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A five year veteran of the porn industry, Dean Winchester is at his wits' end with his employer and the business in general. Incidentally, five years after Castiel Novak's retirement, Sainted Angels finally reels him in for one last film—on one condition: Dean has to be his partner. With retirement on his mind, Dean agrees to film with his idol—but what happens when a dream business partnership turns to something more?
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04 Oct 2025
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There's no place like home. This was a line Castiel used to know by heart when he was a kid, watching The Wizard of Oz and believing fairytales were real.
At thirty-one years old, he isn't a kid anymore, and it has been twelve years since he has known what home feels like. Twelve years. That's when his world had come crashing down and he had left his hometown, Holly Springs, with the broken pieces of what he once was to build a new life in San Francisco.
But as circumstances force him to come back to the only place he swore he would never return to, Castiel is finally forced to face everything he once knew and loved. Especially when said everything is made of spring-green eyes and a stardust of freckles, wrapped in all the memories Castiel was not able to erase from his heart.
After twelve years, Dean is as mesmerizing as Castiel remembers, but the scars of what was broken still run as deeply as the marrow of his bones, and Castiel will do everything he can to protect himself. After all, his favorite movie also taught him that 'until hearts can be made unbreakable,' he can’t listen to his own.
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29 Sep 2025
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Dean Winchester remembers all too clearly what it was like to be scared and hungry and desperate. He remembers what it was like to have to give more of himself than he ever wanted to, just to make ends meet. And he remembers the day the kind motel owner, who would eventually become a second father to him, showed him how much more he deserved.
Eleven years later, he runs the exact same motel, and offers the same quiet compassion to the guests he loves like family.
Castiel Novak has never had it easy, and never expected to catch a break, but when he finds himself unable to work after an encounter with a client that almost killed him, he has no choice but to beg the owner of the motel he lives at for an extension on rent, and he's willing to offer whatever he needs to to keep a roof over his head.
Imagine his surprise when his landlord simply asks him to help around the motel — painting walls or washing linens. Imagine his greater surprise when he finds himself falling a little harder for the man with every passing day.
Still, he knows he's racking up a bill that will eventually come due, and when it does, it just might break his heart.
Title inspired by: @ltmotel on TikTok (link in AN)
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18 Sep 2025
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When Dean Winchester had to stop hunting with his brother for a while to be treated in Waverly Hills tuberculosis sanatorium, he wasn't expecting to meet someone who fought the same creatures as him. It turned out his doctor, Castiel Novak, was also a Man of Letters. And he was also going to become so much more for Dean...
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14 Sep 2025
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Castiel was content with the constant flow of his life. He had his brother Gabriel, had his coffee shop and the weekly book club meetings as well as a small but solid group of friends. If there was one thing his hateful family had taught him, it was how fast things could go wrong if he let too many variables shape his life.
So when he met Dean, a gradual regular at his shop, Castiel knew he was trouble, because Dean was like a comet, beautiful but beyond reach.
Ever since his father died, there wasn’t a single constant in Dean’s life. Moving on, never stopping, never getting attached to one thing for too long had made him a drifter for the past seven years. Being the only hearing person in his family hadn’t been easy with a father like John Winchester, so as soon as Dean saw an escape, he took it.
Settling down to open his flower shop was anything but easy, especially when he met the elusive deaf owner of the coffee shop next door. The more he discovered about Cas, the louder the voice in the back of his head whispered that maybe Castiel was the person finally worth staying for. And maybe, just maybe, Dean was willing to listen now.
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13 Sep 2025