#dean and cas deserved a happy ending

[valeron99]

Found him.

[gleeksfreaksandwannabes]

Well hey!

So after I finished my Marvel story I figured I’d jump back into Supernatural. This story is one of my favourites I’ve ever written, so if you guys wanted to give it a chance that would be amazing!

So here is the latest chapter of my giant fix-it for the end of the show, aka ‘the author gives Dean the love and support he needs while telling an angsty story of him getting Cas back,”

[found--family]

cas coming back in any kind of spn reboot is a given, we know this. he'll interact with dean and we might even get dean addressing the confession. and i know jackles will be the driving force behind any reboot but his history with addressing dean's feelings at cons is like a damn yoyo - is2g if dean doesn't reciprocate and destiel doesn't kiss on screen i'm not watching it and it will join the annals of not-canon along with 15x19 and 15x20 and the canon divergence attempt at a fixit that was dean in spnwin. no destiel means spngate 2.0.

[lazarus-rose]

You know what I want? I want Dean and Cas to grow old together. I want them to be wizened old men sitting in rocking chairs that Dean pretends he hates on the porch of the house they own together down the street from Sam and Eileen, griping about new technology and young hunters while they hold hands

[quietwingsinthesky]

went into the notes of that poll going around about if people want more seasons of supernatural and was immediately slapped in the face with how different my priorities are in this fandom from. a lot of it. what are you talking about ‘destiel endgame’. girl the show has bigger problems to fix than that if it ever had more seasons. they taught a three year old that the best way to be loved was to continuously try to kill himself and then they made him god.

[vendettasfanfictioning]

I feel like I've said this already but they just didn't make Dean the way fanfic authors do—and in the context of destiel, it's him trying to work through the anger, it's finding peace within himself and killing the storm always raging in his veins, it's reciprocating Cas' soft touch outside of him dying on Dean. It is Cas readily forgiving most of Dean's mistakes and Dean doing his damnedest to be worthy anyways. Because listen.

Listen.

I am one half a Deangirl I will gladly spend my last days tinhatting and nerding out about the nuances of his character—but come on, he has crimes that should not have been skimmed over (ahem S9 Steve arc ahem S15 divorce arc ahem Mary's death ahem) that I know within my soul he would feel absolutely shitty about, post Cas confession. He may have done everything for love but he was also an asshole for a lot of it and they should ‼️ be‼️ able‼️ to‼️ work on that‼️‼️‼️‼️

And I'm not talking about Dean coddling Cas or whatever, I'm talking about Dean working past his issues to let himself have soft things and fully connect with someone. Healthy communication, healthy relationships, health coping mechanisms—that shivering wet cat of a man deserved therapy (news flash: they all did) and that kind of healing.

And that's something fanfic authors just understand better than the big name execs or whoever deemed it climactic to end Dean's story by dying.

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

I'm going to tell my kids that this is how Supernatural ended.

[420technoblazeit]

i read a fic once that described crowley as someone who saw love as something he was entitled to, because he should have had it this whole time and he never did and it. threw me so off guard, i haven't stopped thinking about it since. like that's it, that's the whole character summarized. god.

[gay-celestial-being]

i’m still not over the supernatural ending so i will make it everyone’s problem. so just a friendly reminder that the one thing dean truly wanted was just a normal life. he wanted to own a bar, have a dog, get drinks with his friends and just love and be loved especially by cas. all he wanted was to live peacefully. and he never thought that he’d get the chance to do that so he didn’t even allow himself to dream about it properly, no, he made peace with constant discomfort, restlessness and pain. so much so that it was all he knew, all he felt. going out in a blaze of glory was the only option he saw for himself. and still deep in his heart he always had that tiny spark of hope that wouldn’t be smothered. that maybe, just maybe, it didn’t have to go that way. that there might be the smallest chance of him finally finding peace. but no, he didn’t get his happy ending. and apparently we are supposed to believe that he was just totally fine with that. that the man who had previously grieved the angel in such an intense way, that everyone knows what i’m talking about when i mention the widower!arc, just wasn’t really all that affected by cas’ death?? he just went on and happily ate pie? and the he died? and it was fine? dean winchester deserved peace he earned it! he went to hell and back and he suffered and he lost and he kept on trying but it wasn’t enough? so yea anyway i wish everyone a good day except for the spn writers, they can go to hell.

[spnisthewayoflife]

What hurts the most was being so close

And havin' so much to say

And watchin' you walk away

And never knowin' what could've been

And not seein' that lovin' you

Is what I was trying to do

It's hard to deal with the pain of losin' you everywhere I go

But I'm doing it

It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone

Still harder gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin' with this regret

But I know if I could do it over

I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart

That I left unspoken

[hellertoni]

Chapter 3: You don’t have to be ruled by fate. You can choose freedom

Rating: Mature

Categories: M/M, W/W, W/M

Chapter: 3/?

Part 2 of “The Happy Ending They (and we) Deserve

Read Part 1 “Hunter with a Shotgun” 

TW: possible talk about past childhood abuse and homophobia

Tags: Fix-It | Other Additional Tags to Be Added | Minor Angst | Happily Ever After | I'm Bad At Tagging| Spoilers | spoilers season 15  | denny is canon | Past Benny Lafitte |/Dean Winchester | Dadstiel | Domestiel | healing from trauma | mentions of past child abuse | Dean’s healing | Sammy’s Healing | Cas is healing | Ben is Deans son | Toddler Jack  |  everybody gets their happy ending

“I never thought he’d get this, and I definitely never thought I’d get to see it. He’s going to be a great dad, Cas. He was to me, a great dad, mom, older brother, and whatever else I needed.”

They watched together as Dean tossed Jack onto the bed. Jack was back up on his feet and was in the air, arms wrapped around Dean’s neck and legs around his torso. Dean “fell” towards the bed and turned so he landed on his back; Jack now sitting on him. Cas laughed before running to the other side of the bed.

“1!” he slapped the bed. “2! 3! We have a winner! Jack Winchester!!”

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I hope you all enjoy fluff, because that's what you're getting. Domestiel, family bonding, and familiar faces. Enjoy!

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A short and fluffy chapter. Our boys have a lot of trauma and issues to work through, and this is where it starts. A new chapter will be posted this week, my goal is Wednesday. I'm going to try and post a new chapter each weekend, if it's a short one I'll post the next one a few days later.

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[starsanddragonflies]

WHAT

[bisaster-energy]

bitches will hate the later seasons of spn but um...have you considered..no jack? no special sunshine baby you crave ?? sorry but I'd suffer through another 10 seasons of that show if it meant I got to see jack grow and their dads grow with them

[preservingpussy]

Why do none of my faves ever get a soft ending????? Who do I have to kill to get a decent happy ending for fucking ONCE around here????????

[skaterflz]

i finished 91w and i’m sobbing just full force and the worst part is they come back to each other and can’t ever be TRULY together and it breaks me it breaks me to my very soul and this fic is going to be rattling in my skull for the next month and they still love each other they still can’t stop loving each other after everything that happened, after the fights and the abandonment and the fear and the war altogether, they loved each STILL no matter how fucked up they were in the end, it was all worth it as long as they had each other

[dotthings]

You know who I feel sad for right now is Misha, because I think he wanted to be able to speak much much earlier than he was able to about Cas’s confession. We know he drafted an essay about Cas’s coming out…and then wound up not publishing it. Misha deserved to be able to talk about it in interviews the way Oliver Stark is able to about Buck. Misha mentioned it on zoom calls, briefly. And then it seems like he got yanked back by the PR machine and the nature of Cas’s confession wasn’t discussed on any SPN PR materials and for a time Misha was restricted on what he could say on CE Con stages.

At first, back then, for a few glorious days, I thought the stigma about queer Cas, about Destiel, had been lifted, finally, and then WB/CW brought the restrictions back down via PR. Oh you can have your confession scene, SPN, but corporate will control the narrative on how it’s spoken about or not.

We saw this thaw over time. (Anyone who claims otherwise or that Misha was always able to be open about it, is lying). Now Misha can speak openly about it and that shift began around the time when Chaos Machine really set up shop and changed a few con policies. So I’m happy for Misha that he can speak only about Cas being queer and what the confession means and Cas coming out, but he still has yet to be able to speak in depth about it in major PR. The openness about it comes out on con stage. At first it was non-CE Cons. Then finally he was more able to speak freely on CE Con stages.

Which leads me to another point, which is that, in fact, any of us who thought Cas was supposed to be in the series finale? We were right all along. The PR Misha filmed meant to mislead and misdirect about his last episode…PR misdirect to cover up so it could be a surprise, which makes sense and is sometimes how PR is run. Remember that the production shutdowns of the pandemic happened during the first days of filming 15.19. We found out eventually Dean and Cas were planned to be seen at the Roadhouse bar in Heaven together.

When they filmed 15.18 everyone thought Cas would at least cameo in 15.20. During the filming of 15.18 nobody directly involved knew how far Cas would be shoved out of the story, the actors didn’t know, the writer didn’t know, the director didn’t know, how far 15.20 would be stripped back, no one knew how reduced even mere mentions would be in 15.20.

I’ve talked about this before but a reminder how screwed the spn creatives who worked on 15.18 were, how screwed over the actors were.

You were right. If you thought that there was going to be at least some satisfaction and closure and Cas was going to have one more appearance before the end and it wouldn’t be able to be loud open canon, but something that implied mutual canon Destiel.

We were right. We were right all along.

Antis on twitter dot com can keep scratching and clawing and harassing and gaslighting and spewing phobic comments, denying what Jensen’s views are and dening that corporate censorship is real and that bi Dean is canonical via queer coding and queer Cas is now loud open canon and Destiel is mutual, via canon queer coding. Won’t change what happened here or that the intent was so, so much better and more than what 15.20 delivered, and the reason it fell apart was the production shutdown gave some parties high up too much time to think and then interfere and cut Cas out.

There is no more room to indulge media illiteracy and malicious denialism and trolling from antis.