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Dean is forlorn and distraught once his best friend Castiel has been ripped away by the empty. After months of grief the empty has grown bored alone and is looking for some entertainment at Dean's expense. He is given a second chance to relive every moment with Castiel again, every look, every conversation, every touch. But will it end differently this time?
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"For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay." by ghost818
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
16 Nov 2025
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“Cas…” Dean starts, interrupted by their warding failing and a Dark Rift forming in the room.
Cas doesn’t have time to notice this. He doesn’t have time to panic, to regard Billie as she walks into the room. He only had one thought: Save Dean Winchester. Save the Righteous Man. He steps forward, pulling Dean close, “Goodbye, Dean,” Cas says, pushing Dean aside. Preparing himself for something that would never come.
The Empty surged forward taking Billie as it moved toward its final victim, Dean. The darkness engulfing him as it filled the room.
Cas didn’t have time to react. As soon as the rift and appeared, it was gone, Billie and Dean with it. Taking Cas’s entire world. Leaving Cas, standing in the bunker alone. Alone with grief and guilt.Or what if the Empty took Dean instead?
Work title; Psalm 16:10
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It's all come down to this.
Sam, Dean, and Castiel take on their greatest enemy yet as he reveals himself in a race against time to set things right for themselves, for their family, and for their future once and for all.
Come and bear witness to what happens when an unstoppable force meets some pretty immovable objects.
Never stop fighting.
Team Free Will Forever.
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- Part 12 of SPN: Roads Untaken
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Rewrite of season 14 and 15 if things went just a bit differently.
Centered on Jack as he returns to the world after being drained of his grace by Lucifer at the end of season 13. This will loosely follow the plot of season 14 and 15, but only for certain plot points and conflicts.
This will be a lengthy fic, I forewarn and apologize in advance!
Title from the song Cenotaph by Ghost
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Dean is in Heaven, but the promised peace has a bitter edge.
Castiel lies in the Empty, yet something inside him still stirs.
There’s a pain Dean can’t name, a love left unfinished, and a new threat creeping through the folds of eternity.
Old friends return, new bonds are forged, and the past — especially the parts that still burn — comes back demanding to be heard.A story about redemption, memory, courage… and choices that change everything.
P.s.
Before diving into this long-fic, I recommend checking out my standalone story titled “Happy Birthday, Cas!”, also published here on AO3.
It’s not required to follow the plot, but it adds a touch of sweetness and emotional context — especially if you enjoy Dean awkwardly trying to make his favorite angel happy.
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Dean Winchester has survived Hell, Heaven, Purgatory, and approximately twelve different apocalypses. Now, with a little magical backup and more stubbornness than sense, he’s going to rescue Castiel from a mystical, slightly passive-aggressive moving house, with the Empty still lurking around the corner.
The only hitch?
He’s doing it with whiskers and a fluffy tail.
Sure, it’s nuts. But so was everything else that ever got them here.
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after sam’s death in 2060, dean and castiel disappear from the world.
what follows is decades of silence and drifting—two immortals moving through a world that has begun to forget them. dean, a vampire, struggles with the slow crawl of time and the crushing weight of outliving everyone he’s ever loved.
eventually, they stop running. a cabin. a quiet life. a stillness brings both peace and dissonance—until the past begins to echo forward again.
when family comes looking for them, bringing warnings of supernatural unrest and signs that jack’s heaven is slipping out of reach, dean is faced with the hardest question of all: what does it mean to keep living, when everyone else is gone?
PLEASE NOTE:
1) sexual content is indicated with a !, so feel free to just skip if desired
2) although all chapters will include trigger warnings where appropriate, any particularly difficult chapters will include a # as well
3) any chapters in need of some serious tlc that I haven't gotten around to yet will be indicated with a @
4) consequently, any new alterations will be indicated with a *Series
- Part 2 of night shift
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'Let's Go Find That Idiot And Bring Him Home' by Supergirl67
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
07 Nov 2025
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Takes place after 15x19.
(15x20 is forgotten trash!)After defeating Chuck and saying goodbye to their beloved adopted son Jack, Sam and Dean continue on with their lives as hunters. Eileen occasionally joins them, and her relationship with Sam begins to blossom, causing Dean to feel heartbroken. After a startling encounter, and a night full of drunken sorrow, Dean finally realizes his true feelings for Cass. He admits to Sam what happened that day in the dungeon. Sam can't stand to watch his brother suffer in despair anymore, so he calls upon the one person he knows who can help fix everything, Jack.
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Dean Winchester knew that a gift from God was too good to be true. He's in the hospital, again. But this time, a very determined Reaper wants to shove him right into the Empty. On the run and in his own head, he has to find a way back to his family. Can he make it out or will his deepest wounds and memories be too much?
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“We just need time to fix this. We need to go somewhere safe, somewhere where no one can find us.”
After "Jack in the Box" and beginning of "Moriah". Castiel convinced Jack and took him on the run from the Winchesters and the Apocalypse world hunters, who were actively planning to hunt Jack down and kill him.
It wouldn't be easy. Because of all the pain and trauma both had endured. Because both of them had been so isolated, they had no friends and allies left.
But forget all that. The most basic, most urgent threat they faced, if they wanted to start a new life out in the world?
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In this story there will be no stupid old man wig, no blurry wife, and Dean will not be dying on that damn rusty rebar WITHOUT A VERY GOOD REASON!! And fuck CW for not mentioning Cas or even trying to rescue him! Fuck every damn second of 15x20!! This story will be a canon compliant/fix-it and will have a VERY happy ending! This is exactly what should’ve been! Enjoy!
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- Part 3 of The Destiel Saga
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"Damn it," Dean coughs, turning his head to spit out another mouthful of blood. "This isn't…going…like I planned."
"So the reckless, renegade cowboy riding into the valley of death thing wasn't the plan?" Cas asks, his tone clipped with annoyance.
"No, the recklessness went perfectly," Dean says, breathing more easily now that his lungs aren't quite so restricted by the mangled remains of his thoracic cavity. "I wanted to deliver some cool line when we got back, though. About gripping you tight and raising you from perdition. But that doesn't work so well when I can't fucking breathe."
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A year of planning.
A year without Castiel.
Finally, they are ready.One last hunt.
Grab the angel and get out.Shame things never go according to plan.
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Jack is in charge of the universe and Castiel is no longer dead. There’s a new plan with a new system linking Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory together to create a fair afterlife for all. Dean enters Heaven six months later, which is bittersweet all around. But none of that is as difficult as the task Jack assigns to Castiel, declaring him the only angel for the job, which is to take in reborn angels and raise them like human children with a present father in a loving home, earning their loyalty through affection and guidance rather than orders and punishments.
Besides the mission assigned to him to become a parent to his former siblings, Castiel also has to figure out what the two unfulfilled desires he has according to Jack, and how to achieve them once he does.
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In the stone-walled village of Saint Mireille, Father Aldric is the newly appointed priest-young, composed, and devout. His mission: restore the fractured faith of a people weary of plague and famine. But as he settles into his role, one man disrupts the calm he wears like a second skin.
Thomas is the local baker-sun-warmed, rough-handed, and always smelling of fire and dough. He feeds the people not with scripture, but with sustenance, and for that, they love him.
When their paths cross too often-first in charity, then in quiet confessions, then in moments neither can name-a slow-burning bond forms. But love between men is a heresy, and Aldric has sworn vows that bind more than his heart.
In a world of watchful eyes, whispered sins, and bread that rises even as souls fall, can two men find grace in each other-or will desire damn them both?
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Dean wakes from a fitful nap, immediately reaching for the whiskey bottle beside his bed. He takes a swig, swishes it around his mouth, and swallows heavily. For a second, his stomach turns, and his mouth salivates. He breathes through it and manages to hold the whiskey down.
Hair of the dog, so they say.
He has no idea what time it is, but he feels like it’s some strange nowhere time. Like time has no meaning for the moment. As if he’s in some little bubble, away from the world. Reaching out for the whiskey again, he takes a larger swig, trying to ground himself with the familiar burn. Still, he doesn’t feel anchored to the time or place.
Weird.
Suddenly, his dream comes rushing back to him. A tan trench coat, a backwards blue tie, strong forearms, and beautiful blue eyes - staring into his soul. Before he knows it, he’s lurching out of bed, vomiting in his wastebasket. Wiping his face roughly, he can feel the hot tears streaming down his cheeks.
When did he start crying?
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Castiel is back, but broken—silent and unreachable, even to Jack. When Dean enters his dreamscape, he faces Cas’s trauma, the Empty’s lies, and his own regrets. To bring Cas back, Dean must battle not only the darkness but the weight of everything he left unsaid.
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night shift is a series of one-shots set in an au where dean never gets cured after being turned into a vampire. Instead of going back to his old life, he’s stuck living in the dark, trying to find some kind of new normal. each chapter is a snapshot of his life, set at varying points between season 6 and season 15, as he navigates the aftermath of his transformation, the toll it takes on his relationships with those he loves, and the hunger he can’t shake.
UPDATE (13/11/25): this series started as a standalone, but i’m reworking it into the first part of a four-part story. the revisions are meant to smooth out the character arcs so everything connects more naturally going forward. the tone is shifting just a little — dean’s feelings for cas are beginning to surface throughout the course of this fic, but cas doesn’t believe dean’s in love with him — not yet. therefore, the running theme i want to hold onto throughout this series is that quiet tension between hope and doubt — that longing for something real, even when neither of them can quite name it yet. finished chapters will have the date of completion, so you know you're reading the final version!
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- Part 1 of night shift
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On the seventh night, Jack does not gasp himself awake.
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