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"Gabriel…time to wake up son…I need you…"
The darkness was comforting and he didn't want to listen but it was the voice of his father and he had to obey. So Gabriel, Archangel and Messenger of God, opened his eyes and immediately squinted against the brilliant white light in front of him.
"Can you calm down a bit Dad? I need my eyes." he said in that sarcastic voice that made him both the most loved and hated angel of all time. The intense light dimmed enough for Gabe to open his eyes and he sighed at the sight of his wayward father.
"After all this time? Why now?" Gabriel asked with a slump. He had searched for his father, had scoured heaven and hell looking for the wandering deity but he died never finding him. Never finding his answer.
"Because its time. Its time for you to do what you were born to do." the voice of God said to his son. He placed a hand on Gabe's shoulder and suddenly they were standing in a paved parking lot outside of a large warehouse.
"Do you hear it?" God asked Gabriel as the silence weighed down on them.
"What?" Gabriel asked. He was surly, his anger at his absent father plus the fact that he had been peacefully dead only moments before making him moody.
"SAM WINCHESTER IS DEAD!" was broadcast across Angel Radio so loudly that Gabriel flinched.
"Sammy?" Gabriel's astonishment was evident, his history with the Winchesters being mixed at best.
"DEAN WINCHESTER IS DEAD!" was broadcast next. Gabriel's breath hitched in his chest as he continued to listen.
"CASTIEL, THE ANGEL OF THURSDAY, HAS FALLEN!" was the final broadcast. Gabriel clutched at his head while the tears sprang to his eyes.
"Castiel!" he gasped in surprise looking to his father. God was saddened but his face was immobile and blank.
"I gave him the choice, and he chose to die with Dean rather then live without him." his father explained.
"Why would you give him the choice?! Make him live, make him go on!" Gabriel demanded of his father. Why Castiel? After everything the angel had done why would he choose to give up because of a human?
"You have a job to do Gabriel, but I want you to choose to do it." God said taking his son's shoulder again. Suddenly they were in a hospital, the nurses's lounge if Gabriel had to guess. There was only one nurse in here, a small black haired girl who puttered around making a lunch for herself. She was humming to herself with a small smile on her face. Gabriel and God watched her without revealing themselves.
"Who is she?" Gabriel eyed the woman up. She was very pretty but then again so were many humans.
"She is an extraordinary woman my son. She some how managed to gain the love of both Winchesters and your brother Castiel. She mated with all three and now carries the child of two." God explained and Gabriel gaped at him.
"What? How?" Gabriel stumbled over his words.
"They discovered the best way to love was together. No one needs to know the reasons why or the mechanics of it Gabriel." God said just a little tartly "But now this woman will have a child that is two thirds Winchester. I need you to choose if it will also be a part Castiel."
"I really don't understand Dad, what exactly are you getting on about? How can a baby have more then one father? And how exactly can we suddenly make it Cas's?" Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose. Suddenly being dead was something he missed.
"Humans have the ability to have more then one sequence of DNA in their bodies Gabriel, some times it happens when a woman mates with more then one male at a time. Its very rare but its possible. I am quite proud of how humans have developed of their own I have to admit." God actually sounded smug. "As for Castiel? When he died I took his grace. I can implant it into the fetus and he will be 1/3 angel."
"1/3? I think you're forgetting his mother Dad, she has a part in this too doesn't she?" Gabriel said.
"She is of no importance besides carrying the child."
"No importance? She just lost all three of the men she loves and now she's going to be carrying their child, but she's of no importance?" Gabriel demanded of his father. This, this was why his father was the worst parent on the planet.
"This is not why I brought you here Gabriel. You must choose if this will be the child I've been waiting for." God said sternly.
"I don't understand any of this. Why must I choose? What makes me a part of this?" Gabe sighed.
"If you choose to make this child Castiel's then you also must choose to protect him, raise him, teach him about his angelic side. You will be his father in this world."
"What?! You bring me back from the dead so that I can raise someone else's kid? What about her? Why can't she do it?" he waved at the woman who was sitting and eating her lunch with no idea of the deity and angel arguing in front of her.
"You must be the one to do it Gabriel, you are my last trusted son. If you choose not to do it then I will let Castiel's grace go and she will loose the child." his father explained.
"What makes this kid so important? Whats he going to do?" Gabe struggled to understand any of this. His father wasn't exactly the most forth coming of people, he should know.
"He will abolish heaven and hell. This child will end the interference of angels and demons on humanity."
"Holy shit." Gabe whispered as those words sunk in. Everyone had thought the Winchesters were the ones who were supposed to close heaven and hell. Could they have been one generation too early?
"This is not a decision to make lightly Gabriel. You will also be affected when heaven shuts its gates. Are you willing to sacrifice your life to raise this child only to be locked away when he fulfills his destiny?"
When it was put that way Gabriel's first instinct was to say hell no and go back to being dead. Why in the hell would he raise someone else kid only to be slammed in prison when said kid grew up? And what about the woman? What if she didn't want him near her or the kid? He watched her eat her lunch obliviously happy, probably thinking about the three men she would be returning home to when her shift was over. What was so special about her that all three of the most psychologially scarred men in history had abandoned normalacy and shacked up with her?
"Gabriel? I need your decision." his father prodded him along.
"Castiel was aware of what he was leaving?" Gabe turned to his father. God nodded and Gabriel felt his shoulders slump and the fight go out of him. If his littlest brother had chosen to go with Dean and leave all this behind then he would honour his wishes and help his son.
"I wish I had stayed dead." Gabriel sighed but gave his father a nod.