Alternately: Valentine's Day- It's Not Just For Cupids Anymore

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Gabriel's pretty much gone completely pagan by this point.

(And isn't that ironic, because, for the first time in centuries, he's Gabriel again, the archangel, not the Trickster.)

But, the fact remains, he's fucking a demon, and that's about as pagan as you can get.

Gabriel doesn't celebrate a lot of holidays- Christian or otherwise.

Crowley knows by now that there are a few he does celebrate, though.

First and foremost, is April Fool's Day.

(Gabe affectionately dubs it 'Trickster Christmas'.)

Then there's Halloween, of course.

They usually celebrate Christmas with a twenty-four hour sex-a-thon, during which Gabriel takes great delight in pretending Crowley is the Virgin Mary.

(Three years ago, Gabe actually turned him into The Virgin, and that's where Crowley drew the line.)

But the one holiday Gabriel celebrates religiously- poor choice of wording- is 'Candy Clearance Day'.

Technically, Crowley likes to remind him, it's not a holiday.

(Gabriel responds to that by sticking out his tongue and shooting back- "See if I share any with you, spoilsport.")

It's the day after Valentine's Day, and Gabe takes unholy- another poor word choice- glee in snatching up every single heart-shaped box of chocolate he can find.

(Crowley points out that Gabriel is perfectly capable of snapping up his own candy. Gabriel locks himself and his candy in the bedroom, and relegates Crowley to the couch for a week. It's ridiculous, because it's Crowley's bedroom.)

Candy Clearance Day is sacred, and Crowley learns to accept that fact.

(Mostly because he's just happy Gabe's stopped inviting over his cherubic brethren on Valentine's Day.)

Because if Crowley has to walk into his house, just to be assaulted by a fat, naked angel in a diaper, one more time, certain things were going to be set on fire.

Staring with, and certainly not limited to, Gabriel's Candy Clearance Day candy.