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At thirty-six, Dean Winchester is the Captain of Lawrence Fire Station 24 — respected, decorated, and trusted with lives when everything is burning down. He runs his crew with precision, authority, and gallows humor, the kind of man you want beside you when the smoke gets thick. He has the house. The career. The scars to prove he earned both.
What he doesn’t have is anyone waiting for him when the sirens go quiet.
Dean tries to explain why Castiel doesn’t fit into his life — too quiet, too gentle, too different from anyone he’s ever dated.
Sam, who’s heard every version of this argument before, gently points out the truth Dean keeps avoiding: maybe the problem isn’t Castiel’s differences — maybe it’s that Dean has spent his whole life choosing what’s safe instead of what he actually needs.
And maybe what he needs is someone entirely unfamiliar… even if that scares him.
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"You've been dating the same type of person your whole life, and where has it gotten you? Alone in a house that's too quiet. You always go for what's easy, what's familiar. But maybe what you need isn't easy. Maybe what you need is different. Maybe what you need is a nerdy beekeeper who talks about feelings."
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28 May 2026
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Castiel’s babysitter cancels. Again. Which is how he ends up frantically hiring Deana—a highly rated sitter with years of experience and a history of helping raise her younger brother, Sam.
Castiel expects a woman. Dean Winchester, apparently, expects people to read profiles more carefully. The typo in the listing was never fixed.
Dean is qualified, of course. Responsible, even. Disturbingly good with children. Castiel’s eight-year-old adores him almost immediately.
He spends significantly longer trying not to. Because Dean has a habit of lingering in the kitchen after Claire falls asleep, fixing things around the house that were never his responsibility and looking unfairly comfortable in a life that doesn’t belong to him.
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Castiel accidentally hires the wrong babysitter and watches, with increasing concern, as Dean Winchester slowly becomes part of everything.
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Previously named "Another Day in Paradise"
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27 May 2026
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Castiel, a sarcastic and quiet bartender at a queer club, doesn’t intend to fall for the club’s newest drag queen. Cherrie Pye, however, clearly doesn’t care about Castiel’s intentions. She’s all glitter and attitude – strutting onto the stage and into Castiel’s heart like she owns the place.
Then Castiel meets Dean, the man behind the lashes. He’s no less charming than Cherrie, and totally straight.
(And Castiel? Well, he wants both of them. Obviously.)
A short, sweet slow burn (think toasted marshmallow) about drag, desire, mistaken assumptions, costume disasters, and learning to love someone in every version they come in.
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21 Apr 2026
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Dean is a novice in the dom/sub world asked by his employer as a desperate last resort to be a sub for his recluse of a brother, Castiel. Castiel is a diagnosed OCD suffering from PTSD and agoraphobia, mysophobia, and dystychiphobia. Needless to say—he’s a mess who hasn’t stepped out of his home in literally seven years. The only times Gabriel can see traces of the way his brother used to be is when he feels in control—specifically when he has control over a sub. However, due to his idiosyncrasies and paranoia, keeping a sub around has been impossible. Enter Dean, who’s not a very traditional submissive, to try his hand at subbing for the hermit.
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11 Apr 2026
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Ever since he was a sapling, Castiel knew he was different. The forest was full of trees, but none were like him. It did not trouble him much. Not while the human boy, Dean, spent the days beneath his branches, filling the quiet by recounting adventurous tales in the shade of Castiel’s leaves.
As they grew together, Castiel knew they were kindred. Until the day the Dean’s family moved, and Castiel was left alone.
Years later, when Dean returns to the forest as a grown man, Castiel discovers that some connections don’t fade, and that love, once rooted, has a way of changing everything, and that even the wildest things can find a place to call home.
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06 Apr 2026