Chapter 10 – He's after me

"Come on, Bobby!" Dean grunted.

"I already said no, Dean!"

A week had passed since the knife incident.

"It's been a week! Miss Barnes said I could start physical activities when it had passed a week!" Dean wanted to help Bobby on the shop, but that was out of question for Bobby.

"And I told you no, Dean!" Bobby sighed and placed a hand on Dean's shoulder. "I know you don't have enough rest at home with John there… So please take a few more days before you make something you'll regret with your arm."

Dean frowned.

"That's not fair! I want to work here! Besides dad hasn't been too bad on me, he only makes me clean the house and fetch stuff for him; and I've got Sam who won't let me do half the things!" Dean whined. He was thankful of what his brother was doing, but he didn't want Sam to do the house chores when he needed to study. It angered him to think that it was all because of a stupid wound.

"Please Dean! Just take a few more days." Bobby asked. He was tired; Dean wanted to help, he had been trying to do so during the whole week, but Bobby wouldn't let him. He didn't want Dean to rip the stitches off.

The doorbell rang and Sam entered the shop panting.

"Hey Sammy." Dean greeted with a soft smile.

Sam bended forward and his hands fell to his knees. He had run to the shop so he was panting slightly.

"Dean… I need your help." Sam said as soon as he could.

Dean got closer to his brother.

"What's the matter, Sammy?" He asked worried.

"I- There's this guy…" Sam started explaining. "…that guy to whom I talked first the day you passed out…"

"You mean, Gabriel?" Dean asked, interrupting his brother, who nodded a bit annoyed by the interruption. "Sorry."

"Yeah, him. I don't know why, but he has been almost everywhere I go! I go somewhere and he is there…" Sam explained. "This is starting to creep me out. At first I thought that it was coincidence, but then I started noticing that he would look over at me and smile. I think he is after me, Dean..."

Dean didn't know what to think. Why would Gabriel suddenly be interested in Sam? They had only talked once and it hadn't been all that much! About three sentences each before Castiel interfered. So why would he do something like that?! It made no sense.

"Are you sure? It could really be a coincidence, Sammy." Dean said.

His brother snorted.

"You think I would come here and ask for your help if I wasn't sure, Dean?!"

Sam did have a point. Just like his brother, he didn't like to ask for help all that much. The only times he did ask for help was about school. When he didn't understand something he would ask Dean, aside from that it was a rare event for Sam to ask for help to anyone.

"Sorry… I just need to be sure Sam. I can't just go and talk to him if you're not sure."

"Fine. I see your point." Sam huffed.

A few moments later, with Sam and Dean discussing what could be done, the bell rang again.

This time, the person who entered wasn't running. In fact he was very much calm, his breathing normal and he had a grin in his face.

"Hey there." He said as he entered the shop.

Sam jumped closer to Dean. Dean turned to Gabriel.

"Hey. Can I help you with something?" He asked. He knew that he wasn't going to work, Bobby was in the same room as they were, but that didn't mean that Dean couldn't be the secretary.

"In fact I think you can…" Gabriel smirked as his eyes wandered around until they settled on Sam.

Without really thinking, Dean placed himself in front of Sam.

"With what, may I ask?" Dean asked, bothered by the fact that Sam had been right about Gabriel.

"I just need to ask you something." Gabriel said. Dean waited for him to continue. "Where's the bathroom?"

Dean's eyes grew wide in shock.

"Excuse me?" He asked.

"You know… The bathroom! I really need to go to one, you see, I didn't want to pee in the street, so when I saw this garage and decided to ask if I could use the bathroom." Gabriel's eyes continued fixed on Sam.

Dean was now standing completely in front of Sam making it impossible for Gabriel to look at him. His instincts were kicking it off and he just knew better than to trust Gabriel, so he was protecting Sam with his own body.

"Geez Dean-o." Gabriel said as he walked closer to them. "Just tell me, can I use the bathroom or not?"

"Yeah, sure. Come with me." He said as he grabbed Gabriel's arm and dragged him to the bathroom door. "We're here. You can go inside."

He was almost shoving the guy inside, he felt that Gabriel needed to go away, and the only way to do it was if he went to the bathroom.

"Thanks Dean-o!" Gabriel smiled, despite having been shoved to the inside of the bathroom. He started closing the door, but right before it was closed, he poked his head out of the bathroom. "What's your brother's name?"

Dean couldn't believe it. Why was Gabriel calling him 'Dean-o'? And why in hell did he want to know Sam's name?

"Why do you want to know?"

A smirk came into view in Gabriel's lips.

"He looks interesting. I would love to talk to him."

"Whatever you 'would love to' you can forget it. You're not going to do anything to my brother." He didn't know what had got through him. He had never spoke to anyone at school like this before. Usually he was too scared to act; but now Sam was involved and he simply wanted to protect his baby brother.

Gabriel frowned and Dean could see a bit of Cas in Gabriel.

Come on Dean! This is important! You need to focus on Sammy!

"I just wanted to talk to him… No need to get all angry like that, Dean-o!"

"And why do you keep calling me that? You never even talked to me before!"

"Because I like 'Dean-o' better than 'Dean'. So please let me carry on with calling you that." Gabriel rolled his eyes.

"Didn't you need to pee?" Dean asked not really in the mood to talk to Gabriel.

Gabriel closed the door. And Dean walked back to Sam.

"I don't get him…" Dean confessed. "He said he just wanted to talk to you because you 'seem interesting'."

Sam frowned.

"How did he come up with that?"

"I have no idea! But be careful Sammy. I don't trust him." Sam nodded, trusting his brother's better judgment.

"Bobby." Sam called out. Once they heard a gruff that showed that Bobby had heard him, he continued. "I'm going to the house for a bit, ok?"

Bobby's house was attached to the garage. He lived in the back and his garage was on the from yard.

"See you later, idjit." Bobby answered simply.

Sam walked away and the flush of the toilet was heard.

Soon, Gabriel was outside of the door, his eyes searching for Sam.

"You need anything else?" Dean asked.

After analyzing the garage and finding that Sam wasn't there, his eyes met Dean.

"Nope. I better get going." And so he started walking outside of the garage. Before stepping outside, he turned to Dean. "Tell your brother I said bye."

Dean was about to answer him when Gabriel walked away laughing.

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