All You Did was Save my Life

Lucifer and Birthdays

            Gabriel pulled the car over and got out, rushing around to open Sam's door.

            "Sam? What's wrong?" Gabriel asked, but Sam just groaned, griping his head tightly.

            "Daddy?" Jesse was crying in the back and his sobs had set off Henry. Gabe wanted to go to them, but he needed to figure out what was wrong with Sam.

            "It's alright boys, everything's alright," Gabriel said, "Sammy boy? What's going on?"

            Just as quickly as it started, it was over. Sam's grip on his head lessened and he looked around, sweat dripping down his face.

            "Sammy?"

            "Gabe?" Sam looked at him, lurching forward to wrap his arms around the archangel.

            "Sam? What happened?"

            "I-I saw him," Sam gasped out, "I saw him."

            "Who?" Gabriel asked in confusion.

            "Lucifer," Sam whispered, "I saw Lucifer."

            "What?" Gabe pulled back, eyes wide. "What do you mean you saw Lucifer?"

            "I don't know," Sam breathed, "He was sitting there, right where you were. But you were gone... And the boys were gone... I was surrounded by fire..." He trailed off, trembling as his eyes flickered around as if expecting Lucifer to be standing there.

            "Sam, relax, alright?" Gabriel said, "We're going to head back to Bobby's and talk to Dean-"

            "No!" Sam exclaimed, "No, we can't tell them."

            "Sam-" Gabe started again.

            "No Gabe," Sam shook his head, "I'm sure it was nothing, okay? Just please, don't tell Dean."

            "What about them?" Gabriel asked and suddenly the sound of crying filled Sam's ears. He turned in his seat and looked at the boys.

            "Hey, hey, it's alright," he said gently.

            "Daddy, what's wrong?' Jesse cried.

            "I'm okay buddy, my head was just hurting really badly," Sam told him, "But I'm okay now. Don't worry."

            Jesse finally calmed down and then Sam managed to quiet down Henry.

            "It's okay," he said quietly and looked back at Gabe. "Please Gabe, promise me you won't tell Dean."

            "Alright fine," the archangel conceded reluctantly, "But I want you to tell me if it happens again, okay?"

            "Yeah, fine," Sam said quickly, "Let's get back to Bobby's."

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            Back at Bobby's, the older hunter was going through one of his books, but having no luck.

            "I think I found something," Dean said, from where he sat next to Bobby.

            "How to get rid of Eve?" Bobby asked.

            "Maybe..." Dean said, "It says something here about Ashes of the Phoenix..." He read on a bit further and explained to Bobby exactly what he had to do.

            "So you've gotta go back in time?" Bobby asked.

            "Sounds like it," Dean said, "I'll talk to Cas later and see what he says, but if that's true then I should leave pronto."

            "Wait daddy! You can't leave!" Ben exclaimed from his spot on the floor.

            "I won't be gone forever buddy," Dean said, "But this is important."

            "But you can't go! It's Jamie's birthday soon!" Ben said.

            "Not for a few more weeks bud," Dean ruffled Ben's hair, "I promise I'll be back before then, alright?"

            "Alright," Ben sighed, "And will papa be back too?"

            "Yes he will," Dean nodded, "He's helping Uncle Balthazar right now but he'll be back soon."

            "Of you do need to go back in time, we'd better start getting things together we'll need to do that," Bobby said, "Ben, you want to help me find everything?"

            "Yeah!" Ben exclaimed excitedly and Bobby led him out of the room.

            Dean looked back down at the book. If they could find the Ashes then they might be able to defeat Eve. Then, maybe, things could start getting better again.

I literally rewrote this chapter three times. First I wrote something and then realized I had totally skipped something major so I started over. Then I realized what I had rewritten didn't make any sense to be happening in that way at this point in the story. Finally I wrote it and I'm hoping it makes sense.

Also, yes, Jamie is almost two and I figured a birthday might be a nice way to lighten things up a bit since stuff has been so serious lately. A lot of the Eve stuff is kind of going to be, I don't want to say brushed over, but it definitely won't be a major focus. They'll talk about it and they'll deal with it, but Eve was never a huge part of the storyline I imagined here.