Sabriel

Sabriel is the slash ship between Sam Winchester and Gabriel from the Supernatural fandom.

Season 2
TALL TALES

Gabriel, disguised as a Janitor, lets Sam and Dean into the office of a professor. He sees Sam's emp and asks what it's for. Sam, disguised as an electrician, lies and says that it's to find the wire in the walls. Gabriel doesn't get why they're wiring up the office, since the proffessor threw himself out the window. Sam asks if he was working that night, and Gabriel says that he found him. Sam asks if he saw it happen, but Gabriel didn't but he did see him go up with a girl. Sam asks if he saw the girl come out, Gabriel says no and he hadn't seen that particular girl around. Sam asks if the building has only four floors, and Gabriel confirms. Sam asks if there would be a room 669, and Gabriel says no, asking why. Sam says that he's just curious and thanks him.

As Dean confronts Gabriel, Gabriel tells him that he shouldn't have come alone. Dean says that he didn't and Sam and Bobby walk through the back doors. Gabriel realizes that they fight Sam and Dean had earlier was a trick, and sends figments after the boys. Women for Dean and a chainsaw wielding serial killer for Sam. They get tossed around, Gabriel enjoying the show. Just as Gabriel gets up to kill Dean, Sam throws Dean the stake, and Dean drives it through Gabriel, "killing" him.

Season 3
MYSTERY SPOT

As Sam and Dean are exiting the dinner, Sam notices that one of the patrons switched from maple to strawberry syrup, which is different from the other 100 time loops. Just as he realizes the man is behind them, the day resets.

Sam watches the man eat, and when he exits the dinner goes out to follow him. Sam pins the man up against the fence outside, shocking the man and Dean. He holds a stake to the man and says that he knows who he is. The man denies it till Sam says that they've killed a trickster like him before. The man then reveals himself to be Gabriel, and that Sam and Dean hadn't actually killed him. Sam asks why he's doing this, but Gabriel says that they tried to kill him, so why wouldn't he. Sam angrily asks if this is fun for him, killing Dean repeatedly. Gabriel says yes, but it's not really about that, it's more about Sam watching Dean die repeatedly forever. He asks Sam when he'll realize that he can't save Dean, and Sam says that if he kills Gabriel, it stops. Gabriel then backs off saying it was a joke, and when Sam wakes up it'll be Wednesday. Sam accuses him of lying, but Gabriel says that if he is, Sam knows where he is. Sam says it'd be easier to kill him, but Gabriel doesn't want that and snaps his fingers, Sam waking up on Wednesday.

After Gabriel "permanently" kills Dean, Sam goes out to hunt the trickster. Six months later he gets a call from Bobby, saying that he found him. Sam meets him at the Mystery Spot, where he tells him about a summoning ritual that would kill a person. Sam's says he'll do it, and Bobby volunteers as the person. Sam goes through with it, believing that Bobby is Gabriel. Gabriel reveals himself, saying that he was right and just screwing with Sam. Sam asks Gabriel to bring back Dean, but Gabriel says that he's dead and isn't coming back. He asks to be taken back to the Wednesday, and that he and Dean won't come after him. Gabriel doesn't know if he should, even if he can. He tells Sam that there is a lesson in the whole thing, and Sam asks what it is. Gabriel says it's the obsession with saving Dean, the two constantly sacrificing themselves for each other, nothing good comes out of it. He calls Dean Sam's weakness, and everyone knows it. It's gonna be the death of him, and he's gotta let people go. Sam says that Dean is his brother, which Gabriel says that this is life without him. Sam pleads to bring Dean back, and Gabriel agrees since it stopped being fun months ago, and takes him back.

Season 5
In Hammer Of The Gods Gabriel finally reveals his archangel identity to the Winchester brothers. After creating a plan to kill the deities and escape the motel, Gabriel gets trapped by Kali who then stabs him with his own angel blade, much to Sam's horror. Later in the episode, while the brothers are trapped in a conference room with the other deities, including Lucifer, Gabriel appears and reveals that the weapon Kali stabbed him with was made out of an orange soda can. He then places the brothers and Kali behind him to get them to safety, giving Sam once last look before the trio leave the room.

Season 2
Tall Tales
 * Sam encourages Gabriel to tell he and Sam what he saw.
 * Gabriel messes with Sam's computer.
 * Sam and Dean realize that Gabriel is the trickster.
 * Sam follows Gabriel up the stairs.
 * Sam says he'll catch up to Dean and Gabriel.
 * Sam searches through Gabriel's locker.
 * Sam Dean argue about the trickster.
 * Sam tells Dean to keep and eye on Gabriel.
 * Gabriel watches Sam and Dean's argument.
 * Gabriel tells Dean that he knows that Sam and Dean are hunters.
 * Gabriel tells Dean that he likes him and Sam.
 * Sam watches as Dean kills Gabriel.

Season 3
Mystery Spot
 * Bobby tells Sam not to obsess over the trickster.
 * Gabriel calls Sam the dysfunctional one of the Winchesters.
 * Gabriel had someone send Sam flowers after Dean died.
 * Gabriel says that talking to Sam is like talking to a brick wall.

Season 5
Hammer of the Gods
 * When helping the Winchesters get to safety, Gabriel shares a last glance with Sam.

Season 10
Inside Man
 * When talking to the psychic, he mentions that inside Sam's mind is only the image of a hobbit-like man in a prison.

Season 13
The Thing
 * Sam cut the string that had kept Gabriel's mouth shut.
 * Sam confesses that he needs Gabriel.

Fanon
Sabriel originally started as Sam/Trickster. The reason people ship Sabriel is usually in comparison to Destiel, so both Winchesters have angels. Others ship them based on their opposing personalities.

The reason some people do not like Sabriel is that in Mystery Spot, Gabriel killed Dean a million times, but this gave Sabriel shippers an amazing line, "It appears Sam has hit Gabriel's mystery spot."

On AO3, Sabriel is the second most written ship for Sam and the most written ship for Gabriel. It is the third most written ship in the Supernatural fandom.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Sam/Gabriel on FanFiction.Net
 * Sam/Gabriel on FanFiction.Net

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WIKI
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 * Sam/Gabriel on Supernatural Wiki
 * Sam/Gabriel on Supernatural Wiki

Trivia

 * Gabriel is the angel of Monday, the day Sam was born, as well as the angel of dreams, the supernatural ability Sam possessed back in Season 2.
 * Both Richard Speight Jr. (Gabriel) and Jared Padalecki (Sam) are open supporters of the ship.