Prompt: Metal
Prompter: none
Spoilers: up through season 5
Rating: K+ for language
5. Metal
It was cool in his hand. He determined that the barrel was shorter than a usual gun, so it must have been a sawed-off shotgun. The handle was worn, but well cared for. The smoothness of the sleek metal of the barrel gave him a slight shudder, but he repressed it. He hadn't been afraid of guns before. Never had, really.
But he knew others were afraid of it. Of the salt rounds in the barrel. Of the iron shells and consecrated bullets the Winchesters used to fend off evil. He had no powers now. And next to The Colt, a sawed-off shotgun was Dean's favorite weapon of choice.
Castiel lowered the gun at eye-level, just as he had seen Dean do countless times before, squeezed the trigger and fired a shot to the Croatoan-infested being attacking Sam.
"This really is useful," he announced, after it was over, with a new found respect for the Winchesters' arsenal.