do you have any recs for DCBB 14? (btw I read yours and it was wonderful!!!)
i’m still working my way through the long ass list of interesting fics i’ve bookmarked over the last 2 months, but so far I’ve enjoyed:
Unintended by emwebb17 E, 82k
Castiel is a successful defense attorney beginning to doubt the integrity of the work he does. After winning a date with a firefighter named Dean at a charity auction, Cas decides that he needs to make a change in his life. He just has one more case to take care of, but his involvement has devastating consequences.
Pacific by anti_ela, MooseFeels, thimblings M, 21k
It’s been eight years since Dean Winchester has seen his little brother, nearly five since he actually set foot on solid ground. When John dies, Dean sets out on a trip from the very corner of Maine to California to let him know. On the way, he picks up Castiel, who pulls up in him those things from his childhood he’s tried to shove away. And Dean pulls up in Castiel the kind of sensation he’s been trying to hide for four years.
It’s a long trip. A lot can happen.
The Path of Fireflies by museaway M, 60k
After his humanity is restored, Dean wakes up in bed with Castiel, a wedding ring, and no memory of the past twelve years.
In These Woods by reillyblack E, 37k
The Great War between alphas and omegas ended over a year ago and the birthrate still hasn’t stabilized. The victors with control of the new government, the alphas, enact an ordinance that every omega of birthing age must conceive within the year or face “consequences”, in order to avoid future economic burden. Since he has no desire to have children, omega Dean goes on the run before the government can force him to comply.
When he’s caught he quickly finds out what kind of “consequences” they have planned for him - they come in the form of a blue-eyed, dark-haired disgraced alpha soldier who felt similarly about the order to mate.
See the Sunrise by Carver Edlund (goshcas), Zerda T, 36k
He didn’t know what he expected. Maybe piles and piles of gold and treasure, closely guarded by a massive scaly beast, red or blue or black and breathing fire. Maybe with wings, maybe not. Maybe it would have red eyes and maybe it would attack as soon as it saw Dean. He was expecting—well, he was expecting a dragon.
"This" being a young man with dark hair, too blue eyes, and a tilt to his head. He didn’t… look like a dragon. He just looked confused.
(Dean/Castiel fairy tale AU in which Dean is a prince who goes to slay a dragon, and Castiel is cursed to turn into a dragon every night.)
The Last Moonlight Serenade by gankyourdarlings M,59k
It’s the night before 1945 and Honolulu is celebrating like flipping the calendar is all it’ll take to end this thing and send everybody home. Makes for one hell of a party. But it’s been a long war, getting longer, and Dean Winchester stopped pinning his hopes on anything a long time ago. Then, as the clock ticks down to the new year, he finds himself in the company of a grounded fighter pilot. All of the sudden, maybe there’s something to look forward to.
**This fic has some beautiful art btw, like,
The Substitute by rons_pigwidgeon E, 36k
Dean smells his mate one morning while getting his mail. He keeps smelling him in several different places, but never sees him. After months of smelling the mate scent without seeing his mate, Dean becomes cranky and begins to think he might go crazy.
Then one day, the scent walks into his shop with a car repair, and Castiel is nothing like what Dean thought he would be. They hit it off easily despite Castiel’s traditional upbringing, but there is one barrier to their domestic bliss: Castiel is betrothed to another.
Into the Lion’s Den by HigherMagic E, 66k
Dean is the son of a notorious crime boss, disgraced and thrown out of the organization. But Sam’s getting married, and to attend the wedding Dean will have to claw his way back into his father’s good graces – that might require a little help from the other side.
Forget-Me-Not Blues by noangelsinthegarrison E, 68k
Sam and Jess are getting married and Dean couldn’t be any happier for them. Honestly, they’re kind of disgustingly perfect for each other and Dean’s pretty damn excited about staying with them the week before the wedding. He’s Sam’s best man, of course, and he doesn’t even mind that Jess has her own best man to share in all the organisational duties. The more the merrier, right?
Except Dean must have done something to epically piss off the universe because Jess’s best man just happens to be Castiel friggin’ Novak. He’s got even hotter since High School, but apparently no friendlier and if Cas wants to spend the week pretending like they’ve never met before? Fine. Two can play at that game.
Annnd I’m currently reading:
Love in the Wild by thursdaysfallenangel E, 148k
When Sam decides it’s time for Dean to get his life together, he forces him onto a reality TV show. Supposedly a couple of weeks in the jungle with nineteen other hopeless people is all Dean needs to find “Love in the Wild.” Dean’s determined not to. It’s the principle of the matter. He hadn’t counted on meeting Cas, a down on his luck artist who’s only there to win the grand prize – a trip around the world. When Dean is saddled with him on the show, things immediately become complicated. Can the relationship they build in the jungles of Costa Rica survive in the outside world?
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