"That would have required our family mess not getting everywhere," Gabriel points out drily, even as he shifts to wrap an arm around her. "Along with the boys--mostly Dean--not sussing out what I actually was. I got the drop on Castiel way too easily to not be an angel in their thinking. Half-throttling Dean after comments he made about Michael and Lucifer didn't help with the 'nope, totally not an angel' thing I had going either."

Oh well. At least it meant the Apocalypse got averted before there could be any more casualties, both human and angel.