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"Guys? I'm worried about Gabriel."

Dean and Bobby turned their heads almost simultaneously when Sam had uttered these words with great concern in his voice, and when they looked in the young hunters face, they could see his concern all too well.

"What is it Sam? What is wrong with Gabriel?" Dean wanted to know immediately and a hint of his own concern was heard in his voice.

"I haven't seen him for hours. Earlier, he said he wanted to go outside and since then I haven't seen him. Do you know where he is?"

Bobby and Dean exchanged worried glances before their eyes turned back to Sam.

It needed no words to Sam to answer his question and the younger Winchester sighed and dropped his shoulders.

"Sorry Sam," Bobby tried, but his encouraging words didn't work, because the young hunter had turned his head away again and disappeared into the living room.

"What's wrong with him?" the oldest hunter wanted to know and he looked at Dean questioningly.

Dean sighed, before he started to respond.

"You know, Bobby, since Gabriel is now on our side he and Sam have befriended. It is similar like me and Cas. The two are almost like best friends and I can understand him, that he is worried about Gabriel's strange behavior. It is bad enough that we lost Cas. To lose even Gabriel now would be too much, especially for Sammy."

"I can understand his situation very well Dean, but we have to control our emotions. We must be strong and must keep a cool head. You heard what our Archangel said. What if Cas has really changed to the dark side? That would be disastrous! Especially if he is this special angel Lucifer has spoken of. We have to keep calm and make no mistakes now, do you understand?"

"I know Bobby, but we can't change it. I'm also very worried about Cas and Gabriel."

"I'm sure Gabriel is doing well. He has already experienced some other things, I am sure. He will calm down and you would do well to do the same."

"We will try Bobby."

Dean stood up and took the bottle of beer, which had stood next to him on the little table and took a swig before he turned his back on Bobby.

"I will first talk to Sammy. And if Gabe is here again, I'll talk to him as well. We'll find a solution to the problem. We have always managed to find a way out of the darkness!"

Without waiting for an answer, Dean left the small room and Bobby could see, as he flopped down on the old sofa next to his brother and reassuring put an arm around his shoulders.

Hopefully Dean would be able to calm Sam down a bit.

He looked away after some time and turned his eyes back to the book he had just read...

Several hundred miles away from them, the world was quite different.

With fire in his eyes Gabriel reached out and slapped his opponent again in the face, but his prisoner threw back his head and let out a loud, sardonic laugh, which brought the rage in the body of the Archangel to blaze.

"Stop laughing and answer my questions, demon!" He growled and he reached out to hit him again.

A pair of pitch black eyes glared gleefully and mocking at the same time and the demons lips curled into a wide grin.

"You can beat me as often as you like. I will tell you nothing."

"Oh yes, you'll do that!"

And a new blow struck the demon, this time exactly in the stomach, but it did not even seem to bother him, because he laughed loudly yet again.

"If the good Jack knew that he is being beaten up by an angel of the Lord...I'm sure he would be ready for the insane asylum. You have to know that he was a devout man before I took his body," the demon sneered and his grin widened as the eyes of the angel darkened.

Gabriel had to calm himself down because this demon provoked him good.

He had a task that had to be dealt with and he wanted to finish it as quickly as possible.

"I ask you one last time: Where is my little brother?!"

Almost black eyes began to sparkle in front of him and a dark chuckle escaped the throat of the demon.

"I've already told you. Your little brother is long gone. I have even seen how Lucifer has finished him. He is dead. Don't you get it? He will never come back to you...and maybe he's even happy about that..."

And another blow followed in which the demon began to feel the full wrath of the archangel, because this time came a low, pained gasp from his throat.

But it does not take long and he grinned broadly yet again.

"Yes, come on! Hit me one more time! That turns me on."

Gabriel narrowed his eyes to thin slits and he clenched his hands into fists.

"You disgust me you son of a bitch," he growled.

"And I don't believe a single word! I know my brother well enough to know that he is alive!"

"Oh no Gabriel, he is no more. He has left you. Just as you've left your daddy and you flee, like a little cowardly chicken. I am sure Daddy is just glad to finally be rid of you and your brothers will think so too. "

That was the straw that broke the camel's back now and with a quick movement Gabriel had grabbed the demon by the collar of his shirt and looked right into those deep black and with sarcasm dripping eyes.

"Don't you dare to speak about my family like that! I'm warning you! One more word and I'll kill you, do you understand me?! I can find another demon and interrogate him!"

"And this demon will tell you the exact same thing as me. Accept it Gabriel. Castiel is dead. He will never come back to you again!"

"That's enough!"

Within a few seconds, Gabriel had reached for his angel blade and rammed it into the demon's stomach.

With a laugh on his lips the demon died before his eyes and then there was silence in the small room.

Gabriel just didn't know how many times he had to repeat this procedure.

A demon after another he had taken and interrogated, but they all had said the same thing and slowly he began to doubt whether they had said the truth about his little brother or not.

The angel blade slipped from his hand, clattered to the ground and only a little later the archangel followed, fell to his knees and he buried his hands in his short hair.

"Forgive me father. For all I've done...and that I couldn't protect my little brother... please...I beg you for forgiveness..."

But Gabriel received no answers to his prayers, no matter how many times he repeated it this evening.

It was hopeless for him.

All hope was lost...