Gabriel was visiting the Garden on earth and his brother, Gadreel. The two actually got along quite well and enjoyed each others company.

"Gabriel, could you tell me about before?" the young, curious angel asked his older brother. "As in, before us? Before the angels? What was it like? Was it the same? Different?" the angel clarified at his brothers confused face.

"It was very different," Gabriel replies, "Very different indeed. Father was more, fun. He played with us. We laughed."

"But we do laugh Gabriel. What is so different?"

Gabriel chuckles dryly, "Your laughs are not real. They are fake compared to the joy that was once heard in a laugh."

"Oh" he comments sadly. "Well, in that case... could you, would you show me what a real laugh is?" he asks cautiously.

Gabriel smirks. He doesn't answer, instead he reaches one of his wings out and gently tickles Gadreel's side. A real laugh bursts from Gadreel's lips as Gabriel brushes the spot right above the hip.

"Ah, see? You can laugh!" Gabriel shouts joyously before continuing his tickling on Gadreel.

"Gabriel!" the angel gasps out before falling into a fit of giggles, "Gabriel! St-Sta-hap! P-please!"

"No. I like hearing laughter again" Gabriel replies petulantly as he continues to tickle his brother.

Gadreel and Gabriel continue to laugh together for a long while, talking and watching the Garden as well.

"Gabriel!" a familiar voice calls out to the two, "Gabriel, was that laughter I heard?" Lucifer says in a mock angry tone as he walks up to the pair.

When he gets to them Gabriel answers , "Why, yes it was dear brother."

"Good." Is all Lucifer says before he opens his wings and attacks his two younger brothers with them, sending the three of them into a fit of laughter.

They spend hours like this, playing around. Gabriel is glad that Lucifer was being a big brother again and not constantly centred on being God's number one.

When Lucifer arose from his spot on the earth, he helped the other two up after him and he smiled. The first real smile Gabriel had seen Lucifer give since the Darkness was defeated.

"Gabriel, walk with me?" Lucifer asked quietly when they had all caught their breath.

"Of course Lucifer" Gabriel replies easily. They wave goodbye to Gadreel, promising to be by again soon.

~Archangel~

The two Archangels walked in the garden on silence before Lucifer spoke up.

"He's not worthy" he said. Gabriel was confused. Who wasn't? Gadreel?

"Who's not worthy?"

"Adam"

"Why?"

"He is God's most favoured now, correct?"

"Yes..." Gabriel replied unsurely.

"He is not worthy of that favour. He has no power, he is weak minded and weak bodied. He gets lonesome. And he complains. He can't make do with what our Father has given him. He has Father wrapped around his small, incompetent finger. It's pathetic. He is not worthy of our Father's devotion" Lucifer grumbles out.

Ah, so he's jealous.

"Jealous Lucifer?" Gabriel jokes. Lucifer's face twisted into one of rage.

"Don't you ever call jealous of that – that freak! That abomination! I am not jealous of him!" Lucifer shouts, angry. His voice is powerful and his aura seems to reach out and choke Gabriel. His eyes are furious and dark.

No, wait... that's not his aura, that's his hand. Gabriel realizes.

"Lu-Lucifer... st-stop... can't... breath..." Gabriel manages to get out.

Realization dawns on Lucifer's face and he pulls his hand back. He looks scared.

"Oh Gabriel, I am so sorry... I-I don't... I don't know what came over me, I – I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry." He blathers on and on. Apologizing and looking completely freaked out.

"Hey, hey Luce, look at me. Look at me Lu... I forgive you, okay? Your stressed, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have compared you to Adam. I'm sorry. I forgive you." Gabriel says as he looks into his brothers pale blue eyes.

He watches as tears start to form in them, and he pulls his brother closer to him.

"It's okay, Lucifer. It's okay. Sh..." he comforts his brother, holding the Archangel to him and rocking back and forth slowly, "Everything will be all right. I promise. Dad loves you, okay? He always will. Even if it seems Adam is better, he isn't. Because YOU are dad's brightest. You can't replace Balthazar, but you can make an impression. He loves you just the same as he loves all of us..." Gabriel whispers. Lucifer holds his brother tighter and starts to cry into his chest. Gabriel hoped this helped his brother. Little did he know, it did the exact opposite.

~Archangel~

It was a bright day, a little while after Gabriel held Lucifer in his arms as the older Archangel cried. And everything was well.

That is, everything but Lucifer. He had pulled away from Gabriel. But the younger brother did not worry to much. He thought Lucifer was just embarrassed, having broke down like that in front of his brother.

Gabriel and Balthazar were sitting in their spot, talking, when the sky went black with dark, angry clouds.

"Balthazar, stay here," Gabriel says quietly. Balthazar just nods his head as he watched Gabriel leave.

If Gabriel was right, he was headed to earth. Their was something going on with Adam. And he intended to find out what.

~Archangel~

When Gabriel arrived in the garden, he knew something was terribly wrong. He could not find Gadreel anywhere, and as he inched closer, he could hear his father calling.

"Adam? Where are you? And Eve? Why are you hiding from me?"

Gabriel heard Adam whimper slightly, and he saw him crouched with Eve behind a bush.

"We're sorry, Lord. But we heard you calling for us and so we hid ourselves from your sight, for we are naked." Adam said quietly.

How do they know they are naked? Did they eat from the forbidden tree?

"Who told you that you were naked?" God voices his sons thoughts.

"It was my fault, Lord," Eve said, "I ate from the forbidden tree. The snake told me that it would make me as wise as you Lord. It told me that it would help me understand, and that it would make you love me more. I shared it with Adam after."

The snake? That is Michaels creature... but he would never do this... would he? No, the most probable would be...

Gabriel gasped as he realized what had done this, or more like, who. All the signs point to it. The archangel was jealous of Adam. He wanted to be noticed by a father who had once held him high above the others for a time. He wanted to put the blame on someone else. The only logical angel to have done this, was an archangel.

Lucifer.

~Archangel~

"Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." God said to Adam.

He then turned to Eve, "And you, woman, you shall bring children into this world as your offspring, but it will cause you great pain." God says, Eve has tears in her eyes. "You shall both be gone from the garden of Eden and never return." God says to them.

He has much regret on his voice, and he seems to be on the verge of tears. He is mourning the loss of closeness he had with Adam and Eve, even though he knew it would come to an end.

He makes some clothes out if sheep's skin to hide the couples nakedness, and he sends them off without another word. They leave the garden.

He then goes to heaven and arranges angel's to protect the garden, so that none may enter. He places on the east side a cherubim. And a flaming sword he placed to protect the way to the tree of life, so that none may enter to it.

~Archangel~

In heaven, the serpent who had convinced Eve to sin, and Gadreel, who had let the serpent into the garden, had been brought before the Lord.

Michael looked furious, that his creation had been used in this manner, and for his younger brothers behaviour. And, Lucifer, well... he looked almost pleased.

"Gadreel." Their father says sadly, "You have let my creation be disfigured and broken by sin. You let the serpent into the garden, without my permission."

"Father, I'm so-"

"No Gadreel, your apologies will do nothing. Your punishment has already been decided."

"F-father..." Gadreel whispers, tears filling his eyes.

"You shall be taken to the prison, where you will spend the rest of eternity until the end of time."

"But Father! You can't do that! Father-"

"Is. That. Clear, Gadreel?"

Gadreel sighs heavily. "Yes Father" God nods his head and snaps his fingers. Gadreel vanishes and God sighs heavily.

"Serpent," the Lord said, "You have brought sin into my creation. And for that, you shall also face punishment." He says, face stony. The serpent looks down, ashamed and afraid.

"You shall be forced to slither across the ground, your legs shall disappear and your voice shall be taken from you, so that no more lies can come from it." He proclaims. He then waves his hand and it is done. The serpents legs have disappeared so it slither along the ground, and when it tries to speak, all that comes out is an animalistic hiss with its forked tongue.

God sends the creature back to whence it came on earth, and sends his angels and Archangels away, so that he can mourn his loss.

~Archangel~

Gabriel was furious. Lucifer had made Gadreel into a criminal! His own brother! Gabriel couldn't believe it. The Archangel didn't even notice that Father didn't even think Lucifer was the one behind it because the guy loved him so much!

He needed to talk with Lucifer, he didn't understand the point of this. He needed to understand. So he decided to find Lucifer and talk with him about this. After telling Balthazar what had happened though, the younger angel was probably still where he left him, in their special place. He needed to find him and tell him what happened before he went after Lucifer.


So that was chapter 5!

Forgot to add this little tidbit in the past few chapters so, yeah, supernatural ain't mine. I'm just borrowing the characters. Don't worry, I'll give them back! I'm just playing!

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over and out.

-E. Winchester