aka ‘good shit’ because it was prompted by this post about how it’s good shit when the apparently selfish uncaring character proceeds to get themself wounded saving other characters and determinedly pretends they aren’t hurt because THEY DON’T CARE OKAY
3k words, casual Sabriel plus married Destiel but it’s really YOU ARE ALL MY FAMILY DAMMIT, also Gabriel and Castiel are dragons because why not.
Yeah, well, how about you drop us a line when you decide to think of anyone other than yourself, chuckles. Until then, stay the hell away from Cas and my brother.
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Gabriel slammed the demon against the wall. Its claws scrabbled at his wrist, and he let his own claws slide out. They dug into its throat, golden and slender and hard as steel.
“You know what I am,” he said cheerfully. “So I’m guessing a bright little minion like you can guess what I’m here for. How about you tell me where they are nice and quick and I only incinerate you a little bit, huh?”
Castiel is playing in his first NHL season when he meets Dean, a model who has just broken into the industry. He goes home with Dean, because it’s easy, and they keep hooking up, because it makes sense. They’re two, busy people who travel all the time, and it’s not like he’s looking for anything serious – until he does and he wants it with Dean, who’s become his best friend and the love of his life. Life, however, is no fairy tale, and when Dean starts dating for real, Cas lets him go because he loves him. He comes to terms with his broken heart, resigned to however much time he’ll need to mend it, but then Dean is left at the altar at his own wedding and asks if Cas will come with him on his honeymoon.
Title: Entertaining Strangers Author:domesticadventures Artist:kuwlshadow Rating: M Length: 30,000 words Pairings: Dean/Castiel Warnings: None
Summary: There are angels all over the country. Dean has seen them on street corners, met them in bars, taken them to bed. He never expected to wind up with one sleeping on his couch, but he supposes stranger things have happened.
Title: It Starts With a Kiss Author: jhoomwrites Artist: ricketyjukeboxer Rating: M Word Count: 26k Pairings: Dean/Cas Warnings: none
Dean and Cas have been good friends ever since Charlie introduced them. Best friends, even. So what if more feelings might lurk beneath the surface — it’s not like either would ever act on them and risk the good thing they already have.
But a few brief nights together during a shared heat/rut cycle threaten to jeopardize that delicate balance. Especially when they each find out life changing news shortly afterwards.
Title: The Scent of Magic Author: @dr-dean Artist: @cenedrariva Rating: Explicit Word Count: 24,009 Pairings: Dean/Cas (background Jody/Donna & Charlie/Dorthy) Warnings: Smut
After a hunt Dean gets turned into a werewolf. But he doesn’t let that stop him, and goes back out hunting with his brother Sam. He meets witch Cas and sparks fly.
Cas helps them on a case and in exchange Dean stays with him for a month. He learns that not only is he a werewolf now, but he’s also a familiar. And Cas’ magic pulls him in.
A werewolf/witch/familiar au with some ABO and lots of fluff.
Title: Winchester 275 Author: mittensmorgul (MittenWraith on AO3) Artist: whichstiel Rating: Mature Word Count: 57k Pairings: Dean/Cas (Sam/Eileen, Jesse/Cesar, Garth/Bess, other background/implied pairings mentioned) Warnings: stuff that happens on farms, canon-typical snarkiness, several bad puns, one instance of non-consensual karaoke, one pool hustle, casual alcohol consumption, stargazing, and cowboy hats (and boots)
Seven years after Sam left the family’s ranch to attend Stanford, Dean’s completely transformed the family’s failing cattle business into a growing horse ranch. Sam’s only got one condition for coming back home after graduation– let him have a shot to build something of his own, the same as Dean’s done. The catch? Sam and Eileen, along with their architect friend Hannah, want to turn a tiny corner of Dean’s slice of heaven into a dude ranch.
The land itself might be heaven on earth, but Dean’s invested his entire life into it. He’d made his peace with being alone, until he meets Hannah’s brother. Castiel is a solar astronomer who is reluctantly coerced into helping his sister charm Sam’s gruff and stubborn brother into saying yes to what has become her dream project. He doesn’t imagine he’d have anything in common with a cowboy, but he finds that Dean’s the one who ends up charming him.
Cas won’t do anything to jeopardize Hannah’s shot at her dream, and Dean is reluctant to put Sam’s homecoming at risk. If only Dean and Cas could keep their distance from one another, maybe they could set aside their attraction for the sake of their siblings’ business plans. The heavens seem to have other plans for them…
Title: If Love Was a River Author:LoversAntiquities Artist:Subtextiel Rating: Mature Length: 17364 Pairings: Dean/Castiel Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence
Never in any universe did Dean figure that Angels existed. Sure, there’s demons and monsters, but not Angels. And especially, as it turns out, not strange men falling from the sky with weather-changing wings and voices that sound like the creation of the universe itself. What Dean can’t understand, though, is that this man that calls himself Castiel, is a star—and a star that holds the secrets of the universe in his hands.
Meanwhile, Orion’s Belt is missing one of its brightest stars, and Dean and Sam find themselves watching over Castiel until his wings mend and he can fly again, far away from where Dean wants him to be. Because Castiel’s sudden appearance isn’t accidental, not to Dean. Castiel is everything he ever wanted, inhuman or not—and Dean will do whatever it takes to make him feel at home and keep him safe, for as long as it takes, until Orion calls Castiel home.
I’m finally caught up! A little present for y’all before the episode tonight. Takes place between 13.13 and 13.14.
For no particular reason, here’s a Destiel fried chicken dinner date.
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He finishes putting his gun back together only to start taking it apart again.
The pieces move and click in his hands with a rhythm as sure and familiar as a Zeppelin song. The slide comes apart, the barrel pops out onto the table, he instinctively runs a rag along all the inner ridges a second time. A third. A fourth.
He doesn’t look across the table at Cas. He can feel the proximity of Castiel’s shoe next to his own under the table; it would be easy for him to shift and press their feet together, but something stops him. He keeps his eyes down and takes apart his gun over and over and over, gritting his teeth.
How could I not know, he berates himself. How.
Castiel sighs, and for a moment Dean panics that he’s heard his self-punishing inner monologue. Castiel pushes his chair away from the table and stands, but he doesn’t say anything. Before he turns, he reaches out and taps Dean on the hand, just once, like one of their customary pats on the shoulder only much softer, and the gun pieces stop moving in Dean’s grip. The moment is so quick and casual that Dean feels a little ridiculous for fixating on it.
Castiel turns and walks through the door, leaving the rest of them behind. Dean watches him go and chews the inside of his cheek. Sam, blessedly, doesn’t appear to notice.
He tips his head down and returns to his task. Cas will come back.
Probably.
“For the love of God!” Donatello thunders, slapping his hands flat on the table.
Sam startles. Dean regards him with raised eyebrows.
“Will you shut up with that? Ticktickticktick all in my ears! I can’t think!” he shouts, glaring accusingly in Dean’s direction.
Dean puts down his gun. He wipes his hands on his dirty piece of rag cloth.
He pushes his chair away from the table and stands. Donatello actually sighs in relief.
Title: Living In Your Hell Author: archofimagine Artist: kamicom Rating: NC:17 Length: 20k Pairings: Dean/Cas (small mentions of unrequited Sam/Cas) Warnings: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, unwanted turning (via scent), a somewhat severe prejudice against alphas and omegas, some jerk characters that are normally nice (like Kevin), Mpreg, Alpha Dean, Omega Castiel, Omega Castiel/Alpha Dean Winchester, Implied/Referenced Drug Use
Summary: Omegas aren’t born. Everyone is born either Beta or Alpha (the high majority being Beta), and the only way Omegas are created is if turned by an Alpha in rut. Because of this fear of being turned, Alphas spotted out during their rut are often shot on sight to protect Betas. Castiel befriends a kid named Sam during his final year of high school. Sam is hated and treated like an outcast because his brother is an Alpha, but Cas learns that the brother does all he can to stay locked up during a rut, trying to prevent accidental turnings or his own death.
Unfortunately, since it’s so rare, no one is taught about ‘true mates’ and the fact that a Beta can turn just from the scent of said mate. Castiel wakes up one morning in the hospital, as an Omega, and finds out that the idiot he witnessed hitting on girls (badly) at a random bar… is now his mate.
Title: Owlet Author: Wingsandcoffee Artist: Kuwlshadow Rating: mature (ish) Length: 20383 Pairings: Dean/Cas, minor Michael/Athena Warnings: minor angst, whump!Castiel (a little)
Summary: When angels are taken to Re-Education, their memories are altered, which means they don’t remember making the mistakes that brought them there. So naturally, it made sense to Michael that Castiel kept rebelling because he never remembered the lessons he needed to learn. To keep the rebel angel from continuing his interference, Michael not only returns all of Castiel’s stolen memories but takes his Grace as well. Castiel always knew that when an angel’s Grace was ripped out it was quite painful. He didn’t know that he’d been taken to Re-Education more than that time some months previous. He didn’t expect the true memories that would rush back at him and he certainly didn’t expect to remember that he hadn’t always been a full angel. It just figured that the other half of him was something that Dean didn’t understand. Now that he was completely human Castiel felt completely useless and tells Dean as much. But Dean doesn’t give up on those he considers family and isn’t gonna toss Cas to the streets just because he’s human. In fact, maybe Cas being human was just what they both needed to stop ignoring the feelings they’d both been running from.
Karate, SPN Demonic Octopus Guardian 