Title: Misselthwaite

whit_merule

“Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,” Mary said. “You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.”

Gabriel did not know what “wutherin’” meant until he listened, and then he understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in. But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire.

“I met Dean and Sam today,” he told her.

“There,” said she, “I’d thought tha’ might. They come by th’ servants’ hall at dinner o’ purpose to see me. I was right glad o’ it, for it’s not my night off ‘til Thursday. How does tha’ like ‘em?”

“I think—I think they’re perfect!” said Gabriel in a determined voice.

Mary looked rather taken aback but she looked pleased, too.

“Well,” she said, “us always thought they’s the best lads as ever was born, but most folks finds ‘em a mite queer until they gets to know ‘em.”

“I like their queerness,” said Gabriel firmly, and then he laughed. “I like the way they talk. It makes it easy to say all sorts of things you never thought about before.”

Martha beamed with satisfaction.

“I’m glad tha’ likes ‘em. I shouldn’t be surprised but they’ll be about a good deal more now th’ weather’s began to turn.”

Gabriel sat and pondered for a moment, then he thought he might ask her a question.

“Mary,” he said, in his earnest little way, “why is it that Sam had bacon in his dinner and not Dean, though Dean is bigger than Sam?”

“That’s just the way it is, between th’ two of ‘em,” she answered. “If there’s not much to be had, Dean always takes care that Sam has most of it.”

This made Gabriel very thoughtful, and he did not ask any more questions. He looked at the red fire and listened to the wind wuthering. It seemed to be wuthering louder than ever.

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June 27: Mirror, mirror, lie to me

Author - velocitym1. Artist - thisshouldbegabriel.
Summary: After meeting Sam and Dean, Gabriel decides to try to stop the apocalypse before it starts, and then he gets in over his head when Sam turns out to be way more than he bargained for.
Pairings: Sam/Gabriel
Warning / tags: Explicit sexual content, canon-typical violence.
Length so far: 16k
Key visual elements: This fic runs through the last five or so episodes of season two, and has several scenes in Gabriel's apartment.

June 28: None.

June 29: It starts with a single feather
Author - majestic duxk. Artist - emmatheslayer.
Summary: Gabriel never believed he would find his mate. It had been... millennia, and his omega didn’t appear. He cut himself off from the Heavenly Host. But when Castiel brings his mate’s brother round Gabriel is forced to reassess. Now he needs to bring himself up to scratch, make himself a nest and win his mate!
Pairings: Gabriel/Dean, Castiel/Sam, other minor pairings
Warning / tags: alpha!Gabriel, omega!Dean, alpha!Castiel, omega!Sam, alpha!Michael, alpha!Lucifer, domestic fic, lots of cleaning, depression, references to extended depressive episodes, family bonds, humour, sassy characters, courtship, wing kink, chuck is god, relationships mentioned in passing, angel!au, nesting, mating flights, feathers, misunderstandings, knotting, omega verse, mention of eggs, no mpreg, but it is possible in this verse
Length so far: 20k
Key visual elements: Character-focused, various rooms from the great hall of heaven, to a friendly bachelor pad, to a really messy house, lots of angels, feathers, wings

June 30: Things that shine
Author - casandsip. Artist - kdheart.
Summary: When Balthazar makes a drunken bet that Gabriel can't successfully get a job as a White House tour guide, Gabriel never actually expects to win.He definitely doesn't expect to run into President Sam Winchester in a back corridor of the White House, and to slowly start falling in love with him. After all, Gabriel failed out of acting school and can barely make himself pancakes without setting the kitchen on fire - he definitely isn't the kind of guy who should be dating the President. (It's just possible that Sam disagrees with that.)
Pairings: Gabriel/Sam
Warning / tags: Explicit sex
Length so far: 19k
Key visual elements: Gabriel and Sam wearing a lot of suits, an entire first date outing in one tiny apartment, Washington DC, secret cuddling in corridors, fluff, nervous Sam, midnight serenades

July 1: Angelic mating rituals are a pain in the ass
Author - aria lerendeair. Artist - gabrieltrickster.
Summary: Ever since angels were cut off from heaven, they have lived on earth. They mate with humans now, forming Alpha/Beta pairs or Alpha/Beta/Omega triads, feeding off the energy of the souls their humans carry to continue to survive. A soul bond is one that lasts forever and cannot be severed by earthly means. A single human can support a single angel in a soul bond. All triads are two humans and one angel. An angel has to find a mate (or mates) to feed off of before the power of their Grade runs out or they fade, and whither away to nothing. Gabriel is an archangel, an omega as well, and he is getting closer and closer to the danger of fading. When he meets Castiel and Sam Winchester, he knows that they can't be together, but that doesn't stop him from wanting. A split second decision ends up binding his fate to theirs, and Gabriel prays for the first time in eons that he might find his happy ending.
Pairings: Castiel/Sam, Gabriel/Castiel/Sam
Warning / tags: A/B/O Dynamics (minimal outside of smut scenes), Mentions of Alpha Dominance, Angsting, Miscommunication
Length so far: 17k
Key visual elements: Wings! Gabriel has six golden wings and Castiel has two black ones, and other angels also have wings out, at all times, as it is a part of their 'falling' from heaven. Outside of that, normal dynamics inside an office building, or Gabriel's apartment.

July 2: None.

July 3: Surviving the apocalypse, for dummies
Author - scrollingkingfisher. Artist - kuwlshadow.
Summary: Before Castiel went to Hell, before angels and demons and the apocalypse, he and Gabriel met the Trickster. Some things change, but some things stay the same. This is a story about a pair of brothers, and how they saved the world. (Basically, reverse-verse.)
Pairings: Gabriel/Sam, Dean/Cas
Warning / tags: Graphic violence, torture, character death but it's temporary. All that happy stuff.
Length so far: 80k
Key visual elements: It's a reverse verse, so picture any dramatic moments from seasons 2-5 and it's likely that they'll be in there, particularly any of the episodes that originally had Gabriel in. Also notably there's a bit with trueform angels sandwiched in at the end of Lucifer Rising, the back end of Hammer of the Gods has some serious alterations, and (spoilers!) they get a happy ending.

July 4: None.

July 5: None.

July 6: State of disgrace
Author - writeonclara. Artist - captain d_leet.
Summary: Injured detective Sam Winchester is forced on long term disability after taking a bullet to the hip. Living in a loft is obviously out, but Sam's not so sure his new apartment is much better. The space is nice, but he could do without the prank-playing dead guy for a roommate.
Pairings: Sam/Gabriel, Dean/Castiel
Warning / tags: Canon-typical violence
Length so far: 34k
Key visual elements: Dead archangel Gabriel facing ex-cop Sam in battle over prime apartment territory: who will get the couch today? Modern prankster-ghost story set in Northern California: floating spice bottles, lewd scrabble games, chains strewn across kitchens and around a battered Gabriel, and a joyous explosion of light and laughter when an angel gets his wings back.

July 7: But what God gives
Author - kibbers. Artist - tony the girl.
Summary: After Metatron takes over heaven and starts to send angels, wingless, falling to Earth, Gabriel takes over Death's job and thinks himself lucky to have found a place to protect his wings. Centuries later, after Chuck retakes the reigns, Gabe finds himself still there, still taking souls and dealing death from his palms. Ben is just another name on his list for the day. But when Sam Winchester offers up his soul instead, Gabe writes them up a deal. Sam becomes his assistant for the next two weeks, Gabe searching for glimpses of Sam's soul to sketch to completion and Sam fighting to keep it hidden around the rules they set in place. As their deal begins, both of them start to wonder if they're going to make it through these two weeks after all.
Pairings: Sam/Gabriel
Warning / tags: Major Character Death, Many Deaths of Varying Reason (Drowning, Old Age, Fire, Etc.), Minor Mentions of Abuse (Secondary Character), Sexual Content
Length so far: 38k
Key visual elements: Varying colors/shapes of souls, Gabe's wings, Sam's soul, darker themes, Gabriel flying, sort of a 'Beauty and the Beast' vibe
 

July 8: In another time
Author - jcapasso916. Artist - kdheart.
Summary: After Gabriel finds out about Sam falling in the cage he can't handle it. Once Raphael is gone he gathers as much power as he can as the last archangel, and heads back in time to rewrite history and give Sam the life he should have had from the beginning. 
Pairings: Implied past unrequited Gabriel/Sam
Warning / tags: None
Length so far: 15500 
Key visual elements: Gabriel rocking baby Sam. Gabriel carrying young Sam and Dean. Gabriel with young Sam, Dean, and Mary, Gabriel guarding Mary and Sam's crib from Azazel. Gabriel being tortured by Raphael.

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Art drafts due: June 19, 2016
Posting begins on: June 25, 2016

Authors, remember also that your story must be betaed, and that you are primarily responsible for a) keeping your artist in the loop and giving them a draft they can work with, and b) organising posting with them.
 

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