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Still Angels/Still Hunters/SPN AUs

Reaching for the Ground by carmexgirl

http://carmexgirl.livejournal.com/155430.html

Angel!Castiel

Summary: Life has become rather tedious for Castiel (Sheriff of Heaven, voice of reason, sometime gardener), so when he sees a mysterious figure lurking around Dean’s house in Cicero, he returns to earth to investigate. From there, he and Sam (Sheriff of Hell, commander of demons, specialist in contract negotiations) embark upon a series of convoluted plans involving a wendigo, a ghost, witches and a chupacabra with an identity crisis, to try and get Dean back into hunting. Succeeding is one thing; whether Castiel can finally admit the true nature of his feelings for Dean to the man himself is entirely another.

Polar Night by phate_phoenix http://phate-phoenix.livejournal.com/57448.html#cutid1

Twilight crossover

Summary: Months after the Yellow-Eyed Demon and Jake opened the Devil’s Gate in Wyoming, Sam and Dean are tracking a series of vampire-related abductions across the western coast of the United States. Their hunt brings them to Forks, Washington: site of the latest disappearances. While there, Sam sees the one that got away, Dean meets a man whose entire family is hiding something, and they learn that vampires are the least of their problems.

The Empire of the Lion & the Wolf by missjigsaw23 http://missjigsaw23.livejournal.com/28271.html

Angel!Cas

Summary: Angels and demons are slaves kept by the general population, all sold by the company H&H, run by Michael and Lucifer Morningstar. Sam and Dean work for the company, capturing escaped slaves and returning them to their owners, until they’re sent after the angel Castiel and Dean finds his worldview getting a major overhaul. On the run from Michael and Lucifer, the Winchesters discover family secrets and their own role in what might just be the end of the world.

Ice of Oblivion by zoomzoomzoomzoo http://zoomzoomzoomzoo.livejournal.com/1080.html

Angel!Cas, Prince!Dean

Summary: AU. In a time of great tragedy in the lands of Mamot, the human race and the angel race are forced to form an unbreakable union that will bind them together for twenty seven lifetimes in order to stop the uprising of the demon race. In bargain they offer Castiel, one of the most powerful angels in the entire world to marry Dean Winchester, the young crown prince of the human world. The typically detached Castiel winds up falling in love with the Prince. The only problem is his brothers don’t expect Dean to live through the war. Will Castiel stay and support the man he loves despite the heartbreak that might accompany his passing or will he fall back in line with his brothers, becoming numb to all human emotions once more?

Death Cannot Stop True Love (It Can Only Delay it for a While) by hils & tiptoe39 http://fandomcorner.livejournal.com/71993.html

Princess Bride fusion

Summary: Hunters, Angels, Archangels, Swordfights, Kidnappings, Death, Resurrection and True Love. An epic tale of love versus the apocalypse. Very loosely based on The Princess Bride. Alternate version of Season 5 of SPN.

Colours and Whites Can Mix -- As Long As You Like Pink Underwear by enokureno http://enokureno.livejournal.com/1356.html

Latter Days fusion, Missionary!Cas

Summary: Castiel is a Mormon missionary far from home. Dean is a waiter living paycheck to paycheck. They meet as their worlds begin to unravel.

Tangled by lymricks http://lymricks.livejournal.com/6801.html#cutid1

Tangled fusion

Summary: Once upon a time, a king made a deal with a demon and a prince with magic wings was stolen by an angel with no wings. Years later, Dean wants a castle, Crowley needs a new coat, Lucifer's a horrible big brother, and Ruby had a dream, but all of this happens because Castiel needs to see the stars. (Tangled AU, with less hair and more wings)

The Incredible Tale of Dean Winchester and the Angel who Fell from the Sky by ibroketuesday and xxamlaxx http://sea-and-stars.livejournal.com/1550.html

Summary: Loose retelling of Gabriel García Márquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, set in the Pacific Northwest of the late 1920s. Sam and Dean have retired young from hunting and moved to an island, and they're failing miserably in their attempt at being fishermen when a storm sends an angel crashing into their yard. Castiel is a feral creature with black wings and taloned feet, and though initially Dean regards him as a monster, the bond that develops between the two will set them against murderers, reveal a dark secret of angel society, and change both of them forever. Also, Castiel is naked the entire time.

The Winchester Revision by proxydialogue http://proxydialogue.livejournal.com/9208.html#cutid1

Summary: A recently de-deified Chuck, dying in Italy, decides to revise the story of Sam and Dean and Cas to give it the fairytale ending it deserves as a last hurrah before he goes. In a world with no monsters Dean Winchester goes to the University of Delaware for physics and engineering where a terrible twist of fate lands him in a Feminism and Literature class for one of his general electives. It is taught by a dark haired, blue-eyed professor named Castiel. Sam, meanwhile, is a boy genius who gets into college at sixteen and really is going to be a lawyer this time as soon as he finishes his English degree at UDel and gets into Stanford. But the more Chuck writes, the more he discovers about himself, his characters and the friends he will never see again; because some stories must be told.

A Quarter to Sunrise by blurhawaii http://blurhawaii.livejournal.com/6329.html#cutid1

Summary: Western AU. Demons still exist. Sam and Dean grew up hearing tales of the yellow eyed man that killed their mother. Now that they are older, they spend their lives both chasing down the allusive man and being chased themselves. A preacher, Castiel, somehow gets involved and eventually reveals that he is more weaved into their tale than any of them ever realized. A, mystery filled, road trip story about revenge, set on horseback.

Triskele by goldenthyme http://jonques.livejournal.com/19052.html

Summary: Jerkins, and doublets, and hosen, oh my! After a run-in with some Celtic goddess' tarot deck, Dean, Sam, and Cas find themselves thrown into Elizabethan England. New responsibilities and expectations greet them, demanding more from them on top of what this foolish journey demands already. But if they want to get out alive and get back home, they have to play the game, and Dean has a few decisions to make regarding his life and happiness. Stakes are high, especially in a time when politics and religion are common, brutal, and often deadly enemies.

Welcome to Camp Wendigo by sockkiah http://sockkiah.livejournal.com/153673.html

Summary: A send up of cheesy summer camp movies, Dean and Sam have spent most of their childhood summers at Camp Wendigo, Bobby's summer camp for aspiring hunters and the children of hunters. Now nineteen, it's Dean's first year as a counselor, but he's not the only new staff member at the camp. Bobby's also hired on some fallen angels after the recently averted apocalypse. At first the angels seem to do nothing but get in the way of Dean's summer plans, and Dean doesn't get along. When kids from the camp across the lake start to go missing, can Camp Wendigo come together and save the day?

Spirit of Champions by gumbyfair http://gumbyfair.livejournal.com/4941.html#cutid1

Summary: Dean Winchester grew up always being told that angels were ruthless, vile and merciless creatures. Of course he believed all this, until he actually met one...

Living Right Is In the Trying by OneHundredSuns http://archiveofourown.org/works/546065/chapters/972012

Summary: Dean Winchester hadn’t lead an exciting life or a particularly good one but he’d always tried to do what was right, especially when it came to his little brother, even going so far as to take the blame for a crime he didn’t commit. Now with his brother a big shot at college and no prospects of his own, he takes a job from an eccentric man named Gabriel until he can get himself together. He meets and becomes fast friends with Castiel, a mysterious man with a dark troubling past. But Dean and Castiel’s budding relationship is soon threatened by Dean’s commitments in California, and the arrival of a known gangster named Crowley, who’s determined to have Castiel as his own...as well as his wings.

King of New York by JadedTangerine http://archiveofourown.org/works/534948/chapters/949602

Summary: ‘Newsies’ AU. At the turn of the century, Dean Winchester, seventeen, finds himself stranded with his little brother Sam in New York City. With their father missing in action, they hunt monsters by night and sell newspapers by day. It’s a hard business, with the streets rife with stories of missing children and Dean carrying the scars of a particularly vicious hunt. However, he thinks he may have found their ticket out of Skid Row in the form of Castiel, a rather peculiar newcomer to the newsie business who may be just want they need to get a selling edge.

Ad Astra - latin ; "to the stars" by nhixxie http://archiveofourown.org/works/1013491

Summary: One day Cas says, "Stars died for you, Dean Winchester", against ruffled hair perched atop sun kissed skin and sleepy eyes.

breathing through the radio by Maharetchan http://archiveofourown.org/works/1005316

Summary: Falling means loneliness, isolation and having a terrible and crippling emptiness inside. And when you feel like this, so hopeless and desperate, even a disemboweled and mildy creepy voice that narrates the life of an ever creepier desert town can be a comfort; aka, after he falls, Castiel starts hearing the Night Vale community radio program playing in his head, helping him, keeping him company and making him realize the depth of his feelings for Dean; and lets be real, this is not even the weirdest thing that ever happened to him.

Found In A Land Of Make Believe by spnblargh http://archiveofourown.org/works/1045720

Summary: In the weeks leading up to a confrontation with a vengeful spirit, Dean Smith meets a man who makes the corporate life a little more interesting.

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Fantasy/Sci-fi/Horror AU

For Truth, Justice and Led Zeppelin by haruslex **** https://haruslex.dreamwidth.org/36260.html

Superhero!Dean, photojournalist!Dean, journalist!cas

Summary: Being a masked vigilante is difficult enough when you’ve got petty thieves, drug dealers and a day job as a photojournalist to deal with (not to mention trying to keep your little brother alive so his wife doesn’t skin you). The last thing Dean Winchester needs is for his city to become the battlefield for an apocalyptic showdown between the forces of Heaven and Hell. But, like it or not, he’s being (literally) swept off his feet by an angel and thrown into the middle of a war he’s not ready for. Featuring superheroes, leather pants, secret identities, and Dean’s weird new coworker - Jimmy - who never seems to write any articles and won’t stop staring at him.

Bird of Paradise by trinitiyofone http://trinityofone.livejournal.com/201469.html

Hunger Games AU

Summary: When Sam Campbell is chosen as a tribute for the Games—an annual fight to the death between twenty-four of New Eden’s unlucky children—his older brother Dean volunteers to take his place. Dean fully expects to die so that Sam can live, but once he enters the arena, Dean discovers that what’s at stake in the Games is far more complicated than simple life and death, and nothing and no one is what they seem.

Metaphysical Gravity by zoemathemata **** http://archiveofourown.org/works/154558/chapters/222191

Dark Shadows crossover, Vampire!Cas

Summary: Vampire Castiel Collins is awakened from his tomb by down-on-his-luck author Chuck Shurley. With Chuck’s help [and blood] Castiel sets out to make a life for himself in Collinsport, restoring his old home and hopefully being reunited with the reincarnation of his former lover, Dean Winchester.

Non Timebo Mala by rivercritter http://rivercritter.livejournal.com/16054.html

Ancient Rome, Legionnaire!Dean

Summary: AU Set in ancient Rome. Castiel is the youngest member of the Novak family. His eldest brother Michael has designs on getting a seat in the senate but to do so he has to earn the favor of the powerful senator Azazel. When Azazel shows interest in Castiel, Michael sees an opportunity to use him as a bargaining chip. Cas, being a good son and loyal brother, isn't happy about it but is willing to go along...right up till he meets a certain green eyed Legionnaire named Deanarious who turns everything upside down. Action, adventure, sword fights, and treachery stand between them and their love.

Alchemy by wanderamaranth http://archiveofourown.org/works/269345

Superhero!Cas, Reporter!Dean

Summary: Castiel Novak's life is average until the day he wakes up with superpowers. Soon after he meets Dean Winchester, an investigative reporter with a knack for getting himself into trouble.

An Unkindness of Crows by reticentric http://reticentric.livejournal.com/184432.html

Crow fusion

Summary: People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible rage is carried with it, and the soul can't rest… Castiel Novak is such a soul and now he has been brought back for his chance at revenge.

Of Wizards and Dovah  by sofiwick http://sofiwick.livejournal.com/5313.html

Summary: Set in the world of ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’. Dean is Dovahkiin - the Dragonborn - said to be destined to kill the dragon Alduin, the World Eater. Castiel is the cute wizard Dean would very much like to have as an ally on his quest.

The Mechanics of Love by invisiblebookwm http://archiveofourown.org/works/575410/chapters/1031589

Summary: Loosely based on the manga Absolute Boyfriend. Dean is less than amused when, for his birthday, Gabriel signs him up for a month-long trial with Castiel, a humanoid robot prototype developed by Heaven Technologies to be the perfect boyfriend. At first, Dean is not thrilled at the new addition to his household, but as he spends more time with the robot, Dean finds himself slowly falling in love.

Dean Winchester and the Boy from Hufflepuff by thetreeswhisper http://thetreeswhisper.livejournal.com/2765.html

Harry Potter AU

Summary: Dean's 3rd year at Hogwarts is going A-O.K., but it gets a lot better when he meets Castiel. Meanwhile, the ongoing war against the Demons (dark wizards) ratchets up Dean's curiosity for the outside world, as well as his frustration with it. His dad isn't much help.

Black Glass by babygatsby http://babygatsby.livejournal.com/6111.html

Summary: Fantasy AU set in a fictional world where royalty from a Vatican-esque Empire have wings. The Winchesters live in the middle lands, away from the politics and blood shed of the north, but one day John Winchester discovers a dead body and a nearly-dead, winged child in the woods. Dean names him Cas, and they quickly discover that he is mute. Through certain events they learn that not all is as it seems when soldiers from the Empire raid their homeland, searching for mute men with wings. Cas and Dean, now grown, flee their home and attempt to escape the Empire’s clutches. Dean is captured and held by the pseudo emperor, Michael, and Cas journeys to strange and otherworldly places halfway across the world to gain power to save Dean, all the while battling others with selfish ambitions of their own.

Caught in the Crossfire Between Heaven and Hell by princess_aleera http://princess-aleera.livejournal.com/201919.html

Constantine AU

Summary: Constantine fusion/AU. Dean Winchester is a demon hunter with an expiration date. Castiel Novak just lost his brother to a very suspicious suicide. Their paths collide, and as forces align around them, Dean learns more about the Novak boys. About a gift that earned Jimmy a lifetime in the mental hospital, a gift his twin brother could share with him. A gift that just might end the world.

An Angel in Wonderland (AKA Who Killed the Cheshire Cat) by anoradh http://anoradh.livejournal.com/14530.html

Summary: The title says it all, really. A sort of murder mystery set in Wonderland, from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Dreamer and the Mystic by bellanovaskies http://bellanovaskies.livejournal.com/10681.html#cutid1

Summary: When Dean Winchester’s eighteenth birthday arrived, he was expected to choose his Queen-To-Be; instead he found himself falling for a mysterious stranger with eyes like stars. Eleven years later, accompanied by his brother and their father’s knights, Dean journeys into ancient lands that have long since faded into legend and lore, to once again find the eyes that had bewitched him. Castiel's tribe may be a force to be reckoned with, but nothing can prepare Dean to face his own father, and confess his love for a less-than-human being.

Fairytales Are Real by landahoymateys http://archiveofourown.org/works/563287/chapters/1006771

Summary: In a land where fairytales have been all but forgotten, two brothers search for their missing father and the right to create their own fairytale. Along the way they will face evil and treachery like no other, and maybe just maybe, create their own happily ever afters.

War of the Regions by skylinehorizon http://skylinehorizon.livejournal.com/37337.html

Summary: Dean is an eighteen-year-old in a dystopian society, trying to deal with his little brother's steadily declining hearing loss and keeping him safe and alive. One day, the Officials come searching. They invade the villages of the Regions, and escaping is the only option for survival. While on the run, Dean and Sam run into another refugee, who becomes important to Dean in ways he never would have imagined.

Oadriax by Daksgirl http://archiveofourown.org/works/529431/chapters/938065

Summary: AU Sci-Fi heavily influenced by James Cameron's 'Avatar', where the boys aren't hunters, and angels and demons exist but are considered 'aliens'. After the death of their estranged mother Mary on a planet called Oadriax, Sam and Dean hop the first transport out to the edge of the civilized galaxy. After a tense run in with the base's demonic security chief and his creepy second in command Alistair, Dean finds himself lost in the forest, and stumbles into an angel with black wings and blue eyes that calls himself Castiel.

Let's Make It Up As We Go by crowleyshouseplant http://archiveofourown.org/works/547968

Summary: Dean sleeps with his limbs splayed out, blankets tangled up in his ankles. Something presses him down, catches his heart in his chest--are his bones going to break?--as he opens his eyes. Castiel looms over him, all tiger and toy, and the weight of xyr paw pushes Dean into the mattress. “Cas?” Dean says, voice all sleepy as he rubs his knuckles in his eyes. He pushes xem off, rubs his chest, the sweat from his skin causing the scratches left behind on his chest to sting, the vague mark of a print right over him, right over the center of him, like a stamp or a seal over the very core of him. “Why are you here?” “I told you, Dean,” Castiel says. “Because we have work for you.”

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Realistic AU

The Definition of Perpetual Motion by elsewhere-kels

http://elsewhere-kels.livejournal.com/44887.html#cutid1

Doctor!Cas

Summary: Dean Winchester was doing all right. He had a good job, a few friends, and all the people he loved were safe. He got by. Then he got a call from Sam in the middle of the night. Sam wasn’t all right, and it turned out he hadn’t been for a long time. Dean’s little brother had no memory of the last four years of his life and only pieces of years before that, and all Dean could think of was how he’d smiled as he waved Sam-who-wasn’t-Sam off to college. Sam didn’t want to take over Dean’s life, but he didn’t know where else to turn. Dr. Castiel Novak was “a bleeding heart” and he was beginning to realize that neither of the brothers had gotten through their experiences unscathed. 

12 Steps by gedry http://gedry.livejournal.com/70245.html Summary: The 12 Steps tell you to keep it simple, but Dean Winchester has never been good at keeping anything simple.  So, with the help and support of the core people in his life he’s giving sobriety his best shot, which even on a good day is a struggle.  But as he works at it he makes progress and starts to rediscover himself, and maybe find love with the new guy next door.

Precious by clueless_psycho http://clueless-psycho.livejournal.com/771975.html#cutid1

Soldier!Dean

Summary: Dean, Kubrick, Jake and Ash were US Special Force members stationed in Afghanistan. An attack got them separated from the basecamp and lost in the mountainous area. They came across a house, kept by Castiel who fed them, let them stay the night and tended Jake’s wound. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary until Kubrick was found dead upon leaving the house.

It's Only Love We're Falling In by zeppx **** http://zeppx.livejournal.com/32465.html

Nurse!Cas, enemies to lovers

Summary: Human AU. Castiel is a nurse. Dean isn’t a very pleasant person. Castiel and Dean don’t get along at first, then, naturally, like in most romantic comedies, things happen. Like unwillingly falling in love.

Close to Broken by darkforetold https://darkforetold.livejournal.com/6655.html

Hitman!Cas

Summary: It is 1932. Castiel, the adopted son, serves as the Sant’Angelo crime family’s hitman, a ruthless soldier who kills indiscriminately without questions. It is only when Castiel is contracted to kill Dean Winchester, his childhood obsession, that his world is torn asunder. Suddenly, in the face of the man he once loved, Castiel begins to doubt himself and nothing can prepare him for how quickly everything seems to fall apart.

Always with you by DeanaWinchester http://archiveofourown.org/works/261950/chapters/410182

Stableman!Dean, Horse trainer!Dean, Lawyer!Cas

Summary: A fairytale for adults about people, horses and the important things in life. When Dean, a stableman and horse trainer and Castiel, the top-notch lawyer with issues meet, sparks fly. Castiel comes to the estate to take a pause from his everyday life, and possibly turn it into a different direction. Meeting Dean and falling in love with him turns it completely upside down, but Castiel doesn’t mind it one bit.

A Better Method of Pretending by ricketyhands http://ricketyhands.livejournal.com/5067.html

Journalist!Cas, Dean Smith

Summary: Dean is young and a hard worker living in shitty place near Cleveland, with one plan - to get his boss's job. When the possibility is complicated by a journalist by the name of Castiel, Dean has to learn to work with the writer and make nice. Of course things get complicated and Dean isn't sure to balance how he feels about work, this relationship, his best friend Sam, and how Castiel is kind of an enigma, though every time they get closer his barriers seem to weaken. But where does Cas draw the line, and how does Dean figure out what the hell he wants?

Convictions by gedry http://gedry.livejournal.com/224287.html

Thief!Dean

Summary: Dean makes a living in high class home invasion. Dean's careful, he never wanted anyone to get hurt. But when he discovers Castiel still at home while he and his team are robbing the house everything changes. Dean pays the price for his misdeeds but somehow, along the way, he manages to make a friend out of Castiel. A man still struggling with his own kind of incarceration. Their relationship offers Dean some comfort, but once he's done serving his time questions still remain. Are they friends, or something more? Can they make a life together out of the ashes of their old ones, or are they both still serving their sentences?

A Drop in the Ocean, a Change in the Weather by 9_of_clubs http://9-of-clubs.livejournal.com/35243.html

Titanic fusion

Summary: Titanic AU/fusion - For Dean Winchester, the Titanic is nothing more than a way to get to his brother in America. For Castiel, it's the ship that's taking him away from his childhood home, and everything he's ever known, to start a new life across the ocean. Neither of them ever expected to fall in love on this trip, but sometimes fate is stronger than expectation. Still it's no easy journey, not while they're separated by class, not while Cas is in love with someone else, and certainly not while the floor is sinking underneath their feet.

Things I should have known by wolfrider89 http://wolfrider89.livejournal.com/74031.html

Mr. & Mrs. Smith fusion

Summary: Castiel Novak has managed to keep his personal life with Dean Smith separate from his professional life as a secret agent for three years. He expected to continue living a series of detestable but necessary lies cloaked in precarious alibis for the rest of his life, and then his new assignment threatened to throw all of that out the window: Kill Dean Winchester.

Mon Mercenaire by knut_the_kitten http://knut-the-kitten.livejournal.com/2435.html#cutid1

Summary: Mercenaries AU. Dean drifts through life, changing job and country every few months, on the run from his past as a mercenary leader. When war, blood and betrayal catch up, old obligations compel him to get back to hell; in his shadow walks Castiel, the man sent to bring him back. After serving half his life in the Foreign Legion, Castiel knows nothing but obedience; yet as his loyalties falter he offers Dean a chance at redemption.

Mr. Know-It-All by baba_o_reily http://baba-writes.livejournal.com/8003.html

Journalist!Cas, Photographer!Dean

Summary: 1964. Castiel thinks he's got a good enough life--he's married to the greatest girl in the world and he's got a great job writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. Everything is exactly as it should be and he's pretty sure he's happy. Which is, of course, when a new photographer named Dean comes along throw a great big wrench in the cogs.

Trying to Describe the Kingdom by miscellanium http://writingidk.livejournal.com/8592.html#cutid1

Summary: In the year 1944, after their father dies, Dean and Sam are left with the remains of his infantry team deep among the forests and rivers of France where it can be hard to find a way out. Supplies are running low, Axis forces are pressing in all around, and there's a plane following them. The question of whether the pilot is friend or foe is answered when he crashes, saving Dean from an ambush, and now Dean has a choice to make. He can help Castiel and his brother get back to Switzerland, or he can press on with his father's covert mission, worries about Sam's loyalty aside—or he can go home.

We Became the Gravel Beaneath the Tires by noellabear http://noellabear.livejournal.com/13744.html

Summary: College!AU in which Dean hasn't seen Sam in months- or heard from him in weeks. It's hard staying in touch when Dean lives across the country and his brother's a genius studying law, but he'd be lying if he said he didn't miss the stupid Sasquatch. Cas, who's tired of his cookie-cutter lifestyle and is Dean's best friend/roommate, sees it as a perfect opportunity for a road trip. Despite Dean thinking Castiel has gone absolutely insane, they embark on a journey across the United States- the road a catalyst for finding things in themselves and each other. Crappy motel rooms, roadside diners, and cigarettes, become the perfect mix for falling in love, but roads aren't complete with twists and turns, and cheap wine on a warm, spring night might not have been such a great idea.

Drop Your Expectations (And Your Pants) by trickylady http://archiveofourown.org/works/543095

Summary: This is the story of how Dean fell in love with his brother's boyfriend, and how Sam let Dean have this one thing he wouldn't ask for.

Cheeseburgers and Pie by kenzigoss http://kenzigoss.livejournal.com/1594.html

Summary: Not only does Dean Winchester have to finally man up and go to college, but he has to deal with a strange roommate, Castiel Novak. Things get easier for Dean as he befriends Castiel and realizes that maybe he's cut out of this college life afterall. When tragedy rips the two apart, and fate brings them together agian after ten years, it's up to Castiel to see if time heals all wounds.

Between Want and Need by Padapuppy http://archiveofourown.org/works/551610/chapters/982758

Summary: Castiel's life is in shambles, but he's got control over it. The sex, the drugs, it's all he's got, all he knows. Everything is about control for him, getting what he needs, putting wants aside. It's not until he meets Dean that he realizes that control might be overrated. He's going to have to suffer a loss to finally get where he needs to be, and he'll get out better than okay. Things don't go easy from there. He's faced with a decision and he'll have to figure out if what he wants is more important than what he needs.

Adolescence at an All-Male Boarding School by signe_chan http://signe-chan.livejournal.com/39413.html

Summary: Dean doesn't want to go to a stupid boarding school. Sam loves the stupid boarding school.

Show Me How To Love (And I'll Show You How To Live) by slutpunk http://archiveofourown.org/works/542024/chapters/963484

Summary: Dean's broken and he's 95% sure he's always been broken. He's a Fed because he used to believe it would do some good and now? He's not so sure. Castiel knows he's broken and he can't be fixed. He does as he's told, kills who his uncle tells him to kill, and pretends that the nightmares don't wake him up anymore. But they find some solace, some peace in each other, until the day it all comes crashing down.

Hymns of Angels Sound Like This by bodiesnotourown and azimmermann http://bodiesnotourown.livejournal.com/2519.html

Summary: Dean is a new student, Castiel Milton and family have a band. Castiel is in a relationship he hides from his family, but starts to fall for Dean when they meet at a concert. Angst ensues, interrupted by the antics of the Milton kids who can’t mind their own business and trouble that seeks to destroy what they have before it can get off the ground.

Humble Pie by The Homeless Poet (orphan_account) http://archiveofourown.org/works/528214/chapters/935480

Summary: Sam and Dean Winchester are professional lawbreakers and criminals. That being said, they're awfully good at minding their own business and staying out of trouble. That is, until they're landed with an escaped slave and what might just be the story of their lives. On the run and with enemies on every side, all Dean can think about is finding a way to keep his brother safe and get the cops off his tail. But things are never that easy, and this particular complication is one of the heart, and comes ready-packaged with a pair of very blue eyes...

As The Sparrow by hubrisandwax http://archiveofourown.org/works/1035865?view_adult=true

Summary: It’s 1947. Dean is an ex-marine fighting crime and a very different sort of war to the one he faced in the Pacific as a detective on the streets of LA. This city isn’t all the glitz and glamor it’s made out to be, however, and Dean finds himself tugged in to a world of life-threatening unknowns when Daphne Novak’s body is discovered. Castiel Novak, her husband, was one of Dean’s battalion mates in the war, and he's just as deadly and dangerous as he was two years ago when he saved Dean’s life during the Battle of Okinawa. Except now he’s wanted for his wife’s murder, and Dean just doesn’t believe Cas is capable of that. Is Cas really who he says he is, though? And what will Dean have to sacrifice in order to repay the debt he feels he owes?

Big Machine by anubis-s-j http://anubis-s-j.livejournal.com/22846.html

Summary: Dean Smith is an intelligent, successful businessman who is perfectly content with his life the way it is. That is, until he meets Castiel Novak. Castiel is strange and unlike anyone Dean has ever met before, but he can't help but be drawn to him.

Death doesn't have to be a lonely business. by ladyrocketdale (Maiucha) http://archiveofourown.org/works/1036502

Summary: Dean Winchester's life went downhill in a year, or, actually, more than ten years ago when his family was taken away from him. He's ready to continue living hiding on the streets, faceless and forgotten as many others; but Castiel Novak finds him, contacts him and offers him a way back to life and, maybe, to himself.

Or Something by ScarletPhoenix http://archiveofourown.org/works/997876

Summary: The past year of Castiel Novak's life is definitely the worst. His brother dies, leaving him with custody of his young niece, Claire, prompting his long term boyfriend to leave him. But everything starts looking up when he moves in next door to single father, Dean Winchester.

A Song For Coming Home by ourdivineashes http://archiveofourown.org/works/1044572

Summary: Ten years ago, Dean was left devastated by the sudden departure of his best friend, after he confessed that he felt something more than friendship for Cas. Now, with a decade of bitterness and anger built up inside of him, Dean is surprised to find his old friend returned to their small farming town. Cas says that he is here to make amends, but Dean is unsure. With storms rolling in, Dean struggles with holding onto his anger, or letting go and letting Cas back into his life.