Gabriel's Little Rose

by cathinda1

Rose was a child born of an angel and a human, but she was different to the other Nephilim. Her mother had Grace. When she was 4 years old her father was killed and she was adopted by Sam Winchester who promised her safety. But how safe can you be when angels and demons want you dead and you are a child in a world you've been shielded from your whole life but know everything about?

1. Chapter 1

This is my first SPN fic so don't judge if it is bad, it isn't my first fanfic but you know. This will be updated every now and then, they probably won't be regular because I still go to school and that has to be priority especially with exams being soon.
I do not own Supernatural or its characters, I only own something that isn't recognised.

Gabriel had fallen in love with a human. However she wasn't just any human, she was a woman with grace in her blood. They had married 6 years before she was born, before little Rose was born on the 9th of May 2008. Even with Melanie having grace, her body wasn't strong enough to carry the child of an Archangel and an emergency caesarean had been needed, she was dead before Rose could open her eyes. Gabriel had been stood by his daughter's incubator when he got the news that Mel was dead, to begin with he wanted to go back to Heaven just to be with her but as he looked back down to the tiny child wrapped in blankets he knew that this tiny little child would be strong and need him more than anyone else. For a split second Gabriel was reminded of when he first saw his little brother, Castiel, this child was so similar to him in her looks that it made Gabriel smile.

Gabriel knew that he needed to protect this child no matter what, the angels would want her dead, she was a Nephilim so he had to get her out of the hospital where she was just a sitting duck.
"Rose Maria Oakridge, hold on tight," Gabriel whispered as he carefully lifted the bundle into his arms and flew them back to his and Melanie's apartment where he could put up wards to protect Rose from the angels.

Gabriel looked at his phone and back down to his daughter before he made one quick decision, he dialled a number, after two rings there was an answer,
"Hello," a gravelly voice spoke, Gabriel hesitated,
"Castiel? I need your help," Castiel sighed at the other end of the line,
"Where are you?" His voice was soft but blunt,
"Meet me at Jimmie's Diner, Wichita, Kansas. Come alone." The line went dead and Gabriel quickly flew to the diner where he got a table, Rose still asleep in his arm but hidden from sight so that no angel could see her. Gabriel's golden eyes searched the diner looking for any chance of attack.

It was less than a minute later that Castiel arrived at the diner, he quickly came and sat opposite Gabriel, he didn't notice the child hidden. Castiel tilted his head seeing that Gabriel was fine,
"What do you need my help with?" Gabriel looked down almost ashamed and carefully lifted a bundle of pink blankets from his lap and into his arm,
"She isn't what it appears to be Cassie. Her mother had grace, she isn't like the others. Please," Castiel looked at his older brother in horror,
"Tell me this abomination isn't yours." His voice was full of fear now,
"Castiel she is my daughter and I need your help." Cas let the fear slide off of his face and realised that his brother wouldn't call him unless necessary. He let out a shaky sigh before looking at the sleeping girl in his brothers arms,
"What do you need help with?" Gabriel looked at Castiel with a look of relief as he began to explain,
"I can't take her to any public space, I don't know who might be there to kill her. But I need supplies to care for her, I can't ask her mother to care for her because her mother died," looked sorrowful at the fact that his daughters mother had died, he looked back to his brother meeting Castiel's blue eyes with his golden ones,
"I need you to either look after her for me or go and get stuff required for a baby," Castiel seemed to debate the options presented to him before deciding that he wanted to hold this child in his arms and get to care for his niece.

Gabriel locked the door to the apartment leaving Castiel and Rose locked in and attackers locked out. Castiel looked at this little girl who was now awake and looking up to Castiel through her honey eyes, Castiel had no idea of how to care for a child but that would be no excuse for letting her get hurt.

THREE YEARS LATER

Rose may only be three but she was so like her father in her mischievous ways and yet she loved her uncle Cassie dearly. Gabriel looked at his daughter who was drawing a forest in her sketchbook, he hated how the apocalypse was looming just over their heads, the apartment was constantly protected from other angels but Gabriel still feared for the future of his little girl. Michael and Lucifer had chosen their vessels and to no-one's surprise they were the Winchester brothers, both had refused so Gabriel decided to take matters into his own hands in trying to persuade them to accept their destinies.

Gabriel had decided to send Sam and Dean into TV Land and he took back on the role of the Trickster. The Winchesters were on to him, knowing it was the Trickster, had Rose with him in his arm as she clung onto his jacket. The two arrived in a sort of Doctor's show; Doctor Sexy M.D, Rose remained clinging to her father's coat. Gabriel put Rose down and made himself look like 'Doctor Sexy' before picking Rose back up and walking to where Sam and Dean where stood, Dean pushed him up against a wall for seeing wrong shoes, Gabriel transformed himself back to himself and Rose hugged closer,
"You guys are getting better!" Gabriel exclaimed from where Dean was holding him against the wall,
"Get us out of here." Dean demanded, not releasing his grip across Gabriel's throat,
"Or what" Gabriel grabbed Dean's arm, twisting it and forcing him to get off of Gabriel, Rose looked cautiously at Sam and then at Dean, Sam was looking at this three year old with confusion,
"Don't say you have wooden stakes big boy," Gabriel said once Dean was off of him.
"That was you on the police scanner, right? This is a trick?" Sam asked looking away from Rose,
"Hellooooo," Gabriel exaggerated, "Trickster," he said pointing at himself,
"C'mon! I heard you two Yahoo's were in town, how could I resist?" Gabriel exclaimed once more,
"Where the hell are we?" Dean questioned,
"Like it? It's all home made," Gabriel looked at Sam before waling over to one of the walls,
"My own sets," he tapped the glass with the back of his knuckles,
"My own actors," he motioned towards the people who were frozen in place,
"Call it my own little idiot box," he moved back over to where Sam and Dean were,
"Well, how do we get out?" Dean asked,
"That, my friend. Is the 64 dollar question," Gabriel said while pointing at the brothers,
"Whatever, we need to talk to you, we need your help," Sam spoke up for the first time in a while,
"Hmm," Gabriel sighed as Rose burrowed her head deeper into his shoulder in an attempt to get comfy so she could sleep,
"Let me guess. You two Muttonhead's broke the world and you want me to sweep up your mess," emphasised the last part by pointing at Sam and Dean,
"Please," Sam asked, "just five minutes. Hear us out,"
"Sure," Gabriel said, "tell you what, survive the next 24 hours and we'll talk." Dean looked unsure,
"Survive what?"
"The game!" Gabriel said in a childish way like it was obvious.
"What game?"
"You're in it."
"How do we play?"
"You're playing it."
"What are the rules?" Dean was obviously getting wound up, all Gabriel did was wiggle his eyebrows before disappearing.

As Gabriel arrived back at the apartment, Rose awoke in her dad's arms and whispered tiredly,
"Daddy? Are you going to help them?" Gabriel set Rose on her feet and knelt down to look and her, he put a hand on either arm,
"Starlight, those men, I would trust with you, but they want my help with something I can't, no, won't do. what they want me to do would risk you getting hurt. I have to keep you safe, no matter what." Rose wrapped her arms around her fathers neck and he lifted her in his arms carefully. He took her into her bedroom where he carefully put her onto her bed, pulling the duvet over her Gabriel kissed her forehead before whispering, "Goodnight my little Starlight." He closed the door smiling.

The next morning Sam and Dean were in a TV show of Supernatural, Gabriel and Rose arrived just in time to stop Castiel talking,
"Hello!," there was clapping and cheering, Gabriel turned to look at Castiel,
"Hi Castiel!" There was duct tape covering the mouth of a furious Castiel who rose from the floor as glared at Gabriel, Gabriel moved his hand and Cas disappeared,
"Where did you just send him?" Dean asked in an icy voice
"Relax, he'll live. Mmmaybe."
"Right, you know what? I'm done with the monkey dance, OK? We get it," Dean was now stood right in front of Gabriel and Rose,
"Yeah? Get what, Hot Shot?" Gabriel seemed to know exactly how to push Dean's buttons,
"Playing our roles!" Dean was getting angrier by the minute,
"That's half the game," Gabriel said calmly,
"What's the other half?" Sam asked,
"Play your roles out there," Gabriel motioned to a distant place using his hands.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh, you know. Sam starring as Lucifer. Dean starring as Michael. Your celebrity death match. Play your roles."
"You want us to say yes to those sons of bitches?"
"Hells yeah. Let's light this candle!"
"We do that, the world will end."
"Yeah? And whose fault is that? Who popped Lucifer out of the box? Hm? Look, it's started. You started it. It can't be stopped. So let's get it over with!" Sam just glared heavily at Gabriel,
"Heaven or hell, which side you on?" Dean asked Gabriel cautiously,
"I'm not on either side." There was no joking in Gabriel's voice and Rose hugged closer to him, she had never heard him speak like that to anyone,
"Yeah, right. You're grabbing ankle for Michael or Lucifer. Which one is it?" Dean obviously didn't think Gabriel was telling the truth,
"You listen to me, you arrogant dick. I don't work for either of those S.O.B.s. Believe me."
"Oh, you're somebody's bitch." Dean's voice was disbelieving and Gabriel snapped, the smile on his face vanished and he quickly put Rose on the floor.

He grabbed Dean by the collar and slammed him into the wall, hard.
"Don't you ever, ever presume to know what I am." Gabriel looked between Sam and Dean,
"Now listen very closely. Here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna suck it up, accept your responsibilities, and play the roles that destiny has chosen for you."
"And if we don't?" Sam pressed, this made Gabriel grin and Rose tilt her head.
"Then you'll stay here in TV Land. Forever. Three hundred channels and, uh, nothing's on." Gabriel picked Rose up and snapped his fingers, sending Sam and Dean into some other TV show.

Gabriel had taken Rose home before going to see Sam and Dean, he rarely left Rose on her own but he needed to make sure that the brothers didn't do anything stupid. When he arrived back the next morning, he came into Roses room and woke her so she could get some breakfast,
"Morning, Starlight," Gabriel smiled as his daughter just curled deeper into her duvet,
"Too earwy," her little voice was full of sleep, Gabriel knelt on the floor next to her bed,
"Well if you get some breakfast, we can go and play some more pranks on Sam and Dean," the little girl smiled and took Gabriel's hand as he lead her through to the kitchen.

Dean finished brushing his teeth in another crappy motel room, he hadn't been able to stop thinking about where Cas was.
"I'm worried, man." Dean didn't look to see Sam,
"What that SOB did to Cas. You know, where is he?" When there was no response Dean turned to have a look in the room for Sam.
"Sam?" The room was empty.
"Where are you?"

Dean headed for the Impala, his phone to his ear as he was put through to Sam's voicemail.
"It's Sam. Leave me a message." Dean gets while sending a voice message to Sam, something ain't right Dean thought.

"Sam? It's me. Where the hell did you go?" He snapped the phone shut.
"Dean?" Sam's voice sounded odd, almost like it's recorded. Dean looked around the car but quickly realised that Sam wasn't in the car.
"Sammy? Where are you?"
"I don't know." Dean is quick to notice a red light on the dashboard that isn't usually there. It flashed in time with Sam's words.
"Oh crap. I don't think we killed the Trickster."

As Dean drove he began to talk,
"Okay, stake didn't work. So, what, this is another trick?"
"I don't know. Maybe the stake didn't work because it's not a Trickster?"
"What do you mean?" Dean's voice sounded confused
"You heard Cas. He said this thing was too powerful to be a Trickster."
"And did you notice the way he looked at Cas? Almost like he knew him."
"And how pissed he got when you brought up Michael and Lucifer."
"Son of a bitch." Dean exclaimed,
"What?"
"I think I know what we're dealing with." Dean rolled his eyes in anger.

Dean began to rummage in the trunk of the car.
"Dean?" Sam's voice sounded,
"What?"
"That, uh, feels really… uncomfortable." Dean finished what he was doing and shut the trunk hard.
"Ow. You sure this is gonna work?"
"No, but I have no other ideas."

Dean walked around to the front of the car and looked up to the sky before shouting.
"All right, you son of a bitch! Uncle! We'll do it!"
"Should I honk?" Dean turned his head, while Dean facing away, Gabriel appeared from nowhere holding Rose's hand tightly, he walked over to the impala slowly to make sure that Rose didn't fall,
"Wow. Sam. Get a load of the rims on you."
"Eat me." Gabriel walked back over to face Dean, Rose took some of his coat in her hand when Gabriel stopped moving,
"Okay, boys. Ready to go quietly?"
"Whoa whoa whoa, not so fast. Nobody's going anywhere until Sam has opposable thumbs." Gabriel smirked while Rose tilted her head in confusion and looked up at her father,
"What's the difference? Satan's going to ride his ass one way or another." Dean looked at him angrily. Gabriel rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers. The KITT lights on the car went out and Sam climbed out of the car.
"Happy?" Gabriel said sarcastically, pulling Rose to his side and holding his arm around her so that he knew nothing was going to be able to get to her,
"Tell me one thing. Why didn't the stake kill you?" Dean asked as Gabriel looked at Rose who was clinging to his hand with one of her tiny ones and the edge of his coat with her other.
"I am the Trickster."
"Or maybe you're not." Just as Sam finished speaking, he held up a flaming cigarette lighter and tossed it down. A ring of fire sprung up around Gabriel and Rose, this made Rose move closer into Gabriel's side while looking around her at the fire.
"Maybe you've always been an angel." Gabriel looked incredulous, then laughs.
"A what?" he feigned shock in his voice as his arm tightened its protective hold on Rose, "Somebody slip a mickey in your power shake, kid?"
"I'll tell you what. You just jump out of the holy fire and we'll call it our mistake."

Gabriel laughs, then stops laughing knowing that the two brothers have found out the truth. Gabriel clapped as he returned them all to reality,
"Well played, boys. Well played. Where'd you get the holy oil?"
"Well, you might say we pulled it out of Sam's ass." Sam glared at Dean for the final comment,
"Where'd I screw up?" Gabriel asked calmly,
"You didn't. Nobody gets the jump on Cas like you did." Sam spoke sharply, his eyes going between Gabriel and Rose, it was clear that he was trying to piece things together,
"Mostly it was the way you talked about Armageddon." Dean's voice broke Gabriel and Sam both out of their thoughts,
"Meaning?" Gabriel questioned,
"Well, call it personal experience, but nobody gets that angry unless they're talking about their own family." Dean answered before looking at Rose who had hidden herself slightly behind Gabriel,
"So which one are you? Grumpy, Sneezy, or Douchey?" Sam asked
"Gabriel, okay? They call me Gabriel."
"Gabriel? The archangel?" Sam inquired confused,
"Guilty."
"Okay, Gabriel. How does an archangel become a Trickster? And who's the kid?" Dean had no sort of emotion in his voice when he directed the last question to the three year old,
"My own private witness protection. I skipped out of heaven, had a face transplant, carved out my own little corner of the world. Till you two screwed it all up. And she is none of you damned business, clear?" Gabriel stated rather than questioned as he picked Rose carefully into his arms,
"What did Daddy say when you ran off and joined the pagans?"
"Daddy doesn't say anything about anything." Gabriel sounded almost hurt when he said that,
"Then what happened? Why'd you ditch?" Sam asked calmly, Dean spoke before Gabriel had a chance to say anything,
"Do you blame him? I mean, his brothers are heavyweight douchenozzles."
"Shut your cakehole." Gabriel barely let Dean finish,
"You don't know anything about my family. I love my father, my brothers. Love them. But watching them turn on each other? Tear at each other's throats? I couldn't bear it! Okay? So I left. And now it's happening all over again."
"Then help us stop it."
"It can't be stopped."
"You wanna see the end of the world?"
"I want it to be over! I have to sit back and watch my own brothers kill each other thanks to you two! Heaven, hell, I don't care who wins, I just want it to be over."
"It doesn't have to be like that. There has to be some way to, to pull the plug."
Gabriel laughs. It wasn't a laugh filled with humour, there was nothing but emptiness and sorrow in it,
"You do not know my family. What you guys call the apocalypse, I used to call Sunday dinner. That's why there's no stopping this, because this isn't about a war. It's about two brothers that loved each other and betrayed each other. You'd think you'd be able to relate."
"What are you talking about?"
"You sorry sons of bitches. Why do you think you two are the vessels? Think about it. Michael, the big brother, loyal to an absent father, and Lucifer, the little brother, rebellious of Daddy's plan. You were born to this, boys. It's your destiny! It was always you! As it is in heaven, so it must be on earth. One brother has to kill the other."
"What the hell are you saying?"
"Why do you think I've always taken such an interest in you? Because from the moment Dad flipped on the lights around here, we knew it was all gonna end with you. Always."

There was a long pause. Sam and Dean look down, then at each other they seemed to study each other, talking with their eyes rather than words.
"No." Dean spoke after a while, "That's not gonna happen."
"I'm sorry. But it is." Gabriel's voice was full of sympathy as he looked at the little girl in his arms. He was thankful that she was still too young to understand most of what was happening,
"Guys. I wish this were a TV show. Easy answers, endings wrapped up in a bow, most of the time ending with a happily ever after... but this is real, and it's gonna end bloody for all of us. That's just how it's gotta be."

There was another bout of silence which this time was broken by Gabriel,
"So. Boys. Now what? We stare at each other for the rest of eternity?"
"Well, first of all, you're gonna bring Cas back from wherever you stashed him." Dean demanded, it was such a powerful demand that Gabriel couldn't hold back the smirk that crossed his lips,
"Oh am I." His voice even had hints of amusement in it,
"Yeah. Or we're going to dunk you in some holy oil and deep-fry ourselves an archangel." Gabriel knew that Dean which made him look at the little girl who depended solely on him. Gabriel snapped his fingers and Castiel appeared.
"Uncwe Cassie!" Called Rose happily while Cas just glared at his brother, Cas had developed an amazing relationship with Rose over the years and Gabriel knew that Cas would protect her, they were pulled from thought by Dean's voice sounding once again,
"Cas, you okay?" His voice was flooded with concern for the angel,
"I'm fine. Hello, Gabriel. Hello, Rosie." Rose smiled as Cas greeted her, the three other adults had noticed how much warmer Cas' voice had been when addressing Rose than when he had been addressing Gabriel,
"Hey, bro. How's the search for Daddy going? Let me guess. Awful." Gabriel's face saddened when he knew that God was still no-where to be found, all Cas did was glare at his older brother.
"Okay, we're out of here. Come on, Sam." The brothers turned and walked away. Leaving Gabriel and Rose still surrounded by flame,
"Uh. Okay. Guys?" Gabriel's voice was suddenly afraid, not for himself but for Rose, Sam followed Dean to the doorway of the warehouse.
"So, so what? Huh?" Castiel seemed to hesitate following Dean.
"You're just gonna, you're gonna leave us here forever?" Dean stops at the door and turns back.
"No. We're not, 'cause we don't screw with people the way you do. And for the record? This isn't about some prize fight between your brothers or some destiny that can't be stopped. This is about you being too afraid to stand up to your family." Dean was clearly angry with Gabriel. Dean looked next to him where there was a fire alarm, he pulled it, setting off the alarm and sprinkler system. Gabriel looked up just as the sprinklers began going off.
"Don't say I never did anything for you." Dean called back to Gabriel.

Gabriel glares as Dean leaves, Sam following right behind. Castiel looked back for a moment, looking at his brother and niece before he too followed Dean. Gabriel looks down as the fire goes out, for once there is no laughter in his eyes. He quickly flew Rose and him home.

The Impala is exactly where Sam and Dean left it, much to Dean's happiness it appears untampered. Sam and Dean went up to it while Cas hung back almost as if he were contemplating something in his mind which he didn't fully understand.
"All that stuff he was spouting in there, you think it was the truth?"
"I think he believes it. Who was the girl?" Sam asked,
"Her name is Rose, she is biologically Gabriel's daughter. Her mother is dead so she relies entirely on Gabriel," The brothers looked over to Cas who seemed sad,
"So what do we do? About the whole Lucifer and Michael thing?" Dean asked,
"I don't know."
"Well I'll tell you one thing. Right about now I wish I was back in a TV show." Dean joked sensing the tense atmosphere,
"Yeah, me too." Dean and Sam get in the car.

Back at Gabriel's apartment, Gabriel was trying to get Rose to eat her tea,
"Why didn't those men like you, Daddy? And why was uncwe Cassie gwarwing at you?"
"Starlight, remember I told you that I had pulled a few tricks on them two before," Rose nodded,
"Well they weren't particularly nice tricks," Rose nodded once more before finishing her tea and going and getting washed before she headed off to bed. Gabriel came into her room and sat down on the chair next to her bed where he told her a bedtime story of something that happened in Heaven long ago.

Please review with what you think, it really means a lot. Like I said at the start, this will be updated when I have the time so don't expect a regular pattern but none of my fics are abandoned, I just have other things that have to take priority. J