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Since your last post implied it I would love to know about your AU recommendations ❤ I am obsessed too!! Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

hello! I hope you don’t mind if I just make a basic list of some of the AU stories I have read or want to read. Not in any order I just went through my bookmarks on AO3 :) Also I need to read more...Under the cut because it got too long!

Angel's Wild (not gonna lie this is my favorite fic. I have read this almost a dozen times now)

Summary: But that’s the whole reason he’s here, isn’t it? He’s not out here hunting Humans. He’s not even hunting deer, or bears, or anything else that featured in Bambi. He’s out here, freezing his nuts off every night, because he’s hunting Angels.

Sometimes Dean wishes that Angels were like how they’re described in the Bible. How people from time too old for him to care much about thought Angels were messengers and warriors of God, protectors of Humans. He knows that how they’re really described in the Bible is actually pretty terrifying, but at least they were told by God that they’re supposed to love Humans, right?

That’s a thousand times better than what Angels really turned out to be.

Checked Out

Summary: Castiel Novak can think of many writers who would not be welcome under the roof of Heaven’s Gate library, where he is the librarian: Ayn Rand ranks highly (no explanation needed), as does Charles Dickens (he hasn’t forgiven Charles for the month he lost to The Pickwick Papers). And, of course, Dean Winchester. Dean Winchester, local author and obvious a-hole, who is entirely too handsome to be true and who is clearly totally lacking in profundity, intelligence, sincerity, and self-awareness. Unfortunately, though, Dean’s been invited to do a book signing at Heaven’s Gate - and Castiel’s about to be confronted by some unexpected feelings when he finally meets Dean for the first time.

A Ghost Story

Summary: Castiel Novak has haunted his family's estate for 150 years, awaiting the return of his lost love. Upon their reunion, Dean Winchester learns of his past reincarnation. After the night of Castiel's resurrection, the two try to find out why they've been given a second chance. The answers may be hidden in the forgotten memories of Dean's former life - but sometimes the truth is better left buried.

Patient Love

Summary: Castiel Novak is 27 when he suddenly loses his twin brother Jimmy, and his whole world turns to ashes. How do you deal with losing half of yourself when your whole life always revolved around the two of you, like yin and yang and black and white? How do you deal with a broken soul and old demons looming over you with no one to hold you back anymore?

After 10 years as a Navy Special Warfare Operator and more than a dozen deployments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a battlefield injury forces 28-year-old Chief Petty Officer Dean Winchester to chose between being stuck behind a desk for the rest of his career or going back to civil life. When he learns about his friend Jimmy’s death, Dean makes his way back to Kansas with his heart in his throat and broken pieces at his feet.

Things are already complicated and painful enough as it is, but when former lovers Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet again after 10 years of radio silence and a galaxy of wounds and scars solidly standing between them, it feels like both a curse and a blessing has been placed on them both. Is there any hope in putting back their broken pieces together after a decade, and how do you deal with grief and broken dreams?

The Unbroken

Summary: Dean’s life had been made of running. He ran from a curse that had desolated his life ever since he was a child — whenever he got hurt, he turned into a goddamn human-torch, killing everyone around him — and he ran from himself and his own self-loathing.

But managing all that at the end of a world full of Croats lurking around every corner was easier said than done.

Until a mysterious man with tousled dark hair paired with blue eyes as clear as the sky during a hot summer’s day stopped him from free falling, literally. In one fell swoop, the stranger had not only saved his life but also calmed the wildfire threatening to burn everything in its wake.

There was something about Castiel that made Dean want to stop running but also hid something darker — something Dean couldn’t quite put his finger on. And between soft, pillowy lips and feather-like fingerprints, Cas could very well shatter Dean’s world and maybe help save the whole world in return.

While You Were Sleeping

Summary: A Destiel version of While You Were Sleeping! Castiel is alone and floundering. He has a crush on one of the passengers who passes through his subway station every morning. When the man gets pushed onto the tracks, Cas saves him. But when they get to the hospital there's a mix up and Cas finds himself engaged to a complete stranger. Enter, the rest of the family, including big brother Dean. How will Cas navigate the relationship with his supposed future in-laws? What will he do when Sam finally wakes up? And why can't he stop thinking about Dean?

Purgatory, director's cut

Summary: this doesn’t have a summary but it is dean and cas in purgatory and it’s soooo cool! I promise it’s amazing and worth the read!

Basic Lessons in First Aid, Magical or Otherwise

Summary: Most people probably wouldn’t take the naked, heavily wounded man they found in an alley home with them. Most people probably wouldn’t also offer that man a place to stay and become his best friend after realizing he’s suffering from an intense case of post-traumatic retrograde amnesia. Most people probably wouldn’t then risk almost everything they know to save said man, and maybe save the world in the process.

But then again, Dean Winchester, RN (with a specialty in supernatural care), has never been like most people. He may not have a magical bone in his body, unlike his brother Sam, but he’ll do whatever it takes to help. Even if Castiel has questionable opinions about Star Trek.

What Greater Gift

Summary: Story idea: The most wanted woman in town has announced that she’ll only marry the one who can open her front door with the key around her cat’s neck. Many men try to hunt the cat down, chase and trap it, but to no avail, the cat is simply too quick, smart and clever, and always finds a way to evade and avoid them. You are the first one to figure out the obvious: Do not chase the cat. The cat is befriendable. Get the cat to trust you, to genuinely enjoy your company, and you can hang out with the cat. You may eventually be allowed to touch the cat. The cat will freely let you take the key.

From a prompt found on Tumblr. Saw this and I couldn't resist a Destiel AU, and I've been wanting to write Witch!Cas for ages.

I know when you go down all your darkest roads

Summary: Dean and Castiel go undercover as a couple going through therapy, in order to catch a monster that specifically targets couples dealing with issues, feeding on their distress, anger, and pain.

They end up going through a lot more than a case, unfolding feelings left untold for so long, discovering parts of each other they never intended to uncover.

But will the feelings raging inside them be enough to bring their walls down?

A Fish Out of Water

Summary: To tie up the loose ends of a hunt, Dean is forced to go undercover and visit Brock Pleasure Ranch, a horrifying establishment that markets its inhabitants to people with ‘monstrous’ tastes.

It should have been a simple thing, to persuade a mer to give him a few scales for a spell. All part of the usual Winchester byline: saving people, hunting things.

But Castiel is far less of a ‘thing’ than Dean expected. He might not be human, but he’s definitely a person. And that means he needs saving, too.

The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through Chlamydia

Summary: Dean doesn't expect to see his one night stand again, but then again he also doesn't expect to find out he has an STD. Sometimes life is hilarious like that.

Just as lost as I

Summary: Dean's been in love with Castiel for centuries. He keeps it buried, never letting himself get too close, but when Castiel goes missing he doesn't hesitate. He's going to find him if it’s the last thing he ever does.

Love Bites

Summary: Cas Novak graduated with a 4.0 in Mathematics, but not even Naomi Novak’s money could help him at job interviews. Anxious and dissatisfied with life, at nearly thirty he’s still washing dishes in the back of his best friend Hannah’s café.Until one night when his cat drags an injured bat into his apartment.

Dean may be a vampire, but he’s not an asshole (well, not much.) He feels like he owes the awkward guy for rescuing him from the cat’s clutches, so he sets about changing Cas's life.

A silly story about families who aren’t quite what they seem, fake boyfriends, and falling in love with someone who’s never, technically, met you.

The Bad Cop, Worse Cop Adventures of Freckles and Feathers

Summary: Miami. A place with beaches, babes, palm trees, and a growing drug-fueled crime organization. To help combat the drugs littering the streets, Captain Singer puts together a Tactical Narcotics Team composed of Miami's two finest and fearless officers. Charming casanova Dean Winchester has fought tooth and nail, rising through the ranks for this position. Trench coat toting Castiel Novak knows more hand-to-hand combative techniques than he does people skills. Between Dean's big mouth and Castiel's take-no-shit attitude, their introductory meeting ends on a less than stellar note and a couple of hard to shake nicknames.

After six months of partnership, the nicknames have stuck and so has the sexual tension. When a murder in the middle of the night launches their biggest lead on a cleverly evasive drug lord, Dean is shocked to find Sam at the center of it. Sam comes clean with his involvement and Charlie, their witness, seeks revenge against the man responsible for killing her friend. As the stakes rise higher so do Dean’s feelings putting everything in jeopardy. Is a cop with everything to prove, a cop with everything to lose, one computer hacker witness, and a damn good ADA enough to save the day?

The Care and Feeding of Castiel

Summary: Dean’s quiet time in the bunker is interrupted by some stranger-than-usual behavior from his angel. Oh, and feathers...there are a lot of those, too.

First Gentleman Wanted

Summary: President of the United States Castiel Novak is popular, charismatic, and knee-deep in campaigning for a second term. He’d be the ideal candidate if it weren’t for the fact that he hasn’t dated once while in political office. With his opponent’s relentless PR team calling him incapable of emotional commitment, Castiel’s staff decides to remedy the situation by finding their boss a fake, picture-perfect boyfriend. And when Dean Winchester enters the scene, he and Cas become America’s new favorite couple, except they’ve got a whole lot of history between them and complicated feelings to resolve.

The Graveyard Shift

Summary: Dean’s favourite coffee shop, The Graveyard Shift, is only open after the sun goes down. Which is perfect for him, because that’s exactly when he craves coffee the most while doing the overnight at the fire hall. The coffee shop’s owner is pretty perfect too, but it’s kind of a bummer that Dean never gets to see Cas during the day. In a world where the supernatural live more or less in peace with the rest of humanity, it’s a little impolite to ask Cas just what he really is - or what his dark past entails.

The Path of Fireflies

Summary: After his humanity is restored, Dean wakes up in bed with Castiel, a wedding ring, and no memory of the past twelve years.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Summary: Heaven is white.Well. Isn’t that fucking stereotypical.-Dean isn’t really sure how he got here. Or even why he’s here. And hell, for all the times the Winchesters have died, he thinks he ought to know the drill by now. But what he doesn’t know is when most folks go, they find something different.

There’s a system God put in place. That when you’re gone (for good), there are a couple things you gotta do first. There are five people waiting for you.

They are the five people you meet in heaven.

Doing this made me realize I need to read more longer fics. I usually just read the short ficlets on tumblr but I need to broaden my horizon and read more. But yes! These are the AU’s currently in my bookmarks. Hope you find one to enjoy :)

#fic rec #answering the q's #lalisfandoms

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amwritingmeta · 6 years

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13x04 Things I Hope For...

I barely want to call this a spec post because it’s mostly just me crossing my fingers so damn hard and after a summer of crossing them so damn hard they are actually starting to bruise slightly. It’s all good! I can take the pain. *grins and bears it*

Title: The Big Empty

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: THE LONG WAY HOME – When multiple patients of grief counselor Mia Vallens (guest star Rukiya Bernard) turn up dead, Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Jack (Alexander Calvert) investigate the mystery surrounding the murders and, each inadvertently, are forced to deal with unresolved grief of their own. John Badham directed the episode written by Meredith Glynn (#1304). Original airdate 11/2/2017.

Hopes -->

So we know that the boys will sit on a very white (very very very stark white super pure this is a safe space white) sofa and that Dean will look like he wants to put a bullet through his brain, while Sam looks like he’s trying to reach the fuck through to him. So whatever reason the boys have for sitting on that sofa (undercover for the investigation or cajoled there by I-can-see-you’re-in-pain-I’m-that-good-at-my-job Mia) the fact is that they are on that sofa.

I hope that what they hash out has everything to do with their differences, which is something that each episode up until this one has kept hitting on. Sam finding reason to hope in Jack, while all of Dean’s hope is completely drained out of him.

I don’t need Sam to get angry in the therapy session (though oh my God the catharsis of Sam actually, finally confronting Dean about how he shuts people out and thinks it’s all on him all the time would be something), but a “You can’t control everything” and “This isn’t on you, Dean, none of this is on you” would be fucking beautiful to get any sort of variations on, if they’re going that deep with this episode. Sam calling out Dean’s need for control and his self-blame... Mh mh good.

But they might not go this deep. They might do more sowing than planting of seeds, which is fine. I’d just love balls out here. They might also sow seeds in the session if the session occurs earlier in the episode, and then have that exchange take root and inform the rest of the brothers’ interactions in the episode. They might actually have a more honest confrontation in that graveyard, which could be towards the end of the episode...

Either way, in the narrative of this episode, Dean might conceivably find ways to hit on how they can’t fix anything, and that every time they try they just end up breaking it apart, restating that there’s no point in trusting that things happen for good reason, because when has anything good ever happened to them? Dean seemingly rejecting Sam’s tries at getting him to open up, getting him to use open communication and honesty, showing actual goddamn trust, but by the end of the episode... yeah, who knows where we’ll leave off? Maybe Dean begrudgingly ends up making Jack a PB&J sandwich...

Also, I’m thinking this might be somewhere in the ballpark of what Dean hits on with Sam, because Sam is set up to be worried by Cas’ return, suspicious of what it might mean and of who exactly brought Cas back. I don’t know how much they’ll play this up, of course, they might quickly dispel the worry because TFW are also supposed to be stronger than ever... which is what I’m hoping for anyway. So, as ever, we shall see. But it makes sense for Dean to sow some seeds of his own, ones of doubt, where Sam starts second-guessing his “We find a way because that’s what we do” stance and look back at their history, seeing all the mistakes...

I wonder if Sam’s unresolved grief has to do with Eileen... It would be an amazing plant if she is, indeed, coming back. *fingers crosssssssed that she is*

Now, as for Jack... -->

We know Kelly is in Heaven, because that’s what Jack’s told us. She’s not, nor will she be, a restless spirit. I believe that Sam - when it comes to Mary - is meant to be the voice of reason, because we know there’s all the hope in the world that Mary’s coming back. You know, because she’s not dead. At all. And honestly I think Dean knows this deep down, too, which is why he’s not really grieving for his mother, his anger is partly to do with helplessness with regards to her because he is not fostering Lucifer’s fucking son. He can’t. Not ever, for anything, because Lucifer killed Cas. So Dean doesn’t want to consciously entertain the idea that Sam’s right. But subconsciously...

To my mind, this is why there’s no obvious grieving for Mary.

Same with Kelly, really, because Jack misses his mother and mourns her, but her memory sustains him, so it’s not been depicted as the deep and gutting sort of loss that Dean has felt with Cas. We’ve seen Jack mourn Kelly, but we’ve not really seen him mourn for Castiel. In this episode, with a theme that seems to touch on holding on/letting go (with the restless, vengeful spirits and the brothers in therapy) and Jack asking “People come back?”, I would love it if this ties tightly in with Jack’s need to find Castiel. That the talk of ghosts and what death really is begins to work on Jack...

Obviously his connection with Castiel in the Empty merely provided some sort of instigative presence, because Cas is still stuck there and seems to be about to come face to face with some sort of shadow monster thingy (looks awesome), but Jack’s hopes of getting his chosen father figure and protector back might be fuelled and his need to understand what his powers can actually do might flare because of that connection he felt and can’t explain. Ahhh we’ll see. I just need to get these impressions out of my head!! :)

Also, if Jack starts making noises about maybe there being some way to talk to Castiel, some way to get him back, and Dean blows up at him post therapy session and reveals his true colours... well, PB&J sandwich well-earned, I’d say. I mean, Dean telling Jack to grow the hell up, to stop believing in miracles because whatever he’s capable of - it ain’t that, telling Jack all about the dark history between them and Lucifer, how all the crap in their life EVER is because of him and how Lucifer killed Cas... Ok. I’m stopping now. Because naw. But damn though.

I’m mostly curious to see how the division between the brothers takes shape. Dean’s wearing a polka dotted tie while Sam wears a striped one and the colours aren’t even in the same family. (pun not intended) And how Dean and Jack interact in this episode. It feels like the fatherhood theme is as prevalent as ever and I have high, high hopes that the deconstruction of Dean Winchester that we’ve witnessed in the first three episodes of the season, just may come to a head here. Wether it’s a stated head or an understated head doesn’t really matter, as long as seeds are sown that make Dean rethink his attitude and where it’s stemming from, giving way for those enduring questions of Who am I? and Who do I want to be?

What about Cas? I just posted my thoughts on Cas’ arc this season, actually. In this episode... well, I hope he’s faced with a choice and that they make it clear it’s his choice to come back fully-fledged. They might leave it open, they might not go there at all. We shall see. Misha looks damn good in that promo, though.

Alright, it’s midnight and I think I may be rambling. I’m stopping now. I’ll be back with actual meta, rather than spec, tomorrow. My God. Tomorrow!! :P

#spn 13x04 spec #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack the nephilim #cas #time to sleep now #my lovelies!!

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