"Dean is in apocalypse world? Alone?" Cas asks as he, Sam, and Daphne walk through the bunker halls.
"No, he's with Ketch, so he's not alone." Sam says.
"Because that makes it so much better." Cas says sarcastically.
"Cas, he wanted to go solo." Sam says.
"And you let him?" Cas asks.
"I... He didn't exactly give us much of a choice. Anyways, Dean's right. As long as he's over there, and we're here, we need to be taking care of Gabriel, getting him right again." Sam says.
Sam opens the door to a bedroom and Cas turns the light on.
"Gabriel?" Sam calls. The archangel is huddled in a corner.
"You didn't tell me it was this bad." Cas says.
"Yeah, well, years of isolation and torture and Asmodeus draining his grace. Come here. Help me out." Sam says, him and Cas walking over to the Gabriel, Daphne staying near the door. Sam puts the tray of food down.
"Hey, Gabriel. Hey, pal." Sam says. Gabriel recoils in terror when Sam touches his arm. "Okay. Oh-- just... gonna get ya to bed, all right? Let me, uh, help you up. It's okay. It's okay." Sam and Cas help Gabriel onto the bed, the archangel trembling in terror.
"It's okay. Gabriel, it's Sam Winchester. Do you remember me?" Sam asks.
"I don't think he does." Cas says.
"Remember the video you sent to my brother, Dean Winchester, and me after you... supposedly died? You told us how to stuff Lucifer back in the cage." Sam says.
"Sam, he doesn't..." Cas says.
"I know he doesn't. I'm just... trying to see if anything's going on in his head. All right, well..." Sam takes the vial of grace out. "Gabriel's grace. Ketch brought it. Maybe if he's juiced up, it'll help." He offers him the grace. "All right."
"Sam, I don't think he's gonna open up and let the choo-choo in." Cas says. Sam gives him a weird look. "A technique for feeding recalcitrant children."
"I know what it is, Cas." Sam says.
"I think a little coercion may be necessary." Cas says.
"I don't think that coercion is the way to--" Daphne's forced to stop as Sam and Cas try to hold Gabriel down. Gabriel freaks out, quickly running to a corner of the room and huddling there.
"The way to go." Daphne quietly finishes her statement.
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"Sam!" They hear Cas yell and the two rush to Gabriel's room to find Enochian all over the walls.
"What is this? Is-- did he do this? Enochian?" Sam asks.
"It's his story. Starts with his death. Or... what appeared to be his death." Cas says.
""Per usual, my brother had double my brawn and half my brains. He assumed the counterfeit me was what vanished that night and he thought that he'd stabbed the real thing. The truth is, the thing Luci skewered was a fake. There are plenty of fakes to go around. Everyone believed Gabriel was gone. And suddenly, I was free. No obligation to God or Heaven or mankind. And so, I did what anyone would do -- I moved to Monte Carlo and shacked up with porn stars.""
"Well... he goes on and on for quite a while about porn stars and, uh..."
"Cas, please." Sam says.
"Ugh." Daphne covers her ears.
"Okay, so Gabriel was captured, delivered to Asmodeus." Cas says. ""For years, I knew nothing but endless torture. Asmodeus, once the weakest of Hell's princes, grew strong by feeding on my grace." Well, obviously, his intellect is intact."
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Fanfiction[ supernatural -- seasons 9-15 ] Billy and Daphne stand alone: Freaks Come Out at Night I DO NOT own Supernatural, any of the show's characters or storylines. I ONLY own my OCs and their storylines.
