Title: Stolen Moments
Snippet #10: Winter Has No Hold ~ Dean reflects on the awesomeness of one very special archangel.
Warnings: Teen, No spoilers. Enjoy, there's more fluff to come!
Set to Taproot's 'When'
~I want to shine
With you by my side~
Gabriel's a heater, no, literally. He's so warm that if Dean didn't know any better he'd swear he was cuddling up next to the sun. It must have something to do with all that grace pulsating within him, or it could be just another thing that's special about Gabriel. And believe him, there are tons of things.
Like how he hates to share anything, even a lousy piece of candy. Gabriel does share with Dean though, although usually the human has to do something in return, like sweeten Gabriel up a little so he's in the sharing and caring mood that gets him what he wants.
Then there's his annoying, 'get on your nerves so stealthily' sense of humor, which he picked up from portraying Loki but it couldn't have just been from that. Dean knows this and treasures this because a Gabriel with no tricks up his sleeve, no jokes to tell or opinions to share isn't Gabriel at all. He wishes he could have known him back before all of that, seen what he was like when he looked at himself and all he saw was just a mighty archangel, a brother. Dean swears there must have been something about him that made him different from the rest, a longing to be an active part of humanity and to leave mischief always in his wake.
And then there's the fighting, the battling and arguing that's so human-like in its brutality and unpredictability. When he charges at Gabriel he reciprocates, comes on strong and doesn't back off no matter what Dean does. He's gentle though, so careful when he slams the human against the wall that Dean sometimes wonders how he can hold that all in, the urge at that exact moment to crush Dean into a million pieces, a rage that Dean finds it hard to live up to, yet doesn't lay off because that archangel pisses him off so much sometimes, pretends that nothing means anything to him when he knows every little thing now means something to him.
Dean supposes he opened up a whole new world for him. Things to treasure love remember. Deep down, Gabriel doesn't take it for granted.
One thing Dean will never forget is the way the archangel feels about him. He doubts anything could change that, whether it be a word he dares to say or an action he takes, there must be something in him that can be never buried under all the guilt and selflessness. So he's special in Gabriel's eyes, and Gabriel is special to him, every look he gives him dares him to take another step forward, to fall into him.
And he does, he always does.
Which is why right at this moment he's snuggling with his own personal heater, winter and the natural order of things screaming their inane protests outside the icicle laden window.