Gabriel smiled, tired. "You okay?" he asked softly. "You got hit pretty bad."

"I'm fine," I mutter.

He sighs, his entire body sinking into the couch where once he only sat. "I'm horrible." He declares, a deep breath exhaling.

I look up, so quick it almost gives me whip lash and probably looks as though my head has transposed itself to any one else. "What?"

"I had a clear shot at him" He whispers ducking his head down.

"It doesn't matter" I say trying to be reassuring. The thought of Gabriel doing something horrible is weird I had already started to take his inherit goodness for granted.

"It does though! I just couldn't go!" He says looking up at me.

"Huh?" Ohh, brilliant response from me. "What do you mean?"

"I couldn't, all I could do was stay take care of people" He says, a certain amount of spite in his words.

"What?" I blink, looking at Gabriel, wearinga long white button up men's shirt. His hands gripping the arm rests of the couch so hard that his knuckles are white.

"Its like when I first tried to lie. I couldn't" He whispered. "I couldn't." He gulped heavily "I don't think I can fight" he whispered looking up slightly.

I blinked again. Having heard snippets of his story I knew it wasn't a personal thing. His anger towards his helplessness might have been a hint too. I was flattered also that he had come to me with this information instead of to Victor or Logan. "What?" I tried to be comforting.

"I can't fight" He gulped his head sinking down and his hands transferring his grip to his head. His long hair fell in front of his face, making me wish so much that I could push it back and comfort him.

"No, but you beat on us in practice!" I said moving to his side, across the room in no time flat. "I mean you whacked me a good one a few days ago!"

"Maybe its because I know I can't hurt you." And so help me I was touched at that. "Your speedster healing" Okay, warm fuzzy feeling left. He looked up at me and I could see that he had been on the brink of tears. "Do you think they'll kick me out?" His voice cracked like a twelve year olds.

"No" I said slowly, unsure. No one had ever had that particular problem. Some people wanted to fight to a destructive level. Some people wouldn't fight. But no one had ever not been able to before.

Gabriel blinked "I was just getting comfortable too." He sighed.

"They wouldn't kick you out!" I said more definite "No way" part of me wondered if this was just a boy who didn't want his friend to leave.

"But what if you'd gotten seriously hurt?" He asked looking at me, his clear blue eyes meeting with my gold. "When I know I could have taken him out! And what if I was in trouble and couldn't save myself? What if one of you had to risk your life to save me?" He gulped, tears threatening to spill over.

"It doesn't matter, what else would you do?"

"The Vatican has called me" He said softly. "Proof of god for once."

I hold back a snort, A gay angel, they wouldn't let him be who he was. "Well the Titians won't let you leave." Silently thought I was thinking I won't let you leave. "Victor would defiantly speak for you!"

Gabriel smiled at me. "Thank you" he whispered. And at that moment I was content.

Victor would not allow Gabriel a second thought about the danger he might put us in.

"Everyone's got weaknesses that put us in peril. Beast Boy's dieses was a problem, Raven's gotten us into a couple of scrapes. And Bart's Childish behavior had endangered us plenty!" I blush feeling stupid and attempting to blend into the wall "We'll just use you differently, You'll protect the civilians why we beat the bad guy down."

Gabriel nodded. Kon had been hanging back from the conversation apparently his Kansas life had caught up to him and a slight case of homophobia was the result. Which considering how he dressed he might have been a closet homosexual and then was just repressing his own desires by a demeaning attitude to others who weren't afraid of that side of themselves. "Yeah it will be good to have someone take care of civilians. Bart really got hurt one time because he had to look for a bunch of bystanders."

"Do we really have to bring that up?" I snapped. Kon laughed ruffling my hair as he walked by. I sighed as Victor followed suit, heading for the kitchen. A manly discussion of grilling meat following them.

"So nothing to worry about!" I smiled as Gabriel sank down into a chair, a more relaxed look on his face.

"I still will though" He sighed slightly. "I felt so amazingly powerless, I haven't felt that way since" He trailed off "I left home." He decided.

"When my knee got busted" I volunteered from my self imposed exile to the corner. "I felt so young. Like for the first time I was way out of my league. I realized for the first time how young I was. And how stupid" I finished in a small voice. "that's why I read the library. I never wanted to feel that stupid again."

"But you couldn't stop being shot"

"And you can't control what powers you were given." I sighed "And getting shot was a reality check I was acting stupid, like an over excitable three year old. And I couldn't act like that when I was dealing with something so serious."

Disclaimer: Me no own.

Author's notes: Okay I just want to say two things. One: There will be no battle scenes. I can't write them. So this takes place at Titan tower, and titan tower only. And its about the interaction of them as a group. Two: This is not a three days later Bart and OC get together thing. Its long its complicated. Just like life.