For most of her life, Kala Gabriel decided there was nothing special about her. She wasn't particularly smart, but smart enough that she was praised by her teachers and family. She had all sorts of trouble when it came to technology so she avoided it, indulging in hand's-on crafts such as painting and cooking. Kala soon found out that she had a faculty for arts and crafts but she had no where near enough determination to make a business from her talents.

Kala had often been told that her looks were exotic - by her father who had more money than sense, and that her looks were unnatural, from her mother, who spent most of her time consumed by her opinionated views on everyone who wasn't her. Kala was mocked at school for her unusual appearance. Her hair was a brilliant inky black curtain that fell into a straight silky blanket over her shoulders. Her eyes were a pale blue, which in the right light looked silver. Kala was once told that she was actually quite pretty to look at – from far away. She never quite grew out of the sharpness of her face and had an elegant, willowy figure. Kala's pale eyes and angled face made her seem intimidating. Well, as intimidating as a 12 year old with pigtails could be.

When Kala turned sixteen she left her family to go to college and study art, much to her parent's displeasure. Kala soon met a young man and over time, the two gradually began to fall in love. However, Sam wasn't the kind of young man you'd expect the daughter of a blue-blooded family to date. His rugged looks and burly figure overpowered the slight, small frame of Kala. Following her first return trip from college, Kala shocked her parents when she came home with the young Samandriel Tobias in tow and announced her engagement to him. Mr and Mrs Gabriel were not at all pleased with their daughter, and Sam hadn't impressed them the slightest. They'd planned for her to marry a man they approved of, not a boy who had his head in the clouds.

Kala's parents disowned her and cut all ties with her after the wedding.

"Why an earth would one such as myself, want to be in the company of such an ungrateful little girl and her dog?" Her mother had said, "If you'd have listened to us you'd be so much happier."

Kala brushed off her mother's harsh words, presuming was for the best as she couldn't stand the thought of here children growing up to be snobs like her parents.

But life was not easy for the Tobias'. In fact, Sam had plenty of tricks-up-his-sleeve so to speak. And with a name such as Samandriel, you should have probably guessed that he isn't your average pretty-boy. Samandriel - or Sam as he was more commonly known - was an Angel. Sam had left Heaven many years ago once his brothers began to fight amongst each other for unknown reasons. He sensed that the others had lost their faith, and found many others were also planning to leave God's kingdom along with him. After Sam left, he soon found he had been stripped of most of his angelic powers. There was only one of God's gifts he, and all the other Earth Angles had been left with - Grace.

An Angels' Grace was the power to perform miracles and to bestow faith upon the unknowing humans. But the Angels had been left in turmoil after the betrayal of Lucifer, and had been at odds and ends for years fighting against him. Now that Sam was on Earth he had a better chance of fighting against him, but he never had a second thought about Kala.

Sam didn't even think it possible that a woman could deter him from his plans - But as soon as he gazed upon Kala for the first time as she walked through the doors of that class, he knew he was on Earth for another purpose - other than to clear up Lucifer's mess. He also knew that having a family with Kala was a big deal. At first, Kala had pushed him away and denied all advances he made towards her. Eventually he decided to take a different approach; he slowly opened up to her, and in time, so did she - gaining each others' trust. Eventually, he told her about his true Angelic identitiy. But shortly after asking her to marry him, he was hit with the realization of who he truly was and what he came to Earth to do and having children would dump his responsibility onto them. It was unfair, but it was too late to change that.

After the wedding, the newely wedded Tobias' were pretty much a poster family; a young husband and wife living in a beautiful countryside house, with a manicured lawn and freshly cut rose bushes. Kala could often be seen through the kitchen window at the front of the pearly white house, elbows deep in some kind of pale dough with her dark hair tied at the nape of her pale neck. She wiped her hands down on her pink polka-dot apron, and waved at the neighbours who walked past with their dogs or young children. Kala Tobias was never seen without her 100 Watt smile. Her pale eyes were always bright with the love for her family. Kala was unemployed; none of the jobs she looked at seemed satisfying or fitting enough for her. She decided she would be a stay-at-home mum, and all that was confirmed when her first son, Saul, was born.

Saul was a chubby, cheeky baby, often deliberately defying his mother in hopes of making her smile. He had his father's baby blue eyes and his mother's 100 Watt smile. He loved the attention from the young mothers whilst out on walks with his mother and soaked up praise like a sponge. Sam and Kala could tell Saul was like his father. Over time, he slowly begun to show signs of his fathers Grace, and it was almost as if the goodness radiated it off him.
The neighbours always had something to say about the Tobias'. They would talk about how stylish Mrs Tobias was, and how she always dressed her son in the smartest outfits.
When Saul was 13 months, Kala fell pregnant again. The little British town of Alderfield flew into a flurry of gossip on whether or not Saul would have a baby brother or sister.
On the 31st of October, Cassiel Tobias was born. At 11.04 pm that night, Kala, Sam and Saul were delivered a little ball of 3 pound 4 ounce trouble.

Cassiel, like her brother, had also acquired her father's Grace. Cassiel, or Cas as she became known when she became older, was found to be nothing like her charming brother. Every bone in her body screamed mischief. She threw her food across the room and took Saul's toys as her own, and broke them before giving them back to him. Saul and Cas would fight as much as any other siblings, but Saul always felt responsible for his troublesome sister. Everyone would comment on how much of a spit-fire young Cas was before saying that she was just like her mother. The two shared the same pale, unearthly eyes and silky black hair so dark and silky smooth it resembled tar.

Sam, being an Angel, was an expert on magical creatures. He would tell his children stories about (Uncle, as Sam insisted) Lucifer and why he never visited, or about the time Kala had accidentally invited a 'shapeshifter' to dinner. But his children were Nephilim; the offspring of Angels and humans. So you can imagine his surprise when Saul turned the family dog into a stool.

For a while, Sam and Kala were baffled. They couldn't understand what was going on, and what exactly Saul was doing or why. Saul, being just a boy, couldn't understand his parents panic. Evidently, neither could is sister, whilst she rolled on the floor in hysterics pointing at the furry, barking stool.
A few months after the incident with the dog (which had now permanently remained as a stool since they couldn't turn him back) Cas started to show signs of her bothers special talent when she pinned Saul to the ceiling.
Cas didn't understand what she'd done wrong at the time, but whatever she'd done she flipped it back like a switch and Saul came tumbling back to the ground.

Sam spent the next months pouring over his books and parchments of magical creatures and whatever else he could find that explained what was happening to his children. Kala would bring him snacks and hearty meals to 'keep his strength up'. Saul and Cas watched their father as he worked, wondering if he was angry at them. 'Have I done something wrong'? Sam would ask over and over, wondering if the inner Angel had tainted his children, blessing them with more than just his Grace. Then, one evening, he came across something that put an end to his search.

His children were Magic.

Now, most people would say that about their children, but for Sam it was true. Magic was the ability to manually bend the laws of physics to create a force which enabled the used to bend the world at the users will. Sam was slightly put out when he hadn't realised it sooner, but happy that he now understood their condition.

At first, Kala hadn't believed him. But when Cas turned a local boy, who'd been teasing her, into stone, Kala couldn't disagree with Sam. Her daughter was a Witch, and her son a Wizard.

Sometimes Kala would wonder if she should have took her parents advice and married the snotty, self-obsessed Bachelour, hand picked by her mother. However she would conclude that having a pet stool, a floating 7 year old and her Samandriel is a whole lot more entertaining and makes her decision all the more right.

(A.N:) REVISED. I did it _ It's I'm proud of it

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