Author's comment and disclamer: I do not own any of the characters in this story. The story is a part of the #WeWantGabeBack project, following his demise in season 13. Please, let me know what you think.

Back in the Apocalypse world, the war was still raging. Angels were constantly taking in humans.

Campsites were mostly destroyed, people scattered all around.

A woman was being chased by a demon. He finally caught her, punching her to the ground. But the woman was strong, kept fighting back.

They both threw some good punches, but eventually the demon overpowered her. As he was about to kill her, an angel blade rushes through him. He drops down.

The woman looked up to the man that saved her. He seemed human. "Thanks."

"Don't mention it."

She gets up and sizes him again. He looked familiar "Have we met?"

"No, don't think so."

She pulls out her hand to a handshake. "Ellen."

The man shakes her hand and nods "Gabe"

"Are you alone?" She asks.

"Yep. Lost my people along the way. You?"

"We split up when demons attacked. But I know where they are, if there is anybody left."

"Can I come with?" he asks. She looks at him with slight mistrust, but nods.

They walked silently for hours through woods, then finally reached the campsite next to an old mine.

A man rushes towards them "Ellen, you got away."

"Sure did, Mickey."

"God, nothing can keep you down."

Gabe flinched at the sound of God, but they didn't notice.

"Actually, this guy saved me."

Mickey looks at him frowning. "Haven't seen you before. Which group are you with?"

"Ough, I've been bouncing from one group to another."

"Why?"

"Got bored. Needed a change every once in a while."

Mickey goes and whispers something to Ellen and she replies "Don't be ridiculous. He is human. If he was an angel we would know. They all walk around with sticks up their ass."

"Me, an angel? Ha, that's funny." Gabe says.

"Ok, then you won't mind us testing you?" Mickey says.

"Not at all."

Mickey pulls out an angel blade, takes Gabe's hand and cuts him. Gabe bleed normally.

"See, I told you."

The sound of sirens interrupts them. A big ball of fire hits a few feet away from them. They all take cover.

"Damn, we just avoided the demons. Now the angels?" Ellen was pissed.

A few hunters come and back them up as they retreat inside the mine. A few angels land where they stood just a few minutes ago. One of them shouts "Find all humans. If you have to, kill them, but leave at least some for interrogation."

The hunters fought hard, some were even able to get off a few shoots of angel killing bullets, killing one angel and wounding one. But eventually the angels surrounded them. All the hunters were know on their knees, hands behind their head. One of the angels saw Ellen and pointed at her "This one. I want this one. Kill the rest."

Gabe didn't know what to do. Stand up against the angels and uncover who he really is? They are going to kill everyone there. He could just fly away. But something wouldn't let him. "Damn it." He lets out and gets up. The angels couldn't see who he really is. He turns to them and says.

"Ok, you guys have to leave now. Leave these people alone."

Another angel frowns at him, comes up to his face and places a hand on his head. A few seconds they stood like that, but nothing happened. The angel, still holding his hand on Gabe's head, looked at him confused.

"Yeah, that doesn't really work on an archangel." He says and stabs the angel with his archangel blade. Other angels come running towards him, but he takes them down with ease. Then, finally he turns to Ellen and the others.

"Well, I guess I'll have to bounce again."

"Wait! – Ellen shouts at Gabriel – I knew I recognized you. You are Gabriel, the archangel."

"Yes, that's me."

"But didn't you die?"

Gabriel sighs "Well the Gabriel you know did. I am from another world."

Ellen frowns. She remembered a fellow hunter Bobby mention the other world. "My friend Bobby mentioned the other world. He was meeting some hunters from there and we never heard from him again. "

"That's because he is in the other world. I am trying to go back, too."

"Trying?" Ellen asks.

"Yeah, I have all the ingredients to make a spell to open the rift, just need one more."

"What is it?"

"Archangel grace."

Ellen looks at him confused. "You are an archangel, can't you use yours?"

"Planned on it. As soon as it recharged. Until then I am stuck here."

Ellen takes a minute to process all of this. After she looks at Gabriel "Why did you save us?"

"I... I don't know. I guess I was always fond of you humans. And the delights of your world."

"Delights?"

Gabriel nods "Yeah, sex, candy, cute kittens, you know."

Ellen looks at him weirded out, then says "Why move from a group to another? If that is what you really did?"

"I did. As soon as they got a hint of my angel side... Well, you know. Nobody likes angels around here."

"What if you stayed with us?" she says, but as soon as she did Mickey interrupts "Are you crazy? We can't trust him. Besides, if the angels found out..."

"They won't. He did just save all of us. And he will do it again."

"I will?" Gabriel looks at her confused.

"Yes. When you are strong enough to open the rift, you will take us there too. Do we have a deal?"

Gabriel raises his eyebrows. He liked this woman. "Deal."

Later they were all around a campfire. Mickey approaches Gabriel but keeps his distance. He looks at the archangel feeling curious, but also a bit scared.

"Why don't you take a picture? It will last longer." Gabriel says with a smirk.

"How did you pass our angel test?" Mickey finally asks.

Gabriel smiles "Well, I was known as a trickster once. Speaking of – he says looking around at sad, hungry humans – I think it might be a right time for a feast."

He snaps his fingers and a table appears in front of everybody filled with cakes, pies, pancakes, cookies, lollypops and all sorts of different candy.

Ellen looks at Gabriel frowning. He says "What? Too much?"

Ellen and her group kept moving around, trying hard to avoid angels. One night she was sitting by a fire, looking at a picture. She seemed so sad and lonely. Gabriel approached her, looking at the picture.

"Your daughter?" he asks pointing at the picture of her and Jo before the apocalypse happened.

Ellen flinches not having heard him coming and looks away wiping a tear.

"Yes, she was."

"What happened?"

"The angels happened. They took her. Five years ago."

"Did you try to rescue her?"

"We did. But we never found her."

"Sorry to hear that."

Ellen nods.

He sits next to her and they sat there silently for a few minutes.

Then the sirens went on. "Ough, I am so getting tired of this." Gabriel says.

In the next twenty or so minutes the group ran and fought the angels, Gabriel helping out as much as he could. But this time there was just too many of them. Even Gabriel couldn't take them all out without draining his grace completely. As all the hunters were brought down on their knees, Gabriel looks at Ellen and shakes off his head. She knew what he meant. He couldn't do anything.

One of the angels approaches the leader. "Vergil, we believe this is the group that has eluded us for weeks."

Vergil nods, puts his head down and starts whispering something. Gabriel could hear him, he was using angel radio.

"We finally found them."

"Have you found out who has been killing our angels?" the voice on the other side says.

"No, not yet."

"I'll be right there."

Then a sound of wings flapping is heard. Gabriel turns to see who it was, but is left shocked when he realizes it was Naomi. And the worst part was, she was possessing Jo. He turns to Ellen, but her face was covered in shock. Only a single tear goes down her face.

"Alright. Would anybody like to tell me how you managed to kill so many of my angels?" Naomi asks, not having seen Gabriel.

Everybody was silent.

She shakes her head "Ough, you humans. Such a stubborn species. Well, I guess we'll have to do this the old fashioned way."

"That's the only way you know how to do business." Gabriel says standing up.

Naomi looks at him, frowning. "And just who might you be?"

"Don't you recognize me? Here, let me help you." He snaps his fingers and a lollypop appears in her hands.

She smirks at the lollypop and then looks at him. "Loki. How did you survive this long? I thought the humans would have killed you by now."

"I am after all, a trickster. Best one in the business."

"Well, your days of childish diddles are over. Take them all to the main prison camp. We'll sort out later who to kill and who to keep."

Inside the prison camp all prisoners were kept in separate cells. Gabriel and Ellen wound up next to each other. Gabriel had additional binds on his hand meant to prevent a trickster from using his powers.

"Ellen? You there?"

"Yes, I am here."

"I'm sorry."

"For what? You couldn't have fought them all."

"No, I'm sorry about Jo."

...

"Ellen?"

"I'm still here."

"Look, at least now you know what happened. At least now you know she is still alive."

"What good is that when she is possessed by one of Michael's top angels."

"We'll find a way to set her free."

"I might now a way." A voice came out of the cell next to Gabriel's.

"Who are you?" Gabriel asks.

"I am the prophet of the Lord." Kevin replies.