AN: last chapter of book one. Part two will be called: Home Is Where Your Heart Is. This series is called: Defining Home. I hope you've enjoyed the first book! Please comment! I love constructive criticism to help me improve my future writings! This chapter is really just a lead in for the next story. I will try to post the first chapter of Home Is Where Your Heart Is tomorrow. Enjoy!

March 2nd

"Sam!" Gabriel shouts. He sees his beloved lying in the fire. Gabriel immediately quenches the fire. He teleports to Sam without even realizing that he did. Sam's breathing is slow and shallow. it catches from time to time. Gabriel can see the extent of the burns. He knows it may kill him to try and heal this much damage, but he has to try! He places two fingers on Sam's chest right over his heart. Gabriel draws in a deep breath and prepares to heal Sam. A hand stops him.

Sam places his burnt hand on top of Gabriel's.

"Gabe, I'm too hurt," Sam begins.

"Don't say that! I'll heal you!" Gabe pleads.

"You know as well as I do that it will kill you!"

"It will kill me to loose you, Sam!"

"You survived for millennia without me. You can do it again. You have to let me go, Gabe."

Gabe holds Sam and cradle his head. Large tears spill out of Gabriel's eyes. He makes sure that none of them fall onto Sam's skin. Sam takes a great shuddering breath and the he stops breathing altogether. Gabriel screams in Enochian. All the glass within 600 feet of him shatters as his heart does the same. He holds Sam close to his chest. Sam still has a soul. Gabriel knows this. He leans down and plants a kiss on the blackened skin.

"I will find your soul and I WILL bring you back," Gabriel whispers against Sam's chest.