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Sioux Falls

“Castiel is watching Dean with one of those looks that holds the knowledge of the entire universe, a look that sees through worlds, through everything Dean throws up to block its path. There are millennia of truths in that gaze, and it’s settled on Dean as if Dean is something worthy of eyes that have seen so much.”

Author: @nyoka and @zatnikatel (spnredemption on AO3)

Read it here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/445515

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Given Summary - “It is you, brother. It always was. Remember what I said? You were born to this.”Dean is gone, vanished in a flash of light. Castiel is back, with a handprint to match Dean’s and a whispered name on his lips: Michael. And Sam faces losing his brother to an archangel who fell three decades ago, as Team Free Will finds out Dean’s connection to Michael runs deeper than being his vessel, and Dean comes to terms with who he is meant to be and his growing attachment to the angel who gripped him tight and raised him from perdition…

Rating - Mature

Relationship(s) - Dean/Castiel

Tags - Dean/Castiel pre-slash

Chapters - 5

Word Count - 117,908

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FAVOURITE SHORT FIC: Chrysler Almighty, by Zatnikatel

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Rating: E

Wordcount: 6K

This fic has a special place in my heart because it’s the one that made me say, I want this - I want to do this, because this is how you do it and it’s beautiful. Until the day I chanced upon it, fanfiction was something I only associated with Harry Potter. I mean, I’d sort of noticed on AO3 that you could find fanfiction of anything and counting, but I wasn’t really curious about those other stories, and I was also a snobby fool: I assumed that you could only write proper fanfiction of a book - not a movie or a TV show. It wasn’t a judgement of value or anything. I just thought, you know - how can you write fanfiction if you’ve got no style you can mimic, and what you do have instead is a whole world of visual things you’re forced to put down on the page?

And then I found this fic and thought, That’s how. And it was the beginning of the end.

Chrysler Almighty is, or pretends to be, a coda fic set in season 6. Dean is upset and angry because he’s just found out Sam is missing his soul, and then Cas flutters into appearance into his motel room and things get steamy - think very hot sex and dirty talk expressed in architecture form (which shouldn’t work, but Zatnikatel is clearly a wizard, because it does). And also think canon compliant and Dean’s POV, which here is not so much a POV as it is a freaking hole cut into the actual Dean Winchester’s brain, because the way Zatnikatel writes him - surely, that’s exactly how Dean thinks? And think short and sweet and JFC, why haven’t I read this yet? because this story is awesome and it’s even more awesome now, five years after it was written - because we are reminded of how things used to be - of how angry and desperate Dean was all the time, and the dangerous self-assurance Cas carried around everywhere he went, as easily as he wears the stupid trench coat.

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/1h62pGz

by Zatnikatel

Set some time in season 5, spoilers up to then.

Words: 3240, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester