It wasn't until the beginning of Sam's fourth month of pregnancy that the nightmares stopped. Gabriel had spent the last two months thrashing around violently in his sleep, having nightmare after nightmare about the well being of his and Sam's child. Those stupid Nephilim had really shaken him up and Sam hated them for it, wishing they hadn't planted it in his archangels head that something from his past was going to haunt their baby. Everyone was very much relived when the nightmares seemed to stop and Gabriel chilled out a bit, having been high-strung ever since the night they'd rescued Raini.
One blistering July morning, Gabriel awoke to the sound of his lover whining and he could feel him kick the covers off. Gabriel rolled over to look at his hunter, lovingly admiring the baby bump that had formed there. It was a bit larger than Castiel's had been at four months…as a matter of fact he looked about six months, but they figured that it was just because the baby was taking after Sam and was very broad and long. Gabriel loved that idea, he wanted their child to be like Sam in every way imaginable.
"You okay, Samsquatch?" Sam pouted and tugged his shirt off, throwing it in a corner of the room.
"I'm really hot, Gabriel." Gabriel licked his lips and trailed one of his fingers down Sam's chest and over his unusually large baby bump.
"I couldn't agree more." Sam rolled his eyes but smiled, taking Gabriel's hand and pressing it against his belly.
"I don't think it's really a kick, not yet…but do you feel his little feet fluttering?" Gabriel nodded and grinned, kissing the bump tenderly.
"Daddy loves you, Elijah." Sam glared at his angel.
"Gabe c'mon…you know I want him to have an angelic name. Let's name him Ezriel." Gabriel shook his head.
"And you know that I want him to have a nice human name…I grew up around those boring Enochian names." Sam raised his eyebrows.
"You think names like Ezriel are boring? Do you even know how many Elijah's I've met? There is even one on that show everyone watches now…what's it called? The Vampire Diaries?" Gabriel puffed his bottom lip out in a pout that hardly rivaled Sam's but was still heart-wrenching to the younger Winchester.
"Okay, okay, we'll see. We have plenty of time to think about it." Sam said as he gently kissed Gabriel's hand. Gabriel smirked and brushed Sam's sweaty hair out of his face. He snapped his fingers and the room was immediately cooler.
"Being pregnant in July sucks, Gabey." Gabriel gently captured his husbands lips and his topaz eyes turned that molten gold color they always did when he was feeling romantic or simply marveling at how Sam had somehow fallen in love with him.
"Well, I could always change the month with the snap of my fingers. What month would you like to be pregnant in?" Sam chuckled.
"You can't change the month, Gabriel. So many people would be confused." Gabriel shrugged.
"You're the only person I care about. Well, I mean besides Baby E and our brothers, but they'd get it." Sam sighed and rubbed his swollen belly gently, about to protest when he felt something strange.
"Oh my God…Gabriel, feel!" He stuck both Gabriel's hands on each side of his belly, the fluttering sensation was everywhere.
"Baby those can't be his feet can they? I mean…it's everywhere." Gabriel said in astonishment. Sam just shrugged and laughed.
"Well if he's bigger than normal and he's excited, maybe it is. Feels like he's running a little marathon in there all across the bottom of my stomach." Gabriel's eyes welled up and he kissed the bump again, caressing it as he did so.
"You're having fun in their aren't you?" He planted kisses all along his husbands stomach and then reached up to capture his lips once more before there was a knock on the door. Dean poked his head in and Sam gestured for him to come on in. He was holding a now three month old Raini, who was just now the size of a healthy eight pound new born.
"Um, someone is at the door and Castiel doesn't recognize them and won't let them in…he's still kinda paranoid about the whole Michael ordeal, they're asking for you." Gabriel's eyes narrowed.
"Which one of us?" Dean shot Gabriel a cautious look.
"You." Gabriel kissed Sam's forehead and whispered that he'd be right back, walking apprehensively down the hallway and through the kitchen to the living room where he peeped through the window. There was a blond woman with a shrewd cold expression on her face and it made Gabriel shiver. He cracked the door open and called out "Who are you and what do you want?" The woman grinned sadistically and kicked the door the rest of the way open.
"They call me Meg." Dean's eyes widened and he ran towards his and Castiel's room.
"Oh shit, Meg has a new vessel! Castiel, baby, stay in our room and take Raini." Gabriel could hear the older Winchester brother yell frantically, though his eyes never left the black eyes before him.
"I've heard stories about you, what the hell do you want?" She cackled.
"Judging from your tone I suppose they haven't been good stories? What a shame, and here I thought Sam and I had something special." Gabriel instinctively hissed and growled at her, something that had never quite happened at that caliber but he knew was due to their grace bond.
"Oh isn't this cute? You're so protective of your little mistakes." Meg tried to push passed Gabriel and head to the bedroom but he gripped her throat and flung her against the living room wall, anger and protective need over his husband and child seeming to take over his entire body and making him stronger. The wall cracked a little where she hit and she looked rather surprised.
"Stay away from him. I'm going to ask you one more time, what do you want?" Meg sneered.
"Do you remember once upon a time…back when you and I were in the same business? I believe you understand why I'm here. I have a job to finish what you oh so rudely backed out on." Gabriel didn't want to acknowledge the memories her words were bringing to the surface, and he gritted his teeth.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Meg tried to push passed him and whispered "I hope you've enjoyed playing house, Gabriel, but I doubt the baby will survive what I'm going to do to your little playmate." Dean ran back into the living room from making sure Castiel and Raini were one hundred percent safe when he saw Gabriel's wings explode from his back and push out what seemed to be a thin golden mist towards the back of the house. Meg snorted.
"You seriously believe that your little grace pheromones are going to do any…" She trailed off as she saw Sam approach.
"Gabriel, what's going on? I smell your scent and it smells distressed." It was a strange sentence to say allowed, but ever since their graces touched they'd been able to feel each others emotions through the unique highly intimate scent that their wings gave off that only their mates could smell. Gabriel turned his head, watching as Sam, who had his shirt back on, was gently rubbing his belly with one hand and cupping it with the other.
"Sammy, I want you to get Dean to let you in his bedroom with Castiel and Raini, and Dean, I want you to lock them all in there, do you understand me?" As much as Dean hated taking orders, he was rather freaked and nodded his head, gesturing for Sam to follow him. Sam walked over to Dean as he was told but shot highly worried eyes at his lover.
"It's okay baby, I've got this. I'll explain later, I just need you and Baby E to be safe right now." Sam nodded and turned to go with Dean as Meg lunged toward them. Gabriel punched her hard, her vessels nose breaking and going crooked as she fell to the floor and another hiss and growl combo erupted from him. Sam's mouth dropped in awe, never quite seeing Gabriel be that protective of him, and it was a little sexy. Dean took Sam's arm and led him away, leaving the demon alone with the seething archangel.
"Touch them, any of them, and so help me I will rip your insides out." All traces of the usually playful, sarcastic trickster were long gone and Gabriel was in full blown Archangel of the Lord mode. Meg got up and came at Gabriel with every intension of killing him, until there was a sudden gentle flutter of wings and demon killing blade was thrust threw her back and into her heart. Her body lit up red and she fell to the floor, Gabriel looking up in awe at the random woman who had just poofed into his house. She had light medium length brown hair with hints of blond, and wide innocent hazel eyes.
"Amira…" She smiled very softly and pulled him into a hug.
"It's good to see you, Gabriel." Gabriel shook his head to clear his thoughts, so much was going on and adding in a stranger was making his head spin.
"It's great to see you too, Amirie, but why are you here and how did you find us? Sam and Dean have Enochian carvings on their ribs, they should be untraceable by any angel." Amira smiled again and pulled back.
"You need to brand them onto the small Nephilim child's ribs too, she is quite easy to locate. As for my reason for being here, I think I shouldn't tell you until your mate is present. He'll want to hear it." This slightly put Gabriel on edge but he shrugged and figured he could trust his old friend, especially since she'd saved him from Meg.
"Sammy, baby, it's okay to come out now." Sam, Dean, and Castiel emerged and Amira grinned at Castiel.
"Made quite an uproar in Heaven, your little one did. She's very pretty." Castiel rocked his sleepy baby and smiled politely.
"Thank you." Amira straightened out her colorful green dress and grinned brightly at both Gabriel and Sam.
"Well, I have come to you with news. My name is Amira, Sam, I don't believe we've met." She said happily, extending her hand. Sam looked confusedly at Gabriel, who nodded in reassurance. Sam took her hand and smiled.
"It's a pleasure, you're a friend of my husbands?" Amira nodded.
"Oh yes, I'm one of the few angels he isn't related to. Some angels had to be born apart from the rest for mating purposes and I was one of them. However, Gabriel is very much like a brother to me since I spent a lot of time with him, Michael, and Lucifer when I was a fledgling." Sam let go of her hand, but smiled broadly at her, enjoying getting to meet more of his extended family.
"Now that you've met the hubby, you mind explaining what's going on, Amirie, darling?" Gabriel asked, getting a quick nod in response.
"Oh yes, the news of why I'm here and some other glorious news!" She gushed excitedly, looking from both Sam to Gabriel and then back again. Whilst Sam, Dean, and Gabriel were waiting for said good news with baited breath, Castiel was shooting the angel a highly sympathetic look. When they were all still in Heaven, Gabriel had loved to tell his gossip to Castiel, whom was often the only one that would listen. When he'd told him who the two of them were intended to mate with, snickering that they were males, he'd also told him who Amira was to be with, and the knowledge was ripping him to pieces with guilt. Amira was one of the angels born a part from the rest, unbiologically related for mating purposes, and therefore her mate was an angel…but not just any angel. Amira was to mate with Michael, and from the looks of her, she had no idea that he was dead.