Castiel/Chuck AU
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Chuck - better known as Carver Edlund to his readers - is a popular true crime novelist. He moves to a new town to research a case from earlier in the decade where several women were found tortured and mutilated until, all of a sudden, the killings just stopped. The police aren’t sure why the killings stopped, so Chuck has to draw his own conclusions from the research in order to come up with a suitable ending for his book.
He hits a wall in his writing, and it’s his editor that tells him to get out of the house for a little while; see if a little break helps him get past his writer’s block. So he decides to hit up a local coffee shop that he’s been told makes the best cup of coffee in a hundred miles. They’re not wrong about the coffee - it’s fucking excellent - and the pastries aren’t so bad either. Chuck brings his laptop along with him, hoping that he might get a spark of inspiration while he’s there. It reminds him a lot of back when he was in college, working on his first manuscript.
He’s a few pages into a new short story - something much happier than Carver Edlund’s typical ouevre - when he gets up to get another cup of coffee. (He’s not sure, but he thinks it’s his fourth.) As the barista hands him his coffee and he turns around to head back to his table, he walks straight into someone’s chest and, had it not been for the guy’s reflexes, his coffee would have fallen and spilled all over him. They both apologize to each other, and the guy offers to buy him a muffin to make it up to him. Chuck tries to tell him it’s not necessary, but the guy insists.
Chuck ends up back at his table with a cranberry muffin and some company. It turns out the guy’s name is Cas - yes, it’s short for something, no he doesn’t want to say what - and he’s an archaeology professor at the nearby university, who just finished a fellowship overseas and got into town about a week ago. Chuck tells him he’s a writer, but doesn’t tell him what he’s written. Because of the success of his books, it always feels a little like bragging when he tells people that he’s the one that wrote them.
Eventually, Cas has to go, but before he leaves the coffee shop, he asks Chuck for his number. Chuck has a giddy smile on his face as he watches Cas leave, and it makes a return when he gets a call from Cas later that night, asking if they can meet for drinks.
They spend the next few weeks getting to know each other, getting coffee or drinks together, cooking for each other (Or, at least, Chuck cooking for Cas. Apparently Cas can’t even boil water without starting a small fire.), and Chuck decides to tell Cas that he’s actually Carver Edlund, and he came to town to research the old murders. (Chuck isn’t sure whether Cas looked more intrigued or shaken when he told him what he writes about.) All the while, Chuck has no idea if Cas wants to be friends, or if he’s just taking things glacially slow. That is, of course, until one night after dinner, Cas walks Chuck to his car. Cas lingers after they say goodbye, and Chuck is about to ask if something’s up when Cas presses him gently against the side of the car and kisses him.
A kiss turns into an invitation for Cas to come back to Chuck’s place, and then much more. Chuck has had his fair share of experiences, with both men and women, but it’s hard for him to remember the last time someone made him feel quite the way Cas does. Every touch of his fingertips send his nerve endings alight, each press of his lips causing shivers to go down his spine. And afterward, when they’re both sweaty and sated and Chuck starts fading slowly toward sleep, Cas’ arms around him make him feel safe and calm in a way he’s not sure he’s ever been.
From then on, there’s no mistaking what Cas wants from Chuck. He kisses him like he’s made for it, he texts him throughout the day to let him know he’s thinking about him. Cas is also possessive in a way that would frighten Chuck if it didn’t give him butterflies. With Cas, Chuck has something he never thought he would have, and he hopes he never has to give it up.
A few weeks into their relationship, Chuck finds out that there’s been another body found that the police believe to have been killed by the same person Chuck is writing about, and they call him in to ask him a few questions pertaining to the old murders, and a few that have him believing that they think maybe his presence in town, his researching the case, has made the killer decide to start up again.
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He didn’t intend to start up again. Not once he found Chuck. He thought those feelings would be enough to keep him from giving in to his urges, and for a little while, they were. Because he took that trip over seas, the police thought he was done. Or dead, one of the two. And the victims while he was gone never got tied to the ones here. He could have just stopped, and no one would have ever found out it was him.
But seeing that girl all over what belongs to him, eyeing him like a piece of fruit ripe for the plucking...He couldn’t handle it. He was able to wait - he had to take Chuck home and remind him he was his, not let up until his voice was hoarse from screaming Cas’ name. But then...Then he tracked that bitch down and slowly, methodically, tore her apart, and her screams of pain were even more divine than Chuck’s screams of ecstasy.
He went home after dumping her body, making sure there was not a trace of her left on him. That evening after work, he goes to Chuck’s, the sound of her choking on her own blood still ringing in his ears. Chuck tells him about how the police brought him in, tells him about how they asked him all these questions and how they think he should be careful now that the killer is back.
Cas thinks of Chuck trapped in a room with those pigs, prodding him about his own work, thinks about their hands on Chuck as they brought him into the station, and starts seeing red. He pulls Chuck close, kisses him until he’s putty in his arms, and carries him down the hall to the bedroom, dropping him on the bed and proceeds to take him apart with the same intense, single minded determination as when he killed that woman. It’s close to being enough to keep the urge to kill at bay, or at least enough to tide him over until he finds the perfect next victim.
As he lays in bed, tracing patterns along Chuck’s skin as he’s snuggled up against Cas’ chest, he thinks that maybe, as long as he doesn’t slip up and get caught, he could stay with Chuck and not have to give up his life’s work.
Chuck is a musician and lovable sad sack who composes the original scores for a hit crime drama starring his long term boyfriend, Dean Winchester. His life comes crashing down however, when Dean dumps him for another guy. After weeks of moping, his step-brother, Ash, convinces him to take a vacation. After some deliberation, Chuck decides to go to a resort in Hawaii that Dean had mentioned a few times that he wanted to go to.
That choice turns out to be a mistake when, as he’s checking into the hotel, he runs into Dean, and Dean’s new boyfriend and professional athlete, Benny. Chuck is saved from spending the remainder of his vacation moping by the cute hotel clerk, Castiel, who invites him to a luau. Despite the fact that he keeps running into Dean and Benny at every turn, Chuck starts feeling like his old self again. He thinks he might even be able to get over Dean, if his blossoming feelings for Castiel are any indication.
au where chuck and cas went to high school together. they hang out in different crowds. cas is always hanging around people like dean and hannah and anna and they’re all really really ridiculously good looking, and chuck finds it a little intimidating tbh. especially considering he’s scrawny and short and kind of looks like he should still be in middle school according to some people. and they’re all so cool, but chuck’s just this stuttery mega-nerd and so, while he has this huge crush on cas (and has occasional inappropriate thoughts about him and dean both....doing....things...>.>) he keeps his distance most of the time and just sticks to his fellow nerd friends.
cas knows who chuck is (looks forward to the school’s literary magazine to see if chuck’s written anything new) and thinks they would probably get along pretty well, but chuck seems to avoid him, so he doesn’t really make an effort to hang out with him or anything. then they graduate, and go off to different schools, and the next time they see each other is during the summer after their sophomore or junior year or something. chuck is hanging around downtown with his nerd friends (maybe ash and andy bc yes) and cas is running an errand for his dad and sees them from a few stores down, and damn. he’s come to the conclusion that chuck looks pretty damn great in a t-shirt with some scruff, especially now that he doesn’t have the same build as sam weir. when cas goes up to say hi, chuck, ash, and andy are having what appears to be a very heated discussion about which dragon age game is superior, and cas is pretty glad that he’s still a mega-nerd
Castiel works in ad sales and bikes or walks to work every day. His route takes him through the park and, one day, he passes by a street performer. The guy's pretty good, and Castiel finds that it kind of brightens his otherwise shitty day. The guy is there the next day as well, and nearly everyday after that. Castiel starts leaving tips in his guitar case whenever he's got spare change on him. One day he even decides to talk to him a little between songs. He finds out the guy's name is Chuck. He's a waiter and recently dropped out of college. He started playing in the park because his room mate works the night shift, and he'd rather not bother him by playing while he's sleeping. Eventually people started leaving him tips of their own volition, so he figured why not make a few extra bucks doing something he loves? As the days and weeks stretch on, they learn more and more about each other in little snippets. Then one night, Castiel goes out to dinner with his brother, Gabriel, and they end up at the restaurant where Chuck works, in Chuck's section. And okay, it's a little awkward for Chuck, and he might freak out a little bit to Andy - one of the hosts at the restaurant - because he's developed a bit of a crush on this guy, and whoever Cas is with has been looking at him a little weird since Cas mentioned he and Chuck knew each other. Andy urges Chuck to say something to Cas - ask him out, anything - but by the time Chuck gets up the nerve, Cas and Gabriel have already paid the check. Chuck is a little disappointed, but then,a long with the tip, he finds someone's number scrawled onto a napkin, with a message that says Call me, so he can't really stay too bummed.
End Verse Chuck/Cas inspired by Coming Right Along by jendavis
If it hurts to look at Dean, Chuck is a thousand times worse.
Castiel had the names of the prophets burned into him a very long time ago. God's words shone through them even when He wasn't speaking. It wasn't grace, Castiel never knew what it was, but it had been the only proof he had, anymore, that God actually existed.
And then, one day, he sees a man who is just Chuck - the same guy he'd always been, really - only now he's grinning back and saying his headaches are gone. He doesn't understand why Cas stares at him so hard, or where he goes for three days straight, afterwards.
Cas is a plastic surgeon and Chuck is his receptionist who's a single father (he still writes, but that doesn't exactly pay the bills for him and his two kids) and Cas has Chuck pretend to be his ex-husband while he courts someone younger - maybe Samandriel or Rachel or someone. And Cas somehow gets roped into taking Samandriel/Rachel, Chuck, Chuck's kids, and Chuck's fake new flame to Hawaii and they have lots of great bonding and "family" time, and Cas and Chuck don't fully realize until the night before Cas' wedding that they have feelings for each other.
