After running into Marie and the girls, Dean can’t let go of fanfictions. Digging into them, he can’t escape them. Fic after fic he falls deeper into a rabbit hole as he realises that the fics soothe the cravings of the Mark. And he will do everything to keep it that way.
His longing transcends barriers, and at first, Castiel only receives vibes when his yearning resonates and the dreams commence. Endless possibilities open themselves up for him. For them.
Missed moments. Alternate universes. All of them have one thing in common: Dean. Lovely, beautiful Dean Winchester, loving him back in every possible way.
Yet, every morning, it feels as if nothing has happened. Everything is back to normal — or is it?
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Pairings: Dean/Cas (mentioned past Dean/Benny, mentioned past Dean/Crowley)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Author: FriendofCarlotta
Artist: seidenapfel
Rating: E
Word Count: 50,783
Pairing: Dean Winchester/Castiel
Tags: Alternate Canon (Season 2/3 Era), Hunters Dean and Sam, Shapeshifters, Kid Fic, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary
With Dad dead and Azazel out of the picture, Dean has been feeling depressed and directionless. Sam is pushing them from hunt to hunt, but Dean is starting to wonder what it’s all for.
When a shapeshifter case takes them to a small town in North Carolina, life takes a sudden turn for the better. The shapeshifter has been impersonating Castiel Novak, a handsome employee at the local science museum who has Dean thinking unusual thoughts about dating and settling down.
But Dean soon discovers that nothing about this case is straightforward. Getting to the truth will mean challenging his most deeply held assumptions — and discovering the true meaning of love.
MIDAM BANG 2024 !! Kicking things off into the future.
Hello everyone, so exiting to finally be able to share this fic and open the posting period for the first-ever Midam Bang in collaboration with @seidenapfel.
This is a sci-fi take on how Adam and Michael ended up with their own bodies and found a peaceful existence for themselves not so much where but when among slightly different stars than canon verse. A canon rewrite where the Winchesters instead of tricking Michael in S15, helped him get his heart's desire and by extension Adam's. Last but certainly not least be prepared for the happiest of endings each Adam and Michael with a body of their own (no Dean Winchester was kicked out or rehomed from his body in the making of this fic).
Make sure to follow the tag #midam bang 2024 or @midambang24 to see all the amazing fics that will follow in the next few weeks because we are just the first of many Midam fics to come.
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: 10,038 words
Pairing: Michael Milligan/Adam
Link to art: AO3 / Tumblr
Author: notreallyaroad
Artist: seidenapfel
Fandom: Supernatural, H2O: Just Add Water
Rating: E
Content Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Word Count: 12,672
Pairing: Dean Winchester/Castiel
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester, Charlie Bradbury, Crowley
Tags: Cannibalism, Mpreg, Getting Together, Baby Jack Kline
Summary
Sam, Dean, and Castiel get stranded on legendary Siren’s Point. When searching for signal to call for help goes horribly wrong, the group finds themselves trapped deep in a cave with the only way out being a mysterious pool that leads back out to the ocean. Little do they know what happens to people who get caught in the pool when the full moon comes overhead.
Can they learn to live with their new secret or will it take over their lives?
Here's my art post for the @spnangelbang 2023 hosted by the wonderful @hawkland :)
For this one I got matched with the amazing @seidenapfel who I even got to meet at PurCon a few weeks ago! Seidenapfel, it was a lot of fun to work with you and briefly get to know you, and I thank you so much for the lovely writing input that inspired the artworks above <3
Read 'An Act of Humanity' on AO3 here.
Summary:
Cast out of the bunker, Castiel is lost. Adapting to humanity feels like a punishment for his deeds. When he becomes sick, weakened by cold and hunger, the battery on his phone allows him one last call to say goodbye.
Alarmed, Dean rushes to save Cas. He’s right on time. But with Ezekiel threatening to let Sam die if Cas steps back into the bunker, they are forced to share a motel room.
Castiel slowly recovers under Dean’s care, when an accidental kiss changes everything.
Things might finally turn for the better, if it weren’t for the situation at home.
read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HMLGfYX
by seidenapfel
After arriving in Heaven, Dean's nursing a beer in the crowded and snowed-in Roadhouse when the door opens and Cas enters.
Crowding him, Dean makes out with him in front of everyone present, believing that he is stuck in his personal Heaven and none of it is real.
Words: 3004, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Background & Cameo Characters
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Episode: s15e20 Carry On (Supernatural), Fix-It, First Kiss, Fluff, Christmas, John Winchester's A+ Parenting
read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/HMLGfYX
Writer: @seidenapfel
Artist: @deancodedcastielenby
Summary:
When his dad catches him making out with another man, Dean runs away. He leaves his little brother behind, and hides in the wilderness, where he stumbles into a stranger's lair.
Shocked to find Sam stuck in a little box there, Dean is ready to fight the man responsible for this. But Castiel assures him that he means no harm. The box is only a device that helps him watch Sam - and Dean, as it turns out.
The strange visitor from beyond the sky needs the brothers, or rather Dean and his powerful magic. The reveal comes as a shock to Dean who had no idea that he carries magic at all.
Castiel offers to train him, because Dean, according to Castiel, is the only one who can save the brother's home world.
They have one month left to put aside their animosity. Otherwise, the entire planet and all its inhabitants will be lost. If there only weren't their mutual attraction and the undeniable pull between their magic.
Ever since his father’s death, Castiel has been lonely. His job as a staffer for Congresswoman Kelly Kline can only fill so many of his hours, but his attempts at dating have been unsuccessful.
A bright spot in his day is the tall stranger who shares his train platform during the morning commute. If Castiel could find someone as handsome and apparently successful as this man to share his life with, he’s sure his loneliness would be a thing of the past.
One day, the stranger falls onto the train tracks during a robbery gone wrong and Castiel saves his life. With the man — Sam — lingering in a coma, Castiel quickly finds himself adopted into the raucous, cheerful circle of Sam’s family. There’s just one problem: as the result of a misunderstanding, Sam’s family believes that Castiel is Sam’s boyfriend.
The situation only gets worse when Castiel finds himself falling fast and hard for Sam’s older brother Dean. Will Castiel ever be able to tell Dean and his family the truth? And if he does, will they still want him in their lives?
Keep reading for a sneak preview!
The man in the trucker hat is now demanding updates on Sam’s condition, scowling at the doctor as if it’s his personal fault that Sam is currently unconscious.
“And who are you?” says the final member of the group — a boy of about fifteen or sixteen.
Unfortunately, this question is addressed to Castiel.
He opens his mouth to say that he was present for Sam’s accident and will be leaving now. But the doctor, obviously relieved to have an excuse to cut short his conversation with the irate cap-wearing man, says, “Yes, that’s what I’d like to know! Visits on this ward are restricted to family only.”
“But he is family!” Out of nowhere, Garth has materialized in the room, all lanky limbs and smiles and the shiny rainbow pin on his scrubs. “That’s Castiel, Sam’s boyfriend.”
Oh god. This is the single worst situation Castiel has ever been in. Not only has he been caught in a lie, but he’s been outed in front of an entire blue-collar family who probably won’t take any too kindly to the suggestion (the likely untrue suggestion, just to make this situation even more tangled) that their precious son is queer.
“His boyfriend?” Sam’s mother asks, eyebrows rising as she studies Castiel. She looks absolutely thunderstruck.
“Sam is queer?” the older woman chimes in. “But he never said.”
“I thought it was only Dean,” says the woman with longer hair.
“I thought Sam was dating that god-awful Ruby woman,” the man in the trucker hat growls.
“Sam doesn’t owe it to anyone to come out before he’s ready,” the boy says, with the easy confidence of the very young. “And Mom, you can’t just go around talking about Dean’s sexuality. It’s not for you to share.”
“The fact of the matter is,” the doctor interjects, in a futile effort to raise his voice above the commotion, “only family members—”
Castiel chooses this moment to rise out of his chair, grab his coat and start backing away from Sam’s hospital bed. If he has to flee the room, being upright will at least put him in a slightly better position to gain a head start.
“Mr. Novak here also saved Sam’s life.” That’s Officer Lafitte, who for some reason known only to him still hasn’t left the hospital and has now materialized in the room next to Garth. “When Mr. Winchester was pushed onto the tracks, Mr. Novak jumped down to pull him to safety.”
Absolute silence falls over the room. After the previous chatter and chaos, the sudden absence of noise makes Castiel’s ears ring.
“You did?” Sam’s mother whispers, her eyes swimming with unshed tears. “Oh. Oh, come here.”
Castiel’s eyes dart to the doorway and the promise of sweet, sweet freedom, but before he can dash away, Sam’s mother has pulled him into the tightest hug he can remember receiving in years. Possibly ever. His father, for all his good qualities, wasn’t much of a hugger.
“Son,” the man in the trucker hat says, clapping Castiel on the shoulder so hard that he thinks his knees might buckle if Sam’s mother weren’t holding him up. “I think you’d better tell us everything.”
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