I still had jury service to do... it gave me time to work on this chapter as well as 5 (and for those who want some Dean and Cas time...YOU get it)!

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Gabriel

Before Dean or even Castiel could comprehend what might be going on, Gabriel moved over to Sam's aid.

Picking Sam off the ground was not that easy for a normal human – but Gabriel hadn't to worry about it, for an archangel Sam was light weight, he arched his body keeping Sam secured in his arms as he moved to the bed where minutes ago the younger boy had been sitting. Both Castiel and Dean seemed to get themselves together as they moved over to the large and unconscious body sprawled out on the bed that looked much smaller than it really was - with Sam on it.

"WHAT"S GOING ON?" Dean yelled as he tried shaking his brother's shoulder to wake him up, glaring at Gabriel as if he was the reason the big moose had passed out.

"I am not too sure" Castiel replied with worry for Sam radiating through his voice as he looked the boy over trying to see if there was any physical damage, and when he saw none he looked back at Gabriel his face dropping slightly.

Gabriel knows without being asked that his face was showing alarmed sings as he looked down at Sam. Gabriel's brain knows that it had to be the lack of sleep – humans needed sleep. He cursed under his breath knowing that part of him was telling the truth.

Gabriel hated his older brother more for still having a grip on Sam's soul even now. As Gabriel tries to think of some way he could help the younger Winchester, Dean grabbed him by the shirt which startled Gabriel bringing him fully back to the present.

"Whatever you did to him, fix it, NOW" Dean said his voice almost a growl as he tried to hold back his tears of frustration that were starting to show in the corners of his eyes.

Before Gabriel could even reply to Dean, Castiel once again stepped in and stopped him for doing something - that is to say the least, very Dean alike – hit first, then ask questions later.

"WHAT?" Dean yelled getting even more frustrated than he had already been, yet Castiel held his ground – which impressed Gabriel.

Shaking his head Castiel replied to Dean trying to hide his own worry for the younger Winchester, "Gabriel is not the cause of this. As far as I can even tell it is most likely due to lack of sleep. I can say that there is no physical damage done to him, yet his memories of his time in hell might be catching up with him more, which is probably the cause of the lack of sleep. ".

Gabriel was impressed, not only his little brother was keeping his cool – as well as dealing with the older Winchester – but had pretty much been impressed in Castiel remarks of what exactly could be plaguing the younger brother.

Dean seemed to calm himself down as he finally let go of Gabriel's shirt and sat next to his little brother on the bed, looking at him with obsessive worry showing in his eyes.

"He still not sleeping Cas, is he?" Dean asked after a minute or so finally tearing his eyes of his little brother. Castiel nodded slightly; Dean sighed and run his hand through his hair in frustration.

Gabriel – as well as all supernatural beings – knew that the Winchester brothers had an already close bond – far from any normal brothers. Now as Gabriel watched Dean worrying about his little unconscious brother he noticed how much it had grown since he had last seen them.

A part of Gabriel wish that he could have the same bond with the younger Winchester, but somewhere in the pit of his stomach he felt that there was a chance that might never happen.

"Dean-O, though I would love to do this dance with you and all, but right now it would be best for – well Sammy - to keep it down and let him get some sleep." Gabriel said trying to hide from the older Winchester his true feelings for Sam.

To Gabriel's surprise Dean just nodded his head, but he decided not to act on it. "Man,it might not just be Sammy who needs some sleep", Gabriel thought as he looked back at Sam.

"Dean you should try to get some more sleep, I -", Castiel started and looked at Gabriel who nodding indicating for his little brother to go on "And Gabriel will keep an eye on Sam and make sure that he is alright."

Gabriel decided to add to that a cocky reply, "And don't you worry I won't send you to any petting zoo when you sleep", Dean could only glared at Gabriel who put his hands up in defense "Joking, just joking, geez, can't take a joke, can you? Oh and if your brain is still even
working right I will add that I'll tell you more in the morning or whenever Sammy here is up and functioning right".

Dean seemed to think about what Gabriel had just said, giving a slight nod not looking at him at all – Gabriel was fine with that – Dean got up looked at Sam once again before turning his eyes back to the archangel before he warned him,

"If you do anything to Sam I swear to your God that I will stake you with an angel blade through that so called heart of yours."

"Oh don't worry your pretty little head, I won't do anything to your poor little Sammy", Gabriel said smiling madly at Dean even though deep down his vessel's lungs were screaming.

Dean looked at Gabriel for a moment then walked back over to his bed - as he laid back down keeping his eyes on Gabriel - still glaring at him, after a couple of silent minutes Dean finally fell asleep.

Gabriel was beyond glad that he had finally fell asleep again even though Castiel – he noticed out of the corners of his eyes – seemed to be a little sad about it..

Rolling his eyes at his little brother Gabriel put the sucker that had been long forgotten back into his mouth looking back to Sam who let out a heavy sigh in his sleep.

"Hey Cassie, can I talk to you for a moment?" Gabriel asked nodding his head towards the door. Castiel could tell from the sound in Gabriel's voice that this was something that he did not really want to talk about with the Winchesters at the moment.

Castiel nodded his head and popped outside with Gabriel to stand right outside of the room that the Winchesters were resting in.

It had stopped raining since the last time that he had been outside, which comfort him, at least there was some sort of peaceful somewhere. Before Castiel could ask Gabriel anything, they both heard a voice and looked up to the light post that was across from where they stood, and sitting on top of the light post with her legs crossed wearing a dark black jacket leather with a dark blue shirt underneath, a jean short skirt with black fishnet stockings, and black boots was Serena with her hair down in waves some falling down the front resting on her chest, the rest of it falling behind her back.

Serena smiled looking at the two men as she held a large tube of ice cream in a hand while the other was occupied with a spoon. "Hey there Gabey, miss me already?" Serena asked smiling, as she took a large bite of her ice cream.

Sam

"Oh Sammy, you thought I was kidding when I said I would leave you alone" Lucifer said mincingly as he picked up a scalpel and dragged it along Sam's left check.

Sad had played this game with the Devil already so many times – he had lost count of how many times it had been now. Part of Sam just wanted to quit fighting it anymore – he knew that there was no way that he was ever getting out of the cage anytime soon – maybe ever.

Sam remembered the promise he made with Dean and he hoped – beyond – hoped that his older brother would keep his word to live a normal life.

Digging the scalpel into Sam's check a lot harder then Lucifer had done in the past, Sam screams at the pain as the blood flows.

"Oh Sammy boy that - if I may - oh wait, I may say - was the best scream I've heard come out of that darling little mouth of yours" Lucifer said whispering in Sam's ear as he smiled like a mad men enjoying playing with their little victim.

Painting from the pain from the cut in his left check, Sam could feel his blood trickled down his check and before Sam could muster what he might even say – or do for that matter -he noticed that Lucifer walked out of his line of sight.

Lucifer put down his scalpel and started to hum – what Sam could guess – was a song that the Devil himself was making up as he picked up from a tray near were Sam was tied down an instrument that Sam could not see from where he laid.

"Oh – this might be fun, what do you think Sammy?" Lucifer asked as he picked up a rib cage opener. Sam had a sickening feeling he knew what Lucifer had in plan with those.

Before Sam could even make a sound Lucifer rammed the rib cutters straight into Sam's chest. As Sam's blood splat over the floor, cage walls – more like bars then walls – his own clothing, and all over Lucifer who only smiled viciously letting out a sickening laughter that filled the cage – as well as all of the depths of Hell.

Laughing madly with joy Lucifer turned the rib cutter and pulled them out taking parts of Sam's ribs, his skin, and all in between. Sam
screamed for dear life as tires welled in his eyes.

As the room went reddish than slowly and painfully to black, the last thing Sam saw was the Devil and his devilish grin smiling down at him.

"Oh dear Sammy and here we were just getting to the more fun stuff, but don't worry you won't get long to yourself." He said as everything went black.

Gabriel

"I don't know Rena, you tell me" Gabriel said smiling as he raised an eyebrow at the girl who took the spoon out of her mouth smiling right back at him.

Castiel looked between the two of them not sure who this girl was. He looked hard at his older brother hoping that he might decide to let him in on who she was and what was even going on here.

But Gabriel did not have to say anything because Serena jumped down from the light post landing on her feet perfectly, still holding the ice cream tube to her chest.

"Hi, you must be Castiel" Serena said sticking the spoon into the tube of ice cream as she stuck out her hand to the angel.

Castiel looked down at it like it might bite him, but he took her hand searching into this Rena's eyes trying to figure out if she was a friend or a foe. Finally he said, "Hello...Rena".

"Oh no… it's Serena, I get the feeling that Gabey here has decided himself that I needed a nickname." Serena said rolling her eyes at Gabriel still smiling; Gabriel got the feeling that she was fine receiving a nickname.

Gabriel was pleased that Rena had a sense of humor, and could not help but let his smile grow even more then he thought he could.

"So what brings you here already? Has whoever been telling you up there – already decided to change their minds about saving me?" Gabriel asked good naturally raising an eyebrow as Castiel looked a little shocked at Rena when he heard this.

Castiel looked at Serena with a mix of feelings radiating off of him, obviously not too sure whether or not he should feel the real need to trust her.

If Rena noticed Gabriel could not tell, "Great she can hear my thoughts but does not seem to hear Cassie's". That's when he really remembered that she could hear his thoughts he looked at her only to see that she was smiling at him, letting out a small laugh more to himself then to anything.

"Just so you know Gabey, I can hear this trench coats thoughts, and yeah, if you can't guess by now – I can also reply via the mind. I just don't acted on it, like I don't always acted on what you have to say", Rena's voice said throughout Gabriel's mind.

Gabriel could feel his mouth open at this new discovery of this mysterious girl that stood before them smiling at the two boys – angels - that stood there.

Castiel could feel that there was something going on between the two of them but could not really tell what that something was as he stood there looking like a lost little puppy.

"I just thought I would pop in and see how things were going, and from what I can tell most part its going pretty well...Well other then Samantha", Rena said joking about Sam in a good nature way, "passing out before you could really finished what you were telling them", Rena said looking at Gabriel before she took another bite of her ice cream which Gabriel could smell that it had chocolate and nuts in it.

"Hey, you can't really blame me when life just works that way" Gabriel joked shrugging his shoulders as Rena went to take another scoop of her ice cream.

"Oh I don't blame you, nor does this annoying voice – and yeah they are getting the fact – finally", she mumbled the last part "that I find it quite annoying".

Gabriel could not help the laugh that escaped his lips as he let her go on with what she was telling them, while Castiel just stood there like a good little robot that was taking in all the information that was being given him.

"But like I was saying I just thought I would stop by and - ", before she could finish what she was saying she stopped and tilted her head to the side slightly.

Gabriel and Castiel exchanged looks not too sure what might be going on in her head, and before they could ask anything she seemed to snap out of it.

"Gabriel go back to Sam – NOW", she said in a very serious voice, she looked at him with a severely , there was fear glimmering in her eyes.
Gabriel did not need to be told twice, as he vanished into thin air leaving Castiel and Serena alone outside the motel room where the Winchester were staying to be exacted. . It started to rain again – this time more violently and heavily then it had before when Gabriel was last outside.