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[rabidbinbadger]

2015 DCBB

Title: Chemical Author: Rabidbinbadger | AO3 | Tumblr Artist: Witchylana | AO3 | Tumblr Fandom: Supernatural Rating: E Words: 120,000 Pairing: Dean/Cas

Warnings: Angst, fluff, unsafe driving practices, homophobic language, unhealthy coping mechanisms, road trip, switch Dean, switch Cas, alcohol, drug use, human Cas, demons, hunters, angels, mystery, thriller, alternate canon

Summary: They kiss, and the world doesn’t end. Also, no-one gets punched in the crotch, and nothing swoops down from the skies to backslap Dean and tell him to stop corrupting ex-servants of heaven. All of which seems, y’know, suspiciously too good to be true.

But they roll with it anyway, and after the kiss there’s a hunt, and a holiday, and an epic road trip. There’s Dean and Cas starting to build a relationship together, and Sam learning to knock before he enters absolutely any room at all, YOU ANIMALS.

And then, just as Dean is starting to inch past his fear of abandonment and trust that things are gonna be okay – that this is a forever deal and not just some interlude between periods of tragedy and loneliness – Cas disappears.

(Note:  Set nebulously around S10, but Charlie is still alive and getting rid of the Mark didn’t unleash the Darkness. )

Fic and Art: AO3

Art: Tumblr | AO3

[rabidbinbadger]

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[scoobydoodean]

I’m dead serious when I say my favorite salmon dean moment is when Sam finds that horrible taxidermy animal with the costume on and holds it up for Dean to look at.

[scoobydoodean]

Forget dying in your brother's arms or whatever THIS is peak siblingism.

[sightofsea]

says a lot about spn that nobody expected a secret good episode everybody was like yeah this was always going to be dogshit

[sunforgrace]

the thing about supernatural. is it will have you saying dean for gods sake look at the road

[castiellesbian]

[sunforgrace]

you are going to crash that car

[sodomitecastiel]

in endverse, sam says yes to the devil because he and dean split up and continue to not talk to each other afterward (hence the lesson dean learning from his jaunt to endverse being that he needs to team up with sam again and heal their relationship). but cas is with dean in camp chitaqua, and the episode “the end” comes directly after the first case dean and cas ever run together alone. so in the timeline for endverse, do dean and cas just… not stop hunting together as a team after that first case? do they keep hunting alone and growing closer and closer until the world ends and dean realizes what happened to his brother? how long did it take? how long were he and cas on the road, figuring out how they fit together and what it means? and dean would adore it, alright, he’d be falling in love teaching cas how to be on earth and making his own choices, but he’d also be feeling guilty that it’s so much more fun than what he and sam were doing — and then he’d hear what sam said yes to and the guilt would curdle into the most gut wrenching shame & self loathing that man ever felt in his life. he’d blame himself even further for it than he fessed up to in canon

[casgirl]

I don’t think Sam and cas are “chaotic besties” I think that whenever they hang out one on one (ie whenever dean gets up and goes to get something from the fridge) cas sits there completely silently until dean gets back like a robot that’s powered down and won’t respond to anything sam says.

[casgirl]

Sam is like dean it’s weird that he does this can you please talk to him about it and Dean is like what are you talking about. Cas would never do that. You’re crazy.

[amaralesbian]

Underrated aspect of Advanced Thanatology is how Sam's idea of being nice to his grieving brother was to go all in on enabling his alcohol addiction. Breakfast beers????

[my-flying-sister]

I love Cas’s way of lying where he just pretends he didn’t hear the question.

[cassandrablah]

If I might add

[meatmandean]

dean canonically being against the death sentence is so funny. local man whose job is literally killing living beings that are capable of complex thought and morality when they step out of line or even for merely existing is against the death penalty.

[frogarcana]

[castielcommunism]

dean is horrible at lying but excellent at doing bits

[castielcommunism]

if someone asks him to play a hapless drunk in a bar to lure out a monster, he’ll give an oscar winning performance with zero prep time. if someone asks him why he’s trying to break into a graveyard he’ll say some bullshit like “I lost my guinea pig in there”

[theweight]

i think rpf is unethical but i dont care because im evil

[tiktaalic]

TO MAKE ANGELS FALL TO EARTH: The heart of a Nephil (child of an angel and human) Cupids bow (made two men fall in love with each other). The grace of an angel who zzkxjdifieiDJDIEIEXNXCCCHX [sound of Jeremy carver tazing me]

[klainebayeuxtapestry]

crowley's death a POWERFUL anti-suicide PSA because it did not make dean love him as cas immediately outshone him by dying in childbirth mere moments later AND if he had stuck around not only would dean have been newly single and vulnerable but he could've been the wicked stepmommy to the literal anti-christ. keep this in mind next time you think of ending things.

[daalcuntynatural]

ever since misha collins came out as straight i started believing in cockles because i love the reality of jensen ackles yearning with sick want and misha collins not being able to reciprocate despite trying for 12 years and finally going i can’t…. i tried so many times… :/ i think that is very funny i love rpf when white men aren’t happy

[pinknatural]

i accidentally saw a reel bashing mary and it called her selfish for leaving!!!! shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she's 29 years old and her little baby sons are like 37 & 33 that's fucked up!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND she's in the future!!!! of course she needed to leave her SIX MONTH OLD BABY IS OLDER THAN HER. HER LITTLE FOUR YEAR OLD IS GAY MARRIED. AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL. AND HER HUSBAND IS DEAD AND ALSO SUCKS!!!!!!!! like god forbid a girl take a mental health break to have casual sex with evil british guys 🙄

[valdelion]

they had to kill off Charlie because they realized having a lesbian best friend was going to be too liberating for Dean. If charlie was there in season 11 or 12 when Cas hangs out in the bunker and Dean is asking gay hunters what it's like to settle down and he's making him a mixtape, she would've smacked him over the head

[vamptits]

all public transport should be free unconditionally and I'm TIREDDD of pretending this is a radical idea

[mlembug]

there is a double standard where public transport is expected to bring profit, but roads and highways are treated as a common good and are built and maintained (e.g. patching holes) through taxes

fuck that