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Prayer Of God

Chapter 3: Taking a Stand.

When you had forever, you get so many options on how to spend the time. But those options were never for me, I had restrictions.

I mostly spent my time in a library or a park.

Reading and Observing was my hobby.

If angels really thought of looking up for me, if they knew I lived, they should check out the libraries. I could spend hours there silently reading a book or sitting calmly enjoying the smell of books - ancient or new. I was fascinated by watching so many emotions on the face of humans as they get engrossed in stories.

After spending few years on Earth, I found that it was easy to keep track of all the prayers when you were in a quiet environment.

Everyone prayed - Food, Money, Better opportunities, forgiveness, health, peace, victory, love and sex.

One would think that I would help those only those who deserved, but the thing was the definition of deserving was blurry. It didn't matter if the person was religious or not, or had a respected business or worked shitty jobs. They were all same to me, the children of my father. Everyone deserved it, and I tried to help them, maybe in different ways but I did.

There were limitations.

I couldn't help a dying person it would interfere with the fate but I could lessen the pain of a person who would need weeks to recover, or maybe provide calm and peace to those who prayed for forgiveness if they really felt guilty. More than doing things for them, I encouraged them that they had strength to do it on their own.

Money you could earn by working hard. Love would find you soon. Sex might give you experience or pleasure but in the end everyone was looking for someone to fill the hole created by loneliness. Everyone wanted love.

Gabriel was concerned. He knew that his sister was beating herself as the time progressed for not being able to help Winchesters. She wanted to save them, protect them. Many times he questioned why did his father made his little sister so soft-hearted? He and his brothers could remain unaffected if someone was crying for help unless given order to do so, but his sister would show kindness, she would try everything, as much as she could to help them. She was like Mother Teresa.

After the last fight, he was keeping an eye on her so that she didn't do something wrong.

He had convinced himself that it was best for his brothers to fight and end this long war that had been raging inside them. But now he was questioning his beliefs. It was all due to Dean Winchester. He shook his head and chuckled.

Dean Winchester was a human who yearned for acceptance and love. He tried his all might to care for his brother and Gabriel knew that if the situation came he could bend hell and heaven both for him, well he had done hell. Those Winchesters were too dependable on each other.

But wasn't he like this with his sister. He would do anything for his sister even if it meant to hide eternity for her. He would give his life in a beat if it meant she get to live. He loved her, trusted her.

But some part of his knew that it was true. He was afraid of standing up to his brothers. He was using Selaphiel as a reason to not get involved in this whole mess. If she couldn't help then he could.

These humans may have fault, but the best thing about them was they tried. They tried to correct their wrongs with all their might unlike his brothers who didn't understand the concept of forgiveness.

He had vowed that he wouldn't take any part in this battle, to not choose a side, to not harm any of his brothers.

To let chips fall as they should.

Yet a part of him wanted to take the vow back. He had been living this Earth for millennia and he cared. He was the messenger who was sent when Mary was pregnant with Jesus. He watched over the baby that was a part of his father. He had watched his struggles, his grief.

Hell he had started his own witness protection service and even then he was trying to convince himself that he didn't give a rat's ass about Earth and the people, and was failing terribly. His brothers were so determined to destroy each other that they didn't care who they killed. This had happened before and now it was happening again - his elder brothers fighting to destroy each other in their father's name.

Suddenly he heard a buzzing sound in his head. It took him a minute to understand what was happening. As much as he wanted to know what the reason of this was and switch the heaven radio on, he couldn't. He would get it but he had to be clever about it. He switched it on when there wasn't any broadcasting, just normal conversation and got information from it.

He recognized the sound. He had heard it before exactly a year ago when Dean Winchester was saved from hell and brought back to Earth. This meant some human was brought back to life on Earth.

But the most important matter was to check on his sister. As soon as he thought of searching for her she appeared in front of him with an anxious look on his face.

"Angels resurrected Winchester's half brother. Another vessel for Michael," she exhaled loudly trying to keep up her calm.

The concern increased and with that increased his anger as he realized what his sister had done. "I told you not switch it on," he hissed wanting nothing but to yell at her. He felt a little bit of guilt when he saw her face fell and she looked down in shame.

"That doesn't matter-"

"It matters, damn it."

"You and me both know if Michael fights without his true vessel he would lose," She replied with noe concern for herself.

"What do you want me to do?" Gabriel questioned a pleading look on his face. He was exhausted, trying to make a decision. He knew what the right thing to do was.

"Gabriel, you taught me right and wrong when I was young. Now it's your turn to decide what is wrong and what is right."

He sighed. "Other pagan Gods are angry," he rubbed his face with his hand trying to relax. "They want to fight Lucy. I heard the call, they are planning something that includes Winchesters."

"You heard the call," she questioned.

"Loki – Pagan God remember," he joked pointing at himself and chuckled when his sister rolled her eyes. "They are acting like a bunch of idiots. They don't know how dangerous Lucifer is. I had tried to warn Kali before but looks like it didn't do any good."

"What are we going to do?" she asked anxiously and Gabriel looked at her and saw a victorious glint in her eyes.

"We?"

"Yes, we. You are an idiot if you think if I would let you go alone. This includes not only Winchesters but Kali too," He heard a teasing tone in her voice. It amused her to no end that he did care about Kali.

It was complicated.

"Well, then start planning. We are gonna need that."

I waited outside the hotel, waiting for Gabriel to give me the signal. The plan was for Gabriel to go as Loki and try to convince them that it was a wrong idea to stand against Lucifer. We knew that they wouldn't be persuaded but this might just give us time to get Winchesters out of there safely. And maybe Gabriel would be able to convince Kali to come with us.

I looked at the hotel and was impressed, it was swanky. It looked modern and sleek which made me chuckle, Gods with the style. Feeling the blades inside of my jacket's pocket, I pulled them out.

Archangel blades.

Gabriel gave me his before going inside. Only an archangel blade was able to kill us and he assured me that he had an angel blade, which I didn't how he got his hands on, and would be able to defend himself.

I was anxious and knew Lucifer would be coming soon; we need to leave before he came. Gabriel had told me to wait close to the Impala, Winchester's car.

When I had seen the car, there had only one word in my mind – wow. I wasn't a big fan of cars but I couldn't deny the fact that the car looked absolutely beautiful. It was shiny black and even though it was an old model, you could tell she was an old beauty aging gracefully. I had seen the proud glint in the eyes of the eldest Winchester whenever he would see his baby – that was what he called her and it made me smile.

My thoughts were broken when I saw my brother sitting inside the said car and I rushed to it and opened the back seat and sat inside.

I frowned and looked at my brother who gave me a sheepish smile. "Where are Winchesters?"

He hummed and shook his head. "There is a change in the plan."

I scowled. "What did you do?"

He gave his puppy-dog eyes and pouted. "I might have tried to seduce Kali and she might have figured out that I am an angel," he looked away when I glared at him when he muttered something.

"In English please."

"She might have tried to kill me with my fake blade and I might have conspired my fake-death." He whispered. I nodded; we had considered this might happen. So this was planned.

"I sense a 'but' here," I said and waited as he winced at my angry tone.

"She bonded me." This made me wince.

"Gabriel," I huffed and stopped myself from tearing out my hairs. "How could you be so stupid?"

"Well, I didn't think she would do that but Winchesters are there," I scowled at him. "If those idiots are good at anything, it's in manipulating people. They would figure a way out of there."

I sighed. "Pray for it because otherwise we all will be dead. We don't have much time, Lucifer will here soon. We have to get out before he comes."

We heard the front door of the hotel being opened and people came running out of there. I shook my head when I saw Dean Winchester standing there making sure everyone made out safely.

Gabriel looked at me and nodded. He whistled and tried to get his attention as I made myself invisible.

"Psst! Dean!"

Dean looked at his car and froze when he saw my brother.

"Don't look at me," Gabriel hissed at him. I chuckled silently watching my brother who looked so nervous. He punched me to keep quiet. "Act natural. Get in!"

I watched as Dean moved towards the car looking down doing a really bad job at acting normal. He opened the front door and sat at front seat.

"Man there is nothing natural about this at all," he said turning to look back and for a second I froze when I saw him looking straight at me. "I thought you died."

I bit my bottom to stop myself from laughing when Gabe scowled. "You think I'd give my real sword. That thing can kill me."

He looked bewildered. "What do they have in there?"

"A fake," my brother replied with a glint of the prankster I knew he was. "Made it out of a can of diet orange slice." Dean looked troubled. This made me assume that they had planned of killing Lucifer with that.

"So ... would you go snag our blood, would you?" I kicked his leg hard which made him wince. Dean looked at him as if he had gone insane.

"What?"

"I heard you in there, Kali likes you. You can get close and lift the plasma and then we vamoose." He said and turned to Dean who shook his head.

"No. Hand over the real blade. Better yet, why don't you sack up and help us take down Lucifer," he tried.

Gabriel's eyes narrowed and he moved closer to him. "You can't be serious."

"Deadly."

"Since when are you bunch-buddies with a bunch of monsters," Gabriel questioned. "That's all they are to you, are they?" He glared at him. I winced at his tone and put my hand on my mouth when I realized I was loud. Dean looked at where I was in confusion and Gabriel shook his head and snapped his fingers at his face.

"All right… you know Sam was right, its nuts, but it's the best idea I've heard, unless you have a better one," Dean asked.

Gabriel looked away from him and towards me. Dean followed his view and his eyes were straight looking in my eyes. I gulped looking into his eyes which were displaying so many emotions which made me freeze. He looked away.

Gabriel drummed his hand on the seat and chuckled. "Good luck with that. Me, I'm blowing Jonestown."

I closed my eyes hearing as my brother told him what bad idea this was.

Dean counter attacked. "I see right through you. The smart ass shell, 'I don't give a crap thing'. Believe me takes one to know one. You are an archangel, you can help. These are your family too."

Gabriel huffed. "Where's your sister?" Dean asked awkwardly and I watched as Gabriel raised his eyebrows. Dean hesitated and stuttered. "She… could help. Two are always better than one."

Gabriel sighed. I knew what the answer was. "I can't kill my brother."

"Can't or won't? That's what I thought," Dean left and I watched the defeated look on my brother's face.

"Do you think he's right?" The question that came out of his mouth shocked me. "Should we help them to kill our brother?"

I winced and looked down. Memories of Lucifer, the way he was before this all started came in my mind. Lucifer, the elder brother who raised Gabriel and helped him to raise me; The one who showed us tricks and taught us how to fight; he was our teacher, could we defeat him.

"I don't know about killing," I sighed and looked towards the hotel. "But I am stopping him."

I watched as Lucifer went inside and killed Gods. It pained me when each of them died but I had to wait for Gabriel to tell me. He was planning to get himself out of bind and save his ass.

When I saw Lucifer throwing Kali away, I realized it was the time as Gabriel blew Lucifer towards the grand ballroom doors.

I watched an unreadable expression on his face when he looked at Gabriel. "Lucy! I am home."

When I saw Lucifer advancing towards the Gabriel, I moved away from the corner of the room where I was hiding and walked over to join Gabriel who was holding his blade. "Not this time."

My presence made Lucifer look at me. Breath caught in my throat when I felt the gaze of our elder brother. It had been a long time.

A smile crept on his face and he chuckled which turned into a full blown laugh. "I knew you were alive." The smile was so familiar which made me almost smile. "That Uriel can't kill you. When I heard the news, I wanted to kill him but he was already dead. If I could, I would bring him back and then kill him all over again."

I watched from the corner of my eyes as Gabriel lifted Kali and passed to Winchesters.

"Lucifer."

"Selaphiel."

He shook his head. "I knew why Castiel seemed so familiar," he started to move around me in circle. "He was your student, wasn't he? The one you wanted to teach, Too-stiff funny guy."

I nodded and almost felt like he was the brother who used to play with me.

"Guys, get her out of here,"

This gained Lucifer's attention who frowned. "Over a girl," Lucifer commented as Winchesters and Kali rushed out the room. "Gabriel, really? I mean I knew you were slumming, but…" Lucifer made a disgusted face and joked. "I hope you didn't catch anything."

Gabriel smiled, shrugged. "Hey, I'm not the first angel to throw away it all for a girl, now am I," he replied, leveling his brother with a stilted smile. "Lucifer, you're my brother. And I love you. But you are a great big bag of dicks."

"What did you just say to me?" Lucifer asked, his eyes narrowing.

"Look at yourself! Boo hoo! Daddy was mean to me, so I'm gonna smash up all his toys," Gabriel said.

"Watch your tone," Lucifer said softly, warningly. I pulled out my blade, sensing the heat getting up.

Gabriel ignored his brother's command. "Play the victim all you want. But you and me? We know the truth. Dad loved you best. More than Michael, more than me, hell more than our sister. Then he brought the new baby home and you couldn't handle it. So this is all just one big temper tantrum." Gabriel's face grew serious; he pointed his blade at Lucifer. "Time to grow up."

Lucifer sighed. "If you are doing this for Michael…"

Gabriel cut him off."Screw him. If he were standing here, I'd shiv his ass, too."

Lucifer scoffed in disbelief. "You disloyal…"

Gabriel narrowed his eyes. "Oh, I'm loyal.. to them."

"Who.. these so called gods?" Lucifer asked. They were talking each forgetting I was even standing there.

"To people, Lucifer," Lucifer hummed. "People."

Lucifer stopped and tiled his head. "So you're willing to die for a pile of cockroaches? Why?"

"Because Dad was right," my head snapped to Gabriel in surprise. "They are better than us."

"They are broken and flawed abortions," Lucifer spat out.

"Damn, right they are flawed." Gabriel inhaled loudly. "But a lot of them try… to do better, to forgive." I saw glimpse of some emotion on Lucifer face but it cleared when Gabriel made the joke. "You should see the spearmint rhino."

"I'm in the game now. And I'm not on your side or Michael's. I'm on theirs," I smiled when Gabriel looked at me.

Lucifer followed his view and chuckled. "Of course, the dear little sister, always so humble, soft-hearted, loving these pathetic abominations. This was your idea, wasn't it?" he questioned and I moved to stand beside Gabriel.

"It wasn't mine, brother," I sighed. "This has to stop. Why can't you see what you both are doing? You and Michael have been fighting for so long and what will be the result of this," I raised my hand in frustration. "You get to kill our eldest brother. Do you have strength to kill him? You love him, Lucifer. Stop this, forgive each other," I pleaded with him.

Lucifer looked down and for a minute I was sure I had convinced him but he shook his head. "Brother, I know you think you are doing the right thing," he said looking at Gabriel. I watched as another form of Gabriel came closer to him from behind. I knew he was real.

The gleam in Lucifer's eyes made me realize he knew too. " But I know where your heart truly lies.."

"NO!"

Before I could stop him, Lucifer had turned around and shoved the blade into Gabriel who was going to attack him.

"No!"

A scream tore out of my mouth as I watched Lucifer twist the blade and Gabriel's head went back, eyes lighting up as his grace blazed out of his mouth with blinding blue light. My bIade fell out of my hands as I fell down beside him as his body fell too, lifeless, leaving wings charring the ground. Sobbing deliriously, I crumbled over my brother's dead body, clutching the jacket he had worn, I cried.

"No, please, no, Gabriel!" I sobbed frantically, and smashed my hand against Gabriel's rib cage trying to do anything to bring him back.

"He's gone," I heard Lucifer whisper. I didn't hear the sadness, or guilt in his voice and nor did I care what he felt. He had just killed our brother. Brother who had saved my life, brother who protected me my whole life.

I saw red, and closed my eyes, my whole body shaking with grief and anger and turned to look at Lucifer. "Kill me."

He looked bewildered as he took a step back and watched me plead with him. "Kill me too, Please."

I was helpless and exhausted. Gabriel was the only one who was keeping me alive, helping me, saving me. Without him I would have died and now he was gone and I wanted to die. With him I could have fought Lucifer and Michael together, but without him, I just can't.

"You can't ask me that," Lucifer shook his head.

"You killed him, kill me. It's not a big deal for you," I yelled at him and whimpered as the pain I was feeling increased when he declined.

"No!" he yelled and walked away."This is your fault. You are the reason, you persuaded him to help these pathetic beings. You, not me."

I laughed darkly, feeling as if I would go insane. I wanted to him to kill me, and if I could make him so angry then he would do this. "It was my fault, he died because of me," I nodded agreeing with him, "kill me, Lucy. I beg you."

He shook his head, his eyes shining with emotions when I called him with his nickname. "No, I won't," his eye hardened as he saw my eyes brimming with tears. "You get to live with this. You get to feel this pain as you live your life knowing Gabriel died because of you." He hissed at me as if I was dirt even though his eyes said he knew it was him. This was all him.

I cried and shook my head. "Kill me Lucifer." I looked at him, and glared with as much hatred as I could. "Or I swear on my life that I would bend heaven and hell to stop you."

"Try," he whispered and with that he was gone.

I blinked through my tears that could never fall and looked towards my dead brother.

His last words ringing in my head and I knew what I had to do.

"Lucifer is going to be caged again, I promise you brother, " I whimpered as I closed his eyes.

A/n:Gabriel is dead for now. I am sure you have heard that he's not really after last season, producers have confirmed this too. Trickster will always remain trickster :)

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