"Wow! Sammy is really...roomy." Gabriel said. "Like one of those land yachts they made back in the 70's and called them cars."

"Yeah, well don't get too comfortable." Dean said. "You're not staying."

"Doesn't mean I can't enjoy it while I've got it." Gabriel snarked snapping up a Hershey's bar. "Hey!"

Dean grabbed the bar and tossed it in the trash. "Stop trying to fill him up with chocolate! And aren't you supposed to be hiding in there?"

"I am hiding." Gabriel said. "There's a barrier that surrounds my grace and keeps it from leaking out."

"So you're not broadcasting." Dean said "What about other angels. They can sense you."

"All they can sense is the angel that they expect to be in here." Gabriel said. "When we were all still in Heaven I would imitate Lucifer. I was good enough to fool Michael. I'm good enough to fool anyone else that might come looking."

"Besides Lucifer never was Kemuel's biggest fan even before all this crap started." Gabriel explained.

"So you going to tell me what happened?" Dean asked. "I mean if the devil hates this guy, he must really be a douche."

"You know I'm really getting tired of hearing you call my brothers douche." Gabriel said.

"Last I heard all three of you Arch asshats wanted him taken out." Dean said. "I think that pretty much proves the guy is a douche."

"Dad appointed Lucifer the Steward of this world. It's impossible for you to understand how much Luci loved this place. When Kemuel and I were fledglings, he would bring us down here and point out all the wonders that Dad had created." Gabriel said. "Then Dad created the Leviathan. Kemuel loved those things, then one day they found this planet. Dad had plans for this place, plans that didn't include having it eaten by Leviathan. So he ordered us to lock them in Purgatory. Lucifer knew that Kemuel had a soft spot for them and excused him from taking part in the battle."

"So Lucifer gave him a pass." Dean said.

"Yeah and no sooner did we get them all locked up than Kemuel started talking to the Seraphs. They were pretty young back then and some listened to him." Gabriel said. "After all if God could just arbitrarily lock up one thing that he had created, what was to stop him from doing the same with the angels. So we found ourselves fighting again, only this time it was our brothers and sisters we were fighting against."

"And you asked God to spare his life?" Dean said. "You had to know it was going to come back and bite you in the ass."

"Are you telling me that you would stand back and just let someone kill Sam?" Gabriel huffed. "We're are all exactly where we are right now because you won't let Sam die. Stop being a hypocrite Dean. I didn't do anything that you wouldn't have done put in the same situation. That whole Mystery Spot thing was me trying to keep Sam from being as stupid as Mary, John, you and I had been."

"Hey!" Dean protested.

"Who was it that made a deal with a demon to bring Sam back from the great hunting grounds in the sky? You were stupid, deal with it." Gabriel said. "And even when Kemuel raised one of those bastards, I was still stupid. Instead of calling Michael to smite Kemuel, I tossed what would one day be Dick Roman back into Purgatory and then tossed my brother in behind him. Lucifer and Michael read me the riot act. Because they knew that one day the whole thing would jump up and bite me in the ass, now here I sit with the impression of teeth in my rear end because they were right."

"So what's to keep you from going soft again?" Dean asked. "How do I know you won't try to save him again?"

"He killed Kali. He's sacrificing innocent babies." Gabriel stood up and gave an exhausted sigh. "I'm tired of trying to save something that can't be saved. I may have thrown my brother into Purgatory, but what came back? This isn't my brother. Just like that soulless thing you hunted with for almost a year wasn't Sam. The only difference is that there's no pulling Kemuel's grace out of Purgatory because Dagon is not graceless. It's there, he still has it. It's just so corrupted that there's no saving it."

That Hindu bitch may have severed the connection between herself and Gabriel before he could use it but she had still been a wealth of information for Dagon. Things that Dagon had not known like the fact that Gabriel had been hiding on Earth as the Norse pagan Loki and what really went down when big brother got locked up. And the fact that perhaps he and Lucifer had more in common than Dagon originally thought. Gabriel had betrayed both of them.

Gabriel had stood by and watched while Michael had tossed Lucifer in the pit. He didn't lift a finger to stop it. Even though He had always been Lucifer's favorite brother. And Gabriel had fallen victim to an Archangel's blade in that hotel. The only other angel who had been there was Lucifer, called by the traitor Mercury.

So Lucifer had no qualms about stabbing his favorite brother and shattering his grace. How much easier would it be for Lucifer to stab the brother that had locked him inside of the cage to begin with, Michael.

Michael was a problem. Although father had stayed Michael's hand at Gabriel's plea. Michael had warned him all those eons ago that death would still be meted out at his hands. Michael was the only obstacle that Dagon had to face now. Gabriel was easily manipulated with a few well chosen words, Lucifer had been doubly stabbed in the back. Raphael had been killed by the Seraph Castiel. Michael would be standing alone while Dagon would lead the fallen with Lucifer's assistance.

Dagon sighed there was still the small problem of the cage, how to get Lucifer out of it. And of course winning Lucifer over to his side. That would be easier said than done. Lucifer held no love for the Leviathan, Dagon had to be careful , if Lucifer thought that Dagon meant to raise them, well Lucifer was never an Archangel to mess with. Dagon had been on the receiving end of more than one blow of discipline from the Morningstar. But for now the priority was to find Gabriel. He turned at the sound of footsteps.

"Dagon, you asked us to find you a witch." The fallen stood with a human woman. "I have done so. She says that she is familiar with summoning rituals."

Dagon turned and smiled at the woman. She was of middle years, good. Old enough to had the wisdom to perform a summons and young enough to have the endurance to do so. "Leave us." Dagon ordered.

"You are familiar with Summoning, good." Dagon said as the door closed behind the fallen one. "I wish you to summon a god for me."

The woman's eyes grew wide. "He said nothing of summoning a god. Gods cannot be compelled to a summoning. I can only perform the ritual to ask and then the god must choose to come."

"You are not as familiar with these rituals as you claim woman. Or you would know that they can be compelled." Dagon said. "Through human sacrifice."

Dagon walked over to a door opening it to reveal a small weeping child huddled fearfully on a bed. "I have acquired the sacrifice. You will summon Loki of the Norse Pantheon."

"Sam, sit down and relax." Balthazar said. "You were deathly ill only a day ago. You're certainly not strong enough to go chasing after your brother right now."

"I have to find Dean, Balthazar" Sam said as he stood up from the bed and swayed on his feet.

Balthazar moved quickly to ease him back down. "While I normally appreciate the famed Winchester determination, at this point in time it can only cause further problems. Dean is fine, Castiel is with him."

Balthazar let out a relieved breath as a scruffy looking young man appeared. "Father. Sam is rather determined to see his brother."

"Of course he would be determined to see him." God said pulling up a chair beside the bed. "Sam, you're looking much better. I know that you want to see for yourself that Dean is well but I cannot allow that. You still need to rest and Dean is involved in a quest specific to him. It's a quest that he must complete on his own, without help from you."

God waved his hand producing a steaming bowl of Beef and Crab soup. "You should eat Sam"

God stood up and took Balthazar's arm urging him away from Sam. "Keep him here at costs. The last thing we need is for him to run into Dean or worse himself."

"And when this is all over, what are we going to do with him?" Balthazar asked.

"What do you think? I will reunite him with himself." God said. "But for now he stays here."