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Destiel Fanfiction (Assume M/N-17 Rating if Not Stated)
Warnings: Language, angst, sexuality, alcoholism, real life.
Word Count: ~76,500 overall
Dean’s life at twenty-four makes him feel like he’s forty—he works two jobs to help pay bills for his house and put his genius little brother through private school, and has spent six years (on and off, let’s be honest) working on his mechanical engineering degree at KU. With so much of his life devoted to his family, Dean has little time in his schedule for class and no time for social interaction. Then, while getting his classes together for the fall, he finds himself in a do-or-die situation: He must take his last literature class now, his spring already filled with those left for his major…except that none of the English classes will fit his schedule. This is how Dean grovels and begs Dr. Castiel Milton to make a special arrangement for him, and Dr. Milton does.
Words: 40,124
Castiel and his mother move to Louisiana for his mother’s new job: a great opportunity for Mrs. Novak to be a lady’s companion. The only problem is: The Winchesters are weird and even weirder things happen around them.
Genre: Horror/Romance
Words: 17,254
Dean and Castiel haven’t seen or heard from each other in ten years. How will they react to the choices they’ve made since those two months they spent together in 1957?
Words: 53,225 WIP
AU!College: Dean’s just started University, and he’s finding it hard to adjust. His only relief comes in listening to the mysterious show ‘Angel’s Demons’ on the Uni radio where a man known only as Angel becomes his only friend without even knowing Dean
Ann a bhios mo dhòchas (Where My Hope Lies)
Word Count: ~7,000
AU. It’s a dark and stormy night - no, really. It’s a dark and stormy night in the highlands of Scotland, and university linguist Castiel is gathering material for his newest work when he gets caught out by the rain. Of all the isolated hilltop inns in the country, he has to stumble into Dean’s.
Breaking Down the Lines of Society
Words: 60,585
High School AU. Dean’s a popular jock. Castiel’s a lonely outsider who’s only concern seems to be for his studies. Both stick to their own circles, neither really interacting with the other, until Castiel is assigned to tutor Dean.
Word Count: 2,035
Cas has a mouth made for sin and Dean’s never exactly been good at that whole ‘resisting temptation’ thing.
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Humor
Words: 9,786
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Words: 60,052
When an angelification spell is cast on Dean during a hunt, Team Freewill scrambles to reverse it before Dean loses his humanity. Gabriel suggests an alternative, but will Team Freewill be able to make the necessary sacrifices?
Words: 14,996
After the apocalypse, Dean’s living with Lisa and earning his keep by cooking dinner. Cas likes that Dean can cook. Dean likes Cas’s company. But they could use a little alone time, and Dean has a lot to learn about what the rest of his life really means.
Words: ~25,000
Dean’s life in the Edge City PD is going swimmingly: There’s a masked vigilante prowling his rooftops and nursing a crush on him; a serial murderer who’s too damn smart for his own good; his partner is so new she still smells like polish, and he can’t quite work up the nerve to ask out the coffee guy across the road.
Oneshot
Cas can’t resist the new body spray Dean bought
Words: 7,964
Castiel asks Dean to teach him how to drive, but Dean seems to have trouble focusing on the task at hand…
Oneshot
Castiel is way too loud.
Genre: Alternate universe, superhero, first time, angst
Words: 7000+
Dean is a superhero. Castiel is a mild-mannered reporter trying to get an interview.
Words: 54,128
AU. Dean is assigned a job to be the Bodyguard to the infamous Castiel Novak, lead singer of ‘The Fallen Angels’. Dean loves a good challenge and Castiel is certainly proven to be exactly that.
Words: 11,195
Dean’s the owner of his own pretty successful coffee shop, and he’s absolutely, totally not in love with the hot accountant guy who comes in every day. He’s way out of his league. Isn’t he?
Words: 6,896
High school teachers. Castiel is the English teacher at the school Sam teaches history at. Dean is a writer who has been sending his stories to an online friend (Castiel) for editing. Sam finds out and realizes that Dean and Castiel don’t know each other in real life, but really should.
In the Dressing Room, Little Thespian
Words: 5,928
High school AU. Castiel is performing in a school drama production, Dean goes along to watch and things get interesting in the dressing room. Shameless PWP. Exorcise plots on sight
In This Secluded Spot I Respond as I Wouldn’t Dare Elsewhere
Word Count: 34,040
Warnings: Homophobic slurs; bullying with some violence
It’s 1995, and Castiel’s high school years are destined to be difficult: home-schooled until eighth grade, he is awkward, shy, and socially inept. The weird kid with the funny name would rather isolate himself and draw in his sketchbook than deal with the constant bullying he faces every day. Things only get worse in his junior year when he excels in home economics class, leading the captain of the baseball team, Alastair, to start taunting him for being gay.Then new student Dean Winchester arrives at Flour Bluff High School, sharing many of Castiel’s classes. Castiel has seen his type before — handsome, athletic, arrogant, and sure to be the most popular kid in school. But Castiel eventually learns that he and Dean have more in common than he thought, and they form an unlikely friendship.
I Think I Know Where You Belong
Words: About 7,000
Castiel wishes he wasn’t this excited, but it’s the best part of his night when Dean Winchester gets home from baseball practice. PWP Sequel
It’s Always the End of the World Somewhere
Genre: Romance/Drama
Words: 21,680
Highschool AU. The status quo is this: Dean is the popular captain of the football team, and Castiel is the off-kilter nobody who doesn’t so much as breathe the same air as Dean. Then senior year happens and the status quo is shot to smithereens.
I Wanna Hold You High and Steal Your Pain
Word Count: ~20,000
Cas was pretty sure he hadn’t done anything to warrant Dean’s rage - he hadn’t scratched the paint on his motorcycle or teased his brother or done any of the millions of things that Dean Winchester got pissed about - but this was the school rebel, the troublemaker, the attitude problem with legs, and he was walking up to Cas. So yeah, Cas was freaking.
High school AU. It’s Dean’s senior year at Lawrence High, and he’s already given up on himself. It takes the arrival of the strange, intense, awkward Castiel Delacroix at the school to prove to Dean that maybe his life is worth saving after all.
Rating: PG
Warnings: language, wanton abuse of noted American literary greats.
Word Count: 9100
Dean is hailed as the Vonnegut of his generation; Cas is the highly-respected English professor who can’t stand Dean’s work and blogs about it for the world to see.
Words: 41,275 WIP
Hogwarts AU. Dean doesn’t like his new home, his new school, his new so-called friends; and to top it all off, he’s failing Transfiguration. It sucks.Until, that is, his tutoring takes a turn for the unexpected…
Fandom/Genre: Fusion/AU
Word Count: ~79,000
Warnings: Mild blood play.
Vampire Castiel Collins is awakened from his tomb by down-on-his-luck author Chuck Shurley. With Chuck’s help [and blood] Castiel sets out to make a life for himself in Collinsport, restoring his old home and hopefully being reunited with the reincarnation of his former lover, Dean Winchester. This is a retelling of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
Words: 175,455
Art teacher Castiel Novak has just turned 29 when he meets Dean Winchester at a gay club. After sleeping with the boy, he leaves in a hurry, trying to cope with the guilt over betraying his girlfriend and his overly conservative parents. But forgetting Dean becomes close to impossible, when Castiel’s new job at a High School in San Francisco reveals Dean to be a most troublesome student… Warning: Underage
Words: 4,557
AU fic, Dean travels to Galway Ireland and falls in love with one of the local musicians.
Words: 100,972
After moving around all over the country with their father, Dean and Sam Winchester finally settle in a small town in Illinois with their Uncle Bobby for some stability. After starting high school, Dean finds himself breaking the most important rule of all, after only ten minutes - Do no talk to the Novak family.
Words: 11,110
Five ways Castiel made Dean feel
Words: 18,161
Cas lets his feelings run away with him, Gabe is a total dick, Sam is concerned, and Dean has to make a choice.
Words: 8,317
“Technology made simple, his ass. Castiel could operate the Antikythera mechanism with more accuracy.” Dean tries to help Sam get laid with the help of a pretty unusual prop; he inadvertently turns Cas on to the magic of Massive Attack and Apple products.
Word Count: 29,742
When Castiel finally locates Dean in Hell after forty years, he finds the righteous man changed into something much darker than the angel had expected. Such a creature cannot be resurrected, so Castiel must return him to the man he used to be before he can be sent back to Earth.
the rom-com-ish one where Dean hosts a late night radio show, Castiel is a regular listener of his who starts calling one day and ends up calling more often than not and Dean finds himself liking it. This, until one day Castiel calls for not exactly petty reasons (just before Dean’s brother Sam is visiting with his girlfriend for spring break) and things get very, very crowdy at his place. He also doesn’t know it’s just the beginning of it. Also features Gabriel, Chuck, Andy, the Roadhouse crew and a huge amount of music quoted. Especially Bob Dylan.
Words: +28,500
When Dean dies yet again Heaven decides it’s been missing an angel and it’s time to fill the vacancy. It takes Dean a long, long time –and several miracles performed over cheeseburgers and lice– to come to terms with his new celestial life and his old earthly temptations. Featuring Dean’s new set of wings, human Castiel, beers at the Roadhouse, the Choirs of Heaven, a naked Sammy, Michael and other angels with bard inclinations, lame pick-up lines, Zachariah’s lion head, gaudy motels, and Oprah-worthy revelations that are way funnier in Enochian.
Words: 16,112
Teenage Human AU. It’s a classic boy-likes-straight-boy story. Or possibly boy-likes-not-so-straight-boy story. Castiel can’t quite decide. It’s a little confusing when your supposedly straight best friend offers to teach you how to kiss.
Words: 7,120
College AU in which Castiel is a Masters student who has long since learned to value the voice of reason over his hormones. His friend Dean, however, shows him he still has a few lessons to learn.
Oneshot
There were a lot of things Dean had to teach his angel. Apparently it was time to learn bondage.
Words: 10,066
Castiel goes to Winchester Ranch to buy a horse for his niece’s birthday ‘cause he’s that kind of guy and ends up getting the cowboy instead.
Word Count: 7,673
Dean is an ass but then he isn’t. Cas needs help with his art class and luckily Dean is there to help.
Start Quoting Shakespeare and We’re Done
In which Dean Winchester is a teenage girl with a librarian fetish.
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Humor
Words: 10,044
Dean hates Starbucks. Luckily, the Saint’s Café is both delicious and reasonably priced. Even if the cashier is super weird and stares at him, like, all the freakin’ time. AU.
Suspend, verb (sued with object)
Words: 5,500
Dean and Cas have nothing but time on their hands (Purgatory Fic)
Rating: K+ (its really cute though)
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship
Words: 6,561
When, after encouragement from Dean’s side, Castiel visits a barbershop for the first time, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with the barber and ends up with much more than just a haircut. Eventually Destiel.
Word count: 31,557
Warnings: Torture, Non con, abuse of a minor (Dean is 16)
The golden age of Piracy occurred in the later half of the 17th Century. Pirates were welcome in Port Royal for the influx in wealth and population that they brought with them. The most famous Pirate to sail the seven seas was the Crimson Prince. When the young James Castiel Novak finds out that his best friend Dean Campbell was killed by the Crimson Prince he vows that he will do anything in his power to avenge his friend’s death.
Rating: M (its really really graphic like woah)
Words: 88,826
AU. Castiel Novak, down on his luck and in desperate need of money, goes to an adult entertainment suite that will give him 1000 for a good day’s work. There he meets Dean Winchester, a man who’s about to rock his world.
Words: 43,390
When Balthazar zaps Dean and Sam into the parallel universe where their life is a TV-show, Dean finds himself to be in a very serious, very GAY relationship, with a tweet-happy actor, looking exactly like Cas. That may cause some trouble on the way.
Words: 32,088
Castiel and Sam are unlucky in both life and love, so they swap houses for the holidays.
Words: 7,611
Dean and Castiel are happily shacked up in Alaska, adjusting to their new, domestic lives. In the process of attempting to create a proper ‘sex playlist’, Dean recalls his conflicted feelings toward a particular Beatles’ song.
Words: 9,159
Human AU - Sam meets brothers Gabriel and Castiel when they move in to town, and takes them to meet Dean. After a few secrets are shared, Dean forms a strong bond with Castiel. Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel
The Prank that Filled the Spank Bank
Pairing: Dean/Cas, mentions of Sam/Jess and Bobby/Ellen
Wordcount: 41K~
It starts with a prank war and a chance meeting at the auto shop Dean works at.
Words: ~36,000
When Sam Winchester prays for his brother, Castiel is finally sent on his very first assignment. But what should be a simple love match turns into much more and Castiel finds himself risking everything to ensure the happiness of his extremely frustrating charge.
Words: 83,107
Castiel: a nerdy, skinny thing with a crush on the the most popular guy in class. Being unpopular isn’t easy and it’s worse when the homophobic school figures him out. A small struggle to be noticed by his crush is turned into a huge struggle for himself and his dignity. But bullying can get the better of anyone
Word count: 4,700~
It may or may not be punishment for (allegedly) burning down the frat house, but either way, Dean feels it is above and beyond cruel to make him roomies with Castielofreakasuarus.
Words: 7,480 WIP
1940’s and the Yanks are fighting in WWII, swing is now the new music craze, and monsters are running rampant in cities like they always have. Nothings’ new for Dean Winchester, lead Hunter in the Mobster Gang “Team Free Will”, that is, until Dean gets a new assignment-something about guarding some guy running away from home and a whole mess of trouble. Mobster AU
Words: 51,730
Dean/Castiel Slash. What do you do when the Universe itself seems to have decided you belong with your very stoic, very angelic, very MALE hunting companion? Dean’s about to find out.
Word Count: 8,643
Castiel has been acting strangely but refuses to tell anyone why. When Dean starts to mirror his behaviour, Sam and Bobby manage to figure it out.
Words: 25K+
Dean is the owner of a bookstore that stores all kinds of rare/weird lit. Cas is his best customer, because he comes in practically every week and buys almost as much as he browses. He is secretly lonely as well as very quiet and socially awkward and Dean notices this. Dean is kind of a lonely guy himself, although his lawyer brother likes to visit frequently, and slowly Dean falls in love with Cas.
Word Count: 7,178
It’s no accident that Zeppelin gives Dean ideas. (Sequel to Paradise Circus.)
Words: 6,783
While drunk, Dean tells Cas about his love for silk panties. Cas exploits this confession.
Words: 14,425 WIP
College!AU. Castiel and Dean meet in a no name faraway bar and have wild, completely uninhibited sex. Which is fine, except the usually stoic and severe Castiel has to remember each and every horrifying detail every day because Dean is his new professor.
Rating: M
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Words: 24,231
Christmas AU fic. Writer!Dean walks into a café late at night on Christmas Eve, looking for inspiration for his next novel. Instead he finds librarian!Cas. Destiel. Warnings for graphic sex and run on sentences.
Words: 4,900
Castiel loves Friday mornings with Dean. He would like to show him just how much.
Rating: M
Genre: Drama
Words: 26,859
Castiel’s existence is barely acknowledged at his high school. Then Dean arrives.
Words: 3,906
It’s happening again, and Dean’s not sure if he can stop it, this time. To be honest, he’s terrified. But Castiel isn’t, and that’s what matters, in the end. Destiel.
Sabriel (Assume M/N-17 Rating if Not Stated)
Words: Oneshot
Sam decides to watch Gabriel’s Casa Erotica debut - imagine his surprise when the archangel himself decides to pop in with a more exciting proposition.
Words: 6,010
Sam is too curious for his own good. Fortunately, Gabriel doesn’t mind. Warning: Shameless rimming
Words: 12k
It wasn’t everyday that the loudest kid in the school wooed the quietest nerd in the corner. Then again, not every school was Kripke High.
AU. Alphas are like royalty and are offered their choice of any age eighteen-and-up virgin Omega for each year’s heat season, as a ‘thank-you’ to all they’ve done for their compounds throughout the year. Derek is an Alpha and…yeah, Stiles. Stiles is an Omega. And still a virgin. In every way. And he’s just turned eighteen. This…is not his day.
“Today is Scott’s first day of kindergarten and Derek is terrified.” Derek falls for Scott’s kindergarten teacher Mr. S
Words: 49,347
Stiles accidentally ends up magically bound to Derek. It’s super.
Stiles had just accidentally challenged an alpha. Oh God and Scott had just stood by and let him do it. He was the worst best friend ever. Stiles was going to kill him. Except oh right, the alpha was going to kill him first. Like beyond dead, ripped into tiny little pieces dead. So far dead that his dad would not be able to identify him, dead.