Specific!fic, Destiel, flock, courting

[ceridwen02.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, I've been looking for a specific fic where Dean is living with Gabriel as his fledgling, being taught how to be an angel. It's been a while since I read it, but I think Dean said yes to Michael, briefly, and was made into a sort-of angel. Partial memory loss on Dean's part may or may not have been involved, since Dean and Sam are not in each other's back pockets anymore (I'm not adding memory loss into the tags because I'm not clear if it happened or not...either way it's not the central focus of the story...). At one point, when Sam catches up with him and Gabriel, Dean agrees to call Gabriel 'master' to piss Sam off.

Anyway, enter Castiel, who wants to be in a flock with Dean and ends up going through this hilarious quasi-unintentional courting process where Cas brings Dean pillows, blankets, rugs, etc, so Dean can turn his room at Gabriel's place into a nest. I distinctly recall one particular line along the gist of Dean receiving a blanket from Cas and thinking "yes, this was exactly what he required". Gabriel is deliberately cryptic about what it means, and Dean has no clue what's going on, because it's supposed to be an instinct thing. At one point, Dean asks Gabriel for some of his feathers so that he can build this nest thing that he and Cas are supposed to do before they have this bonding process, which is sort of a quasi-sexual 'communing' thing. Later in the fic, the reader finds out that Gabriel was in a flock with the other archangels, including Lucifer.

There's also a scene where Dean and Cas wander off into the forest together to go flying and scare Gabriel half to death. And Cas has ridiculously long cellphone conversations with Dean that keep using up his minutes because it wouldn't be 'proper' to pop over and visit him in person while the courting is still going on.

Does anyone know the title? It was either a livejournal or dreamwidth posting, I think.

Comments

[suzbc.livejournal.com]

That's: The Nature and Kynde of a Lyon by Whit Merule (http://archiveofourown.org/works/615168?view_full_work=true) (whit_merule)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/615168?view_full_work=true

[ceridwen02.livejournal.com]

Well, The Nature and Kynde of a Lyon is really good, I'd definitely recommend it for anyone looking for good Angel!Dean/Cas fic, but the one that I'm thinking of is a little less drastically AU than the Winchesters being born angels - Sam is still human and Dean was made into an angel (and 'angel' means something closer to canon). Thanks, though :)