All You Did was Save my Life

Nothing's Simple When You're a Winchester

            The case had been a simple one, just some good, old-fashioned demons. But they were Winchesters and nothing was ever simple or went the way it was supposed to. Which is why Dean, Bobby, Ellen, Cas, Gabe, and Jo found themselves standing in the panic room of Singer Salvage, Sam unconscious on the cot between them.

            "What the hell did Raphael do to him?" Dean growled.

            "Raphael has taken down the wall in Sam's head," Cas said.

            "The one separating him from his memories of The Cage?" Dean said and Cas nodded.

            "So what does this mean?" Jo asked, "Is he gonna wake up?"

            "It means his brain is fried," Gabriel said, "The wall is gone and when Balthazar put it up he said Sam couldn't survive without it."

            "So that's it?" Dean exclaimed, "That's ot? Raphael gives Sam a poke in the head and now he's just gone? A vegetable? Never to wake up?"

            "There's a chance he'll wake up," Cas said, "But if he does he won't be the same. This will change him."

            "This isn't fair," Gabriel murmured, "He only just got back now... What do I say to the boys?"

            "Nothing, we say nothing," Dean said firmly. "I don't care what anyone else says, Sam's waking up and he's gonna be fine."

            With that, he turned and headed up the stairs, Cas following closely behind. Bobby, Ellen, and Jo followed soon after, leaving Gabriel alone with the unconscious hunter.

            "Wake up Samskwatch," he said, "We've done this before and I ended up losing you for more than a year. I'm not doing this again."

            Sam didn't respond, but Gabriel heard someone upstairs calling his name. He sighed, planning on ignoring whoever it was, but they called him again and he finally stood before heading upstairs.

            "Raphael's opened Purgatory," Balthazar said.

            "What about Crowley?" Bobby asked.

            "He wasn't there," Balthazar said, "It seems they had a domestic."

            "You know where Raphael is?" Dean asked and the angel nodded. "Alright, you're gonna need to take us there. But first-" Dean turned to look at Gabe. "You need to stay here."

            The archangel opened his mouth to protest.

            "We don't know what Raphael might have released from Purgatory and Sam's in no position to be fighting back," Dean said. Gabriel scowled, but nodded nonetheless. Dean looked at Cas and the angel nodded minutely before going and standing next to his brother.

            "I'll stay too," Jo said, stepping forward.

            "Really?" Ellen looked at her daughter in surprise.

            "Sam's unconscious, Cas is pregnant, and there's four kids upstairs. If whatever crawled out of Purgatory comes here, I figure I should be here just in case," Jo said.

            "Alright, good," Dean said and then looked at Balthazar, nodding once. Balthazar reached out and in a flash, Dean, Bobby, and Ellen were whisked away.

I promise I'm not killing Sam! We're approaching what would be the end of season six, but obviously instead of Cas being the one to open Purgatory it's Raphael.

I know this chapter was kind of short, but I was bit tight for time when I wrote this one. Hope you like it anyway! New chapter will be up next Wednesday! Thank you to everyone who has reviewed/favourited/followed so far!

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