Looking to pop my Castiel/Dean cherry

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I'm a pretty avid Sam-girl, so I haven't paid much attention to the Castiel/Dean ship except on those occupations where it's appeared as a side-story in, say, a Sam/Gabriel story. I'd like to try to change that. Please rec my your favorite Castiel/Dean fics! Convert me, if you can. :P


I tend to prefer:

• AUs. Give me your werewolves, your vampires, your God!Castiel, your demon!Dean, your office dramas.
• Not-so-innocent!Castiel. Is it weird that I want a Castiel who knows what he wants and goes for it? For example, if we're talking a Werewolves AU, Castiel would totally be Alpha. Role-switching is cool, but I'm rather fond of the idea of Toppy!Cas.
• The longer, the better. I want something I can sink my teeth into.
• Sam is not the enemy. If Sam appears, no character assassination, please. Actually, I'd sort of love it if Sam helped get them together, lol. Matchmaking!

So, yes. Suggestions, please! Where do I start?

Comments

These are all longish to very freaking long

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http://apokteino.livejournal.com/11285.html
Reaching as I Fall by apokteino
Summary: “Service to God was the meaning of existence; service to Michael is nothing but slavery.” Castiel is part of an underground network helping angels fall, in resistance to heaven. At the same time that a fallen angel by the name of Dean Winchester turns up, some of those in the network are murdered by Michael’s forces – there’s a spy. What does Dean have to do with it? Who is Dean? And why are they hunting him so fiercely?
My own note: Amazing Castiel POV.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/62115
Asunder by rageprufrock
Summary: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:6)
My own note: Cas is a pediatric surgeon, Dean is a social service case manager, and they've been friends for years. Dean invites Cas to go with him to Sam's wedding.

http://deancastiel.livejournal.com/1849863.html
Below skyscrapers (for a dropout) by aesc
Summary: "Castiel, this is Detective Winchester," Bobby's saying, voice rough and real. It's a distraction, although a brief one, the angel glancing at him before studying Dean again with that same silent intensity. "He'll be on the Circle Murders too."
My own note: Dean is a detective. Cas is an angel. This is a world where the supernatural is an accepted fact of reality.

http://fic-of-lu.livejournal.com/tag/family%20business
Family Business by luchia13
Summary: Mafia prince Dean meets a weird guy named Castiel while working off his multiple parking tickets' community service at the Taft Ave Soup Kitchen. (And there's torture and PTSD and mystery and stuff.)
My own note: You have got to read this.

http://takadainmate.livejournal.com/135103.html
Contrapasso by takadainmate
Summary: There's a town in Wisconsin that doesn't exist.
My own note: Read this if you like Dante's Inferno.

http://sparseparsley.livejournal.com/8666.html
Peanut Butter-Pumpkin Wedding Cake by sparseparsley
Summary: The good ones are sometimes assholes and always taken. The prompt was 'Dean is a waiter in a strip club to put his kid brother through school. Castiel is dragged to the club as a part of his sister Anna's bachelorette party. Dean and Cas hit it off, but Dean thinks Cas is the one marrying Anna.'

And the three stories by http://architeuthis.livejournal.com/ are amazing