All You Did was Save my Life

A Whole Year?

            "Gabriel?" Jo said quietly, walking out to the front of the house.

            "It's really him, isn't it?" Gabriel asked.

            "Yeah, it's him," Jo nodded.

            "How did he get out?"

            "I don't know," she admitted, "Even he doesn't know. He was he remembers falling and next thing he was waking up back in the field."

            "He must be tired," Gabriel murmured and Jo wasn't sure if he was talking to her or to himself now. "If he wasn't able to get a ride from someone he would've had to walk the whole way. Must've taken a few days..."

            "Actually..." Jo said slowly and Gabriel looked at her.

            "What?" he asked.

            "He's been back for a year," Jo told him.

            "What?" Gabriel said again, this time in disbelief.

            "He's been back for a year, Gabriel," she repeated, "We're not sure what he was doing in that time, but-"

            "A year?" Gabriel interrupted, "No, that can't be right. He wouldn't have been back for an entire year and just not said anything. He has a son; he has a brother; he has me!" Henry started to cry as Gabriel's voice got louder and the angel looked down at his son in distress.

            "Here," Jo said, lifting the baby into her arms and bouncing him until he calmed down.

            "Thanks," Gabriel murmured and then looked her straight in the eye, "He's really been back for a whole year?" Jo nodded sadly.

            "I'm sorry," she said gently.

            "Don't be," Gabriel replied, his tone growing bitter, "You're not the one who miraculously escaped from Lucifer's cage and chose not to tell your family."

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