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Castiel Shurley doesn’t understand why an engineering major keeps showing up in his upper-level creative writing classes. He knows part of having a liberal arts education is taking things outside of your major, but who takes 400-level English courses for fun? And even more galling, his classmates keep gushing about his short stories. You would think Dean Winchester is the next Isaac Asimov.
Then Castiel finally gets assigned to peer edit one of Dean’s short stories… and he recognizes it. To be fair, it’s a great story. Too bad Dean didn’t write it. He stole it, lifted straight from a fanfic, with the serial numbers barely filed off.
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Dark Blue (Have You Ever Been Alone in a Crowded Room?) by WhoIPretended2Be
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
03 Sep 2025
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Castiel is a shapeshifter, haunted by his mother’s murder and terrified of becoming a monster himself. Survival means pretending, and he’s learned to be anyone but himself until the night he meets Dean Winchester.
Dean is a hunter, raised to follow his father’s orders and become whatever the job demands. He doesn’t know who he is when he’s not performing, until he meets someone he calls “Blue”.
What begins as a quest for revenge turns into something else: the collision of two men hiding from the world, each desperate and terrified to be seen beneath their disguises.
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- Part 1 of The Cost of Pretending
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No dwelling, no matter how fortified, stays neutral forever. Time seeps in. It settles. Carves intention into stone, affection into wiring, resentment into the walls themselves. The Bunker had no name, no face, no heart - until it was asked to love. And it loved them terribly.
After Dean is paralyzed and broken, The Bunker tenderly stitches their lives back together - resurrecting Cas, healing wounds, holding them close - until talk of leaving awakens something possessive, warping reality, weaponizing love, and turning their sanctuary into a cage they may never escape.
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16 Dec 2025
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Dean Winchester is nothing special. He’s the kind of guy who spends his days and nights working multiple shitty jobs in Nowhere, Kansas. For him, the supernatural isn’t extraordinary either — it's just another part of everyday existence, like taxes and Madge Carrigan’s homophobia. All except angels, that is — they're rare and powerful and dangerous as fuck.
Which is why it's a monumental inconvenience when a devastatingly handsome and mysterious angel walks into the bar where Dean works. Suddenly, Dean's life is a bizarre interspecies romance novel — all stolen glances, intense conversations, casual murder, and a dizzying, fast-track fall into love. In fact, Castiel is everything Dean never knew he wanted, right down to the scary, otherworldly perfection.
All is not what it seems, however, as when Dean finally gets a peek behind the heavenly curtain, he discovers Cas has a secret that's not merely a lie, but a stunning, earth-shaking betrayal that threatens to destroy everything Dean just started to believe in.
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12 Dec 2025
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Dean Winchester fixes things. Keeps his head down. Follows orders, mostly. Doesn’t ask questions. He can’t afford to, not with a father watching his every move, a brother he’s desperate to protect, and a past sealed behind a NDA.
So when a repair job sends him to a brothel on the edge of town, he tells himself it’s just work. Just another job.
But the android he’s sent to fix doesn’t behave like the others. It looks at him too long. Hesitates before it speaks. And when it touches him, Dean forgets that machines aren’t supposed to feel.
He knows better than to get involved. He does it anyway.
Now he’s tangled in something bigger. He’ll have to decide if being human is about what you’re made of or the choices you make.
Updates every Friday with smaller bonus chapters now and then mid-week!
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