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"So you know you can't tell your brother about me right?" Gabe asked. He knew if Sam told Dean, the elder Winchester would make a fuss and cause further detriment to Sam's guilt.

"What why?" Sam asked.

"I've been trying to figure out a way to bring myself back. And I don't want that idiot brother of yours getting in the way." Gabe said.

"He can help." Sam said before falling silent as Cas walked in the room.

"Who were you talking to Sam?" Cas asked.

"Myself." Sam said easily.

"As if." Dean said eyeing his brother suspiciously.

"Were you praying?" Cas asked reasonably.

"Maybe." Sam shrugged.

"He does pray quite often." Castiel said soothing Dean's suspicion.

"To who?" Dean asked.

"Whom." Sam corrected. Gabriel grinned; maybe Sammy wasn't that stupid after all. "It's not your problem who I pray to."

"It is if you're talking to dick bag angels who will come here and kick our asses." Dean said.

"Don't tell him." Gabe urged.

"I do what I want Dean." Sam said causing both Dean and Gabriel to back off. "Did they have pie?" Sam asked diverting suspicion.

"Yes." Dean grinned.

"What kind?" Sam asked casually easing into this new line of conversation.

"Dean made us get apple and cherry." Cas said.

"You bought two whole pies?" Sam asked as his eyes went wide.

"No. David Gonzales bought two whole pies." Dean smirked holding up the credit card.

"David Gonzales?" Sam shook his head.

"Dean-o you are such an idiot." Gabe said. He saw the tiny struggle Sam experienced not to laugh. Sam took out his laptop and opened it up.

"David is contributing to us, he's quite thankful. We did save the world after all." Dean said.

"We also started the apocalypse." Sam shook his head.

"That wasn't my fault." Dean frowned.

It was my fault. Sam typed.

"It was not your fault." Gabriel growled. Sam took on such weight, he carried every mistake he ever made on his shoulders and it hurt Gabriel to see him stumble. All the good Sam had done seemed to go forgotten while all the bad was remembered in vivid detail and Sam lived that detain every day.

"Gabriel?" Castiel asked looking suddenly perplexed.

"Damn. I guess the cats out of the bag. Don't tell Dean." Gabriel said as he landed next to Cas.

"I tell Dean everything." Castiel frowned.

"Tell me what." Dean demanded.

"Gabriel is here." Castiel said looking at Dean patiently.

"Great now the whole family knows. No more fun for me." Gabe sighed.

"I thought Gabriel was dead." Dean said. Gabe looked at Sam, knowing it hurt him when Dean said things like that. Dean might as well have said: I thought Sam murdered that man whore.

Things like that make me want to hit him. Sam typed.

"Hit him." Gabe laughed. "Tell him I possessed you and made you do it." Gabriel urged.

"Do not hit your brother." Castiel said.

"Sam?!" Dean looked urgently at Sam.

"Gabe's here. He's a ghost." Sam said.

"What?" Dean asked pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Gabriel is a ghost." Castiel said clearly not understanding the subject of Dean's confusion.

"I heard him." Dean said. "I mean, how? Can angels have ghosts?" Dean asked. Gabriel was getting frustrated; clearly they can because you're talking to one idiot.

"Archangels do apparently." Gabe said.

"Why can't Dean hear you?" Sam asked curiously.

"Because he's an idiot." Gabe took a guess.

"I am not!" Dean grumbled. Gabriel sighed. So now the whole family could hear him? Great. How was he supposed to have fun with Sammy with these two pestering them? "How long have you been here?" Dean demanded.

"Um since I died." Gabriel said in his most duh-you're-an-idiot-Dean-o voice.

"It was you wasn't it?" Dean's eyes narrowed.

"Yep." Gabriel laughed.

"I'm going to wring your neck." Dean snarled.

"Um...I'm dead dummy." Gabe said before he froze, realizing what he'd said. He looked at Sam.

"We have to bring him back." Sam said.

"We didn't even know angels can become ghosts, so how are we supposed to bring him back?" Dean asked.

"Well we'll just have to figure it out." Sam said.

"I'll help." Gabriel offered as he flew over to Sam's side and touched his laptop. He felt a little bit of his power ebb away as he brought up sites he thought might help. "That should help. I've been reading it. I think it should be the same."

"This will just make you visible." Sam said as he looked through the rather simple spell.

"Baby steps." Gabriel purred as he kissed Sammy on the cheek.

"Well I'm not helping till I get some alone time with Cas." Dean declared.

"No Dean. You're helping." Sam sounded murderous and Gabe knew that he may be genuinely close to snapping at his brother.

"Let them have some alone time Sam." Gabriel said feeling terribly out of character but if it got Dean's help on returning Gabe to his body then he'd do anything. Dean and Cas left.

"Dean says your dead so nonchalantly. He flaunts his fucking angel right in front of me. It's not fair. He has to make a deal just to help me bring you back?" Sam smashed the glass beer bottle in his hand. "He doesn't have the right."

"It's okay Sammy." Gabriel said as he rubbed Sam's shoulders gently.

"It's not! It's not fair!" Sam shouted.

"Sammy..." Gabriel said in a small voice.

"I'm sorry Gabe. It's just so frustrating. He doesn't even make an effort to understand how I feel." Sam sighed.

"Get revenge." Gabriel shrugged casually. "He left his pie in the fridge."

Sam smirked.