Unknown Colours (Destiel/Sabriel)

22 - You Promised You'd Always Be There

Warning you now...this is probably more feelsy than anything else in this book so far.

Gabriel dropped everything and ran out of the store, towards where Sam had been going. Everything felt like it was going in slow motion, the only sound being Gabe's racing heart. Everything around him was deathly grey, increasing his panic.

There was people yelling, cars pulled over, ambulance sirens in the distance. But Gabe payed attention to none of it as he ran over to Sam's body in the middle of the road.

He skidded down beside Sam, went to cradle his soulmates head only to see blood pouring from it.

"What happened?!" he yelled, oblivious to the people trying to get him away.

From all the talk around him he could pick up the words 'car crash', which it seemed Sam had been in the middle of.

The ambulance pulled up and people crowded around Sam, pushing Gabriel away. Gabriel tried to fight them but they wouldn't let him near Sammy.

Minutes later the ambulance was pulling away and people were starting to disperse. Gabriel fell to his knees in the middle of the road, in shock. The grey world around him swirled, everything mixing together.

"No," he muttered, his voice rough and croaky. "This can't be happening. It's just another nightmare."

Gabriel heard shouts and someone pulled him off the road as a car came driving past. Gabriel didn't bother to look up.

"Gabriel?" At the sound of his brothers voice, Gabe glanced upwards. "What happened? Dean and I heard the ambulance and came rushing out, only to find you in the middle of the road."

"Gabe where's Sammy?" Dean asked. Gabe opened his mouth to speak but no words came out. "Gabriel spit it out, where the hell is my little brother?"

"There was a car crash," Gabe whispered. "Sammy...he..."

Dean went pale and Cas immediately walked away. A few moments later he reappeared with the Impala.

"Hurry up," Cas said, as Dean and Gabe stood there both in shock.

The car ride was silent, all three of them in too much shock to really talk. Dean came out of his trance towards the end though.

"Gabriel," he said slowly and quietly. "Can you...still...see colours?"

Gabriel said nothing in reply, and that was enough of an answer for Dean, who's eyes began to fill with tears.

As they arrived at the hospital, Cas went to ask about Sam while Dean and Gabe sat down, still in too much shock.

Gabriel was staring off at a painting on the wall when colours appeared so suddenly he jumped.

"Gabriel?" Dean asked.

"Colours," Gabe said, his eyes wide. "Colours Deano, he's alive!" A moment later the colours switched back to grey and Gabe swore.

Cas walked over then. "He's in surgery," he said. "And they're not sure if he's going to live."

"Well at least we'll know," Dean said, looking at Gabriel.

The colours spiked back up, and then faded again. Gabriel sat down, panting wildy and his heart racing as he watched the colours appear and disappear, in correspondence to his soulmates life.

It felt like hours that they waited, and Gabriel wouldn't settle the entire time. When finally the colours stopped fading and stayed at a steady midway, Dean and Cas relaxed, but Gabriel was still panicking.