No child of ours should have to die for us[gabe and Raph(?)]

Gabriel was quiet. Sam knew he was there though. By the sound of footfall lightly crunching in the snow and the soft breaths behind him, he knew. Gabriel was a sound he would not forget for the rest of his days. He had been Sam's world once. Then he met Hadraniel and Lailah. Then after they were taken from him, it had been him and his children only. One night stands had been enough to keep him from the solid company he longed for. But then they too Had stopped and his children dispersed. Before he knew it he had found Gabe again. Gabe who did not shun him or push him out into the cold, the one who made him want for unnatural things. Yet he did not take like he knew he could. Gabe had to decide it on his own that that was what he wanted.

Gabriel's voice broke through like a horn sounding his heaven. He wanted so bad to shatter his brother's vision of himself, that he should see what Sam saw. "You do not know what I see gabby. I see a man who tries his damndest to do everything that's expected of him and more. A man who is not afraid to ask for forgiveness, where none should have to be asked for. A man that does not see in the ways others do but with his heart, a heart so pure it would never be mine for I am evil incarnate and cannot take back my deeds. But if I am wrong brother then forgive me for I do not want to be right." he moved gently, lifting himself to be in front of his brother. He wanted to pull Gabe into his fluffier winter coat, to hold him in ways a brother never should. Instead he settled for pressing his tongue gently into his brother's scarring wounds. To cleanse it as best he could. It was his apology for not being there to protect him from an enemy Gabriel could not fight.