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A/N: The characters can be OOC.

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My dear little bird

Chapter 2

"But why me? I thought he hated me." Sam said as he looked at the tiny archangel in his arms.

"Nobody ever really understood Gabriel, Sam. Not even in heaven." Castiel said.

"So what do I need to do?" Sam asked.

"Congrats Sam, you're basically his mom now." Dean said.

"Not really, it just mean that he will feel safe with you." Cas said.

"But he cried as soon as I let him down. I can't have him in my arms at all time." Sam explained.

"Give him some time, don't worry." Castiel simply said.

"Who was the one who took care of you, Cas?" Dean asked out of nowhere.

"It was Gabriel actually." Castiel said.

Dean nodded and looked at his brother another time. "We need to feed him now and we don't have anything here that look like baby food… I'll go start the impala." Dean sighed.

In the impala, everything seemed okay. Sam was in the back seat with Gabriel, which was sat in a car seat they had found. They didn't know if it fitted him but Castiel had but some sort of barrier around the baby so he wouldn't fall or anything. And even if it's was Gabriel, Dean drove safely just to make sure everything was under control.

Arrived to the closes town they searched for a baby shop or just a market. They finally stopped at the first store they saw and Dean parked the car. Sam took the car seat with Gabriel in it and followed Dean and Castiel towards the store. They got everything they needed and went to the cashier. She looked at the brothers then at the baby and smiled.

"What a beautiful baby you have there, I am very happy for you two." She said with a smile as she scan every objects.

"We're brothers." Dean said with sighed.

She turned red and apologized. They walked towards the doors and Dean called to Castiel who was looking at some bee colored pacifiers. Maybe they should get that.

"Take one, pay it and join us in the car." Dean suddenly said as he handed money to the angel.

Castiel took a baby blue one with a bee draw on it and went to the cashier. Back in the car they sat the same way and Castiel gave the pacifier to Gabriel who suck on it like a lollipop. He smiled at his brother and turned around to face the road. They drove back to the bunker and carried the stuff inside. Castiel explained that Gabriel still drank milk so they bought bottles and Sam fed him when they arrived.

When it was time to sleep, Sam put the baby inside the crib and rocked him until he was sleeping then lay on the bed next to him and soon fell asleep.

A week after, Sam was able to let Gabriel go for a few moment. The tiny angel still liked been around him but could let him go places now. And Castiel was often gone to search for a cure for Gabriel. He was convince that there was some way to get Gabriel back to normal even if Dean kept telling him that the only way was probably God. One morning when Sam was still sleeping and Dean had just woke up. He opened the door to see Castiel behind it.

"Hello Cas." Dean said as he passed him to go to the kitchen.

"Hello Dean, is my brother okay?" The angel asked.

"Yes he is. But I wanted to ask you something about him." Dean said as Castiel followed him.

"Sure, what is your question?"

"Well it's about the charge thing. You were send here to get me out of hell, to protect me and Sam and I was wondering if Gabriel had a charge." Dean tried to explain. "And how do angels even know those kind of things? Is it only God who can tell an angel who it's supposed to protect?"

"Every angels has a charge assigned to them at the moment of their creation. If you're talking about an angel it will be written in their grace and they will be able to read it once they get their powers. And if you are talking about an archangel like Gabriel who was born with an already made up vessel, it's written on the dorsal side of their hand. In Gabriel's case, he told me when I was younger that he never got a charge. I do not know the reason." Castiel explained.

"Wait, if archangel's already have vessels made for them why did Michael and Lucifer wanted us?" Dean asked.

"Because their first vessel isn't their true vessel." Castiel said.

"Yeah but Gabriel still look like Gabriel." Dean asked.

"Gabriel had already found and acquire his true vessel. I think that when God brought him back, if it's him, he simply de-aged him." The angel continued.

"What if God brought Gabriel back like this to give him a charge? I mean if you say he didn't had one. Maybe now he is going to have one since he is a child again. We only need to look at his hands." Dean proposed.

"Maybe, but I didn't saw anything on his hands yet."

"Maybe it will appear later. Maybe in a month or two or maybe some weeks."

"Then we have to wait and see if a name appear, then I'll be able to read it. But I will not tell Gabriel the answer."

"Why? What if that's what God wants? Gabriel has to know."

"I could tell him but it's kind of a tradition to let the angel discover by himself."

"Oh, alright then…"

Dean looked at the fridge and sighed. He took himself a beer and looked at the angel again. Castiel stared at him and then turned around. "Something's wrong." He said before Sam entered the room with an older Gabriel.

"I woke up and he was like this." Sam explained as Gabriel played with Sam's t-shirt.

Castiel frowned and looked at the eight months old. He smiled when he saw the two small symbols on the back of Gabriel's hand.