"If you tell anyone that, I'll deny it." Lucifer said. "I have a reputation to uphold after all. I didn't realize that what was hidden behind that wall would leak through."
"I didn't want to leave you in the cage." Sam said. "Why did you have to be halfway decent?"
"You were my true vessel Sam. It was my duty to you." Lucifer said. "As soon as I had time to get over you tossing me back into a cage I had spent a couple thousand years trying to get out of, I remembered that.
Michael was none too happy and took as much of his frustration out on you as I did. I saw what was happening and realized that he and I both were breaking one of our father's greatest laws. A true vessel is a rare treasure. It's a serious crime to deliberately cause irreparable harm to one even if it is not your own. Didn't ever occur to you that I gave Dean a lot of leeway?"
"Wait a minute. You guys can't harm each other's vessels? Then how in the hell did Gabriel get away with killing Dean more than 100 times?" Sam asked.
"Gabriel always was a slick little shit. He used a loophole." Lucifer explained. "He never intended to permanently kill Dean so as long as he brought him back it wasn't irreparable damage.
I have to admit Gabriel is even better at finding loopholes than I am. Who do you think was advising Johnny Cochran during the OJ Trial?"
Gabriel, Castiel and Joshua were on their way to Valhalla. Gabriel was looking forward to it since Hel tended to spend a lot of time there. And with the upcoming war Thor figured having all those dead warriors on his side was a great idea. So Thor was currently spending time with the warriors who would ride into battle with him.
"I should warn you guys, Valhalla is a pretty rough place." Gabriel warned. "I mean a bunch of bored dead warriors getting drunk usually ends with them fighting each other. But it's usually not that bad, unless the Berserkers join in."
"And your daughter spends an extraordinary amount of time in this place?" Castiel asked aghast at his niece hanging out with a bunch of warrior fighting each other.
"Well she is in charge of the underworld after all. She's used to dealing with the dead." Gabriel said.
The angels approached a long squat building when the doors suddenly flew open and two men tumbled out strangling each other. Gabriel nonchalantly stepped out of the way. "See what I mean?"
Castiel and Joshua gave each other a look before following Gabriel through the doors. The scene inside the building was utter chaos. Half the men were fighting each other, the other half were either grabbing at, feeling up or in some other way molesting the young women present.
Castiel turned a bright crimson when one of the men threw a woman over the table not 3 feet away, lifted her skirt over her head and proceeded to do what came naturally.
"Oops," Gabriel said. "Guess I should have warned you about the fornicating too."
Gabriel made his way to what Joshua recognized as the high board. Grabbing the staring Castiel, Joshua quickly followed in Gabriel's wake. Thor was sitting at the high board next to a frowning woman who looked like she would rather be anywhere else. Gabriel went directly to the woman and grabbed her up in his arms. She smiled down at Gabriel.
"How's Daddy's Girl?" Gabriel asked.
"Trying to accept the fact that I'm half angel. Must be the black half." She joked, hitching up her skirt to reveal her legs which were indeed black. "By the way Heimdallr came by looking for you. Did you pull the Ex-Lax prank on him again?"
"Who me?" Gabriel asked all innocence.
"You did didn't you?" She said exasperated. "One of these days Dad, he's going to kill you."
"Well it's his own fault for always falling for it." Gabriel said. "You would figure after 50 years he would know a chocolate laxative when he sees it."
"Loki, you know angering Heimdallr is not the smartest move." Thor said and nodded toward the door where the Giant stood glaring at the high board as the warriors had forgotten all about fighting among themselves more interested in seeing Heimdallr make mincemeat out of their resident prankster.
Gabriel could only think of two words appropriate for the situation "Oh shit!"
Gabriel let out a loud oof as he was dropped none too gently from Hiemdallr's shoulder. "The next time I won't be so nice!" The giant said.
Joshua was trying his best not to laugh and Castiel had given trying to hide his smirk as he helped the archangel to his feet. Valhalla's floor had more than a few cracks in it from where Heimdallr had decided to use Gabriel to reenact one of the funniest movie moments he had ever seen.
Castiel had actually gotten the reference and explained it to Joshua since Dean had insisted on watching The Avengers only a couple of weeks ago. Hiemdallr had grabbed Gabriel by his jacket and slammed him into the floor several times. Then to add insult to injury he had plopped his massive bulk onto Gabriel and used him for a cushion while joining in on the welcome toast for Castiel and Joshua.
By the time Heimdallr had gotten up everyone in the hall was breathless with laughter at Gabriel's struggles to heft the giant off of him. Heimdallr had then thrown Gabriel over his shoulder and said that he was going to take out the trash to the sound of renewed laughter.
"Nice? I'd hate to see you when you're being nasty!" Gabriel laughed.
"I knew better than that even when everyone still thought of you as Loki. It's my job to guard this place, do you really think you ever fooled me?" Hiemdallr asked. "I thought the idea of letting an angel in to wander around Asgard was a pretty good joke. I just had no idea that we'd never get rid of you!"
"I believe your son is coming, Gabriel." Castiel pointed to Fenrir making his way across the bridge.
"He's coming with. He always wanted to visit Midgard." Gabriel said digging his fingers into the wolf's ruff and it leaned against him. "Besides I think he might like taking a bite out of a hellhound or two."
Castiel and Gabriel popped into a crowded kitchen that evening. Fenrir smelled something mouthwatering and almost as soon as he materialized had placed his paws on Dean's leg reached up and wolfed down the double bacon cheeseburger that Dean was about to take a bite out of.
"Son of a bitch!" Dean yelled shoving back from the table so hard he ended up tipping his chair over. Before he could even register the fact that he was flat on his back on the kitchen floor a wet tongue was happily licking his face. Then Dean saw it was a wolf, and then the size of the wolf and (He will never admit this) screamed like a little girl. Gabriel couldn't tell who was more startled Dean or Fenrir who was now cowering behind the angel.
"What in God's name is that?!" Connor asked.
"Well it looks like a wolf to me." Murphy said. "A big one that likes double bacon cheeseburgers." He held out the slice of pizza he was holding towards the large wolf who poked his head out from around Gabriel's leg, sniffed the offering and wolfed that down too. "And pizza." Murphy said as he held his hand out for the wolf to sniff.
"Uh Gabriel is that who I think it is? Is that Fenrir?" Sam said looking at the huge wolf who had made his way over to Murphy who was taking the appearance of a giant wolf as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Who the hell is Fenrir!?" Dean yelled "And somebody owes me another cheeseburger!"
"So you were serious when you told us you were Loki?" Connor said shocked.
"I had to do something to pass the time when I left heaven." Gabriel shrugged. "Fenrir, stop trying to get in the saint's lap. How many times do I have to tell you, you're too big to be a lap dog!"
"Who is Fenrir?" Dean shouted.
Connor pointed at the wolf who was doing it's level best to climb into Murphy's lap. "That is Fenrir, Murphy's new best friend and Loki's son."
"You know if you did some real research once in a while Dean, you'd know that." Sam said. "I've known who Fenrir is since Crawford Hall. I figured it would help to know all the lore about Tricksters in case we ran across another one. But we just kept running into the same one."
"Yeah, like a chronic case of jock itch." Dean said.
"Well if it wasn't pretty boy angel's following you around." Gabriel said suddenly shifting into the host of the game show Nutcracker, "My super secret identity would still be safe."
"Gabriel does have interesting offspring." Castiel said. "Dean you will be pleased to know that I can no longer argue with you for calling Gabriel a horse's ass."
"Guess you met Sleipnir too." Sam said with a laugh.
"Gabriel introduced me to my niece and all of my nephews except for Jormungandr." Castiel said. "You would have enjoyed it Dean. Hiemdallr is a fan of The Avengers also."
"Castiel!" Gabriel said in warning.
"Am I not allowed to relate to Dean the amusing anecdote of Hiemdallr using you to reenact Dean's favorite scene in the movie?" Castiel asked innocently.
"No!" Gabriel said.
"This Hiemdallr used you to the break the floor?" Dean smirked. "Awesome!"