Dean Winchester-Singer is, objectively, living his dream life.
After getting a degree in English Literature, he headed back to his dusty Kansas hometown to take over his Uncle Bobby’s bookstore. Living in the tiny apartment above the store, Dean spends his days running the store’s book club, keeping tabs on his brother out in California, organizing bookshelves, and mooning over local author (and one of his best friends) Cas Novak.
But things start to take a tumble when Dean realizes that Cas’s fame is starting to outgrow the town, and then something happens to Uncle Bobby that truly challenges Dean’s carefully-built dream life…
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Pairings: Dean/Cas (background Sam/Jess)
Warnings: Heart attacks, hospitals, grief, mentions of past character death
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Fic: Even Monsters Pray
Author: TFWDuke
Artist: Threshie
Summary: When Chuck checks out, Team Free Will is stuck with the fallout of an apocalypse. Say goodbye to technology, because our boys are gonna have to kick it old-school. Amidst hunter signs, wounds, and road food that might be past its expiration date, Sam, Dean, and Cas discover that just surviving isn't going to cut it anymore. They each want more from life, but they have to traverse that field of landmines. At least they have each other, even if they don't always remember that.
Ships: WinCasWin (Destiel & Sastiel polyship; no Wincest)
Major Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Boys Need To Use Their Words, Poly-V, Sastiel, Destiel, Canon-Typical Violence
Rating: Explicit
Fic Teaser:
“Retreat!” Dean bellowed as he took another shot, backing himself out of the store as quickly as he could without turning his back on the coming horde. Cas shouted over the din but he couldn’t make it out. He popped off another shot to give the other two time to get behind him, Sam’s limping slowing their retreat significantly. His little brother looked far paler than Dean liked, but he kept the panic rising in his chest pushed down for the time being. Cas paused his retreat, smiting a vamp with a flash before he too stumbled.
Catching the angel, Dean cursed. Cas shrugged him off, reaching instead to help support Sam as they took off on the pavement. If ever Dean cursed not having a remote start in Baby, this was one of those times. Dean tossed Cas his keys as the angel struggled to keep Sam upright. Cas looked like he might argue, but Dean just turned back to face the store without a word. Sam and Cas were gaining ground on Baby while Dean slowed but continued his retreat. He slipped a new clip into his 1911, trying to hold off the vamps for as long as he could. They might take him down, but if it meant Sam and Cas got away…
Dean swallowed his fear when his clip ran dry and he switched to the machete hanging from his belt. Please, just make it out. He silently prayed to Cas, not knowing whether the angel even still had his ears to listen. Squaring his shoulders, he steadied himself to face the last five vamps that were mere feet from him. He wanted to run, but he didn’t dare slow down Cas and Sam’s escape.
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Dean Winchester-Singer is, objectively, living his dream life.
After getting a degree in English Literature, he headed back to his dusty Kansas hometown to take over his Uncle Bobby's bookstore. Living in the tiny apartment above the store, Dean spends his days running the store's book club, keeping tabs on his brother out in California, organizing bookshelves, and mooning over local author (and one of his best friends) Cas Novak.
But things start to take a tumble when Dean realizes that Cas's fame is starting to outgrow the town, and then something happens to Uncle Bobby that truly challenges Dean's carefully-built dream life…
Keep reading for a sneak preview!
Singer’s Book Supply is located at 874 Ninth Avenue and opens promptly every day (except for Monday) at ten in the morning.
Well, it opens promptly if whoever is running the shop that day actually wakes up on time.
Luckily, Dean Winchester-Singer, nephew of owner Bobby Singer, lives in the walk-up above the shop and can tumble downstairs with a yogurt and a coffee if he oversleeps, which is exactly what happened to him today. Outfitted in yesterday’s jeans, a worn t-shirt with the Singer’s Book Supply logo on it, and beat-up Converse, Dean arrives behind the counter with his hair mussed and glasses sliding down his nose.
“Two minutes,” he says to himself; the clock next to the register is three minutes slow, so he always has to do the math in his head.
Today is a Thursday, so it’s no surprise that Dean overslept. He was up late last night baking (oatmeal chocolate chip cookies this week) because Thursdays are his favorite day to work at the bookstore: it’s book club day.
The book club had actually been Uncle Bobby’s idea back in the day. Most people wouldn’t look at Bobby Singer, gruff and grouchy, and imagine him running a bookstore, but in a way it was a perfect career path for him. For years, Bobby had owned a junkyard and fixed up cars, but then he’d had an injury that forced him to sell off the junkyard. He couldn’t stop loving forgotten things, though–he took his sizable secondhand book collection and turned it into the store. Now, Singer’s has both new and used books, records, and a small cafe with tea and coffee.
In a way, Dean was one of Bobby’s secondhand finds. In a literal sense, Bobby isn’t his uncle; once upon a time, as they say in the storybooks, he was Dean’s father’s best friend. That was before Dean’s mother died in the process of his little brother Sam’s birth and his father…had some issues. Bobby got custody of the boys, and Dean hasn’t heard from his father since.
He and Sam turned out okay, though. Sam is in law school out in California, well on his way to, in Dean’s completely unbiased opinion, becoming a hot-shot lawyer. Dean, meanwhile, got a degree in English Literature and is now living out his dream: sharing literature with other people.
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