A/N: Sorry, the chapters kind of vary in length. Whoops ;-P

Fyi, Gabriel's thoughts are UNDERLINED and ITALICIZED

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Series One, Episode One, Part Two

The Boys Are Back In Town*

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The Winchesters had just arrived back at their motel room at after finishing a case. Sam opened the door and abruptly came to a halt. Dean, being right behind him, slammed full force into the Sasquatch.

"What the-? Sam? What are you..?" Dean's eyes widened when he discovered what had stopped his brother dead in his tracks.

Castiel and Gabriel.

"Dean! Sammy! It is So good to see you both again," Gabriel announced a little too loudly as he went to bear-hug the Winchesters. The brothers were too shocked to stop him.

"Wh-what?" Sam stammered.

"What are you two doing here?" Dean asked them both. "Cas, are you-"

"Sane? It would appear so." The Angel nodded to his brother, "Gabriel fixed me."

Sam was still stuck on the Gabriel-being-alive part. "Gabriel? I, I thought you were dead?"

"Well, you thought right Sammy." He shrugged, "I guess Dad brought me back."

Gabriel saw the way that his brother and the elder hunter looked at each other and decided they needed some alone time. "So, Sammy, how about you fill me in on what I've missed?"

"Uh-"

Gabriel angel-zapped behind Sam and yanked the giant out of the room by his shirt. The Archangel teleported Dean away from the door, then angel-mojo'd it closed. He whispered to Sam on the other side of the door, "I think they need some time to chat."

After Sam took a few moments to recover from being dragged out of the room like a rag-doll, he nodded in agreement and took Gabriel to the all-night diner down the street to catch him up on what's he had missed - the good and the bad.

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The younger Winchester and the Archangel ended up talking until the early morning. When Sam had finished, Gabriel put his head in his hands.

"Cassy, Cassy, Cassy." He looked up, "That poor kid! He must feel awful. No wonder the kid went all emo on me in that nut house." Gabriel sighed. "You guys must have been pretty upset."

"I guess you could say that. But after what he did for me," Sam shook his head, "I just couldn't be mad at him anymore."

"Yeah, but it probably broke Dean's heart."

Sam looked at the Archangel quizzically, "Uh, yeah, I guess."

Gabriel sipped his Coke. "You mean you don't know?"

Hunh? "Don't know what?"

Gabriel rolled his eyes, Idiot!

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*The Boys Are Back In Town is a song by Thin Lizzy.