Trickster Problems Chapter 4
Title: Trickster Problems
Author: candylovinangel
Rating:PG or PG 13 at best
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel Dean/Gabriel possible Dean/Cas(Any one if you like to read between the lines)
Spoilers: Seen season 5? Then you're good
Warnings:I like writing cooky stuff sometimes
Word Count: 4,077
Notes: Comments are love!
Summary: When Gabriel gets an unexpected winged surprise they all realize that they need to make sure to keep Gabriel happy as he starts learning how to use his angel mojo.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5)
Gabriel’s shoes squelched when they landed and he nearly collapsed, who knew that it would be so…taxing to move four people at once?
Gabriel started to sit on the bed when he flinched and found his back bugging him again… He felt like it were on fire as he threw his coat off and tore at his shirt until it too was off, and Gabriel seemed to desperately try to claw right by his shoulders but was unable to even as the burning seemed to fade and there was a rustle of feathers and Gabriel was shaking his head hard…
He looked around and saw huuuge white wings. He looked back and saw that they were his, and he looked at them in amazement as he stretched them out, and even in the moderately large hotel room they were still too large for it. Gabriel just gaped at them in amazement, reaching his right hand out to touch one of them, feeling the same soft feathery feeling he had felt just days before… The tops of his wings were about a foot higher than him… Even Castiel seemed amazed at their size.
“Well, mine are definitely smaller,” He said with a faint laugh.
Gabriel had only smiled faintly before he decided to have some fun and pushed Dean with his wings.
Dean looked at Gabriel with a look that was basically annoyance, but he plucked one of the feathers that was near him with a smirk.
Gabriel blinked at that and both watched as the feather grew back almost immediately.
“Well look at that? My own Gabriel feather,” Dean said with a smirk as Gabriel brought his wings back to him. Dean pocketed the feather with a smirk as Gabriel made his wings vanish, muttering something under his breath.
Gabriel shivered and got a shirt from one of the bags of groceries and pulled it on before going and changing in the bathroom, he wasn’t comfortable doing that in front of the boys, and he was pretty sure he never would be…
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One month later…
The boys had just encountered the most…interesting demon they had ever met. Crowley. Crowley had the colt, and the boys of course needed that gun to kill Lucifer…but there was something interesting about this whole situation… Even as Dean and Sam came back to Bobby’s with the gun, Jo and Ellen were there drinking with Castiel. Gabriel watched with amusement as Castiel put down what was probably the twentieth shot he had.
“I think I’m starting to feel something,” He said as Jo and Ellen exchanged looks of utter amazement. Gabriel stood there with his arms folded. He was usually the one to play tricks on them, but he really didn’t feel up to it right now. He knew what the situation warranted right now… And that was him keeping quiet and not stirring people up. He found he had quite the talent for getting people both giddy happy and pissed off within the past month, other times in general were amusing times.
Sam and Dean soon arrived. Dean came up and put the Colt on the table.
“There it is, the infamous colt?” Gabriel said with nothing even remotely close to amazement, if anything he was bored by it. He had a feeling in his gut that said it wouldn’t work…
Several hours later and a gunshot wound to the head and Lucifer was still standing. Jo and Ellen had died for this? For the hare brained plan to not work? He watched as Castiel came and fled with the boys. Gabriel looked to Lucifer with a frown. Lucifer was his brother? He couldn’t understand how Lucifer could just…rebel. At least from what he heard from Castiel’s mouth, explaining various events that he knew of. Lucifer turned to look at him and smirked.
“Hello again, Gabriel, enjoying that memory loss there?” Lucifer asked with a smirk as Gabriel narrowed his eyes dangerously…He would have responded, but he knew he was nowhere near ready to fight Lucifer, and so he just vanished from the spot as Lucifer laughed…
Gabriel watched as Dean was in a rage, throwing things, ripping apart some of Bobby’s books all about useless crap anyways.
Gabriel twitched a finger and everything fixed itself.
“Why didn’t you do anything?!” Dean said now, turning on Gabriel.
“You could have healed her! You could have killed the hell hounds!” Dean snarled angrily and Sam stepped forward and grabbed a hold of his brother’s shoulders.
“Leave him alone Dean…” Sam said softly as Gabriel looked away.
“I…Dean…you know I haven’t figured out how to heal anyone other than myself, and that hell hound was just too fast for me…” Gabriel said this while still looking away, ashamed that he’d been more than useless to them. He couldn’t help the despair that washed over him even as Castiel came up behind him.
Castiel steered him away from Dean who started to say something but then choked when Sam stuffed pie in his older yet shorter brother’s mouth.
“Ignore him for now, let him cool off…They were close to those two,” Gabriel nodded silently and went into a room upstairs, leaving Castiel behind with the angry Dean. Gabriel sat on a bed in one of the bedrooms upstairs. His wings appeared and seemed to form a feathery wall around him, hiding him from view as he put his head in his hands. It had been over a month and still nothing. The boys had told him what they knew but that was hardly anything…They hadn’t known he was an angel until after he lost his memory…They had told him about the factory and Lucifer… He could hear yelling downstairs and the voice was Dean’s, but then Sam’s got louder…
“What the hell Dean? Why are you treating him like that You know he would have done something if he could!” Sam’s voice was clear and Dean’s voice followed, though his voice was more muffled and Gabriel couldn’t hear the words that were said by Dean but Sam kept yelling at Dean, voice raised still but Gabriel couldn’t really hear what he was saying now. Bobby’s voice then intervened.
“Either you idjits shut up and yell outside or I throw you out!”
There was silence and the slamming of a door downstairs and soon the yelling voices of Sam and Dean were outside in the yard. There was the crash of metal and Gabriel brought his wings away from him and looked out the windows to see the boys fighting, full on fist fighting… Sam had slammed Dean into a car and was saying something to Dean with a growl to his voice. Gabriel saw Dean’s face in the light that came from the house. He saw Dean’s face first contorted in anger, and even as Sam spoke to him, his face fell and his eyes went toward where Gabriel was standing him the window. Gabriel moved away from in and sat back down on the bed, wings once more blocking him from sight…
The door downstairs opened and closed then about ten minutes later…
Footsteps came up the stairs and Gabriel half considered slamming the door to the room he was in…
“Gabriel, I-“ It was Dean. Gabriel kept his wings in front of him, shielding him from view, “-I’m sorry, really, I should have kept my cool…”
“You have every right to be mad,” Gabriel said, bringing his wings away from him as they vanished from sight, Gabriel straightening and looking to Dean.
“Who knew this would all be so complicated?” Gabriel muttered, Dean just shook his head.
“I never thought it would be…it used to be just simple hunts for me and Sam…then this...” He said with a shrug. Gabriel rubbed the bridge of his nose.
“What now?” Gabriel asked with a sigh.
“We keep looking for a way to stop the devil and we kill the horsemen, that’s all we can do…” Dean said as he clapped Gabriel on the shoulder.
“That’s the thing though…I feel like I KNOW how we can stop the devil and the horsemen, it’s like at times it’s right on the edge where I could grab a hold of the answer…but then it slips away.” Gabriel says with obvious frustration at the entire situation.
“It’ll come to you eventually,” Dean said as he looked around the room they were in, “Though for now try and figure out the rest of your powers, we can’t afford to have you not know what they are… Though I know one thing, you can make a living breathing doppelganger of yourself. I’m pretty sure that’s what you did in our first encounter anyways…” Dean said with a slight smile before he left Gabriel alone to ponder what he said.
Another month came and went in which the boys investigated a mental asylum and nearly went crazy when a wraith touched them, Gabriel had needed to interfere and bring them back to reality in which Dean managed to kill the wraith as she went to Sam and tried to feed on his crazed cranium… Then there was this weird body swap incident with Sam and some seventeen year old, which resulted in Sam being trapped in a basement, tied to a pole as the kid and the Kid was running around as Sam and tried to kill Dean, but lucky for Dean, Gabriel had warned him ahead of time on who was who, having seen right through the trick almost immediately. Though it didn’t help that he kid’s friends summoned a high level demon, who killed the kid that summoned it, and took control of a girl who was down there as well. She had come to the hotel and Dean and the kid had performed and exorcism, when that demonic smoke came from the girl’s mouth, Gabriel had killed the demon immediately, not giving it the chance to escape alive.
Then came when the boys went back in time with Castiel…Gabriel had been asleep, he knew he didn’t have to sleep but he enjoyed it, he felt somewhat refreshed after it and it helped take his mind off of the things that were going on… So when he woke to find the boys gone he panicked. He searched nearly the whole town before coming back to the hotel to see them there. They saw Gabriel and watched as he looked at them with obvious confusion.
“Where did you guys go? I’ve searched the whole town for you two!” He growled as Castiel appeared and staggered, nose bleeding.
“Cass!” Dean yelped as he and Sam got a hold of him.
“You made it!” Dean said, shocked, and Castiel looked to the two.
“It seems I did…” He mutters before he passed out. The two boys but Castiel on a bed and then turned to Gabriel, explaining where they had gone and why.
“Huh…Time travel…” Gabriel muttered, looking to Castiel on the bed. Castiel looked worse for wear and Gabriel decided he wouldn’t try it anytime soon…
They got into the car a while later and went on a search for Cupid of all things after the boys got word on a case. Castiel even claimed that Cupid had gone rouge but when they found him, Cupid claimed he had nothing to do with it. They left cupid, feeling more than confused… They passed by a store and Gabriel’s eyes landed on the candy…He’d been craving candy even since they arrived in town and he just had to get some!
“Gabriel? What are you doing?” Dean’s voice was like a sharp whip crack through the haze that had clouded Gabriel’s thinking and he found himself holding fistfuls of the candy.
“Err…can we get these?” He said, realizing he sounded a lot like a little kid just there, and Gabriel saw Dean roll his eyes and went to the counter and reluctantly paid for the candy which was now several bags full…
They got back to the room and found Castiel there, wrappers of hamburgers all around the table. Gabriel went to the bed he’d deemed his, sat on it and tore into the candy.
“Okay…what the hell is going on? Both the angels are losing their self control or what?” Dean said with a raised brow, but he saw Sam shake his head.
“It’s not just them Dean…I…I’ve been craving…you know…ever since we came here…” Sam muttered and Dean looked at him with wide eyes.
“That’s weird; I haven’t been craving anything…” Dean muttered.
“It’s famine…he’s here…,” Castiel said as he seemed to fight hard to put down the burger. He’s affected mine and Gabriel’s hosts as well as everyone else in town. Jimmy craves hamburgers and Gabriel craves candy…,” Castiel said even as Gabriel tore apart his fourth candy. He couldn’t help it!”
Over the next few hours the cravings were so much worse as they were forced to figure out where Famine was, and they intercepted a delivery to him, grabbing a briefcase from a demon and bringing it back to the hotel room.
Dean and Sam opened it and found it was…an orb of white light? Which pulsed outwardly in a bright flash of white light.
“What the hell was that?” Dean asked in confusion as Gabriel continued munching on the candy in front of him, wrappers littered the floor as he kept going…
“It’s a human soul,” Castiel said as he appeared with yet another bag of hamburgers, “Famine feeds on them…” He said as he took a bite of the food and Gabriel started cursing through his mouthful of candy, which got a look from all of the other three.
“Remind me to never eat another candy bar after this…” Gabriel groaned as he ate yet another one.
“We have to find out where the souls are being delivered,” Dean said at last, the only one unaffected. He started to leave when Sam looked at him and bit his lip.
“You’re going to have to go without me,” He said and Castiel and Dean understood, but Gabriel didn’t, though he didn’t ask, he was too busy stuffing his face with candy. They handcuffed Sam to the sink and then blocked the door and left, Gabriel following, not quite sure what to do. They sat in the impala and waited outside the hospital until they saw a man walk out with a briefcase, Castiel eating his burger and pointing him out as Gabriel ate another Candy. He swore he was making himself much more than sick…
“Mmm…these make me very happy,” he heard Castiel say after he had another bite.
“Yeah well…I have to admit these make me happy too…but come on, Cass! I don’t want to stuff my face like this!” Gabriel said desperately as he seemed to have to fight his own hand from trying to shave a candy bar in his mouth even as Dean drove them towards a diner as they followed the demon… They had been talking about a plan while he and Castiel had been eating.
“Remember the plan?” Dean asked, looking to both angels.
“Yeah, I go in, chop off his finger and come back here,” Castiel said before vanishing and before Dean could say a word. The two waited for about thirty seconds.
“This is taking too long,” Dean growled and he got out of the car as Gabriel kept om nom noming his candy bar. He sat in the car as Dean went inside and Gabriel counted about three minutes before he saw Dean being dragged into the main room, and Castiel off to the side eating steak… He vanished and reappeared in the diner to hear…
“Well it doesn’t seem to be coming from mine,” Dean said seeming proud for a moment.
“Yes…I noticed that,” Famine said, white haired and looking so much like a fragile old man…
“Have you wondered why that is? How you could even walk in my presence?” He asked before turning and smirking at Gabriel even as Gabriel was thrown what looked to be the biggest candy bar ever to exist. Gabriel couldn’t stop himself as he lunged for it and tore it open, chowing down on it ravenously.
“Well I like to think it’s because of my strength of character,” Dean said with a smartass smirk on his face, even as Gabriel fought against the hunger as best he could…
“I disagree,” Famine said so softly Gabriel doubted even Dean heard it. Though famine moved his wheelchair closer to Dean as the Demons strengthened their grip on him.
Famine reached his hand out and put it to Dean chest..
“Nnnngh!” Dean grunted out in pain as whatever Famine was doing to him seemed to cause quite a bit of pain…
“Yes…I see…” Famine whispered as Gabriel looked up to see Dean grimacing in pain and trying to pull himself away…
“That’s one deep dark…nothing you have there, Dean,” He said as he brought his hand away, Dean trying to catch his breath even as he stared at Famine in shock.
“You can’t fill it with food or drink, not even with sex,” Famine started laughing as Dean responded with a snarl.
“You’re so full of crap!”
“You can lie to your brother, lie to yourself, but you can’t lie to me! I can see inside you, Dean! I can see how broken you are, how defeated…You can’t win and you know it. But you just keep fighting, just keep going through the motions. You’re not hungry Dean because inside you’re already…dead ,” During this Dean had slowly stopped struggling, and even then Gabriel saw the look on his face that showed his horror and realization all at once…Even as he heard the door open…
“Let him go,” It was Sam, Gabriel knew immediately even as he turned his head around to see the twenty six year old, who had dried blood around his mouth… Famine turned his chair around…
“Sam…” He said sounding quite pleased.
“Sam, no,” Dean started to say as demons started walking forward.
“STOP! No-one lays a finger on this sweet little boy,” Famine commanded and the demons stopped and even Sam seemed surprised by this.
“Sam, I see you got the snack I sent you,” Famine said as Sam looked at him with an emotion Gabriel couldn’t quite identify.
“You sent?” He asked, the emotion now becoming confusion.
“Don’t worry; you’re not like everyone else. You’ll never die from drinking too much, you’re the exception,” Famine said with obvious glee.
“Sam...” Gabriel said in more a warning tone than anything else, and Sam glanced to him then back to Famine.
“That’s just the way Satan wanted you to be,” Famine explained and Gabriel glanced to Dean, who looked horrified and shocked at this…
“So…” Famine started to say, lifting his hands, “Cut their throats!” He said as he motioned to he demons.
This got quite a reaction out of the demons who looked at each other in alarm.
“Have at them!” Famine said loudly, it could have been considered a shout Gabriel thought fully as he returned to his candy…
“Sam no!” Dean again, sounding horrified and if anything, in doubt that his brother could resist…
“Please! Be my guest!” Famine yelled now.
Gabriel looked up again to see Sam looking at him, then Castiel, then Dean, looking torn…
Sam brought his hand up and closed his eyes, brow furrowing. Gabriel watched the smoke that were demons coming from their hosts even as Dean recoiled from the ones that had just been holding him. Dean stepped back and grabbed the demon slaying knife that was on the ground near him and both he and Gabriel watched the scene unfolding before them. The smoke of the demons were clouding up on the ground now completely gone from their hosts, Sam brought his hand down and opened his eyes., panting as he looked to famine.
“No,” He said firmly.
“Well, fine. If you don’t want them, then I’ll have them,” Famine said in his slow wheezy manner as he lifted a hand up and motioned it as if beckoning someone to come while opening his mouth wide, the demon essences seeming to fly into his mouth on their own.
Sam then stepped forward even as Famine finished, and held out his hand and seemed to be straining to try and pull at something…
“I’m all Horseman Sam, your power doesn’t work on me,” He said as Sam seemed to be overstraining himself…
“You’re right, but it will work on them,” Sam said before clenching his fist and half closing his eyes…
Famines eyes widened and his mouth opened soundlessly as Sam seemed to be doing his worst to Famine, using the demons to do it.
When Gabriel looked back to Sam he saw blood coming from one nostril as Sam seemed to struggle to keep up what he was doing, in pain from the strain of it…Even as demonic smoke seemed to leak out of Famine before it exploded out of him, destroying Famine. Sam panted hard as Gabriel found himself free from the hold of the hunger and exchanged a look with Castiel who wiped his mouth free of Steak even as Gabriel did the same with the candy. Then all three looked to Sam, who was panting hard still, eyes wide even as he caught his breath…
Then they were at Bobby’s, Sam yelling in the panic room as Dean and Castiel stood outside it. Gabriel was sitting atop one of the cars. He could still hear Sam as clear as day…
“Help! HELP! Dean! Gabriel! Cass? If you’re out there, please… HELP! Aaaaagh!”
Gabriel could hear the pain in Sam’s voice and he felt horrible leaving him in there even as he heard Castiel and Dean talking, if briefly, before Dean came out with his whiskey bottle in hand. Gabriel watched Dean walk towards the Impala, looking around.
Gabriel could hear the thoughts going through Dean’s head and looked at him with something he figured was either pity or sadness, either way he knew he felt bad for the oldest Winchester… He saw Dean look up to the sky and mutter something that was quiet… Gabriel let out a sigh and vanished from his place and appearing in the panic room with Sam, who was handcuffed to the bed in there.
Sam looked immediately to him, nostrils flaring, chest heaving and eyes glazed over even as he struggled with his bindings.
“Gabriel? Is that really you?” Sam asked hoarsely, his hair damp from his own struggling and sweat…
“Yeah it is,” He said with a sad smile as he saw Sam let his head drop.
“Please…let me out of here…” He pleaded even as Gabriel noticed the viewer open slightly and saw Castiel look through briefly.
“You know I can’t let you out, Sam. We’re doing this to help you…” He said as Sam looked at him with his puppy dog eyes.
“Don’t look at me like that, you know I could have just stayed out there with Grumpy and Drinky,” Gabriel pointed out and Sam seemed to consider this.
“But I figured you needed some company other than hallucinations,” Gabriel said with a shrug as he sat down in the chair by the desk.
“…Thanks Gabriel…” Sam whispered as Gabriel nodded slightly at him.
“How’s Dean doing…?” Sam asked looking at Gabriel who only shook his head.
“He…he’s outside. He’s got a lot to think about,” Gabriel said after a moment, in which Sam sat up and tried to get water nearby, but his restraints didn’t allow it.
Gabriel got up and poured the water into the glass there and gave it to Sam, while pushing the table closer, getting a nod from Sam, even as Gabriel sat at the foot of the bed now.
Gabriel stayed with Sam until the demon blood was cleared from his system, which took about three days, but Gabriel was there and his presence actually seemed to keep Sam calm, but Sam would end up having hallucination spells in which Gabriel would have to snap him out of it with rough shakes of the shoulders…But in the end when it was all over, Sam went up to Gabriel, thanked him and hugged him, which caught Gabriel by surprise, but he just patted Sam’s back for a moment before Dean came in and broke up the chick flick moment.
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Author: candylovinangel
Rating:PG or PG 13 at best
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel Dean/Gabriel possible Dean/Cas(Any one if you like to read between the lines)
Spoilers: Seen season 5? Then you're good
Warnings:I like writing cooky stuff sometimes
Word Count: 4,077
Notes: Comments are love!
Summary: When Gabriel gets an unexpected winged surprise they all realize that they need to make sure to keep Gabriel happy as he starts learning how to use his angel mojo.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5)
Gabriel’s shoes squelched when they landed and he nearly collapsed, who knew that it would be so…taxing to move four people at once?
Gabriel started to sit on the bed when he flinched and found his back bugging him again… He felt like it were on fire as he threw his coat off and tore at his shirt until it too was off, and Gabriel seemed to desperately try to claw right by his shoulders but was unable to even as the burning seemed to fade and there was a rustle of feathers and Gabriel was shaking his head hard…
He looked around and saw huuuge white wings. He looked back and saw that they were his, and he looked at them in amazement as he stretched them out, and even in the moderately large hotel room they were still too large for it. Gabriel just gaped at them in amazement, reaching his right hand out to touch one of them, feeling the same soft feathery feeling he had felt just days before… The tops of his wings were about a foot higher than him… Even Castiel seemed amazed at their size.
“Well, mine are definitely smaller,” He said with a faint laugh.
Gabriel had only smiled faintly before he decided to have some fun and pushed Dean with his wings.
Dean looked at Gabriel with a look that was basically annoyance, but he plucked one of the feathers that was near him with a smirk.
Gabriel blinked at that and both watched as the feather grew back almost immediately.
“Well look at that? My own Gabriel feather,” Dean said with a smirk as Gabriel brought his wings back to him. Dean pocketed the feather with a smirk as Gabriel made his wings vanish, muttering something under his breath.
Gabriel shivered and got a shirt from one of the bags of groceries and pulled it on before going and changing in the bathroom, he wasn’t comfortable doing that in front of the boys, and he was pretty sure he never would be…
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One month later…
The boys had just encountered the most…interesting demon they had ever met. Crowley. Crowley had the colt, and the boys of course needed that gun to kill Lucifer…but there was something interesting about this whole situation… Even as Dean and Sam came back to Bobby’s with the gun, Jo and Ellen were there drinking with Castiel. Gabriel watched with amusement as Castiel put down what was probably the twentieth shot he had.
“I think I’m starting to feel something,” He said as Jo and Ellen exchanged looks of utter amazement. Gabriel stood there with his arms folded. He was usually the one to play tricks on them, but he really didn’t feel up to it right now. He knew what the situation warranted right now… And that was him keeping quiet and not stirring people up. He found he had quite the talent for getting people both giddy happy and pissed off within the past month, other times in general were amusing times.
Sam and Dean soon arrived. Dean came up and put the Colt on the table.
“There it is, the infamous colt?” Gabriel said with nothing even remotely close to amazement, if anything he was bored by it. He had a feeling in his gut that said it wouldn’t work…
Several hours later and a gunshot wound to the head and Lucifer was still standing. Jo and Ellen had died for this? For the hare brained plan to not work? He watched as Castiel came and fled with the boys. Gabriel looked to Lucifer with a frown. Lucifer was his brother? He couldn’t understand how Lucifer could just…rebel. At least from what he heard from Castiel’s mouth, explaining various events that he knew of. Lucifer turned to look at him and smirked.
“Hello again, Gabriel, enjoying that memory loss there?” Lucifer asked with a smirk as Gabriel narrowed his eyes dangerously…He would have responded, but he knew he was nowhere near ready to fight Lucifer, and so he just vanished from the spot as Lucifer laughed…
Gabriel watched as Dean was in a rage, throwing things, ripping apart some of Bobby’s books all about useless crap anyways.
Gabriel twitched a finger and everything fixed itself.
“Why didn’t you do anything?!” Dean said now, turning on Gabriel.
“You could have healed her! You could have killed the hell hounds!” Dean snarled angrily and Sam stepped forward and grabbed a hold of his brother’s shoulders.
“Leave him alone Dean…” Sam said softly as Gabriel looked away.
“I…Dean…you know I haven’t figured out how to heal anyone other than myself, and that hell hound was just too fast for me…” Gabriel said this while still looking away, ashamed that he’d been more than useless to them. He couldn’t help the despair that washed over him even as Castiel came up behind him.
Castiel steered him away from Dean who started to say something but then choked when Sam stuffed pie in his older yet shorter brother’s mouth.
“Ignore him for now, let him cool off…They were close to those two,” Gabriel nodded silently and went into a room upstairs, leaving Castiel behind with the angry Dean. Gabriel sat on a bed in one of the bedrooms upstairs. His wings appeared and seemed to form a feathery wall around him, hiding him from view as he put his head in his hands. It had been over a month and still nothing. The boys had told him what they knew but that was hardly anything…They hadn’t known he was an angel until after he lost his memory…They had told him about the factory and Lucifer… He could hear yelling downstairs and the voice was Dean’s, but then Sam’s got louder…
“What the hell Dean? Why are you treating him like that You know he would have done something if he could!” Sam’s voice was clear and Dean’s voice followed, though his voice was more muffled and Gabriel couldn’t hear the words that were said by Dean but Sam kept yelling at Dean, voice raised still but Gabriel couldn’t really hear what he was saying now. Bobby’s voice then intervened.
“Either you idjits shut up and yell outside or I throw you out!”
There was silence and the slamming of a door downstairs and soon the yelling voices of Sam and Dean were outside in the yard. There was the crash of metal and Gabriel brought his wings away from him and looked out the windows to see the boys fighting, full on fist fighting… Sam had slammed Dean into a car and was saying something to Dean with a growl to his voice. Gabriel saw Dean’s face in the light that came from the house. He saw Dean’s face first contorted in anger, and even as Sam spoke to him, his face fell and his eyes went toward where Gabriel was standing him the window. Gabriel moved away from in and sat back down on the bed, wings once more blocking him from sight…
The door downstairs opened and closed then about ten minutes later…
Footsteps came up the stairs and Gabriel half considered slamming the door to the room he was in…
“Gabriel, I-“ It was Dean. Gabriel kept his wings in front of him, shielding him from view, “-I’m sorry, really, I should have kept my cool…”
“You have every right to be mad,” Gabriel said, bringing his wings away from him as they vanished from sight, Gabriel straightening and looking to Dean.
“Who knew this would all be so complicated?” Gabriel muttered, Dean just shook his head.
“I never thought it would be…it used to be just simple hunts for me and Sam…then this...” He said with a shrug. Gabriel rubbed the bridge of his nose.
“What now?” Gabriel asked with a sigh.
“We keep looking for a way to stop the devil and we kill the horsemen, that’s all we can do…” Dean said as he clapped Gabriel on the shoulder.
“That’s the thing though…I feel like I KNOW how we can stop the devil and the horsemen, it’s like at times it’s right on the edge where I could grab a hold of the answer…but then it slips away.” Gabriel says with obvious frustration at the entire situation.
“It’ll come to you eventually,” Dean said as he looked around the room they were in, “Though for now try and figure out the rest of your powers, we can’t afford to have you not know what they are… Though I know one thing, you can make a living breathing doppelganger of yourself. I’m pretty sure that’s what you did in our first encounter anyways…” Dean said with a slight smile before he left Gabriel alone to ponder what he said.
Another month came and went in which the boys investigated a mental asylum and nearly went crazy when a wraith touched them, Gabriel had needed to interfere and bring them back to reality in which Dean managed to kill the wraith as she went to Sam and tried to feed on his crazed cranium… Then there was this weird body swap incident with Sam and some seventeen year old, which resulted in Sam being trapped in a basement, tied to a pole as the kid and the Kid was running around as Sam and tried to kill Dean, but lucky for Dean, Gabriel had warned him ahead of time on who was who, having seen right through the trick almost immediately. Though it didn’t help that he kid’s friends summoned a high level demon, who killed the kid that summoned it, and took control of a girl who was down there as well. She had come to the hotel and Dean and the kid had performed and exorcism, when that demonic smoke came from the girl’s mouth, Gabriel had killed the demon immediately, not giving it the chance to escape alive.
Then came when the boys went back in time with Castiel…Gabriel had been asleep, he knew he didn’t have to sleep but he enjoyed it, he felt somewhat refreshed after it and it helped take his mind off of the things that were going on… So when he woke to find the boys gone he panicked. He searched nearly the whole town before coming back to the hotel to see them there. They saw Gabriel and watched as he looked at them with obvious confusion.
“Where did you guys go? I’ve searched the whole town for you two!” He growled as Castiel appeared and staggered, nose bleeding.
“Cass!” Dean yelped as he and Sam got a hold of him.
“You made it!” Dean said, shocked, and Castiel looked to the two.
“It seems I did…” He mutters before he passed out. The two boys but Castiel on a bed and then turned to Gabriel, explaining where they had gone and why.
“Huh…Time travel…” Gabriel muttered, looking to Castiel on the bed. Castiel looked worse for wear and Gabriel decided he wouldn’t try it anytime soon…
They got into the car a while later and went on a search for Cupid of all things after the boys got word on a case. Castiel even claimed that Cupid had gone rouge but when they found him, Cupid claimed he had nothing to do with it. They left cupid, feeling more than confused… They passed by a store and Gabriel’s eyes landed on the candy…He’d been craving candy even since they arrived in town and he just had to get some!
“Gabriel? What are you doing?” Dean’s voice was like a sharp whip crack through the haze that had clouded Gabriel’s thinking and he found himself holding fistfuls of the candy.
“Err…can we get these?” He said, realizing he sounded a lot like a little kid just there, and Gabriel saw Dean roll his eyes and went to the counter and reluctantly paid for the candy which was now several bags full…
They got back to the room and found Castiel there, wrappers of hamburgers all around the table. Gabriel went to the bed he’d deemed his, sat on it and tore into the candy.
“Okay…what the hell is going on? Both the angels are losing their self control or what?” Dean said with a raised brow, but he saw Sam shake his head.
“It’s not just them Dean…I…I’ve been craving…you know…ever since we came here…” Sam muttered and Dean looked at him with wide eyes.
“That’s weird; I haven’t been craving anything…” Dean muttered.
“It’s famine…he’s here…,” Castiel said as he seemed to fight hard to put down the burger. He’s affected mine and Gabriel’s hosts as well as everyone else in town. Jimmy craves hamburgers and Gabriel craves candy…,” Castiel said even as Gabriel tore apart his fourth candy. He couldn’t help it!”
Over the next few hours the cravings were so much worse as they were forced to figure out where Famine was, and they intercepted a delivery to him, grabbing a briefcase from a demon and bringing it back to the hotel room.
Dean and Sam opened it and found it was…an orb of white light? Which pulsed outwardly in a bright flash of white light.
“What the hell was that?” Dean asked in confusion as Gabriel continued munching on the candy in front of him, wrappers littered the floor as he kept going…
“It’s a human soul,” Castiel said as he appeared with yet another bag of hamburgers, “Famine feeds on them…” He said as he took a bite of the food and Gabriel started cursing through his mouthful of candy, which got a look from all of the other three.
“Remind me to never eat another candy bar after this…” Gabriel groaned as he ate yet another one.
“We have to find out where the souls are being delivered,” Dean said at last, the only one unaffected. He started to leave when Sam looked at him and bit his lip.
“You’re going to have to go without me,” He said and Castiel and Dean understood, but Gabriel didn’t, though he didn’t ask, he was too busy stuffing his face with candy. They handcuffed Sam to the sink and then blocked the door and left, Gabriel following, not quite sure what to do. They sat in the impala and waited outside the hospital until they saw a man walk out with a briefcase, Castiel eating his burger and pointing him out as Gabriel ate another Candy. He swore he was making himself much more than sick…
“Mmm…these make me very happy,” he heard Castiel say after he had another bite.
“Yeah well…I have to admit these make me happy too…but come on, Cass! I don’t want to stuff my face like this!” Gabriel said desperately as he seemed to have to fight his own hand from trying to shave a candy bar in his mouth even as Dean drove them towards a diner as they followed the demon… They had been talking about a plan while he and Castiel had been eating.
“Remember the plan?” Dean asked, looking to both angels.
“Yeah, I go in, chop off his finger and come back here,” Castiel said before vanishing and before Dean could say a word. The two waited for about thirty seconds.
“This is taking too long,” Dean growled and he got out of the car as Gabriel kept om nom noming his candy bar. He sat in the car as Dean went inside and Gabriel counted about three minutes before he saw Dean being dragged into the main room, and Castiel off to the side eating steak… He vanished and reappeared in the diner to hear…
“Well it doesn’t seem to be coming from mine,” Dean said seeming proud for a moment.
“Yes…I noticed that,” Famine said, white haired and looking so much like a fragile old man…
“Have you wondered why that is? How you could even walk in my presence?” He asked before turning and smirking at Gabriel even as Gabriel was thrown what looked to be the biggest candy bar ever to exist. Gabriel couldn’t stop himself as he lunged for it and tore it open, chowing down on it ravenously.
“Well I like to think it’s because of my strength of character,” Dean said with a smartass smirk on his face, even as Gabriel fought against the hunger as best he could…
“I disagree,” Famine said so softly Gabriel doubted even Dean heard it. Though famine moved his wheelchair closer to Dean as the Demons strengthened their grip on him.
Famine reached his hand out and put it to Dean chest..
“Nnnngh!” Dean grunted out in pain as whatever Famine was doing to him seemed to cause quite a bit of pain…
“Yes…I see…” Famine whispered as Gabriel looked up to see Dean grimacing in pain and trying to pull himself away…
“That’s one deep dark…nothing you have there, Dean,” He said as he brought his hand away, Dean trying to catch his breath even as he stared at Famine in shock.
“You can’t fill it with food or drink, not even with sex,” Famine started laughing as Dean responded with a snarl.
“You’re so full of crap!”
“You can lie to your brother, lie to yourself, but you can’t lie to me! I can see inside you, Dean! I can see how broken you are, how defeated…You can’t win and you know it. But you just keep fighting, just keep going through the motions. You’re not hungry Dean because inside you’re already…dead ,” During this Dean had slowly stopped struggling, and even then Gabriel saw the look on his face that showed his horror and realization all at once…Even as he heard the door open…
“Let him go,” It was Sam, Gabriel knew immediately even as he turned his head around to see the twenty six year old, who had dried blood around his mouth… Famine turned his chair around…
“Sam…” He said sounding quite pleased.
“Sam, no,” Dean started to say as demons started walking forward.
“STOP! No-one lays a finger on this sweet little boy,” Famine commanded and the demons stopped and even Sam seemed surprised by this.
“Sam, I see you got the snack I sent you,” Famine said as Sam looked at him with an emotion Gabriel couldn’t quite identify.
“You sent?” He asked, the emotion now becoming confusion.
“Don’t worry; you’re not like everyone else. You’ll never die from drinking too much, you’re the exception,” Famine said with obvious glee.
“Sam...” Gabriel said in more a warning tone than anything else, and Sam glanced to him then back to Famine.
“That’s just the way Satan wanted you to be,” Famine explained and Gabriel glanced to Dean, who looked horrified and shocked at this…
“So…” Famine started to say, lifting his hands, “Cut their throats!” He said as he motioned to he demons.
This got quite a reaction out of the demons who looked at each other in alarm.
“Have at them!” Famine said loudly, it could have been considered a shout Gabriel thought fully as he returned to his candy…
“Sam no!” Dean again, sounding horrified and if anything, in doubt that his brother could resist…
“Please! Be my guest!” Famine yelled now.
Gabriel looked up again to see Sam looking at him, then Castiel, then Dean, looking torn…
Sam brought his hand up and closed his eyes, brow furrowing. Gabriel watched the smoke that were demons coming from their hosts even as Dean recoiled from the ones that had just been holding him. Dean stepped back and grabbed the demon slaying knife that was on the ground near him and both he and Gabriel watched the scene unfolding before them. The smoke of the demons were clouding up on the ground now completely gone from their hosts, Sam brought his hand down and opened his eyes., panting as he looked to famine.
“No,” He said firmly.
“Well, fine. If you don’t want them, then I’ll have them,” Famine said in his slow wheezy manner as he lifted a hand up and motioned it as if beckoning someone to come while opening his mouth wide, the demon essences seeming to fly into his mouth on their own.
Sam then stepped forward even as Famine finished, and held out his hand and seemed to be straining to try and pull at something…
“I’m all Horseman Sam, your power doesn’t work on me,” He said as Sam seemed to be overstraining himself…
“You’re right, but it will work on them,” Sam said before clenching his fist and half closing his eyes…
Famines eyes widened and his mouth opened soundlessly as Sam seemed to be doing his worst to Famine, using the demons to do it.
When Gabriel looked back to Sam he saw blood coming from one nostril as Sam seemed to struggle to keep up what he was doing, in pain from the strain of it…Even as demonic smoke seemed to leak out of Famine before it exploded out of him, destroying Famine. Sam panted hard as Gabriel found himself free from the hold of the hunger and exchanged a look with Castiel who wiped his mouth free of Steak even as Gabriel did the same with the candy. Then all three looked to Sam, who was panting hard still, eyes wide even as he caught his breath…
Then they were at Bobby’s, Sam yelling in the panic room as Dean and Castiel stood outside it. Gabriel was sitting atop one of the cars. He could still hear Sam as clear as day…
“Help! HELP! Dean! Gabriel! Cass? If you’re out there, please… HELP! Aaaaagh!”
Gabriel could hear the pain in Sam’s voice and he felt horrible leaving him in there even as he heard Castiel and Dean talking, if briefly, before Dean came out with his whiskey bottle in hand. Gabriel watched Dean walk towards the Impala, looking around.
Gabriel could hear the thoughts going through Dean’s head and looked at him with something he figured was either pity or sadness, either way he knew he felt bad for the oldest Winchester… He saw Dean look up to the sky and mutter something that was quiet… Gabriel let out a sigh and vanished from his place and appearing in the panic room with Sam, who was handcuffed to the bed in there.
Sam looked immediately to him, nostrils flaring, chest heaving and eyes glazed over even as he struggled with his bindings.
“Gabriel? Is that really you?” Sam asked hoarsely, his hair damp from his own struggling and sweat…
“Yeah it is,” He said with a sad smile as he saw Sam let his head drop.
“Please…let me out of here…” He pleaded even as Gabriel noticed the viewer open slightly and saw Castiel look through briefly.
“You know I can’t let you out, Sam. We’re doing this to help you…” He said as Sam looked at him with his puppy dog eyes.
“Don’t look at me like that, you know I could have just stayed out there with Grumpy and Drinky,” Gabriel pointed out and Sam seemed to consider this.
“But I figured you needed some company other than hallucinations,” Gabriel said with a shrug as he sat down in the chair by the desk.
“…Thanks Gabriel…” Sam whispered as Gabriel nodded slightly at him.
“How’s Dean doing…?” Sam asked looking at Gabriel who only shook his head.
“He…he’s outside. He’s got a lot to think about,” Gabriel said after a moment, in which Sam sat up and tried to get water nearby, but his restraints didn’t allow it.
Gabriel got up and poured the water into the glass there and gave it to Sam, while pushing the table closer, getting a nod from Sam, even as Gabriel sat at the foot of the bed now.
Gabriel stayed with Sam until the demon blood was cleared from his system, which took about three days, but Gabriel was there and his presence actually seemed to keep Sam calm, but Sam would end up having hallucination spells in which Gabriel would have to snap him out of it with rough shakes of the shoulders…But in the end when it was all over, Sam went up to Gabriel, thanked him and hugged him, which caught Gabriel by surprise, but he just patted Sam’s back for a moment before Dean came in and broke up the chick flick moment.
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