Sam stared at the youngest Archangel with a frown on his face.
"What are you doing here?" It wasn't exactly a question, but Gabriel took it as one anyway.
"I told you I'd be back. What can I say Moosey, I'm a man of my word." Gabriel gave a cheeky grin. Sam just looked at him, obviously unamused. Sure, he missed the guy, but there were times Gabe always seemed to pop in at the wrong time.
"Well, I'm trying to do a job here, if you don't mind."
"Not at all, short stalk." Then Sam turned and heard the flutter of wings behind him before he continued to go the direction he was before he was interrupted, until he felt like Gabriel was following him.
"Dammit, Gabriel!" he turned to face the guy, but instead he was face to face with Dean.
"Oh, hey. I thought you were Gabriel." Sam turned to start walking.
"Why would you think I was some poor excuse of an angel?" Sam knew Dean wasn't too much of a fan of Gabe's, so he just shrugged.
"Sorry man, find anything?"
"Nah, nothing but leaves, twigs and spider webs."
Sam then felt his phone give off a vibrate and he pulled it out as he continued to walk, leading Dean. When Sam looked at his phone, he saw it was a message from Dean.
He froze for a second and looked at the message.
'Found some house about twenty minutes from where we split up.'
Sam closed his phone before he put his hand in his jacket, grabbing the gun with the silver bullets and turned to the guy behind him.
"Remember when we were kids and mom took us camping in woods similar to these?" He figured he'd definitely know this Dean was fake if he fell for this load of shit.
"Oh, yeah. When was that again?"
Sam straightened up a little and pulled his hand out, pointing the gun to the guy before shooting him instantly in the heart.
"Only in a dream." He watched as the shapeshifter collapsed onto the ground before he pulled his phone back out and called Dean. As the phone rang, he heard a flap of wings nearby. Looking beside him, he saw Gabriel again.
"I'm starting to think you have an obsession." Sam muttered before he heard Dean's voicemail.
"Cheer up, kid. I'm here to help."
"I don't need your help Gabriel, you've done enough."
"I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get mixed signals. First you complain I leave after asking to meet up and now you want me to go away?"
"You're the one who claimed to bring danger if people saw us together, not me."
"Yeah, well sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Besides, I figured you and Dean-a-reno have faced a lot and I'm sure a couple angels after my ass, maybe a few demons even, are nothing compared to everything else you've dealt with. So, why don't you catch me up on what's been going on. Did Dean and Cassie tie the knot yet? Am I going to be an uncle?"
Sam looked at the guy like he was insane.
"No, neither of those happened. Why would you even ask that?"
Gabriel shrugged as he soon began leading the guy to where Dean happened to be waiting.
"Don't tell me you can't see how much they dance around each other. Cas is the only one who'd ever answer to Dean in a heartbeat, most of the time anyway. And Dean, well he seems to always flirt with Cas in a way he doesn't even realize it. I think if you put those two in a room alone for a day, they'll be bonded in no time."
"Bonded?"
"Yeah, I guess marriage is a close enough term but it's still not anywhere near the bond. Ya see, when an angel and human, or angel and angel, love each other very much they form a bond. It's either by giving a feather from the wing to the other, or an intimate bond that is only able.to happen with humans. Once an angel finds 'the one' and the two do the whole dick in the butt thing, the angel can form a very strong bond that connects the angels grace and the humans soul. Sounds kind of awkward, I know, but once it's done the human can see the angels wings and even parts of the grace without getting their eyes burned out of their skull."
Sam was silent as he listened. He looked at Gabriel and wondered what his wings looked like. Eventually the tall hunter shook the thought from his mind, or at least shoved it in the far corner like he did with other thoughts if Gabriel.
"Cassidy wants to bond with Dean but he's afraid of rejection." Gabriel added which made Sam look at him.
"How do you know he wants to?"
"I've known Cas for a very long time. Hell, I even took care of him some when we were both in Heaven, if anyone knows a lot about me it's him, same goes from me about him." After he said that, Sam had a lot more questions to ask, but according to Gabriel they were nearing the place Dean was at.
"Just go straight and you'll find the place within a couple minutes. Catchya round Sam-a-lam." Gabe gave a wink before he disappeared before Sam could ask him any questions about his past or about the bonding thing.
Once Gabriel was gone, Sam took the directions and headed down the route he was sent on. Eventually he came up to a house, but no sign of Dean. Not even two minutes rolled by before Sam heard a crash and went running to the door and kicked it in.
"Dean?!"
