The borderline condescension was exasperating and amusing at once, but if only because the Doctor did the 'old man' shtick so well, Gabriel wasn't going to argue. Well, that and because he already felt too tired for it. And he didn't actually care that much at this point. Maybe later.

At that comment his lips twisted a bit with ironic humour. "There were extenuating circumstances. I'd just been killed by my own damned brother. First archangel to die, for the record, so it's entirely possible I got shoved through into another universe without the people here needing to do much at all except snatch me up in their fishing net."