By Their Grace

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While Dean and Castiel were having their time together Gabriel haddecided to take Sam to Italy. gelato was his favorite non-candy andso he knew every single ice cream shop almost and had tried at leastevery flavor but this cute little shop that didn't even have anytables inside and was down an alleyway in historical Florence. Doublescoop, a deep strong-almost bitter-chocolate and another that iswhite and flavored with rose water and is light and fluffy. It islike when you breathe in a scent so deeply you can taste it and thatis what it was like.

Once he picked it up and Sam was looking around shocked and amazedGabriel handed him one of the scoops and wrapped an arm around thetall hunter's waist flying him away to France, landing them on thetop of the Eiffel Tower.

"What the hell?!" Sam looked around and Gabriel chuckled and satdown.

"Sit Samshine." He grinned at him until Sam sighed and sat,rolling his hazel eyes.

"Seriously? Why?" Sam asked and Gabriel did a grand sweepingmotion with all three on the one side of him and Sam looked over theearly morning light of Paris. It was still early enough that the sunwas rising even if people are busy and hustle and bustling it stilllooks calm.

Sam chuckled and began eating his gelato. It wasn't anything he hadever tried before and he wasn't completely sure that he liked it. Butstill it wasn't bad and there was no way he wasn't going to have it.It was a while before either talked and it was Gabriel who did.

"Hey Sam,"

"Yes Gabriel?" Sam asked immediately straightening up. Gabrielnever called him Sam.

"I sometimes make trips up to heaven, not often enough to causesuspicion but I couldn't resist going into your heaven." Gabrielmentioned and Sam raised an eyebrow, waiting for him to continue. "Iknow you love your brother, so why wasn't he in there?" Gabrielasked and Sam's eyes widened, he knew that Dean had seen it but ashis brother never spoke about it Sam had not needed to either.

"That's a hard thing to really say." Sam sighed and shaking hishead took another bite of his gelato, "the human's version ofheaven is just a rerun of their most happy memories, right?" Samwaited for Gabriel to nod before he gave a heaving sigh and continuedon. "I had a lot of happy memories from my childhood, but theyalways involved Dean. It wasn't until I got older that we started todrift apart, I wanted a normal life and Dean wanted to keep doingit."

"So Dean never got to see that?" Gabriel asked having come in andseen the tail end of Sam leaving John and Dean and then time withmaking friends at Stanford and being with Jessica. That had hurt himtoo much to watch the full reel.

"No, but he knew that it was to leave dad, not him." Sam assuredand Gabriel moved the wings closer to Sam to wrap around him to soothand comfort.

"Not really Sammy, from the little bit Cassie has said Dean doesn'treally understand his worth, you should talk to him." Gabriel askedand Sam looked over at him his hazel eyes clouding as he thoughtthrough it all. Dean was normally so confident acting and had beenhis caretaker all growing up-part older brother and part parent-theidea that Dean needed to be taking care of like that, notemotionally. He worried how many times as a child that Dean wastaking care of him, assuring him that he would be okay, that Deanneeded to have someone there for him and he wasn't there.

"Believe me Sugar Cube, I understand what can drive someone toleave their family more then anyone." Gabriel assured, "the onething though was I was running from something but you don't strike meas that. No. My moose was running to something. Only thing I don'tknow is what were you running to?" He asked and Sam gave him a halfsmile and shrugged.

"You know the Impala has been my home growing up? Dean and I grewup in that thing, in that car and hotel rooms. It wasn't home to me.I wanted a home, a place to put down roots." Sam chuckled and shookhis head, "as stupid as it was when I was learning about plants forbiology I thought of myself as a tree that needs plenty of rootswhile Dean is lucky bamboo, both of us are strong but he doesn't needroots like I do." He sighed and looked at Gabriel worriedly, "butnow I wonder if maybe he does? Just won't go after it."

It was supposed to be a date for Gabriel and Sam to get to know eachother more but Gabriel couldn't find it in himself to resent that.Not only was Dean a good guy, someone he had come to see as a goodfriend and a good man-not just a righteous man but a good one-and hecould feel empathy as a older brother himself. He had been the thirdcreated archangel, he remembered how the oldest brother Micheal wasonce caring so much about all the angels, Lucifer had once made surethat everyone was okay and safe and were being treated well, Gabrielhimself was the fun older brother and made sure that they were allokay. As first Lucifer had fallen, then Micheal had changed so muchas the one brother who felt closest to had disappeared leaving onlyGabriel but it had hurt too much. Whichever side he chose he'd befighting his loved ones.

"I think so Sweet Cheeks." Gabriel assured leaning over to planta kiss against Sam's cheek. "I can't say what Dean wants, maybe hewants a home like that as much as you do, maybe he wants to keepliving the way he has, or maybe he wants to be half in and half out,like your Men of Letters. You should talk to him."

"Thanks Gabe." Sam whispers and before Gabriel can ask the tallerman's lips were pressed against his and Gabriel didn't care so muchabout finding out what Sam was thanking him for exactly.

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Dean looked up from the booklet he had gotten at the pet shop aboutdifferent animals. He admittedly didn't know much about guinea pigsother then in some countries it was against the law to own only oneas they could literally die from the loneliness. But as theywere his angel's favorite animal, so he could at least consider them.Considering didn't mean they would do it but he could at leastconsider it.

"Sam?" He asked as Sam dragged him into another room, Castiel gotup to make sure everything was okay but was stopped by a hand infront of him. Gabriel's hand.

"Don't worry Cassie, everything's fine. They just need somebrotherly time." He assured and instead snapped his fingers makinga baby guinea pig plushie that he had seen a girl when he was headingthrough a nearby Elizabethtown, heading out of the state after havingstopped at Hershey and asked what she was doing. Crochet, he had beencurious enough to ask the young woman who was apparently making itfor a secret crush of hers that loved guinea pigs. Gabriel hadfigured out how to snap some into existence and now was moving ontopetting the soft awkward body of a newly born guinea pig. He couldonly hope it wasn't too hard a talk for his moose.

This cahpter wassupposed to be a sabirel lovey dovey date. Ends up with Gabrielgiving Sam some sibling advice, but then again that is expected of alover, to be able to give each other advice.