AN: Apologies for the awful writing of this part it's sort of stitched together badly! Also. Guys please review, even if it's just to say you like the story xD I need concrit, flames, anything!

Rory wakes up in the motel room to the flutter of wing beats. Sam and Dean are snoring in the beds next to him. He sits up and smiles a little, tonight his visitor isn't standing in the shadows.

He's a short man, shorter than Rory would have guessed for a time travelling, fortune telling, winged thingy. He looks disappointingly normal except for the slight glint of gold in his brown hair that matches his eye colour perfectly. Today he's chewing on strawberry laces rather than chocolate.

"Believe me now, kiddo?" he smirks.

Rory nods and crawls across the bed towards him. "How come I can't see your wings today?"

His eyebrows shot up and he looks at Rory in surprise, "You can see my wings?"

Rory frowns, "Yeah, in the shadows."

He smiles softly to himself, "That's interesting. Very interesting."

Rory's about to ask why but something about the stranger tells him he'll never get a straight answer so instead he settles for; "You're an angel, right?" he asks. "My mum used to tell me about you guys and I couldn't find anything else in my dad's journal."

"Gabriel," he says, smiling. "Though I haven't really been an angel lately." He adds, "More of a trickster."

Rory's eyes narrow. His mum told him once about a trickster she and his dad met in Ireland; she said they were monsters that killed people.

As if reading his mind Gabriel chuckled, "Oh yeah, so I kill a few people here and there, big deal. That's life kid; some people don't deserve to live."

Rory sits up straighter, "No one deserves to die, though. No one's fully evil."

Gabriel smiles at the child. He doesn't usually like the people his Father earmark for great destinies but this kid...this kid's alright. He glances away from him for a moment and looks at Sam and Dean, curled up asleep, no idea they're special. He wishes he could tell them, warn them, maybe he could stop the apocalypse then...Maybe.

When he looks back at Rory the kid's watching him with his head cocked slightly to the side. "Sam and Dean are they special too?" he asks, softly.

Gabriel nods, "But you can't tell them about me, okay?"

"You're not gonna tell me why I'm important, are you?"

Gabriel laughs again, "You learn fast, kiddo."

Rory smiles again and stands up on the bed, making him slightly taller than the angel. "Then why are you here?"

"It's my job to protect you," he replies, smiling at the kid. "So I'm just checking in on you."

Rory seems to contemplate this for a few moments before he sits back down on the end of the bed. He looks up at Gabriel, cautiously, "So you'll come see me, again? You'll keep me safe?"

"I'll do my best. I'll be the angel on your shoulder."

Rory's expression brightens a bit and Gabriel frowns a little, "Okay, well I better be going, kiddo."

Rory smiles, "Good night, Gabriel."

"Good night, Rory."

He's just about to fly away when Rory cries, "Wait! You said I'd meet someone important today. But I met two people. Sam and Amelia. Which one is it?"

Gabriel winks at him and vanishes with giggle in a flutter of feathers.

That summer is both the best and worst Rory's ever had.

It's the best because he has Sam and Dean and for once he feels like part of a family, not just the odd kid, son of the crazy guy.

Dean treats him like a little brother; he's cocky and teasing and pretends he hates him. But there was that one time where Rory almost got attacked by a demon possessing a maid at the motel and Dean went mad and shot the maid almost ten times. His dad's far more relaxed here, he even smiles once or twice and once (and Rory almost has a heart attack) his dad actually hugs him and tells him he's proud of him. John is gruff but like Dean he seems to think of Rory as a Winchester and he even tries to teach him a little about cars (with Dean's help, of course).

And Sam? Sam becomes Rory's best friend and by the end of the summer Rory's pretty sure that Gabriel meant Sam rather than Amy.

But it's hard. They move every week and most of the time he and the Winchester brothers are left holed up in some motel room waiting for their father's to return. But it's still better than lying awake in Leadworth waiting for his father to come back either stinking of alcohol or dripping with blood.

Gabriel pops in now and then, always with sweets, occasionally sharing them and though he never tells Rory anything useful Rory starts staying up later in the hope of hearing that gentle flutter of wing beats.

When it's time for them to go back to England Sam half jokingly begs to come with them. John and Arthur laugh and Dean makes a few jokes about England, but Rory quietly wishes he could. Then he hugs Sam as tight as he can and writes down his address; Rory won't be able to write back since the Winchesters move so often but it's still something.

When they're on the plane his Dad tells him that they'll go back next summer and Rory doesn't feel so bad.

After his summer with the Winchester's Leadworth seems dull, until he meets Amelia Pond again.

She strides into his life one boring school day with her fiery red hair and determined green eyes and asks him to play (well she sort of demands it but Rory says yes anyway). After a week Rory's less sure it was Sam Gabriel meant. Amy is fascinating. She's determined and bossy and clever and imaginative and God, she's beautiful.

After a few weeks Amy tells him about her Raggedy Doctor and his magic blue box; Rory laughs and tells her about Gabriel. And Amy looks at him like he's insane and says, "Don't be silly. Angels don't exist, Rory."

Rory doesn't argue because she didn't believe him about his Dad being a hunter and he still has an Indian burn on his arm from the last time he refused to play Romans with her (she always had him executed!) And when he gets home he searches his Father's journal for any mention of Amy's doctor, he doesn't find much apart from a small sketch of a blue police box with a question mark beside it.

He asks Gabriel about it and he just smiles and says, "You'll soon find out, kiddo."

Gabriel pops up every few weeks and occasionally tells him about something that'll happen the next day just to keep it interesting. But mostly he just sits with Rory and tells him stories until his Dad drags himself through the front door. If Rory didn't know better he'd say Gabriel actually liked him. But Gabriel likes to remind Rory that he's only there because he has to be.