Gabriel laid in Sam's arms with a huge grin on his face. He was on cloud nine right now. He hadn't been this happy since before the fighting began in Heaven. Nothing, not even the memories of Asmodeus could ruin his mood right now. He'd just had sex with the man he'd fallen for from the moment they met.

Sam's mood was similar. He couldn't keep the massive grin off his face. He'd been dreaming about this moment for weeks, since not long after finding out Gabriel was still alive. Then after one fight with his brother, somehow all his dreams came true. It was unbelievable. "I can't believe that just happened."

"Are you sorry about it?" Gabriel asked, his mood dampening just slightly at the thought that this might have meant more than him than it did to Sam. What if it was only sex to him?

"Not even a little bit. It was great, and since it happened, I think I may as well go all in. I've had feelings for you for a while. I just didn't think you'd feel the same," Sam said.

Gabriel chuckled. "Then you're as stupid as I am. I thought the exact same thing about you. I've felt something since we met, though I tried to deny it."

"Me too. Well, sort of. I liked you when we met, but then I felt like a fool when I found out you were what we were hunting. I was angry. I felt like you'd betrayed me or something, like you'd led me on, even though that was ridiculous. You had no way of knowing how I felt. Then Mystery Spot happened, and I hated you," Sam said.

"Sam, I'm sorry about that. I don't think there's a single action that I regret more since I was created," Gabriel said sincerely.

"It's okay. I've already forgiven you for it. Once I realized who you really were, I started to piece together why you did it, and your reasons became even more obvious when I met Lucifer. You were trying to protect your brother, the brother who always took care of you. I'd do the same for Dean, even now," Sam told him.

"You're not completely right. I did do it to protect Lucifer. I thought he was in the cage and I wanted him to stay there because I didn't want Michael to kill him. But I also did it to protect you. You were so pure, Sammy. You were such a good person. You lit up the world just as Lucifer lit up Heaven. I didn't want to see you fall the way he did. I didn't want to see you corrupted by demon blood, like he was corrupted by the Mark. I had to save you from that," Gabriel said in an almost desperate voice.

"You couldn't. I get why you did it, but you never stood a chance. Nothing was going to stop me from doing whatever it took to save Dean. It didn't help that I wanted to believe the demon blood didn't make me evil," Sam said.

"You mean the bit you were fed as an infant. It didn't," Gabriel said.

"I know, but I couldn't see it at the time. I just wanted to believe that I wasn't going to lose myself. That turned out great," Sam said sarcastically.

"Hey, you saved yourself. You got through it. You were not what the dicks in Heaven and in Hell wanted you to be," Gabriel said firmly.

"Thanks. So, you think we should get dressed?" Sam asked.

"Nope! I'm good here," Gabriel said as he snuggled into the hunter's arms some more.

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Lucifer walked into the library after hours of fuming after his session with Linda. He found everyone but Sam and Gabriel there researching. Well, Michael wasn't researching. He was fiddling with someone's cellphone, probably trying to figure out what it was.

Amenadiel was the first to notice Lucifer. "Hello, brother. How did your session go?"

Lucifer scowled at Amenadiel and then glared at Michael, as if it were his fault, which in his mind, it was. He was the bastard Linda wanted him to forgive, like that would ever happen.

Amenadiel put up his hands in surrender.

Lucifer sat down in between Jack and Castiel. "Where are Sam and Gabriel?"

Almost everyone shrugged, indicating that they didn't know.

"I saw Gabriel go into Sam's room several hours ago. I heard loud noises shortly afterwards. I believe they may be having intercourse." Castiel said.

Dean, who had just taken a sip of his beer, had a mini coughing fit after hearing his friend's observations. "Seriously, Cas?"

"What?" Castiel asked confused. He'd merely spoken the truth. He wasn't sure why that would be a problem.

Lucifer chuckled in response.

Jack frowned in confusion and turned to his father. "Father, what's…?"

"No!" Lucifer stated in a panicked voice. He knew what was about to come out of his son's mouth, and he refused to do it. He was not having the sex talk with his son.

"But I was just going to ask what intercourse is," Jack said.

"Not so funny anymore, is it?" Dean asked with a smirk.

"He doesn't already know about this?" Amenadiel asked.

"He hasn't been alive all that long, and there were other more important things to teach," Dean said.

"We will discuss this at another time, Jack," Lucifer said. He nearly prayed to his father to make this conversation end.

"Will we really?" Jack asked skeptically.

"Unfortunately, I'm sure we'll get to it eventually. Perhaps when you're forty. By that I mean when you have your fortieth annual birthday, not when you merely look the part, assuming you ever do."

Michael looked up with a frown. "I don't understand the problem," he said before looking at the young Nephilim. "It's how humans mate."

"Michael, shut up!" Lucifer nearly growled. Of course, his brother would choose this moment to act semi sane.

"Well, how does it work?" Jack asked. This time he looked directly at Michael. He seemed more willing to answer than his father.

"I sense that Samael will become angry if I answer that," Michael said before going back to fiddling with the phone Castiel had given to him.

"I don't understand what's so bad about my question," Jack said. He was once again looked towards his father.

Lucifer looked to the ceiling and gave into the urge to pray. "Father, I beg of you to end this. I will go back to Hell. I will be the perfect son and obey your every command. Just make it stop!"

Everyone started to laugh, except for Jack and Michael. Michael was back to being oblivious to his surroundings and Jack was still confused about why his question bothered his father so much.

"Hey, guys. What's up?"

Everyone turned to see Sam and Gabriel enter the room.

Gabriel looked at his favorite older brother. "Luci, were your praying?"

Lucifer glared at both his brother and his lover. "This is entirely your fault. I swear, I will make you both suffer for this."

"What's our fault?" Sam asked confused.

Jack was the one to answer. "Castiel said that you and Uncle Gabriel were having intercourse. Father got upset when I asked what that meant."

Gabriel stared at his young nephew for several moments and then started laughing his ass off. "Oh, that's so great! You totally freaked out your old man! Nice work, kid!"

"Gabriel!" Sam admonished. His face was beat red from embarrassment. Not only had everyone figured out what they'd been doing, but they were talking about it.

Gabriel was still cracking up. "Should I explain it to him, Luci?"

"Should I kill you?" Lucifer shot back.

"I don't see what the big deal is, brother. You've never had a problem discussing this subject, and given how many times you've done this yourself, it should be easy for you to explain," Amenadiel said in an amused tone.

If looks could kill, Amenadiel would've surely dropped dead on the spot. "Watch your back, brother. You may just find my blade in it."

Almost everyone continued to laugh.

"Oh, yes. Keep laughing at the Devil's expense," Lucifer said before standing up and heading for the door. He decided a quick retreat was for the best in this instance.

Jack got up to follow him. "Father, you haven't answered me."

Gabriel and Sam sat down at the table. "As grand as that was, what's up here? More research on the other world?" Gabriel asked.

"Yes, we would like to be ready when it comes time to go," Castiel said.

Meanwhile, Dean was looking at Sam intently. The thing with Jack and Lucifer was funny for a minute, but he didn't like that Sam might have screwed Gabriel, and from the embarrassed look on his brother's face when it came up, he was sure he had.

"What, Dean?" Sam asked in an irritated tone when he caught his brother staring at him.

"Nothing," Dean said before going back to what he was doing.

"Why are you researching other worlds?" Michael suddenly asked.

"We need to open a rift to an alternate universe," Amenadiel said.

"Why?" Michael asked.

"There's someone from this universe trapped there, and someone else from there is planning to come here. His intentions are sinister," Amenadiel said. He decided to leave out that that person was an alternate version of Michael. His brother didn't need to know that right now.

"Oh. You will need archangel Grace, as well as several other rare ingredients," Michael said.

Everyone slowly stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Castiel was the one to speak. "You know how to open a rift?"

"Of course. Father told me centuries ago," Michael said.

"Wait a second. You've watched sit here for hours and you already knew how to do this?" Dean asked in disbelief.

"You never told me what you were doing," Michael stated.

"He's right, we didn't," Amenadiel said. He never even considered asking Michael. Why would he think Michael would know the answer when he didn't know it?

"Great, you know how to open it. Tell us the ingredients," Dean demanded.

"It is unwise to open a portal. Different worlds aren't supposed to interact," Michael said.

"Yeah? Well, it's also unwise to start apocalypses," Dean shot back.

"You are correct, it is," Michael said matter-of-factly.

"Michael, we don't have a choice. The worlds are going to interact no matter what we do. This being will come here if we don't go there and stop him," Amenadiel said.

"Alright, but they will be hard to find," Michael said before telling them the other ingredients they needed.

"Damn. It can never be easy, right?" Gabriel asked.

"I'll get to work on it," Amenadiel said before flying away.