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Updated - 11/10/2014
300 Things by cautionzombies AU, NC-17, 76,863 Summary: 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.
A Fine Line by cloudyjenn AU, PG-13, 8,171 Summary: There's a difference between rivalry and obsession, but when it comes to Castiel Padalecki, Dean forgets that entirely.
A Hole in the World by AnnelieseMichel - ☆ AU, A/B/O, NC-17, 242,067 Summary: Dean Winchester never wanted to go home again. Going back to Lawrence meant people who knew what he was, who didn't buy into the lie. But with a tragic accident, he's back and dealing with the death of his father, the social stigma and objectification of being an out Omega, and the lingering aftermath of a long-ago crime.
A Judicious Application of Free Will by Annie D AU, SU, NC-17, 57,166 Summary: Dean lives the simple life in Lawrence, running the family business at Winchester Hardware. When Castiel moves into the neighborhood, they strike up a friendship that has the chance to become something more. But before that can run its course, the secrets of Castiel’s past catch up with them both, and their whole world changes.
A Song of Wind and Wings by triedunture AU, M, 10,734 Summary: The Angelborn have not been seen in Westeros in hundreds of years. Lord Dean Winchester and his brother Ser Sam arrive in Lady Ellen’s Highroad Keep after receiving word that one has been taken captive.
The Academy of Absent Fathers by kriari and qthelights - ☆ Jensen/Misha, AU, NC-17, 84,754 Summary: As one of the premiere boarding schools on the east coast, Ellis Academy plays host to the preeminent financiers, businessmen, and politicians of tomorrow. The very dirt stinks of privilege and as a long-time foster child, Misha Collins has no idea how he ended up here. To make matters worse, he’s stuck rooming with the equivalent of Ellis royalty. Jensen Ackles is a lifer - captain of the lacrosse team, do-gooder and textbook overachiever. And they hate each other. Mostly. But as they move from hate to something more, secrets from their unknown yet inextricably linked pasts threaten to destroy everything they’ve built. And the worst part? They have no idea what’s coming…
Actus Fidei by manic_intent reverse!verse, SU, NC-17, 5,647 Summary: On the very first time that Castiel manifests in front of Father Dean Winchester, he gets as far as "Rejoice, for you are blessed-" before Dean shoots him with a salt-loaded shotgun.
All Things New Again by sullymygoodname - ☾ AU, M, 49,881 Summary: The one where Cas is an ex-Army surgeon and Dean is training to be a paramedic.
An Exercise in 'Worthless' by beastofthesky - ☆ AU, M, 26,547 Summary: "I mean, you’re–” He gestures at Cas, in his neat oxford shirt and nice pants. “–and I’m a high school dropout who tattoos for a living.”
Wherein Dean makes a hefty living as a tattoo artist who owns the space next to Gabriel’s cafe. Sam attends the local university. When Gabe’s cousin comes to live with him while starting grad school at Sam’s university, Dean thinks for sure that all his negative karma’s coming to bite him in the ass because Cas clearly has a thing for Sam. No one would ever choose him over Sam. That’s just logic.
And I Will Walk On Water by tracy_loo_who SU, NC-17, 122,245 Summary: It’s a story about friendship and love, recovery and trust, free will, and Dean and Castiel’s journey through it all. It’s also about chocolate and hugs.
And the Cardinal Hits the Window by GoodQuestion AU, M, 123,414 Summary: Dean Winchester has just turned 17 and is beginning his senior year in high school. He plans on having an uneventful last year with his only worry being his 13 year old kid brother Sam who’s just starting high school. All that changes when 14 year old Castiel Novak joins the school year and Sam begins to have some pretty strong feelings for him. Dean likes the kid, too, even if he is shy and very twitchy.
But Castiel has a strict and abusive father by the name of Lucifer, and an equally appalling older brother name Uriel, a new senior to the school. Uriel brings a storm of trouble to the school, including to Dean who he immediately bumps heads with. When Castiel accepts a sleep over invitation from Sam as part of a study project, he never expects to be moved to kiss Dean and he certainly never expects to be caught by Dean’s father.
And the North Wind Blows by qthelights Jensen/Misha, AU, NC-17, 31,853 Summary: Jensen is a ranger in the US Forest Service, on loan to the Canadians with the dual mandate of protecting the Boreal forest and a US logging outfit. He likes his solitary life collecting data and spending time in the luscious green forest that looms around his little cabin, until the day he gets a phone call: an eco-terrorist is protecting a tree the logging company wants to cut down. The terrorist in question, a young activist named Misha who climbs and swings through the trees like Tarzan, is not what he expects. Charged with getting him down and locking him up, Jensen has his work cut out for him, especially when it appears something more sinister is going on. What follows is a whirlwind of forbidden romance, lust and danger that turns Jensen’s once-quiet life upside down. And the most worrying part is he doesn’t think he minds.
Angelface 'Verse by Anticipating Boxes - ☆ AU, dark, NC-17, ~80,000 Reading Order: Angelface; Scarlet; The Laundromat Scene; Doomed from the Descent; St. Valentine's Heart; The Coffee Shop Scene; Shrapnel; Ruby's Choice; Asking for It; Dear Serial Killing, Possibly Satanic Dad; Scars; The End Summary (of Angelface): Now that they have his fingerprints, the FBI have begun to piece together a mostly fictional account of what must have happened.
Appoggiatura by ceeainthereforthat - ☆ AU, NC-17, 121,117 Summary: Castiel leaves the religious commune of Heaven Farms to study classical piano after winning a full scholarship paid for by the Deanna Campbell Memorial Foundation, and answers an ad in the campus newspaper: 1 bedroom to let. Meals provided. 50mb wifi, quiet odd music student preferred.
Asunder by rageprufrock AU, M, 23,817 Summary: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:6)
Bone Deep by Valyria - ♢ AU, A/B/O, NC-17, 6,418 Summary: Restless in the wake of his heat, 18 year old Dean Smith sneaks out of his college dorm in search of a one-night stand and ends up with much more than a few lovebites to show for it.
It's a Terrible Life ABO verse.
The Bone Trilogy by apokteino - ☆ AU, dark, NC-17, ~30,000 Summary: When Dean (raised from hell by some unknown force) and Sam stop the last seal from breaking, heaven decides to bring its own apocalypse. Late in the war, an angel with dark hair and striking blue eyes is captured, and Dean – Dean is his interrogator.
The Breath of All Things by KismetJeska - ☆ AU, PG-13, 65,404 Summary: Dean Winchester was twenty-six years old when a car accident killed his father and left him paralysed from the waist down. A year and a half later, Dean is in a wheelchair and lives in a care home in Kansas, where he spends his days waiting to die. It's only when Castiel Novak starts volunteering at the care home that Dean starts to wonder if a changed life always equals a ruined one.
Carry On by TamrynEradani - ☆ AU, NC-17, 148,087 Summary: When Sam gets into Stanford, Dean needs a bigger paycheck than Bobby’s garage can give him. Luckily, he knows a guy.
Casturbatus Interruptus by smallhorizons - ♢ SU, NC-17, 6,118 Summary: Dean walks in on Cas masturbating. He’s doing it all wrong, but when you’re a bazillion-year-old virgin, that’s to be expected. Dean decides to lend him a hand in a totally platonic, non-romantic way. Things get a little out of control.
Clipped and Unbound by garrisonbabe AU, NC-17, 50,205 Summary: Castiel is a slave widely regarded as unbreakable and unruly. Dean Winchester is a billionaire ending a five year long search to rescue him. They'll both learn that peace can be the hardest thing in the world to find.
The Consequences of Falling by FayJay SU, NC-17, 37,144 Summary: A story in fifteen parts, in which the angel Castiel finds himself put in an untenable position, and consequentially loses his grace. In which he goes on a roadtrip with a demon, discovers the delights of tequila and french fries and pie, plays a starring role in a virgin sacrifice, is deflowered by his favourite Winchester, and then gets some very unpleasant news indeed.
Could I But Hold Thee by the_diggler AU, NC-17, 11,888 Summary: When Castiel is stuck without a model for his life-art class, Dean volunteers. What Dean doesn’t know is that Castiel has already been sketching the young barista for months…
The Dance of Inanna by PeppermintWind - ☆ SU, NC-17, 106,017 Summary: “Hey Sammy? You didn’t happen to start an apocalypse while I was in Purgatory, did you?”
Or: After the disappearance of the One, pagan gods are fighting over who gets the world. Alliances are forged and broken, Zeus and Enlil form a bromance, Odin teams up with Isis, Loki probably has an evil plan, Artemis ponders second-wave feminism, Crowley is amused, the angels are not, Inanna has opinions, Don is a Carver Edland fan.
And Dean and Cas aren’t fooling anybody.
Dean Smith 'Verse by TamrynEradani - ♢ AU, NC-17, 28,483 Summary: Dean Smith is a man of routine. Castiel takes him apart.
Dean Winchester, Straight Shooter by triedunture AU, NC-17, 15,550 Summary: Dean Winchester, star of StraightShooter.com, is a gay-for-pay porn star with a huge following. Cas Novak signs on to do a scene with him, even though he dislikes “straight” porn stars on principle. But Dean is more complicated than he first appears, and after inadvertently learning his secrets, Cas finds himself falling for him.
Five Times Dean Winchester Burned Alone and One Time He Didn't by melo - ☼ SU, M, 9,486 Summary: Six different scenes that take place at six different times in Dean's life.
Freefall by lastknownwriter - ☆, ☾ AU, NC-17, 128,535 Summary: The most exciting kindergarten teacher Dean Winchester’s life ever gets is when he plays mechanic in his uncle Bobby’s shop on the weekends. That is until a birthday party goes tequila-nova and he trips into a one-night stand with an incredibly hot firefighter named Castiel. Dean’s life gets a lot more exciting after that.
Free to Be You and Me by Mishaoverlord AU, M, 70,308 Summary: Castiel Novak is the introverted English Literature major at the University of Kansas. Dean Winchester is the elusive cool guy who happens to work in Castiel’s favourite coffee shop. This is how they meet, and this is how Anna and Crowley play cupid.
FWB!Verse by elizaye - ☆ AU, NC-17, 103,878 Summary: Dean and Castiel have been best friends since college. This series follows the evolution of their relationship.
Get Inside My Soul by angelivenantium - ☾ AU, NC-17, 83,403 Summary: There’s something about Castiel that just makes Dean want him. Well, not even want; he needs to have him. He’s not sure if it’s the weird, often oversized sweaters or his thin wrists or that black, messy hair that make him tick, but he’s pretty sure the main thing is his eyes, that, unfortunately, never look at him twice. And Dean is freaking popular, everybody looks at him twice.
Dean transferred to this school three years ago and is now a senior, and he’s been secretly ogling Castiel ever since. This distant yearning might have worked in the past years, but now it was just four months until he would graduate and leave this school forever, so he had woken up this morning and decided that fuck it, he wasn’t some 12-yearold girl; if he wanted something he would make sure he got it, even if that something was a rude hipster kid who didn’t even notice his existence. End of story.
Ghost Dance by omphalos - ☆, ☼ SU, NC-17, 51,194 Summary: In post-apocalyptic isolation, Castiel nurses Dean back to something like his former self, but will a time come when Dean’s recovered —and rediscovered— too much?
The Ghosts of Blackthorn Hall by linoresearch AU, SU, NC-17, 94,657 Summary: In 1843 Castiel Milton leaves his life of quiet faith and duty to take up employment as tutor to the young ward of one Mr Dean Winchester, at Blackthorn Hall. Set deep among the Yorkshire moors, Blackthorn is a place of mysteries – a wild place, where pale faces appear at the windows, and mad women laugh in the night. Castiel is drawn to the enigmatic Master of Blackthorn and they form an attachment neither of them expected. But there are secrets hidden behind Blackthorn’s stone walls, truths that threaten to destroy their fragile happiness, as they are forced to confront the ghosts of their past. This is a Jane Eyre/SPN fusion AU.
The Ghost of Embers by moorishflower AU, NC-17, 38,500 Summary: Dean Winchester's life has been one big clusterfuck. He lost his mother to a house fire when he was a child, and he lost his father to an explosive car accident when he was a teen, and, now that he's a full-grown man, he's losing his brother to college and to distant, sunny California. Dean, determined not to let his pyrophobia or his anxiety over his absent brother ruin him, and desirous of a change that just might fix everything, makes the rashest move of his adult life: a largely unnecessary, almost entirely unplanned move to New York City. Stuck in the middle of a city that has a reputation for chewing up and spitting out the unprepared, Dean's anxieties fluctuate between bad and worse...until he starts to get to know his mysterious and antisocial next door neighbor, Castiel. But mystery isn't always a good thing; Castiel is hiding a secret...a secret that even the cynical Dean Winchester might have trouble believing.
Graceless by cheesewithmy SU, NC-17, 47,112 Summary: With the angels cast from Heaven, the big question is obviously how to get them back. The task is far from simple and the addition of old enemies claiming to be new allies only muddies the water. The fact that even their best plan promises dreadful consequences doesn’t help.
Castiel just wants to go home.
Grey by Valyria - ☆, ☼ SU, A/B/O, NC-17, 65,240 Summary: In a world where people don’t see in color until they find their true mate, the first thing Dean sees when he pulls himself out of his grave is the blue sky.
When Castiel raised him from the Pit, he inadvertently claimed Dean as his mate.
Hands, From Which All Things Are Built by MajorEnglishEsquire SU, PG-13, 14,620 Summary: Castiel travels with the angel tablet and without the Winchesters. One day, Dean gets a text from some anonymous number.(They speak in the language of need.)
A post-08.17 Goodbye, Stranger story.
Heaven for the Climate (Hell for the Company) by elizaye - ☆ SU, NC-17, 98,709 Summary: Season 4 AU. It is foretold that the angels will storm Hell to raise the Righteous Man so that he can fight the Devil and save the world. Castiel is doing just that, only he’s not a member of the God squad (though his wings would suggest otherwise). The angels don’t like him meddling with their plans, and the demons aren’t exactly fans of the creature that stole a soul from the pit. Faced with the forces of Heaven and Hell, Castiel throws his lot in with Sam and Dean, but it isn’t easy to earn the Winchesters’ trust.
Hello Night by almaasi AU, NC-17, 11,211 Summary: Demon!Dean/Priest!Cas AU. Castiel summons Dean to the crossroads, and he only wants one thing: him.
How a Righteous Man Raises a Rose by swordofmymouth - ☼ SU, MCD, PG-13, 5,586 Summary: AU in which the apocalypse and angels and demons never happen, and Sam and Jess and Dean live together in a suburban lifestyle -- and then suddenly, nothing is alternate universe at all. Told from Sam's POV. Dean is compelled to tend a dead rose garden, if only Dean could remember why; and remember why it is so important.
I Got Soul but I'm Not a Soldier by starandrea AU, SU, M, 100,012 Summary: Castiel is on the road (saving people, helping things) when he meets Dean and realizes that his soul is different - and not just because he’s the pastor’s son.
I Through My Window See by deHavilland - ☼ SU, PG-13, 26,007 Summary: AU in which Castiel remains human after the apocalypse is successfully averted by Sam and Dean. The Winchesters get him set up in an apartment in Sioux Falls and then promptly leave him there, hoping he’ll start a new, normal, human life. Castiel, thinking the reason for this abandonment is his newfound mortality, comes to terms with being human in an effort to prove he has the strength to fight at their side. Dean’s more than a little surprised to come back and find the angel he once thought he knew bussing tables by day and hunting ghosts at night.
If I Lose Myself by justbygrace AU, M, 17,823 Summary: Castiel Novak is the United States’ first openly gay President & Dean Winchester is the head of his Secret Service detail.
In the Weeds by Nanoochka AU, NC-17, 40,265 Summary: “Dean knew, from the minute he laid eyes on Chef Castiel MacCarthy, the day would come that he would have to kidnap the man and dump the body in the darkest, dirtiest crack den in Ireland. Given that this was Dublin city, it wouldn’t be hard to find.”
The Inexhaustible Silence of Houses by Askance - ☆, ☼ SU, MCD, PG-13, 31,820 Summary: Almost two years after the world doesn’t end, Castiel falls from grace—and loses his voice in the process. IT is the impetus for confession and change; before long, he is settling into a loving relationship with Dean, the Winchesters are tired, and hunting for a place to land has taken precedence to hunting anything else. Dean and Castiel fall in love with the strange little house on the end of Swallowtail Drive, and for a little while life is as it should be—sweet, affectionate, and beginning afresh.
But more and more Castiel sees and hears things in the house that beg the question of whether or not a place itself can be alive. The walls and rooms seem to shift and grow and breathe, and one night, Dean comes home from a hunt changed in a way that Castiel cannot explain. In the months that follow, their domestic bliss takes turns for the dark and sour, and the confusion of their circumstances will ultimately test everything Castiel knows about the man he loves, and everything he believes to be true.
Jump the Track by alysian_fields - ☆ AU, NC-17, 83,180 Summary: 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.
Just Give Me a Reason by elizaye - ☆ AU, A/B/O, NC-17, 102,751 Summary: After a redistribution of students places them in the same school, Dean and Castiel meet, fall in love, and choose to commit to each other in the most permanent way possible: they mate. But their happiness doesn't last long—before the year's up, an unexpected turn of events splits them up, and Dean escapes to college in California while Castiel remains in Lawrence. They spend six long years apart, growing and attempting to heal. But when a successful job interview throws them back into close contact with one another, the balance that each worked so hard to achieve is disrupted, and there's no telling what will remain between them when the dust settles.
KGB 'Verse* by deans1911 - ☆ AU, M, 5,360 Summary: Dean is a Secret Service agent. Castiel is his ex-KGB handler.
Kiss You When It's Dangerous by zoemathemata - ☆ AU, NC-17, 57,593 Summary: When his partner Uriel, betrays him, Federal Agent Castiel Novak is saved from becoming a ritual sacrifice by brothers Dean and Sam Winchester. Discovering the world of the supernatural and learning about werewolves, wendigoes, vampires and things that go bump in the night also leads to learning more about Dean and the strange life he and his brother lead. The more he learns, the more Castiel finds himself drawn into Dean’s world and toward Dean himself.
Until Uriel wants to complete the ritual he started.
The Law of Conservation of Energy by peroxide_fic SU, PG-13, 90,030 Summary: The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one state into another. And what is grace, if not energy? In order to win the war in Heaven, Castiel and the Winchesters embark on a cross-country quest to find the scattered shards of Gabriel’s grace in the hopes that its remaining power will be enough to defeat Raphael before he and Crowley can open the door to Purgatory.
Lay Your Weary Head to Rest by ladyoneill - ☼ SU, NC-17, 35,242 Summary: In the final battle of Armageddon, Dean is severely injured. As he suffers through pain and multiple surgeries and the possibility of permanent disability, Castiel is granted a reward by Heaven that Dean struggles with understanding, Sam makes a decision that throws Dean for a loop, and a ten year old boy finds out his father is the man he always wished it was, but nothing like he expected. Somehow these four take something very broken and dysfunctional and make it into a family.
Let Me Be Your Comet (I Will Fly) by MajorEnglishEsquire - ♢ SU, NC-17, 4,203 Summary: "Have sex with me. Could you please? Just. I need you to."
Lost Souls by lastknownwriter - ☆ AU, dark, NC-17, 76,870 Summary: AU. Homicide detective Dean Winchester is thrust into a past he has tried hard to forget when he finds himself leading a manhunt for an unlikely killer: his childhood best friend, Castiel.
Love Is Not Love; Which Alters When It Alteration Finds by Angemicwings - ☆ AU, NC-17, 24,795 Summary: Castiel discovers the love story between him and Dean transcends time itself. His memories of past lives return to him and he remembers past lives with Dean in all different times and different relationships. It helps him make a decision that will affect the rest of his life.
This is how Castiel learns that love never changes as long as you stay true.
Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams by elizaye AU, A/B/O, NC-17, 76,345 Summary: Castiel Sacre is the sole owner of the multibillion dollar corporation that his father built from the ground up. By all rights, this should be the most glorious time of his life. But he is also an unmated omega on the verge of turning thirty, and as decreed by an antiquated inheritance law, Castiel will have turn over all assets to the eldest alpha in his family, unless he finds himself a mate. Unwilling to mate for convenience, Castiel resigns himself to his fate, trusting that his alpha half-brothers will not leave him destitute.
Dean Winchester is two years in to what has arguably been the shittiest part of his life. It has fallen to him to pay off a shitload of debt leftover from his estranged brother’s not-so-legal former lifestyle, and to foot the bill for said brother’s stay at a rehab facility. To that end, Dean is working as a high-end escort—it pays well because alphas are apparently in high demand, but god, does he hate it. Naturally, when he’s offered a chance to clear his debts and leave this life behind, he seizes it.
Master of Reality by PeppermintWind - ☆ AU, NC-17, 88,506 Summary: “So, do you feel more in solidarity now that we’re making noodles together?”
In which Dean (whose father disappeared a few months ago, who sometimes takes on gangs for local charities, who would do anything to take care of his little brother without telling him what ‘anything’ entails) hangs out at the Roadhouse Homeless Youth Day Center and Castiel (high school senior with an edible-only weed philosophy, after-school fist-fighting veteran, owner of a fuzzy blue blanket with angel wings) takes an Urban Plunge.
And then everything gets complicated.
The Mirror by cloudyjenn - ☆ SU, PG-13, 24,568 Summary: When Dean touches a strange mirror, he’s whisked away to one alternate reality after another and it doesn’t take him long to realize the universe is trying to tell him something.
Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me by doctorkaitly AU, dark, NC-17, 12,725 Summary: In which Dean is a hunter (of humans and the supernatural alike) and Castiel is a monster of the wholly human variety.
My Name Is Castiel by elizaye - ☆ SU, M, 167,827 Summary: My name is Castiel, and I am an angel of the Lord. Let me tell you my story. Let me tell you everything.
Or, in which Castiel escapes from Death’s clutches yet again, only to jump right into the fight against the Leviathans. Post-7x10
My Roots Take Flight by KismetJeska - ☆ SU, M, 125,903 Summary: After forty years in Hell, Dean’s more than willing to accept the offer: become a guardian angel and earn his freedom. But his new ward seems destined to hunt alongside Sam, and there are secrets in Heaven that the angels don’t want found out. Dean’s going to have to choose between his duty and the people he loves- and to work out just where Castiel fits in.
Named by RC_McLachlan SU, M, 95,083 Summary: Jesus Christ is dead. Somehow, that isn’t the worst part of Dean’s week.
Not All That by totalizzyness AU, M, 94,577 Summary: 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.
On the Line Where Dreams Are Found and Lost by janie_tangerine - ☆, ☼ SU, NC-17, ~7,300 Summary: Cas won’t ever move on if he doesn’t get closure. or, wherein Dean unconventionally provides it.
Oneiroi by RC_McLachlan - ☆, ☼ SU, NC-17, 54,364 Summary: There is not a dream Castiel does not know, except this one.
Orizuru by kadielkrieger - ☆ Jensen/Misha, SU, NC-17, 46,625 Summary: No matter how insignificant the question, Jensen has always craved answers. The origami birds scattered in his path are no exception - each accompanying message more obscure and more pointed than the last. As he slowly becomes the proud owner of a growing paper menagerie, Jensen has to decide whether to follow the clues or follow his heart.
Our Bodies, Possessed By Light by Obstinatrix SU, NC-17, 39,881 Summary: Purged of all his souls, Castiel is a changed being, stronger than an angel and too powerful for Jimmy’s body to contain. Happily, there’s an archangel’s vessel on hand, and he could use fixing, too. Dean isn’t too happy about the idea of his brother acting as a vessel for Castiel, and Sam can guess why, but it isn’t until Castiel gets inside his head and they learn to share the vessel — and their thoughts — that Sam realizes Cas is as in love with Dean as Dean is with him. It’s unfortunate that there’s nothing much to be done about it now, but Castiel will get another vessel soon. The Winchesters will make damn sure of that. In the meantime, it’s up to the three of them to establish their own strange accord, and Dean realizes more fully than ever that it’s Castiel, and not his vessel, that he loves.
Peanut Butter-Pumpkin Wedding Cake by Sparseparsley AU, NC-17, 30,784 Summary: Dean is a waiter in a strip club to put his kid brother through school. Castiel is dragged to the club as a part of his sister Anna’s bachelorette party. Dean and Cas hit it off, but Dean thinks Cas is the one marrying Anna.
Pretty Angel by tracy_loo_who - ☼ SU, NC-17, ~14,800 Summary: Michael has a plan to break Team Free Will, and it involves turning Castiel into a rentboy
The Prophet Must Die by imogenbynight SU, M, 54,455 Summary: "What about Castiel? He seems helpful… and dreamy."
Something about the comment just isn’t sitting right, and Dean’s jaw twitches. He stares at the wall in the dark, and at a quarter past four in the morning, it hits him.
"Asshole," Dean hisses under his breath, sitting up straight, "that sonofabitch kept publishing."
Reconciling Hollywood by qthelights Jensen/Misha, SU, NC-17, 31,849 Summary: Misha has always prided himself on his mastery of the first impression - both giving and receiving. After all, people are easy enough to read if examined through the appropriate lens. For the last two years he’s stuck to his guns and his assumption that Jensen is just a good guy who made a dick mistake back when he thought Misha was disposable. Pushed him up against a trailer door and took because he could. But now, with Jared overseas with his new bride, Jensen around more than ever, and a decision weighing heavy on his conscience, Misha realizes that truly knowing Jensen might be nearly as impossible as knowing himself.
Redemption Road by This Team - ☆, ☼ SU, NC-17, 652,223 Summary: With Castiel having set himself up as the new God, drunk on power and volatile as a nuclear reactor, Dean, Sam, and Bobby find themselves on the run from the jealous, capricious monster wearing the face of their friend. Desperate for protection and wary of his brother’s mental state since Castiel unlocked Sam’s memories of Hell, Dean knows Castiel must be defused before he can wreak further havoc in Heaven or on Earth. Although Bobby advocates for destroying Castiel by whatever means necessary, Dean is convinced the Cas he once knew still remains, buried somewhere beneath the mass of poisonous souls and calling out for help. Determined to save the angel who once rescued him from Hell and redefined his purpose in life, Dean himself must resist the allure of the false deity vying for his obedience, and come to terms with the knowledge, long- suppressed, that his feelings for Castiel run much deeper than brotherhood. It is this bond, and the dubious distinction of the Righteous Man, that will ultimately grant Dean access to where Castiel’s grace languishes in Purgatory. However, what Dean brings back with him is broken, angry, and only half-angel, certainly not the Castiel he remembers—and now is it the only thing that returns to Earth with them…
Reflection of You by vichan - ☆, ☼ SU, end!verse, M, ~50,000 Summary: When an angel falls, it’s impossible to know exactly where they’ll crash.
The Request by cloudyjenn - ☾ AU, M, 36,770 Summary: 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.
Right Where You Left Me, Sleeping With Ghosts by signalfire, elfladyarwen - ☆, ☼ SU, end!verse, NC-17, ~10,500 Summary: “It must be difficult for you,” Cas whispers. “To see yourself like that. To know that all of that is inside you.”
The Sacrifice of Our Enmity by elizaye - ☆ fem!Cas, AU, NC-17, 130,164 Summary: In a bargain for peace between their nations, Castiel is promised to Dean, King of Laurentia. Neither one of them is pleased with this new development, but a shared sense of duty has them both agreeing to it. As time passes, they come to care for each other, and it seems that fate has given them the means to happiness by bringing them together. But all is not what it seems. Castiel’s arrival in Laurentia sets in motion a scheme that has been in the making for years, a scheme that—if successful—could damage their budding relationship irreparably.
The Sentinel Crossover 'Verse by melonbutterfly AU, NC-17, 13,898 Summary: Wherein Castiel is a Guide and Dean is a Sentinel.
Shine by Zatnikatel - ☆ Gen, SU, M, 117,908 Summary: “It is you, brother. It always was. Remember what I said? You were born to this.”
Dean is gone, vanished in a flash of light. Castiel is back, with a handprint to match Dean’s and a whispered name on his lips: Michael. And Sam faces losing his brother to an archangel who fell three decades ago, as Team Free Will finds out Dean’s connection to Michael runs deeper than being his vessel, and Dean comes to terms with who he is meant to be and his growing attachment to the angel who gripped him tight and raised him from perdition…
Sleight of Hand by melo - ☼ AU, MCD, PG-13, 14,718 Summary: Castiel is the cop and Dean is the robber, and maybe it was always this way, or maybe it wasn't.
Or: The one where Castiel comes to understand the crime he has committed and the truth he never could accept.
Sociopaths in Love by Annie D - ☆ AU, dark, NC-17, 24,235 Summary: Dean buys Castiel as a slave and has a fun time viciously breaking him in. But what Dean doesn’t know is that this is exactly what Castiel wants.
Something Unexpected by cloudyjenn AU, NC-17 Summaru: Mr. Novak is Dean's principal. Dean would like him to be more.
Strippers n' Assassins 'Verse by comtessedebussy AU, NC-17, 22,036 Summary: Dean’s an assassin who likes to round off a job well done with a dance from his favorite stripper, Castiel. Though when Dean begins to suspect that Castiel may have an inkling of his hardly conventional employment, well, it’s time for the tables to turn a bit.
Sympathy for the Devil (And Dean Winchester) by TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel SU, PG-13, 34,522 Summary: "I’m Lucifer. I always have been. I just didn’t know it for like, the last five thousand fucking years, not until you broke the seal and I got my Grace back and realized exactly how much I was screwed over. Okay, so maybe there’s a few assholes I’d really like to explode, but really, I mostly just want to stay under the radar and get my head sorted.”
After the final Seal is broken, Dean discovers that he’s actually Lucifer. He’s not really sure how he feels about that. The forces of Heaven and Hell aren’t exactly making things easier.
Take the Wheel by Misachan Dean/Cas/Jimmy, SU, NC-17, 15,643 Summary: There aren’t too many positives about agreeing to be strapped to a comet, but one of the bigger ones is that Castiel at least manages to keep Jimmy asleep and unaware most of the time – so when Jimmy suddenly finds himself wrenched awake mid-battle he knows this has to be a bad sign. Their attacker is a wild card in the angelic war, one who believes she’s the only one truly fighting for the humans, and to that end she’s developed a new weapon: a way to enchant her sword so that it can kill an angel without having to sacrifice the vessel. And she’s made Castiel her first test. With Castiel wounded Jimmy’s forced to take control, and he and Dean set off on a desperate road trip to the security of Bobby’s safe room.
Dean drives fast, but angels are faster.
These Are Not Real Problems by Annie D - ☼ SU, NC-17, 30,511 Summary: Castiel used to be a god. Dean took that away from him, and now Castiel’s stuck in a hell of his own making.
This Thing Called Free Will by tracy_loo_who - ☼ SU, PG-13, 2,501 Summary: Time is fluid, and Castiel can see how it will go because he can bend it on occasion.
Thursday's Child by strangenessandcharm - ☆, ☼ SU, end!verse, NC-17, 114,000 Summary: Thursday’s child has far to go.
'Til the Last by miss_grey - ☆, ☼ AU, NC-17, 75,169 Summary: When the war came, Dean Winchester was determined that he was not going to get involved. He had more important things to worry about than some rich man’s fight. He had work on the farm and he had taking care of his family. Nothing else was worth his worry. But in August in the Year of Our Lord 1863, when the soldiers came knocking, they weren’t asking. They dragged Dean away.
Dean and Cas have been best friends since they were kids. When Dean is drafted into the Confederate army, to what lengths will Castiel go to ensure that Dean makes it back home alive?
Try-Something Tuesday by almaasi AU, NC-17, 48,284 Summary: Dean Winchester teaches a third-grade class. He’s new to this whole ‘bisexual’ thing - but by pure happenstance, he meets Castiel: a particularly dapper male librarian who moonlights as a substitute teacher. Dean’s curious and Castiel is willing, so why the hell not? Except, fate never intended it to be one-time-only…
Twin 'Verse by cloudyjenn - ☆, ☾ Jensen/Misha, AU, PG-13, ~5,000 Summary: Dean and Jensen are twins. So are Castiel and Misha. They meet. Things happen.
Unusual Circumstances by TamrynEradani AU, PG-13, 12,985 Summary: Dean is a football player, and Cas is a cross country runner, but they don’t live up to each other’s stereotypes.
Wanna Steal Your Innocence by endversed - ☆,♢ AU, NC-17, 6,634 Summary: Dean’s a mechanic in his late 20s and Cas is a freaking sixteen year old high schooler. Dean shouldn’t want to fuck the kid as much as he does.
What You Paid For by TriDom AU, A/B/O, NC-17, 28,780 Summary: Castiel is an omega whose body has begun to reject suppressants after twelve years of continuous use. Faced with a hysterectomy or using an alpha service, he chooses the latter as much as he loathes the thought.
Where Your Love Begins by Misachan - ☼ SU, M, 7,197 Summary: There are much sharper weapons than knives.
Willowsbend by miss_grey AU, NC-17, 51,324 Summary: In the town of Willowsbend, the Supernatural police unit went by the name of Dean Winchester. Unfortunately for Dean, the Supernatural population of Willowsbend was zero. So Dean spent the majority of his time calming paranoid housewives when their pipes rattled and chasing off wildlife that over-zealous citizens were sure must be shifters. It’s a tiring job, full of false-starts and hysterical old ladies. It’s a rare day that Dean has to deal with anything truly Supernatural. That’s about to change, and it all begins with the arrival of one Castiel Novak.
You Know My Name by weatheredlaw - ♢ AU, NC-17, 5,645 Summary: if you need a thousand years of peace before you will ever trust this world again, then you know my name, i am the rabbit (“the rabbit”, Joe Pintauro)