"Come on, everybody! Let's go!" Dean opened the front door to the hotel, gesturing for all the guests to leave fast. "Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go." Then he rushed to the front of the parking lot, throwing his hand out. "Go! Go! Go! Get out of here!"

Before he turned around, Baby's lights flickered on, snapping his attention to his car. "Psst! Dean!" The Winchester's eyes widened at the sight of the archangel, presumed to be dead a few minutes ago. "Don't- Don't look at me! Act natural!" Dean's eyes flickered back and forth between his car and the pavement. "Get in!"

Dean slowly walked towards his car then slid into the front seat, turning his body to face the archangel. "Man, there is nothing natural about this at all. I thought you were dead!"

"You think I'd give Kali my real sword?" Gabriel asked, finding the accusation stupid. "That can kill me. Plus, your sister wouldn't be alive if I wasn't."

"Then what do you have in there? And what do you mean she'd be dead too?!" Dean demanded, growing angry at the mention of his little sister dying.

Gabriel's upper lip twitched. "A fake. Made it out of a can of diet orange slice." The playful tone slowly fell. "Our souls are connected, Dean- she also has some of my grace, but that's beside the point."

The archangel looked to the floor with a sigh. "(Y/n) can't die on her own, you could stab and shoot her- she'll still be kicking. Only if I die, she will." On that note. "So... all that aside, go snag our blood, would ya?"

"What?"

"I heard you in there," Gabriel said quickly. "Kali likes you. You can get close. Lift the plasma, then we vamoose!"

Dean was quick to respond, as he had already made up his mind. "No. Hand over the real blade. Better yet, why don't you sack up and help us take down Lucifer?"

The archangel's mouth parted. "You can't be serious."

"Deadly."

"Since when are you butt-buddies with a bunch of monsters?" Gabriel asked, not catching on. "That's all they are to you, aren't they?"

Dean closed his eyes, slowly losing his patience. "All right, you know what? Sam was right. It's nuts. But it's the best idea I've heard. So, unless you have a better one..."

"Well," Gabriel drummed his fingers against the front seat and smiled. "Good luck with that. Me, I'm taking (Y/n) and blowing Jonestown. Those lemmings want to run off a cliff, that's their business."

Dean scoffed. "I see right through you, you know that? The smart-ass shell, the whole 'I could give a crap' thing. Believe me, it takes one to know one."

"That so?"

"Yes." His patience was gone. "And maybe those freaks in there aren't your blood, but they are your family."

Gabriel looked at the hotel. "They just stabbed me in the friggin' heart!"

The Winchester glanced at the hotel too, then to the archangel. "Maybe, but you still give a crap about them, don't you?"

"Dean--"

"Now, they're gonna die in there without you. And your soulmate is actually on board with this plan-- so you'd be leaving her behind. Again. Do you want to face her after this? Face her like you did all those times before after not being around long enough?"

Gabriel thought about it. The hurt that his soulmate felt. The guilt that panged at his chest for leaving her behind... then his brother. "I... I can't kill my brother, Dean."

"'Can't' or 'won't'?" He searched the archangel's face for the answer, which was too easy. "That's what I thought."

-

"So, you two are going to summon Lucifer?" Kali looked at the two, her eyes stopping a bit longer on (Y/n). She didn't necessarily believe the entire ordeal, and there was something about the youngest Winchester being around that pissed her off.

Sam looked between Baldur and Kali. "Uh... sort of. I just need you to squeeze some stuff from my ribs, and he'll come running."

"Breaking them would be easier," Kali replied, earning a scoff from the twins. Of course, she would say that.

The doors to the ballroom suddenly opened, snapping everyone's attention to a worn-out Dean. "Show's over. Sword's a fake. And Gabriel-- he's still kicking." His green eyes snapped to (Y/n), who looked away from him. "I hate to break it to you, but you've been tricked."

While Kali and Baldur spoke to Sam and Dean about the ordeal, a familiar voice sang for (Y/n) in the back of her head. 'I'm going to do something, but you need to go along with what I'm doing. No matter what it does to anyone, this is for the greater good.'