Chapter 29: Love is in the air
The sun was rising when Gabriel got to the hospital for work. Jimmy and Sam were at the corridor, waiting for news.
"Cas." Gabriel called surprised and approached them. "Where have you been?" The tone showed he was worry and upset.
Jimmy stared at him for a while, to his brother he hadn't seen in many years. "I'm not Cas." It was all he said.
Gabriel was confused for a moment. "Oh my god… Jimmy." And Gabriel hugged his little brother he thought he was death. He figured it was Jimmy not by what he said, but by the way he said it. Gabriel was very happy for Jimmy being back, but… "Where's Cas?"
Jimmy and Sam resumed the events they had been through. The doctors had taken Castiel and Balthazar as soon as they arrived and they hadn't had any news since then. Gabriel was worried and went to see how Castiel was.
Twenty minutes later, Gabriel came back already dressed with the white uniform. "Cas'll be fine. They're making some exams, just to make sure he's ok."
Jimmy and Sam felt relieved. "About your other friend… he's at the operation room. That's all I know." Gabriel informed and then he turned to Sam. "Is your brother here?"
"Yes. He's at the infirmary." Sam said before Gabriel leave.
When he got in the infirmary he saw a nurse taking care of Dean's wounded wrists.
"Gabe… Late, as usual." His colleague girl said.
"I have a good excuse this time…" He had been looking for Castiel, he didn't even look at the time.
"Yeah, yeah… Just take care of this guy, will you?"
"Where are you going?" Gabriel asked her.
"It's needed assistance in a surgery. Unless you wanna go…"She said tapping the gauze on one of Dean's wrists.
"No, no. You go." Gabriel liked his job as a nurse, but assisting surgeries made him uncomfortable.
She smiled at him and got out the room.
Dean was sitting on a stretcher and he looked stressed. Gabriel approached him and held his other hand. "Oh, what happened to you?" He asked looking at Dean's wrist.
"You don't wanna know." Dean said looking down and avoiding the question.
"Too bad… I already talked to your brother." Gabriel showed him a smile. "The good thing is it's all over now." He concluded honestly.
Gabriel disinfected Dean's wound and put some gauze around his wrist. All the time Dean was quiet, which Gabriel found strange. "Are you ok?" He asked when he finished.
Dean gave him a look that meant 'I don't wanna talk about it'.
"Dean…" It wasn't for Dean to let everything in, so Gabriel had to make hi talk.
"No, I'm not ok. I'm freaking out." Dean stood up suddenly. "We could have died there. I almost did. Now I look back at my life, to all the crap I did… To Sam, to you… It was stupid and selfish and I shouldn't have done it! Because you were right about me…" Dean looked into Gabriel's eyes. "And I do like you." Only then he noticed how close he was from Gabriel and with an impulse kissed him.
When the surprised moment passed Gabriel pulled him back gently. "Are you sure you didn't hit with your head?" It wasn't natural Dean speak his mind, and unimaginable to kiss him.
"No." Dean said quickly and seriously, as if he hadn't understood Gabriel was joking.
"Then it should be the effect of adrenaline." Gabriel concluded playfully.
"Then you should take advantage." Dean smirked before he kissed Gabriel again.
Gabriel put his arm around Dean's neck as Dean pushed him against the wall, cornering him with his body and invading Gabriel's mouth with his wet tongue. That send what seemed to be electric shocks through their bodies, filling them with a lustful heat that they couldn't control, so Gabriel jumped to Dean's lap, wrapping the legs around Dean's waist. Dean stopped the deep kiss and started to lick Gabriel's soft neck as their cocks were pressed together, feeding their desire.
A sudden bip made them stop. Gabriel pulled out his pager and jumped out of Dean. "Damn it." He looked at Dean. "I have to go." He said, still a bit breathless.
"What? Now?" Dean sounded upset, like a child that had been taken away their favorite toy.
"Yeah. They need me." Gabriel confirmed.
"I need you." Dean said involuntarily.
Gabriel smirked and put a hand on his pocket. "Oh, don't be sad…" Gabriel made fun of Dean. "Take this." He handed him a lollipop, he used to give it to kids and he also ate some too. "I know it's not as sweet as I am… but it's close, right?"
"Maybe I'll replace you for it…" Dean didn't like people to make fun of him.
"Stay here." Gabriel kissed Dean's sweet lips one last time before leaving. "I'll be back."
Later, Gabriel called Michael and told him what had happened. Michael and Lucifer's reunion with Jimmy was very emotional; with Michael it was expected, but no one thought Lucifer would actually cry (even if it was just one tear) when he saw Jimmy. After that, they took Jimmy and Sam home.
It was afternoon already when they got home. The teenagers took a bath, ate and went to sleep; Jimmy in Castiel's bed and Sam on the couch.
Gabriel visited Castiel in the evening, after dinner, and he found his brother a bit stressed.
"You should get some sleep." Gabriel advised him.
"I can't." He said sadly. Every time he closed his eyes, flashbacks came to his mind.
"You want me to give you something to sleep?"
"No." Castiel didn't like to take that kind of pills or anything else Gabriel was thinking in giving him. "Thank you."
"Just try to rest, ok?" Gabriel insisted, passing a hand on Castiel's hair.
Castiel nodded.
During the night Sam woke up with a terrifying nightmare of Zack shooting Castiel. He got up breathing fast and shaking. He had slept some hours but he still felt tired.
Jimmy was awake for hours, thinking about Balthazar. He was worried about him; when they got out of the hospital he still didn't know anything about Balthazar's clinical condition. For all he knew Balthazar could be dead…
Jimmy jumped out from the bed in a sudden rush. He felt like crying… Balthazar had helped not only with his plan, but he also made of him a better person instead of the bad guy he was. He was his friend, the only friend he had beside his brothers.
Jimmy came downstairs. Seeing Sam awake, he joined him.
"You can't sleep either?" Sam asked him.
"All my life I slept in a crappy improvised bed… This is too much change for one day."
"You can sleep here. I'm done, anyway." Sam offered.
"No. Thanks. I have too much things on my mind right now."
"Welcome to the club…"
They sighed in unison.
Then Jimmy had an idea. "You want to go back to the hospital?"
"Now?" Sam asked surprised.
"I can't stay here without news." Jimmy told him, in a desperate need to do something.
"What about your brothers?" Sam surely wanted to go, he just didn't want to get into trouble with Castiel's brothers.
"I leave them a note."
Jimmy drove to the hospital, and when he and Sam got there, they immediately went looking for Castiel's room. As they didn't know which one was his they looked them all, even in those that were no rooms, like the infirmary.
Sam didn't believe what he saw by the window on the infirmary. "Oh, God." Seeing Sam hypnotized with the shock Jimmy approached the door. He saw Dean lying on the bed…and Gabriel was with him. They were kissing and making noises and… "Ok let's go." Jimmy grabbed Sam by the arm; he surely didn't want to see that.
Some time later they found Castiel's room. They got in quietly not to wake him up, but he was already awake.
"What are you doing here?" Castiel said gladly.
They almost jumped with the scare. "We thought you were sleeping." Jimmy said. "We came to see you." He answered his brother question.
Castiel looked at Sam who seemed distracted.
"How're you feeling?" Jimmy asked.
"I was going to ask the same thing to Sam."
"What?" Sam said hearing his name.
"You're ok?" Castiel repeated the question.
"Sam's still in shock." Jimmy answered first.
"I just saw something unexpected… and disturbing. I saw Dean… and Gabriel…making out."
"They weren't just making out, they were…" Jimmy was going to correct him, but Sam stopped him from verbalizing it.
"Ok, he got the picture." Sam interrupted him.
"Now all makes sense…" Castiel said with a thoughtful look.
"What makes sense?" Sam asked confused.
"The night before you leave I went after Dean and I saw him with Gabriel in a bar. At the time I didn't care, I was just pissed at Dean. Something must have happened that night, which explains why Gabriel has been strange lately."
"He missed Dean." Jimmy concluded.
"I'm happy for them." Castiel commented.
"Yeah, me too. I just… didn't need to see that." Sam agreed.
"Oh, I know a way to make you forget it…" Castiel grabbed Sam by the arm and pulled him into a kiss.
"Uhh, love is in the air…" Jimmy joked.
"Interesting you say that…" Castiel said as pulled away and Sam sat on the bed with a hand around Castiel's neck.
"What do you mean?"
"You know. You're not only here because of me. I saw the way you looked at him, Jimmy."
"I… don't know what you're talking about." Jimmy replied, uncomfortable for being confronted with his feelings.
"Yeah, whatever." Castiel didn't intend to make twin talk, he just wanted to help him. "He's in the room 34. Gabriel said they're waiting for him to wake up to know his state."
Jimmy left in direction of Balthazar's room.
"Did I miss anything?" Sam asked.
"No. It was me who missed you."
Sam lied next to Castiel, caressing his hair.
When Jimmy found Balthazar's room he saw him lying with tubes and monitors all around him. He looked lifeless; if it wasn't the graphics in the heart monitor, he would think Balthazar was dead.
Jimmy sat in the chair next to the bed. "You have to wake up." He whispered. "Please, you have to." He grabbed Balthazar's hand.
Sam heard the door opening; for a second he thought he was going to be caught, but it was just Gabriel coming in, and Dean came after him.
"Sam." Dean called surprised and mad seeing him lied with Castiel, who was now sleeping.
Castiel woke up with Dean's loud voice.
"Great Dean, you wake him." After all he had done to make Castiel relax, Dean had to wake him.
Castiel opened his eyes, still sleepy and tired. "What's going on?" He asked in a low voice that only Sam heard it.
"Nothing, go back to sleep." Sam hushed him with a kiss and got out of the bed gently.
Gabriel found sweet the way Sam took care of Castiel.
"Sam, what are you doing? You can't be here."
"No, don't come with that to me. I can't be with Cas, but you can be with Gabriel." Sam tried not to raise his voice to don't disturb Castiel.
Dean looked surprised. "Yeah, I saw you two. I wish I hadn't…" Sam paused. "I have nothing against it… just, you could have said something."
"No, this is different. You can't -" Dean looked to Gabriel. "Gabe, some help here…"
"Sorry, Dean. I think Sam's right."
"What?" Dean protested.
"Come on, let's go." He grabbed Dean by the arm towards the door.
"You're joking, right?" Dean said outside the room. "You're going to let them be?"
"Yes."
Dean stared at him.
"Stop looking so shocked. They were just sleeping." Gabriel said as if it wasn't a big deal, which it wasn't.
"You don't know that for sure." Dean persisted.
"Cas couldn't sleep. I bet Sam couldn't either. This is the only way they can actually rest. They deserve it after what they have been through."
With that he convinced Dean. "Also… they're not as crazy as we are." Gabriel smirked.
Sorry for the long waiting... I've been busy writing my other fic "Lucifer's Angel".
I hope you liked this chapter... And I must let you know you that the story is ending.
