All This Time (Destiel, Sabriel and Michifer AU)

I wish we could go back

Sam blinked his eyes open blearily, strange memories and pictures floating through his mind as the remaining tendrils of sleep clung to him. He tried to remember where he had finally fallen asleep, before deciding he must of finally crashed out on the bed in his motel room.

Rubbing his head, he tries to swallow his disappointment as he remembers Gabriel's visit in his dreams, why couldn't that have been real? It had certainly felt real at the time.

Licking his dry lips, Sam was finally able to push past the last of his sleepiness and sit up. What he didn't expect was to wake up to find himself in a hospital room. And he certainly didn't expect to see who was passed out on the hard, plastic seat beside his bed.

Confusion milled about in his head as he tried to make sense of any of this. Did that mean.... it hadn't been a dream?

Unable to tear his gaze from Gabriel, his heart pounding a million miles per second, Sam didn't notice the other two people in his room until they spoke up.

"Sam! Thank god you're okay!"

Sam looks up in time to feel Michael hugging him tightly. Hugging his cousin back lightly, Sam then pulls back with a confused frown.

"Oh, right, so when Gabe came up to your door, you weren't looking so well apparently, next thing Gabriel know, you passed out."

Sam stills furrows his brow in confusion, looking from Gabriel to Michael and back again.

"Oh, you're probably wondering what Gabriel is doing here, right?"

Sam nods mutely, because what else was he going to do?

"Well, he saw you around, and after a while he finally pulled his head out of his candy loving ass and went to find you, now he's hanging around in hopes of a proper reunion where you don't faint." 

Sam bitch faces Michael before turning back to look at Gabe as all his emotions form a lump in his throat. Then he saw a bright colour out the corner of his eye and glanced up to see Lucifer standing behind Michael in a very bright, rainbow coloured shirt.

It took several moments to make sense of what he was looking at. He frowns, glances at Lucifer's shirt after frowning at Michael and then shifts his gaze up to Lucifer's ice blue eyes.

'What the fuck is up with your shirt?'

Michael, who understood limited sign language, caught the gist of Sam's signing and bursts out laughing. 

"What? What did he say?"

Michael snorts, "something about your shirt bring screwed up or whatever."

Lucifer puffs his chest up, "whatever, you guys just don't understand good fashion."

Sam giggles silently while Michael laughed loudly. The sound must of pulled Gabriel out of his unconscious state, Gabriel's yawn drew Sam's attention, and Sam watches as Gabe tiredly rubs his eyes and looks around the room. 

"Sam!?" Gabriel bounces out of his seat and throws his arms around Sam's waist, burying his head into Sam's chest. "Thank Chuck you're okay."

Sam blinks in surprise, he wasn't sure how to reply for a moment, but then he ends up wrapping his arms around the smaller man and burying his face in Gabriel's painfully familiar golden hair.

He had missed Gabe more than words could describe, and to be finally reunited felt like..... a dream.

"So, where have you been all these years?" Gabriel asked, pulling back.

Sam froze, what would he tell Gabe? Could he even tell Gabe? He still couldn't seem to speak so that was a set back.

"Uh, Gabe... There is something you should know about Sam that Dean warned me about."