MakaSweets

“I think the dough’s good enough, Dean” “Umm…maybe you should keep at it a bit longer…”

You said you liked mutual pining and wings, and you have sweets and pie in your usernames, so have Dean and Cas making a bunch of pies (and other sweets) together and trying to discreetly hug each other while doing it!

I’ve been having a really bad artblock for a while now, and making this really got me inspired again!

I hope you like it!

(also the version without the wings under the cut)

Kriah

Author: ioascc

Artist: d3vilstrap14

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Cassie Robinson/Dean Winchester, past Dean Winchester/Lisa Braeden, Jody Mills/Sam Winchester

Length: 54214

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode: s12e23 All Along the Watchtower, Episode: s13e1 Lost and Found, AUbaby!Jack Kline - Freeform, Kid Fic, Dean Winchester's Season 13 Widower Arc, Parenthood, Finding Joy

Summary: Dean can do this. He can. He can raise Jack Kline, Lucifer’s baby. No, not Lucifer’s… Cas’ kid. Their kid. With his mother gone, and Castiel dead, Dean finds himself hanging on by a thread. Castiel has died so many times on him, Dean is half-convinced himself that Cas will return to him. Dean evades the pain of the truth, carrying on in false hope until his soul renders into a million pieces. He learns quickly that taking care of a newborn is not for the faint of heart, sleep-deprivation, grief, and feedings rule most of the early days. During this time, Dean is forced to build a new life for himself. With a new name and identity change, Dean becomes a Dad. Something Castiel would be proud of. Dean cooks, he cleans, he reads, he sings his ABCs and 123s, and ultimately Dean does his best for Jack. It’s not until Jack grows into a small child that Dean feels like he can breathe again. The grief no longer suffocates him. His new life has meaning. He sees family and he allows himself to miss Castiel. To mourn him, to love him in death. And when Jack goes to school, Dean is once again reunited with friends and enemies from his past.

Somebody to You

Author: everydayistuesday

Artist: LemonWedges

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, minor Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, minor Claire Novak/Kaia Nieves

Length: 47000

Warnings: suicide (to escape a djinn dream)

Tags: alternate universe— canon divergent, alternate universe— djinn, canon typical violence, domestic fluff, human Castiel, human Jack Kline, pov alternating, angst with a happy ending

Summary: Dean lives in a house with a white picket fence and has a day job as a mechanic. He’s out of hunting and, he finally gets to settle down with Cas.  Suddenly, he comes to the violent realization that none of this is real— it’s all a dream, manufactured by a djinn. He gets out and reality comes crashing down on him— he’s still in the life, he’s not in a relationship with Cas. And there’s his problem: how does he lose something he never had? Now, he’s trying to navigate his non-romantic relationship with Cas, which is more strained than it’s been in a long time. It’s hard enough on its own, even without Sam and Jack insisting that Cas is in love with him too, and that they could have been in the same djinn dream.  Dean does what Winchesters do best: throwing himself into the job and not talking. But that doesn’t keep the lines between him and Cas from blurring. They blur and they blur and they blur and they blur, and who’s to say what’s really real?

Half Empty

Author: sinnabonka

Artist: varlovian

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 37680

Warnings: Alcohol, Blood and Injury, Grief/Mourning

Tags: Thriller, Unreliable Narrator, Non-Linear Narrative, Case Fic, Metaphorical use of original characters for purposes of narrative, If you think some small detail matters it most probably does, Temporary Amnesia, Angst with a Happy Ending, POV Dean Winchester, Canon-Typical Violence

Summary: Raging storm, boundless cornfield surging, churning, like an angry ocean crashing its waves over steep shores. Dean comes to in the passenger seat of his car with no memory of what could have possibly brought him to the oddly named bar on the outskirts of the small town in the middle of nowhere. Investigating what first looks like a regular, run-of-the-mill missing people case and trying to bring back memories he’s lost, Dean ends up discovering truth he’d rather remain hidden. Welcome to Half Empty, where nothing is as it seems, and even shadows have secrets of their own.

I Love You a (Pumpkin Spice) Latte

Author: Greenteaduck

Artist: Allfuckeduponlove

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Dean/Castiel

Length: 33151

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Fake/pretend realtionship, only one bed, idiots in love, mutual pining, sam winchester ships destiel, jack being jack, seasonal shenanigans

Summary: In a small town that’s preparing for it’s annual Harvest Hoedown, a mysterious murder takes place. Dean and Cas go undercover as a couple taking dance lessons to find the killer–because that’s the logical solution, right? But Dean feels more like he’s in a Hallmark movie rather than actually working on one of his usual cases. He and Castiel carve pumpkins, eat seasonal foods and share a bed at a Bed and Breakfast. But this is all for them to find the Monster of the Week, right? Or could it be they are falling in love for real?

His Kiss the Riot

Author: spiffyflypie

Artist: kayanem

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 49105

Warnings: Major Character Death, Suicide Ideation, Canon Afterlife

Tags: mcd is because it takes place after the finale, Fix-It, Post-Finale, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Saileen - Freeform, some dreamhunter, canon afterlife, suicide ideation, Djinni & Genies

Summary: > Everything is fine. Castiel wakes up to a remade Heaven and a godly son, and it seems they all got their happy ending… except something isn’t right. Castiel keeps running into unexpected barriers that prevent him from seeing Dean, Jack might be a bit too young to handle being god, Sam and Eileen have long since split, and Castiel’s starting to wonder if Heaven is such a happy ending after all. He risks everything by confronting the problem head-on only to wind up stuck in a memory loop. His only hope to break free is a man who probably never wants to see him again. > Everything sucks. A newly powered-up Jack can’t pull Cas out of the Empty, so Dean is left to a restless haze of a life, trying to figure out what to do with himself next. When Cas appears in his dream, and with some prodding from Sam and Eileen, Dean decides to take matters into his own hands and find a way to bring his angel back. Dean just needs to figure out if he can give Cas a home worth coming back to.

Carve a Palace from Within

Author: norahastuff

Artist: clenster

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester background Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester mention of canon Cas/Djinn Queen

Length: 75750

Warnings: N/A

Tags: 15x20 doesn't exist (except to dunk on) Introspection for everybody The Power of Love Castiel is Jack Kline's Parent Crowley (Supernatural) Billie is not a villain (this one's important to me) John Winchester's A+ Parenting Dean's Top 13 Zepp Traxx Mixtape I will drag these idiots to the beach if it kills me

Summary: The world is saved, Chuck has been defeated, and with the help of Amara and Jack, they managed to rescue Cas from the Empty. It's over. It's all over. So, what now? Sam wants to continue on as a Man of Letters and help other hunters and Dean and Cas want to open up a Roadhouse-style bar, but old habits die hard, and it’s surprisingly easy to fall back into their established routine of monsters and hunting - that is until they run into trouble on a case and have to take a step back and evaluate what’s truly important. Just when it seems like things are finally falling into place, an old friend returns and they discover there's still one of Chuck’s messes they need to clean up. The cosmic forces at the top may have a plan to fix it, but it’s Dean who will have to play the pivotal role. In order to do so, he’ll have to confront his past, face up to who he really is and acknowledge just how far he's willing to go to get the job done. One thing’s for sure, though: this is their story and he refuses to let it end as a tragedy. They deserve better. They’ve earned the chance to be free.

til the bone crush

Author: stayawake

Artist: ImpMakesArt

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, (Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester (background), Charlie/Dorothy (background), John/Mary (past), Bobby/Ellen (past))

Length: 67600

Warnings: Suicidal ideation, Implied/referenced suicide, Depression, Anxiety, References to past suicide attempt, References to past self-harm, References to abusive/neglectful parenting

Tags: Suicide Pact, Suicidal Ideation, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Angst with a Happy Ending, Depression, Anxiety, John Winchester’s A+ Parenting, Road Trips, Falling in Love, Suicide Partners to Lovers

Summary: Cas is twenty-seven, depressed, and at the end of his rope. After many years of contemplating suicide, he decides it’s finally time to pull the literal trigger. But Cas is scared. He knows he needs encouragement, peer pressure to push himself off the edge of the cliff, so he finds a partner online. Dean Winchester is a guy that Cas only knows in passing. He’s charming, bold, and absolutely the last person Cas expected for a suicide partner. But he’ll do. A story about Dean and Cas falling in love with each other, and with life itself.

The Resting Place

Author: zombiesam

Artist: phantomdrawingbooth

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Female OC/Female OC

Length: 49482

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Temporary Minor Character Death

Tags: Pet Sematary AU, Horror, Angst With a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Dream Sex, Dadstiel, Case Fic, Angel OC

Summary: When Sam, Dean, and Castiel head out to investigate a case, they assume nothing is out of the ordinary. But as Dean and Castiel continue to dance around one another's affections, they find that the small town holds deadly secrets—secrets that are far more sinister than any of them would have ever believed.

The Rescue

Author: theirprofoundbond

Artist: remyafterdark

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Sam/Eileen

Length: 58600

Warnings: No major Archive warnings apply; content warnings given in the end notes for certain chapters.

Tags: Canon divergent after 15x18, fix-it, angst with a happy ending, pining, slow burn, scenes missing from canon, angel!Castiel, Dean’s soul gives him an extreme time-out, Sam and Jack LARP a less bleak version of The Road, As for Cas you’ll have to read the story to see what’s new with him

Summary: While looking for a solution to defeat Chuck and bring everyone back, Sam, Dean, and Jack encounter the original Death, who tells them they need an archangel. So Sam and Jack will search the earth for Michael, while Dean enters the Empty to find Gabriel… and he’s not leaving without Cas. Because Dean has a soul, the Empty isn’t nothingness. He crosses vast, punishing landscapes, grappling with his feelings for Castiel while memories of the two of them haunt him—and memories of his rescue from Hell resurface. As Dean travels deeper into the Empty he discovers that its residents are awake, and they want revenge. Dean’s got to reach Castiel before they do, but he’s racing toward a secret in the heart of the Empty that will change everything.

And This, This is Peace

Author: CastielsCarma

Artist: AmethystPagan

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester

Length: 34000

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Post finale, 15x19 divergent, light angst, fluff, humor, intrusive thoughts, happy ending, domestic cas/dean, dean winchester has nightmares,

Summary: The world is saved, Chuck is disposed of and Dean can finally think about what he wants. What the future holds for him is a cottage in the woods with Cas, a place to renovate and just be. Yet the feeling of peace is a fickle thing, and slowly fear creeps into Dean's heart. Good things never last. As Dean and Cas build a home together, what's supposed to be calming, peaceful and happy, turns dark as Dean is plagued by nightmares of the past and fears for the future. He is done, but will he ever know peace?

Never Taken

Author: Makenna Sweets

Artist: MJ

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester Sam Winchester/Eileen Leahy

Length: 24334

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Fix-it, Pining, Mutual pining, Angst with a happy ending, Friends to Lovers, Canon related, Canon universe, Angst and Hurt/Comfort

Summary: What if the empty never took Castiel? What if he fulfilled his end of the deal, a moment of true happiness in just being but the empty burns out? Dean has his chance to say something back, but with the weight of the world resting on his shoulders. God still out there. How can he? What if the empty never took Cas and Dean still lets him go. Would he - could he fix them?

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