affection

Before God left, He gave instructions for a new method of creating angels: one that allows an angel to take a consenting adult human as their child. By feeding them grace over the course of an unspecified amount of years, the human's - now known as a nestling's - soul will change enough to be able to produce a modified form of grace, thereby keeping angels from dying out. After the end of the apocalypse and with Sam having returned to Stanford, Dean is at a loss. When Castiel offers to take Dean as his nestling, Dean has no idea how far Castiel plans to take this - or how much he'll end up needing and enjoying it.

Dean wakes up with a sore tummy, but with Sammy in the middle of getting his wings, he doesn't feel right calling out to his daddy or Uncle Gabe for help.

Going after an angel picture? What was Dean thinking? There was a reason why no one had ever managed to get a good picture or video clip of the flying, humanoid beats! If the angels didn’t want you to see them, you couldn’t and wouldn’t see them.People had tried to do this before, and each one had come back pretty much empty handed with only a few blurry photos… that’s if they came back at all.Angels had a tendency to latch on to certain humans; they’d kidnap them and take them back to their nests where they would turn them into their hatchlings. No one knew the ins and outs of it. No one knew how it worked. No one knew how long it took. No one even knew what an angel’s nest looked like. But the humans, or rather the hatchlings, eventually grew into angels. Hatchlings, and angels for that matter, weren’t accepted in society. And that’s what Sam was worried about; if Dean went after the ‘perfect angel photo’ he seemed to have his heart set on, then he might never come back human.-X-Dean is a photographer, trying to capture a picture of an angel. Castiel spots him one day and decides that Dean would make the perfect hatchling.