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So this is the end of this story... but fear not, the sequel is already in the making!

Epilogue

"Hello, brother," Gabriel stated in a calm tone that was in stark contrast to the panicked reaction the other angel displayed at the archangel's sudden appearance. Not that Gabriel had expected that particular brother to be overjoyed to see him again after a couple millennia.

"None of that now, Metatron," the archangel commented casually when the other angel tried to flee. "I'm just here for a little talk between brothers."

A snap of Gabriel's fingers later, Metatron found himself completely unable to move. The archangel had to admit that he had never been too fond of their father's secretary, but he hadn't simply decided to be cruel either. If Gabriel had been in his brother's position, he would have resorted to the dirtiest tricks he was capable of to get away, after all. The sooner Metatron fully realized that there was no getting away, the sooner they could have a serious and hopefully productive talk.

"So, you finally got me," Metatron replied, trying and failing to mask just how nervous the archangel's appearance made him. To tell the truth, the angel was a little surprised that it was Gabriel of all people who had finally located him. To be more precise, he was surprised that one of the archangels had come to collect him personally.

"Don't flatter yourself, I've only been looking for about a week," Gabriel retorted, pulling a lollipop out of the pocket of his jacket and unwrapping it. The archangel wasn't sure, if his older brothers had ever given up their search for Metatron, but it seemed likely that it hadn't been somewhere on top of the list of priorities for quite some time.

"How did you find me?" the seraph asked with a groan. It didn't look like Gabriel would go smite-happy in the next few seconds, so Metatron might at least find out what the shortcomings of his hiding place had been. The angel belatedly realized that he had taken a bit of a disrespectful tone with the archangel, so he quickly added in the most respectful tone he could muster up, "Inquiring minds would like to know."

"It looks like we have a mutual friend," Gabriel answered, his tone giving away that he was amused by his brother's, clearly forced display of respect. The archangel wasn't sure if his brother had enough of a backbone to fake his respect as badly as he had, or if Metatron just was a bad actor, but it had been funny to watch, anyway. "Coyote thinks you're amusing, by the way."

Metatron didn't have anything to say to that. It was a well known fact that angels didn't get along with the pagan gods, so the seraph wouldn't have thought that Coyote would have ratted him out to an angel. Apparently, that had been a mistake.

"In case you haven't gotten the news," Gabriel said casually, waving his lollipop in front of his brother's face while he was speaking, "I'm not exactly with heaven anymore."

For all the archangel knew, Metatron had been rather sheltered for a long time. The various protections around the place were designed to keep all things heavenly out, which Gabriel had managed to bypass, by using his not exactly heavenly side. Chances were the seraph wasn't even listening to angel radio anymore.

"Hell isn't exactly my thing, either," Gabriel went on talking, "It's too bad that this entire pesky Apocalypse was only designed for those two sides."

The archangel was walking around his trapped brother in a big circle, allowing Metatron to move his head, so he could follow Gabriel's movements. The room was filled with books, floor to ceiling. The archangel couldn't help thinking that his younger brother and Sam Winchester probably had about the same idea of what their perfect room had to look like. The thought of Sammy getting his geek on with all the books Metatron had collected made Gabriel smile.

"What do you want?" the seraph asked warily. At least, it didn't sound like the archangel was going to hand him over to heaven. However, there had do be a gigantic catch. Gabriel obviously wanted something, otherwise he wouldn't have put any kind of work into finding him, Metatron was sure. Not to mention that the archangel was holding him in place, taking away every chance of escape the seraph might have had, and he surely had had a reason to do that.

"Isn't it obvious? Information," Gabriel explained, standing in front of his brother to look him directly in the eyes once more. "If anybody knows more about those little loopholes daddy liked to put into all his big plans, just in case he changed his mind, than I do, it's you."

"What's in it for me?" Metatron wanted to know, eyeing the archangel his voice took on a bit of a petulant note. If the seraph was going to share a few of his most precious secrets with the archangel, there'd better be something in it for him. That Metatron knew a couple of things even the archangels didn't, was the reason why he had gone into hiding in the first place, but it was also one of the little things the seraph could pride himself with. Knowledge was power, after all.

"Other than me not being really pissed off?" Gabriel retorted in a sickeningly sweet tone, before his voice turned completely serious, "Revenge."

The archangel could tell the exact moment when he had won his brother over. Revenge was a great motivator for a lot of things, very few of them good, but Gabriel knew how to take this into the right direction. Metatron getting some sort of satisfaction out of it that was a side-effect he could live with.

"Right now we want the same thing, Metatron," Gabriel stated, snapping his fingers to allow his brother to move again, "No more archangels."

To be continued in "46 Days Later"

The first chapter will be posted on Sunday October 13th.