.@potentsarlacc @morganoconner "Mpreg shenanigans, OR: why I shouldn't be left alone unsupervised."
I should never, ever be left alone unsupervised. Or alone unsupervised with temporalranger. But… y'know. At least when she's around, it keeps me from doing this sort of thing. Usually. ……okay, secretly, it really doesn't, because I'm easily distracted and I like the semi-mindless, highly repetitive task of coding tables. I find it comforting. Anyway.
SO THIS ALL STARTS WITH A FIC I'M BETA-READING FOR MORGAN. It's Sassy, and mpreg, and I'm very fond of it. It's sweet and soft and lovely and I've been in a Mood lately, so having it around makes me happy. …and it sort of collided with various things and made me go, "dammit, I want to write mpreg. FML."
On the one hand, I'm working on re-outlining (for the umpteenth time) the second part of a Dean/Cas fic I started for ladyeternal, which… got eaten by real life for a year.
And about the only things that've hung around from the initial outline are: robo!Sam, Adam, Anna, Gabriel, demon!Bela, and Crowley show up, at varying times; Ash is the only mind in creation who can create an ultrasound machine that allows Dean and Cas to see their nephil baby; Barachiel (the Cupid whom Dean punched in the face) does silly things like have really lengthy debates with whoever's available about what thread count sheets the baby should have; Robo!Sam/Adam and Gabriel/Crowley happen; Bobby is the most excited grandfather ever; Robo!Sam tells Cas he looks fat, Dean gets offended because DUDE HE'S LIKE PREGNANT, and Cas gets confused because…… but, Dean, he DOES look fat, he's been made to understand that this is just natural, given his pregnancy; and at some point, it becomes apparent that, in addition to shaking loose Anna and Gabriel (and probably Zachariah, because I love him, that endearing douche), the Apocalypse's failure to happen shook out some icky demonic folks who would do a lot to get their hands on a nephil - namely, Azazel, Lilith, and Alastair.
…yes, the last note is pretty much because I'm still upset that Azazel's appearance in "Exile On Main Street" was just a hallucination. I MEAN, CAN YOU THINK OF HOW MUCH MORE AWESOME SEASON SIX WOULD'VE BEEN IF THERE'D BEEN LEGIT CONFIRMATION OF THE "DEAD DEMONS GO TO PURGATORY" FANON AND THE NOT-OCALYPSE HAD SHAKEN SOME OF THEM LOOSE? …Granted, I'm mostly saying this because I'm Queen Fangirl for Azazel, Lilith, and Alastair. But anyway.
Added, because I needed some more emotional underpinning to it: the major emotional conflict here, on the Dean/Cas level, is… Cas is still afraid that Dean's going to just leave him, since it already happened once. And he feels terrible for dragging Dean back into the world of the supernatural (even though, frankly, he didn't, since… Dean and Lisa tried to make it work for a while until she went, "Dean, I really like you, but it's obvious that you don't belong here and you staying is making both of us and Ben miserable. You can visit, but… nuh uh. Get the Impala out of the garage and go make yourself happy somewhere else. Look, I even found some suspicious-looking news that could be right up your alley. Go have fun killing ghosts :]").
-and I think I should add in Lisa and Ben visiting, somewhere. Because Dean wants to be a father to his other kid, and Lisa probably realizes that having backup who understands what the Hell is going on with this pregnancy thing is a GOOD THING FOR EVERYONE. …except Dean, who's sort of like. "Wait. Why is Becky here. :|"
Lisa: …oh, we're kind of dating.
Becky: also, I like babies. :D
Cas: Rebecca, there isn't a baby, yet, just a… *trails off and stares at her*
Becky: *kind of weirded out. stares back. since… that seems like the natural thing to do.*
Cas: Rebecca, how long have you been pregnant. :|
Becky: ……but. I mean. I'm not a virgin anymore, but I've only had lesbian sex? which. …what?
Cas: ………no, you're definitely pregnant. I can sense the fetus.
Becky: …………… *creeped out.*
Cas: *sighs.* It has a divine presence, Rebecca. Thus, why I can sense it.
Lisa: …you mean my girlfriend is pregnant with an angel-baby? :|
Cas: Oh, no. …Rebecca's fetus has the aura of the Holy Sefirot. Its father is my Father.
Becky: ………I think I need to call my mom's old priest and rub this in his face. :D
Cas: …why would you do such a thing?
Becky: Well, Mom was Catholic and Dad was Jewish, and when I was a kid, Father McQueen wouldn't let me be the Virgin Mary in the Christmas pageant because I was half-Jewish, AND NOW I'M PREGNANT WITH GOD'S BABY SO HE CAN SUCK IT. :D :D :D
Cas: *is crying on the inside.*
Ben: *rolls his eyes at EVERYONE, except Robo!Sam and Adam, because they'll play Mario Kart with him and whine about how THERE ARE SO MANY GODDAMN BABIES, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THE FREAKING BABIES.*
Added, because I already established her in the fic as another nephil (and I generally love her and everything she is): Meg gets involved. Probably with demon!Bela. And probably has to be bribed or emotionally manipulated into standing against her father, eventually. …she also wants to preemptively declare herself the baby's godmother because, as the only other nephil in existence, she's the only one who's actually going to know shit about shit the baby goes through.
And… understandably, Dean and Cas are sort of averse to this, but. On the one hand, Dean has an Enemy Mine relationship with her, since he can appreciate things that are good for the baby, things that are good for him and Cas (since Meg can keep Robo!Sam in line), and that she's willing to take a blood oath not to harm, steal, or otherwise do bad things to the baby. On the other, Cas actually has a begrudging fondness for Meg, even if being made to sit through It's A Wonderful Life doesn't help him to understand why she calls him "Clarence." Also, he doesn't appreciate it when she pinches his cheeks and randomly grops his baby belly, but that's mostly because… dude, this thing keeps kicking him and making him experience things like hunger and sleepiness enough already. It doesn't need more reason to do anything else, thank you, Meg. :|
…eventually, this will lead to the third chapter, wherein Cas gets to be a pregnant badass and insist on NO, DEAN, I KNOW WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE HERE, BUT YOU'RE NOT MAKING ME SIT ON THE COUCH WHILE YOU GO FIGHT AND RISK YOUR LIFE FOR OUR CHILD. BARACHIEL, HANIEL, AND SANDALPHON HAVE GIVEN ME ENOUGH ANGELIC PROTECTION, PLUS BELA'S AMULETS, PLUS MEG'S BLOOD OATH NOT TO LET HARM BEFALL OUR CHILD. IF YOU'RE GOING OUT THERE, THEN I'M GOING, TOO. >|
And I can't decide whether he gets to shank Azazel, Lilith, or Alastair, but… it'll probably be Azazel. Mostly because I want Dean to shank Alastair (since, given all the rapey overtones of their relationship in canon, Dean should've been the one to kill him anyway; the only flaw I can find in "On the Head Of A Pin" is that Sam killed Ali when it should've been Dean's kill and Dean's closure), and I want Bela and/or Barachiel to get Lilith (Barachiel so he can get his requisite moment of BAMFitude, and Bela… for kind of the same reason that Dean gets to kill Alastair).
…and there's probably some kind of significance in Cas (the one who fears being a bad father to his nephil) killing Azazel (who thinks he's been a good father to his nephil, when uh, he kind of got Meg turned into a demon). I dunno.
On the other hand, I've figured out what to do with these other urges. On the plus: I have ideas that aren't what I've been considering for the past… day and a half. Which is good because that idea was angst city. To summarize: "Misha is an Olympic-class figure-skater; he does pairs ice-dancing with his partner, Vicki, and they went to Vancouver in 2010, are preparing for Sochi in 2014. Jensen is Misha's boyfriend (costarring Jared/Gen and probably Vicki/Danneel). Misha gets pregnant, and everything proceeds to go to Hell in a handbasket because everyone is emotionally damaged, and Misha wants to keep the baby, but doesn't want to let it jeopardize his and Vicki's ability to get to Sochi."
So, as I said, ANGST. CITY. And as I put it to Tony: "I'm an awful person… and just. why can't I EVER write something where the major conflict is like. NOT something to do with who's more emotionally damaged than whom."
Thankfully, I have found some inspiration. And a place where I can do this. The basic gist of things is that it's a Cas-and-Gabriel focused bromance story… and the bromance just happens to be between actual brothers. The setting is an urban fantasy AU - basically, there are supernatural critters, but they're more a part of society, less ostracized monsters. There's prejudice against them, sure, but due to various things to be determined, they're more functional than SPN canon. …It's sort of like my NaNo's setting, actually.
Anyway. So, Cas and Gabriel, rather than being angels, are half-fae, or some other combination of fae and human bloodlines, and… we're talking, like, actual mythological fae, not sweet, nice, happy little fairies. More trickster-flavored fae. Cas has been with Dean for a while, but they're both trying to avoid the marriage question. This avoidance is helped by how Sam just broke up with Jessica, so he's been crashing in their spare room while going to law school. (Sam, for his part, would really like them to get married and is just… oblivious to the myriad ways in which he's a cockblock.)
Gabriel's been with his significant other for a while, too. …I haven't picked who it is, yet, because I know they're a werewolf, but I don't want it to be Madison. I'm considering Bela, but I also kind of want her to be with Ruby, Lilith, or Meg. …It could be Crowley, since I'm going with, "no angels means no demons." …and it could be boy!Crowley or girl!Crowley. Girl!Crowley would be sex on legs, oh god. Anyway. Gabriel and his significant other want to have a baby. However, the "werewolf" part means significant other can't carry the baby, since transforming under the full moon would cause too much fetal distress and lead to a miscarriage, and although some cis males with fae blood can perform a ritual to carry a baby, Gabriel isn't one of them. He and S/O have tried, and eventually got tested.
Cas, courtesy of some other tests he had to get run, knows that he is one of the cis males who can get pregnant. And… he generally disapproves of a lot of Gabriel's life-choices, but… Michael's married to his job; Luke(/Lucifer) ran away to Europe and never came back; Anna's in the Peace Corps, in Morocco; Rachel moved out to Nevada when she got married; and so it's just Cas, Gabriel, and Balthazar. And… Cas and Gabriel have been on and off estranged, due to some serious assbutt-y behavior on both of their ends, and… since Cas realizes that he's been an assbutt, he's sort of, "but… ew, really? :\" on the actual specifics of the, "Gabriel wants him to use magic so he can get pregnant and carry Gabe/probably-Crowley's baby" … but Cas wants his brother back.
Especially since Cas and Balthazar get along pretty well, but they don't really understand each other all that much. They're too different.
TL;DR: Gabriel and his probably-girl!Crowley-but-still-TBD-S/O want a baby; Cas being a surrogate is the only way they're going to get one, short of adoption, which would take forever and involve a lot of prejudices, because even if the Federal Non-Discrimination Act technically covers supernatural humanoids… a lot of people are willing to let discrimination slide because people are dicks.
Cas goes along with it because he wants a relationship with his brother back; Dean lets Cas go along with it, despite some initial apprehension, because as Sam and/or Cas point(s) out, it's not Dean's place to make Cas's decisions, even if they HAVE been together for like eight years. Sam is an epic (but unintentional) cock-block; Sam/Andy might ensue because Sam/Andy makes me happy. Dean and Cas both want to put a ring on it, but they are, as usual, very, very stupid about this. …Also, BABY. and MPREG. and FLUFF. DEAR LORD, I INTEND TO WRITE FLUFF.
…also, I compiled prompt lists because I like them.
001. Talk / News Show
002. Figure Skating
003. Animals
004. Dystopia
005. Someone Never Returned
006. Pride And Prejudice With Zombies.
007. Lawyers.
008. Pirates.
009. Melt
010. Ninjas.
011. Reality TV.
012. Ancient History.
013. Mutants.
014. Eating Time.
015. Dreams.
016. Payback Time.
017. The Best Time.
018. News.
019. Killing Time.
020. Changes.
021. Shopping Time.
022. Food.
023. Cigarettes.
024. Games.
025. Timeless.
026. Dance.
026. Water.
028. Dessert.
029. Moon.
030. Just In Time.
031. The Worst Time.
032. Short Amount Of Time.
033. Past Times.
034. Party.
035. Family Time.
036. Find Time.
037. "There's only three real monsters, kid: Dracula, Blacula, and Son of Kong."
038. "Aren't you that physicist who invented gravity?"
039. "Tragedy isn't the word I'd use; farce would be more appropriate."
040. "Dear diary: today, I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today, we were captured by hill-folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."
041. "Love is suspicious, love is needy. Love is fearful, love is greedy. My friends, there is no great love without great jealousy!"
042. "That's not a career, more of a felony."
043. Rumor Has It.
044. Fly Me To The Moon.
045. Dancing With Myself.
046. Take Me Or Leave Me.
047. Hungry Like The Wolf.
048. Grendel's Mother.
049. Feel It In My Bones.
050. This Charming Man.
051. Science Fiction/Double Feature.
052. What Would Happen?
053. Quiche Lorraine.
054. a hundred dollars of Pixie Stix and porno mags.
055. Echo.
056. Swallow.
057. Linger.
058. You Go To My Head.
059. Part Of Your World.
060. "If it's a lesson in love, watch out: I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?"
"*sighs* Sexlexia."
prompts nicked from mundane bingo.466. finding something you really want in an online store but they don't ship internationally or else they reject your one and only credit card for no reason and seem to think that you should just use another one (because everyone has multiple credit cards right?)
343. Spending 15 minutes looking for your keys.
x. can't sleep for no particular reason
352. commuting
357. local club/pub rugby/football
160. baking
483. playing with the dog/cat/tribble.
520. fasting
186. cleaning out the junk drawer
265. waiting at home for the delivery of a package109. trying to decide where to eat dinner with a group
99. programming the DVR
35. waiting in line at the DMV
153. beer run
244. getting caught in the rain with no coat/hood/umbrella
13. can't identify own shoes from the pile outside friend's front door
589. identical twins: messing with people via resemblance to twin
408. boiling water in the kettle
246. mad/wild watchings of Jeopardy
142. seeing an acquaintance out and about and hiding so you don't have to make small talk499. Going to the 24-hour Rite-Aid
5. accidentally sipping expired milk
26. car accident
326. checking your Facebook (or similar) several times in ten minutes because you're just that bored
377. running out of an ingredient while making dinner
459. going to the gym / for a run / for a ride and not being hit on by gorgeous people or even seeing gorgeous people
516. Procrastinating
167. down to your last/least favorite item of clothing (laundry day)
526. Sorting the recyclables
339. the cat is the alarm clock and doesn't understand weekends154. choosing the right wine/cheese combo at the supermarket
112. trying to get to sleep because you know you've got to get up early
665. Power outage
47. making tea
298. pet staring at you and making mysterious plaintive noises
644. Sleeping on the train
250. painting a room
41. returning a library book
116. walking the dog
214. headache that won't go away438. someone announces it makes sense to take one car and then assumes he'll be driving because he's a he and you're not
148. tripped on the curb
391. returning a defective item to the store
315. choosing a movie rental
316. neighbors having loud sex
380. making tortillas
163. tripped over a hole in the pavement
637. someone makes an overly personal remark about your physical appearance
343. spending 15 minutes looking for your keys
128. waiting for the bus in the rain with no umbrella248. cleaning out your inbox
345. can't find the matching shoe
136. drinking a hot beverage on a cold day
624. Being offended by something in the media.
362. hitting the snooze button over and over
450. it's 6:05 and you're watching the news. the phone rings. it's bound to be a telemarketer. and it's bound to keep ringing until you answer the damn thing - or at least get within reach of it
189. Turning off one appliance so you can run another without tripping a breaker.
263. previous user of shower used all the hot water.
218. transportation malfunction.
61. Start of a new season (summer/spring/harmattan/etc)135. the meeting that just won't end.
660. sitting by the river / pond / lake / bay.
444. trying to learn a foreign language and feeling stupid because you never seem to get any better
44. nothing on TV.
415. cold showers from a pipe over your head
631. forgetting your PIN number.
514. weekly family gatherings
269. dinner and a movie
582. writing implement dies when needed most
274. eating at Applebee's469. burning incense
267. catching a cold
226. organizing bookshelves or movie/music collections
642. squeezing oranges to make orange juice
451. dealing with religious door-knockers
417. hammocks
157. trying to find where they set down/hid the To-Do list
220. winding the clocks
177. napping
139. buying new clothes and/or shoes402. letting the rice boil over
502. mangoes for breakfast
111. Whatever air-temperature-management system one uses is Not Working.
27. first day of school
71. spring or end-of-the-year cleaning
28. cat won't come in at bedtime
180. going to a local sports bar
121. wrong item received from online order
355. celebrating a harvest festival
372. playing/working with animals.596. receipt of citizenship ceremony
190. bouncing a crying baby
122. new pet: sudden onset
12. Searching for enough loose change to buy a soda/latte/etc.
182. watching TV
238. where's my bus pass?!
593. pause in [activity] to observe prayer
579. local grocery store starts carrying beloved treat
104. washing clothes
107. commuting650. taking the fourth cold shower of the day to cool off
37. roughhousing
8. Waiting in line at coffee shop.
236. Making coffee
242. Catching up on yard-work / gardening
45. Finals week.
307. napping in the middle of the day
262. assembling furniture from Ikea
130. Out of staple food/supply
643. Texting118. locked out of house / car / spaceship
421. opening things with a machete
365. Taking off makeup/nail polish
523. The roof develops a leak
474. Cooking disaster
375. eating junk food for breakfast
314. window-shopping on Etsy
613. Argument with authority figure
256. grandparent dies
425. your cat loves you so much it brings you a nice fresh mousey at breakfast time aren't you delighted?544. Bail/bribe friend out of jail
373. laughing so hard, your stomach starts hurting.
369. frequently-used-equipment malfunction
77. looking for jeans that fit
x. argument with a partner
611. argument with a sibling
553. being groped on the bus / while walking
634. Being put on the spot about your romantic/sex life.
131. making a morning drink
36. stuck in trafficx. lazing around
x. going to the bank
x. waiting at home for a delivery.
x. playing musical instruments together
x. can't get a moment alone.
x. bug trauma (there's a spider! on my pillow! omg/help!)
x. chapped lips
x. doing the crossword
x. walking to the ice cream shop with a friend
x. caught up in conversation with a lonely person who just doesn't want to let the conversation end because then you'll go so you feel guilty if you call a halt and pissed off if you don'tx. picking out books at the library
x. overdue library books
x. walking along a "footpath" that consists of uneven / broken concrete slabs over open sewer
x. Saturday morning
x. ordering take-away because you haven't been grocery shopping yet
x. too tired to eat / too hungry to sleep
x. magnet poetry
447. cat thinks midnight is a perfectly okay time to come in the window soaking wet and climb under the duvet with you
370. trapped for hours by cat / dog / tribble falling asleep on your lap
x. running out of coffee filters
prompts nicked from rpf50.79. design
199. immediate
242. connections
112. late
159. hasty
36. stranger
124. steal
184. taught
29. cruel
27. pain209. chamber
125. wind
223. theme
247. dead
108. show
66. second
129. frozen
164. next
138. disgrace
62. confusion110. pray
205. hands
44. stumble
24. mouth
47. hurt
142. send
150. men
116. wow
239. power
72. loss131. key
190. born
134. whisper
2. begin
167. little
201. read
13. beside
132. let
77. try
31. eyes54. why
202. tell
230. asleep
117. bait
162. teardrop
87. saves
189. strings
17. look
109. shines
1. fallen68. Find
237. Wait
85. Blind
212. Doubt
214. Believe
83. Today
3. Rely
67. Change
61. Dream
165. Suffer
SO THIS ALL STARTS WITH A FIC I'M BETA-READING FOR MORGAN. It's Sassy, and mpreg, and I'm very fond of it. It's sweet and soft and lovely and I've been in a Mood lately, so having it around makes me happy. …and it sort of collided with various things and made me go, "dammit, I want to write mpreg. FML."
On the one hand, I'm working on re-outlining (for the umpteenth time) the second part of a Dean/Cas fic I started for ladyeternal, which… got eaten by real life for a year.
And about the only things that've hung around from the initial outline are: robo!Sam, Adam, Anna, Gabriel, demon!Bela, and Crowley show up, at varying times; Ash is the only mind in creation who can create an ultrasound machine that allows Dean and Cas to see their nephil baby; Barachiel (the Cupid whom Dean punched in the face) does silly things like have really lengthy debates with whoever's available about what thread count sheets the baby should have; Robo!Sam/Adam and Gabriel/Crowley happen; Bobby is the most excited grandfather ever; Robo!Sam tells Cas he looks fat, Dean gets offended because DUDE HE'S LIKE PREGNANT, and Cas gets confused because…… but, Dean, he DOES look fat, he's been made to understand that this is just natural, given his pregnancy; and at some point, it becomes apparent that, in addition to shaking loose Anna and Gabriel (and probably Zachariah, because I love him, that endearing douche), the Apocalypse's failure to happen shook out some icky demonic folks who would do a lot to get their hands on a nephil - namely, Azazel, Lilith, and Alastair.
…yes, the last note is pretty much because I'm still upset that Azazel's appearance in "Exile On Main Street" was just a hallucination. I MEAN, CAN YOU THINK OF HOW MUCH MORE AWESOME SEASON SIX WOULD'VE BEEN IF THERE'D BEEN LEGIT CONFIRMATION OF THE "DEAD DEMONS GO TO PURGATORY" FANON AND THE NOT-OCALYPSE HAD SHAKEN SOME OF THEM LOOSE? …Granted, I'm mostly saying this because I'm Queen Fangirl for Azazel, Lilith, and Alastair. But anyway.
Added, because I needed some more emotional underpinning to it: the major emotional conflict here, on the Dean/Cas level, is… Cas is still afraid that Dean's going to just leave him, since it already happened once. And he feels terrible for dragging Dean back into the world of the supernatural (even though, frankly, he didn't, since… Dean and Lisa tried to make it work for a while until she went, "Dean, I really like you, but it's obvious that you don't belong here and you staying is making both of us and Ben miserable. You can visit, but… nuh uh. Get the Impala out of the garage and go make yourself happy somewhere else. Look, I even found some suspicious-looking news that could be right up your alley. Go have fun killing ghosts :]").
-and I think I should add in Lisa and Ben visiting, somewhere. Because Dean wants to be a father to his other kid, and Lisa probably realizes that having backup who understands what the Hell is going on with this pregnancy thing is a GOOD THING FOR EVERYONE. …except Dean, who's sort of like. "Wait. Why is Becky here. :|"
Lisa: …oh, we're kind of dating.
Becky: also, I like babies. :D
Cas: Rebecca, there isn't a baby, yet, just a… *trails off and stares at her*
Becky: *kind of weirded out. stares back. since… that seems like the natural thing to do.*
Cas: Rebecca, how long have you been pregnant. :|
Becky: ……but. I mean. I'm not a virgin anymore, but I've only had lesbian sex? which. …what?
Cas: ………no, you're definitely pregnant. I can sense the fetus.
Becky: …………… *creeped out.*
Cas: *sighs.* It has a divine presence, Rebecca. Thus, why I can sense it.
Lisa: …you mean my girlfriend is pregnant with an angel-baby? :|
Cas: Oh, no. …Rebecca's fetus has the aura of the Holy Sefirot. Its father is my Father.
Becky: ………I think I need to call my mom's old priest and rub this in his face. :D
Cas: …why would you do such a thing?
Becky: Well, Mom was Catholic and Dad was Jewish, and when I was a kid, Father McQueen wouldn't let me be the Virgin Mary in the Christmas pageant because I was half-Jewish, AND NOW I'M PREGNANT WITH GOD'S BABY SO HE CAN SUCK IT. :D :D :D
Cas: *is crying on the inside.*
Ben: *rolls his eyes at EVERYONE, except Robo!Sam and Adam, because they'll play Mario Kart with him and whine about how THERE ARE SO MANY GODDAMN BABIES, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THE FREAKING BABIES.*
Added, because I already established her in the fic as another nephil (and I generally love her and everything she is): Meg gets involved. Probably with demon!Bela. And probably has to be bribed or emotionally manipulated into standing against her father, eventually. …she also wants to preemptively declare herself the baby's godmother because, as the only other nephil in existence, she's the only one who's actually going to know shit about shit the baby goes through.
And… understandably, Dean and Cas are sort of averse to this, but. On the one hand, Dean has an Enemy Mine relationship with her, since he can appreciate things that are good for the baby, things that are good for him and Cas (since Meg can keep Robo!Sam in line), and that she's willing to take a blood oath not to harm, steal, or otherwise do bad things to the baby. On the other, Cas actually has a begrudging fondness for Meg, even if being made to sit through It's A Wonderful Life doesn't help him to understand why she calls him "Clarence." Also, he doesn't appreciate it when she pinches his cheeks and randomly grops his baby belly, but that's mostly because… dude, this thing keeps kicking him and making him experience things like hunger and sleepiness enough already. It doesn't need more reason to do anything else, thank you, Meg. :|
…eventually, this will lead to the third chapter, wherein Cas gets to be a pregnant badass and insist on NO, DEAN, I KNOW WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE HERE, BUT YOU'RE NOT MAKING ME SIT ON THE COUCH WHILE YOU GO FIGHT AND RISK YOUR LIFE FOR OUR CHILD. BARACHIEL, HANIEL, AND SANDALPHON HAVE GIVEN ME ENOUGH ANGELIC PROTECTION, PLUS BELA'S AMULETS, PLUS MEG'S BLOOD OATH NOT TO LET HARM BEFALL OUR CHILD. IF YOU'RE GOING OUT THERE, THEN I'M GOING, TOO. >|
And I can't decide whether he gets to shank Azazel, Lilith, or Alastair, but… it'll probably be Azazel. Mostly because I want Dean to shank Alastair (since, given all the rapey overtones of their relationship in canon, Dean should've been the one to kill him anyway; the only flaw I can find in "On the Head Of A Pin" is that Sam killed Ali when it should've been Dean's kill and Dean's closure), and I want Bela and/or Barachiel to get Lilith (Barachiel so he can get his requisite moment of BAMFitude, and Bela… for kind of the same reason that Dean gets to kill Alastair).
…and there's probably some kind of significance in Cas (the one who fears being a bad father to his nephil) killing Azazel (who thinks he's been a good father to his nephil, when uh, he kind of got Meg turned into a demon). I dunno.
On the other hand, I've figured out what to do with these other urges. On the plus: I have ideas that aren't what I've been considering for the past… day and a half. Which is good because that idea was angst city. To summarize: "Misha is an Olympic-class figure-skater; he does pairs ice-dancing with his partner, Vicki, and they went to Vancouver in 2010, are preparing for Sochi in 2014. Jensen is Misha's boyfriend (costarring Jared/Gen and probably Vicki/Danneel). Misha gets pregnant, and everything proceeds to go to Hell in a handbasket because everyone is emotionally damaged, and Misha wants to keep the baby, but doesn't want to let it jeopardize his and Vicki's ability to get to Sochi."
So, as I said, ANGST. CITY. And as I put it to Tony: "I'm an awful person… and just. why can't I EVER write something where the major conflict is like. NOT something to do with who's more emotionally damaged than whom."
Thankfully, I have found some inspiration. And a place where I can do this. The basic gist of things is that it's a Cas-and-Gabriel focused bromance story… and the bromance just happens to be between actual brothers. The setting is an urban fantasy AU - basically, there are supernatural critters, but they're more a part of society, less ostracized monsters. There's prejudice against them, sure, but due to various things to be determined, they're more functional than SPN canon. …It's sort of like my NaNo's setting, actually.
Anyway. So, Cas and Gabriel, rather than being angels, are half-fae, or some other combination of fae and human bloodlines, and… we're talking, like, actual mythological fae, not sweet, nice, happy little fairies. More trickster-flavored fae. Cas has been with Dean for a while, but they're both trying to avoid the marriage question. This avoidance is helped by how Sam just broke up with Jessica, so he's been crashing in their spare room while going to law school. (Sam, for his part, would really like them to get married and is just… oblivious to the myriad ways in which he's a cockblock.)
Gabriel's been with his significant other for a while, too. …I haven't picked who it is, yet, because I know they're a werewolf, but I don't want it to be Madison. I'm considering Bela, but I also kind of want her to be with Ruby, Lilith, or Meg. …It could be Crowley, since I'm going with, "no angels means no demons." …and it could be boy!Crowley or girl!Crowley. Girl!Crowley would be sex on legs, oh god. Anyway. Gabriel and his significant other want to have a baby. However, the "werewolf" part means significant other can't carry the baby, since transforming under the full moon would cause too much fetal distress and lead to a miscarriage, and although some cis males with fae blood can perform a ritual to carry a baby, Gabriel isn't one of them. He and S/O have tried, and eventually got tested.
Cas, courtesy of some other tests he had to get run, knows that he is one of the cis males who can get pregnant. And… he generally disapproves of a lot of Gabriel's life-choices, but… Michael's married to his job; Luke(/Lucifer) ran away to Europe and never came back; Anna's in the Peace Corps, in Morocco; Rachel moved out to Nevada when she got married; and so it's just Cas, Gabriel, and Balthazar. And… Cas and Gabriel have been on and off estranged, due to some serious assbutt-y behavior on both of their ends, and… since Cas realizes that he's been an assbutt, he's sort of, "but… ew, really? :\" on the actual specifics of the, "Gabriel wants him to use magic so he can get pregnant and carry Gabe/probably-Crowley's baby" … but Cas wants his brother back.
Especially since Cas and Balthazar get along pretty well, but they don't really understand each other all that much. They're too different.
TL;DR: Gabriel and his probably-girl!Crowley-but-still-TBD-S/O want a baby; Cas being a surrogate is the only way they're going to get one, short of adoption, which would take forever and involve a lot of prejudices, because even if the Federal Non-Discrimination Act technically covers supernatural humanoids… a lot of people are willing to let discrimination slide because people are dicks.
Cas goes along with it because he wants a relationship with his brother back; Dean lets Cas go along with it, despite some initial apprehension, because as Sam and/or Cas point(s) out, it's not Dean's place to make Cas's decisions, even if they HAVE been together for like eight years. Sam is an epic (but unintentional) cock-block; Sam/Andy might ensue because Sam/Andy makes me happy. Dean and Cas both want to put a ring on it, but they are, as usual, very, very stupid about this. …Also, BABY. and MPREG. and FLUFF. DEAR LORD, I INTEND TO WRITE FLUFF.
…also, I compiled prompt lists because I like them.
001. Talk / News Show
002. Figure Skating
003. Animals
004. Dystopia
005. Someone Never Returned
006. Pride And Prejudice With Zombies.
007. Lawyers.
008. Pirates.
009. Melt
010. Ninjas.
011. Reality TV.
012. Ancient History.
013. Mutants.
014. Eating Time.
015. Dreams.
016. Payback Time.
017. The Best Time.
018. News.
019. Killing Time.
020. Changes.
021. Shopping Time.
022. Food.
023. Cigarettes.
024. Games.
025. Timeless.
026. Dance.
026. Water.
028. Dessert.
029. Moon.
030. Just In Time.
031. The Worst Time.
032. Short Amount Of Time.
033. Past Times.
034. Party.
035. Family Time.
036. Find Time.
037. "There's only three real monsters, kid: Dracula, Blacula, and Son of Kong."
038. "Aren't you that physicist who invented gravity?"
039. "Tragedy isn't the word I'd use; farce would be more appropriate."
040. "Dear diary: today, I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today, we were captured by hill-folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."
041. "Love is suspicious, love is needy. Love is fearful, love is greedy. My friends, there is no great love without great jealousy!"
042. "That's not a career, more of a felony."
043. Rumor Has It.
044. Fly Me To The Moon.
045. Dancing With Myself.
046. Take Me Or Leave Me.
047. Hungry Like The Wolf.
048. Grendel's Mother.
049. Feel It In My Bones.
050. This Charming Man.
051. Science Fiction/Double Feature.
052. What Would Happen?
053. Quiche Lorraine.
054. a hundred dollars of Pixie Stix and porno mags.
055. Echo.
056. Swallow.
057. Linger.
058. You Go To My Head.
059. Part Of Your World.
060. "If it's a lesson in love, watch out: I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?"
"*sighs* Sexlexia."
prompts nicked from mundane bingo.466. finding something you really want in an online store but they don't ship internationally or else they reject your one and only credit card for no reason and seem to think that you should just use another one (because everyone has multiple credit cards right?)
343. Spending 15 minutes looking for your keys.
x. can't sleep for no particular reason
352. commuting
357. local club/pub rugby/football
160. baking
483. playing with the dog/cat/tribble.
520. fasting
186. cleaning out the junk drawer
265. waiting at home for the delivery of a package109. trying to decide where to eat dinner with a group
99. programming the DVR
35. waiting in line at the DMV
153. beer run
244. getting caught in the rain with no coat/hood/umbrella
13. can't identify own shoes from the pile outside friend's front door
589. identical twins: messing with people via resemblance to twin
408. boiling water in the kettle
246. mad/wild watchings of Jeopardy
142. seeing an acquaintance out and about and hiding so you don't have to make small talk499. Going to the 24-hour Rite-Aid
5. accidentally sipping expired milk
26. car accident
326. checking your Facebook (or similar) several times in ten minutes because you're just that bored
377. running out of an ingredient while making dinner
459. going to the gym / for a run / for a ride and not being hit on by gorgeous people or even seeing gorgeous people
516. Procrastinating
167. down to your last/least favorite item of clothing (laundry day)
526. Sorting the recyclables
339. the cat is the alarm clock and doesn't understand weekends154. choosing the right wine/cheese combo at the supermarket
112. trying to get to sleep because you know you've got to get up early
665. Power outage
47. making tea
298. pet staring at you and making mysterious plaintive noises
644. Sleeping on the train
250. painting a room
41. returning a library book
116. walking the dog
214. headache that won't go away438. someone announces it makes sense to take one car and then assumes he'll be driving because he's a he and you're not
148. tripped on the curb
391. returning a defective item to the store
315. choosing a movie rental
316. neighbors having loud sex
380. making tortillas
163. tripped over a hole in the pavement
637. someone makes an overly personal remark about your physical appearance
343. spending 15 minutes looking for your keys
128. waiting for the bus in the rain with no umbrella248. cleaning out your inbox
345. can't find the matching shoe
136. drinking a hot beverage on a cold day
624. Being offended by something in the media.
362. hitting the snooze button over and over
450. it's 6:05 and you're watching the news. the phone rings. it's bound to be a telemarketer. and it's bound to keep ringing until you answer the damn thing - or at least get within reach of it
189. Turning off one appliance so you can run another without tripping a breaker.
263. previous user of shower used all the hot water.
218. transportation malfunction.
61. Start of a new season (summer/spring/harmattan/etc)135. the meeting that just won't end.
660. sitting by the river / pond / lake / bay.
444. trying to learn a foreign language and feeling stupid because you never seem to get any better
44. nothing on TV.
415. cold showers from a pipe over your head
631. forgetting your PIN number.
514. weekly family gatherings
269. dinner and a movie
582. writing implement dies when needed most
274. eating at Applebee's469. burning incense
267. catching a cold
226. organizing bookshelves or movie/music collections
642. squeezing oranges to make orange juice
451. dealing with religious door-knockers
417. hammocks
157. trying to find where they set down/hid the To-Do list
220. winding the clocks
177. napping
139. buying new clothes and/or shoes402. letting the rice boil over
502. mangoes for breakfast
111. Whatever air-temperature-management system one uses is Not Working.
27. first day of school
71. spring or end-of-the-year cleaning
28. cat won't come in at bedtime
180. going to a local sports bar
121. wrong item received from online order
355. celebrating a harvest festival
372. playing/working with animals.596. receipt of citizenship ceremony
190. bouncing a crying baby
122. new pet: sudden onset
12. Searching for enough loose change to buy a soda/latte/etc.
182. watching TV
238. where's my bus pass?!
593. pause in [activity] to observe prayer
579. local grocery store starts carrying beloved treat
104. washing clothes
107. commuting650. taking the fourth cold shower of the day to cool off
37. roughhousing
8. Waiting in line at coffee shop.
236. Making coffee
242. Catching up on yard-work / gardening
45. Finals week.
307. napping in the middle of the day
262. assembling furniture from Ikea
130. Out of staple food/supply
643. Texting118. locked out of house / car / spaceship
421. opening things with a machete
365. Taking off makeup/nail polish
523. The roof develops a leak
474. Cooking disaster
375. eating junk food for breakfast
314. window-shopping on Etsy
613. Argument with authority figure
256. grandparent dies
425. your cat loves you so much it brings you a nice fresh mousey at breakfast time aren't you delighted?544. Bail/bribe friend out of jail
373. laughing so hard, your stomach starts hurting.
369. frequently-used-equipment malfunction
77. looking for jeans that fit
x. argument with a partner
611. argument with a sibling
553. being groped on the bus / while walking
634. Being put on the spot about your romantic/sex life.
131. making a morning drink
36. stuck in trafficx. lazing around
x. going to the bank
x. waiting at home for a delivery.
x. playing musical instruments together
x. can't get a moment alone.
x. bug trauma (there's a spider! on my pillow! omg/help!)
x. chapped lips
x. doing the crossword
x. walking to the ice cream shop with a friend
x. caught up in conversation with a lonely person who just doesn't want to let the conversation end because then you'll go so you feel guilty if you call a halt and pissed off if you don'tx. picking out books at the library
x. overdue library books
x. walking along a "footpath" that consists of uneven / broken concrete slabs over open sewer
x. Saturday morning
x. ordering take-away because you haven't been grocery shopping yet
x. too tired to eat / too hungry to sleep
x. magnet poetry
447. cat thinks midnight is a perfectly okay time to come in the window soaking wet and climb under the duvet with you
370. trapped for hours by cat / dog / tribble falling asleep on your lap
x. running out of coffee filters
prompts nicked from rpf50.79. design
199. immediate
242. connections
112. late
159. hasty
36. stranger
124. steal
184. taught
29. cruel
27. pain209. chamber
125. wind
223. theme
247. dead
108. show
66. second
129. frozen
164. next
138. disgrace
62. confusion110. pray
205. hands
44. stumble
24. mouth
47. hurt
142. send
150. men
116. wow
239. power
72. loss131. key
190. born
134. whisper
2. begin
167. little
201. read
13. beside
132. let
77. try
31. eyes54. why
202. tell
230. asleep
117. bait
162. teardrop
87. saves
189. strings
17. look
109. shines
1. fallen68. Find
237. Wait
85. Blind
212. Doubt
214. Believe
83. Today
3. Rely
67. Change
61. Dream
165. Suffer