time has come today
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Cas fetches 19yr-old Dean from 1998 to help the team with a griffin hunt in 2020. Dean Winchester, being allergic to self-reflection, doesn't love the mental tightrope walk that comes out of having his past self around. Teen-Dean's got even more to reckon with: there's this live-in angel, storied secrets his older self won't face, and a future he could never have predicted.
This can be read as a standalone, but there is just so much more for Young Dean ahead.
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- Part 1 of time has come today
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He wasn't supposed to remember his visit to the future: helping with a case, facing his older self, meeting the angel he'll love. When 19yr-old Dean starts to recall what happened, he's desperate to claim the freedom and sanctuary that knowing his future provides. Teen-Dean is back with new Case-Fic-With-Feelings. This time, Sam is missing, and Teen-Dean calls on Past-Cas to help find him.
Main tags are for filter & search, but this fic also contains: 90s vibes, dream sequences, cool librarians, Cas being called 'angel' in an undeniably flirtatious way, references to Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain", vessels' rights, poor decision-making, the California coast, my questionable understanding of physics???, twice the Dean/Cas you normally get, Dad Books™, unbridled tenderness, stoner witches, more references to Carl Jung than you might expect in Supernatural fanfiction, high romanticism, Young Dean at his most earnest, and so much yearning.
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- Part 2 of time has come today
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Cas brought a young Dean Winchester to the future to help save Eileen, and things sort of spiralled. New worlds began, where Dean could start fresh at nineteen with Cas by his side to live out a better life. Now, Teen-Dean (not a teenager) has made it back to the Winchesters in 2020 to help save Eileen once and for all. Only, what is he hiding from them about his life in the new world?
I can't spam the tags with any heart so here's me telling you Part III has everything: gratuitous poetic epigraphs, poignant flashbacks, sickeningly-in-love established Dean/Cas, (but also pining Dean/Cas), references to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," fun beach scenes, double the time travel and double the plot, the Deans fighting (again), spotify playlists no one asked for, Undeclared Traumas, the writer's subtle yet pronounced obsession with Dean's crow's feet, old characters you love to hate new characters you could have a beer with, Dean's Gay Mirrors™, and pie.
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- Part 3 of time has come today