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Just a little peak and he'll be on his way. That's how all started really. And even if you'd ask him now he is, well...let's say indisposed, Gabriel would tell you he regrets nothing. Almost nothing anyway. Was it destiny?
After everything that happened, Gabriel liked to believe he made his own choices, for his own personal, entirely selfish reasons. His father couldn't have plan this, right? No. For reasons he cannot really explain, Gabriel couldn't bear the idea all his actions has been predicted. Not anymore. Not with Him. When he come to think about it, and that's all he has to do now really, all those beautiful, strong, sometimes violent and always tainted with love emotions are his. Entirely his. No one, not even his brothers, not even his Father, could take that away from him.
Sometimes, it also scares him. To be so, dares he say it, free.
He first witnessed it in his own younger brother. In small touches, but it was definitely there, and should he really be surprise that He was the cause of it? Of course not.
Gabriel always considered himself as a free thinker. A wild card that didn't answer to anybody anymore and yet he had to admit that at the very beginning of this, this being the most important story he would ever care and want to live, he still believed in Heaven's conception of everything that was. Even as he experienced more human pleasures, horrors, beauties and cakes than any of his brothers and sisters did before him. Even embracing humanity at its fullest for the millenniums he spent cut from Heaven, he never came to challenge it as much and as quickly as his little bro Castiel did. Not even after Their first encounter, Gabriel would so reluctantly admit in very few circumstances that had yet to be seen.
Castiel was the first, in his own peculiar way, to be met with the first real gem of doubt. All because, no – thanks -, to Him. Of that Gabriel was jealous. He would never have Him entirely because Gabriel was not there at the beginning. He only had a few, so very short moments, the very best, to enjoy while the others had plenty. Before and always was Sam, a few other humans, and a-more-profound-bond-baby-bro Castiel to surprisingly represent Heaven at His side. As annoying as they all may be, Gabriel wouldn't have it any other way though. They weren't that bad, and it was an absolute delight to play with them. And really, one has the right to get a little annoyed, right? Not even able to claim the whole Free Will business as his own. Beaten to it by a no-fun-all-stary-face little brother - and a long lost sister he has been told. But he did came around eventually and that's all that matters in the end. So very few did.
At the end of the day, or newly found Gabriel's eternity, the answer of how much his Father knew with certainty remains a mystery to Gabriel. Yet, he does not believe Father capable of such cruelty to make His angel sons and daughters beloved humanity guardians, letting them admire, protect and cherish humans' fragile existence made so strong by Free Will to deny the access to his winged children at the end. It's true that most, if not almost every single one of Gabriel's brothers and sisters don't share the interest Gabriel, Anna or Castiel demonstrate in those tiny humans – not counting the Cherub community, the hippies of the lot – but the possibility is there.
And that was maybe the plan all along.