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So this is kind of a sad chapter, just to warn you, but never fear. It's all part of the plan.
There is recognizable dialogue from "Point of No Return" and "Hammer of the Gods." That might tell just what is going to happen. I'm sorry, don't shoot!
Three more chapters after this and then we'll have the sequel.
Sometimes Dean really fucking hated it when he was right. The happiness didn't last because two days later Team Michael resurrected Adam and decided to use him as a vessel if Dean wasn't going to say yes.
Cas had gotten to him first but he didn't trust Dean and Sam and tipped Zachariah off in a dream and he vanished. Cas took Dean and Sam to Van Nuys where apparently the Beautiful Room was kept. In was in a warehouse of all places and there were five angels on the inside.
Cas had taken off his tie "I'll clear them out. You two grab the boy. This is our only chance" he had said.
"Whoa, wait" Dean grabbed his arm "You're gonna take on five angels?"
"Yes."
Dean didn't like this plan, didn't like it at all "Isn't that suicide?"
"Maybe it is" he held up a box cutter "but what other choice do we have?"
"I won't let you do this."
"Dean, there's every chance I might survive" it was damn clear Cas was in full on warrior of God mode now.
"What do you mean might?"
"We carve the banishing sigil on my chest, I banish the other angels, myself included leaving the way clear for you."
"No way."
"Dean, there's no time for anything else."
"Dean" Sam put a hand on his shoulder "Cas is right. Adam's in there."
Dean swallowed took the knife from Cas and kissed him, "You survive this and you will or so help me…and you come back to me, you understand?"
"I will always come back to you Dean."
…
Dean had said yes simply to distract King Zachariah of the Douches long enough to jab the angel blade through his skull. He and Sam got out of there just in time but the door slammed on Adam.
So now Adam was probably playing host to Michael and Cas was missing. Dean had called Chuck to ask where Cas had been blasted to but the prophet only said "All I know is that he's alive, more or less. I'm sorry, Dean I don't know more than that and I would tell you if I did."
Dean and Sam were driving along a stormy interstate in Indiana when they decided they needed to refuel or they'd be no good to Cas or Adam. Well Sam decided. And that's what brought them to the Elysian Fields Hotel.
…
"I don't think you should go" Hermes glared down at him, arms crossed and looking much like a petulant child.
Gabriel sighed "And why's that?"
"Kali's up to something. She wouldn't have invited you if she wasn't."
"Maybe she just wants to see me."
"After the way it ended between you two? Yeah right."
Gabriel ran a hand through his hair "Maybe I want to see her."
"You were over her decades ago. Like I don't know how you feel about Sam Winchester."
Gabriel's cheeks flushed against his will "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Uh huh, sure you don't."
"Look if you're so worried why don't you come with me?"
Hermes flopped down on the couch "No way. One not only were the Olympians not even told about this little get together, I don't like any of those freaks."
"Isn't Mercury one of your children?"
"Don't remind me" he sighed "I just have a bad feeling Dad."
Gabriel patted his arm "I'll be careful I promise."
Hermes closed his eyes "You should probably go, Sam's praying to me. He and Dean are there."
Gabriel groaned "Of course they are."
"Place is warded against Olympians anyway. Be safe."
…
Gabriel stood outside the doors to the ballroom listening for a few minutes before going in. He heard what sounded like a chandelier crashing to the floor and then Kali saying "Stay. We have to fight. The archangels - the only thing they understand is violence. This ends in blood. There is no other way, it's them, or us."
Gabriel rolled his eyes, you're one to talk Kali, the destroyer.
Then he heard Mercury's voice, for a bloodthirsty Roman, the kid inherited some of his father's intelligence "With all due respect ma'am, we haven't even tried talking to them." He made a choking sound and Gabriel was about to go in there because the kid was still his grandson when he heard Baldur shout
"Kali!"
"Who asked you?" Kali practically snarled and that's when Gabriel decided to make his entrance.
He blew the doors open and stepped in "Can't we all just get along?" and look who should be standing right there but the Winchesters.
Dean almost said his name but Gabriel made him choke on the word.
"Sam! Dean... It's always wrong place, worst time with you muttonheads, huh?" One look at Sam's eyes and he knew he was no longer here to talk Kali out of doing something stupid. He had to save Sam and his idiot brother by default. And it was the perfect chance to talk to Dean about his stupidity with Castiel.
"Loki" Baldur said.
Gabriel stepped past the brothers "Baldur" he said with just as much contempt. "Good seeing you too. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail."
"Why are you here?"
"To talk about the elephant in the room. Not you," he added to Ganesh who looked indignant "The Apocalypse. We can't stop it, gang. But first things first." He turned to Sam and Dean "The adults need to have a little conversation. Check you later." He snapped his fingers and sent them to their room. He left a copy of himself with the gods, as he was way more powerful than them it was easy to fool them and he joined the Winchesters.
He got there in time to hear Dean say "I-I-I... I don't know. Grab those poor saps outta the freezer, I guess? Bust 'em out? Gank a few freaks along the way if we're lucky?"
"And when are you ever lucky?" Gabriel leaned back in the chair.
Dean glared at him and snapped "Well you know what, bite me, Gabriel."
Gabriel smirked "Well gee, I would but I could never do that to little Cassie."
"I should've known. I mean this had your stink all over it from the jump."
Gabriel stood up "You think I'm behind this? Please. I'm the Costner to your Houston. I'm here to save your ass."
"You wanna pull us outta the fire?"
"Bingo! Even though you" he poked Dean in the chest "don't deserve it. But Castiel would never forgive me otherwise. Those guys are either gonna dust you, or use you as bait. Either way, you're uber boned."
Dean's eye twitched at the mention of Castiel but he ignored it "Wow, 'cause a couple of months ago you were telling us that we need to "play our roles". You're uber boning us!"
Gabriel rolled his eyes "Ohh... The end is still nigh. Michael and Lucifer are gonna dance the Lambada, but not tonight. Not here."
"And why do you care?"
Gabriel refused to look at Sam, it was kind of easy considering he hadn't said a word yet "I thought I already made it obvious. But, there's more, me and Kali we, uh, had a thing. Chick was all hands. What can I say? I'm sentimental."
Sam finally spoke up "Do they have a chance? Against Satan?"
Dean stared at his brother "Really, Sam?"
"You got a better idea, Dean?"
"It's a bad idea." Gabriel said "Lucifer's gonna turn them into finger paint. So let's get going while the going's good, hmm?"
"O.K. Great, why don't you just zap us outta here then?" said Dean.
"Would if I could, but Kali's got you by the short and curlies. It's a blood spell. You boys are on a leash."
"What does that mean?"
"It means it's time for a bit of the old black magic" Gabriel materialized some breath spray and spritzed his mouth.
"Okay, yeah. Well, whatever." He was going to say more surely but Gabriel had one more thing to do before seducing Kali.
He shoved Dean against the wall "Hermes told me you and Castiel resolved your issues."
"Yeah so why…?"
"Gabriel" Sam said in a warning tone.
"Where is he?" Gabriel asked.
Dean didn't answer so Gabriel had a look for himself and he shivered but kept his grip on Dean "Listen Dino, when you find him, he's gonna be weakened, almost human."
Dean blinked "Really?"
"That's what you get for carving the banishing sigil in your chest when you're already cut off from the home office. But listen closely grease-monkey, if you ever hurt Castiel again, I will end you, understand?" Gabriel allowed the shadow of his wings to appear on the wall behind him and his eyes to flash angel blue.
Dean nodded and Gabriel released him to slump against the wall.
After a minute Dean cleared his throat "Well, we're, uh, we're gonna take the hors d'oeuvres in the freezer with us."
"Forget it. It's gonna be hard enough sneaking you mooks outta here."
Dean got his composure back, damn it "They called you Loki, right? Which means they don't really know who you are?"
"Told you. I'm in witness protection."
"O.K., well then how about you do what we say, or we tell the, uh, Legion of Doom about your secret identity. They don't seem like a real pro-angel kind of crowd."
Gabriel glared at him "I'll take your voices away."
"We'll write it down."
"I'll cut off your hands."
"Well then, people are gonna be asking, "Why are you guys running around with no hands?""
Gabriel huffed "Fine."
Sam spoke again, finally but he had his puppy dog eyes on "Gabriel, Hermes told me that you were the most beloved of archangels because you actually liked helping people." Fucking guilt-tripping.
"I said fine!"
…
So his plan didn't exactly work but he faked his death easily enough and then he hid out in the Impala. He got Dean's attention when he led the human captives outside.
"Psst! Dean! Don't look at me! Act natural. Get in."
Dean slid into the front seat "Man, there is nothing natural about this at all. I thought you were dead."
"You think I'd give Kali my real sword?" He said as if it were the most obvious thing "That thing can kill me!"
"Then what do they have in there?"
"A fake! Made it out of a can of diet orange Slice. So, uh, go snag our blood, would ya?"
"What?"
"I heard you in there. Kali likes you. You can get close. Lift the plasma, then we vamoose."
"No. Hand over the real blade. Better yet, why don't you sack up and help us take down Lucifer."
Gabriel stared at him "You can't be serious?"
"Deadly."
"Since when are you butt buddies with a bunch of monsters? That's all they are to you, aren't they?"
"Alright, you know, Sam was right. It's nuts but it's the best idea I've heard, so unless you have a better one?"
Gabriel really didn't like this plan "Well, good luck with that. Me? I'm blowing Jonestown. Those lemmings wanna run off a cliff, that's their business."
"I see right through you, you know that? The smart-ass shell, the whole "I could give a crap" thing? Believe me, it takes one to know one."
"That so?"
"Yes. And maybe those freaks in there aren't your blood but they are your family."
"They just stabbed me in the friggin heart!"
"Maybe, but you still give a crap about 'em, don't you?"
Kali was okay, and Odin wasn't bad, then there was Mercury who was Gabriel's grandson, even though the kid wasn't aware of it "Dean."
"Now they're gonna die in there, without you."
But despite all that "I can't kill my brother."
"Can't or won't? That's what I thought." Dean left the car, leaving Gabriel with his very confused and guilt ridden thoughts.
Gabriel ran a hand through his hair and groaned "Damn it." Now he's had a guilt trip from Castiel, Hermes, Sam and Dean. And honestly, he didn't think the elder Winchester cared enough to guilt trip him. Son of a bitch.
Don't shoot! I know, I dislike keeping things canon as well, but it had to happen. That doesn't mean it's going to stay that way though. nudge, nudge.
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