Chapter 2: The Devil You Know

4 Months Later:

(Twins' Age: 6 months)

At six months, the twins have started attempts at standing and chatter constantly, although none of the sounds count as intelligible words yet. Juliet and Gabriel have started the "mama/dada" battle. Little do they know, their efforts are being undermined by Sam's attempts to teach the twins to say "uncle" or some word similar, and Dean's persistent attempts to teach them to say "Christo".

Juliet is playing with Bobby when she notices lumps on his back.

"Gabriel?!" she call, panicking.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Gabriel asks, hurrying over with Mary.

"What are these? Is he sick? Can you heal him?" she asks, her voice climbing. Gabriel hands over Mary and picks up his son. He laughs in relief.

"Wings, Juliet. Bobby is growing wings," he tells her in awe. "They're supposed to be rare."

"Wings? Will he be able to fly with them?"

"I don't see why not," Gabriel tells her. "Once they grow in and he gets flight feathers... Little stud will get all the angel ladies," Gabriel says proudly.

The next day the twins turn six months. Dean insists on making a birthday pie, which everyone realizes is more for himself than the twins.

That night, Juliet wakes up to Mary crying. She rolls over to look at Gabriel. His side of the bed is empty. She decides to get up and check on the twins anyway, in case he needs help.

She reaches the nursery. Gabriel is standing in front of Mary's crib in shadows.

"Is she okay, Gabe?"

"Shh," Gabriel whispers, half-turning.

"Alright," Juliet says. She turns to leave and decides to get a glass of water from the kitchen.

She stop shorts when she reaches the main room and sees Gabriel sitting at the map table with Sam.

"Gabriel?" she asks in disbelief. Her eyes immediately widen and she races back to the nursery. She snags the demon knife off of a table as she runs past, figuring the silver and demon-killing properties will enable her to fight off whatever it is long enough for her to call for help if she needs it. She bursts into the nursery. The dark shape turns at the disturbance, and Juliet realizes it's a demon. She charges forward and stabs him in the leg. The demon snarls and telepathically shoves her against the wall.

"Well, well, well. Doesn't this look familiar? Granted, it's been thirty-one years since this scene last played out..."

"Who are you?" Juliet snarls.

"Just a messenger. Tell your brothers an old friend is back in town. An old friend with yellow eyes," the demon smirks. "And this time, it's personal."

"What did you do to my children?" Juliet growls.

"Ask Sam. Little Sammy will know."

The door slams open and Gabriel strides in, angel blade gleaming, followed closely by Sam. Sam immediately starts performing an exorcism when Gabriel stabs the demon through the chest. Sam trails off quietly. Gabriel rushes to Juliet.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine. Check on the twins."

"Did he say what he wanted?" Sam asks.

"He said he was a messenger. He wanted you and Dean to know an old friend is back and it's personal. What did he mean?"

"Did he say who the friend was?" Sam asks.

"Something about yellow eyes, I'm not exactly sure."

Sam's eyes grow large.

"Check for demon blood in their systems," he orders Gabriel before turning and running from the room. "Dean! DEAN!"

"Sam? Sam, what's going on?" Juliet calls after him. "Gabriel?"

"He's right. There's demon blood here. It's alright," he reassures Juliet, "i can cleanse them. They'll be fine."

"Do you know what's going on? What set Sam off like that?" Juliet asks. Gabriel pauses before speaking.

"When Sam was six months old and Dean was four, their mother was killed by a yellow-eyed demon named Azazel. Azazel fed Sam demon blood, which started him on an addiction that later helped kick start the Apocalypse. Everyone thought Azazel was dead since Dean shot him in Wyoming with a gun that's supposed to be able to kill anything."

"The Colt, right?"

"Right. It really only kills most things, but Azazel's supposed to be one of those things."

"So, he's back?"

"Apparently. And he sent one of his followers to recreate the scene. A little melodramatic, but demons are like that."

"Yeah. I've noticed."

Gabriel smirks.

"You said Mary, the original Mary, died that night."

"That's right."

"If this was supposed to be a parallel, why didn't the demon try to kill me?"

"I don't know."

"If Azazel's back, he'll be taking an interest in the twins," Sam says from the doorway, startling the couple. "That's what his deal was last time."

"You really think he'd be dumb enough to try that again?" Gabriel asks.

"Also, where's Dean? How's he taking it?"

"Cas is trying to keep him from tearing down the bunker, so, overall, I'd say pretty well."

Juliet winces, looking remarkably like Sam.

"Well, until we figure out Azazel's end game and how to stop it, the twins need to be protected," Gabriel announces.

"I agree," Juliet says.

"Of course you do," Gabriel smirks. "I know someone we can call. They'll love this."

"Who?"

"An old friend of mine. An angel."

"Well, get on it, feathers," Juliet orders playfully. Gabriel closes his eyes.

"Hey, Ariel? If you're listening, sweetheart, I need a favor."

"Ariel?" Juliet asks, her voice suddenly colder.

"Yeah. She's always good for calling in favors."

"Your angel friend that you call in a crisis is a woman?"

"Well, she's an angel, so we don't really apply gender roles," Gabriel says, trailing off uncertainly, realizing he's treading on thin ice.

"But she's a she?" Juliet presses. Sam had mysteriously disappeared.

"I guess you could say that..."

Juliet suddenly becomes very quiet and almost sad.

"Is she your ex?"

"What?! No! God, no. Jesus, Jules, she's like my little sister."

"You've had affairs with angels before."

"You'e still going to hold that against me? I'm starting to wish I hadn't told you about that."

Juliet opens her mouth to retort when Sam calls from the war room.

"Hey, guys? Can you come here?"

Juliet glances at Gabriel before striding to the war room, ready to face whatever new horrors (or whore) waits for her there.

A/N: Chapter title is Season 5, Episode 20. It's a play on words, get it? They know Azazel, but now he's back. And Juliet has to decide if she's going to trust Gabriel and the boys (the devil she knows) to protect her children, or accept this new whore (the devil she doesn't) and the protection she offers. Just a little teaser.