night shift
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night shift is a series of one-shots set in an au where dean never gets cured after being turned into a vampire. Instead of going back to his old life, he’s stuck living in the dark, trying to find some kind of new normal. each chapter is a snapshot of his life, set at varying points between season 6 and season 15, as he navigates the aftermath of his transformation, the toll it takes on his relationships with those he loves, and the hunger he can’t shake.
UPDATE (13/11/25): this series started as a standalone, but i’m reworking it into the first part of a four-part story. the revisions are meant to smooth out the character arcs so everything connects more naturally going forward. the tone is shifting just a little — dean’s feelings for cas are beginning to surface throughout the course of this fic, but cas doesn’t believe dean’s in love with him — not yet. therefore, the running theme i want to hold onto throughout this series is that quiet tension between hope and doubt — that longing for something real, even when neither of them can quite name it yet. chapters with sexual content will have a !, and finished chapters will have the date of completion, so you know you're reading the final version!
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- Part 1 of night shift
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six months have passed since castiel made that fateful deal with the empty, and dean winchester would say he's coping.
nobody else agrees
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- Part 2 of night shift
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- Part 3 of night shift
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,613
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 6
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- 129
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after sam’s death in 2060, dean and castiel disappear from the world.
what follows is decades of silence and drifting—two immortals moving through a world that has begun to forget them. dean, a vampire, struggles with the slow crawl of time and the crushing weight of outliving everyone he’s ever loved.
eventually, they stop running. a cabin. a quiet life. a stillness brings both peace and dissonance—until the past begins to echo forward again.
when family comes looking for them, bringing warnings of supernatural unrest and signs that jack’s heaven is slipping out of reach, dean is faced with the hardest question of all: what does it mean to keep living, when everyone else is gone?
PLEASE NOTE:
1) sexual content is indicated with a !, so feel free to just skip if desired
2) although all chapters will include trigger warnings where appropriate, any particularly difficult chapters will include a # as well
3) any chapters in need of some serious tlc that I haven't gotten around to yet will be indicated with a @
4) consequently, any new alterations will be indicated with a *Series
- Part 4 of night shift