"That's a nice way to greet me when I've just come all this way to save your arses" The trickster told Dean "and for the record this really isn't your world and she really is an elf"
"Gabriel" Castiel said
"As in the archangel?" Sam asked
"The one and only" He grinned "As soon as I heard you were stuck here and Melissa was trying to help you I had to come and get you out myself" he turned to Melissa "No offence sweetheart but your way is slow and we don't have time"
"You know each other?" Castiel asked
"We have history" Gabriel told him
"We had a mistake" Melissa corrected him as Castiel glared at Gabriel
"What can I say?" Gabriel held his hands up "she obviously has a type"
"Look this is all very touching but how does an archangel become a trickster?" Dean asked
"My own private witness protection, I skipped out of heaven, had a face transplant and carved out my own little corner of the universe"
"And now you're here to get us home?" Dean asked sceptically.
"That's the idea"
"Why?"
"I have my reasons but I'm not sharing, not that you'll remember once you're back home anyway" Gabriel told them.
"OK so lets go" Dean said
"Thanks" Sam said to Melissa "for trying to help us"
"That makes sense" Garbriel rolled his eyes "I'm the one who will actually get you home and she gets the thanks"
""Well she did give up a lot to try and help us" Dean said "Sorry I didn't believe doesn't really cut it does it?"
"Apology accepted" Melissa told him
"Good cos that was awkward"
Gabriel clicked his fingers and Dean and Sam vanished.
They found themselves on an aeroplane with no recollection of how they had gotten there.
Back in the other world
Gabriel had gotten everyone home except Castiel and Melissa
"Are you ready to go Cas" Gabriel asked
"What about Melissa?" he asked
"She's as good as dead"
"But she doesn't have to be, she could come with us?" but he knew deep down that wasn't possible
"You know I can't. When I kissed you..."
"You bought me back to life" Castiel finished
"She gave you her life dummy" Gabriel told him
"Hey it's OK" she told him "You won't even remember"
"I could never forget you" Castiel told her
Melissa hugged him "I almost wish that was true" and then he was gone. Castiel held onto her memory longer than he should have been able to but within a week he'd convinced himself that god had bought him back. It felt like something was missing but he put it down to his powers been restricted he would never realise it was her .