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How to Not Only Survive, But Thrive in The Afterlife by Dean Winchester by MaraschinoSqueeze
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
01 Jan 2026
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Dean is basically a pro at being dead. He could write a book. Hell, he should write a book. You know what? As soon as he gets the fuck out of here he is going to write a book. If Chuck can profit off their shitty fucked up lives, why can't Dean? Those Huntercorp Winchesters made money off hunting. Fuck... you know this is actually a really good idea. Dean's gonna write a—
Oh fuck! We can hash out the details later. Gotta run!
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'Let's Go Find That Idiot And Bring Him Home' by Supergirl67
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
01 Jan 2026
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Takes place after 15x19.
(15x20 is forgotten trash!)After defeating Chuck and saying goodbye to their beloved adopted son Jack, Sam and Dean continue on with their lives as hunters. Eileen occasionally joins them, and her relationship with Sam begins to blossom, causing Dean to feel heartbroken. After a startling encounter, and a night full of drunken sorrow, Dean finally realizes his true feelings for Cass. He admits to Sam what happened that day in the dungeon. Sam can't stand to watch his brother suffer in despair anymore, so he calls upon the one person he knows who can help fix everything, Jack.
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Oh, look, another fic where Dean does a ritual to bring Cas back from The Empty, then frantically confesses his love.
Featuring - Dean's all-consuming need to crawl inside Cas and settle into the marrow of his bones for all eternity.
And humping on the ground!
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A year of planning.
A year without Castiel.
Finally, they are ready.One last hunt.
Grab the angel and get out.Shame things never go according to plan.
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Apropos of nothing, I give you this (canon divergent) experimental fic of Dean's reaction during the confession in Despair, nearly 100% POV of his inner monologue. Because that's what my brain wanted to do this morning.
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Dean, at the end of his rope, performs a ritual to summon Cas from The Empty. He is very Dean about it when he thinks it doesn't work and plans to give up on life. Turns out, the ritual did work! Dean confesses his love to Cas, and they end up cuddling in a field outside that barn where they first met.
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i look down at my hands (like they were mirrors) by NotEvenALittle
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
05 Nov 2025
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Dean doesn't know what to do, when Cas is taken by the Empty.
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Castiel finds himself held in Dean’s arms, both of them on their knees, unsteady after the journey back from the empty.
Dean holds him.
Dean keeps holding him.
Dean holds him much longer than he ever has before, much longer than Castiel thinks he’s seen a human embrace another before. He holds him so long and so close their bodies start to sway.
Castiel isn’t about to tell him to stop.
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and whatever walked there, walked alone by handsliketruth, whiskeyjuniper for alovelyhorror
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
05 Nov 2025
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This is not a haunting.
Something has simply been here for far too long.
(And Dean doesn't remember why he's here- but he knows in his gut that he's not leaving until he does.)
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"Damn it," Dean coughs, turning his head to spit out another mouthful of blood. "This isn't…going…like I planned."
"So the reckless, renegade cowboy riding into the valley of death thing wasn't the plan?" Cas asks, his tone clipped with annoyance.
"No, the recklessness went perfectly," Dean says, breathing more easily now that his lungs aren't quite so restricted by the mangled remains of his thoracic cavity. "I wanted to deliver some cool line when we got back, though. About gripping you tight and raising you from perdition. But that doesn't work so well when I can't fucking breathe."
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Dean wakes from a fitful nap, immediately reaching for the whiskey bottle beside his bed. He takes a swig, swishes it around his mouth, and swallows heavily. For a second, his stomach turns, and his mouth salivates. He breathes through it and manages to hold the whiskey down.
Hair of the dog, so they say.
He has no idea what time it is, but he feels like it’s some strange nowhere time. Like time has no meaning for the moment. As if he’s in some little bubble, away from the world. Reaching out for the whiskey again, he takes a larger swig, trying to ground himself with the familiar burn. Still, he doesn’t feel anchored to the time or place.
Weird.
Suddenly, his dream comes rushing back to him. A tan trench coat, a backwards blue tie, strong forearms, and beautiful blue eyes - staring into his soul. Before he knows it, he’s lurching out of bed, vomiting in his wastebasket. Wiping his face roughly, he can feel the hot tears streaming down his cheeks.
When did he start crying?
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A Reason Worth Dying For / A Reason Worth Trying For by SandgrassBagel
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Sep 2025
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Castiel's death hits Dean with a finality that leaves him drowning. Drowning in grief, in regret, in self-loathing, in heartbreak, in liquor. So when he stumbles across Lilly Sunder's notes on angels and, subsequently, a passage mentioning a gate to opening the Empty, he is determined to get Cas back.
No matter the cost.
Three weeks after Cas' return from the Empty, he is slowly healing from what the spell to retrieve him took. Three weeks after Cas' return, omens of angels and demons are scattered around the country. Three weeks after Cas' return, the Empty is bleeding.
Dean swore he would get Cas back no matter the cost. And he has, at the cost of endangering the balance of life and the afterlives. Dean has learned from dying and being the one left behind that it is easy to die for someone, but it is much harder to face the costs of surviving alongside them.
Even so, this time, Dean will not watch Cas die. And Cas has not and will not ever allow the same.
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Dean and Cas been friends for 20 years and this night is the night they meet Empty. Yeah Empty the Russian speaking and rather be sleeping who looks a lot like the angel Castiel.
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Short drabble fix-it from a challenge.
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“Why the hell didn’t you tell me about your deal?!” Dean’s voice booms, even louder than he meant to.
Between ragged breaths, Cas finally makes eye contact with Dean. His eyes are piercing, stark in contrast against the sludge lining his cheeks and dripping from his hair. Something deep in Dean’s chest aches at the stare — a shade of blue once gone for so long, and now a gaze so familiar. He drowns in it.
A small smile forms at the edges of the angel’s lips, like Cas knows something he doesn’t. “Hello, Dean.”
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Dean's a grieving asshole and won't take Cas being dead permanently for an answer, so he pulls him out of the Empty himself.
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Two years after Cas is taken by the Empty, Dean finds a spell in a long abandoned bunker.
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Bringing Cas back from the dead was the easy part. Learning to live again is harder.
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Or maybe he'd hoped more than anything, but. But that's not his chief concern now. The point is, he now has some pretty irrefutable proof that Cas is…
Hungry.
And he doesn't know how the fuck he's supposed to deal with that.
Post-canon. After a successful rescue from the Empty, Dean finds himself stuck in a limbo with Cas. The only way to bring him back was to bring him back possessing Dean. But after their final moments in the dungeon together, things are awkward. And after Dean starts to get a taste of the breadth and depth of Cas's feelings... he, too, realizes he has quite an appetite.
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Dean didn't have a plan—not really. The moment he found a way to break into The Empty, he took it. The only thing on his mind was: bring back Cas, no matter what it takes. But now, as he steps through the portal, he wishes he had taken the time to actually think.
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when you finally give yourself permission to be Happy by iamindeeddistressed
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
15 Jul 2025
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In Purgatory for the second time, to stop Dean from confessing, Castiel admits he made a deal.