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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Dean Winchester is screwed.

    He's so irrevocably screwed, that even if he wanted out, he probably wouldn't let himself get out.

    Maybe a certain blue-eyed asshole of an angel is the reason.

    Maybe Dean's the reason himself.

    But now, his brother's involved. Not only do the angels want Dean as their pinch-hitter, they want Sam in the outfield, and Dean's not sure how this game's going to end up.

    But Dean Winchester always finishes a job. And he always protects his brother.

    And this time is no different.

    Because it is still a job

    At least... that's what Dean keeps telling himself.

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    06 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    It's been two years since Cas went home for the weekend, and returned to university grieving his father's death. Two years of survival. Two years of devastation. Two years of family pressures, letdowns, and bruises that sit in the same spot but ache in all kinds of different ways. As classes end, he wants a job. Just a job. Something to pass the time, pay the bills. White-collar. White noise. Mechanical as clockwork, droning out his old dreams of poetry and publishing.

    Cas finds the job. But he was not counting on Dean.

    Dean, who has poured his soul into his family-run ad agency, Devil Knows. Dean, who refuses to do anything by halves. Dean, who, for once in Cas' life, asks nothing of him—but gives him everything in turn. Five years of late nights, shared briefs, and creating their own language. Five years of steadiness, of devotion, of always, always, always being there. Five years of friends, just friends, and nothing more. In five years, Dean gives Cas everything and asks for nothing in turn—not even for him to stay. God. Cas did not count on Dean. He couldn't have. And it's going to ruin him.

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    06 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    Cas keeps getting hit on and flirted with and Dean is happy for him and encourages him to flirt back. Until he realizes he doesn't want other people to flirt with Cas.

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    08 Feb 2024

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Dean’s sitting at the kitchen table with Sam when his phone rings. Jody’s name flashes across the screen and he considers not picking up. It’s not like Dean doesn’t want to talk to Jody, it's just that he can’t bear talking to anyone these days.

    “Hi, Jody,” Sam says.

    “Howdy, boys.” She asks them to take over a case. Something about werewolves. Dean doubts they will, Sam hasn’t let him pick up a gun in months, not since their last hunt.

    Jody’s voice cuts through the phone. “Alright, if you boys don’t wanna take the case, I’ll see if Castiel will, but I think he’s helping Claire in Colorado–”

    Dean doesn’t hear a damn thing after that, and by the looks of it, Sam doesn’t either. For the first time in days, Dean opens his mouth and speaks. “Cas is alive?”

    Jody’s voice is quiet on the other end. “He didn’t tell you?”

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    18 Nov 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 80

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    I was gonna die young. Now I gotta wait for you.

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    Sometime between finishing his master's degree and starting his new teaching job in upstate New York, Castiel had given up on pursuing any type of committed relationship. He may have grasped how humans interacted and formed social bonds in a theoretical or academic sense, but that was a far cry from actually understanding how to put that knowledge into practice. Dean, thankfully, seemed to be on the same page. For the first time in a long time, he had a good thing going for him. He was living somewhere other than his car, had enough side hustles to put a bit of extra money in his pocket, and had sworn he wouldn't let himself catch feelings for a hook-up ever again.

    That goes about as well as expected.

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    05 Oct 2023