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Dean Winchester’s done a lot of stupid jobs, but escorting a pretty noble into the Forgotten Forest might be the worst. The pay is suspicious, but he needs to provide for his family. A pilgrimage into a cursed forest can’t be that dangerous… right?
Dean’s got a curse of his own, one that punishes those he gets close to, but he can’t stop wanting the man he’s supposed to protect. The deeper they travel, the more time goes wrong and memory slips. Can his training keep him (and his secrets) safe, or will an old prophecy tear everything apart?
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A conversation between Rowena and Gabriel during Act 1 of The Last Show, happening just beyond the spotlight.
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When Castiel checks out a haunted burlesque club, he’s expecting a simple salt-and-burn. One moment he’s in 2025, the next he’s in 1948, sharing a cigarette with an enigmatic stranger.
Mistaken for a PI, Castiel learns the new owner is obsessed with the headliner, Dean. Castiel doesn’t get attached to people; drugs and sex are easier. But there’s something about Dean…
The club is trapped in a time loop, and every choice Castiel makes warps the future. To stop it, he’ll have to untangle a ritual and confront his growing attachment to a man who is doomed to burn.
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- Part 1 of The Last Show
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Castiel sees his a coworker on a dating app and swipes left to avoid humiliation. Months later, a stray comment outs him to the same coworker, Dean Winchester.
As misunderstandings pile up and avoidance becomes its own kind of harm, Castiel is left asking: how much of the life he’s built is peace and how much of it is just practice at staying unseen?
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Dean came for the pool tables. He stayed for Cas, the older, tattooed bartender who never flirts but always steps in when Dean gets in over his head. One night, things go too far, and Cas crosses a line of his own. It could break Dean down… or be his lucky break.
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Coronation day.
The recent demise of his father, King of Cielos, has Prince Castiel next in line for the crown.
As a sworn enemy of the throne, it's Dean's job to disrupt that.
What ensues following their chance encounter is a bond as profound as the depths that surround them — something that both are willing to topple entire nations to protect.
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Blood—All Dean remembers of the incident is blood, and all he feels is the pain of wounds he can't see unless Sam holds a mirror up to his back. Banishing Castiel away from Billie and the Entity worked, maybe a little too well. Meanwhile halfway across the country, a mysterious man washes up in the middle of a freak storm off the Florida coast, paralyzed and mute, but with the ability to tell his nurse just who he is.
Almost half a world away, Castiel crashlands, and Dean believes in his heart that he killed him. But the world is small, and maybe, just maybe, for once, Dean is wrong.
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half a world away by loversantiquities
Beautiful alternative ending to "Despair". Painful in the way sometimes you need to break something to set it right.
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2014, Camp Chitaqua. Upon meeting the past version of Dean sent by Zachariah, Castiel knows only one thing for certain:
Very soon, he's going to die.
So he decides he might as well go out with a bang and enjoy one last night on Earth with this more innocent, less cynical Dean.
What he doesn't expect is for a single night of desperate passion to leave him pregnant, carrying a child who ends up saving both his and Dean's lives.
2015, Lebanon, Kansas. Castiel, Dean and Sam have been carrying on with "saving people, hunting things" along with dodging one apocalypse after another for years. While hunkered down in the bunker recovering from Rowena's mad dog spell, Cas is surprised to have another Dean, along with a heavily pregnant version of himself, come stumbling through a fiery rift and into their lives.
In the process of preparing for the birth of a powerful nephil, secrets of the past are revealed and relationships put to the test in ways none of them could have ever anticipated. Meanwhile, the threat of The Darkness looms and leaves them wondering: could this child be the one to save them all?
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Playing for Time by sidewinder
Lucifer kills Dean. Cas is pregnant so when he should die, he doesn't. He gets to Dean and he's dead, but the baby allows Cas to bring Dean back. Then Dean and Cas go off and hide from Lucifer. Cas hides the pregnancy for awhile, but eventually tells Dean.
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The Things That Hunt You in the Night by FriendofCarlotta
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Dec 2025
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1993: Twelve-year-old Castiel Novak would follow his best friend Dean Winchester anywhere — including to a cabin in the woods where they find a mysterious board game inspired by their favorite book, Carnival of Terror. When Dean disappears while playing the game, Castiel is forced to confront a new world: one where his memories of what happened to Dean are dismissed as the fictions of a traumatized mind.
2008: Living in a new town, under a new name, Castiel is doing his best to move on with his life. But when Dean’s younger brother Sam appears on his doorstep in search of answers, Castiel needs to make a choice: does he truly want to let the past go? Or should he play the game one final time and hope that Dean will return to him?
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The Things That Hunt You in the Night by FriendofCarlotta
Goosebumps meets Jumanji.
Loved this fic. It’s about how you move past horror and trauma. Also strong mirrors and parallels.
I feel like this fic was about generational trauma at its core.
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In 1942, the City of New York banned pinball games.
For newly returned WWII veteran (and avid pinball player) Castiel Novak, it's just one more thing that's been taken from him. He finds a place of refuge at the Village Laundromat, an establishment run by best friends Charlie Bradbury and Dean Winchester. The illegal pinball arcade in the laundromat's back room soon becomes a second home for Castiel.
Over the ensuing decades, it also becomes the place where Castiel falls in love, grows old, and witnesses changes he never even dared to imagine.
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Pinball Wizard by FriendofCarlotta
On the surface yes this is a romance with Dean and Castiel and pinball being banned in NYC.
But that’s only the surface level. Beneath it are all the moments that define the generation. The history we haven’t lost. The progress that at times feels tenuous. And just how much things can change in a single generation.
Lovely, lovely story.