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    dean used to turn tricks. over a decade later, he met cas.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Dean has been quietly crushing on Cas for years.
    Cas loses his husband, and Dean his mentor.
    Cas never thought of loving again.
    Dean never thought he would be an option.
    But somewhere between grief, movie nights, and take-out, Cas learns it's okay to love again, and Dean learns he deserves to be chosen, too.

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    Castiel is in a bad relationship. On the night he decides to leave, he is in a car accident. Could this accident be the best thing that has happened to him?

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    30 Dec 2025

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    Dean Winchester never expected much from life. His mother abandoned her sons to be raised by their drunk, abusive father. Dean dropped out of school to take care of the family, but they were barely getting by, so when a handsome stranger came along, offering him a way out... Well, even if things weren’t perfect, he wasn’t going to risk losing a good thing.

    So what if Lee was a mean drunk — it wasn’t anything Dean hadn’t seen from his father his whole life. So what if sometimes he was a bit too rough — Dean’s tough, he can take it. And so what, if sometimes things got a bit out of hand when Lee’s friends came around — Lee doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, sometimes he asks Dean to ‘take care of them’. (It was fine. It was all fine.)

    Enter grad student Castiel, who is instantly intrigued by the kind, quiet mechanic with the sad eyes. The more he gets to know Dean, the more he learns about his heartbreaking past and even more heartbreaking present, the more he feels like he’s fallen into something he can’t walk away from.

    Dean doesn’t believe he deserves to be saved, because he never thought to ask. Can Castiel be the one to pull him out of hell?

    Title inspired by: Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

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    30 Dec 2025

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    Dean Winchester moves to Chicago and starts working as a social worker at a local LGBTQ+ shelter. Cas Novak, a regular at said shelter because of his abusive partner, doesn’t care much for the new employee. This is their story.

    [If you read this anywhere but Ao3, you've been duped! Had! Swindled! This beast is free on Ao3]

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    30 Dec 2025