#this one got shoved onto the back burner and left there to simmer to ashes

[ladylilithprime]

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So, because you are my Supernatural mutual enabler (among other fandoms, but here we are for the moment) I am going to talk about an idea I had a looooong time ago before I hopped on the Sastiel bandwagon so fast my Sabriel hat flew off.

The story was set post-season five. Castiel is up in Heaven trying to capitalize on his resurrection to negotiate with Raphael to restructure Heaven with more benign goals, Dean is off (trying) to live his life with Lisa and Ben, and Gabriel is practically Graceless on Earth pretending to be a human proprietor of an antique shop waiting for his Grace (expended in an explosive display to fake his death at Lucifer's blade to buy time for the Winchesters and Kali to escape and to make sure he couldn't actually be dragged into the final conflict now that he had proof that his beloved elder brother was so far gone he'd actually kill him) to build itself back up from practically nothing.

Enter Sam: amnesiac, injured, and filled to the brim with a strange amalgamation of Heavenly and Hellish power, having somehow clawed his way out of the Cage and back up to Earth practically on Gabriel's doorstep. Gabriel is, predictably, unimpressed with his Father's meddling, but he's also not about to leave the poor memoryless chucklehead floundering on his own where just anything could snap him up and do horrible things to him, er, to the world with his power.