The Lesser Known Destiel Fics Collection
Welcome to the most underrated collection on AO3!! Every fic in this collection is something someone out there feels should have more views, more kudos, more comments, more love and recognition! That's our aim--connect discerning Destiel readers trying to find more diamonds in the rough to enjoy. So many surveys aim to catalog our "favorites" and "top" fics, and those are great! But let's face it, some real gems are being missed out on this way!
Enter: Us! Being a "Lesser Known Fic" is an honor. Someone loves your story so much, they want more of the world to read it!! However, if you would like your fic removed, please just message @caslostwings on Twitter or @castielslostwings on tumblr! Recs may also be submitted this way between rounds.
Fic recs are typically collected via Twitter "Rounds." The first was held in early April of 2021, and another will happen soon. You can see the original tweets by searching the hashtag #lesserknownfics.
As of now, the collection is closed, but it may be opened in the future. More recs will definitely be added!
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When the invitation for Dean’s twenty-fifth high school reunion arrives in the mail, he tosses it straight to the trash. That’s Dean’s past and if there’s anything he knows, it’s to leave the past where it belongs, far far away.
His daughter Emma has other ideas and Dean finds himself facing down his past and the one that got away. He doesn't know what it could mean for him, his daughter, or their future.
Maybe happy ever after.
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“I screwed up,” Castiel chokes, leaning forward to cradle his head in his hands. His sunglasses slide back and slip to the concrete, but he can’t find the energy to retrieve them. Not now. “God, Dean. What am I going to do?”
“What are you talking about, man?” Dean grabs his phone and starts digging, and Castiel can feel the moment Dean gets it, not because of the curses he’s spewing under his breath but because of the way the air shifts, winding tight around them. “Dude, you—” Dean huffs and tries again. “You told your mom you’re married?”
In order to save face at Gabriel's wedding after a drunken comment to his estranged mother, Castiel and Dean return to Lawrence pretending to be married. So, why is no one surprised?
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"Winchesters and their friends. Of course. Well, just try to stop me. You may have stopped many others before me, especially that idiotic Rowena, but just try to see if you can stop me!"
Before they could retaliate, the witch pointed her finger at Dean and spoke in Latin.
"Vos may have fere vicit hoc modo tendo videre, si potest vincere nisi verus amor est scriptor osculum!"
She watched in satisfaction as the others looked on in horror as Dean was being painfully transformed. They couldn't see what the witch did to him yet. They only heard his pain-filled screams. Finally, the heavy green mist of witch-magic disappeared and in Dean's place was a slimy green frog.
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OH NO! Dean's been turned into a frog by a witch! How will they solve this case? Could True Love's Kiss between Dean and Cas be the key?
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After a confrontation in a bar leads to two mobsters dead in self-defense, Sam and Dean Winchester embark on a path to rid Boston of the stranglehold that the Sicilian mafia and the Russian bratva have on it. Complicating this is their close friend, Castiel Novak, himself a low-level member of the Sicilian Shirley family organization, who is in far more trouble than he realizes. Meanwhile, Agent Victor Henriksen is on a mission to catch the perpetrator of a string of vigilante murders targeting Boston mobsters. Their paths spiral closer and closer until they collide in an explosion that will leave no-one unscathed.
(Supernatural Boondock Saints AU)
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Castiel Novak has a few secrets: He drinks orange juice straight from the container. He writes heartfelt fan fiction. And he’s in love with his best friend, Dean Winchester.
He’s not sure how to tell him, but he figures fanfic might be a good place to start.
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Police officer Dean Winchester's next assignment seems easy enough: a protection detail on Assistant District Attorney Castiel Novak, who's been receiving death threats in conjunction with the case that he's prosecuting. Dean's assignment is to keep ADA Novak safe, alive, and in one piece so that he can start his trial against Dick Roman, notorious CEO charged with the death of at least eight people.
With threats that quickly spin out of control, a missing teenage genius, Dean's attraction to Novak, and Novak's mercurial attitude towards Dean--Dean Winchester's next assignment is anything but easy.
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Dean lands himself in the open chasm that is YouTube and stumbles across one of those Self-Help Inspirational videos. It's all bullshit, he knows this, but... why is it working?
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“So… you're being honest, giving and accepting love, and facing your fears,” Cas lists off carefully.
“I'm tryin’,” Dean says, because he really is.
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Spending the evening at a pole dance studio with his sister wasn’t exactly Castiel’s idea of a fun night. But one look at the studio’s most talented and most charming student had him ready and willing to step far outside of his comfort zone. Determined to help Dean accomplish the seemingly impossible, Castiel offers up an absolutely crazy idea. But aren’t those the best kind?
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As starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals and at the top of his game, Dean Winchester is making headlines. His curveball sends batters back to the dugout before they know what hits them, but if you ask Dean, the real secret to his success isn’t in the pitches he throws but in the man standing behind the plate, his catcher, Castiel Novak.
While in college and training for the big leagues, Dean never expected that a chance encounter with a one-night-stand would end up changing the course of his career, but Cas has never stopped surprising him. They’re the perfect match, both on and off the field, facing down everything from shitty fathers to the MLB draft. Everything they do, they do it together. So when Dean takes the mound with twenty-seven outs and a perfect game on the horizon, he knows Cas is in it with him.
Baseball is a language of love, and for Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak, it always has been.
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Prison psychologist Castiel Novak was brought to the Bay for one reason and one reason only: to crack and dismantle the ruling mob cabal that's making life Hell behind bars for both inmates and staff alike. Prison politics, handshake deals, blackmail, and manipulation are only the beginning, although everything seems to circle back to one man—an innocuous sex worker named Dean Winchester. In the midst of doing his job, Castiel himself finds sucked into a world he wasn't prepared for and falling hard for the prisoner at the very center of all the chaos. Is Dean a pawn or a player or something else altogether? And what will Castiel risk giving up to find out?
At the end of the day, Castiel's not the one behind bars, but he can't bring himself to leave—at least, not without Dean by his side. Whatever it takes to keep him there.