#singer!cas

40s Jazz Singer Cas in all his beauty..❤

For the Fic SWEETIES by Naoe/animediva ❤

Fic Link(s): LJ | AO3

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The singer is some newcomer called Castiel Novak. His voice makes the hairs on the back of Dean's neck stand up. It sends shivers through him. By the end of the song, Dean knows he needs to hear it again 

“I’m telling you,” Sam says from the passenger seat of the car. “You’ll love this. It’s great. I’ve been trying to get you to listen to them for years and just- just trust me, okay?”

Dean rolls  his eyes. The city begins to close in around them as they drive closer and closer to the concert hall. They live in the suburbs, in a little house because that was cheaper. Sam can commute to school and Dean can drive to work at the garage down the way. It’s a pretty good arrangement, one that they can afford and doesn't completely fuck everything up.

Dean wanted Sam in Stanford as much as Sam wanted Sam in Stanford. He really did. 

Car crashes though, they had other plans.

“This is the concept album people, right?” Dean asks.

“Yeah,” Sam answers. “The story is all about going to Hell and back to get this guy. The lead singer, Jimmy, he has this crazy ass story about how an angel found him and told him everything and that’s where the lyrics came from. I mean, that’s what it is in the meta-story- it’s actually like, way crazier, I mean, get this, so the guy-”

“Sam,” Dean barks. “Breathe. Jesus. I’ll hear it myself. Don’t spoil everything.”

Sam smiles and shakes his head. “I really appreciate this,” he says. “They don’t come through Kansas all that often and they’re...they’re crazy talented. Castiel Novak, just...wow. Don’t judge the way he looks, okay? Just listen to his voice.”

“What, me? Judgemental?” Dean replies, turning down a block. “What the hell are you talking about? I’m a fucking delight.”

Sam laughs.

Dean was skeptical before he got to the venue, and he’s even more skeptical as the show starts. The band comes out on stage, a million different instruments, a million different people and players, a million different voices and sounds. It’s crazed, it’s disorganized, it’s intense. It doesn't make any sense, it just throbbed and pulsed and screeched along. Everyone around him was seems  to be having  a good time, including Sam who’s dancing more furiously and embarrassingly than Dean’s ever seen.

He just smiles and watches the band.

So Sam owed Dean some pretty big favors, because when the band came out on stage, all bright neon lights and smoke machines and crazed electronic sound.

The show begins to change, though. Every few songs or so, a musician bows and moves off the stage with their instrument. The scenery changes, set pieces disappearing. The lasers go with the synthesizers and the fog machines follow them with the keyboards.

It’s  beginning  to get really, really good when the harps drops out and Dean can see, in the space that had been there, a guy dressed in a way that just fucking screams ‘rock star.’

And then the crowd sees  him too, and a scream rose from the audience, huge and thrilled.

Dressed ridiculously, long white robes and black wings made of feathers and rhinestones and fabric, he has the good grace to look a little embarrassed about the reception.

"Hello," he sings,  in the middle of the song. "It seems that I have found you."

And the screaming continues,  huge and swelling around him.

And the singer smiles  like it was Christmas morning.

Then the show gets really weird.

The instruments keep dropping out until only the guitar, the bass, and the drums remain. The singer keeps going, but he also starts  removing clothes, the robes coming off to reveal a trench coat and business suit. And then the business suit comes  down and the bass falls  out.

And then his shirt comes off and the wings go  with it, and it’s  only him on the stage with his guitar.

And he can make it weep.

Dean looks  at the musician’s bare chest. It’s  a litany of writing and symbol, some of it looking like it’s been carved into him, other parts of it looking like makeup. Some strange circle surrounded by geometry, some shape in the center. Some it scar, some of it augmentation.

The singer has dark hair and bright eyes, even under the bright lights. He has tanned skin that beads with sweat under the lamps and lights. He has a way of closing his eyes and furrowing his face like he means something, like it matters. He has a scratched up voice, low and broken and strange. He has a way of holding his body around his guitar like all of his strings have been cut and the only thing worth a damn up there is this instrument, this thing that lets him bring...bring something into the world with him.

Dean looks at Sam, who looks like he’s experiencing the rapture of sex for the first time, swear to god.

And Dean looks back up at this singer and he things he almost sees what Sam sees.

"And when I first laid hand on you in Hell," he moans into the microphone, hair heavy with sweat sticking to his scalp.

I had fallen, the audience calls back.

The musician smiles through his closed eyes and keeps playing, playing until the lights shut out and the only sound in the crowded concert hall is the cheering of the fans.

(AU)

Wordcount: 57474 

Rating: M

Beautiful Shiny People (3,116; PG13)

Summary: Dean Winchester fell fast and hard for a man who sang The Beatles in the subway. 

Check out our tags, including actor!Cas, actor!Dean, writer!Cas, writer!Dean, singer!Cas and singer!Dean. 

ETA: We now have a Celebrity tag, too!

I. Some favorite celebrity fics we have recced

The Complete Works of Emmanuel Allen (author!Cas)

Happily Alone (rock star!Dean) (submitted rec)

In The Weeds (chef!Cas)

The Interview (Famous Actors, both)

Never Not Fantastic (actor!Dean)

Play It All Night Long (DJ! Dean)

Plus One (rich and famous!Cas)

The Reluctant Contestant (rich bachelor Dean, based on a TV show The Bachelorette)

Shootin’ You Straight (rockstar!Dean)

Take the Lead (rock star!Cas)

Through The Dark (famous football player!Dean)

II. Other celebrity/civilian fics:

The Bachelor (unofficially recced here)

The Holiday [M, 32,088 word count] AO3 (country singer Dean/based on movie The Holiday)

Castiel and Sam are unlucky in both life and love, so they swap houses for the holidays. Both find the experience highly…interesting.

I’ll Go Wherever You Go [M, 57,474 word count]

Dean is assigned a job to be the Bodyguard to the infamous Castiel Novak, lead singer of ‘The Fallen Angels’. Dean loves a good challenge and Castiel is certainly proven to be exactly that.

Stage Lights [NC-17, 92,372 word count]

Castiel Novak is the lead in a brand new musical in New York, and Dean is the stagecrew chief. What starts out as a budding romance becomes so much more when both of their pasts come into play, and their bond grows even stronger as their lives twist and turn in ways they couldn’t even have imagined. Thankfully, they have their support system consisting of Dean’s brother Sam, Cas’s cousin Gabriel, their stage manager Meg, and Charlie the techie. But still, can their newfound bond withstand the pressure and strain?

Volante [T/PG, 7,538 word count]

Castiel is a famous violinist, and Sam his number one fan. But when he drags Dean to a concert, his brother becomes a fan as well, to say the least.

Dystopia is for lovers [M, 17,300 word count] (smart!Dean, writer!Cas, scifi-ish)

Ben Braeden has just moved to California to live with his scientist dad and his schoolteacher uncle after the death of his mother. Things begin to look up for him and his family when he meets the famous sci-fi author, Castiel Novak. (Told in alternating POVs by Ben, Cas, Sam and Dean.)

Give Me Something to Believe [T, 52,572 word count (abandoned? WIP)]

Dean Winchester is a rockstar, the darling of the music industry. He’s going on a nation-wide tour, and Texas reporter Cas Novak has been assigned to accompany him. It’s a difficult situation for the both of them, but- after many, many drinks- things start to look up.

Cooking with Gas [NC-17, 89,000 word count]

Castiel Novak has it all. He’s rich, famous, has a top rated cooking show and restaurant, drives an expensive car and wears Armani.His producer throws a contest to spend a day with Chef Novak, cooking and learning techniques. Castiel wants no part of it, but Balthazar insists and Castiel will do as expected.What Castiel wasn’t expecting was to fall head over heels for the winner.

Thanks so much! Links and summaries below. 

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Reach For The Holy Oil by highermagic [NC-17, 7,300 word count, ff.net]

Sam just wants them to get together. Gabriel wants it to be more of a…spectacle. In the end, though, some of the simplest solutions are everyone’s favorite ‘Plan B’.

Alternate Realities Don’t Have To Suck by chef-geekier [NC-17, 14,800 word count, AO3 link] apparently is also wing!fic

Gabriel’s been watching the way Dean and Cas pussyfoot around each other, and now he’s sick of it. Naturally, this calls for a good smack around the head with a clue-by-four, featuring his favourite method: alternate realities. Now Dean and Castiel are room mates in their first year of college, while Sam’s at home getting some qualitiy time with his mother. Shenanigans ensue, especially when the boys admit they have feelings for each other, but it’s not enough to just admit it in the dream-world. They have to admit it when they wake up and face reality. Not to mention, there’s still an Apocalypse going on.

I’ll Go Wherever You Go by kimisha [M/R but it’s on ff.net so it could be NC-17, 57,500 word count] music