I just added a fic to my Dean/Cas AU fic rec, but I feel weird just putting it there and leaving it there. I wanna share it more. So I’ll paste my review here:

» grip them tight and raise them from pernicion (author is currently ‘anon’ for the deancas-xmas challenge)

20,100 words, not rated (~T), High School AU

Summary: Dean and Cas have been at each other’s throats for years, but Anna and Sam are determined to change that for the better. With a well-placed love letter and some careful direction, they manage to get the two into a semi-antagonistic, fiercely competitive, and emotionally confusing game of relationship chicken. Now they just need to get to prom.

My thoughts: Okay, this has got to be one of the cutest, well-characterised, well-narrated, best-paced and overall amazing fics I’ve ever read. It’s the fanfic bedtime story that makes you happy before you turn out the light. Featuring Dean and Cas being definitely-not-friends who prank each other… by being nice to each other until one of them cracks. Jealous Cas, jealous (bisexual!) Dean, and a host of supporting characters - including Anna and Sam being adorable and scheming to get Dean and Cas together before prom. Based partially on Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Right now it’s pretty much undiscovered, but I’ll be surprised if this fic doesn’t become excruciatingly popular at some point.

I really, really want people to read this, in case the entire text post devoted to this story didn’t make that point clear enough. It’s so enjoyable and pain-free!