady, infuriatingly handsome—he shows up like clockwork, and somehow always sees too much.
Their daughters are already dreaming of endgame. But ghosts don’t stay buried, and Lisa’s shadow still knows where to find them.
Can Dean and Cas build something real—or will old wounds tear it apart before it begins?
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When Dean falls off a ladder trying to put up some Christmas lights, he finally gets to meet the next-door neighbor he'd been avoiding. Turns out Pastor Novak isn't a pastor anymore and is struggling to sort his life out just as much as Dean is. Neither of them is very good at accepting help, but they manage to get past each other's defenses and quickly become close. They decide to have a friendly competition to see who can have a better upcoming year. May the best man win.
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There was a knock on the front door. Dean groaned, but went to answer it.
Castiel stood on his porch, holding out a store-bought pie. “I don’t cook.”
“Okay?”
“Everybody coordinated to bring you something, since we weren’t sure if you were going to be able to feed yourself when you got home. I don’t know if you saw that there were a few dishes in your fridge.”
“Everybody?”
“Well, everybody except me because I don’t cook.”
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after sam’s death in 2060, dean and castiel disappear from the world.
what follows is decades of silence and drifting—two immortals moving through a world that has begun to forget them. dean, a vampire, struggles with the slow crawl of time and the crushing weight of outliving everyone he’s ever loved.
eventually, they stop running. a cabin. a quiet life. a stillness brings both peace and dissonance—until the past begins to echo forward again.
when family comes looking for them, bringing warnings of supernatural unrest and signs that jack’s heaven is slipping out of reach, dean is faced with the hardest question of all: what does it mean to keep living, when everyone else is gone?
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1) sexual content is indicated with a !, so feel free to just skip if desired
2) although all chapters will include trigger warnings where appropriate, any particularly difficult chapters will include a # as well
3) any alterations or new chapters out of order will be indicated with a *
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- Part 2 of night shift
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Handprint On My Heart by rain_fa3ri3
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton
18 Jun 2025
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In a world where borrowers are real, so are soulmates, and only one of them is commonly known about (hint: it’s not the the tiny people living in the walls). Dean and Castiel stumble into fate and rebel against it at once, falling for each other despite the odds and changing one another for the better.
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“And all I've seen
Since eighteen hours ago
Is green eyes and freckles and your smile."
Loosely based off Taylor Swift's song of the same name, Dean knows he never wants to be with an alpha even when he meets his true mate.
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I’m Losing Myself in the Mirror, Darling. Don't You See? by serrawn
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
16 Jun 2025
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Dean Winchester-Novak keeps the floors spotless, the laundry folded, the smile rehearsed. That’s what perfect omegas do. That’s how they stay wanted.
He calls it love—this routine, this silence, this ache tucked under perfect sheets. But something inside him is unraveling, and no matter how tightly he grips the edges, it keeps slipping through.
Castiel Novak, his alpha, sees the cracks. Tries to reach through them. But Dean has built walls out of obedience and fear, and even love can bruise when it knocks too hard.
Maybe healing is possible.
Maybe not.
Some people break loud.
But Dean is breaking quietly.Series
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It's the late 1930's in the not-so-well-spoken Hays County, TX. Amidst the quiet glances exchanged between the townspeople, Dean Winchester is witness to some darker secrets that keep it running, after being sold to Alastair when he was 13. Trying to keep his life together and support his brother, Sam, luck strikes.
Castiel Novak, a lawyer fighting for the Prohibition walks straight into Hays County to fight his next enemy: Alastair. By happenstance meeting, Castiel and Dean develop a business relationship, that starts to develop into an emotional war between doing the right thing for his cause and helping Dean. With flirtations and feelings, a not-so-professional connection blossoms.
But Castiel is here to bring down Alastair. Unable to separate his feelings for Dean from the job, the pair get equally dragged into a much darker ring of truths which may answer the questions nobody knew they had.
What happens when the creaking woods and dusty papers all over Alastair's bar put Dean and Castiel in danger?
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Ghosts that we knew (we'll be alright) by Drake_Rhapsody
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
16 Jun 2025
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After the Empty took Castiel, Dean pushed everything he felt inside a Very Secret, Very Closed Box in his head and swallowed the key. The Box had been intact and hermetic for two years in its corner of Dean’s mind, and because of that, Dean had been able to stay sane and focused. More or less.
But now, with Cas back, with every day they didn’t talk about what's between them, the Box is starting to leak.Castiel isn't complaining, far from it: He has a roof over his head, good shower pressure and food. He’s so grateful he’s afraid. Because he believed to have all those things once before, human and lost and confused, only to have the rug pulled under his feet.
And there’s the fact that, the last time he died, he carved his heart out for Dean to take, and the hunter hasn’t said anything about it.
Maybe that’s as good an answer as he’s going to get.