Dean can take care of himself, thank you very much. But sometimes the more fun choices aren't always the best ones, and, all right, maybe thinking ahead and working the long game isn't his strongest suit. When he meets Castiel, he sees flying by the seat of his pants may not be the way to attract the super-serious (hot, funny, genius) Alpha. Making grownup choices? He'll try. (ABO)

Dean has some surprise plans for himself and the twins over Labor Day weekend. There's a slight hitch, though; one of his boyfriends is strangely reluctant to hop on a bike and take off. (Timestamp to "Racing (And Other Reasons to Sweat)")

Jimmy Novak swims. His twin Castiel runs. All they need is a cyclist who can keep up. Dean is not an "athlete." He's not about to back down from a challenge, though, so he'll do whatever he has to do, as far outside his comfort zone as it may take him.

Childhood best friends Dean and Castiel dreamed of growing up and leaving their small, rural West Virginia town. Dean wanted to change the world; Cas just wanted desperately to escape. When an selfless but impulsive decision comes at the expense of Castiel's dreams, long-kept secrets threaten to pull them apart for good.

Dean didn't want to encourage Sam toward involving him in his arguments, but...well, Sam wasn't *wrong.* He totally could beat up the girl's big brother if he wanted. Easy as pie. (High School AU)

Castiel was tired of waiting, but apparently so was Dean. At the right moment, it takes less than a nudge to get things moving.

While hunting a ghost in the woods, Dean and Sam stumble across the Barkley Marathons. It's a hundred miles of weird. Sam is intrigued. Dean is unamused.

Is it really too much to ask that a "divinely inspired" book contain accurate and complete credits? Gabriel doesn't think so. (Or: when Dean discovered that certain Christmas carols are danger zones for angels.)

Dean meets Jimmy, Castiel's twin. The twins have an issue to work out.

Sam and Dean haven't had many real Christmases. A holiday party in the bunker sounds like a great way to try something new. It's not entirely new for Castiel, though.

Castiel hates Halloween, so being roped into working in costume at a pumpkin patch has him seething in misery. And now, of all things, the object of his unrequited crush is walking toward him, and Cas is praying the costume will hide him just a bit longer.

Dean and Mary are back at the bunker, and Dean is discovering the difficulty of trying to sum up thirty years' of backstory, while not incriminating himself too badly or making his mom feel guilty. Good thing Crowley left some whiskey.

Castiel is away for the week at the state library conference, and Dean misses him. The texts he gets, however, present a different picture from what he expected. Library conferences: who knew? (Part of my "Understanding That Reference" 'verse; you don't necessarily have to read the other parts, but they help.)

When tragedy tears Cas and his twin apart, Cas doesn't know how to go on without him - so he doesn't. He exchanges his future for the one his twin should have had, resolving to become the man his brother never had the chance to be. Dean knows all about walls of guilt and shame, but he's not sure Cas wants help tearing those walls down. (College AU)

An accident leaves Cas somewhat incapacitated, and he's reluctant to admit he needs help. Dean is more than willing to lay down the law to see his injured boyfriend heal. (Follow-up to "Understanding That Reference." A smutty little installment in the lives of Librarian Castiel and his very favorite patron, Dean.)

Dean gets an introduction to class children's literature; Castiel helps with the aftermath. (Follow up to "Understanding That Reference")

Castiel loves working in the library, except for the boring parts. When a string of complicated and entertaining questions begin to flow into his email box, courtesy of the "Ask-A-Librarian" reference service, he finds his boredom vanishing and being replaced with an increasing curiosity to learn who's behind them.

Billie the Reaper was good at her job. Some days were both harder and easier than others. NOTE: This is a short one-off I wrote primarily for myself. Last night, my cousin's 5-year-old son died from neuroblastoma, which he'd had since he was two. I wrote this as a way to help myself process it.

Castiel is on a business trip gone wrong. His bag has been stolen, and all he wants now is a moment or two to collect himself and regain his usual impermeable shell. The green-eyed stranger in his hotel bar is doing everything he can to crack through it.