He writhed in pain and collapsed on the ground.
A violent tearing in the pit of his stomach made Sam gasp for a moment, cold sweat covering his body.
Terrified and alarmed, Gabriel jumped up.
"What happened?" , he asked , his voice hoarse with shock.
Sam, who was still struggling not to spread his stomach contents on the floor, only shook his head.
He took a shaky breath, closed his eyes.
Uhhh, not a good idea ...even behind closed eyelids everything began to spin, he felt dizzy, hot and cold at the same time. A dull throb behind his temples, and with a ringing in his ears, Sam lost consciousness.
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Darkness enveloped him.
Nothing but pure darkness.
In the distance he heard his brother.
Dean called his name over and over again.
Then another voice, Cas? that had a calming connotation.
But all this seemed so far away and ... insignificant.
Yes, Sam felt free, weightless. Surrounded by this all-pervading darkness.
Emptiness growed inside him , but it wasn't the kind of negative, depressive emptiness.
He felt peaceful.
He didn't want to leave this place filled with peace and carelessness.
Sam didn't care where he was, he felt safe!
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When he came to, Sam realized, that he was still in Bobby's living room.
Actually, shouldn't he have been back in the bunker ?!
Confused, he looked to Gabe, who knelt beside him, no less puzzled.
Sam sat up carefully, hectic movements would only cause another black out.
"What the hell was that?"
Gabriel's voice still had a panicky undertone.
"I dont know.
I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach with full strength , at least it felt this way at the beginning.
Why I had a circulatory collapse then ...?", he just shrugged helplessly.
Slowly but surely, Sam was more than frightened about this whole situation .
What if he would never wake up again?
This thought terrified him.
How could he help Gabriel if he also become a prisoner in this parallel universe ?
And suddenly Sam came to a very dark and devastating conclusion ...
If he died here,
what would happen to him in the real world?
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Dean was a nervous wreck.
Of course he would never admit that ... although what was he actually thinking ?! Cas knew every little fluctuation, every mood of him.
It was scary, with an angel as a boyfriend, you didn't even have the slightest secret for yourself.
Not that Cas would read his mind without permission, but in the end he had freed him from hell, from which point onward only God probably had a deeper insight into his soul.
But now he didn't know what to do anymore, Sam had been sleeping in his bed for a whole week!
Not even the punch in the pit of his stomach had been able to wake him up.
His brother had become a coma patient, and this realization rocked Dean deeply .