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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Gabriel again

[auroramama]

“Ah, I see,” Castiel said, all gravity and puzzled innocence. “Just like the cookies, then?”

Who's a good angel? Is it you, Castiel? Yes, it is!

Even a loving "betrayal" by a little brother deserves a show of solidarity from your lover. Especially over dinner, when the point is to relax.

I want to put together everything about Gabriel, though. Sam's longing to get out of town, see strange new worlds, and find a place where he isn't a freak -- those are so close to canon I feel like I have the basic concepts. But Gabriel's background is so rich and complex... He's the only angel to interact peacefully with humans, ever. The only watcher, the only angel ever to take on human shape. That's different from Gabriel's canon uniqueness, and I want to sort out what we know and what we don't know. I feel a little protective of Sam, who leads with his whole heart no matter how little he knows for sure.

[whit_merule]

You know something I realised today Castiel doesn't know about Gabriel - at least, I'm pretty sure he doesn't, though I'd have to check the main fic to be sure it never came up in a 'quickly brushed off' sort of way - that he's responsible for the dogs.
Because that's something Gabriel carefully never thinks about and can't forgive himself for. And given Castiel's dealing with the fact that he's in love with the man who killed his brother by carefully displacing all the blame off Dean and onto 'it was war' and 'it was the dogs'... that would not go down well.

[auroramama]

Where's the most explicit description of what, exactly, Gabriel did with the dogs? We know what the dogs turned out to be able to do. Gabriel thought he was giving humans a purely defensive weapon, but it's amazing how inventive people (human and angel) can be.

Of course Gabriel and Castiel both have things they avoid thinking about, and some of them are the same things. I need to be told when people are doing this, because my own ability to not think about something is on a par with my ability to lie. (If I'd never read about spies and moles, it would never have occurred to me that people could do that.) I hope this doesn't bite them too hard when they're faced with it again.

[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