"Here."

Gabriel blinked as a cup of something was suddenly in his vision. He looked up at Sam who was smiling down at him and took it, sniffing it and realizing that it smelt sweet.

"It's hot chocolate, Deans version." Sam said, taking the seat next to him with a cup of her own. "He hates the powdered one so he makes his own from actual chocolate, it's a lot better than a regular one." she took a drink of her own. "I remember you like sweets so I thought you'd like it."

Gabriel smiled at that, nodding his thanks to her as he sipped it, a shudder going through him as he drank the thick liquid. He couldn't stop himself from drinking the rest of it, letting out a gasp as he finished, breathing heavily as he finished and brought the cup down.

Sam blinked and then breathed out a laugh, taking his now empty cup. "I'll just refill this." she said, looking into her own cup. "I also have bourbon in mine, want that too?"

Gabriel nodded rapidly at that, rubbing at his chest where he could still feel the warmth coursing through him. Sam went back to the kitchen to make the drink and came back, sitting down once more.

"Cheers." she said, bringing her cup up and tapping it against his as he held it up as well. They drank in silence, Gabriel closed his eyes to savor the sweetness of the hot chocolate and the burn of the alcohol.

He took another deep drink and then looked down at the notes he had managed to make, flexing his wrist.

Sam looked as well. "What are you making?" she asked, taking the papers as he slid them over to her. It was rough and hard to read at some points but she recognized the symbols being matched with the English alphabet. "An Enochian to English translation."

Gabriel took a fresh paper to him and wrote, "Kid wanted to know Enochian, gonna have to do it the old fashioned way."

"You're really going into this." Sam said, looking over the notes. "Thought you said that he had to learn how to use his grace before he could learn Enochian."

"He does. But at least this way I have it ready." Gabriel wrote to her. "Figured I'd get ahead start at it."

Sam smiled as she read over his notes, she hesitated for a moment before she took the pen and started to make a few notes of her own next to his. Gabriel cast a glance at them and then took a double take, watching her work. He quickly grabbed the laptop and typed.

"Since when do you know Enochian?" he typed, pointing at each word in emphasis.

Sam took a deep breath, pushing the notes back to him. "Let's just say...when your soul spends time with Lucifer and Michael...you pick up a few things."

Gabriel just stared at her for a moment, a look of pity and sorrow on his face. "How long were you there?" he typed.

"Never tried to figure out how much time I was there." Sam said with a sigh, sipping her drink. She looked into the cup and swirled it around a few times. "I realized that the time was different in the cage verses hell time and earth time so when I did try...it just made things a lot worse so I stopped trying."

Gabriel shook his head, rubbing at his eyes before he looked up at her, he took a deep breath and typed out his next message. "Sam...why are you being so nice to me?"

Sam read his message with a frown. "What do you mean?"

"All of this, yeah I get that you need me to teach the kid, but...you're being nicer than needed. Like...all of this," he swept his hand over them. "Trying to make me feel comfortable. Talking to me. Doing all of this."

"Because you didn't deserve what the demons did to you." Sam told him. "And despite the fact that we do need you to help Johnny, you're also in no position to just be thrown out onto the streets to fend for yourself."

Gabriel looked away at that, a shaking hand coming up to wipe at his eyes as discreetly as he could. Sam stared into her mug to give him that moment.

"I never apologized." he typed out slowly, getting her attention. "For what I did to you before. Mystery Spot."

Sam worked her jaw from side to side at that name, leaning back into her seat.

"Tuesdays are still pretty hard for me." she said quietly. "And whenever I heard that stupid song, I just need to change the channel. That whole thing...you have no clue how messed up it made me, seeing my brother just die over and over again like that."

Gabriel flinched at her words, slowly typing. "I'm sorry, I really am."

Sam shrugged at that. "It's done." she said simply. "In your roundabout way you were trying to prepare me. Ended up mentally scarring me but...thought that counts?" she sipped her drink. "Was that the real reason? That you were trying to get me to get used to destiny and all that crap? And later on about us playing our roles for Michael and Lu-him?"

Gabriel stared at her sorrowfully before he started to type. "Most of it was, despite everything I did and ran away from I was still technically the 'Messenger of Heaven' so that when things were being put into place, I got my own nudges to do as was told."

"Mystery Spot was before the whole apocalyptic showdown." Sam reminded him. "So what was that about?"

Gabriel closed his eyes, bowing his head before he started writing again. "Part what you already said. Part me trying to get back at you for outing me and getting in my way when I was pretending to be a trickster."

"I'm sorry Sam. I really am." he continued to write. "I shouldn't have done that. Especially not to you."

Sam read his message and was quiet before she gave a small smile. "Y'know, I think you're the first person to apologize to me for something you've done, for hurting me." she said, a sad smile on her face.

"Thank you." she said, smiling at him. "I forgive you."

Gabriel smiled slightly back at her, reaching for his mug and carefully tapping it against hers as he took a drink.

"Mind if we join?" her brother's voice came. She looked up as Dean and Johnny came in. Johnny was carefully holding two more mugs of hot chocolate as Dean wheeled in the projector and screen.

"Yeah of course." Sam said, watching as Dean set things up. "Movie night?"

"Yep. Downloaded a bunch of movies and shows." Dean said, as he connected his laptop to the projector. "So dealers choose Sammy, what do you want to watch?"

"How about something simple?" Sam suggested, reaching for Johnny's cup to sniff it quickly to make sure that it was just hot chocolate before handing it back to him. She pulled Dean's laptop to her so that she could search. "Something we can all enjoy."

She started the first nice family movie she found and looked at Dean and Johnny, smiling at them.

Not noticing when Gabriel glanced at her with a small smile of his own.

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