Author's note: Just a short little prologue to get things started. Hopefully I'll have an actual full chapter up soon.

Next couple of days are gonna just be 15 hr shift type days. Where I'm only working and sleeping. Should have something solid up on Saturday I hope.

Forgive me for any spelling errors/grammical issues.

I'm typing this up real quick before work! I'll fix it when I have the chance!

Summary: Gabe's tired of Dean and Cas not making a move despite their feelings. So he takes matters into his own hands, creating an alternate reality to show Dean how much he needs Cas in his life.

Rating: T, possible to go up in later chapters.

Pairing(s): Dean/Cas, Cas/meg, and other possible pairings.

Gabriel was tired of watching over his brother not make a move. Though he supposed if you were someone like Castiel, you didn't exactly know how to make a move. It didn't matter he decided. He knew just what to do to get them to show how they felt. Dean was a stupid stubborn yet selfish human being. Gabriel knew Dean wouldn't spring into action unless he couldn't stand the idea of not having Castiel in his life.

So he decided to be the most generous person that he was and help them out.

Creating an alternate reality wasn't all that hard, especially when you were mostly only changing and taking away from mainly one person. Though he had to bring back a certain someone to make it all work.

Oh sure, he was still the archangel that everyone knew about, but he still had his trickster intentions at times.

Could you blame him? Guy gets kind of bored after years and years of the same old thing.

But one thing that doesn't change is the fact that he cares about his family.

It had been a month after the apocalypse when he had first saw Castiel. To be honest, Dean didn't think he would ever see Castiel again after he had gotten the shitty goodbye. He had been holed up with Lisa and Ben. He was grateful they took him in and they had fallen into a routine. Only it wasn't really a good one. Sure, Lisa tried to comfort him somtimes, but the only help he mostly received was from the bottom of a bottle. He was probably drinking himself to death everynight.

So it had come to a complete surprise when one night he heard a familiar flutter of wings which sent his stomach doing nervous flips. He didn't understand why, but to suddenly see his angel standing there. That was something.

It was funny seeing Lisa get all offensive, thinking he was probably a demon. Good thing Ben had been staying over at his friend's house. Dean had been just watching television mindlessly while Lisa had been reading one of her romance novels.

"Get out of my house!"

"Lisa, calm down, it's just Cas, he's a good guy.. An angel." Dean couldn't fight the smile on his face. Sure, he was pissed off at how long it took Castiel to get his feathery ass down there and say hi. But he had been expecting the guy to actually never come down. So to suddenly see him, it made him happy.

Though he was hoping it wasn't for business.

He thought he heard Lisa mutter something like 'yeah, right, angels.' and leave them alone together.

"Would you mind if we were to spend some time together?"

"You wanna hang out Cas? Course I don't mind." Dean said, easily slipping into the familiar feeling that they had once had before the world almost ended.

They shared a couple of beers together that night. Castiel had told Dean everything. The fact that Heaven seemed to be in chaos and out of order with Michael gone and him getting a promotion. But things weren't going well with Raphael.

Dean frowned at that. He explained how things were at his current home. How he was living with Lisa but things were pretty platonic. He didn't even think things would ever surpass a kiss on the cheek because frankly, he wasn't in the mood. Losing your little brother kind of did that to a person.

Castiel was being a good friend and told him things would get better with time. Perhaps Lisa wasn't the one to ease all the pain that he was feeling, but that she was a start, a different kind of help.

Dean took that in understanding that him and Lisa would probably stay good friends, but that he needed someone else in his life to tell him that everything was going to be okay. Cas telling him these things did ease his suffering a little.

But like all good things, they have to come to an end.

"I'll see you again, right?"

"Of course Dean, same time, same place?"

Dean ended up making it a habit of staying home every thursday night to have a couple of beers with Cas and just talking about everything.

It had gone on that way for six months before everything went downhill and just plain weird.

Or maybe it was just plain supernatural.

Yeah, the shortest thing I've ever written. But I felt like I had to get it out there. It's just the prologue anyways. Next chapters will be longer! Love ya guys.