Disclaimer: Dominion and its characters do not belong to me. I'm just a sucker for gut wrenching brotherly love who plays around with them that's all. So don't sue or anything.

Gabriel whimpered in his sleep. This was the third day in a row that he had had the feeling he was having now, though it was the first time it had been like a dream. He shot up out of bed as the familiarity of the feeling that always lurked at its edges suddenly made itself clearer. Michael. His twin was in trouble. Whatever Michael had gotten himself into, it was bad. He could feel it. He silently cursed himself that it took this long for him to realize it. The bond he had with his twin was something of a wonder. Michael had tried to detach himself when the extermination war began but Gabriel had held on fast. There used to be a time when you could know what Gabriel was thinking by asking Michael but now it was more of a one way thing. Gabriel knew when something happened to Michael or what he was feeling and to some extent even his pain, which was evident when Furiad stabbed him. He hadn't felt his twin in over a week but had brushed it to the side as Michael mastering how to block himself from him. Now he wasn't so sure. He picked up his swords and leapt into the air, his wings unfurling impatiently as he flew towards answers.

His destination: Vega

"Try again, Nomes"

"I've been calling him for two days straight Alex. He hasn't come . Something's wrong. It's not like Michael to behave this way" Noma said, though she flapped her wings again.

"Maybe I shouldn't have argued with him. He's probably still angry with me"

"It's not you Alex"

"Then how do you explain why Michael's gone AWOL so suddenly after ..."

The alarms blaring cut him off as a lot of activity could be seen at the gates.

"What's going on? Noma can you..."

"Hold on. It's ... Gabriel" Noma said, looking at Alex confusedly

"Gabriel? What's he doing in Vega?" Alex asked also confused

"I don't know. But his appearance and Michael's disappearance cannot be a coincidence. Come on" she started running, knowing Alex would follow.

Gabriel would have been amused by his armed escort if he were not so worried for his twin. He could feel Michael more keenly now. He was definitely in Vega and he was not in good shape. From the corner of his eyes he saw Noma and Alex running towards them and smirked. Well at least he tried to but he suddenly fell to his knees and gasped in pain.

"Where is my brother? What have you people done to him?" he gasped out at the soldiers. They had been marching at a steady pace and Gabriel's sudden drop disoriented them in a way as they stared confusedly at each other. The archangel though became angry rather quickly at the lack of response and, before Noma and Alex could do anything, his wings ripped through the metal brace thingy that had been placed on him, flinging half a dozen men into a wall. The remaining few opened fire and he wrapped his wings around himself. When the last bullet bounced off the obsidian feathers, he broke the cuffs around his wrist and flung it at the remaining two standing, knocking them out. Then he turned to Noma and Alex, the latter of which was just stepping out from behind Noma's wings. Gabriel stomped over to Alex, swatting Noma aside when she tried to fight him. He grabbed Alex in a choke hold and lifted him off the ground. "Where is Michael?"

"I d-don't know" Alex choked out, fruitlessly try to pry Gabriel's hand off his throat

"I don't believe you" Gabriel said, hands tightening around the boy's throat

"He's telling the truth. We haven't seen him in days" Noma said hurriedly as Alex's lips had started to turn blue . "Please, Gabriel. I've been calling him with my wings for days now, and he hasn't shown up"

Gabriel contemplated what Noma said for a few seconds, then he threw Alex to the ground. "Stay out of my way" he growled before stomping off

"You don't even know where you are going" Alex wheezed after him

"If anyone's going to find Michael, its Gabriel" Noma said as she helped him off the floor

"Why's that? I thought you were all brothers and sisters"

"We are. But Michael and Gabriel, they're more. They're archangels" she said to Alex. "And twins"

Alex eyes widened. "Twins?"

Noma nodded. "They share a very strong bond. I know no other bond as strong as theirs. And for Gabriel to come into enemy territory to look for Michael while they are on opposite sides of the war something terrible must have happened to him. And did you see the way he went down so suddenly? I think he felt him. His pain. I fear Michael is been tortured" she said. "Reinforcements would be here soon. We need to lead them away. To give Gabriel time to find Michael"

"Man, I never thought there'll come a day when I'll help Gabriel" Alex grumbled

"It's been an odd day. Come on"

Gabriel walked steadily into what he could only describe as a basement of sorts. The brisk walking lady in the white lab coat who passed him in the hallway though told him otherwise. So this was a secret lab. There were very few people down here-about three doctors and a couple of guards, who were not yet aware of his presence. He was about to look around when something caught his eye. The reason why there were so few scientists and guards, there was only one specimen.

There- in a cage that looked too small to contain him, bloody with gashes all over his body and barely breathing-was the reason Gabriel was there. Archangel Michael, heaven's mightiest warrior, Gabriel's twin brother.

"Oh dear Father"

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