While the brothers packed up for their trip back to the bunker, (Y/n) stood next to Gabriel, both glancing at the hotel. There had been a good friendship for a while between Loki and the archangel, and now it was gone. The words the god had said aloud were slowly dispersing, but they still hit hard.

They turned around to face Sam and Dean. "Listen," Gabriel started. "I know you two weren't the, uh, eagerest of beavers when it came to helping us back there... so, uh..." He looked at the ground. "We just wanted to say thanks."

Sam nodded. Finding the silence awkward, Gabriel decided to address the elephant in the town.

"So, this... other-world Michael... how we doin' this?"

The younger Winchester furrowed his brows in surprise. "Wait- you two are actually going to help us?"

"Yeah, no tricks?" Dean added.

'Are we really going with Sam and Dean?' (Y/n) asked, side-glancing at Gabriel. Part of her didn't want to, but a deal is a deal. Still, they could leave and grab that condo in Athens (Y/n) was promised. But there was family too...

Gabriel looked at his soulmate, nodding, then turned back to the brothers. "A deal is a deal." Pausing, he shrugged. "And, if I'm being perfectly honest, tricks are for kids." (Y/n) snorted beside him, making the archangel smile a bit. "And... this isn't just my decision, she agrees too." 'Family comes first.' "She said 'family comes first.'"

Dean nodded with the smallest smile. "Glad to have you two on board." Then he moved to Baby to jump into the driver's seat.

Sam approached the two, mainly facing Gabriel. "Hey, how you two feeling? Now that you..."

The archangel smiled. "Got our sweet-sweet vengeance on?" His tone was a little joking, but Sam responded with a hesitant 'yeah sure.' "Swell, Sam. I'm a whole new guy, and (Y/n)'s slowly gettin' back into the game."

"That's what I thought," Sam let out a breathy chuckle.

After they all were buckled up in the car, Sam popped up a question that he had wanted to ask since they saw each other at the motel.

"I, uh, wanted to ask something..." Gabriel looked up from his soulmate, arching (no pun intended) a brow. "You two have rings on your fingers, did you...?"

The Impala screeched to a halt. Dean turned over in his seat, eyeing his sister's left hand. "Sonovabitch." He wasn't angry... well, more of surprise mixed with anger. "When did this happen?"

Gabriel shifted in his seat. "A full bond is basically marriage, so for the 'human-experience' part of this, I proposed to her." (Y/n) looked down at the silver band, nervously twisting it with her right hand. "Told the priest my last name... so she is no longer (Y/n) Winchester, but (Y/n) Speight, which is my fake last name." (For those of you who get that- you deserve a cookie) "I couldn't exactly ask for your blessing... so..."

"Fine by me," Sam shrugged.

Dean mumbled a 'whatever' when Sam smacked his arm. The journey to the bunker began once again. This time with fewer questions asked about what happened between the soulmates.

-

'This place is huge!' (Y/n) said to Gabriel as they got their room ready. 'I-I never thought that we'd ever even find a place to call home!'

Home. A foreign word to the world of hunting, but it seems like Sam and Dean found it. There were so many other things to consider as well: Her mother was back, Gabriel has a nephew, which meant she has a nephew, there's another world with Michael in it--

"Slow down on the thoughts, sugar." Gabriel chuckled, tapping her away from the new present. "We'll get used to this place soon enough, I'm sure of it. And your mother... we'll see where that leads us, okay?"

(Y/n) nodded, a big smile still on her face. She hadn't been this happy in so long. It was like the memory of everything that happened to them before was gone, locked away in a cage. 'Sorry. I'll sleep on it.' At that moment, a yawn left her lips.

Castiel walked into the room again, watching (Y/n) crawl into bed and close her eyes. "She seems fine at the moment."

The archangel looked back at her, his smile faltering. "At the moment, yes. This has already built the walls of our time in Hell away. But I doubt it'll last long." He sighed, shaking his head. "It'll take a while for her to get used to everything again."

Castiel nodded. "Of course, brother." He patted his older brother's shoulder. "Get some rest while you can. We have lots of work to do tomorrow."

Nodding back, Gabriel shut the door to his bedroom and slowly got into bed with (Y/n). She immediately curled up against him, her breathing slowing back down.

He was well aware of what happened back at the hotel, her memories leaking into her dreams.

Placing a hand on her forehead and closing his eyes, the memories once again left her mind, replacing them with the world they wanted to create for themselves.

A world without hunting. A world with peace and no monsters or celestial beings to stop them.

A world they knew they could never have.