29 June 2015 @ 12:23 am
General search: Destiel high school AU, Alastair is bad guy  
Hi! I recently read two very good fics, both similar in some ways but very different and enjoyable! They were

The Spirit of Lawrence High (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2594180/chapters/5776937): Dean Winchester is funny, gorgeous, brave, loyal, and a breath of fresh air in Castiel Shurley's life. Dean Winchester is also a ghost haunting Castiel's school, but nobody's perfect, right?

and

Jump the Track (http://archiveofourown.org/works/224944): It's Dean's senior year at Lawrence High, and he's already given up on himself. It takes the arrival of the strange, intense, awkward Castiel Delacroix at the school to prove to Dean that maybe his life is worth saving after all.

One similarity that both of these fics have are that Dean was raped by Alastair. The rape isn't central to the plot, and the stories mainly focus on the romance, but the angst is exactly the kind of thing I love.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any other AU fics out there with this kind of a plot? If two's a coincidence I'm hoping someone can find a third and make it a pattern. I do enjoy reading fics that are completely original and complex, but sometimes I enjoy sitting back and working through several stories with kind of the same basic setup and ingredients, especially when I'm stressed. Not that these fics aren't both creative and complicated, but they share very similar themes that I'd like to read more of!

Specific ingredients I'm looking for: Teenage Destiel (or I'd settle for college), regular-kid!Castiel, kind-of-outcast!Dean, low-self-esteem!Dean, bad-guy-teenage!Alastair. I also enjoy themes of depression, rape/assault recovery, and developing relationship.

Thank you!
 
 
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(Anonymous) on June 29th, 2015 10:18 pm (UTC)
How about Hautley's Bend by ColdIntheStudio? It has Dean sort of being raped by Alastair and is Destiel. The only thing you might not like is that at first Dean bullies Cas. But once you get passed that its an amazing fic. Its a WIP, but is still updated.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2816351/chapters/6318389
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(Anonymous) on June 29th, 2015 11:14 pm (UTC)
Is there a reason you didn't tag this pairing: dean/cas??? not everyone wants that shit to show up on thier feed.
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[identity profile] elwarre.livejournal.com on June 29th, 2015 11:19 pm (UTC)
Um, sorry about the weird anon-hate happening on this site lately. WTF.

The only fic I can think of like this is Learning to Live Half a Life (http://princess-aleera.livejournal.com/121125.html) by princess_aleera: "John drinks. A lot. And it's exhausting for Dean to try and keep the family together, it wears him out to make sure school's okay for Sammy and himself and then clean up after their father when he's finally passed out on the bed or the bathroom floor. Michael is a safe haven. Michael is different. As long as Dean does what Michael tells him to do, he can pretend everything's okay. At least for a little while." (warnings for parental and domestic abuse - not between Dean/Cas - and I don't think Alastair's in the story, but otherwise it fits your request)
[identity profile] bombtastical.livejournal.com on June 29th, 2015 11:58 pm (UTC)
Thanks for the rec and the sweet defense about the anon. Strangely it does seem that a lot of tags I had didn't make it on this post. I'll have to fix that.
(Anonymous) on July 18th, 2015 05:47 am (UTC)
You should read Hautley's Bend: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2816351/chapters/6318389
It's seriously sooooooo good. It's pretty graphic and it's a WIP, but the author updates regularly and according to some comments, it's almost finished. Read the tags, it might not be for you, but it's one of my favorite fics and you should really give it a read ^_^
[identity profile] envydean.livejournal.com on August 31st, 2015 03:48 pm (UTC)
I agree, I would have suggested this fic too, it's really amazingly written and sounds like the sort of thing you're looking for!