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Big Bangs
Story Number: B001
Title: Hush
Pairings: Castiel/Sam (minor Dean/Lisa)
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 8,789
Warnings: Mentions of Alcoholism, Unhealthy Coping Methods
Summary: Sam has been afflicted with selective mutism and severe social anxiety since he was a young child. He's now a Stanford-educated janitor at Truman High School in Indiana, where Dean is a gym teacher and wrestling coach. Dean has always been the one person Sam could always speak to, but only when they are alone. Castiel Drosme is the disheveled young history teacher Sam is trying to work up the courage to speak to.
Story Number: B002
Title: When Blue Met Yellow
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester/Lisa (Not very important)
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 10,212
Warnings: Rape/NonCon (specifically female on male), Forced Drug Use, Suicide
Summary: Fate. It had to have been fate. How else could everything go so right, yet so wrong? Castiel got close to Dean in high school, but nothing happened. Now, here comes Sam, just out of high school in 1984, and it’s practically love at first sight. Everything is perfect, until that party, until Ruby, until the heroin, until everything spirals out of control.
Story Number: B003
Title: The Making, Breaking, and Remaking of Sam Winchester
Pairings: Sam Winchester/Castiel
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences (R)
Word Count: 30.3K
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Graphic Description of Gore, Mentions of Hallucinations and Mental Illness
Summary: AU. Sam Winchester and Cas - two detectives who haven't spoken in a year, and are both now assigned to the same case. As partners. It's not a question of if there is going to be a huge blowout, but a question of when. Especially because Sam doesn't think he can ever let go of past transgressions against him, and Cas isn't helping any by pushing the subject.
Visual elements include - Sam in a ponytail; Sam and Cas being badasses together; lots and lots of brothertouching; Sam in an old t-shirt and boxers; creepy old houses; messy murder scenes; hand-holding; hurt!Sam; sick!Sam; Dean and Cas watching over Sam as he rests; Team Free Will movie night.
Story Number: B004
Title: Sentimental Iterations
Pairings: Sam/Castiel
Rating: Mature/Explicit
Word Count 24,726
Warnings: Temporary Character Death (Winchester Style), mental instability, dubious morality, friendship betrayal, show level violence and gore
Summary: Everything Castiel knows about devotion, he learned from the Winchesters. When letting go is optional, death itself can be overcome. For a price.
Story Number: B005
Title: Those Who Wander Always Find Their Alpha
Pairings: Sam/Cas, Jo/Meg in background
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 18,642
Warnings: Underage (15x25), dub-con
Summary: Left in front of The Wayward Youth Center at age fifteen, Sam Winchester has to find a way to live amongst a group of omegas. With most of them having a history of abuse, they fear the presence of the young alpha, and Sam has to find a new place to live. Faced with no better choice, Castiel, the center's counselor, volunteers his apartment, and both alphas learn to live together.
High school becomes a challenge when Sam gets bullied by Brady, the captain of the lacrosse team and “reigning alpha” of the school. He finds solace though in his friend Jo, a beta that volunteers at the center part time.
Amidst the chaos of grades and bills, a crush begins to blossom between Sam and Cas, and tensions arise.
Story Number: B006
Title: Walk
Pairings: Sam/Cas, Sam/OFC
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 32,417
Warnings: Depression, post-Mark of Cain issues, show-typical violence, sexual content,
Summary: When Sam gets a call from Jody saying that Claire has taken off, all he wants to do is help keep Claire out of trouble. If she absolutely has to hunt, she should do so safely and with the right information, right?
Castiel takes a dim view of proceedings, misunderstandings abound, and soon Sam finds himself hunting alone. Maybe all isn't lost, though. Maybe the presence of a bluntly spoken teenager is what Sam and Castiel need to break through the missteps and get to a point that's good for both of them.
Visual elements include vampires in a barn, witches in the woods, Sam with
a broken leg and some seriously BAMF!Sam moments
Story Number: B007
Title: Revolt
Pairings: Sam/Cas, Cas/Meg, past Sam/Lucifer (noncon)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 38,867
Warnings: past noncon, show-typical violence, polyamory,
Summary: Fantasy AU. When a demon and a half-demon are captured after a demonic attack on the human stronghold of Haven is repelled, Castiel is asked by his human friend Dean to be present at the interrogation. He soon finds himself a pawn of forces beyond his control, whether it be his superiors in Heaven (who order him to manipulate the Righteous Man and try to prevent him from reconciling with his brother) or his own attraction to both prisoners. Before long he knows that he must make a choice: between Heaven as he knows it and his Father's commandments, and between his orders and his heart. Visual elements include vast, arid landscapes, a walled city, an encampment of tents, Castiel and Dean in armor, Sam in a kilt, tattooed Sam, tattooed Meg.
Story Number: B008
Title: (Tentative) Winds of Fate
Pairings: Sastiel (Sam Winchester/Castiel Novak),
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 12,000 - Estimated Final: 15,000
Warnings: Explicit Sex scenes,
Visual Elements: Castiel as a figure skater, Sam as a washed up hockey player who owns a ice rink, figure skating outfits, normal clothing for Sam.
Summary: Sam didn't mean to fall in love with the figure skater who came to his rink every afternoon for practice. It just kinda, happened. He works so damn hard, perfecting every jump, again and again. He's beautiful, and his technical skills are unmatched, but there's always something missing. A touch of melancholy to his dances. Sam's intrigued, against his better judgement, and the more he finds out about Castiel, the more he loves him. Unfortunately, Castiel's hiding some things too, and Sam has to figure out what he really wants, and what he has to offer Castiel (if anything) to convince the man to stay.
Story Number: B009
Title: Beck and Call (working title)
Pairings: Sam/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 27K
Warnings: Master/slave dynamic, breath-play, dom/sub, very light BDSM
Summary:
This is a complete AU with a medieval fantasy setting: swords, archery, horses, castles. Elements of canon (demons, hunting, etc.) are present, but changed. Castiel and his family are human. The story is pretty heavy on intense sexual content/porn. Pretty smokin’ hot if you enjoy a master/slave dynamic, but at its heart it’s a romance. Here’s the gist:
15-year-old Castiel, youngest of a large, merchant-class family, discovers that he’s a bastard and cannot expect a future in his family’s business. But all Cas has ever wanted was to be near his idol Sam Winchester, the odd, reclusive war hero and younger son of the king.
The Demon Wars launched the only-obscurely-noble Winchester family into highest royalty. King John now presides at King’s Bastion in the capitol, and Dean is his heir. John and Dean are champions in their own right, beloved and honored by the people, but Sam, changed by a sacrifice no one understands, is different. He rejected the luxuries and accolades of royalty, turned strange and silent, and refused a place by his brother’s side in hero’s arraignment. Instead, Sam returned to claim the obscure lordship he’d been born into-the remote, bleak, and haunted northerly fiefdom of Old Winchester.
That made Old Winchester the only place Castiel wanted to be.
Story Number: B010
Title: The Compass and the Cross
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester
Rating: M
Word Count: current ~8,300; final ~11,000?
Warnings: suicidal ideation, depression, unhealthy relationships, temporary character death, angst as far as the eye can see, masturbation (off-screen)
Summary: In this season 8 AU, the Trials aren't just to slam the gates of Hell, but to tear Hell down entirely. It's a two-man job, though, and they've got to go to Hell to do it. Sam and Cas, both bowed beneath the constant reminders of their supposed sins, agree to take these Trials on to try and pay up their debts. The Trials to unmake Hell will be grueling, expensive, and require an expedition of supernatural proportions, but perhaps Sam and Castiel can find the redemption they seek, if only in one another.
((some artsy considerations:))
--The Trials have to be performed in Hell, so Cas has to carry Sam's soul there. And we wind up with the contrasting visuals of Cas carrying Sam bridal style and flying in over Hell and Dean discovering Sam's empty (and by all accounts very dead-looking) body left behind. (Spoiler Alert: he is Not Happy)
--Part of the journey into Hell involves Sam and Cas sneaking onto Charon's boat to cross the river Styx.
--Cas' wings are visible in Hell. He won't allow Sam to touch them until near the end of the fic, when Sam becomes convinced that he needs to sacrifice himself as part of the Trials and Cas has to talk him out of it. He wraps his wings around Sam and flies them out of Hell.
--One of the five Trials is a mirror maze of regrets. Sam and Cas navigate a mirror maze together, where every surface reflects back at them all the events and actions that they feel guilty about. Among plenty of the other angsty ones (which I'm sure you can imagine), this is also where that off-screen masturbation comes into play. One of the mirrors shows Sam, alone with himself...ultimately it becomes obvious that he was fantasizing about Castiel, and this is the first time Cas realizes Sam thinks of him in a way that may be more than platonic.
Story Number: B0011
Title: He's a Mystic in the Sense That He's Still Mystified by Things
Pairings: Sastiel, mild background Denny.
Rating: T
Word Count: 5,782 currently, adding an average of 1k per day
Warnings: Suicide attempt, ptsd, mentions of torture
Summary: Sam was a member of the prestigious Order, an organisation made up of only the best witches. With his peer mentor Jessica and his familiar Castiel by his side, Sam felt like he had finally accomplished something that would make his natural-witch mother proud. Until The Incident. Sam remembers very little of it, and for good reason. Jessica died in the fire, and when Sam receives a box from the Order of his personal belongings that survived, and finds Cas's collar inside, he knows his familiar is dead too, and that is just too much for him to handle.
More than four years later, Castiel, beaten and bruised and scarred, shows up on Sam's doorstep bearing tidings of good news: The investigation of The Incident is over, Sam was found innocent, and he's welcome to return to the Order if he chooses. Instead, Sam slams the door in Castiel's face, because after four years of pain and suffering of the loss of his familiar, his return is just too much to handle.
Over the course of their four year separation, they both have secrets they're unwilling to confess. Of course, that means it's up to Dean and Benny to pull the truth out of them so they can start to build what The Order destroyed.
Story Number: B012
Title: Our Thing
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester, Colette/Cain
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 12,730
Warnings: Violence, mafia violence,
Summary: Castiel kept his family at a distance. He wanted peace, he wanted safety. He was a baker not a notorious mobster's only son. Castiel never wanted to come back to the life. But when Sam walked into his shop trying to enforce another mafia's rules and mounting family drama climbs to a breaking point; Castiel can't help it when he's dragged back in, even deeper than before.
Mini Bangs
Story Number: M001
Title: How Can Heaven Love Me?
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,127
Summary: Sam is the most beautiful human Castiel had ever laid eyes on. There is no doubt in Cas’s mind that he loves Sam, and no doubt in Sam’s that he loves Cas. The doubt lies with Sam: How can an angel love the freak with the demon blood?
Story Number: M002
Title: And in Your Lips I Find Salvation
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 5,171
Warnings: Sam kisses Cas' foot at one point, and Castiel's tie is left around his neck during sex, although there's no choking or breathplay involved.
Summary: Set during S4. Castiel shows up at Sam's motel room at night while Dean's out, confused about his feelings towards humanity and, specifically, towards Sam. They end up having sex and this is basically a PWP with some angst involved. The setting is 100% just in a motel room.
Story Number: M003
Title: (Tentative) A Perfect Shot
Pairings: Sastiel (Sam Winchester/Castiel Novak), Debriel (Dean Winchester/Gabriel Novak)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: Estimated Final: 4,500 - 5,000 (ish)
Warnings: Explicit sex scene, Adrenaline sex
Visual Elements: Laser Tag AU, Human AU, Sastiel Tension, easy clothing choices (jeans, t-shirts, etc), explicit sex if that's your jam
Summary: (This really is just a shameless excuse for Sastiel Smut) Sam hates that Castiel makes laser tag look so fucking easy. Just because he was a professional sniper in the military didn't mean he could just come in and wipe the floor with he and Dean every week. Except he does. Until, of course, Sam figures out a way to beat him, and, when he's still riding the high of the adrenaline, he ends up in bed with Castiel. Which leads to confessions and well. Maybe Castiel doesn't see him as a kid after all!
Story Number: M004
Title: The End to Empty Dreaming
Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: Currently ~4500 Estimated ~7000
Warnings: Intense dreams, explicit sex, masturbation, torture, attempted scalping.
Summary: Ever since his soul was shoved back in his body, Sam has felt like it doesn't quite fit anymore. The trials made it worse and Gadreel made him feel almost whole again, but left him even more torn and broken after his departure. Cas also struggles with a grace that does not belong to him. He and Sam go on a hunt together but never expected that what they would find instead would be a cure for their brokenness.
Story Number: M005
Title: Face Paint
Pairings: Sastiel
Rating: General audiences? Rate G? Literally nothing happens.
Word Count: As of this second, 6,780.
Warnings: None. Unless paint offends you. Cas is a bit of an asshole.
Summary: Cas is the definition of an eccentric artist, Anna is his longsuffering agent, and Sam somehow just became his nanny. Facepaints, laundry, and other suitably artsy shenanigans ensue.
Story Number: M006
Title: There's Nothing in the Dream Dictionary About This
Pairings: Castiel/Sam Winchester
Rating: E
Word Count: 3,628
Warnings: wet dreams, masturbation, dreamwalking, awkwardness, fluff
Summary: Castiel just wants to help Sam, but Sam's been having intense dreams about his best friend that have him questioning his sexuality.