It could recover well without him- wasn't as if he were interested in mating with a woman, and he didn't even entertain the idea he could carry if he did ever find a man who wanted him. That wanted a life, let alone family, with him. He moved far too much for anything stable, having his stops and shelters or not. "Matters little to most because I am a gorgon," a kind humanity had tried to wipe out out of fear.

The snakes were as pleased as Gabriel was, his head tilting back against that hand with a soft rumble that could easily shift in to some odd purring sort of sound. "No longer afraid that I may have any ulterior motives?" He'd lost that fear that Jack held any a while ago at least.

His eyes opened once he felt the hunter's forehead pressed against his once more- "I want the same."