Title: The Dog

Disclaimer: I do not own SPN

Rating: K+

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"Dean, look out!" Sam yelled, causing Dean to slam on Baby's brakes.

The car screeched to a sudden stop.

"What? What's wrong?!" Dean asked, looking around for a demon or monster.

"Look." Sam pointed straight outside their window.

Standing in the middle of the road the boys were driving down, was a goldenish brown colored dog.

"What the?" Dean muttered as he stepped outside of Baby.

Sam followed him, and they cautiously walked over to the dog.

"What's he doing here in the middle of nowhere?" Sam asked, looking around for where he could have come from.

The Winchesters had been on their way towards Tennessee, after a couple of mysterious murders had come up. They decided to take some backroads on their way there, but they certainly weren't expecting a dog to be standing in the middle of the road.

"Maybe he got lost?" Dean suggested as he bent down to see if the mutt was wearing any sort of collar. "Looks like he doesn't have an owner."

"Should would we take him to a kennel or something?" Sam suggested. "The police station?"

"He's not a criminal, Sam." Dean replied sarcastically. "The worst thing this little guy's done is probably steal a burger from some dude's grill.

Sam chuckled, "Why don't we take him to the motel with us? Until we can find his owner, anyway."

"I guess, but how are we gonna get him there?"

"The car of course." Sam said, as he gently pet the dog.

"Oh no, no, no." Dean quickly replied. "I'm not getting dog hair all over Baby."

"You're not that hairy, are you?" The youngest Winchester asked the dog in a goofy voice.

Dean rolled his eyes, "Alright, fine. But just this one time."

Sam smiled in victory, and they led the dog towards the car. He obeyed nicely, and didn't seem to be bothered by the brothers.

"I'm gonna call him Sparky." Sam said happily.

"What are you, five?" Dean looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Look, we never got to get a dog when we were little. Why not live out are childhood fantasy now?"

"Fine." Dean huffed. "I just hope 'Sparky' is house trained.

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It had been close to a week since the Winchester brothers found Sparky. They still hadn't found the owner, even after hanging up a couple signs about the lost dog.

"Man, who knew dog food was so expensive?" Dean complained as he set down the fifth bag of food he had gotten for Sparky that week on the motel table.

"I wonder why no one's come looking for him." Sam said.

"Please, like you want to find the owner." Dean chuckled. "You love that little guy."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Exactly, Dean. What's wrong with that?" A certain archangel's voice asked.

Standing in the doorway was Gabriel, with a lollipop in hand.

"Oh no, don't tell me this dog's cursed or something." Dean groaned.

"No, don't worry. He's not cursed." Gabriel genuinely smiled. "I know I usually play pranks on you guys, but this time I wanted you guys to take a break, and finally enjoy yourselves for once. Like Sammy boy here said, you guys never had the chance to get a dog."

Sam looked at him suspiciously, "So you're telling us that you were actually being nice for once?"

"Oh please, I can be nice when I want to."

"Well at least we won't have to buy this stupid dog food anymore." Dean said in relief.

"Yeah, I guess not." Sam said frowning.

"Now don't get all sad, I'll make sure Sparky finds a nice home." The archangel said reassuringly. "I hear there's this little girl a couple miles away from here that wants a dog for her birthday."

Sam smiled again, and gave the dog one last pat on the head. Sparky wagged his tail in delight, and then made his way over to Gabriel.

"Don't think I'm gonna be this nice next time." He said before snapping his fingers, and disappearing with Sparky.

"You alright, Sam?" Dean asked his younger brother.

Sam nodded, "I'm fine. I just hope since Gabriel didn't something bad this time, that next time isn't ten times worse."

"You got a good point there, Sammy." Dean agreed.

Because if the Winchesters knew anything, it was that Gabriel wasn't going to let them off the hook so easily next time.

If you have any ideas on what Gabriel could get the brothers into next, please tell me in the comments! Thanks! : )