The admission hits him like a shock of cold water and for a moment Gabriel can't breathe. He'd nearly lost Sam. One quick turn of the car and he could have been gone. Everything they had.. poof. Just like that.

Reaching down, Gabriel firmly cupped his face, drawing Sam's eyes up to his. "But you didn't. You came home Sammy." Not to the house they were sharing or the dogs or any of that but to a home. Something he hadn't had his entire life. "You came home." To him, to their life together.

"That's what matters, okay? You came home to us. You came close but you didn't. You're home and you're safe."