Every fertile inch (5b/6)

[whit_merule]

Previous half of chapter.

It was dinner for five, as it turned out. Charlie had come along too, presumably because, with Anna off delivering Castiel’s letter to Angel Central and bringing some more angels back with her, Sam had stolen her only house guest. Funnily enough, it threw Castiel for a bit of a loop. He was slipping into the habit of

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[whit_merule]

Um. I don't think there's ever a clear description, but I'm pretty sure in They were thy brothers is the most detailed it gets - basically that they now contain some of Gabriel's own blood, which he's presumably twisted somehow to turn into angel repellant and connect it to their voices. :) Actualy, this almost came up in this chapter - the conversation almost went into 'what's everyone's favourite dog breeds!' which... would have ended badly. Dean would say Chevy unhesitatingly, Sam would be laughing and try to forbid him from having an opinion because he's biased and would say beagles, and Dean would try to disown him and explain just how awesome the proportions are and why they're the best dog all around compared to other breeds. Charlie would go for terriers; Castiel, when pushed, would say very dryly 'cats', and Dean would try to disown him too while fondlign Chevy's ears with her head on his thigh because she knows she's being talked about, and Castiel being quietly uncomfortable with her nearby because these aren't animals he's comfortable interacting with, they make no sense ot him and are beasts and he's sort of biting his tongue on the whole that thing probably had her teeth in my brother subject. And Gabriel would be very quiet and Dean would appeal to him to have his back on the whole angel hound question, and - well, yes, Gabriel does agree because he chose those traits exactly, for a reason, and it does work and - but he wouldn't be able to say any of that. And they are definitely not his favourite anymore. And that conversation would have gone downhill very fast.

Besides, the whole childhood toys thing gives Dean and Charlie a chance to geek out. :)

Dean, of course, is expert at Not Thinking About Things - after all, he's been carefully not remembering Castiel ever since angels turned up and became the enemy. Given the subject of the dogs came up in the negotiation of the charter in some detail, I'm sure Gabriel would have been squirming rather uncomfortably - most of the focus was on how the humans will train them not to be noisy around angels, and will stop augmenting them. Ie, with the extra augmentation that the humans had done. It's just possible that, in the course of that, the fact that Gabriel had brought the dogs was never mentioned, which would leave the other angels assuming that the angel hounds were a breed the humans already had there and that they had done all the magical augmentation themselves.

If any human had happened to turn to Gabriel during the negotiations and mentioned something about breeding and bloodlines and so on, anything that mentions him bringing the dogs for them, the next line of defence would be 'well, yes, I (found them somewhere and) brought them along because I didn't want you all killing each other, they were purely defensive at that point'. And Castiel would have been furious about that in a HOW COULD YOU NOT FORESEE THEY COULD BE ADAPTED LIKE THIS IF YOU HAD NOT DONE THIS BALTHAZAR WOULD STILL BE ALIVE, but the rebuttal WELL YES BUT DEAN WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW plus the fact that the intentions were bascially good would mean that he wouldn't be furious for long - he would be able to process it and accept it eventually.

But if he found out - and there's no reason for him to, because nobody else knows, including the humans - that he actually created the breed himself, and that it's his blood - that would be far, far harder to forgive.