This'll Be Our Legacy
by Naomi Ricard
Prologue
This was it.
It was finally here. The adventure that they'd been planning since freshmen year; the adventure of a lifetime.
Well, okay, the planning was mostly on Crowley's part, but Gabriel was the one who'd titled it an adventure, so he certainly deserved some of the credit.
They'd finally got enough money together to buy what Gabriel had titled as "the perfect adventure transport", more commonly known to the public as a hippie van. The VW Transporter Type II had been listed on Craigslist for $1200, as it was being sold by a person Gabriel had termed as an "ex-hippie". Truthfully, the man had never been a hippie to begin with, but he'd bought the van due to it being all he could afford at the time. Despite the fact that Crowley had done his best to convince his friend of this, Gabriel insisted he knew exactly what had happened and pretty much refused to acknowledge the truth.
So Crowley had finally, albeit grumpily, given up on convincing Gabriel of anything after about two hours.
And that was part of the story that ended with the purchase of the van; the new story that was just beginning was starting to unfold in the driveway of the Novak family house.
Gabriel was lounging in a white, plastic lawn chair that he'd pulled out of the garage, watching his younger brother and sister bring suitcases and other things out of the house like he'd enlisted them to. They were his favorite siblings, as they could be coerced into doing all of his work if he tried hard enough.
After all, Castiel was always eager to please.
"How's it going, love?" A voice sounded from behind him, causing Gabriel to whip around with a grin.
"Great," he said, pulling the cherry Tootsie Pop out of his mouth. "Cassie and Anna have almost all the stuff in the driveway. I told them not to bother packing it 'cause they'd fuck it up."
"Lovely," Crowley replied with sarcasm, flicking his eyes over to the two working siblings. "You know, you probably want to get over this laziness of yours if you actually want to complete this trip like we've planned."
Gabriel sighed and turned back around in his chair. "It'll go fine, Crowles. Trust me."
Crowley looked at the blond with skepticism. "How many times have you said that? And what's the ratio of 'trust me' to the thing going bloody wrong?"
"It's like," Gabriel paused, thinking. "I'm pretty sure it's 50/50."
Castiel, who'd obviously been listening in on the two friends' conversation, paused and set his box down on the ground. "Crowley said the ratio, Gabriel," he said, his deep voice traveling over to the yard. "If it's 50:50, then your plans go wrong 100% of the time."
"Shit," Gabriel muttered.
"Sounds about right," Crowley added.
Gabriel gave him a look that was only about half-amused before turning back to look at his brother. "Is that the last box, Cassie?!"
Castiel sighed heavily and looked pitifully at Gabriel. "Yes," was all he said.
"Hells yeah!" Gabriel said excitedly, jumping up from his chair. "We're almost ready to go, cupcake! Isn't this awesome!" He raced across the yard to where the boxes were scattered and Castiel was standing.
"We're not quite there yet, darling," Crowley said, ever the practical of the two. However, the eighteen year old also made his way across the yard to join the other.
"You better be happy, Gabriel," a feminine voice said, sounding unpleasant. "Castiel was going to go hang out with the Winchesters, but we decided to help you instead."
"Calm down, Anna," Gabriel replied, giving Castiel a quick squeeze around the shoulders with his arm. That was always sort of difficult for Gabriel to accomplish, considering his little brother was quite a bit taller than him. "Besides, it only affected Cassie. What'd it do to you?"
The redhead stepped out of the garage, her braid over her bare shoulder in the summer heat. "I missed my movie marathon on FX," she confessed, straightening her white tank top.
Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Yeah, okay. Like that was important."
"It was," Anna insisted. "They had a complete showing of all the Lord of the Rings movies. Legolas. Come on." She knew she wasn't going to receive any sympathies from her one year older brother, but it never hurt to at least pretend as though she thought she would.
"The only thing I remember from those movies was the gay elf and the gay dwarf," Gabriel said, shrugging and making Anna roll her eyes in turn.
"No one was gay in that movie," Castiel said, looking down at Gabriel.
Crowley, meanwhile, was simply observing the siblings. He always found it entertaining when Gabriel would interact with his family. The only one he never really argued with was Castiel, and even then he was bound to say something that would offend the younger one. As an only child, Crowley found the whole thing rather amusing.
"You would know," Gabriel retorted, winking at Castiel.
Castiel looked off to the side. "You know, Gabriel, I really wish you would let that go."
"Not a chance." Gabriel clicked his tongue.
Anna promptly turned around and walked inside, her khaki shorts shuffling as she walked. Castiel followed his sister, ignoring Gabriel. He hated it when Gabriel teased him, he really did, but it wasn't like he was about to bring that up. He would just get teased about that, too.
"Well," Gabriel announced, clapping his hands together. "What do you say we start loading up?"
Crowley smiled, something he didn't do often. "That sounds like a brilliant idea."