All You Did was Save my Life

This Isn't Working

            Balthazar stood outside his brother's room. Ca had left a few hours before and Balthazar had been stalling on going up to see his brother. Now the boys had been fed and settled down to relax for a bit before going to bed, and Balthazar knew he couldn't wait anymore.

            He didn't bother knocking as he knew Gabriel wouldn't answer. Instead, he just walked in. Gabriel was lying in the same place he'd been when Cas had been in there. The only difference now was that Henry was awake. The little boy was standing up in his crib and smiled widely when his uncle walked in.

            "Hello little man," he said, lifting the boy up, "What are you doing, hmm? Causing lots of trouble, I bet. While, when your daddy's The Trickster I guess that's to be expected." Balthazar looked at Gabriel, but his brother hadn't moved. He walked around the bed and flopped down next to his brother with a dramatic sigh.

            "Gabriel," he said, "This needs to stop. You have to get out of this room,  it's not good for you to be like this."

            Henry wiggled in his arms, attempting to crawl over to his dad, but Balthazar held onto him.

            "Gabriel," he continued, "If Cas was here he'd probably be telling me to go easy on you. To be sympathetic and understanding and I get it. Really, I think he's probably right. But we've tried sympathetic and understanding and it's left us here: with you lying in bed not talking to anyone. It's reached the point Gabe where this needs to end. We know you're hurt and you have every right to be and no one's expecting you to suddenly be fine. But you have two boys who need you. Jesse is confused and scared and hurt. He left behind his parents only to be adopted by you and Sam and he's surrounded by two parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and he's got a baby brother on the way. Then Sam disappears and you're alone for a year which confused him. He's even more confused when Sam suddenly appears again and now here we are. Without Sam again, but now you're gone too. And while Cassie and I won't leave the boy out in the cold, he needs his father. So does Henry. Not just to feed and change him, but to play and cuddle and be their daddy."

            He looked over at Gabriel and couldn't tell if his brother had even heard any of what he'd said.

            "Alright, I'm putting the boys to bed. There's a five year old downstairs who I'm sure would be very happy if his daddy read him a bedtime story." With that, he stood and left the room, taking Henry with him. he didn't know if what he said would work or have any affect at all. He wasn't even expecting his brother to snap out of it right away. But he hoped that Gabriel would at least get out of bed soon.