- dean winchester/castiel
- a second grace: (M) cas dies and dean starts referring to himself as a widower. this is somewhat confusing for everyone involved.
- i loved you first: (M) cas saves himself from the empty, and comes home. this is not the end.
- because he wears cowboy boots: (E) when cas comes back from the empty, dean has to rethink everything about their relationship, and dean’s new, post-chuck duty.
- sometimes you have to lose to win: (E) the thing is, dean is okay with being bisexual. just not so much in practice.
- exit wounds: (M) dean had made a promise; that he would keep trying to live.
- houses of the holy: (T) pieces of time begin to go missing and dean is running out of ways to rationalize everything.
- let me tell you the secret: (T) while packing up dean's room after his death, sam stumbles onto a shoebox shoved under the bed, filled with seven letters and an old notebook.
- plating lilies: (U) sam felt out of place, shifting his weight backwards and forwards as he stood watching his brother watering the dead angel’s garden and possibly having a mental snap at the same time.
- if wishes were horses: (T) "dean,” said mary. “are you going on a hunt in heaven?” "yeah,” said dean. “i reckon i am.”
- speak silence no more: (T) when dean imagined this moment, it went like this: dean bursts into the empty. the reality of the moment is this: it’s fucking cold.
- dollar in the jukebox: (E) “this is why we don’t take the cops on roadtrips, dean!” sam yells in his ear.
- theodicy: (M) as before, as now, as it will be again, the first significant act of creation by god shall be to forge l'hosif-or.
- ascend: (M) something in the world is wrong.
- another routine mauling: (M) “don’t call me buddy,” cas says.
- and watch what happens: (E) cass is the happiest he’s ever been, and he’s also losing his mind. it’s a very weird year.
- what stays and what fades away: (E) dean winchester’s life was already shattered when he lost castiel.
- to be restored: (E) the empty sends castiel back different.
- yarrow lilac and foxglove: (E) dean, cas, and the magical garden down the road.
- seek to know you better: (E) family don't end in blood, and neither does dean winchester.
- and neither do you: (M) family don't end in blood, and neither does dean winchester.
- the lover's choice: (M) jack resurrects them all bc he thinks his dads should have more friends.
- on labor: (E) cas is back from the empty, and dean knows how to be grateful.
- because it is: (M) dean lasts three months. dean does what sam tells him, keeps his distance, lets cas pass him again and again, but dean’s never been good at being patient.
- on the wings of war: (T) The four horsemen are not just people with fancy rings. dean winchester is not built like them.
- oh, how it shakes the ground: (E) “i did not ask how i could make you feel better,” cas settles further into his chair. “what i asked was how i could help you."
- finger foods: (T) dean and cas eating each other’s food.
- boom de yada: (E) "you know," castiel said, as his palm skimmed down dean's chest and lightly over his cock, "humans are one of the few primates that don't possess penis bones."
- good enough: (T) cas is staring at him blankly, and any other time dean would feel triumphant for managing to stump him. not right now, though.
- the unwavering heart of a winchester: (E) there’s no point in mincing words. sam is dead, and without him dean is a drunken shell of who he used to be.
- what's missing is found: (M) it's not the first time claire has ever gone missing. it is, however, the first time kaia panics about it.
- according to all known laws of life: (E) cas comes back. it's not exactly the reunion that dean is expecting.
- in some sacred place: (T) dean has cystic fibrosis, a brutal respiratory disease that means he can’t cut it in the life his father chose for him, despite his very best efforts.
- a turn of the earth: (M) castiel gets stuck in dean’s timeline preseries and dean kind of hates it—until he doesn’t.
- the 36 questions that lead to love: (T) jack deposits cas outside the bunker freshly human with his grace around his neck.
- rivers always reach the sea: (G) not everything made it out of the empty.
- under the same sun: (E) in which time is infinite, and so is the list of people willing to help dean figure out what to do about cas.
- the weight of silence: (E) the weight of silence is heavy on dean's shoulders as he learns to live a new kind of life in heaven.
- downwards: (E) “this is about my falling, isn’t it? you don’t think i should engage in human activities that so blatantly go against what i used to be.”
- bearing point: (E) dean is a contractor who's resigned himself to being alone.
- faith healer: (E) dean hates faith healers. scam artists and power-hungry dicks, all of them.
- delilah: (E) angels aren't supposed to survive the lance of michael, but here cas is, fluttering a set of healed wings instead of dying ugly and slow, all because fucking crowley exploited the mother of all loopholes.
- the rapture of distress: (M) castiel is a hunter and he’s visited by an angel.
- empyrean: (E) where cas is a fallen star (read: alien) who hates humanity, dean is a man with a complicated past, and charlie is living in what she thinks is a neil gaiman novel, but is actually a guillermo del toro film.
- ghosts that we knew: (E) castiel novak is one of the best hunters dean winchester has ever worked with. too bad he's dead.
- protect and serve: (E) police officer dean winchester's next assignment seems easy enough: a protection detail on assistant district attorney castiel novak, who's been receiving death threats in conjunction with the case that he's prosecuting.
- number 1 crush: (E) dean, benny, charlie, garth, and cas are old college buddies. in their thirties now, they meet up once a year to shed their adult responsibilities for a week.
- a midterms night's dream: (T) there's at least fifteen good reasons why they're not sleeping together, it's just that dean can’t remember them when cas sends him one second dirty snapchats to goad him into doing the dishes.
- bad things: (E) dean is living the life of a middle-class suburbanite.
- march-stalkers mighty: (E) when dean was a kid, before he figured out that you didn't talk to things that didn't look human.
- one million fires burning: (E) dean winchester teaches three classes a day, tutors after school, and chairs the english department for lawrence high school. he does enough.
- not the fire but the spark: (E) dean refused to look up his soulmate.
- put out the fire in your head: (E) castiel didn’t think he would ever hear dean sound this way again. tired, wry, self-deprecating, and human.
- brambles: (T) “you like the dirty mechanic look, cas?” Dean says, winking.
- king of the road: (E) contracted out by the local police in moriarty, new mexico, dean is sent to investigate the happenings around a church outside of town, the angel-worshiping congregation reportedly flocking to the location in recent days.
- the rough: (T) heaven can absolutely fucking wait.
- nothing equals the splendor: (E) it’s so close. just so slightly imperfect. and maybe, he analyzes, maybe that’s the final knell of this bell called contentment.
- the closest thing we have to magic: (E) dean winchester is a graduate student at stanford university’s school of the occult.
- dirty laundry: (E) dr. castiel james novak is a leading name in the mental health community. when dean winchester, self-proclaimed golden gardens killer, lies down on his couch for the first time, castiel feels it.
- growing pains: (G) cas could hardly believe that less than a month prior he’d been in court pleading hoarsely through a stream of tears for permanent guardianship of jack, the child that his closest friend kelly hadn’t expected but had still loved with all of her heart.
- oneiroi: (M) there is not a dream that castiel does not know, except this one.
- the law of equivalent exchange: (M) “and what’s the point of it?” "of love? there isn’t one. loving is its own purpose.”
- ocean blues: (E) the crew is supposed to be merciless, and the ship’s captains on friendly terms with mermaids, some of the most dangerous creatures to dwell in the deep waters of the sea.
- on wings of steel: (E) they may serve on the same airship but dean knows regular crew and the elite who wear the seraphim star aren't supposed to have anything to do with each other.
- falling through the ice: (E) dean's finally retired from the dallas stars, and he's back at his original home ice-rink for a publicity stunt for his autobiography.
- hearts never forget: (E) after fleeing his hometown at 17 in order to put some distance between himself and the straight best friend he’s still desperately in love with, castiel has finally returned ten years later to attend his high school reunion.
- timelord technology: (E) it's less than a week until graduation, and with zero desire to be at school with a tummy ache, dean decides to be a little rebellious for once and skip class.
- little blue dragon: (E) dean winchester may have a reputation for being a skilled craftsman and blacksmith, but his life is just like anyone else’s.
- in this handmade heaven: (E) dean knows bobby’s given him an opportunity by asking him to fix up this house, but being sent to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere feels a lot more like being banished.
- we fly by night: (E) dean smith, finance manager at one of america’s best mattress companies, has a problem.
- then i am yes, the bible that teaches you freedom: (E) well. the apocalypse was one thing. thousand-foot-tall multi-limbed horror-angels smashing up the planet was something totally different...
- you're the worst: (E) after gabriel milton, co-owner of word mil publishing, goes into early retirement, dean becomes castiel novak’s new editor.
- an assembly such as this: (E) dean winchester has built the life expected of him, marrying charlotte bradbury, raising a family, maintaining his estate, spending winters in ton. however, their life together is built on a shared lie - they are best friends, united to protect the secret of their true desires.
- king of my heart: (E) when a fresh-out-of-the-closet prince dean is forced into an arranged marriage with the princess of the land of the angels, he’s sure he’s just signed away any and all hope of ever experiencing true love.
- obsession: (E) castiel is john's friend and becomes fixated with his son dean.
- pretty big fish: (E) it's an unseasonably hot october, sam sets up residence in the good life, castiel is indecisive, and Dean is bored and worried about the job security of weather girls.
- profess unto me: (E) castiel teams up with crowley behind the winchesters’ backs with the intention of taking in purgatory souls in a display of dominance over his brother raphael, who is determined to put the apocalypse back on the tracks.
- forever place: (M) in the face of cas’ vanishing act into the depths of a leviathan-laden reservoir and the countless leviathan spirits free in the water system of the northern united states, sam convinces a guilt-ridden dean to come with him on a recovery case.
- caged flowers: (E) when a bad decision has dean facing a considerable sentence in prison, he fears the worst.
- he knows where he should go: (M) “you think i deserve to die?” cas says and dean feels himself shatter.
- even if it kills me: (M) dean has cuts that won’t heal and bruises that won’t fade, and he’s getting worse.
- the first and the last: (E) the soul bomb doesn't work, and god is going to die, but amara has a soft spot for dean. she gives him the gift of time: the end of the world will be slow.
- don't look back: (E) while mary was alive, she would tell dean that soulmates were chosen by angels.
- a crash course in computer safety: (E) on the day of his 29th birthday, dean receives an email from his old nemesis: michael milton, the guy who got him kicked out of college and stole his girlfriend.
- who if i cried out would hear me: (T) dean goes missing on a hunt; castiel can hear him but can't find him, and longer the situation drags on the unhappier cas gets. an angry angel of the lord is not someone to be messed with.
- being dean winchester: (E) wherein a monster of the week steals the essence of castiel's vessel, so he must use dean, recently raised from hell, as a vessel instead.
- it's a small world: (M) dean's life didn't start out great. and Cas is great--perfect, even--definitely the best thing that's ever happened to him, even if he isn't quite human.
- the graveyard: (E) dean winchester and castiel novak are best friends, living together for the past two years and about to graduate in the spring.
- tired starlings: (E) cas studied the starburst pattern in the broken window of a half-emptied hardware store on the other side of the street.
- angelus ex machina: (E) dean likes everything about what he’s able to do to cas. we wants to find out what else. he blinks, and then blurts out: “cas, i’d rather have you, dude or not.”
- obey his word: (T) when castiel was ten years old, he was cursed to always be obedient.
- i will always love you: (E) dean is headed to scotland on his own for a two-month location shoot. cas, the bodyguard, may be hot, but he’s also grumpy and thinks, probably rightly, that Dean’s a complete idiot.
- shot through the heart: (E) dean is a hunter. castiel is a man of letters.
- so goes the song: (E) the first time lee meets dean winchester, it’s courtesy of a chokehold.
- no other version of me: (E) he tried forcing shut the door, but the alpha—castiel—had jimmied his foot in the way, giving him further opportunity to talk. “a moment, please. i understand this is a difficult time for you, but—”
- under the nothing sky: (E) lieutenant colonel castiel novak is the shining star of the glass city’s academy, mere weeks away from graduating and being titled commander of his own ship, his own crew.
- giant, anguish, despair: (E) dean is drowning in guilt and nightmares. from kicking castiel out of the bunker to letting an angel possess his brother, he has recently made some poor choices in tight corners.
- wool over my eyes: (E) quiet, shy guys with pretty eyes and handmade cardigans were not dean’s type. so that couldn’t possibly explain why he kept coming back to the library, despite never once encountering the notoriously fierce librarian.
- five times cas spoke to dean in a foreign language: (T) in which dean does not, absolutely not, have a thing for languages.
- dream in color: (E) cas is a professional, and dean is a fucking creep.
- anything you can do: (E) in which dean sets out to prove that he's better at sex than castiel, all the while insisting that he's straight. really.
- everyone's a critic: (T) the one where uninspired chef dean winchester has a one night stand with the male (!) food critic who described the flavour of his garlic bread as 'closeted' and accidentally ends up dating him to try and prove that he's a kick ass chef, thank you very much.
- the mania of owning: (E) castiel has had plenty of time to get used to the idiosyncrasies of his symptoms, but the way his focus shifts towards this particular scent that reaches him on the barest breeze -- it’s somehow different.
- when you say nothing at all: (E) at stanford University, omega dean winchester and alpha castiel novak are complete and utter strangers.
- from grace and uniform: (E) when FBI agent dean winchester was first assigned to the ghost’s case, he was expecting it to be the same as any other serial killer hunt--frustrating dead ends, a trail of bodies, unending paperwork.
- the safest place: (E) throughout his life, dean's had to stave off heats during hunts and otherwise, for fear of showing off a side long-since hidden--his tendency to nest with any bedding he can find.
- grown-ups making grown-up choices: (E) dean is a grown-ass man - he can take perfectly good care of himself, thank you very much.
- diamond star halo: (T) they're doing that thing again, where cas is staring at dean with the intensity of a dog trying to remind his owner that it's past dinner time.
- true as it can be: (E) growing up in a small town in kansas, dean learned from a young age that there was only one rule that couldn’t be broken, one place he couldn’t go - through the forest, to the long-abandoned angel’s hollow.
- atypical romance: (E) for a guy who claims to hate chick-flick moments, dean winchester sure knows a lot about them.
- good one's gonna be: (E) castiel novak receives a rather alarming text message from an unknown number, and what started as a simple misdial quickly turns into the greatest friendship castiel has ever known.
- assimilation: (M) mary always thought you were supposed to be able to tell. that you could just look at someone and know they were – you know. one of that sort.
- jeté: (E) castiel has been photographing their ballet company for two years now and he and dean have barely exchanged six words, and yet somehow when dean breaks his leg, it's castiel who takes him home from the hospital and takes care of him.
- russian to the alter: (E) “i need you to marry castiel.” it turned out that castiel was a russian erotic novelist in need of a ticket to america, and dean… well, dean was a last resort.
- easy now, with my heart: (E) dean winchester is a kindergarten teacher. castiel milton is a writer slash works-in-a-coffee-shop.
- pies and prejudice: (E) dean didn’t even want to enter this damn competition. he was happy with his life, more or less.
- kiss you when it's dangerous: (E) when his partner Uriel, betrays him, federal agent castiel novak is saved from becoming a ritual sacrifice by brothers dean and sam winchester.
- grooming instincts: (E) there's something going on with cas. dean is determined to help him through it, in whatever way he can.
- living in agony: (E) dean winchester's life is... well, it's not great. he's a gym teacher, he's in his thirties, and he can't seem to keep any part of his life straight.
- addicted to you: (E) dean is a warlock. a very very drunk warlock. oh, and a horny warlock. hey, he knows how to summon a succubus!
- 25¢ pocket guardian angels: (T) dean walks into his local bank one day and notices that someone has filled the old gumball machine with these tiny, wiggling, sentient angels in individual plastic packaging.
- a geneology of knives: (G) the winchesters have never been hunters. theirs is a line of godly, righteous men, men of letters, stretching all the way back to adam.
- the mostly accidental courtship of dean winchester: (M) angelic marriage rites were never intended to go quite like this.
- a hole in the world: (E) dean winchester never wanted to go home again. going back to lawrence meant people who knew what he was, who didn't buy into the lie.
- unknown quantities: (E) dean winchester and the not-relationship crisis of 2014.
- not part of the plan: (E) castiel's spent most of his adult life keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. this is a deliberate choice on his part, because as a cousin of the king, he'd rather stay unimportant and forgotten.
- convenient husbands: (M) "it's only temporary, right?" dean says. "just until you're healed up, and then we'll never have to see each other again. so what do you say, castiel, do you want to marry me or not?"
- professional couple only: (M) there's a haunted apartment building in vermont, and the ad says "professional couple only". dean and cas rise to the occasion.
- passed through like rain: (E) cas has been gone for three weeks, and dean is mad at him. this is neither unexpected nor undeserved.
- well endowed: (T) even when crowley lost, he won. so when he died, he made sure his affairs were in order and that the one person he liked trusted tolerated inherited his most prized possessions.
- to build a home: (M) on the day of jimmy novak's funeral, dean sees cas for the first time in nine years.
- moonshine lullaby: (E) dean winchester sweeps up after the stars in 1920s hollywood.
- blessed art thou: (E) “oh, because it’s so freaking terrible being you, dean winchester, righteous man whom god has anointed with rainbows and love or whatever it is they’re calling you these days.”
- darkness round the sun: (E) the apocalyptic AU where dean is fighting a lonely battle to develop a cure for the virus that made him the last man on earth—until suddenly, he's not.
- cross my heart, hope to ride: (E) enter dean winchester, who is pretty sure all of castiel's issues could be resolved if he would just set his piece of shit car on fire and go buy a new one.
- white russian: (E) dean winchester and his brother sam moved to the east coast to try their hand at the hustle and bustle of the city. in order to protect sam, dean allows himself to be recruited into castiel krushnic's unconventional mob.
- lazarus needs a robe of scarlet thread: (E) stigmata are said to be the marks of saints, but dean is not a saint and the wounds are only the beginning.
- like real people: (E) while dean struggles to come to terms with the isolated, lonely life he's made for himself, a disruption comes in the form of castiel novak.
- carnival oasis: (E) castiel is a being that feeds on sin. lucky for him, dean has plenty of sin to spare.
- get a whiff of this: (E) when no good deed goes unpunished, dean ends up sentenced to community service for physically defending another omega at his job.
- wedding singers: (T) singing still feels like a girly habit, for all dean belongs to the city’s gay choir.
- lord of the hunt: (E) “this is exactly what we need,” gabriel insists, steadfastly steering castiel by the shoulder. “i’ve changed my mind,” castiel decides for the both of them.
- replaced: (T) in cas' arms, he bounces the human loudspeaker that is his godson. “he won’t stop,” cas says, his expression—and his sanity—visibly on the verge of crumbling.
- force unrelenting: (M) dean is a little bit more specific in his cursing. “is that a fucking dragon?”
- a darker claim: (U) he's the only one who has ever taken an angel mate, who has ever managed it, and cas doesn't bother to hold back the feelings of dark pleasure at that knowledge.
- saint dean and the monster: (M) castiel is the loch ness monster. dean is a very confused american tourist. sam suffers.
- biological imperitives: (E) if charlie’s going to bribe, threaten, cajole, or otherwise guilt dean into one date with this beta friend of hers, well, fine.
- the art of nesting: by dean winchester: (E) all the times dean's felt the urge to build a nest and how it affects the people around him, mostly castiel.
- thirst: (E) there's a bar hidden between the blurry lines of time and space and perception, and to those in the know, it's called limbo.
- aesthetics in autoerotica: (E) dean turned an incredulous look on him. "uh, there's a hot photographer takin' pictures of my dick in pink panties right now, you think i need any more material?"
- no longer so vain: (E) castiel is gonna enjoy this chance to get back at dean winchester for his horrible behavior in high school immensely and he’s gonna make him work hard to make up for it.
- my heart: (E) dean is an alpha. cas is his omega. dean is a sub. cas is his dom.
- wrap you up: (E) dean’s finally come to the conclusion that his life will benefit from him getting rid of the old to make room for the new.
- folsom prison pastel: (E) three years in on his fifty-year sentence; dean winchester is in the cafeteria, minding his own, when out of the blue he smells it..pie.
- a simple man: (E) dean watches as his father walks out on he and his brother for the last time. he's desperate.
- the angel's widower: (E) associating with angels had consequences, bobby had explained to him. “they ain’t the god-abiding, harp-toting little healers that you’d expect, dean. they’re…different. they… they claim things.”
- between the lines: (E) castiel novak is comfortable in his life of routine and organization, happy to help manage a bookstore and go home each night to work on his novel.
- ninety one whiskey: (E) when the time comes to move out, castiel has to reconcile himself to the fact that men are going to go down and trust that dean winchester may well be the only person who can put them back together again.
- infinite: (E) castiel only wants dean to understand just how loved he is.
- a warrior's rest: (E) castiel, an outcast fairy, has lived most of his life in the guise of a human in a sleepy Northwestern town in the state of oregon.
- didn't get that particular memo: (E) dean has worked with his best friend for years and maybe it's a bit more than that for him but not for dastiel, right?
- the heat within: (E) the one where dean has no restraint whatsoever and where cas takes full advantage of that.
- have you ever seen the rain?: (E) the one where dean realizes his mistakes, but will there be enough time?
- voco familiarem: (E) the one where a master falls in love with his kitty, and vice versa.
- yes, master!: (E) the one where it’s not precedent that an angel master and a human slave fall in love but also where dean meets cas and the rest, as they say, is history.
- alae angelorum: (E) cas has been missing for weeks, and it's driving dean crazy.
- hark! the herald angels sing: (E) now that castiel has his grace back, dean worries his angel has lost sexual interest in him.
- i have called thee by thy name: (T) though through mockery and shame, dean has served the god castiel for years. But the time has come for him to leave the premises of the temple and the vague security it provided.
- subterranean: (E) dean knows better than to stay late at work, his commute home is dangerous any time, but especially after dark.
- say, please: (E) dean occasionally crashes his best friend castiel's college lectures to take him out to lunch. one day, castiel decides to demonstrate the "consent is sexy" narrative to his human sexuality class, using dean as his partner.
- but please, remember me fondly: (U) "i have to leave," castiel tells him, laying in bed after sex one night, curled up to dean's bare chest.
- freckles: (E) in which cas likes deans freckles, and dean is stubbornly heterosexual.
- make it on your own: (E) then: when gabriel left heaven, he took castiel along with him. now: dean is devastated by sam's death at the hands of jake talley.
- the way to a man's heart is through chlamydia: (E) dean doesn't expect to see his one night stand again, but then again he also doesn't expect to find out he has an STD.
- you should see me in a crown: (E) dean winchester: native of chelsea, MA, ex-navy seal sniper, freelance assassin.
- chasing life: (E) castiel is the perfusionist on call when a young college kid, sam winchester, is brought in and needs to be put on an emergent life support machine called ECMO. his brother dean is there with him every day, and along the way he forms a surprising bond with castiel.
- so long, lonesome: (M) after metatron drains him of his grace, castiel chooses to stay away from the bunker.
- smoke jumper: (M) when dean winchester's parachute fails to deploy in the middle of a raging forest fire, he prepares for death.
- peace of mind and a gentle hand: (T) when dean flips the impala and finds himself alone and injured in the woods, he reaches out for the one person he knows will always be there.
- i'm sorry, i'm an asshole: (E) the day after, dean winchester goes into work, just like normal. no one asks him about it, and he ignores the pity in their eyes.
- it's the getting caught that kills you: (E) it’s not the first time dean winchester has had to try to pick pockets to make ends meet, but it always makes him nervous.
- the unlayering of castiel novak: (E) it’s incredibly easy to forget that cas is an alpha. it’s just that... well, cas just doesn’t do anything that normal alphas do.
- only blue or black days: (E) “is everything a joke to you, winchester?” novak growls out, all smoke and gravel up in dean’s face.
- game on: (T) on a whim, dean winchester buys a strange, old-style gaming console at a flea market with a game left inside it. soon, dean is dedicated to beating the game to break the strange creature trapped within: an angel named castiel.
- love, all alike: (M) when castiel novak realized that he and his hyper-religious father were never going to see eye-to-eye he'd jumped ship, counting on the one person who had managed to escape their poisonous family dynamic to catch him: gabriel.
- there might have been a time: (E) like everyone else dean has always looked forward to his 21st birthday, when his countdown timer would appear and tell him how much longer he had until he met his soul mate.
- a beginner's guide to communing with the dead: (M) the why doesn't matter so much as the what, and the what is this: dean is pretty sure he's going completely, certifiably insane.
- revealed: (E) when a ritual backfires and dean ends up with wings, they reveal things that he'd much rather keep hidden.
- forget-me-not blues: (E) sam and jess are getting married and dean couldn’t be any happier for them.
- games of skill and fortune: (T) turns out, time-sharing your brain with a half-crazy archangel nursing a solitaire addiction is even less fun than it sounds.
- roll with it: (E) dean wants to be an editor. castiel just wants to stay in the country.
- the right kind of wrong: (E) dean can’t believe his fucking life and cas, in turn, can’t believe his luck.
- bury me face down: (M) dean winchester might be completely different than what he presents as. as a matter of fact... so might castiel.
- bed of stone: (E) the chamber of the sleeping god is exactly what it says on the sign. at least, that’s what the priests claim. dean thinks it's bullshit.
- angelic aloe vera: (T) while on a hunt in the desert, dean is poisoned by a sun spirit, and the only cure? grace-infused kisses.
- stay: (T) in which castiel reckons with the aftermath of dean's grief.
- teaching poetry to fish: (M) in which castiel teaches poetry to fish. also, himself. also, eventually, dean.
- ties that bind: (E) his whole village loves the angels and uses magic to help their lives. but dean knows better.
- like anyone in the world: (E) five times dean got lucky on a hunt, and one time he got smart.
- wayfinding: (M) in which it would be difficult for deanna winchester to be the righteous man.
- asunder: (E) wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. what therefore god hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- fall: (E) ann arbor got the memo it was fall about a week ago, and ever since the entire towns been going fucking nuts over it.
- the girlfriend experience: (E) 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.
- outlast: (E) it seemed like a normal case. it always does.
- a different blue: (E) local folklore warns fishermen away, and anyone with half a brain knows to listen- except dean winchester.
- there's a rule: (E) and dean wants to have him, wants to keep this, all of it, but he can’t say it.
- out of the ashes, into the fire: (E) dean thinks he's saved when he sees the car idling at the red light. he does what any sane person would do. he rips the car door open, throws himself into the passenger seat, points his gun at the driver and yells "drive!"
- a rose by any other name: (M) in which dean thinks cas wants to squash him like a bug, anna pines for jo, zachariah sucks, and improper binding is a major no-no.
- such familiar magic: (E) when solitary witch castiel finds an injured dog unconscious in his garden, he takes it in.
- i only come when you scream: (E) dean just wants to drink his coffee.
- about five times the distance: (E) it's been months since michael unexpectedly let dean go, but he's still dealing with the mental and physical repercussions, some of which have turned out to be permanent.
- the face of heaven: (T) in which castiel is a fallen star.
- tall grass: (E) "i think we should have a garden,” cas says.
- i don't want a lot for solstice: (E) in which dean drives out to palo alto to stay with sam over winter break, and meets sam's new co-op housemates, including castiel.
- the dance of inanna: (E) “hey sammy? you didn’t happen to start an apocalypse while i was in purgatory, did you?”
- a blessing: (E) in which dean and sam are turned into women by a witch's curse and even though he's kind of distracted what with the apocalypse and all, dean comes to a few awkward realizations about his feelings for castiel.
- family business: (T) mafia prince dean meets a weird guy named castiel while working off his multiple parking tickets' community service at the taft ave soup kitchen.
- red right hand: (E) it all starts with the mysterious note left on dean’s chair. it all ends with dean coming to terms not only with what he’s capable of, but how much that knowledge doesn’t bother him.
- named: (M) jesus christ is dead. somehow, that isn't the worst part of dean's week.
- so says the sword: (E) the briefing was simple: ‘stand guard over the michael sword until the battle is ready to commence. await further instructions.’
- sweet coming from my hand: (E) “in conclusion: dean winchester, will you marry me?” “what?” dean almost chokes on his sandwich.
- howling the moondogs: (M) 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.
- hurt so good: (U) an encounter with a supernatural creature leaves dean worse for wear and sam and castiel looking for answers.
- dream of now: (E) various moments in cas and dean's relationship.
- the doves long journey to champaign: (E) after four years of solitude on a remote island, dean’s been through hell. but he’s home, he’s healing, and he has a very special gift for a man he’s never met.
- truth and consequences: (E) being a series of snapshots of sastiel's attempts to understand dean winchester, and vice versa.
- the one thing you can't lose: (T) dean can just tug cas anywhere at any time and cas, who can lift tons without effort, who can demolish things with the light of his grace, who has battled and gone to war, has defended and broken, will just let dean do it.
- two out of three: (E) all castiel had to do was make it through a summer. figures that all it took was a one night stand with a cocky, green-eyed bartender to throw all of that right out the window.
- sam winchester/lucifer
- dean winchester/michael
- a whole armour of scars: (T) “i thought angels bear no wounds.” "we get injured, inside our vessels. outside of them, more often.”
- come around again: (T) when sam overcomes lucifer and stands on the precipice of hell, dean thinks they’ve won. michael, however, has other ideas.
- dean winchester/benny lafitte
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