Request #17 (From Holister262 [DA]): Can I have a SamxGabriel? Sad Gabe in need of a big, deep cry and hug, but he doesn’t know he needs it. But Sam does, so he finds him and forces a hug/cry session.
Requested: 15.03.08
Originally Started: 15.03.08
Rewrite Started: 24.02.09
Finished: 24.08.06
Words: 533
Sabriel (Implied), Dark-ish, Request #17
Gabriel watched as the coffee cup slipped out of his hands, almost as if in slow motion. The cup shattered once it touched the ground, shards of glass and boiling hot liquid exploding out across the floor. He could do nothing but watch – almost as if frozen to the spot – as the liquid quickly soaked into his socks.
He let out a defeated sigh before scanning the room for the broom. It was nowhere in sight.
Of course.
He felt tears prick at the edges of his eyes as he bent down to start picking up the broken pieces. He didn’t know what his problem was, but he’d been doing dumb stuff like this for the last couple weeks. Locking his keys in his car, burning dinner because he forgot it was in the oven, accidentally wearing his pants inside out, dropping spoons… if he didn’t know any better, he’d think he had been cursed.
Unfortunately, he did know better – he wasn’t cursed in the traditional sense – he’d been bitten by the love bug, and now seemed he was paying the price.
Being human was hard.
How Sam and Dean managed to not only not kill themselves daily, but also actually manage to fight evil and save people? Seemed like an impossible task for the newly initiated to the Human Club.
Most days Gabriel forgot to breathe.
There’s just too many things to remember about being human. Food, defecating, being too hot, being too cold, sleep… it never ends!
“Hey, Ga-”
The sound of Sam’s cut off greeting made the newly ex-angel look up, not bothering to hide the tears that were tracing their way down his face.
Sam blinked slowly for a moment and took a cautious step forward, concern etching itself across his face, “What happened?”
Gabriel let out a loud sniff and held up the bits of broken glass he had gathered, “I dropped another one!”
The giant nodded his head slowly before leaving the room. He reappeared in the doorway holding the broom and a couple towels. He wasted no time inching his way toward his lover, using the towels as stepping stones so he wouldn’t burn his feet. Gabriel watched in absentminded awe, I never would’ve thought of that.
Sam had reached him in the next minute and gently took the broken glass out of his hands, “Here.” He placed them down onto the counter before stretching over, ripping a few paper towels off and offering them to him. At the confused look he was given, Sam nodded to his hands, “You’re bleeding.”
Gabriel looked down, surprised to see red liquid running down his palms, “Oh.” He pressed the paper towels into the wounds, hissing at the contact, “Ow!” Gabriel felt fresh tears prick his eyes and he shook his head, “Why does everything about being human hurt?”
Sam frowned at that before closing the distance, wrapping his lover up in a giant bear hug. He squished his face into his hair, feeling Gabriel’s body collapse into him and tears start to soak into his shirt. Sam pressed a kiss to the top of his head and squeezed him harder, “It just takes time.”
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