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Castiel Novak is 27 when he suddenly loses his twin brother Jimmy, and his whole world turns to ashes. How do you deal with losing half of yourself when your whole life always revolved around the two of you, like yin and yang and black and white? How do you deal with a broken soul and old demons looming over you with no one to hold you back anymore?
After 10 years as a Navy Special Warfare Operator and more than a dozen deployments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a battlefield injury forces 28-year-old Chief Petty Officer Dean Winchester to choose between being stuck behind a desk for the rest of his career or going back to civil life. When he learns about his friend Jimmy’s death, Dean makes his way back to Kansas with his heart in his throat and broken pieces at his feet.
Things are already complicated and painful enough as it is, but when former lovers Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet again after 10 years of radio silence and a galaxy of wounds and scars solidly standing between them, it feels like both a curse and a blessing has been placed on them both. Is there any hope in putting back their broken pieces together after a decade, and how do you deal with grief and broken dreams?
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- Part 1 of Patient Love verse
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06 May 2026
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Philadelphia, 2020.
Dean Winchester has been working as a detective for years, and he’s tired. Bone-tired, burnt out and carrying the weight of an alcohol issue he refuses to acknowledge. He’s also a husband and a father to 3 kids, even though lately he’s been forgetting that part.
Castiel Novak has been an attorney for the better part of the last decade, and Dean’s husband for 15 years. And he’s tired—tired of carrying the weight of his family on his own; tired of fighting so his marriage doesn’t crumble.
It all comes to a head when Marla Ashford’s case explodes: she's a candidate for the next mayoral campaign, and when her deputy fundraiser is killed, she asks Cas to defend her. Unfortunately, Dean is the lead detective on the case… And neither of them plans on letting go.
Between arguments, kids being way too perceptive, and Dean’s issues with alcohol, what could go wrong?
This is a story about a family fighting to stay whole while the world explodes around them; a high-stakes domestic drama and legal thriller rolled into one. One where Dean’s fight with alcohol becomes the center of everything, and they could lose it all.
Can they make it to the end of the line together?
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01 May 2026
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Kikyou and Inuyasha had it all. They were Hollywood royalty, an acting pair for the generations. And then they went bust, in epic fashion. But the Hollywood machine keeps rolling on. It's up to press agents Miroku and Sango, as well as Kikyou's lovelorn younger sister (and assistant) Kagome, to get The It Couple back together for the cameras in time for their new premiere! Yikes.
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18 Jan 2026
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Those eyes, those ocean-deep blue, caught him a little off guard as they hit him, bright against the sunburned skin and the wild, golden curls clinging to his forehead. The man looked like he belonged to the Californian heat, the dust and the open road, and his eyes were… well, something.
“Daniel,” he muttered, avoiding the man’s gaze. “Daniel LaRusso. Glad I could help.”
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20 Oct 2025
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Sun. Sand. Surfboards. Slow burns.
Daniel LaRusso was expecting a chill summer, literally. A simple job at a beachside rental shack, some ocean breeze, and maybe a few ice creams along the boardwalk. What he didn’t expect? Getting stuck on the same shift as Johnny Lawrence, his high school rival, eternal pain in the neck, and apparently, new coworker.
Johnny’s only there to fulfill community service hours and avoid ruining his life again. But OceanMotion Rentals has other plans: mandatory teamwork, a sarcastic teen coworker, multiple accidents, and a Fourth of July party that neither of them will forget.
Between sunscreen mishaps, awkward confessions, and an unspoken competition to see who can fold towels faster, the heat between them starts to feel a little less like hatred… and a little more like something else entirely.
A slow burn enemies to "what even is this?" summer romance, Heatstroke is a sunshine soaked story of rivalry, redemption, and the kind of connection you never see coming.
(AND YES, this is meant to sound like a romcom intro voiceover)
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04 Oct 2025