AN: I decided to add a song quote at the end of each chapter as a hint of what the next chapter will be about. I hope you enjoy this chapter! And thank you for the favorites and follows I really appreciate them! Also, thank you to moonlitreader for their review. I love encouragement. :)

October 17th

Gabriel is sitting on a bench in a park. He is starting to believe he will never find Sam. He won't give up. Instead he is resigning himself to searching for Sam for all of eternity. To be lonely forever. It's a horrible thought. He tries to imagine an eternity without Sam's voice, where his smile has seised to exist. The thought is so painful that Gabriel doubles over. He clutches his chest as spasms run though him and he starts to cry. The archangel misses Sam. He sees him everywhere. The pain of his loss is unbearable. Gabriel knows he can't last much longer without his lover.

Just as Gabriel is coming to this conclusion, he hears a flutter of wings. He turns to the source.

"Balthazar, what are you doing here?" Gabriel asks.

"Saving your ass. Well, saving your boyfriends ass and thereby saving your ass. But still, the point remains the same."

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

Gabriel feels himself growing impatient. He brother better have a damn good reason for not explaining himself and insisting on playing these cryptic games.

"Lilith has him." Balthazar states and on that note he leaves.

Lilith? Lilith has Sam? Gabriel is having trouble processing this information. He knows Balthazar wouldn't betray him like this. He would be in too much trouble with Michael. Michael doesn't care about much, but he's always had a soft spot for Gabriel. It's part of the reason Gabriel managed to leave heaven and pose as a trickster. Michael never kept a close enough watch on him. It had been easy to sneak out and disappear from everyone including Michael.

Gabriel wonders how Balthazar managed to figure out what he looks like. Oh well. He knows Balthazar will never tell anyone because Balthazar has already forgotten. One privilege of being a trickster and an archangel is that Gabriel made it impossible to look at him and remember what he looks like without his, Gabriel's, say so. Humans can have a vague idea and are able to describe him to others of their species. Angels are unable to remember anything. Demons and any other supernatural creature can remember the most and only because Gabriel wants to make sure they fear him.

Gabriel shakes his head to clear his thoughts and uses his grace to search until he locates Lilith. He finds her easily enough. Gabriel zaps over to that location, after making sure he is invisible and will stay that way.

Sam is hanging naked by his wrists from the ceiling of the torture room. Burns lace his stomach and the inside of his legs. Deep cuts run all over his body. They are placed to cause as much pain as possible. A long jagged cut stretches from one hip to the other. The stitches that hold the wound together are surrounded by odd runes and the inside flap of skin that has been stitched together is marked with runes too. Whip marks run down Sam's back. Some look old and have scabbed over. Others are new with blood and puss still oozing out of them. Sam is covered in bruises which are in about fourteen different shades of blue, purple, and black. He appears to be unconscious. His head rests on his chest.

Gabriel sees all of this. It makes him furious. The anger he feels is almost uncontrollable. Almost. He breaths in and out as he waits for Lilith to return.

After about two hours, she returns. The bitch actually smiles at Sam as she goes near to inflict some new torture. She pulls a small leaver concealed in the wall and a huge amount of salt comes pouring out and lands on Sam's back. Lilith makes sure she stays well out of range of the salt. Sam wakes up screaming as it seeps into the cuts. He feels as though his body is being burned.

Gabriel can't take it anymore. That scream Sam made will be the last he makes because of this fucking bitch! Gabriel puts out a hand and uses his powers to make Lilith fall to the ground. She writhes as Gabriel pushes the demon out of the woman. He destroys her. She dies screaming louder than Sam had been shouting before.

Gabriel looks at his beloved. He goes over and touches his index finger to Sam's lips. With that touch Sam is returned to a renewed body.

Sam sits up suddenly and he's hit with a large wave of vertigo. He sinks back onto the bed. He looks around the room as the dizzy spell lifts. The room is sparse. It contains only the bed he is lying on, a book shelf filled with cook books (almost all about dessert) and books about snacks, and a enormous table pulled high with more than half of the recipes featured in the books.

"Hello?" Sam calls from the bed.

A flutter of wings reaches him and Gabriel materialises in front of Sam. Sam stares in shock.

"Gabe?" He whispers as he hesitantly reaches out to touch his lover. His hand touches Gabriel's arm. He's real! Sam grabs the archangel and pulls him into an embrace.

He kisses his lover. The kiss is passionate. Sam slips his tongue into Gabe's mouth. He tastes of carmel, chocolate, and some sort of earthy nut Sam can't place. The kiss intensifies as Gabriel winds his fingers into Sam's hair. All of a sudden Gabriel breaks the kiss. A whine escapes Sam's lips, but Gabriel ignores it. He pushes Sam back into the bed. Sam lets himself fall. His archangel climbs on top of him. He grinds their hips together. Sam thrusts his hips up into his lover's. Sam pulls Gabriel closer and kisses him.

The archangel can't wait. He's missed his moose too long to take it slow. He snaps his fingers and their clothes disappear and a bottle of lube appears. Gabriel coats his fingers and slips one into Sam. Sam moans. Gabe begins to work him. Gabriel quickly inserts another finger and scissors Sam open. Sam is turning into a writhing mess under his archangel.

Once Gabriel has three fingers pounding into Sam, he slicks up his dick and pushes into Sam in one quick motion. Gabriel takes a moment to make sure Sam is ready and then begins to thrust into him. Sam pushes his hips up and meets Gabriel's motions. Their movements quickly become frenzied. Both Gabriel and Sam reach climax much quicker than either of them would have liked.

They lie next to each other holding on tightly. Neither of them ever want to let go.

"Pretty pretty please/don't you ever feel/like you're less than/less than perfect/pretty pretty please/if you ever ever feel like your nothing/you are perfect to me"

~Perfect by P!nk