5 hours before

"You want to do what?!" Cass shouts out and doesn't wait for an answer. Instead the rolls his eyes and gets up from the table. He starts nervously pacing around. "Out of all the stupid ideas..."

"Stupid ideas are all we ever had." Sam says. "Stupid is pretty much all we know. Dean took on the Mark to stop Abbadon. We freed Lucifer to stop Amara. Dean said Yes to stop Lucifer. The list goes on."

"Wow... You really did some crazy things." Gabriel concludes.

"There is always something with you Winchesters." Rowena says rolling her eyes, but there is clear concern in them.

"Do we even have time to go there and ask for his help? If he is in any state to answer." MJ asks.

"We might need a distraction." Sam retorts.

"I can't go in there, the place is warded. The only one who could get in now is him." Cass says pointing at Gabriel.

"Why does it have to be me?" Gabriel replies with a fake shock on his face.

Both Sam and MJ roll their eyes. "He's not gonna be enough. And if Michael is as crazy as Lucifer stated..." Cass mumbles on but Sam isn't listening. The words "crazy" and "Lucifer " pound in his head as he remembers his time in the cage and after it.

"Why... what... why am I here?" Nick asks clearly scared as he sees them all together in the bunker. Cass dropped by his cell and zapped him here and Nick knows there is something wrong. And he knows he will be a part of it one way or the other.

MJ approaches him, and he instantly relaxes, even though he doesn't know why. She gazes in his eyes and when she doesn't see was she expects she gives out a deep sigh. Sam pats her on the back to reassure her, his face telling her "it will be ok"

"Did you really mean it when you said you hated angels and them taking vessels?" MJ asked with an unexplainable grimace on her face.

Nick simply nods.

"What if I am an angel?" MJ asks

"No, I told you, you couldn't possibly..." Nick cuts himself off as true fear covers his face when MJ's eyes flicker green for a mere second.

"No... NO... you... you're not an angel. Their eyes glow white-blue or something, not green..." he says in a shaky voice.

"Or red?" she asks. Nick flinches because he knows who she is talking about. And that's it. That's the punch-line he thinks. You're the punch line.

"You want me to take him in again? Is that it?" He asks now scared and pissed at the same time.

"No, I won't do that. Not ever. No matter what!" he shouts.

"You don't really have a choice." Sam replies and immediately starts feeling like crap because he reminded himself so much of Zachariah. He doesn't know why, but memories from the apocalypse start pouring in his mind, the memories of what happened over a decade ago.

"We don't have time for this." Gabriel states looking a bit bored.

Nick turns to MJ with tears in his eyes. "Please, don't make me do this. Please."

MJ sighs. She wanted to explain it all to him, slowly, but she knew there really wasn't time. "One way or another I am going to hate myself for this." She states and approaches Nick. He wants to back away but his feet won't listen. MJ leans down and whispers to his ear "I need you, brother. Your sister needs you. Amenadiel needs you."

With those words she turns away and nods at Cass, Sam and Rowena. Seconds later, they were gone, leaving Gabriel to deal with a fallen, broken archangel that is his brother all by himself.

3 hours before

"Hey, you ok?" Gabriel asks as Lucifer takes his first deep breath. He has been in foetal position for the past hour as the memories of not just his sister but of his actions poured into his mind. But something was different. He was different.

"What? Who?" he lifts his head to see who's talking to him. As soon as he does, a sharp pain fills his chest as a memory of him killing Gabriel in that hotel sinks in. Just as that pain releases, another one comes in a form of a memory. This time it was AWMicheal killing Gabriel. And he didn't do a damn thing about it.

Gabriel looks annoyed more than anything. He knows they need him and he knows he has to make peace with his brother, but he can't bring himself to even try. "Get up, will 'ya?"

Lucifer takes another deep breath. "I think I'll just stay here on this cold floor, thank you." He curls back up and stares away from Gabriel into a wall.

"Ough, so the big bad Devil is just gonna shrivel and pity himself? Roll over and play dead, huh? Well, too bad bucko, you can't. You still have work to do, and if you don't get up, I will kick you all the way there. "

"I don't care."

"I don't care that you don't care! This is your mess and I'll be damned if I don't make you clean it up."

"What mess?"

"The whole Alternate World Michael mess."

Lucifer snorts "Let the Winchesters clean it up. They're good at that sort of thing."

Gabriel gets pissed. He walks over to Lucifer and kicks him in the shin. Not even Gabriel realized he didn't use his full power to do so. Somewhere way back in his mind, he didn't really want to hurt him.

"Get up!"

"No!"

"Stop being such a baby and grow up. Grow a pair! Stop with all this self pity and daddy issues. It is pathetic. Are you really just going to lay there and let him take her?"

"Take who?"

"Our sister. That's what he wants. Not the world, not to rule. He just wants her."

"Let him have her. We... I don't deserve her."

Then Lucifer felt such pain as a foot lodged itself in his back. He turns around to hiss at Gabriel but doesn't find him there. Instead he meets an angry pair of blue eyes that turn bright gold.

"YOU ARE GOING T GET UP AND MAKE THIS RIGHT!" The bunker shook from the volume of Jack's voice. "YOU ARE GOING TO GET THERE AND HELP STOP MICHAEL!"

Not even God's angry voice felt so fearful and respectful as his son's did.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Jack finished. And all Lucifer could do was nod with a baffled expression on his face.

But Gabriel wasn't happy. He was looking up high as if he was listening in on something else. Then he got up to Lucifer, grabbed his shoulder and with Dean style "SON of a..." they vanished.