i blame it on my own sick pride

[venatical]

Who: Dean Winchester, Raphael, and Gabriel.
When: Day 72.
Where: The woods.
What: Raphael and Gabriel have some revenge plans for what Dean did as a trickster, and today's the day.
Warnings: Fighting animals/things in the woods, violence.

The message on the communicator had been clear: Sam's going to die if Dean doesn't get out there to save him quick enough, and if he brings anyone with him... that's it. Light's out.

The only thing he thinks about as he gets together as many weapons as he can carry is whether or not Gabriel and Raphael are going to leave him alone long enough for him to save his brother. If they don't, archangel or not, they better watch the fuck out.

He's quiet as he slips out of his house, and he tries to keep a low profile as he makes his way to the woods. He's poked around in them before, but he's never gone very far, having been told they're full of crap that'll kill him; it's on his list of things to do, but he didn't get a chance before being a trickster and then being grounded. He stops at the edge, adjusting his grip on the shotgun he has in one hand. He's thinking about taking out his Purgatory knife instead, but he'll stick with the gun for now.

No time to waste. He gathers himself together and strikes out, and the desperation that's building up behind his stone-faced hunter's expression pushes him forward not with a frantic, panicked walk but something hard and determined instead. He hasn't felt this ready to kill everything that gets in his way since Purgatory, and he finds himself slipping back into that mindset already.

Comments

[hung_garian]

If Gabriel were someone a little less sadistic, he might feel that maybe this would constitute disproportionate retribution, especially by getting Sam involved. Still, he's twisted enough to enjoy doing this with the bare minimum of provocation, and realising that Dean had gone after his brothers as well as him just makes him even more determined to make him pay. Doubly so, since he has Raphael's support in this: having a coconspirator again is one hell of a motivator. And how seriously Dean is evidently taking this is more satisfying than it really should be.

When Dean enters the woods, Gabriel goes invisible and follows not too far behind. He'll keep away the dangerous beasties for the moment, lest they ruin his fun, but at this stage he's more concerned with keeping Dean on his toes. A snapped twig off to his right, a rustle of something dark and unreasonably big in the trees up above him... half the fun of revenge is the build up, after all.