Gabriel Big Bang -- Birds of Passage

[neotoma]

Title: Birds of Passage
Author: neotoma
Artist: cashay
Genre/Pairing: (slash & drama), Sam/Gabriel/Vessel
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~61,000
Warnings/Spoilers: gore/animal sacrifice, gore, implied past abuse, gore/torture, homophobia/transphobia, set post-S5 SPN/ S1 Jericho
Author's Notes Written for the gabriel_bigbang. I'm taking shameless advantage of the fact that Richard Speight Jr. played Deputy Bill on Jericho for this crossover...
Cheerleading by owleyes_arisen andmikhala_c, proofreading by greenygal, Russian help from alpheratz, and Norse help from ellen_fremedon




Summary: Lucifer is back in his Cage, but one averted Apocalypse doesn't mean much in the face of another, more human one. Sam Winchester, the Archangel Gabriel, and a man millennia out of his own time have wandered into a small Kansas town, where they get to deal with tree thieves, suspicious sheriffs, shady characters, political in-fighting, looming starvation, and the occasional pagan deity passing through. It's just one damn thing on top of another after The End of the World. [Crossover with JERICHO (tv series)]

Prologue: I will lay my burden in the cradle of your grace
Part One: Every highway leads you prodigal
Part Two: Strange dances long undone
Part Three: The twigs and briars
Part four: Blood in the service of the lord of hosts
Part Five: Only the rain knows
Part Six: A voice on the wind, and the wages of sin
Part Seven: every backroad in that broken promise land
Epilogue: A dime and a dollar and a one-way ticket home

Link to art: http://cashay.livejournal.com/17549.html
Also at AO3, if you prefer to read it in one chunk without the art.

Comments

[catyuy]

OMG you posted it!!!!
And damnit I'm at work. *will sneak read when no one is here*

[rakasha]

CONGRATULATIONS! I started reading this literally seconds before I got your email; feel proud of yourself. Feel very, very proud of yourself - you deserve it, every little bit! This was wonderful, and you even managed to sneak that one extra scene in there... Just lovely.

I do have one question, though - a griffin?

[greenygal]

Congratulations, it's finally done (all 60,000 plus words of it)! *breaks out the champagne and confetti for you*

[fyrdrakken]

Hooray! I look forward to reading it, as soon as I download it from AO3 to my Blackberry...

[mikhala_c.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!
Just as awesome reading the finished product as it was cheerleading for you.Even being unfamiliar with Jericho I enjoyed this alot. You already know I love Hrafn. ^_^
Good Job!

[cradle-song.livejournal.com]

Holy fucking hell I am just speechless at the sheer awesome of this story. I'm not a huge fan of Sam or even Gabriel really, but this totally made me love them. And Jericho, yes, I always thought that should be crossed with SPN. They blew up Lawrence for chrissakes!

Anyway. Yes. This is just fucking fantastic, thank you so much for writing it!