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He's about to ask who the hell she is, what the hell she thinks she's playing at— but then she squints, like she's trying to look past Dean's eyes to see right into him, and her head cocks birdlike, just so, and it tugs at something under his ribs, blooming into an ache that feels as good as it hurts, because somehow, it's him. It's Cas.
The Empty sends Castiel back different.
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14 Feb 2026
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Castiel scoffs. "I'll be fine," he insists, and he tries, he really does, to turn and vanish, but there's this look in Dean's eyes, this combination of fear and hurt, that keeps him from doing so. A few tense moments pass, and Castiel sighs. "I suppose a little while longer won't hurt," he says grudgingly.
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Castiel stays with the Winchesters when his stolen Grace begins to fail.
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10 Feb 2026
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Falling has left Castiel with all kinds of needs he doesn't know how to fulfill. None of them seem to come as naturally as the need to be close, and there is none he fights more stubbornly to overcome.
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01 Feb 2026
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Canon divergent from 08x23: Sacrifice. Fallen and slowly being eaten up by guilt for having helped Metatron empty out the skies, Castiel seeks refuge at the bunker and tries to find a way to set everything right. He clings to the one connection that he has always trusted to anchor him over the years, until it starts to crumble under the weight of all their combined responsibilities and finally disappears into the dark without a trace.
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22 Jan 2026
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A hunt goes wrong and forces Castiel's wings out. Stuck with him in a motel room, Dean helps him take care of them.
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18 Jan 2026
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It’s only the second time they’ve done this and the first without the threat of “last night on Earth” hanging over them, so Dean still concentrates on studying Cas’ face for those sweet little micro-expressions that Dean’s hips are working out of him. He goes slow, grinding back and forth in a slick, rolling motion like they have all the time in the world.
They don’t.
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While Sam sleeps, Dean and Cas sneak off to the backseat of the Impala.
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10 Jan 2026
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Castiel once said that freedom was a length of rope. Now that the writer of their lives is no longer present to make known what he'd like them to do with it, the Winchesters (and all the tangents of their found family) see that rope unspool, out into endlessness.
There's a lot to grapple with, from untangling their own pasts (what they were made to do and what they would have done anyway,) to dealing with the fallout of the confrontation in the present, to looking at the future of a world without its god.
(Picks up directly after 14x20: Moriah)
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10 Jan 2026
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you see me in the lovely garden tending by fleeceframe
Fandom Supernatural, Supernatural (TV 2005)
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04 Jan 2026
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Castiel and Sam are doing everything they can to keep Dean in touch with humanity as he descends further and further into the demonic. Although his brother can't see the scorched dragon wings and scaly skin, Castiel can, which is something that makes him more uncomfortable than he wants to acknowledge. They go camping because it was what Dean loved to do as a human, and that's when Castiel chooses to start bringing Dean back to his own soul despite how much he hates his new true form.
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24 Dec 2025
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12x23 AU. After the infant Jack is born, Castiel knows that the malignant forces of the world will never stop hunting him. The two of them go into hiding, staying far from both friend and foe - including the Winchesters. But when Dean accidentally stumbles across them, both Castiel and Dean will have to reckon with what they want and whether they can finally let themselves have it.
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14 Nov 2025
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Five years after Castiel's death, Dean has built a life in Murphy, North Carolina. A decent life, with a house he built with his own hands, and Jack, now five years old and beginning kindergarten in the fall. Only, after a string of failed relationships and sleepless nights staring at the urn on his windowsill, he makes an unwilling decision--to bury Castiel for good.
Only, the night he and Jack bury Castiel's ashes, the unthinkable happens--Castiel rises from the dead, wounded from his time in the Empty, and with his resurrection comes questions Dean never thought he would need answered. Namely, how long will Castiel stay with him--and will the Empty come back for him, once and for all?
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23 Oct 2025
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Charlie sets her beer down hard on the counter, making him flinch. “Are you trying to invent a problem?” she asks incredulously.
“What? No, dude, I’m telling you—”
“Your boyfriend turned down sex twice, once because you were concussed and your arm was broken, and once because he was about to drive out of state to help your brother,” Charlie summarises, brutal and unrelenting. “And you think that, what? You can never ask him for sex again because of that?”
Dean’s been playing catch-up his entire life, and he’s still figuring out the whole “asking for what I want” thing.
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17 Oct 2025
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It's been years of watching Dean and Cas dance around their feelings and at this point, Sam's losing hope that they'll ever take that step and talk things out already. One well-placed spell from Rowena makes Dean and Cas incapable of not talking, but even that doesn't get them together. Will Sam ever be able to help the morons he's forced to live with get together already, or is he destined for a life of perpetually being stuck between them as some sort of bizarre marriage counselor that neither seems aware the other also talks to?
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05 Oct 2025
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When rescuing Mary, Jack, and the other hunters from the alternative universe, Sam and Dean come back with someone else: Castiel's alternate self. They bring him back to the Bunker with the excuse of him being a valuable source of information, but really, Castiel thinks that they just can't find it in themselves to admit how broken a version of him can be. And yet, Castiel finds he can't stay away from his other self, no matter how much Sam and Dean want him to.
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04 Oct 2025
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Sam couldn't believe what he was seeing as he glanced between his older brother and Castiel. Instead of two fully grown men, a pair of children stared back at him.
"Hiya, Sammy," Dean greeted brightly.
"Hello, Sam," Cas echoed from beside him.
"Oh my God," Sam repeated, "oh jeez."
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01 Oct 2025
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"But Dean's intelligence was every bit as formal and shining and complete, without the tedious intellectualness. And his 'criminality' was not something that sulked and sneered; it was a wild yea-saying overburst of American joy; it was Western, the west wind, an ode from the Plains, something new, long prophesied, long a-coming. Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced into society, eager for bread and love."
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
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29 Sep 2025
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Dean’s always wanted a supernatural companion. Something strange and maybe a little dangerous - the kind of pet that would make people stop and stare. Now that he’s finally settled into a place of his own, it feels like the right time, but the supernatural creature he ends up taking home isn’t what he imagined.
Hidden in the back of the emporium, caged and collared, is an angel with dirt-matted feathers, half-healed bruises, and eyes that burn cold when they finally meet Dean’s. Dean knows he’s in no way prepared for this, but he also knows he can’t just leave him there.
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24 Sep 2025
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LJ DCBB 2012. Post-Swan Song AU. It’s just your run-of-the-mill monster hunt until Castiel suddenly powers down and loses all his mojo faster than a hooker siphoning petrol from the back of a customer’s truck. Completely lacking any sort of answer as to what the hell is going on, Team Free Will hole up within the safe confines of Bobby’s house, where at the very least there are books, tools, and a steady supply of peppermint tea. It’s pretty damn inconvenient, to be honest - Dean’s already got enough on his plate trying to work out his place in the aftermath of a very anticlimactic Apocalypse, without also having to babysit an angel who is on a daily basis growing ever weaker, sicker, and, by all indications, gayer than a maypole — thanks to Sam’s musical influence. However, as freak snowstorms pin them in place, and as days turn into weeks with no new answers, there are certain truths which must be confronted: that Dean’s frustration runs deeper than cabin fever, that there is a darkness inside Castiel rattling to rear its ugly head, and that the evil seeping into every crevice and corner of Bobby’s house is only getting started.
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10 Sep 2025
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It’s been several months since the events of 15x19, and the world is at ease. Dean Winchester isn’t, though.
It takes a drunken night and a conversation with Sam for the Winchesters and a newly depowered Jack to start working on a way to get to the Empty to bring back Castiel, their angel best friend. After several weeks, the team enlist the assistance of the new Queen of Hell and find a spell. With Rowena’s help, Cas is finally back, alive, and for a moment everything looks brighter. Jack and Sam are ecstatic, and Dean’s had enough time to figure out what he wants to tell Cas. He’s ready to speak his truth.
Except, Cas doesn’t seem to recognize Jack, and the first thing he does is ask Dean how he’s managed to get rid of the mark. He doesn’t remember that Chuck, the flimsy prophet he met years ago, was God and that they just beat his ass. Actually, there’s a lot he doesn’t remember… Including telling Dean he loved him before getting taken by the Empty.
Now starts a different quest- figuring out what’s keeping a newly human Cas from remembering the past 5 years by their side, and helping him regain the memories he’s lost.
Of course, as is custom for Winchesters, nothing goes as planned.
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09 Sep 2025