Here's chapter two! Thanks for the positive feedback, and sorry for any grammar issues, they aren't my strong suit... Anyways enjoy :)
The next day, everyone woke up in between 9 and 10 o'clock, besides Gabriel. Dean volunteered to run to McDonald's to pick up food for everyone, and Cas tagged along. It wasn't until Sam was halfway through with his egg mcmuffin that the injured angel appeared in the doorway of the kitchen. "Hello Gabriel" Cas looked up from the newspaper he had been scanning through.
Still in a daze from just waking up, Gabriel clambered over to the kitchen table and sat down in an empty chair. "I'm hungry" he announced.
"Have some hotcakes" Dean pushed an unopened tray of pancakes in Gabriel's direction. He gratefully pulled off the plastic lid and began to eat one with his hands.
"How are you feeling?" Sam asked.
"How do you think?" he snorted "I feel like I was hit by a truck".
"Here" Bobby had wandered over to Gabriel and was holding out a bottle of aspirin. "Should help with the pain."
Gabriel nodded and sat the bottle down on the table. Was this what it was like to be human? He didn't like it. "So" he turned his head at the sound of Castiel's voice "what happened back there?" Gabriel glared, he wasn't in the mood to talk about the incident, he'd rather curl up on the couch and watch cartoons and drink hot chocolate.
"I ran into a gang of vamps, and I killed a few easy peasy" he flicked his wrist "and then this one, she was a girl, not very tall, came up to me and I was prepared to kill her and I put my hand on her forehead and" the angel sighed loudly "and nothing happened, she just attacked me, which of course led to the others coming at me too".
"So you just... lost your mojo?" Dean confirmed.
"Yeah I lost my mojo" Gabriel grumbled. "Now I'm going to go watch some TV." He stood up, leaving behind an empty tray and wandered back into the living room.
A few hours later, Bobby came out of the library holding an old book with yellowed pages and a brown leather cover. "I might have found something" he handed the book to Dean.
Dean looked down at the open page, "do you really think something like that could happen?"
"I don't know, but it's the best I've found" Bobby shrugged "why don't you ask that angel of yours what he thinks." Dean glared at the last comment, but proceeded to go outside to find Cas. He hadn't left close proximity of the house, Dean knew that. Cas had promised he'd stay until Gabriel was better, although no one knew how long that would be. Dean found Cas wandering around by a few broken down cars.
"Hello Dean."
"Hey Cas" Dean gave a small smile before handing over the book. Cas read the page quickly and looked back up to make eye contact with Dean.
"It could be possible" he mused. "Very rare, but it could have happened."
"But how?" Dean leaned back against a car. "It said that the only way something like that could happen is if the angel has a really strong bond with a human." Cas shrugged, and looked away from Dean. Knowing he wasn't going to receive an answer Dean continued to speak "should we tell Gabriel? Maybe he'll be able to figure out if that's what happened."
"Yeah, good idea" Cas nodded. They walked silently back to the house. Inside they found Sam sitting on the couch next to Gabe attempting to make light conversation, it seemed to only be working from his end though, because Gabriel seemed like he'd rather pay attention to the Disney flick playing on the TV.
"Hey we might've gotten something" Dean said, holding out the book to whoever wanted it "we think this could be what happened to him" he gestured to Gabriel. Sam took the book and set it in his lap.
"An angel can lose temporarily lose their powers" he swallowed and looked over to Gabriel, who was maintaining a straight face "if they are in a situation where an enemy has the ability to read their min- vampires can't read minds" Sam pointed out.
"Keep reading" Dean insisted.
"The ability to read minds or have a connection with the angel's bond mate. Guys this stuff doesn't make any sense! What's a bond mate?"
"A bond mate is essentially an angel's soul mate." Cas explained, "An angel doesn't necessarily have to know who their bond mate is, but once they've bonded, they figure it out soon enough."
"So you're saying he has some secret soul mate that had some connection with that girl vampire that wiped his powers." Sam raised a brow "doesn't that sound kind of unlikely to you?"
"It's the best we have" Dean shrugged.
"Ok so what we have to find his soul mate?"
"Well it's a start."
Sam turned to face Gabriel "so man, do you know anything about this?"
Gabriel bit his lip "I can't say I do. In fact I think the whole idea is wacko!" He shook his head "I mean do you guys seriously believe that Ibonded with someone?"
Castiel crossed his arms over his chest and sighed "could you at least consider the possibility?"
Gabriel leaned back into the couch and groaned "but there's no one I would've bonded with!"
"Alright let's be done talking about this for now" Dean held up his hands in defeat, "just think about it, ok?"
"Fine" Gabe grumbled. Cas and Dean proceeded to leave the room. Sam remained on the couch, he closed the book and set it down on the coffee table ahead of him.
"So how are you feeling?"
"Like I want to go curl up in a ball and never come out" he moaned "I want my mojo back".
Sam nodded "we're trying our best to help you get it back".
"You know Sammy" Gabe started, "you're the only one here that seems to actually care if I'm ok or not. Why do you even bother caring? I mean I killed your brother over 100 times for gobs sake."
Sam shrugged "I don't know, I guess I just feel like deep down you might be a good person. You know if you stopped killing people".
Gabriel let out a snort of laughter "you know even I don't believe that, I'm just a lousy excuse for an angel who couldn't even face their family."
"You stood up to Lucifer in the end" Sam pointed out.
"Yeah and then he killed me."
"Well you're alive now and that's all that matters" Sam decided as gently as he could. "Why don't you take a nap for a while, you could use the rest, it'll strengthen you up."
Gabriel grimaced at the idea of more sleep. He wasn't even used to sleeping in the first place. Sam picked up one of the couch pillows and propped it against the armrest as if to encourage the injured angel to lay down. Gabriel gave in and slung his bare feet up onto the couch, Sam was about to stand up when he realized that apparently he had gotten in the way of Gabriel's leg space so now those same feet were weighing down his lap. "Gabe"
The archangel craned his neck uncomfortably to look up at Sam with half closed eyes. "Be quiet Sam, I'm trying to sleep." Sam groaned, but didn't make any attempt to move, he could've sworn he saw Gabriel smiling when he looked over, but he was probably just seeing things.