Trouble With The Trickster || Gabriel - Supernatural

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"Where are we going, then?" I asked Luce through a mouthful of bacon and egg. Usually, I wouldn't eat so much food but I was starving, partly from grief and partly from the pregnancy, I think.

He looked down at me, pursing his lips in thought, "Haven't decided yet. Just... out. I hate being cooped up inside just as much as you do."

"You guys are going out somewhere?" Dean interrupted, looking up from his own breakfast and gesturing between us with his fork, "Why?"

"We think it'd be good for all three of us," Gabe strolled in from the library where he had been no doubt eavesdropping the entire time, "All the warding on this place has been wreaking havoc on me and Luci for the past week and Beth's already weak enough as it is. Having a change of scenery might get our strength back."

"You sure it's safe?" Sam asked, leaning against the counter across from where we were eating, "I mean, with all the angels?"

"We'll stay hidden. Won't stray too far," Luci assured him, laughing slightly as Sam flinched away from his voice, "Gee, Sam, are you still jumpy because of all those great times we had? Those fun karaoke nights?"

Sam gritted his teeth, "You mean when you kept me awake singing 'Stairway To Heaven' at two in the morning?"

I bit back a snigger as Luci shrugged, "Hey, it's not my fault you wouldn't sing along..."

"Wait... those voices in his head really were you?" Dean looked between the two of them incredulously, "I thought he was just nuts."

"Hey!" Dean shrugged innocently as Sam glared at him.

"What? You were saying you could see the Devil, what was I supposed to think?"

Lucifer laughed at their bickering as I got up and put my empty plate in the sink, glancing my way before I sat back down, "I was bored in the pit so I slipped out when Michael wasn't looking and came to chat with my old cage buddy. Is that such a crime?"

"To be fair, you did kinda torture the kid, Luce..." Gabe pointed out, tilting his head as Luci shrugged again, looking up at me for some sort of input, "Beth wasn't here so why are you looking at her?"

"I can read minds just as well as you, Gabe." I sighed, looking up at him, "But I agree with you this time, it was pretty mean..." Luci looked hurt at my accusation but he was faking it, "Don't give me that look, Lucifer, I feel sorry for anyone who crosses paths with you..."

"Yes, mother..." He rolled his eyes sarcastically as he muttered the remark under his breath and I placed a hand on my hip as Gabe chuckled from the corner.

I let out an exaggerated breath, "Don't start talking about relationships in this family... if you really think about it - and I would advise not to - you're technically both my uncle and my grandfather..."

Luci's eyes widened and he pulled a face, "Okay, that is weird..." I nodded as he made possibly the biggest understatement of the past millennium.

"Wait..." Dean trailed off for a moment as I could hear the cogs turning in his head before his expression turned to horror, "That makes Gabriel your uncle! Man... ew..."

"It's best not to get into, uh, angel family trees..." Gabe looked down awkwardly as Dean's intimidating gaze turned to him, desperate to change the subject, "Uh... let's go out... now... preferably..."

"Isn't that incest or something?" Dean ignored him and continued pulling a face as Sam sighed behind me, raising an eyebrow at his brother

He went up beside him, placing a hand on his shoulder to shut him up, "Dude, leave them alone. I can't see how it affects you how they're related and, no, I don't think it counts as incest with angels... Stop trying to turn everything into some sort of porno..."

Dean flushed pink, "I-I... what? I wasn't!"

"Yeah, whatever you say, dude..." Sam rolled his eyes. He turned to us and the corners of his lips moved up slightly, "Go on. It's not your fault Dean can't overlook the basic, irrelevant things..." A pointed look was shot at his older brother and Dean shrugged childishly before getting up and wandering off, muttering something about being bullied and going to call Cas.

"Thanks, Sam." I smiled and he acknowledged me with a nod before following after Dean, "Don't wait up for us!"

"I won't. Just be back before tomorrow and call if anything goes wrong... you have my number, right?" He stopped in the doorway and turned on his heel, looking at me questioningly.

I nodded, "Yeah, Bobby gave it to me a while back and I memorised it."

He hummed and smiled kindly, turning back again and walking out of sight. With that, I looked to Gabe, "Are we gonna go now, then?"

"Anyone decided where we're actually headed?" He looked up at Luci and took my hand in his as I shrugged and Luce shook his head unhelpfully, "Great, real helpful, guys... Good job I know of a place around here..."

He snapped his fingers and suddenly our surroundings faded away from the kitchen of the bunker to the peak of a huge boulder-shaped rock, overlooking a beautiful cavern and a running stream. I peered around in awe and even Luci seemed a bit taken aback as Gabe smirked, the smugness rolling off him in waves as he hummed a tune to himself.

"What is this place?" I asked, finally finding my words as he guided me to sit down on the rock, my legs dangling precariously over the edge as the cool air hit my skin and began to fully wake me up with its temperature.

"It's mine," Gabe replied, smiling at the look of amazement in my eyes as he subconsciously slid his fingers through mine, "I made it a few millennia ago. Come to check on it every so often when I have some time. No humans have ever found it because I placed warding around it so it's exactly as I first made it, even down to the tiniest details..." He pointed down at an animal which had just come to the water to drink, "That's my own species. I got bored one time and decided a fish should have legs and wings..." I watched as the strange creature suddenly took flight, soaring above our heads and leaving only a fishy smell behind.

"You did this when you were bored?"

"Don't sound so surprised, Beth," Lucifer replied, crossing his legs and gazing down at the flowing water in thought, "Y'know, it's a lie when they say Rome wasn't built in a day. It only took me three Earth hours."

My eyes widened as I looked back to Gabe who was grinning from ear to ear at my reaction, looking at me hopefully, "You like it, then?"

"I love it! But... why?" I tilted my head at him in confusion, "Why make such a beautiful place and never show it to anyone?"

"Well, one," he counted on his fingers, "it makes it more special when I do show it to someone. And, two... well, everyone needs an escape from reality once in a while... even archangels..."