Disclaimer: Not mine, please guys in the big suits don't come and take my money away for it is small and meek.

A/N: This next part of the series may not have her doing much. I am not sure. There is also a reference to a episode that hasn't happened yet… but I'll get there some day and then you will know.

Getting to Know You

Skin

In all of Gabriel's travels she's never liked shape shifters, they're one of the things that are hard to kill, not so much because of how strong they are but of how hard it is to tell just who they are. When she finds out that they are dealing with one it's not the happiest moment in her life. She's dealt with them before, but last time it took forever, she was in the town for almost two weeks, and when it was over she was so drained that she slept for close to a full day. She's not looking forward to this at all.

It only makes matters worse when it happens to be that one Sam's old friends from Stanford is the client. The woman looks at her as if she's looking at a bug that she wants to squash down, "Sam, why are you hanging out with her?"

"She's…" she can tell that he's picking his words carefully, so she speaks for him.

"Because he's a nice person, and I've been comforting him over Jessica's death. He needed some one and sometimes a stranger is the best person to talk to. No pressure."

"I see."

Sam looks thankful. So does Dean, it's the first time she thinks that they might have made a connection, but it doesn't last long, the shifter takes Sam's form, and then it takes Deans, by the time that the job is over her body aches all over, shape shifters are strong and she's been tossed around by this one enough, so all she wants to do is sleep.

Hookman

When Gabriel sees Sam falling in love (or at least in like) all over again, she feels jealously rear its ugly head. It's the first time she's felt jealousy against another person in ages, and the relationship that they have chosen to have with another person. Of course she realizes, that she cannot control what one person feels for another person, and it is with this relationship that she makes up her mind; no matter what happens with Sam she will support him one hundred percent. If this happens to be his relationship with another woman, so be it. She can hear Elijah whispering in her ear about how this is not the path she should take, that she's taken the wrong path ever since Mathew, but she pushes her brother's words out of her mind, what does he know? Just because he's eldest doesn't mean that he knows what he's talking about.

It's in the hospital where she's finally able to get Sam alone for the first time ever, "You seem happy for the first time in a long while, she makes you happy."

"It wouldn't work anyway. Not after what happened with Jess."

"You shouldn't let Jessica hold your happiness back, Jess would want you to be happy, and she likes you."

"It's not going to happen, Jessica or no."

"I know, it's just… seeing you happy is nice."

She would speak more but she can see Dean coming down the hall so she stops speaking, the conversation is over any way.

Bugs Aftermath

It's after they deal with the bugs (nothing happened but she thinks she understands Dean's relationship with Sam a lot more now) that she get's a call from her Aunt Meredith, and she's pissed. Gabriel spends twenty minutes talking to her, or more appropriately listening to her yell at her. When she turns the phone off both Dean and Sam are looking at her, "And that was?"

"My Aunt."

"And she was?"

"The wife of a great hunter. The wife who had to put up with both my uncle and father."

"What happened to them?"

"Vampires."

"What?"

"They hunted Vampires. My dad was killed when I was little and my mother was already dead so my aunt and uncle took me in after."

Sam sighed, "That doesn't sound very fun."

"I was going on my own hunts the second I could drive. I wanted to hunt, my aunt however wanted me to go to school, forced me to go to school."

"Oh."

"It's okay, I met you didn't I?"

If they think that she should be more affected by talking about this they don't say anything. It's not like it didn't happen a while ago so she doesn't understand why they should drudge up old memories. She's glad they don't ask, she doesn't want to have to explain.

Home

She's thankful that this case happens. Not so much thankful in the fact that Sam and Dean go through it but thankful in that it answers questions that they haven't been telling her. She doesn't ask any questions but they can tell that she's putting the answers together in her mind, mother killed in a fire, children who's father chose a dangerous path, the answers seem pretty out there and in the open now.

So when she and Dean burst into the room and see Sam with a figure in flames Gabriel is awed when it turns into their mother. She feels like she shouldn't be here for this, that they wouldn't want her to be here. Dean said no questions, this isn't something that she should be looking at, it's their whole life spelled out in one woman. She thinks that until Mary moves over to her, she doesn't know why but she hopes that Mary cannot see her war tarnished soul, and prays that Mary cannot see the darkness that lays in her eyes. But Mary only smiles, "They are wonderful, you were right, thank you."

Then Mary looks over to Sam and her smile turns sad, as if she's privy to a secret that they don't know, "I'm sorry."

And then Mary goes out in flames saving her boys from the darkness that has swallowed the house. When it's over Dean looks at her, "What was that about?"

"Hell if I know."

"You sure about that?"

"Yes!"

He looks at her critically and the seems to come to some sort of conclusion, he shakes his head, "You better be telling the truth."

Asylum

Despite how she may look Gabriel hates teenagers. They're not smart, they never follow orders, they make bad choices and it's almost always teens that end up causing all the damage that needs to be fixed in a hunt. This time they're in the way, it should be a simple hunt, but now she's stuck playing babysitter to a teenaged couple, the girl seems smarter than the boy, braver too. She sighs, Sam (he wants her to call him Sam) has gone off somewhere with Dean trying to find who or what has been killing the people who have entered the asylum. The girl is holding the shotgun that Sam left her, she's shaking, "We'll be fine."

"You don't know that."

"I do."

"How?"

"Trust Sam and Dean."

"From what I've seen they hardly trust you."

"I… I know them, more than they think I do."

"You're a little creepy."

"I've been called worse."

They wait a little while longer, when Sam and Dean finally come around the bend. Dean is limping slightly, he looks hurt, and Sam is looking anywhere but at his brother. There is tension between the two of them that shouldn't be there and she's left wondering just what she missed. Once they're outside she slips into the car and shuts the door before she can hear any of the conversation that is more of an argument. The silence when the two brothers enter the car is defining, "Is there anything I can do?"

"No. There was… there was a fight, I was… I didn't… things are going to be tense for a while."

She isn't expecting an answer so when she gets one it's more than she can ask for.

A/N: And that's that chapter, the story with Gabriel and the boy's journey continue