**I don't know if it could truly be considered this, but there are Parks and Rec spoilerish things in this chapter**
Gabriel barged through the front door. "Do you want to witness the miracle that is life?"
"What did you do?" Sam asked setting his book down on the couch.
"What do you think I did?"
Sam eyed him carefully, "I don't know. Maybe you had a fling nine months ago, or your sister was having a baby, or maybe you're just being strange like always."
Gabriel laughed, "You're awful calm for someone who thinks I knocked a girl up." Sam shrugged. "Well I didn't do anything. Stella said her rabbit was having babies, and honestly I don't want to see it either, but y'know."
"I'm glad it's just the rabbit."
Gabriel sat on the couch next to him, "Me too." He agreed. "Oh hey, Castiel called and he said that they're throwing my mom a party for her big six-o and they want everyone there. And I know you've never met any of my family besides Cassie, but I'm gonna go. I have to go. D'you wanna come too? Please?"
"I'm really getting the vibes that you don't want to go home alone."
"Shh!" Gabriel put his finger up to Sam's lips, "Don't tell them that."
"Yeah, sure. I'd love to go with you."
After reuniting with Castiel a little over a year ago, the only family Gabriel had really talked with had been their mother. The rest of their family was still kind of touchy, but for their mother's sake they promised not to say anything about his absence, or the fact that he was bringing someone only Castiel had met. There was no doubt it would be awkward, but they'd all inevitably have a few beers and all tension would be let out, positively or negatively Gabriel had no clue, but he honestly didn't care.
The morning before they left they stopped off at Stella's house, giving her the apartment keys before they left. Sam just hoped the only thing missing from their apartment by the time they got back would be the contents of their kitchen.
"You cannot tell me you preferred her with Tom." Sam exclaimed. "There was nothing there, at all."
"He's better than Mark. At least Tom was trying to have fun."
"Next you're gonna tell me you liked Leslie with Dave rather than Ben."
Gabriel scoffed, "Absolutely not! Besides, bringing up Ben is like bringing up Chris."
"He doesn't count right now."
"You would prefer Brendanawicz."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Face it, you are basically the same."
"Oh please." Sam rolled his eyes. "Tell me one thing that's similar."
"I'm sure there's something…" He trailed off.
"Exactly!"
They'd been arguing about Parks and Rec for a third of the ride to St. Louis and there seemed to be no end in sight until they reached a compromise, agreeing they'd finish the conversation when they weren't on a highway filled with other cars.
At almost the exact halfway point in their drive Sam pulled over at a gas station. Gabriel looked at him questioningly. "I've been driving for three hours and now I need to pee."
"No one's stopping you."
When he got back to the car Gabriel was in the driver's seat impatiently tapping the steering wheel. "It's my turn." He exclaimed. A look of panic flashed across Sam's face, not because of the car, but because he couldn't think of a time when he'd ever seen Gabriel drive. "Don't worry. I drive better than Stella does."
"When was the last time you drove?"
"Dunno, two, three." He shrugged.
"Two or three what? No, I'm driving."
"No, I'm driving. Get in the car." He patted the passenger seat.
Giving in, Sam opened the door and sat, making sure the seat belt was tight. What seemed to baffle Sam the most was the fact that Gabriel was driving like he never stopped in the first place.
Gabriel parked the car outside his family's house, and sat there staring at it. There were four other cars there, including the Impala, which meant Castiel had brought Dean, and suddenly he wasn't as confident as he was before.
"Maybe we shouldn't."
"We don't have to" Sam placed a hand on his shoulder. "But I think you should."
"Yeah, alright. Now or never, I guess." He got out of the car before he turned the car back on and kept driving.
He knocked on the front door. Anna, his sister, opened it and stood there a moment just staring. "Gabriel."
"Anna."
She laughed and hugged him causing him to stumble of the front step. "You've been gone too long!"
"I know." She dragged him into the house straight into the living room where their mom, Castiel, and Dean were.
His mother got up from the couch and enveloped him in a hug. "Don't you dare do something like that again!"
"I won't, I promise."
"Good. Who's your friend?" She asked addressing Sam who was standing in the doorway awkwardly.
"Sam… Sam Winchester." He stuck his hand out.
"Like Dean? I didn't realize how popular that last name was." She said shaking his hand.
Dean laughed, "He's my brother."
"Oh. Well, it's nice to meet you." She turned back to Gabriel, "Put your things in your room, then I want you to tell me everything."
Somehow he'd forgotten that he shared a room with Michael, and that they'd both be there for the weekend. There were two twin beds, one with a navy blue comforter, the other covered in dinosaur sheets. Gabriel was just glad they'd decided against the bunk beds when they were fifteen and eleven.
"You'll never guess which bed is mine."
"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the dinosaurs."
"Wow. How'd you guess?" Gabriel dropped their bag in front of the bed. "Hey, Mom seems to like you at least."
"I don't think this is going to be as bad as you think it is."
"Yeah, well you haven't met Michael and Lucifer. Something'll happen there."
"Don't worry." He looked back over at the bed and started laughing. "I'm sorry, I just, you had dinosaur sheets until you were eighteen?"
Gabriel blushed, "Nineteen."
"That's really cute." Sam pulled him closer and kissed him.
Michael barged into the room and they pulled away quickly, "Okay one, if we're sharing a room this weekend, don't do that. And two, dinner's almost ready."
"S'good to see you too brother."
Michael started to leave but turned back, "Y'know I thought it'd be a stretch inviting you. I didn't even think you'd come. But, thanks for proving me wrong." He smiled and disappeared down the hallway.
"See, there's nothing to worry about."
"Mikey and I have been slaving over this all day," Lucifer said, "So you better pretend you like it."
"It looks great." Mrs. Novak said, "Thank you."
The dinner that actually felt like he'd never left in the first place, Gabriel was thankful. And they accepted Sam into all of it, which was a bonus. They all sang Happy Birthday off key, twice, and it was great. By the end of the night Mrs. Novak ended up with a large bouquet of flowers, two coffee mugs, a book and a painting.
Mrs. Novak, Dean, Castiel, and Michael had turned in for the night.
"So how'd you two meet?" Anna asked resting her head in her hands on the table.
"I killed a lizard." Sam stated. She looked at him like he'd gone crazy.
"I brought home a lizard from outside and it got in his house."
"Honestly from all the other stuff you said happened, I'm surprised you weren't his lawyer first."
Gabriel shrugged, "Me too."
"I think you took all the crazy with you. In the almost ten years you missed, you didn't miss anything." Lucifer said.
"Nothing? Man, if I could give it share it with you that'd be great."
"I don't know if I want it."
"You probably don't." Sam agreed.
The time reached almost one in the morning and they headed off to sleep.
"Wow, there is no room in this bed." Sam said.
"It would have worked if you weren't such a giant."
"I'm so sorry, let me just shrink a few inches."
Gabriel rolled his eyes, "So we have to spoon the whole night, how's that any different from any other night?"
"If you can't be quiet, I recommend the living room." Michael said reaching over and turning the light out. The talking stopped with the absence of light and soon all three were asleep.
Sam woke up to light pouring in from the window. Smiling to himself, he rolled over and met a pair of golden eyes.
"Did you know we've been together one whole year." he whispered.
Gabriel smiled sleepily, "Really? Feels longer." He whispered back.
"I don't know whether or not to be offended."
Gabriel kissed him, "Don't be."
If Michael hadn't been in the bed on the other side of the room and they hadn't been in Gabriel's old room, something raunchy probably would have happened, but they decided to wait until they left later that evening and got at least halfway home.