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Chapter 10

Sam and Eli pulled Dean to his feet, looking concerned. Gabriel reappeared in the room with the sound of wings, blowing a few stray papers off the desk.

"Sorry about that. Thought I would leave to make sure Elizabeth here didn't skewer me." Gabe said with a smirk on his face.

"Oh I still might." Eli said, taking the angel blade off of her bed and starting towards Gabriel again. A fluttering noise signaled that Castiel had now joined the occupants of the room. He walked quickly from in front of the door to stand between Gabriel and Eli, facing Gabriel with a look of anger on his face.

"Move, Cas." Elizabeth growled, her eyes turning black.

"Are you going to explain what you have been doing to the Winchesters, Gabriel? Because if you're not, I'm just going to let Elizabeth stab you." Cas asked, ignoring Eli's command.

"Yes! I'm here to explain, ok?" Gabriel exclaimed. Cas moved out of from between Eli and Gabriel as Sam and Dean came to stand next to her, putting their arms out to keep her from advancing towards Gabriel. Eli took a deep breath and calmed down, her eyes returning to their normal green color.

"And I thought Sam and Dean were the dysfunctional ones." Gabe muttered under his breath.

"Start talking." Dean said.

"Alright, alright," he began, "So you had a little walk down memory lane the past few days, huh? All the greatest hits? Except... Some of them you've never seen before, right? There was the time I put Sam through a little spell in Hell, Sam was present while Dean was speaking to him after he had died, Elizabeth spent time in a prison yard, and Dean's last vision. Dean, would you like to share what you saw with the class?"

"Well... I mean, it was weird. I couldn't move or open my eyes. And there was this anger inside of me that I couldn't explain. Then there was this British dude or whatever talking to me. He put something in my hand and I felt this heat on my arm. Then I woke up. But something was definitely off." Dean explained to an attentive Sam, Eli, and Cas.

"Yes! Well, you see, those weren't your memories."

"Obviously." Sam replied flatly.

"They were... wait for it... Your future!"

"What?" Eli asked.

"You heard me, those visions were your future. And they serve a purpose here. It's the lesson you see."

"What lesson?" Cas questioned.

"That's your future. Looks pretty sad and all around crappy, right? Well, of course it does. You have pain ahead of you. That's if you try to resist your destinies."

"So?" Dean asked Gabriel.

"So? So all this pain can be avoided!" Gabriel exclaimed, sounding exasperated, "You guys don't want to be hurt, don't get in the hurt's way. Listen to Michael and Lucifer and you won't go through all of that in the future!"

"But we also will be in a death match with each other. At least we will have a future by going our own way." Eli responded.

"But you will have a future afterwards too!"
"Maybe," Sam said, "If we don't get killed."

"And anyways, we don't really want to live in a post-apocalyptic world. We would rather save this one or go down swinging." Dean finished.

"Fine. If you chuckleheads want to run yourselves into the ground, feel free. Just leave me out of it. And never say I didn't try to save you idiots." Gabriel said. And with a snap of his fingers, he left the room.