"Dude, you didn't die. You exploded. Hell, you've exploded twice. I saw your head go pop with just a snap of Lucifer's fingers." Dean looked at the angel, surprised he didn't know. Yet, there was something about the way he moved and talked. Gabriel was good, but was he this good? Sam had told him about Gabriel pretending to be Bobby, how it was different. This...
"I didn't see whatever Raphael did to you. I just saw bits of you in Chuck's place, even in Chuck's hair." He shuddered. "You were gone. Chuck was blinded by the light." A slight wince as he recognized a song lyric. "And you went pop, again. Well, that was the first time you went pop."
Dean stepped back and started walking. "There is no way you can't remember this. You're an angel. People don't fuck with angels."