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When Cas wakes up after two years in the Empty, he remembers all too much: making a deal for Jack, sacrificing himself for Dean, leaving his family. But when he gets back to his family, they're not the same as they were before: Dean doesn't remember him.
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28 Jul 2026
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Dean can do this. He can. He can raise Jack Kline, Lucifer’s baby. No, not Lucifer’s… Cas’ kid. Their kid.
With his mother gone, and Castiel dead, Dean finds himself hanging on by a thread. Castiel has died so many times on him, Dean is half-convinced himself that Cas will return to him. Dean evades the pain of the truth, carrying on in false hope until his soul renders into a million pieces. He learns quickly that taking care of a newborn is not for the faint of heart, sleep-deprivation, grief, and feedings rule most of the early days. During this time, Dean is forced to build a new life for himself. With a new name and identity change, Dean becomes a Dad. Something Castiel would be proud of. Dean cooks, he cleans, he reads, he sings his ABCs and 123s, and ultimately Dean does his best for Jack. It’s not until Jack grows into a small child that Dean feels like he can breathe again. The grief no longer suffocates him. His new life has meaning. He sees family and he allows himself to miss Castiel. To mourn him, to love him in death. And when Jack goes to school, Dean is once again reunited with friends and enemies from his past.
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17 Jul 2026
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Telepaths are supposed to be a secret, kept contained and exploited in an off-books laboratory. But their most rebellious experiment has secrets, too: Castiel can communicate, undetected by his captors, with a smuggler named Dean.
Dean’s planet-hopping search for the voice in his head has gone on for years, and it’s starting to attract dangerous attention for his family and crew.
Neither of them know how their bond is possible, but they do know that they’re running out of time. They have to find a way to use their impossible connection to save Cas before it’s too late.
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14 Jul 2026
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She didn’t used to hate school. She didn’t love it, but she likes reading, and science is objectively cool.
But now, each time she sits in class, all she can think about is David saying, “I was a teacher, taught kids about your age,” and then she can’t help but stare at the teachers and think, “Are you a monster, too?” Every smile, every encouragement, every smiley face on her quizzes, all of them just make her think of sitting across a fire from someone trying to make her laugh, knowing already that it was only an attempt to make her drop her guard enough to-
She doesn’t trust teachers, is the key point.
(ellie has a rocky start settling into jackson) (now if she'd only learn to ask for help)
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07 Jul 2026
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work study by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”
He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.
And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.
(an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)
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07 Jul 2026