There was too much information to take in. He'd just lost his brother dammit and now he finds out he has a British sister who has a kid with his best god damn friend. He couldn't take it anymore he needed to leave.
"I'm going out. Don't any of dare to follow me." And with that dean grabbed his leather jacket and stormed out of the house slamming the door behind him. With Dean's departure silence once again return to the room.
Balls, Bobby thought as he sat at his desk taking in everything that had been said, as soon as Castiel had uttered the words at the start of the conversation he had known Dean would not take it well, though in his opinion it could have been a lot worse, after all no punches had been thrown and the child was still asleep on the sofa, though how she could be was a mystery to him, though it probably had something to do with the fact that Gabriel was sitting next to her with his fingers running through her hair. Thinking of mysteries there was something about the story he had been told that didn't quite add up, starting with how Cas' child and Dean's sister had ended up with Gabriel of all people.
"So if she's ya kid Cas how did she end up with ya brother?" might as well start getting answers to the questions he had so he could see how much bullshit he had just been feed, Bobby thought.
"Well old man, it was after I put Sam and Dean-o into TV land. Remember that?" Bobby nodded to Gabriel to continue, though he really didn't appreciate a millennia old arch angel calling him old.
"So after Dean-o had his say and left Cassie here returned to talk to me. He told me of Rose and Isobel and asked if I could look out for them, what with his search for dad and trying to stop the apocalypse and all he didn't really have much time for his family. Annnd as I had said I was staying well out of it he thought I could help. Being the kind and generous big brother that I am I agreed."
At this Bobby snorted, from all he had heard from Sam and Dean kind and generous where not the two words that anyone would use to describe Gabriel. Gabriel noticed Bobby's look of disbelieve and made his lolly disappear.
"I can be kind and generous when it suits me Bobby, and Castiel is my family. The only true family I have had since I left heaven all those centuries ago." Gabriel said with an unusually serious and sincere look and tone to his voice.
"Fine then. So you looked after his wife and kid while he stopped the apocalypse-"
"We are not married Bobby." Rose interrupted, wanting make sure there was no confusion about this.
"Well what would you call yourself?" Bobby replied with slight fondness in his voice.
"I prefer Rose but if you wish to give me a label then try mother of his child or Dean's sister." Rose replied with a soft smile on her face as she looked at the gruff older man.
"Idjits. Anyway as I was saying if you were looking after those two what happened to them when you died?" he was very interested in this answer, cause he was sure that at that time Castiel would have brought them to his place to keep them safe and yet he had never met them before.
"Before I went to the hotel to rescue Sam and Dean I sent Rose and Isobel to an alternate universe to keep them safe in case anything happened to me, oh and for your info Bobby, I didn't die. What Luci killed was another one of my doubles, I was down the hall waiting for him to strike so I could send myself though to the same alternate reality and bring them back home."
What the hell?
"You were in an alternate reality?" Bobby turned to Rose, not really believing the arch angel.
"Yes. It was a very strange place, there was nothing supernatural there, all this" she waved her hand around the room "was just a TV show, a popular one that's true, but just a show non the less." She smiled at this as if there was more to the story than she had shared, but looking at her face he knew he wouldn't get it out of her now so that would have to wait.
"Okay then. So when did you get back from this other reality, hm?"
"Just before I flew us to meet you lot at the cemetery." Gabriel responded producing a bar of chocolate and starting to eat it.
Hmm, he could tell he was only scratching the surface of this tale and not all of that surface was the truth. But enough rang true that he believed that Rose was indeed Deans sister, Isobel was Castiel's child and they had just come back from an alternate reality. That was enough for him, family didn't end with blood after all.
"Fine. I got a spare room you and the kid can have, though I have no stuff for the little one you'll have to get that yourself and I can't guarantee Dean will be too happy with the arrangement but it's my house my rules, got that young lady?"
"Yes sir." Rose replied with a cheeky solute. "but seriously thank you Bobby, I think I would like to be around my family now that they are no longer fighting the devil, and I would like my daughter to get to know her father." The last was said almost wistfully, making Bobby frown slightly, yet another damn thing to understand. Why can't this familie's lives be simple?
So this is as far as I have pre written. If you want any more you need to review or pm me to let me know. Hope you enjoyed it so far, and yes I know that it is slow to start but it will pick up greatly from here on in. Though should probably mention it will concentrate more on the thoughts and feelings and interactions of the characters that a completely crazy plot line, I think.
Anyway hope you enjoyed it so far R & R. Cheers.
