Recs: Supernatural
SUPERNATURAL
Dean/Castiel (mostly)
300 Things by cautionzombies
Summary: Dean's life at twenty-four makes him feel like he's forty--he works two jobs to help pay bills for his house and put his genius little brother through private school, and has spent six years (on and off, let's be honest) working on his mechanical engineering degree at KU. With so much of his life devoted to his family, Dean has little time in his schedule for class and no time for social interaction. Then, while getting his classes together for the fall, he finds himself in a do-or-die situation: He must take his last literature class now, his spring already filled with those left for his major...except that none of the English classes will fit his schedule.
Rating: NC-17
Length: 76.5k
Comments: This was a very emotional read -- enjoyable but draining. I loved the author's ability to write such a realistic relationship between two men who come with emotional baggage. Characterisation is pitch-perfect.
Accidental Gift by alchemyalice
Summary: The problem with angel swords was that humans knew fuck-all about them. Worse, the angels were no better. Meanwhile, some post-apocalyptic cracks in the fabric of reality needed mending.
Rating: PG
Length: 14k
Comments: Sometimes you just come across an author who's writing you click with and you think 'yep, this was brilliant'. Accidental Gift was just so enjoyable to read completely and on the ball.
* The Accompanist by gretazreta
Summary: Dean learned to play the piano at his mother’s knee. Now, fifteen years after her death, his talent for music is a secret he keeps from everybody, especially his father. Stuck in a small town for the rest of the school year, looking after a brother who’s growing apart from him and training for a future of hunting that he’s not sure that he wants, Dean finds an unlikely confidant in an elderly Jewish man who’s haunted by his own secrets. It’s a year of firsts, hunting alone and falling in love, but when a monster from the tragic past starts wreaking havoc on the people of the town, Dean must come to terms with his own fears and desires in order to save the people he cares about the most. Dean/OMC
Rating: R
Length: ~40k
Comments: Never have I loved an OC more or wanted anything to be cannon more than this fic. All the relationships in Dean's life are beautifully portrayed in this heart-breaking fic. Sensitive and introspective, yet sexy and dark, this is a real gem of the fandom.
Asunder by rageprufrock
Summary: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:6) AU where Dean is a social worker with CPS and Castiel a paediatric surgeon and Sam is getting married to Ruby.
Rating: R
Length: ~24k
Comments: Typical Pru, beautiful and engaging writing.
Convenient Husbands by scaramouche
Summary: "It's only temporary, right?" Dean says. "Just until you're healed up, and then we'll never have to see each other again. So what do you say, Castiel, do you want to marry me or not?"
Rating: NC17
Length: 39k
Comments: Does what it says on the tin, A fun and charming fic worth the read. (I do love me some accidentally/pretend marriage fic.)
* Named by mclachland
Summary: Jesus Christ is dead. Somehow, that isn't the worst part of Dean's week.
Rating: R
Length: ~95k
Comments: Wow, just... wow. This is one of those pitch perfect fics. It literally has everything: the characterisation is perfection, the story is detailed, thoughtfully constructed, surprising and a roller-coaster ride to read. I am rather sad that mclachland doesn't write for the show. Above all Dean's voice is brilliantly portrayed -- his humanity and humour are this fic's tour de fource.
Right Up Over the Wire by liadan14
Summary: When Sam finds out about Dean and Castiel's relationship he's convinced that Dean's possessed/bespelled/being controlled by some supernatural force, and Dean has to come to terms with the fact that yeah, he is actually kinda into guys, before he's able to make Sam believe he's still himself.
Rating: R
Length: ~12k
Comments: A lovely introspective look into Dean's thoughts and feelings, what being 'gay' means to him and Cas's role in his life.
Welcome to Oz by bauble
Summary: Dean wakes up in the cheerfully painted yellow kitchen of a middle class home in Suburbia, USA. There are two things that tip him off to the fact that he’s in a state that ain’t Kansas or reality: one, the fact that he can’t remember how he got to this kitchen or what happened immediately preceding his arrival (such as falling asleep or being hit in the face with a squirt of hallucinogenic demon juice); two, the way everything seems too bright and perfect to be real-from the picture window above the sink to the sliding glass doors that that lead out onto a cozy wood deck. Even the breeze ruffling the crayon blue curtains is flavored with the scent of baked goods.
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~90k
Comments: I think the word 'dark' was invented for this fic. The ending felt like running head-long into a brick wall; shocking and hurt like a bitch. Nihilistic like whoa.