Because It's Gabriel (which seems to be the answer to so many things)

[whit_merule]

Caged!Gabriel seems to be getting addicted to butting heads with Dean. Because there is nothing else to do. Because he is, as he puts it several times, locked in a fucking barn .

“Gabriel,” he stated flatly, through a clenched jaw. “How’re you doing?”
It sounded stupid. Judging by the squinty face Gabriel made at him, he wasn’t the only one who

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[morganoconner]

Clearly, Gabriel is telling you that the story should be Dean/Gabriel. *nods sagely*

In other news, whatever this is, it sounds awesome. XD

[whit_merule]

He's actually getting close to persuading me. :( Between Dean's insistence on treating Cas like a little brother, and the perceptible age difference between Sam and Gabriel (Gabriel feels like an adult and Sam still feels like a kid to me, because in this verse he hasn't had to grow up so quick, and while age by numbers doesn't necessarily cause a problem the discrepancy in mental maturity here makes me uneasy), my characters do actually seem to be resisting their allocated pairings.

... Maybe Castiel and Gabriel should just steal Dean away into the woods and all get happy together. And then Sam can wander out in a few years and say HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP. And Gabriel can smack Dean around the head whenever he starts getting all mother-hennish at anyone.

(And, thank you! :))

[neotoma]

I rather like that Gabriel is still combative and sarcastic.

I'm looking forward to this story!

[whit_merule]

Gabriel is always combative and sarcastic. In a cage, in Heaven, in bed...

It'll be a few weeks at least! 22k words in and I think I'm about halfway. But I'm not actually sure how it's going to end. Despite the fact that I have the plot (broadly) because it's based on Disney's Fox and the Hound (except, you know, they have absolutely no character equivalent to Gabriel, or Bobby, or Sam, or Dean's devoted black and grey dog with the deep rumbling bay, who for some reason is called Chevy...)

Irreconcilable differences, dammit. Where is my magical deus ex machina of 'and then all of society's difficulties and all the escalating violence vanished and they all were the best of friends'?

[mistalagan]

22k?! I mean, I should know how prolific you are, but…whew.

And you don't need romance for a nice, unhealthy, antagonistic relationship! I have unhealthy relationships with so many people I have no plans to proposition.

[whit_merule]

This is very true - they can just be unromantically unhealthy! They do so enjoy having that sort of relationship, after all. It is canon.