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Sam was unpacking their bags while Dean was on the phone with Castiel. ‘’Yeah. No, we just got in. Mm-hmm.’’, he said as he noticed what his brother was doing. ‘’What are you doing? Don't unpack.’’, but Sam didn’t really care because he knew they were going to stay a bit longer. ‘’Dude, we could be here for days.’’, Sam tried to explain but Dean wasn’t really having it. ‘’No. No. Hey, hell, no.’’, Dean tried to stop Sam but then turned his attention back to Castiel. ‘’Hey -- No, not you. That's… Just call us when you get to Amarillo, all right?’’, he then disconnected the call to explain to Sam, who had enough of Dean turning his attention back and forth, why they didn’t had to unpack. ‘’All right, look, Rowena's spell said that Gabriel would be here.’’, although he tried to sound reasonable his brother knew that Dean wasn’t always right, even though he might think so.
‘’Yeah, here or in Texas.’’, Sam replied in a annoyed tone. ‘’Yeah, she tracked his essence-- which, gross-- to both places. So Cas is gonna hit up the Lone Star State in a few hours, and we will check this place out.’’, Dean said, ‘’Okay. And that could take some time.’’, Sam rolled his eyes before Dean could reply. ‘’Which we don't have. Look, I know you know that we've been following leads for the past two weeks. We have nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, Mom, Jack, they could be hurt. Or worse. And we're stuck here in this stupid motel room… doing...’’, his brother explained as Sam sat down on the bed next to him. Then Dean kicked the bed out of frustration. To their surprise it suddenly started vibrating. Dean locked surprised and took a step back as Sam jumped to his feet.
Dean looked at the vibrating bed for a second to then test a theory. He kicked the bed again and it stopped vibrating. ‘’Bonus.’’, Dean exclaimed and sounded rather pleased while Sam gave him a look that said ‘Get on with it’. ‘’...looking for some runaway, dumbass archangel who doesn't wanna be found.’’, Dean finished his sentence and waited for his brothers reaction until they heard someone knocking at the door. They weren’t waiting for someone so they were rather confused who knocked on their door at such an hour. They armed themselves and opened the door. Sam didn’t really know what exactly he expected but it definitely wasn’t Gabriel injured and bleeding at their door. If he was honest he didn’t expect to see the archangel quite this soon but it was a pleasant surprise. At least the part that it was Gabriel not the part where he was bleeding.
‘’Hey, fellas. Looking for me?’’, they both looked at Gabriels wound. The archangel looked like shit. Sam knew something was wrong with his grace otherwise the wound would have had already healed by now. Dean put down his gun and let Gabriel in. Sam turned around and gestured him to sit down on the couch. The archangel followed his instructions and let himself more or less gracefully fall down on the couch. Sam noticed a twitch in his chest as looked at wound again to find out what exactly he was going to need to patch him up. He realized that he worried about Gabriel but he decided to ignore the feeling and get the first aid kit from the bathroom. While Sam was in the bathroom picking the needed stuff up he could hear Dean complain about the archangel how he even got in this situation. When he picked everything up and entered the room again Gabriel was still in 6he same position he left him in. Sam moved closer to him and moved his shirt up. He ignored the electric feeling as he touched Gabriels skin. He could think later about the warmth that spread in his chest, Sam know had to concentrate on patching the man in front him up.
‘’All right, this is gonna hurt a little bit.’’, Sam tried to warn Gabriel but he didn’t looked convinced, ‘’A little?’’, the archangel groaned in response and pulled his shirt down again. ‘’How'd you know we were here?’’, Dean asked in a tone that showed his suspicion. ‘’Come on. I felt your witch's tracking spell the second she laid it on me. Tasted like haggis.’’, Gabriel tried to explain. ‘’So now you're in trouble?’’, Sam asked while putting away the bloody cloth that he used to clean the wound. ‘’What gave you that idea?’’, Gabriel sounded slightly offended as if Sam questioned his whole existence. And Sam only rolled his eyes as a response. ‘’You show up on our doorstep, bleeding like a stuck pig.’’, Dean explained and gestured towards Gabriels wound to make a point.
‘’This? Eh, you know, you… roll into town for a little R&R, stumble into the wrong poker game, take a guy's money, his wife… things get messy.’’, the brothers didn’t find it as funny as Gabriel did. ‘’You're trying to tell us you came here for R&R?’’, Sam asked and couldn’t believe that Gabriel compared this situation he got himself in with a poker game. ‘’Yeah, this isn't exactly the Riviera.’’, Dean sounded like he thought the same. ‘’I know, right? Huh. Yeah, so anyway, um… I don't suppose you guys have any more of my grace laying around, right? 'Cause, uh, the tank's a little low.’’, Gabriel didn’t want to sound desperate and Sam hoped that he wasn’t the reason he did so he just asked, ‘’Oh, did you drain it killing Asmodeus?’’.
‘’And ditching you. It'll recharge. Eventually. But, uh, until then...’’, so it was their fault. Sam knew he shouldn’t feel as guilty as he did but he just couldn’t stop it. He could feel the archangels eyes burning into his skin. ‘’Whatever we didn't use on you, we used to open up a rift.’’, Dean casually explained as if he didn’t just talk about an archangels grace but what he wanted to eat for breakfast. ‘’Cool. Superdupes.’’, Gabriel looked like he couldn’t believe what he just heard and then he turned his eyes away from the hunters. ‘’Okay. Well, uh, in that case, gentlemen, I must bid you a fond adi—‘’, he tried to stand up but failed and let out a painful groan as he clutched his injured side. Sam thought abot what he could do to help him but then Gabriel exclaimed, ‘’Ohh! Yeah, nope. Maybe after a… little siesta. Whoa. Aw. Aw, crap.’’, as he laid down on the couch again. He basically passed out. ‘’What are we gonna do now Sam?’’, Dean asked Sam as he turned to look him in the face. Sam could feel his piercing gaze, ‘’We are going to let him rest.’’, Dean looked pretty annoyed but nodded.
Gabriel was still passed out laying on his back as Sam turned to Dean, ‘’Until his grace levels come back up, I-I just… I don't get it.’’, Sam just couldn’t understand why he felt so much towards the angel. It wasn’t like he had feelings for him, right? At least that’s what he hoped. ‘’Yeah, well, right now, don't care. He's here, and we're gonna keep him here.’’, Dean was definitely better at keeping his distance from the archangel. Because it was Castiel he had feelings for, Sam reminded himself. Sam then turned his attention back to Gabriel who was just waking up. He bolted upright and seemed confused, ‘’Where?! Where am I?’’, he then saw Sam and Dean sitting in front of him and seemed to remember, ‘’Oh, right. You.’’. Sam stood up and decided to speak first, ‘’Gabriel, look, we don't really know what's going on here—‘’, but Dean decided to be more direct, ‘’We need your help.’’. Gabriel didn’t look like he liked what he heard, ‘’Uh… yeah, not a big joiner.’’, but Dean still wasn’t really having that, ‘’Oh, so you got better things to do than save the world?’’
‘’Exactly.’’, he inhaled sharply and struggled to stand up again. ‘’Look, this has been… great, a real thrill. But, uh, I just came here for the silver stuff. And since you two are all fresh out, it's time for me to say sayonara.’’, he gathered his things and wanted to make his way to the door but before he even reached it Sleipnir and Narfi slammed the door open. ‘’Raspberries.’’, and then they stepped into the room. ‘’We're here for the angel.’’, Narfi stated. Narfis face started to glow like a skull while Sleipnirs head showed a horse and in his hand he had a whip. While Narfi was wearing normal clothes, Sleipnir was dressed in a coloured suit. ‘’The here are you guys?’’, Dean asked and then turned towards Gabriel to ask ‘’The here are these guys?’’, again. ‘’Oh, just a couple of Norse demigods.’’, Gabriel explained. ‘’Demigods?!’’, Sam asked in disbelieve. Then everything happened pretty fast. Dean tried to shoot but Sleipnir attacked him before he could get him. Meanwhile Narfi attacked Sam and slammed him against the counter. While the hunters were fighting the demigods, Gabriel hid in the closet.
‘’Gabriel, little help in here!’’, Dean shouted towards the closet. But the archangel only shook his head as he saw how Narfi chocked Sam and Sleipnir backed Dean against the wall with his whip. ‘’Sammy!’’, Dean tried to get Sleipnir away from himself to help his brother. After a while he managed to knock him down and get to his brother. But before Dean could do anything, Gabriel stabbed Narfi in the back with a wooden sword. Sleipnir could only watch how his brother died before the archangel hold the sword towards him. ‘’Hiya, handsome. You ready to die?’’, but Sleipnir was not ready to die as he turned around and ran away. Gabriel hunched over and groaned in pain as he clutched his side again. ‘’Ooh.’’, Sam rushed towards him and stabilized the angel. ‘’You okay?’’, Dean asked. ‘’Uh, yeah. I'll go after him in a sec. I just...need a minute.’’, but Dean decided he wasn’t going to give him the time, ‘’Wrong.’’, he said as he hold up a pair of angel handcuffs, ‘’You're not goin' anywhere.’’. Gabriel didn’t seemed thrilled as he saw them.
Sam and Dean returned to the room to a handcuffed angel exactly as they left him. ‘’You know… you guys are lucky I'm low on juice, considering what I did to the last guy who locked me up.’’, Gabriel tried to sound threatening but it didn’t worked. ‘’You know what? We said we'd let you go, just as soon as you tell us what the here is going on here.’’, Sam tried to be nice because he felt pity for the archangel or at least that’s what he thought his feelings towards the angel were. Had he always felt like this for Gabriel? Compared to his brother the fact that Gabriel ‘died’ made him sad but was it always this strong. ‘’Yeah, it, uh… it's not a fun story.’’, the archangel explained before Sam could worry about his feelings further. ‘’Well, we just broke into a junkyard and stuffed the body of a demigod into a car crusher, so I think you owe us some answers.’’, Gabriel sighed, ‘’Okay, they're not really demigods.’’, ‘’Mm.’’, was the only reaction he got from Dean. ‘’Look, the Norse pantheon is its own weird thing. Think of 'em more like, uh, god-begotten monsters.’’, he tried to explain but Dean didn’t care, ‘’Whatever. What did they want with you?’’, ‘’I killed their brother.’’, as he stated that he looked to Sam who furrowed his eyebrows. ‘’Why?’’, he said as he hold the eye contact.
‘’Remember when I told you what happened after I faked my death at the Elysian Motel?’’, he asked Sam. ‘’Yeah, of course. You went to, uh, Monte Carlo with a bunch of porn stars.’’, he felt unwell thinking about his ‘death’. ‘’Uh-huh.’’, Dean replied with a smirk on his face. ‘’Yeah… well, I left a few parts out. After Lucifer ‘killed me’ I needed to lay low. Luckily, I used to hang with a pretty resourceful crew. Found me a real top-shelf hideaway.’’, Gabriel explained what happened when Dean interrupted him, ‘’I thought this story had porn stars.’’, Sam rolled his eyes and Gabriel reply to that was a small smile around his lips. ‘’Ah! Good catch. My bad.’’. So Gabriel told the story again now including the porn stars. ‘’Okay! Why don't we just skip to the end?’’, Sam interrupted Gabriel. Dean looked disappointed and the archangel sighed but skipped to the end of the story where Sleipnir, Fenrir and Narfi bound him with a sigil and kidnapped him from his bed.
‘’So this is how it ended. By the time I came to, they had sold me to Asmodeus.’’, Gabriel finished the story. ‘’Why would they do that?’’, Sam questioned their actions. ‘’Hello? Lucifer? In case you don't remember, there was an apocalypse brewing at the time.’’, memories flooded Sams mind the one he would rather forget. His expression darkened, ‘’We remember.’’. ‘’Well, Vegas odds had my bro pulling off a big win.’’, Dean let out a small laugh, ‘’Yeah? And whose fault was that?’’. But Gabriel wasn’t amused, ‘’Mm. Fenrir, Sleipnir, and Narfi were just trying to cover their keisters. They needed to get rid of me before Lucifer figured out where they had me hidden. But selling me to that Kentucky Fried B-hole? For them? That was all profit.’’, ‘’So you want revenge.’’, Dean stated.
‘’Well, obviously. Roasting Asmodeus was, uh, satisfying for a hot minute. But you know one thing better than killing him? Slaughtering them all.’’, Sam understood and looked at the case with the swords. ‘’But since you're low on grace, you had to do it the old-fashioned way-- with wood.’’, Gabriel looked at Sam, ‘’Don't let anybody ever tell you you're just a pretty face.’’, and Sam cursed himself for actually liking getting compliments from the angel. Dean just frowned and shook his head at that. ‘’All right, anyway, if there are only, uh, three gods or monsters or whatever, how come there are four swords?’’, Sam asked to get back to the topic. ‘’Oh. That top one? That is for the man with the plan, the architect of my torture, and my own personal public enemy numero uno. Their papa… Loki.’’ Dean took a sip from his flask. ‘’Hold on. I thought Loki was you.’’ Dean seemed confused. ‘’It's trippy, I know. Look, remember when I told you I went into witness protection? Well, who do you think put me there?’’, Sam answered him, ‘’Loki?’’, and Gabriel nodded, ‘’You and Loki are friends?’’.
‘’Oh, well… We were. A few thousand epochs ago, I was out for a hike in the fjords. Came across Loki bound in a cave, snake dripping venom into his eye. Ugh. Apparently, he had some spat with his pops. Anyhoo, I freed him. Saved his life. Then my real brothers started going at it. I wanted out. Loki owed me one, so… he helped me ditch Gabriel and become him.’’, they understood, ‘’So then you took on his whole… trickster vibe.’’, ‘’What did Loki do while you were impersonating him?’’, Sam asked Gabriel. ‘’Oh. Well, he had his own family drama to worry about. It was in his best interest to go off the grid for a while.’’, ‘’But you saw him in Monte Carlo.’’, Dean said. ‘’Well, I needed someplace to hide. He'd already helped me the once.’’
‘’You know, none of this would've happened if you'd had just… stuck around and helped us fight Lucifer.’’, Dean tried to argue, ‘’Hey, I did help you. “Casa Erotica”?’’, ‘’You call that help?’’, Gabriel was getting annoyed, ‘’I call that art. But yes, without me, you two chuckleheads never would've known how to throw Lucifer back in the Cage.’’, ‘’But instead of giving us a hand, you ran. And you just did it again when you ditched us in the bunker.’’, ‘’All right, Dean-- I have more important things to do than to join your little band of merry men.’’, ‘’Hey, what you're doing? This? This is not important.’’, but Gabriel was furious, ‘’Every day, Asmodeus tortured me. Every… day! He fed off my grace for years! He used me, he debased me until I was… What I went through… you don't forgive. Everyone who had a hand in it will die. Get me?’’, Sam gulped, ‘’Yeah. We do.’’
‘’Okay, you went through it. We get it. All right? But killing Loki? Not gonna change any of that. It's not. In fact, probably not even gonna make you feel better.’’, Dean tried to reasonable, ‘’Well, agree to disagree, Dean-o. We all have our demons. Mine are here, in this town.’’. Sam understood and wanted to help him, ‘’Okay. But...you're low on grace. And Loki knows you're coming.’’, but Dean looked at the things a bit different, ‘’Sam.’’, he said as he led him out into the hallway to talk with him in private. ‘’What?’’, ‘’Not like I care about killing gods, okay? But this whole revenge kick? It's a waste of time.’’, Sam let out a dry laugh, ‘’What if it's not?’’, ‘’You've seen it, Sam-- with me, with Dad. Revenge only ends one way-- ugly.’’, but Sam only shook his head. ‘’Well, maybe it doesn't have to.’’, ‘’Okay, I think I know what this is.’’, he looked at Dean confused, ‘’Okay, what is this?’’, ‘’You. You're you're so hopped up on this “Kill Bill” fantasy of his.’’, Dean stated. ‘’No, no, no. This has nothing to do with me.’’, ‘’If you had a shot at Lucifer, you wouldn't take it?’’, ‘’Of course I would. But this is about Gabriel. He needs our help. We cant just let him down. He helped us so we will help him’’, Dean only rolled his eyes but agreed to hear Sams plan out. ‘’Also stop staring at him like that you can eye fuck him later.’’, Sam flushed when he heard Deans comment.
Sam reentered the room and walked towards Gabriel to uncuff him. ‘’Gabe, I am going to clean your wound and patch it up again, if you will agree to help us then we will agree to help you’’, but Gabriel only hummed, ‘’Where’s the nickname coming from Sammy’’, Sam then noticed his mistake and blushed but said nothing. The Winchester headed to the bathroom and got the first aid kit like he did the first time. When he came back he asked Gabriel to take off his shirt. ‘’You could have just said that you wanted to see me shirtless’’, the angel commented with a wink. This time Sam just ignored him even though he knew that the other was more or less right. But Gabriel did as he was told and removed the bloody shirt. Sam began to clean his wound again. He felt a familiar warmth every time he touched the others skin. Instead of just putting a pad over the wound he used bandages this time. ‘’As good as new’’, Sam said as he looked at his work. ‘’Thank you’’, the archangel said in a honest tone.
The sudden proximity caused a hot shiver to run down his spine. ‘’What’s wrong Sam’’, Gabriel whispered in his ear. Sam inhaled sharply and took a step back but was stopped by a hand that suddenly gripped his wrist. ‘’Did you really think I wouldn’t notice the looks you gave me?’’, the Winchester blushed furiously and unconsciously moved closer towards Gabriel. ‘’Such a pretty red face’’, the angel teased him. It was only a matter of seconds until Dean would enter the room again. Sam thought about how good it would feel to just close the gap between them but before he could even move closer Gabriel already closed the gap between them and pressed his lips on Sams. The kiss was full of passion as Sam sunk into the kiss. When Sam pulled back he could the others swollen lips. Gabriel looked beautiful in the soft light. Then Sam connected their lips again. This time the kiss was gentle, full of unspoken things. The Winchester enjoyed the feeling until he could hear Dean entering the room and he pulled away fast. Sam turned around to look directly into his brothers eyes. Dean made a grimace, ‘’Get a room’’, he just said and started to pack up the gun bag. ‘’You can have one of my shirts’’, Sam said and rushed away to get Gabriel a new shirt. Dean didn’t like the content smile that showed up on Gabriels face as he looked at Sam who bend down to pick up a shirt. ‘’Stop staring this creepy’’, Dean whispered in a sharp tone.
‘’All right, Uma, what's the plan?’’, Dean asked while Sam loaded his gun. ‘’Well, Sleipnir's a lot of things, but mainly, he is a coward. I will bet all the personal lubricant in the S.F.V… that after we killed Narfi, he ran straight back to papa's skirts.’’, Gabriel explained. ‘’So he and Loki will be together. That's great. How do we find them?’’, Sam wanted to know. ‘’Uh, they're about a… 5-minute drive from here. Penthouse of the Ophidian Hotel.’’, the archangel confessed. ‘’Seriously?’’, ‘’You've known this whole time?’’, they were shocked how casually Gabriel said it. ‘’Sure. That's what Loki does. He rolls into a dump town, finds the seediest motel, then uses some mojo to give it his patented Cinderella treatment. Loki has his fun, then he moves on. I've been tracking him since Amarillo.’’, he explained. ‘’And you didn't go after him. Why?’’, '’Cause that's… ah… For the most satisfying retributive experience, everyone knows you don't take on the Big Bad from the jump. You work up to him, like so.’’, Gabriel said it like he couldn’t believe Dean would even ask such a stupid question. Then he showed him his kill list. ‘’What am I lookin' at?’’, ‘’You-- you've never seen a kill list before? Wow. Hmm. Okay. There's Fenrir, Narfi, Sleipnir, and then last but not least, Loki. I'm killing all of his sons in order. And then, when he's got nothing left, I take him out.’’, he stated in disbelieve.
‘’This is so stupid.’’, Gabriel tore his kill list out of Deans hands, ‘’Really? Is it? 'Cause let me tell you something. Seven years is a long-ass time for me to plan my own personal brand of vengeance. So if you guys aren't gonna get onboard...’’, he didn’t finish the sentence. ‘’No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're 'rboard. Right, Dean?’’, Sam pronounced the ‘right’, but Dean only shrugged, ‘’Stop kissing his ass dude. Its enough that the two of cant keep their hands off of eachother but not everyone wants to know about your love life.’’, Dean only commented, ‘’Are you kidding me Dean. You’re the one who cant keep his hands off of Cas. I have to hear the two of you everytime because you cant be decent. So shut up and just answer him like a normal person’’, Sams face turned a deeper red the longer he spoke and then Dean finally answered Gabriel, ‘’Sure’’. Gabriels grin widened as he said, ‘’Peachy. So here's what we're gonna do. We go in, we kill Sleipnir, and then, we surprise Big Daddy in the penthouse. Easy peasy like a breeze-y. One last thing, just so we're clear. Take out the bodyguards, take out the bystanders, whatever. But when it comes to Sleipnir and Loki, I’m the one who delivers the coup de grace. I want my beautiful face to be the last thing that they see.’’.
‘’Get him!’’, Sleipnir screamed as he saw them stepping out of the elevator. His guards rushed forward to get them but with a snap of Gabriels fingers the lights went out. A gunfight erupted, and Gabriel got out Sleipnir’s sword by the strobing light of muzzle that flashed as Sam and Dean dispatched his guards. When he snapped his fingers again and the lights came back on, Sleipnir was on the ground at the point of Gabriel’s sword, begging for his life. ‘’Please.’’, Sleipnir begged but Gabriel pierced him with the sword while Sam noticed that Dean vanished. ‘’Dean? Dean! He left.’’, ‘’Ah. Big bros, right? Always think they know best.’’, but Sam realized what was going on. ‘’The penthouse. He went after Loki!’’.
‘’No. No, Loki's mine!’’, Sam and Gabriel rushed after Dean, but he was already arriving at the penthouse, armed with the wooden sword. He pushed open the door to find Loki in the lavish suite holding a lollipop that he returned to a lollipop humidor. ‘’Loki?’’, the god turned to look at him. ‘’So you are Dean Winchester.’’, ‘’And you're the annoying god that we're wasting our time tryin' to kill.’’, Dean stated annoyed. ‘’Mm. And did Gabriel tell you why he wants me dead?’’, ‘’I don't care.’’, ‘’Yes, you do. Little bit. Our treatment of your friend is payback for a slight of a more personal nature. The death of my father, Odin.’’, Dean laughed, ‘’Oh, that wasn't him. Lucifer did that.’’, Loki stood up. ‘’Ah. But why was my father there in the first place? To parlay, to deal with Gabriel's brothers. When we first made terms, I had only one condition-- I would give him my face, teach him to be me, the trickster, if he agreed to abandon the more… volatile affairs of his family. Forever. When he hit that hotel, he broke that promise, and it cost my father his life.’’
‘’The world was coming to an end.’’, Dean argued, ‘’That never mattered to him before. Gabriel had to be punished. Odin was a salty, disagreeable bastard. Truth is… he despised me. But he was my father. I'm sure you understand. What would you do for your father?’’, but Dean just stabbed Loki with the sword. The only problem was that the Loki he saw and stabbed wasn’t real, he was just a hologram. The real Loki was waiting for Gabriel in the hallway, ‘’Hello, Gabriel’’. In the suite Dean pulled the sword out od the hologram, who then knocked Dean across the room. ‘’Oh, so you can hit me, but I can't hit you?’’, Dean asked. ‘’Mess with the real Trickster…’’, as he punched Dean, ‘’get the real tricks.’’, he knocked Dean to the ground. Sam ran inside and saw Loki, aimed his gun and fire. ‘’No, no, no! It's Loki magic. He's a hologram.’’, Dean explained. ‘’All right, if we can't kill him, we gotta kill the real Loki.’’.
In the hallway, Loki and Gabriel faced off. ‘’You don't have my wooden sword?’’, Loki asked Gabriel, ‘’No.’’, as he tossed Sleipnirs sword away, ‘’Wanted to do this one old school.’’, Loki raised an eyebrow, ‘’Mm. With your… “archangel” powers? This is for my father.’’, he said as he used his mojo to throw Gabriel against the wall. ‘’Ah!’’, the archangel groaned. ‘’You think you're some… poor, innocent victim?’’, he made his way over to Gabriel and punched him again, ‘’Gabriel, with his deadbeat daddy and his mean older brothers.’’, he stomped on Gabriel, “Who will help me?” “Who will save me?”, he picked Gabriel up and pinned him to the wall by his neck, ‘’I did! But you… you couldn't keep one promise. And then you had the audacity to ask me to help you again?!’’, he threw Gabriel down the hall, where Sam and Dean had arrived in a doorway behind him. ‘’You think I deserve to die for your spinelessness?! That my sons deserved to die?!’’.
The fight continued and Dean slide Loki’s sword to Gabriel and the archangel finally gets Loki pinned to the wall at the tip of the blade. ‘’Of course, of course you would need someone to swoop in and save your pitiful ass.’’, Loki mocked Gabriel. ‘’Shut up!’’, he screamed. ‘’Face it, old friend, you're a joke. You're a failure. You live for pleasure. You stand for nothing. And in the end, that's exactly what you'll die for.’’, he spat into Gabriels face. ‘’You first.’’, Gabriel stabbed Loki and then nodded at Sam and Dean.
Outside they put the wooden swords in the trunk of the Impala. ‘’Listen… I know you two weren't the, uh, eagerest of beavers when it came to helping me out back there, so, uh… I-I just wanna say… thanks. So… this other world Michael… how we doing this?’’, Gabriel asked the brothers. ‘’Wait, you're… actually gonna help us?’’, they were both surprised to hear him say it. ‘’Yeah, no tricks?’’, Dean asked to be sure. ‘’A deal is a deal. And if I'm being perfectly honest, tricks are for kids.’’, Gabriel reassured them. ‘’Hey… How you feeling? Now that… you…’’, Sam asked carefully. ‘’Got my sweet, sweet vengeance on?’’, ‘’Yeah, sure. I guess.’’, ‘’Swell, Sam. I'm a whole new guy.’’, he winked at Sam. ‘’That's what I thought.’’, Dean already got into the Impala so Gabriel got closer and kissed him. Sam threw his arms around the others neck and pulled him closer. Eventually they had to break the kiss. Gabriel leaned closer to the others ear and whispered, ‘’See you later darling’’. Sam got in the car and Dean turned to look at him, ‘’So you and Gabriel, huh?’’, Sam flushed. ‘’Just like you and Castiel’’, he returned and Dean just turned away to hide the slight blush spreading on his cheeks.
Back at the bunker, Sam and Dean sat at the table drinking whiskey. Suddenly it knocked at the door. Sam got up and carefully got closer to the entrance. He grabbed his gun and opened the door. Two familiar faces were revealed as he opened the door, Gabriel and Castiel. ‘’Hello Sammy’’, Gabriel greeted him and Castiel nodded. Sam let then both in and Castiel immediately went to Dean. But they didn’t stay any longer in the room as Castiel grabbed Deans hand to lead him to his room. Gabriel turned to look at Sam and smile. ‘’Wanna go to your room?’’. Sam nodded and took his hand to lead him to his room. Barely into the room Gabriel already pushed Sam against the wall and crushed their lips together. Sam moaned into the kiss and pulled the archangel closer. When Sam pulled away he whispered, ‘’We should have done this sooner’’, and then connected their lips again.