Notes

chapter. five:
- cas and sam solve the mystery of castiel appearing in mary's garden
- mirana appears and. agrees to. go over the battle plan with sam. she also reveals that she does in fact have a backup plan for getting her soldiers to the battlefield

chapter six
- gabriel wakes up. dean is at his bedside
- he goes to visit the bandersnatch and finds sam there. sam directs him to castiel
- gabriel and castiel talk, cry, hug, whatever
- he's still exhausted, hungry, and. in pain, so he finds some food and is about to rest w hen mirana. finds him
- she and dean confrront. gabriel and refuse. to let h im open a portal for. theentire army. instead, mirana reveals. that. she's created a potion which will allow. anyone. who drinks it to access gabriel's portals. the final ingredient is a bit. of. his blood. he's reluctant to give it, because blood magic is powerful, but in the end he agrees
- there's a day of rest, and. gabriel s pends most of it napping in the sun. with dean by his side. the next morning, they leave
- the army. takes the potion and is. able to. create s hortcuts. gabriel still. makes a shortcut for himself. and the other main. characters.
- dean has the. armor and. the sword. and is supposed to. face off against the jabberwock while the army handles the. card soldiers and the jubjub bird.dean wantsgabriel to go with sam to protect him, but gabriel. points o ut that. samis. riding. the bandersnatch and will be close to mirana the whole time, so. gabriel. goes with. dean
- the jabberwock is enormous and deadly and. the fight is. rather. brutal. even with gabriel's. help. it looks like. dean's going to lose until he remembers the. mushrooms i n. his pockets, he eats the msushroon. and. becomes huge. and cuts off the beast's head
- withouyt the jabberwock. the card army quickly surrenders. nirana adds the. blood to the premade vials of potion. she's created and gives them to the mains. there. are rather teary goodbyes, dean, nervous, kisses gabriel and then drinks the potion before gabriel can respond. he and sam disappear. then gabriel and castiel drink it, and they too disappear


epilogue (dean pov)
- it's a few years later. dean has. just graduated university and is about to start working full time at his father's company, while sam is entering. university. one summer evening, the parents inform the boys that they're going to have john's business partner chuck shurley and his family over for dinner, including a son who's sam's age and his orphaned nephew who he's adopted and who's about dean's age. of course, this is castiel and gabriel. cas has a rabbit broach. gabriel carries a little tabby kitten named cheshire in his pocket. they're shocked. dean. makes up an excuse about showing them a round and then the four of them book it. to the garden. to talk. castiel and gabriel e xplain that even t hough decades had passed in underland, when they drank the potion they went right back to the moment they left, as if no time had passed at all.sam and dean said that the s ame happened to them, that they woke up in the. gardena nd would have been c onvinced it was just a dream if not for both of them remembering. the. same things. there's. idk more reconciliation and then. gabriel draws dean. away and kisses him properly and tells him t hat they both w ork for their father's company, so. now they'll both be. seeing much more of each. other. sam. and. castiel barge in, excited because they've figured out they're going to the same university, and they. laughingly offer to give dean and gabriel privacy etc etc.