A Heart's True Haven (слэш)

The Apocalypse is over, but Gabriel’s starting to spend time away between hunts and Castiel is the only one who knows where his brother goes. While Sam tries to ignore the way he feels like his friend is leaving him behind, he gets curious. And Gabriel wants something he thinks he can’t have so he creates the next best thing. A Sam Winchester copy.



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Sam’s reading a book - for leisure, something he’s taking advantage of being able to do now that Lucifer’s locked back in the cage - when Gabriel pops into the room, landing on the bed beside him. It’s nothing new and Sam doesn’t even blink at the intrusion on his personal space, just turns to the next page and waits for when the Archangel gets bored with being ignored for a book. He does blink, however, when Gabriel speaks.


"I like you, Sam."


His head whips to the right but Sam doesn’t get the chance to otherwise react before Gabriel’s hand is up, snapping him out of the room just as abruptly as he’d flown in. He blinks and snaps his jaw shut, blinking again. It isn’t unusual for Gabriel to leave him speechless or to drop crazy bombshells on him but an Archangel admitting to liking him takes the cake. He snorts at the thought and how it just brings him right back to the candy-loving Archangel.


Still, he can’t help but wonder what the point of the angel’s latest joke is.








A couple days later Sam still hasn’t figure out what Gabriel was trying to accomplish. But he’s focusing on a case, pouring over newspapers and trying to figure out who the vengeful spirit in this town might be while Dean and Castiel are out questioning witnesses, when Gabriel shows up again. Sam looks up from his papers an