I had jury service to do when I tipped this chapter... it gave me time to work on this chapter as well as the next!

I do not owe ANY of the Supernatural characters, they belong to Eric Kripke.

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This Has been edited by Nathy as well as my new beta reader Kendra

(Updated on 10/28/13) I would have updated this a lot earlier, but I've been keeping myself busy with other things, don't worry, this fic is still being worked on as I tip this! My beta readers are working on editing when they have the chance.

Sam

There was an unwelcoming silence cast upon the room at the arrival of their guest. Each of the boys were silent, well except Lucifer, who rapidly voiced his displeasure at seeing his brother.

"You, dear brother, should be dead", Lucifer said, his tone ice cold, as he stood up moving towards Gabriel and jabbing a finger into his chest in an annoyingly way – even if Sam was the only one able to see it, he wished Lucifer would stop being an ass. He blinked his eyes trying to maintain his focus on the other archangel, younger and much more pleasant. "Oh, Sammy, this way I'll be jealous."

When Castiel was able to gather himself, nodding slightly at Dean without taking his expressive big indigo blue eyes of Gabriel, in his normal and formal voice he said "Hello brother".

By the emotionless tone of Castiel's voice Sam was absolutely sure that the angel still held a grudge over his brother for what had happened during the TV land incident.

Castiel had informed the Winchester brothers that - not only had Gabriel sent him to some petting zoo God only knows where - but had also turned him into a tiny rabbit with tan fur, black ears, and blue eyes. Truth be told, Sam had thought it was a little cute. Well, until Cas questioned why small children were so cruel with little animals, and why their parents hardly stopped them from pulling on the rabbits' ears.

During Cas's confession Dean tried hard not to laugh – he managed to hold on until Castiel had to leave for some angel emergency or mission.

Opposite of Dean, Sam felt sympathy for the angel. After all, he still had nightmares of seeing himself on a genital herpes ad between shows on TV. It was so ingrained in his mind that whenever an ad like that came along he would stare at the darn thing until it was over, and if Dean was in the room, he would gladly snicker about it.

"Oh yeah, Hello brother" Lucifer pouted, mimicking Castiel's greeting with a disgusted look on his face – and sounding as offended as a teenage girl mimicking her latest boyfriend before having a fit.

Gabriel smiled pulling the sucker out of his mouth, and replied. "Hello little brother, still eye-sexing that older Winchester?" He joked, raising an eyebrow at Cas as he put the sucker back in his mouth.

Castiel only leaned his head to the side, not knowing what Gabriel meant by that. Dean, on the other hand, decided that now was the perfect moment to reply to the archangel.

Getting to his feet he made his way over to stand face to face with Gabriel, almost towering over the smaller man who just smiled in a mocking way.

Dean had a pinkish blush on his face as he started to yell at the angel. "Watch it! I may not have been the one to kill you -"

"Yeah you were not the one, I was - and yet here he is." Lucifer said, walking around Gabriel as he talked, still sounding pissed.

"But that doesn't mean that I'll miss out this time." and as he thought more about what Gabriel had said - he add for good measure "AND WE AREN'T EYE SEXING EACH OTHER!"

"Ha, ha! Oh man, was I so pulling your leg right there." Gabriel started as he took the sucker out of his mouth, smiling madly at what Dean had just said.

Dean's face seemed to drop at what Gabriel had said, raising his hand ready to hit him right in the jaw. He was stopped by Castiel as he grabbed his elbow, shaking his head in a warning no, looking to Dean in the eyes as if to let him know that it was a bad idea.

Sam was glad that Castiel had stepped forward, because there was no way Sam would have been able to stop his older brother from hitting the angel he was so in love with.

He was also glad, though he would never say it out loud, that Gabriel had pointed out Dean – mostly - and Castiel's little eye sexing part.

Sam noticed that Gabriel had given him a little wink when no one else was looking. Sam blinked, not really sure if he really saw it right. His mind was trying to say it might have been the low lighting in the room, or due to the fact he had not gotten any sleep in quite some time.

Though the tiny voice in the back of his mind was screaming that what he thought he saw had really happened, the more logical part said that whatever he thought he had seen should be blamed on his total lack of sleep.

"Oh come on Cassie it was starting to get good." Lucifer moaned, standing between Dean and Castiel. He was pulling Sam back from his thoughts to what was present around him.

"Ok – ok, next time I'll just knock when I decide to pop in", Gabriel said taking the almost gone sucker from his mouth and waving it around in one hand.

Dean glared at him as he pulled his arm away from Castiel, moving back to the bed that he had occupied not that long ago with the long-forgotten sleep.

Once Dean had sat back down on his bed Sam turned to look back at Gabriel, who was giving Sam an odd look. Sam had not seen anyone use that look before so he did not know how to react, or even how to describe it.

Gabriel

Gabriel watched as Dean moved back to his bed, feeling confident at his win – yet again - against the older Winchester.

His eyes fell to the younger Winchester, who was watching his brother with a mix of sadness, and what looked almost like pain. Gabriel could not really put his finger on what was happening behind those big, brown, mushy eyes of Sam.

That's when Gabriel noticed Sam's aura, and he could feel his heart drop to the pit of his vessel's stomach – Sam's normally bright aura was wavering in almost darkness.

Seeing that broke Gabriel's heart. Voices in the back of his head were screaming "You have to help him, you must help him!"

He turned his mind over to more pressing matters, that he knew had to be taken care of right away – there was a part of him that really did not care about them, though.

He also remembered what Rena had hinted at, something about Sam and his soul. He thought she might have meant that he may need help with, from what Gabriel could tell, everything.

He pulled the stick of the sucker that he had been sucking on for some time out of his mouth and threw it into the trash can, making another sucker appear as the stick hit the inside of the can. Gabriel noticed how Sam was trying his hardest not to look somewhere to his left, and he felt his smile drop as he looked and saw only thin air.

"Great, even now my brother is bothering Sam", Gabriel thought as he twirled the new sucker around in his hand before he popped it into his mouth.

Sam

Lucifer was going on and on about how he planned to kill Gabriel when he got out of his cage, and how he would make Sam watch the whole thing, over and over again.

Sam watched as Gabriel throw the stick of what was once a sucker in the trash can, and when he looked back at Gabriel he saw that he put another one in his mouth.

Gabriel took the sucker out of his mouth again, as me made a chair appear out of thin air like he loved to do.

As Gabriel made himself comfortable in his lavish chair, looking again at each face in the room, he finally said,

"Well to sum it up, I was saved to help you, Dean-O and Sasquatch", Gabriel said pointing with his sucker to each brother when he said their nicknames. "With the whole 'stopping Crowley from opening purgatory' thing." Gabriel said shrugging his shoulders, trying to chose which Winchester to look at - or if he should be looking at his little brother.

Gabriel

From what Gabriel could tell the only people in the room who were really taking in what he had said were Castiel and Sam. Dean, on the other hand, looked like he was lost somewhere in left field.

As Gabriel went on he noticed Sam trying to listen to just him, rather than paying attention to wherever his locked up brother might be in the room.

"I guess my grace was saved, but since Lucy had stabbed me in the heart, I had to heal for some time. If I had not been saved when I was? Yeah, I would be dead right now." Gabriel could not decide if he wanted to tell them about Rena or not.

Part of him decided that now was really not the time to ask the Winchesters anything about her, even though she had told him that they would not know who she was at all.

"Do you know who it was that saved you?" asked Sam, pulling Gabriel out of his current train of thought and back to the real world.

Looking at Sam and his big tired eyes Gabriel replied "Sorry kiddo, I don't know who it was. I came back to life, was told to help you both out, and then - snap - here I am." He said, snapping his fingers.

Sam

As Gabriel snapped his fingers, Sam had a feeling that Gabriel was not telling them everything about the person who had saved him.

He had decided not to push Gabriel any further in the matter of who it was that saved him. There was a part of him that did wish to know, though, so that he could thank whoever it was.

"It was probably the bitch that the trench coat had mentioned", Lucifer said, turning his head to look at Sam, who kept his eyes glued to Gabriel. "Oh come on Sammy, just look at me for once already".

"So, you're here to help us?" Dean snorted, looking over at Gabriel who only plopped the sucker back into his mouth with a slight head nod.

"And who's to say we want your help? What is it with this 'person' who saved you?" Dean said, air quoting around the word person.

"Sorry Dean-O, it's not like I've ever seen this girl before, not in all of my years of life" Gabriel said, being very truthful at what he had said.

Sam knew deep down that the angel was telling the truth – though he wasn't quite sure how he knew it.

As Sam was sitting there listening to everyone around him his vision started to darken, and before he could stop himself he fell over, blacking out on his way to the ground.