Be My Guest / by aLoggedInReader (NC-17)

Title: Be My Guest
Author: aLoggedInReader
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: Sam/Gabriel
Genre: AU, Romance, bondingfic
Length: Very Long (Words: 117,174)
Warnings: Mild dubcon at beginning due to Gabriel causing Sam's amnesia.

Author's Summary:
Gabriel is done watching Sam self-destruct over his brother's stupid deal and subsequent death. The rash decisions he makes to put a stop to the human's madness has unforeseen consequences for both of them, however.

Review:
Great Sam/Gabriel ship fic. Picks up when Dean is taken by the Hellhounds early in the apocalypse storyline. Features 3 of Loki's mythology-canon children (Hel, Fenrir, and Jörmungandr) - they're very well done. I also like how the Ruby issue is dealt with in this one.

Be My Guest (on ff.net)

This Gentle Chaos, This Quiet Madness / by morganoconner (NC-17)

Title: This Gentle Chaos, This Quiet Madness
Author: marganoconner
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: Dean/Gabriel, Sam/Castiel
Genre: AU, Romance, bondingfic
Length: Medium (Words: 18,486)
Warnings: Possible dubcon due to the threat of Hell hanging over Dean's head.

Author's Summary:
Sam has his soul back, but the brothers aren’t quite as home free as they’d hoped. Dean doesn’t realize that there’s still an outstanding contract on his own soul, meaning that unless they come up with a plan before the demons can figure out who gets to collect on it, he’s still bound for Hell and all his worst memories.

The answer comes in the form of an old adversary who can provide Dean with the protection he needs. All he has to do is offer everything he is to Gabriel’s alternate persona. To Loki.

But even when the ritual is complete and his soul firmly bound to a being he’s not even entirely sure he trusts, he’s still left fighting enemies on all sides. The armies of Heaven will stop at nothing to get to Castiel. The wall keeping Sam’s sanity intact is not as structurally sound as it should be. Demons are itching to come after Dean. And the archangel-turned-pagan-god at his side is annoyingly persistent in trying to win his affections.

Dean figures they’re all pretty much screwed.

Review:
Nice fic for two comparatively rare ships. This story starts after Sam's soul is returned to him (after his rescue from the cage) but before the wall Death put in his head has really started to break down yet. There's possibly some dubcon here, depending on how you see it, because Dean learns he's doomed to return to Hell and his only hope of Heaven appears to be to bond with Gabriel but Gabriel's role in Cas's post-apocalypse war has won him the Winchesters' trust prior to the bond so YMMV. I especially like the way this fic handles the Loki/Gabriel characterizations.

This Gentle Chaos, This Quiet Madness (on AO3)