[Chapter] Even When the Night Changes (2/2)
Title: Even When the Night Changes
Author: youaregonecas
Written for: otpfic_a_month
Wordcount: 568 out of 9.451 words
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel, Castiel/Dean
Tags: the vow!au, amnesia, car crash, genderfluid!sam,
Summary: A car accident puts Sam in a medically induced coma. When his brain has recovered enough for the doctors to let him come round again, the couple is met with a surprise. Sam doesn't remember Gabriel.
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Samantha settled herself on the couch, long limbs tucked under the throw blanket. Weeks had passed and life was… good. They still weren’t were they used to be. Balthazar had explained that what they used to have wouldn’t return, that the memories might come bac every once in a while, but that they would never fully come back.
And that had been the truth. After a few weeks, the memories stopped returning. What they had now, it wasn’t the same as they had before. Sam was different, the base of their relationship stronger and Gabriel, well, he too was a changed man.
“You said that you were sad that you didn’t remember our wedding, right?” Gabriel asked her, plopping down on the couch with the book under his arm. “Well, if you don’t want to do this, we won’t but I thought that you might like this. After our marriage, we had an album made with our engagement pictures, pictures of the wedding, party, and honeymoon. You know, the usual. There’s a DVD too. Do you want to flip through the book or watch the DVD? Like I said, you don’t have to.”
“I’d like that,” Samantha said with a smile on her lips. “DVD?”
“Okay.”
Gabriel gave himself kudo’s for keeping it dry that long. He didn’t cry as he saw Samantha walk down the aisle in her dress, Dean at her side. He knew just how much Samantha had wanted to have John there, but their father was a no show, like always. He had send them a gift, wrapped up in white wrapping paper. It was a set of dishes of all things. Gabriel appreciated it, but showing up had been better.
So yeah, he kept the tears out of his eyes until he saw just how happy they had been back then; how there were no worries in their eyes as they looked at each other, nothing but smiles on their lips.
“Gabe, I take you to be my partner for life,” Samantha started when they’d gotten to their vows. “I promise above all else to live in truth with you, and to communicate fully and fearlessly. I give you my hand and my heart, as a sanctuary of warmth and peace. Pledge my love, devotion, faith and honor, as I join my life to yours."
He didn’t even notice that he was crying until he felt Sammy’s fingers rub tiny circles on his hand, gentle and soothing. She’d settled herself against him, blanket pulled over the both of them, Gabriel’s arms looped around her waist.
“I believe in you Sammy, believe in the person you will grow to be and the couple we will be together,” Video Gabriel said, never looking at anyone but Samantha as he spoke. Gabriel still knew every word of his vows, had them remembered. “With my whole heart, I take you as my partner, acknowledging and accepting your faults and strengths, as you do mine.
I promise to be faithful and supportive and to always make our family's love and happiness my priority. I will be yours in plenty and in want, in sickness and in health, in failure and in triumph. I will dream with you, celebrate with you and walk beside you through whatever our lives may bring. You are my person-my love and my life, today and always. I love you babe.”
THE END.
