Authors Note: After last night I decided we needed some fluff.

Chapter 17

Prayers were a frequent part of Gabriel's life, while he didn't answer most of them they were always in the back of his head chatting away. Some were more persistent than others, their words clearly ringing out to him, others got lost in the steady stream. It was always more powerful when the prayer was directed to Gabriel by someone who believed in him. People prayed to the Archangel Gabriel all the time, but very few believed he existed. Fewer knew he existed.

As Sam's prayer rang through his mind, Gabriel woke up from the healing sleep he had placed himself in. It wasn't something urgent, Sam wasn't in any danger but the fact that Sam was praying to him at all caused Gabriel to snap himself clean using his pagan magic and fly to Sam's location. It was another one of the thousand dingy motel rooms the boys seemed to like frequenting, the wall paper was coming off and Gabriel scrunched up his nose at the stains around the room.

He had to give Sam a credit card or something he could use, because the hunter deserved better than the places he was staying. The second Sam realized he wasn't alone in the room he stood from his knelt position beside his bed and practically lunged at Gabriel. Surprised, Gabriel couldn't react as Sam dragged him into a kiss. With a hand tangled in Gabriel's hair and another holding around his waist, Sam wasn't letting go any time soon, not that Gabriel wanted him to. Closing his eyes after a moment, Gabriel pressed back into the kiss just as desperately.

Sam broke the kiss after a few moments to suck in a lungful of air though he kept his hold on Gabriel. Looking up at the man, Gabriel kept his arms around Sam's neck. "Not that I'm complaining but what was that about?" Sam leaned down and slotted their mouths together again, his hand tangled in Gabriel's hair and urging the angel to meet him. Gabriel followed as Sam backed up slowly, the change of angle when Sam sat on the bed causing Gabriel to break the kiss.

"I thought you were never going to answer, that you'd given up." Sam moved to Gabriel's neck and begun to place soft kisses from his cheek to his ear and down. Gabriel titled his head to the side to give Sam more access before responding. "Had an errand to run… figured I would use all the commotion up here to pull an escape for your dad downstairs… turned out better then I thought it would… but… Hell takes a lot out of a guy… even an archangel…" Gabriel tried to go for causal however his speech was broken by the occasional moan as Sam started to lick and nibble on his neck.

"We can talk about that later… I missed you while you were gone Gabriel, I missed you so much when you weren't answering my prayers. I never want to think you gave up on us again. You're my soulmate… that mean's you won't leave me, right?" asked Sam, pulling back to look at Gabriel. Placing his hand on Sam's cheek, Gabriel pressed his lips against Sam's for a moment. "Never Sam, I'll never leave you. But you don't need to rush this… there's no going back for me, not ever. I'll be there when you call as soon as I can… I just needed a few days to recover, I wasn't ignoring you I promise."

Sam brought his hand to brush a bit of Gabriel's hair out of his face. "I love you Gabriel, all I could think about while you were gone was how I feel about you, what I would do if you didn't come back to me. I love you." Gabriel could feel the backs of his eyes start to burn with tears while he pulled Sam to him again. Gabriel could feel Sam smile against the kiss, the way Sam was pulling him closer still. They had a lot to talk about, a lot of questions he needed to answer, and Gabriel had a few questions of his own.

They would get through it though, while it didn't start out as it should have they were soulmates, and more importantly they were in love. Gabriel would explain how once they joined physically it would tie them together for eternity later. Right now, Gabriel wanted to bask in the feeling of having his mate in his arms.

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