Confused!Dean is the best Dean (when Gabriel's about)

Apr 23, 2012 12:06

 


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“Winchester. Hitch your horse to the hook back there and get up here.”

Dean was feeling magnanimous and tactful, so he carefully did not retaliate. Even when Gabriel decided not to slow the wagon when Dean slid down off his mare, so he had to run to hop onto the running board.

Good to know they were going to be all civilised and grown-up about this, and not petty at all.

With that in mind, Dean accidentally-on-purpose sat down on the corner of Gabriel’s wing. “What’s up, big shot?”

Gabriel jerked his wing out from under Dean, and smiled daggers. “Hey there, champ. Mind taking the reins for a bit? Thanks ever so.”

Sam, loping along beside the wagon, gave them both a despairing look.

Dean took the reins, and cocked an eyebrow. “Don’t pull a muscle, honey.”

The smirk slid into something small and sharp as Gabriel stood up. “Oh, sweetcheeks, don’t even try. I could flirt the hair off your clueless provincial ass and you wouldn’t even know.”

Wait, what? Flirt? “What?”

“Hey Dean,” Gabriel crooned, backing towards the door of the cabin. “What happens if you get a bent twig raised by a family of arrows, all nice and straight?” There was a weird emphasis lying heavily on the word “straight,” which made no sense, except Gabriel was apparently setting up some insult about Dean being metaphorically crooked or something. Which, fine, Dean could hold his tongue for the sake of temporary peace, and also because Cas could probably hear them from back there.

“I’ll bite,” he allowed cautiously. “What?”

“Nothing.” Gabriel pronouced the absolutely pointless answer to his little riddle with the glee of a man laying down an ace. “They don’t have a word for it, so they see… nothing.” Then, according to some tangent only his warped mind could follow, he added, “And let’s keep it that way around my sweet little brother, hm?”

He winked, ludicrously, and ducked inside.

… Crazier and crazier.

Dean turned his attention to the mare and the road, because someone had to keep his head on his shoulders here.

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... Or it's possible that Gabriel is.

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