#2018 dcbb

Title: Love Leaves Its Abuser Author: Diminuel Artist: Hitori Alouette Rating: Mature Length: 40k Pairings: Dean/Castiel Warnings: Witch Castiel, Hunter Dean Winchester, Case Fic, Coffee Shop Owner Castiel (Supernatural), Love Potion/Spell, Love Through Pancakes, Mild Consent Issues, Betrayal, Emotionally Hurt Dean Winchester, Implied Sexual Content

Summary: Castiel is a witch born with powerful magic. While he is happy to only use it so people think the coffee tastes a bit better than it does and compel them to return to his café, his coven forces him to complete his initiation. They order him to get rid of Dean Winchester, the hunter who stumbled into Cas’ café while investigating a freak storm. Cas doesn’t want to kill Dean but he also can’t disobey the only family he’s ever known. So, he chooses the least disastrous option: a love spell.

Title: Drive, Darling Author: goldenboydean Artist: pimentogirl Rating: Explicit Length: 43,782 words Pairings: Dean/Castiel (minor Sam Winchester/Eileen Leahy) Warnings: Homophobic language (not used by Dean or Cas)

It’s the last day of July and the air is thick with heat and road dust. Dean Winchester is waiting for his new lodger, some photographer from Chicago coming down to take pictures of the famous covered bridges in the area. And when Castiel Novak arrives at the Winchester farm both men develop a bond that grows stronger as the days go by. But Cas is only here for a short stay and Dean fears that falling for him would only end in a heartbreak. Some things, however, are inevitable.

Summer is in full bloom in Madison County, Iowa. Hot, cloudless and ripe with possibilities.

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Title: Immune to Your Consultations Author: Pinkmink Artist: dmsilvisart Rating: Explicit Length: 38,652 Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Kaia/Claire Warnings: N/A

Summary: Being orphans makes for strange bedfellows, but Claire and Jack consider themselves lucky to have found one another. Unfortunately, their combined brand of mischief is a thorn in the side of their adoptive parents. When they meet, there’s no chance for Castiel and Dean to find anything to admire about the other - given that they blame each other’s kid for their own’s sudden rebellious behavior. But when Jack’s biological Dad throws himself back into the picture, they find that the strongest bonds of family are sometimes the ones you pick.

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Title: Speak Low, If You Speak Love Author: chevrolangels Artist: maiglöckchen Rating: Explicit Length: ~35,000 words Pairings: Dean/Castiel (Sam/Eileen, Alicia/Charlie) Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Like most terrible things in the world, this is Gabriel’s fault. And maybe Eileen’s, and Sam’s. Fact is, Charlie’s getting married. Which of course Dean would be over the moon about, despite his objection to all things romantic—but this means spending a week with his least favorite person on the planet, his sparring partner in crime, Castiel, both of them united in only one thing—their scorn for love. So when Gabriel has the bright idea of getting the two anti-lovebirds together, the whole gang is in on the idea. But as the week progresses and things get more and more complicated, they realize that perhaps not all is fair in love and war.

A Shakespeare AU starring Dean and Cas.

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Title: A Cut Above

Author: coffeeandcas

Artist: lotrspnfangirl

Rating: Explicit

Length: 25,697

Warnings: None

Summary:

Castiel hasn’t been on a date in a very long time. In fact, he can barely remember the last time he even had a first date. Long before the birth of his son, and the loss of his wife. It’s been him and Noah for years and he doubts he would even have room for a new partner in his life.

But when a new barber shop springs up in the centre of town, the owner has a certain type of roguish charm that he seems powerless to resist.

Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16717251

Title: The Stars, They Shine

Author: kradarua

Artist: EmmalenaGrace

Rating: Explicit

Length: 52.9k

Pairings: Dean/Castiel (Minor Dean/Lisa, Minor Meg/Castiel)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Theatre, Homophobia, Misappropriated Christianity, Astronomer!Castiel, Accidental Actor!Dean, Gay Panic, Misunderstandings, First Kiss, First Time, Mutual Pining

Summary: Engineer-in-training Dean Winchester just wants to work on cars. Astronomer Castiel Novak spends most of his time holed up in the school’s observatory looking at the stars and trying to piece together his dissertation. They’ve never had any reason to cross paths.

Not until they get roped into participating in the college theatre group, anyway.

When Lisa invites Dean to join her at the mass meeting, he can’t say no to a pretty face. But the joke is on Dean when he accidentally lands the male lead and has to come to terms with memorizing lines and trying not to make a fool of himself on stage. Moreover, despite his best attempts to stay interested in Lisa, there’s no denying the strange gravitational pull he feels around Castiel.

Castiel is just here to prove to Charlie that he’s capable of doing something besides research; it should be easy, except he finds himself becoming interested in Dean in a way he really did not expect.

Dean is trying to navigate being way outside his skill set; Castiel is just trying to hold onto his scholarship without pissing off the religious organization that gave it to him. It’s going to be a long semester, especially if Dean keeps forgetting his goddamn lines. The show must go on!

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Title: Scars Author: lemonsorbae Artist: deancebra-art Rating: E Length: ~148k Pairings: Dean/Cas, Sam/Ruby, minor: Charlie/Tessa, Victor/Jo, Balthazar/Bela, Lilith/Lucifer, Inias/Michael, Crowley/Naomi, Ellie/Benny Warnings: N/A

Summary: Dean Winchester doesn’t answer to anybody about anything. Not about his ever changing hair color or tattoos, not his music, and definitely not about all the fucks he definitely doesn’t give. Of course, then he meets pretentious, skinny jean wearing, ugly sweater buying Castiel Edlund who’s hardest lot in life is probably alphabetizing inventory at his uncle’s record store, and suddenly Dean has to answer for everything.

Castiel, on the other hand, had long since accepted his fate as an anti-social, directionless, and misunderstood soul, with his cat, Meg, and a bottle of whiskey being the only company he needed. But then fate threw him Dean, the abrasive, infuriating asshole who wears guyliner, and walks around like the chip on his shoulder is something to be proud of, and Castiel’s carefully constructed life was turned ass over teakettle.

After a heated exchange upon first meeting, a mutual loathing afterwards, and the glaring opposites in their lives, neither of them sees the point of mixing oil and water. Which would be all good and well, except neither of them seems to be able to stay away from the other.

Title: One-on-One Author: darcydelaney Artist: Maiglöckchen Rating: M Length: 36,000 Pairings: Dean/Cas, Dean/Lisa (during the show) Warnings: People swear a lot, homophobia (language and actions), minor violence/fighting, light bondage, enemies(ish) to lovers, happy ending!

Summary: Dean Winchester had people talking the minute he showed up on Lisa Braeden’s season of The Bachelorette as the franchise’s first openly bisexual contestant. Cas Novak had been thrilled when he first heard about—and set eyes on—the charming young teacher from Kansas, but by the end of Lisa’s season, he couldn’t blame her for choosing Michael over Dean.

Over the course of the show, something about Dean had struck Cas as smug, self-absorbed, fake. He wasn’t surprised, then, when Dean ended up being all of the above when Cas and his friends had the chance to interview him for their Bachelor-themed podcast, Rose-Colored Glasses. What does throw him for a loop, though, is when Dean leaves him his number, follows him on Instagram, and asks him on a date. Even more unexpected is the fact that eventually, Cas starts to realize that he actually doesn’t really mind spending time with Dean. At all. And that maybe, just maybe, he’s glad Lisa didn’t choose Dean for entirely selfish reasons.