Destiel Fic Recs Part One: The Must Reads
These are all NC-17 or R. That being said, here’s my list of must reads (aka my absolute favorites) in no particular order:
- Hummingbirds (4 parts) - Castiel is rendered mute after being taught a painful lesson, but that enables Dean to learn a few lessons of his own while holding onto something important for him. Elsewhere, someone really loves to count…
- Soldiers of the Dust (PWP) - (the summary says sometimes in the dark they touch but that’s kind of whatever. it’s beautifully written. even the smut is poetic.)
- We Became Fans of Collisions (AU) - Dean is the owner of a bookstore and one day, a customer changes his world.
- Asunder (AU) - In which Dean’s estranged brother is getting married and Dean has no date… but not for long.
- Jump The Track (AU, wip) - Dean’s senior year at Lawrence High, and he’s already given up on himself. It takes the arrival of the strange, intense, awkward Castiel Delacroix at the school to prove to Dean that maybe his life is worth saving after all.
- 300 Things (AU, 8 chapters) - 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. This is how Dean grovels and begs Dr. Castiel Milton to make a special arrangement for him, and Dr. Milton does.
- Motion Control (PWP) - Dean can’t move an inch. Although thankfully he can move some of them...
- The Ghost of Embers (AU, 4 parts and creys) - Dean Winchester’s life has been one big clusterfuck. He lost his mother to a house fire when he was a child, and he lost his father to an explosive car accident when he was a teen, and, now that he’s a full-grown man, he’s losing his brother to college and to distant, sunny California. Dean, determined not to let his pyrophobia or his anxiety over his absent brother ruin him, and desirous of a change that just might fix everything, makes the rashest move of his adult life: a largely unnecessary, almost entirely unplanned move to New York City. Stuck in the middle of a city that has a reputation for chewing up and spitting out the unprepared, Dean’s anxieties fluctuate between bad and worse…until he starts to get to know his mysterious and antisocial next door neighbor, Castiel. But mystery isn’t always a good thing; Castiel is hiding a secret…a secret that even the cynical Dean Winchester might have trouble believing.
- * Beyond the Edge and Falling - Cas is feeling dejected about his increasing humanity. Dean shows him some of the benefits. (the smut in this is primo, btw)
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Updated 6.24.11