Title: the third side
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Pairings: implied Sam/Gabriel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Sam/Gabriel, Gabriel choosing a side
He stays inside the circle for hours after it burns out, after the Winchesters and Castiel leave him. He thinks back to life before he left Heaven, to Michael and Sammael-Lucifer-Satan and endless, everlasting light. He remembers and he wonders and he hates God for what all has happened, but he loves God because it happened, too, and he's clearly been on Earth too long. He's even thinking like a human now.
He remembers when Sam begged him to return Dean to life, when Sam shoved him against the fence and threatened him, when Sam and Dean worked together to trick him, the archangel who went by Coyote for a few dozen centuries.
He remembers Sam asking him for help, to join them against both Heaven and Hell, and maybe that's not such a bad idea.
Dean and Sam can't be tracked by angelic methods, and who knew Castiel was so clever? Clearly, everyone's been underestimating the kid. But he'll be sticking close to the boys for the next few days, so all Gabriel(and it's so weird thinking of himself like that, after so long) has to do is find him.
He wonders if he'll get earnest!Sam, thankful!Sam, or pissed!Sam when he shows up. It'll be fun to find out.