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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural) Additional Tags: Suptober 2025 (Supernatural), Promt: Baking, Baking, Established Castiel/Dean Winchester, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Reconciliation, Found Family, Love Confession, Angst with a Happy Ending, Dean Winchester Being an Idiot, Memories of Mary Winchester, healing through food, comfort food as a love language, Post-Apocalypse Peace, Soft Domestic Moment in the Bunker Series: Part 13 of Suptober 2025 Summary:
Dean only wanted a clean home. Instead, he stumbled upon a piece of the past that smelled like apples and cinnamon — and someone who reminded him that healing sometimes starts quietly.
For a split second, his brain couldn’t process what his eyes were seeing. Flour. Everywhere.
A white haze hung in the air, drifting lazily through the weak overhead light like mist. On the floor — a broken egg. Nearby, a bowl filled with what might once have been dough. The counter looked like a war zone of parchment paper, sticky spoons, and an open bag of sugar bleeding across the surface.
And in the middle of it all stood Cas. Wearing a crookedly tied apron, dusted in flour from his hair to his shoulders, a white handprint smudged across his hip where he’d tried to wipe himself clean. He was just closing the oven door with an expression of quiet satisfaction — like he’d just achieved something monumental.
Dean stayed where he was, halfway down the stairs, staring. His eyes flicked from the sink to the floor, across the counters, then back to Cas. Grease still on his hands. Sweat still on his brow. And Cas... smiled.
“What the hell did you do to my kitchen?!”
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