#first responder

Destiel Trope Collection 2026 | Day 3: First Responder AU

Shattered Lies | @seidenapfel Rating: Explicit Word Count: 2,573 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Castiel/Omega Dean Winchester, Omega Dean Winchester, pretending to be an alpha, Alpha Castiel (Supernatural), pretending to be a Beta or an Omega, Mating Cycles/In Heat, First Time, True Mates, Friends to Lovers, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Dean is a firefighter, and damn good at his job. To live his dream, he has to pretend because no one is allowed to know he is an Omega. His lies shatter when the longing for his longtime housemate and best friend becomes too much and triggers his heat.

Doctor’s Orders | @Labgeek2002 Rating: Mature Word Count: 12,018 Main Tags/Warnings: Doctor Castiel, Paramedic Dean, hospital setting, shooting Summary: Five plus one love story of Dean and Castiel's time together in a trauma emergency room, showed through the lens of six patients.

Don't Say It! | @teeparadigm67 Rating: General Word Count: 13,265 Main Tags/Warnings: Fierfighter AU, 911 Crossover, No 9-1-1 Characters Included, Developing Friendships, Humour, Light-Hearted, Crack Treated Seriously, Paramedic Castiel, Firefighter Dean Winchester Summary: Dean thought it would be hard to get a transfer to a different state, but all it took was a few forms to fill in and a talk with the chief and he was on his way to Los Angeles as Station 118’s newest member. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until Dean had the misfortune of uttering the dreaded “Q word” and thrusting him and the rest of B-shift into the most chaotic shift imaginable. Thankfully he has the handsome head paramedic Castiel to show him the ropes and welcome him to the 118 family.

Don't Trust Them (Trust Me) | @imaginaryprotagonist Rating: Explicit Word Count: 25,333 Main Tags/Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Fake Relationship, Smut, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicidal Thoughts, Drugs, Substance Abuse, Homophobia, John Winchester’s A+ Parenting, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat Summary: Dean’s entire life has been a string of bad luck: some because he’s suffered the consequences of drug kingpin John Winchester’s terrible decision-making, some because he seems to have inherited the trait. After being attacked in an alley, Dean is saved by a mysterious man in a trench coat. Castiel turns out to be a cop determined to arrest two key players in Chicago's illegal drug game; a corrupt politician, and a murderous drug dealer with a dark connection to Dean. He offers Dean an opportunity to turn his life around, in exchange for helping Cas gain access to these people. Their cover story? Castiel, or rather, 'Jimmy', is Dean’s new boyfriend.

Rescuing the Rescuer: Saving Myself from a Lifetime of Hurt

In this moving essay, Cathleen Calkins examines the cumulative emotional toll on ski patrollers who witness and respond to traumatic injury every day on the job.

"The alchemy between rescuer and rescued is strange: like a romantic relationship, only faster moving. The euphoria of starting simply at hello, I’m here to help before moving on and culminating at what feels like deep attachment. We say my patient, as in they transported my patient to the hospital, or my patient opted to return to the slopes, or my patient is in the bar. I felt possessive of those I spent so little time with because our paths crossed at a moment they needed my help. Perhaps I cared too much.

I used to wonder how the people I’d assisted were doing. Like the college student who snagged first chair to get on the snow early so he could make it home before his afternoon class. He didn’t look like a skier. His cheap snow pants were too big, his cotton hoodie soaked. I remember how crumpled he looked when I skied up to him and how his inaudible moans grew louder when we secured him to the backboard. Had his injury prevented him from leading the life he wanted?"

First Responder

I feel like my penchant for being a fluffy white cloud is getting a little ridiculous~

Over the weekend, tens of thousands of residents in my state lost power due to storms and heavy winds. When I was driving back home from work with my partner on Saturday, we started getting alerts about downed trees and power lines from the town next to ours (where my parents live). We only noticed a few branches down on our way home but we saw a video from a mutual friend of huge hail about a half hour east of us when we got home.

It wasn’t long after we got home that we lost power ourselves. While we got ours back around 2:45AM on Sunday, my parents and a bunch of my friends in the county weren’t so lucky. Luckily my parents are on their town’s water and sewer system so they had running water!

Tell me why, despite all of this, our radio chatter has been quiet and our department was only really called in for mutual aid? The neighborhood around my parents didn’t look so bad but further into town it looked like ‘a war zone’ according to them, with giant trees uprooted and telephone poles snapped in two. Not to mention, when I was out with my mom and my sister yesterday and the energy grid was being worked on, we somehow ended up at the only restaurant in the area with a working generator? And my parents’ power was also restored right after we got home even though it wasn’t expected to be back on until at least later that evening!

in EMS

emergency medical services

first responder

like...

fuck this country

sighs