Dean’s your typical half-orphaned, monster-killing 22-year-old until a trenchcoated stranger crashes into his back windshield one September night, claiming he’s an angel that knows him from the future and that he’s on the run.
Frigging fantastic.
(Or, in which Castiel gets stuck in Dean’s timeline preseries and Dean kind of hates it—until he doesn’t.)
Despite Zeke’s threats, Dean doesn’t tell Cas to leave the bunker. He revels in their burgeoning relationship, content to end his day with Cas asleep on his shoulder, even if they’ll always sleep in separate rooms. Cas is it for him. But when Cas begins to experience physical urges he can’t control, he asks Dean for a hand—metaphorically, and later, literally.
Prompt: (Set in early S9 – Cas does not get kicked out of the bunker) – Cas is newly human and has urges & experiences in his sleep & in the shower. Dean, awkwardly at first (then more and more progressively enthusiastically) shows Cas the ropes to deal with said urges. Eventually this progresses to their first time being intimate together.
tags/warnings: canon divergent, case fic, fake boyfriends, fallen Cas
The angels have fallen, leaving Castiel graceless and Dean with, well, more of other people’s problems. When a string of couples goes missing on the east coast, Dean and Cas decide to investigate—and find themselves trapped and hunted on a couples’ counseling cruise. Although battling monsters at sea is dangerous enough, sorting through emotional baggage proves to be far more deadly. (And, in which Cas embarks to find his missing grace and Dean is put out. Not necessarily in that order.)
This is the day that marked the Holy and Blessed Union of Dean Winchester and Jo Harvelle. The merging of prominent bloodlines is always a grand occurrence, but breeding pedigree hunter families like Winchester and Harvelle is something to be rejoiced. It is also something to be meticulously planned, which thankfully the Host is very good at.
Or, the romantic comedy where Dean Winchester and Jo Harvelle are destined to get married, Castiel is given the task of playing matchmaker and fails terribly, the entire Heavenly Host becomes a sitcom audience, God warns against male pregnancy, and Jimmy Novak is incredibly unimpressed with angels in general.
tags/warnings: canon compliant, pwp, masturbation, bottom Cas
Dean walks in on Cas masturbating. He’s doing it all wrong, but when you’re a bazillion-year-old virgin, that’s to be expected. Dean decides to lend him a hand in a totally platonic, non-romantic way. Things get a little out of control.
When Metatron breaks free of the library, Castiel’s grace in hand, and disappears, Castiel is left human– and angry. Angrier than he’ll admit until, late at night, Dean coaxes it out of him: Castiel is pissed and he wants revenge. He wants it enough to pursue Metatron, reckless and without a plan, across the Atlantic with Dean at his side, knowing how badly he wants Dean and how likely it is that one or both of them will die along the way.
Their search takes them all across the world, from London to Omsk to Tokyo and between. Far from home with no one but each other, Castiel’s grace missing and the Mark still on Dean’s arm, Dean and Castiel find the flimsy barriers between the two of them dissolving. (Canon-divergent from 10.18.)
Picture your typical rom-com cliché. Now picture Dean stuck in that rom-com cliché. With Castiel. Because that’s what happening to him – a crazy whirlwind of your typical-and-not-so-typical cliché’s. He’s playing the main lead in all of them and Castiel’s his counterpart. Of course, the culprit is obvious. Gabe’s enjoying himself too much, lying back on his favourite cloud with a tub of salted popcorn.
It was about time someone kicked the two knuckleheads into gear.
Castiel travels with the angel tablet and without the Winchesters. One day, Dean gets a text from some anonymous number. (They speak in the language of need.)
tags/warnings: canon compliant, some angst, rom com
It’s not that hard to date an angel. All Dean has to do is fight off hordes of vampires, research gay porn, get sucked into a crappy Narnia, endure Sam’s comments, creep out on Dr. Sexy, get harassed – oh, and that’s right– figure out he’s into Cas. Easy, right?
Gabriel is tired of having to listen to Castiel’s woes about the Winchesters, so he decides to take matters into his own hands… and turns Castiel into a furry pet for the Winchesters to take care of.
A routine haunting lands Dean in a historic hotel with his brother, a flirtatious Cas look-a-like, and a grouchy Angel of the Lord masquerading as his husband.
Castiel’s humanity offers him a vibrant imagination, and it keeps catching Dean by surprise. (Or, four ways they could have fallen in love, and one way they did.)
tags/warnings: canon compliant, slow build, Cas is in Sam’s body (no Wincest)
Purged of all his souls, Castiel is a changed being, stronger than an angel and too powerful for Jimmy’s body to contain. Happily, there’s an archangel’s vessel on hand, and he could use fixing, too. Dean isn’t too happy about the idea of his brother acting as a vessel for Castiel, and Sam can guess why, but it isn’t until Castiel gets inside his head and they learn to share the vessel – and their thoughts – that Sam realises Cas is as in love with Dean as Dean is with him. It’s unfortunate that there’s nothing much to be done about it now, but Castiel will get another vessel soon. The Winchesters will make damn sure of that. In the meantime, it’s up to the three of them to establish their own strange accord, and Dean realises more fully than ever that it’s Castiel, and not his vessel, that he loves.
Cas and Dean and Sam hole up in the Bunker after the angels fall. Which would be a nice vacation if it weren’t for Cas and Dean and all the things they can’t talk about.
Or, a post-season 8 story of Dean and Cas figuring things out. Cas is bad at being human and Dean is bad at being human. It’s not as easy as it should be.
Fed up of his brother setting him up on terrible dates, Dean appoints Cas as his wingman.
Cas only has one condition; he can ask one favour from Dean, and Dean can’t refuse.
When that favour turns out to be a date, Dean is apprehensive. Misunderstandings, mistakes and misdirected angst ensue, and it’s all written on Dean’s soul.
tags/warnings: canon divergence, case fic, established Dean/Cas
“What do you want me to say, Cas? My brother, who I haven’t seen in eleven years, just popped up out of nowhere and wants to join our hunt. My brother, who was raised by my dad and has no idea what we’ve been up to, wants to hang out with us—” “Why is that such a bad thing, Dean?” A pause. “You know what my dad was like.”
or
The one where Cas and Dean have everything figured out, and it’s Sam that’s the idiot.
tags/warnings: canon compliant, Christmas, bisexual Dean, Dean in panties, fluff, b&b, bottom Dean, top Cas
It’s Christmas Eve, and Dean, Sam and Castiel are snowed into a small town with a big festive spirit. They splurge on a fancy room in a B&B – hey, they deserve a treat. There’s a tiny plastic tree and a working TV, so they could perhaps overlook the lack of hot water and Dean having to bunk with Sam. Sleeping arrangements soon reach a happier equilibrium: Dean’s just cuddling Cas to keep him warm, he swears – the tingly feeling means nothing! Christmas Day arrives, and Cas still doesn’t have a gift for Dean. Dean doesn’t know what to give Cas, either. Sam has a few ideas, but will the other two truly understand what he means?
tags/warnings: canon compliant, angst, hurt/comfort, blind Cas
Castiel survived Leviathan–but only barely. Vessel mauled and eyes destroyed, Cas is barely clinging to what’s left of his grace when Dean finds him naked and alone on the reservoir’s edge; in a panic, Dean brings him home to the cabin where he and Sam have been holed up off the grid. What follows is the slow process of the angel’s recovery and the unexpected changes that come with his being blind, and in the three months this takes, their little family slowly begins to patch itself back together in forgiveness, love, and darkness.
tags/warnings: canon divergent, case fic, established Dean/Cas, angst
Sam, Cas, and Dean travel to Michigan to investigate a series of deaths along Lake Superior. But with little evidence to go on, Sam begins to doubt his instincts and wonder if the deaths are accidental when Dean develops an inexplicable draw to the lake.
tags/warnings: canon divergent, cat Dean, fallen Cas, hurt/comfort, sick Sam (kind of very sick)
A few days ago, the angels were cast out of Heaven. Castiel believes it’s all his fault, and now he’s almost out of power, too. But that’s unimportant – Sam is dying, and Dean needs Cas to fix him before it’s too late. Cas’ selfless last efforts to save Sam backfire in the most unexpected way: Dean transforms into a cat. It seems like he’ll be stuck like that, and all Castiel can do is blame himself. The days pass without any clues on how to fix their predicament, and when Sam starts getting sick again, with Dean out for the count, Castiel realises that he’s the only one who can save Sam.
While it’s not like Dean hasn’t had a couple of truly regrettable hit-and-runs in his sexual history, this is probably the saddest fucking thing that has ever happened to him.
tags/warnings: canon divergence, domestic, slow burn, bottom Dean
The Pillow ‘Verse was a tumblr-based Dean/Castiel round-robin fanfiction challenge that took place over Supernatural’s 2013 summer hiatus.
A canon-based domestic!fic shared universe set in the Men of Letter’s bunker, The Pillow ‘Verse follows Dean, Castiel, Sam, and their small cohort of rabble-rousers through stories of love, nest building, family, and healing following the 8×23 Supernatural finale Sacrifice.
This is a story of the things that happen after the fall.
tags/warnings: canon divergence, case fic, slow build, Shakespeare references
A newly mortal Castiel wants to understand humanity, and a little Shakespeare is just the thing to help him. Of course, it takes a little bit of prodding, but soon the Winchesters (along with Kevin and Charlie) are all part of the world’s weirdest reading club. Of course, the poetry starts having an effect on everyone…
After almost losing Charlie to the Stynes, and almost losing Cas in the fight that follows, Dean Winchester is ready to do whatever it takes to rid himself of the Mark of Cain. But when the solution turns out to lie in unfinished Winchester business – shutting the gates of hell – Dean begins to realize this is a quest he might not survive.
tags/warnings: canon compliant, PWP, bisexual Dean
All Dean has to do is track down a decent porno for Cas to watch, help him find his sensitive spots, then hang back and let him do his thing. Easy-peasy. No homo. …Absolutely no homo at all.
♡ When the Bough Breaks by captainshakespear and deanisthesun (become_normal) || rated M, 74k
tags/warnings: canon divergent, established Dean/Cas, parenthood, case fic
Years after the Darkness has been defeated, Dean and Cas are living the apple pie life in small-town Kansas. They don’t hunt anymore, and would like to keep it that way, but some young hunters knocking at their door have different plans.
Dean, Cas and Sam reluctantly agree to help out, but what ought to be a simple case becomes way more complicated and dangerous than they counted on. And when the hunt starts to invade the normal lives they’ve carved out for themselves and their kids, Dean and Cas begin to wonder if escaping the hunting life altogether might have been wishful thinking.
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