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They fight their way through the northeast. Dean’s testy, crawling out of his skin, and Sam smiles as Dean bitches, like he’s happy to have Dean moaning and complaining in the driver’s seat. It makes him want to simultaneously punch and hug Sam, infuriating beyond words.
Dean’s left knee doesn’t lock up in the cold anymore. He used to have to run the heater in the car full blast in the winter when they drove through the Maine or Michigan, when the weather dipped below freezing. He had broken it climbing a tree with Sam in North Dakota when he was ten and Sam was six and Dad made Dean swear that he wouldn’t climb the half-rotting red maple in the backyard.
But Sam had dared him, and the branch cracked and fell under his weight. The bone had never set quite right, and when the air got could enough, Dean could feel the pain cascade through the marrow like a fresh break. Now it just feels like the rest of his body, cold and unfamiliar.
Sam smiles when he turns off the heat, like it’s a blessing, but it doesn’t feel like one. He misses the ache.
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Dean begins to miss the scars of his old body.
Bookmarked by SaltyMango
14 Dec 2025
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You are shiny plastic after Hell, so the old is new; or Dean misses his scars
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Dad says keep Sammy safe. Dad says take care of Sammy.
Dad says make sure Sammy stays close, no matter what.
So Dean does. No matter what.
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11 Nov 2025
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And like the cycle of the year, we begin again by katherynefromphilly
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Nov 2016
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Set after the Merlin Series 5 Finale "Diamond of the Day".
Canon Compliant. In Character. Arthur Pendragon Returns.
Cover art by Lao-Pendragon------
For many long years Merlin waited.
For the other part of his soul, for the other half of his life. He was born to serve Arthur. So that meant he was also born to wait. Even if it took a thousand years. Even if the wait seemed never to end.
Until one day, suddenly, it did.
When Arthur stumbles from the Lake of Avalon 1,500 years after his death, he finds a world unlike the one he knew. Faced with the loss of everyone he loved, and the threat of impending prophecy, Arthur must learn what it means to be not just a king, but the Once and Future King. Merlin does all he can to guide him, even as he struggles to hide his love for his king, and his fear of losing him again.
Story includes sass, banter, horseplay, & True Love.
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- Part 1 of We Begin Again
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02 Oct 2025
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What he wants from Sam isn’t wrong, not exactly, but it rests at the precipice of wrongness, one gentle nudge might send him over and beyond. He only wants to live their lives ensnared by each other, half-feral as they’ve always been, in want of nothing and no one else and owing nothing to the world. He’s ready to risk letting it all burn if it means he can hold onto Sam a little longer. He’s never bothered asking why.
(except now time and circumstance forces Dean to recognize he's in love with his brother)
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Bookmarked by SaltyMango
29 Sep 2025
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Late seasons Canon divergence getting together
