Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

Title: Brother, My Cup Is Empty
Rating: PG
Characters: Castiel, Gabriel
Words: 1500
Warnings: angst. Angst. Angst.
Summary: while recovering, Castiel receives a visit.
Spoilers: heavy for 5x19. And for 5x18.
Disclaimer: SPN is not mine, not really. Wouldn't be here otherwise, duh.
A/N: [highlight for possible spoilers] Basically, after 5x19 ended, I felt robbed that we didn't have a scene with Gabriel and Castiel before THAT thing happened and so I wrote this during class because it clearly beats it. Using for sacred_20 #9, blessing. Title from Nick Cave.

( “Take that as an apology. Though don’t really expect me to say it properly, that’s not my style.” )

Title: The Indifference Of Heaven
Characters: Castiel, Dean
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3730
Disclaimer: most definitely NOT mine. Hey, even the title isn't.
Spoilers: up until 5x10, Abandon All Hope.
Summary: It’s amusing, seeing how Dean tries not to say Raphael’s name out loud, but it’s also making Castiel feel strangely touched and he wonders why did he ever think he shouldn’t have knocked on the motel's door. While Heaven’s is probably closed, he should have known that Dean’s would have stayed open. (Or, how among the rest, Castiel had a revelation and Dean introduced him to The Godfather.)
A/N: written for the 100 watchers celebratory challenge at rsfeathers, where I had to go choose the Warren Zevon song. Why, yes, I'm predictable. This surprisingly turned out gen, but you can see all the subtext you want in it, it's there for a reason. Also, very very minor spoilers for the first Godfather movie. Also using for sacred_20 #3, sinner.

( And since I think you need a crash course in whatever good stuff this world can offer… I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse. )

Title: Back Roads Never Carry You Where You Want Them To (or how Chuck Shirley taught an angel how to drive)
Rating: PG
Characters: Chuck, future!Castiel; future!Dean mentioned
Words: 4100
Summary: Then again, Chuck remembers that Dean not using safety belts was never his idea and that Cas here really needs to learn how to drive, Dean won’t be up for teaching anytime soon and no one else has, as people generally have put it until now, time to waste.
Spoilers: for 5x04.
Disclaimer: not mine. Not really.
A/N: this is for hopelessfangirl just because I can. ;) ♥ ♥ Though well, er, the idea was that it was supposed to be crack or fun and then it turned angst-ish. I guess that I can't make future!Cas fun even if I want to because he makes me cry so. *cough* Using for sacred_20 #19, writer's choice (fallen). Title from a random Steve Earle song which doesn't have anything to do with this as usual. But I said it already, I can't come up with titles.
A/N 2: I have a love/hate relationship with cars. And driving. It probably shows.

( Chuck hadn’t been physically able to say no. )

I seriously can't believe I stuck to my schedule.

Title: There Will Come Soft Rains 5/5
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, some Sam/Jess
Rating: NC17
Word count: this part 5786; total 36000
Spoilers: it's totally AU but since I tried to nod at canon as much as I could there are some S4/S5 spoilers. 5x04 mainly.
Summary: Two years after World War III starts, Dean Winchester is a disillusioned former veteran leading a survivors' camp in the former state of Kansas whose life takes a very, very unexpected turn. Starting when he rescues this guy with huge blue eyes named after an angel.
Warnings: this is a post nuclear war fallout setting with everything that it implies. There's violence and descriptions of situations which could be nasty at best and disturbing at least or however possibly upsetting and/or triggering. Also for plot purposes Dean is an Iraq war veteran (the last one, not the Gulf war) and there are sections dealing with it and for that are valid the same warnings.
A/N: written for the AU/AR challenge at deancastiel for the prompt There are no angels or demons, and the apocalypse happened with bombs and a very human war.. And, this is where Bobby gets to be awesome and it sort of ends but now I want to write snippets because I had more stuff that wouldn't have fit so who knows. Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV.

( It’s the week before what used to be Christmas when Dean gets into the cabin, back from a meeting with people leading nearby camps that happens once each month and from a conversation with Bobby which he doesn’t know what to make of. )

Title: There Will Come Soft Rains 4/5
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, some Sam/Jess
Rating: NC17
Word count: this part 7334; total, around 35000
Spoilers: it's totally AU but since I tried to nod at canon as much as I could there are some S4/S5 spoilers. 5x04 mainly.
Summary: Two years after World War III starts, Dean Winchester is a disillusioned former veteran leading a survivors' camp in the former state of Kansas whose life takes a very, very unexpected turn. Starting when he rescues this guy with huge blue eyes named after an angel.
Warnings: this is a post nuclear war fallout setting with everything that it implies. There's violence and descriptions of situations which could be nasty at best and disturbing at least or however possibly upsetting and/or triggering. Also for plot purposes Dean is an Iraq war veteran (the last one, not the Gulf war) and there are sections dealing with it and for that are valid the same warnings.
A/N: written for the AU/AR challenge at deancastiel for the prompt There are no angels or demons, and the apocalypse happened with bombs and a very human war.. Aand, this is where I sort of half send the angst packing. More or less. Part I | Part II | Part III.

( Dean doesn’t understand what was it about until a week or so later. )

Title: There Will Come Soft Rains 3/5
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, some Sam/Jess
Rating: NC17
Word count: this part 6679; total, around 30000
Spoilers: it's totally AU but since I tried to nod at canon as much as I could there are some S4/S5 spoilers. 5x04 mainly.
Summary: Two years after World War III starts, Dean Winchester is a disillusioned former veteran leading a survivors' camp in the former state of Kansas whose life takes a very, very unexpected turn. Starting when he rescues this guy with huge blue eyes named after an angel.
Warnings: this is a post nuclear war fallout setting with everything that it implies. There's violence and descriptions of situations which could be nasty at best and disturbing at least or however possibly upsetting and/or triggering. Also for plot purposes Dean is an Iraq war veteran (the last one, not the Gulf war) and there are sections dealing with it and for that are valid the same warnings. And in this chapter there's a flashback regarding that which isn't anything too nice.
A/N: written for the AU/AR challenge at deancastiel for the prompt There are no angels or demons, and the apocalypse happened with bombs and a very human war.. And this is where things do actually happen. Whoever gets the subtle (?) Lost reference gets a cookie. Part I | Part II.

( Dean's new carefully balanced routine abruptly changes on May 2nd, what a chance. )

And this is one fic. I'll be finishing the other two. *goes writing*

Title: There Will Come Soft Rains 1/5
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, some Sam/Jess
Rating: NC17
Word count: this part 7800; total, around 30000
Spoilers: it's totally AU but since I tried to nod at canon as much as I could there are some S4/S5 spoilers. 5x04 mainly.
Summary: Two years after World War III starts, Dean Winchester is a disillusioned former veteran leading a survivors' camp in the former state of Kansas whose life takes a very, very unexpected turn. Starting when he rescues this guy with huge blue eyes named after an angel.
Warnings: this is a post nuclear war fallout setting with everything that it implies. There's violence (this chapter specifically has an attempted rape description in the beginning even if it's nothing excessive and it doesn't eventually happen and a murder happening just before that) and descriptions of situations which could be nasty at best and disturbing at least or however possibly upsetting and/or triggering. Also for plot purposes Dean is an Iraq war veteran (the last one, not the Gulf war) and there are sections dealing with it and for that are valid the same warnings.
A/N: written for the AU/AR challenge at deancastiel for the prompt There are no angels or demons, and the apocalypse happened with bombs and a very human war. . Er. As you probably realized it completely got way out of hand, but I have it all written down already and I just need to edit it. Which means I hope to post it fairly quickly. The title is blatantly stolen from a short story by Ray Bradbury which so doesn't have a thing to do with this except for the nuclear fallout setting. Since I'm here, I'm using it for sacred_20 #8, apocalypse.
A/N 2: to avoid anyone possibly going WTF at me when reading the premise, wikipedia entry about Vozrozhdeniya Island, which is probably the only thing that could be obscure about my whole nuclear war plan. The whole part about the damage nuclear bombs bring to the environment is half out of research and half is stuff I came up with because it served the plot, so if there's scientifically impossible stuff just er, try to ignore it. I hope I didn't just go and take it too far from what the prompter imagined.

( The end begins on January 24th, 2007. )

Title: Would You Lay With Me, If I Gave Myself To You?
Pairing/Characters: Dean/Castiel; OFC for the sake of the plot.
Rating: NC17
Word count: 9039
Spoilers: heavy for the 5x03 promo and also for the summary of said 5x03 episode. Also for everything aired in S5 up to this point.
Summary: It’s like all the self control he has been practicing since he came back is suddenly gone. Or my take on what 'not going as planned' means in reference to that 5x03 spoiler.
A/N: this will probably definitely be AU in twelve hours tops and if I didn't have to worry with school I'd have finished it three days ago, but still, it didn't want to go away and I figured that at least the episode hasn't aired yet. Using for sacred_20 #17, confession. I more or less stole the title from a Johnny Cash song because it was fitting but it doesn't have anything else to do with this.

( It’s so complicated. )

This one, I owed, too.

Title: He Loves You (and you know you should be glad)
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairing: Jimmy, Dean/Castiel, Chuck and Sam on the side
Words: 3625
Summary: where Jimmy can't really stand Castiel being miserable because he thinks his feelings for Dean are unrequited and takes the matter into his own hands.
Spoilers: up until 4x22.
Disclaimer: no, they aren't mine. I couldn't make them all so wonderfully miserable even if I tried.
A/N: this is for wandersfound who in a meme ages ago asked for any Dean/Castiel that passed through my head and well, this was what passed through my head. But I know she likes Jimmy and the Beatles from whom I've obviously stolen the title (and I had the idea while listening to that song) so I hope this is fine. ;) Also, this is slightly crack-ish but not exactly full crack I think. Using for sacred_20 #2, saint.

( And if being possessed by an angel is like being tied to a comet, being chained to a lovesick angel is like being a small, insignificant asteroid in the midst of a meteor shower and Jimmy is definitely not up for it. )

Okay, I was done with this, let's go with it. At least I'm starting with the stuff I owe. I swear the rest is coming soon.

Title: Just Some Love
Rating: PG, and the P is because of the swearing probably
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Words: 1812
Summary: That bastard son of a bitch of a ghost of a country singer had turned all of his collection into Keith Urban tapes.
Spoilers: uh, let's say general S4. No specific episodes but it's set after, so..
Disclaimer: not mine, definitely not mine.
A/N/Warnings: okay, so at that meme ibroketuesday asked for Dean/Castiel crack and... uh, clearly this isn't a drabble but I can't do drabbles, especially if crack, and I fear that the premise is crack but then it got kinda on the sweet side, but I tried. ;) Using also for sacred_20 #10, curse. Warning: a lot of Keith Urban. -nod- (And I actually like him. I'm just objective, but I love him anyway *cough*).

( “Cas, man, it’s… Keith Urban. I mean, he’s evil. Like, evil. My poor tapes.” )