Author's Notes: This was supposed to be a one shot I have no idea what happened. The first few chapter will seem rushed as I'm trying to quickly get to the high school years were the important stuff happens but if you'd like me to right short stories for more detail just ask. I own nothing except my OC's Alondra, Eva, and Grace. There story makes so much more since with magic but for that you'd have to read my whole series that has nothing to do with this.
The Novak-Shurley family had a relatively peaceful household in Chicago,Illinois. Although the twins Michael and Lucifer often got in small spats that ended with at least one broken lamp. And the triplets usually ended up disagreeing and avoiding each other causing tension amongst the family and making it an uneasy environment. Overall though the children were well-behaved and caused little trouble other than the typical rambunctiousness of youngsters. Life got much more exciting when the Winchester family moved in next door.
Alondra saw them first. She was out back reading in the garden after Grace and Eva had started to argue again. Michael and Lucifer had also started to throw things so she'd made the wise decision to hide outside until things cooled down. A moving van had pulled up in front of the house next door following a black muscle car. The car was a monster and she felt strangely drawn to it. She remembered the plate of Oreos (the triplets favorite cookie) laying next to her and decided to be polite like her mother wanted and go say hello.
Walking over carefully with the plate as to not drop it she saw a boy around her age whining at another boy a little older than her, maybe Castiel's age.
"Dean," he pouted, "I'm hungry!" The elder brother, Dean, sighed, "I know Sammy but the house isn't ready yet you have to wait." A gruff sounding voice shouted, "Dean! Take care of your brother!" Dean sighed again muttering "Yes, sir." Another man came out from behind the truck carrying boxes and ruffled his hair.
"Sorry your dad's so hard on you kid," he grumbled. Dean forced a smile and said, "It's okay Uncle Bobby."
Alondra took a breath and walked the rest of the way. "Would you like some Oreos," she offered shyly startling both boys as well as the adults. She was sure she had heard the father swear but said nothing of it. She simply tilted the plate closer to Dean.
He smiled politely and responded, "No, thank you," he pushed away his brother's grabby hands, "Sammy can't eat sugar this early and it'd be rude to eat if he can't." Sam pouted and crossed his arms. "Oh thank goodness," Alondra said munching on a cookie.
Dean chuckled and grabbed ahold of Sammy who was still grabbing for the cookies. Alondra saw the father getting frustrated and bit her lip in thought. "If you want you can come over to my house. I live right next door and you two can help me macaroni and cheese. I have the Spongebob kind." Both boys brightened at this before concern cast over Dean his big brother instincts taking over. He looked over the small girl who was wearing a black knee length dress that ended in a tutu like fashion and who had cat ears and a rose in her long dark brown hair. "Aren't you too young to be using the stove?" She shrugged, "I guess but Eva makes me do it all the time. She's my older sister and she's kind of bossy." Dean turned to ask their father for permission. Their father smiled awkwardly, "Oh I don't know if you can handle my boys." She raised an eyebrow showing more intelligence than you would expect from a child, "Sir, I have four older brothers and three older sisters. I'm the youngest in the house even the pets are older than me." He seemed to hesitate before nodding and sending the three of them racing to the house next door. A classic brick house with an actual white picket fence. She unhinged the gate and once they'd entered she motioned them over to the kitchen. Dean took a moment to remove his shoes and make Sam do the same noticing the pairs by the door.
"Who've you got there kiddo," a voice asked. Sam and Dean turned to see a boy older than both of them. He had golden brown hair brushed completely away from his face and held with a ton of gel. His eyes also seemed to be gold, although upon closer inspection they were really a light brown, and full of mischief. He was wearing a green hoodie with bulging front pockets and black jeans. He had a lollipop sticking out of his mouth and was looking at them suspiciously. "These are our new neighbors Gabriel," she said glancing at him nervously, "please be nice." His face softened and Dean didn't hold it against him being a big brother himself he knew of the urge to protect. "Ah don't worry about me I'm the good one." Alondra snorted. Dean stepped up to them pulling Sam behind him. "Hi, I'm Dean I'm eight and this is Sam he's six." Gabriel nodded in acceptance of their presence in his house. "I'm Gabriel and I'm eleven this is my sister Alondra she's six." "Sammy turned six last May" "Alondra turned six this February he's older."
Alondra let them finish their weird big brother ritual before clearing her throat. "Gabriel we were just about to go make macaroni and cheese would you like to join us?" He gasped "The Spongebob kind!" at her nod he laughed excitedly and ran to the kitchen.
Dean
I followed Alondra and Gabriel into their really expensive looking kitchen dragging along Sam who was trying to touch everything. Although it was a nice house it didn't feel like right. I looked over to the siblings in time to see Gabriel almost drop a bowl. "Careful you'll get the other's attention," Alondra hissed at him.
"Who else lives here," Sam demanded. Alondra gestured for him to wait before pouring two packets of powdery cheese into a bowl filled with milk. At Gabriel's questioning glance she explained, "Mother won't be home until late tonight neither will father and the nanny quit a week ago. They both forgot so we might as well make enough for everyone." He sighed in frustration. Alondra ignored him and I couldn't help but feel bad for her family even though mine wasn't perfect. She handed the bowl to Sam "Want to mix it?" I smiled at his excited nod. She carefully opened a drawer and pulled out a pen and notebook. Her black dress twirled as she walked back to the table and hopped onto a stool with a little bit of struggle. This close I realized the rose in her hair was real and wasn't even wilted a little. She also had on cat ears but I was kind of disappointed to see those weren't real. "Okay," she started, "if you're going to eat dinner with us you have to know who everyone is." Gabriel came over to join us, "Oh let me draw the family," he said making grabby hands at her. She sighed and pulled off a piece of paper handing him the pen and pulling another out from behind her ear making me wonder if she had expected his reaction.. "Okay so lay it on me," I said. Alondra gave me a look before writing down eight names as Gabriel drew eight boxes to separate the paper. "Lets start with the twins," Gabriel suggested. Alondra nodded printing two names neatly on her paper. "The twins are Michael and Lucifer," Alondra looked up at my scoff of disbelief, "yeah I know. Our mother's very religious."
"Yeah okay whatever," said Gabriel, " so Michael is the older of the twins and the twins are oldest overall. Lucifer came second and it made him kind of bitter you know and now he kind of hates Michael since he's the favorite." Alondra continued, "It's not difficult to tell them apart they look nothing alike. It's really strange and confused the doctors and even more so when it happened again with the triplets." Gabriel made a face, "Don't say the triplets it's weird when you say it." Alondra shushed him and continued, "Michael has black hair and blue eyes. He's kind of arrogant and smug sometimes but he can be nice. Lucifer has blond hair and brown eyes. He's kind of mean and likes to cause trouble but he can be pretty nice too. They're both twelve years old." Gabriel was drawing with his tongue sticking out, "Gabriel will draw you a picture of what they look like today and-" she looked over his shoulder, "are you making chibi versions?" "One day I will learn to draw realistically but today is not that day!" he proclaimed as he ran over to a drawer to grab crayons and came back.
"So that's the twins lets go from oldest to youngest," Gabriel said. Alondra nodded and printed Gabriel's name next. "Now you already know Gabriel but whatever. He's the third oldest in the family. He likes causing trouble but it's never as malevolent as Lucifer or Eva."
Gabriel's eyes furrowed, "Malevolent? Big word snowflake, have you been reading again?" At Alondra's sheepish shrug he sighed, "You know how mother feels about that," he thought for a moment, "although she's never really here so just don't let her catch you." Alondra seemed content with this and continued, "Gabriel is one of the only one's who will actually talk to me civilly." "Don't forget Cassie!" "I'm not but we aren't there yet! They don't know who he is."
"Cassie's a girl name," Sam pointed out before throwing down the spoon (he was quite cranky as car rides don't really allow comfortable naps), "my arms tired Dean!" I sighed and continued his work for him as Alondra explained, "It's a nickname the others gave him but anyway that's Gabriel." Gabriel proudly showed us his drawing before taking it back to continue.
"Next on the family tree would be Anna short for Anael," Alondra said, "mother gave the others angelic names." "And she gave the triplets religious names," Gabriel added before continuing as he drew and Alondra printed the name Anael with Anna in parentheses, "she's trying to be rebellious now but she often comes off like an idiot. She's 10 and has red hair like mom and hazel eyes."
"Okay so now we're at Castiel," Alondra stated writing down his name, "he's nice to me like Gabriel. He doesn't want me to get in trouble for breaking rules so he likes to read to me, he doesn't know that I do it anyway. He often rebels himself." Gabriel cut in now, "Although he only does it when a rule is going against his moral code or keeping him from growing." Alondra nodded before continuing, "He's nine and has dark brown hair and blue eyes." I noted that he was only a year older than me as Alondra wrote three names down.
"Oh I want to do the triplets," Gabriel announced, "come on you can't do them yourself." Alondra sighed and nodded before jumping down from her chair to check on the macaroni that was on the stove. I watched her drain the water to make sure she didn't burn herself and noticed Gabriel giving me a nod of approval. "Now my good man you may not know this but Alondra here is part of a trio and she's the youngest of them. As snowflake said before they look very different. The triplets were even more of a shock because although their faces look the same they have different eye and hair colors." I didn't quite believe this as it wasn't genetically possible but I let him continue. "Grace and Eva were supposed to be identical as they were in the same egg," I knew what he meant by this having read a book about it already but Sammy didn't and I shook my head 'no' at him as he was about to ask. "Alondra was in a different egg so she shouldn't have the same face. All in all you can guess the doctors were pretty freaked out but mom refused the tests they wanted to take on them. Anyway Grace is the oldest of the triplets she's the most obedient and I guess she's nice. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Eva's the second oldest and she's pretty mean. She only listens to Lucifer but she won't mess with me or Cassie because Lucifer likes us. She has black hair and red eyes. I'm not lying no one knows why but we know it's not a disease." Dean was once again skeptical but said nothing. "Alondra's the nicest and the smartest although the triplets are all pretty freaking smart. The others usually boss her around as she can't turn away anyone who's asking for help. She's clumsy but she can do amazing acrobatics like a circus person," he said before whispering the next part, "but she's afraid of clowns so don't tell her I said that."
"All done," Alondra broke in just as Sammy was getting fussy. I looked over to see she'd already set the table with ten bowls of macaroni and cheese. "Oh I'll call everyone you go sit down."