Little Angels

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Chapter 8

Castiel woke up on a bed in a bright white room. Sitting up, he noticed many other beds in front of and beside him.

"You're up," Gabriel said from his left while stretching out his back, "I didn't know any angel could sleep for this long."

Gabriel smiled fondly at the young angel's face as he yawned and sat up slowly. Castiel's eyes were watering lightly from the yawn and no one could deny that he looked absolutely adorable. Again, Gabriel felt it wasn't necessary to tell the boy that now.

"Are you okay?" Castiel asked, now standing and looking at him.

"Perfectly Cassy," he smiled, showing the young angel that he was just that. He was unsure of the young angels state, as his expression was hard to read.

"How are you feeling?"

"Good," Castiel muttered as he noticed the pure white suit his brother was wearing.

Gabriel wasn't one to go with what everyone else thought so he never wore a suit like all the others. He preferred baggy clothing to the usual formal attire of his brothers. That's why, when Castiel looked upon his brother, he knew something important was happening.

"What are doing?" He asked bluntly, not wanting to prolong the archangel's answer.

"It's my turn to go down to earth," Gabriel smiled at his younger sibling, "I'm going to tell a lucky woman that she's going to have a child."

Castiel opened his mouth to reply but was unsure of what to say.

"That doesn't seem that important..." Castiel muttered more to himself that Gabriel.

"Joshua found me this morning and informed me that father is sending a son to earth to live amongst the humans. He said that he's chosen a mother and I need to tell her everything," Gabriel explained to the young boy, shifting the suit jacket on his shoulder; he really wasn't used to it yet.

"Why doesn't he just send one of us?"

"That Cassy, is a good question," Gabriel replied standing and placing a hand on his shoulder, "Our father works in mysterious ways."

Castiel nodded and stood also.

"I must be off," Gabriel sighed, "Look after everyone while I'm gone, I know you can."

Gabriel ruffled Castiel's hair and poked his nose gently before giving him a small wave of his hand. Giving him one last smiled, he clicked his fingers and disappeared.

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Gabriel arrived in the young women's kitchen as she was cleaning the floor. She was young with long, dark hair and fair skin. A loose fitting blue dress hung on her figure and a white apron was tied around her waist. When the archangel appeared in front of her she dropped her cloth in sheer surprise.

Gabriel had surrounded himself by angelic light for dramatic affect and to be honest, he was quite fond of the perfect image the humans had created of his family. It was a thousand times better than the truth that was for sure.

"Who are you?" The girl asked, after the initial shock, her body still jittering slightly in fear.

"Don't be afraid," Gabriel said bobbing down to her height and dropping the lighting affect so he didn't unintentionally blind her, "I'm Gabriel the archangel and I'm hear to give you some good news from God."

The woman looked up at the archangel's face and nodded slightly, "Okay, " she replied calming slightly.

Gabriel looked at her, "What's your name?"

"Mary," she replied a little confused, she thought God's messenger would be aware of her name if he had an important message for her.

"Well Mary, have you got a fella?" he asked snapping his fingers and sitting down on the chair that materialized.

"Y-yes," she stuttered, shocked by the sudden appearance of a wooden chair.

"You need to see him right away because you are going to have God's child," Gabriel informed her, a comforting smile on his face.

Her features widened at the wondrous news and she looked at Gabriel, tears of joy forming in her eyes.

"Why me? Why now?" She asked.

"That's what we're all wondering," Gabriel murmured, plucking a sweet from thin air and sliding it in his mouth, "Can't really tell you anything else except; father wants you to call the boy Jesus. Sorry about that."

Gabriel really wasn't greatly impressed by the choice of the name and wasn't a hundred percent sure why his father had chosen it but again, it wasn't his place to doubt his father's wishes.

"Thank you so much Gabriel!" She exclaimed standing and smiling lightly at the angel before her, "I promise that I'll be the best mother possible!"

"Good, I'll be going now," Gabriel said clicking his fingers and removing the chair from view and enveloping himself in blinding light, "I'll be back for his birth."

And with that he left the young Mary to inform her, husband of the news.

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Gabriel sat a top the stable where Mary was currently giving birth to his youngest half brother. He sighed deeply and lay back onto the straw covered structure. He gazed at the brightest star, glinting above the barn spreading is brilliant white light over the scene.

The soft cries of the newly born Jesus carried out of the barn alerting the world to his arrival. Animals surrounding the family fell silent and peace surrounded each and every one of them.

It was perfect. The baby wriggled gently in his mothers arms as the father looked down on him with incredible love. All this reminded Gabriel of the times before the humans when he would run with his father across the cloud top, squealing happily with his other siblings.

How times had changed since then. Now his father was never around. He'd vanished. Everything was different and nothing could be done, it seemed, to fix the problem. The youngest angels, like Castiel, would never feel the love Gabriel had once felt with his father.

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