Raising Angels 101

Chapter 10

"Mama"

Sam looked down at the Angel tugging on his pants.

"Zachie took my toy and won't give it back" the now five year old Balthazar pouted.

Sam looked over to the eight year old Angel who was playing with the Spider-man action figure.

"Tell Zachariah, to give back your toy"

Balthazar nodded, he left the kitchen and went over to his brother, Sam watched to see if there was to going to be any problems, when there were none he went back to warming up the bottle for Anna who was chirping happily in his arms.

"Sam"

The young hunter turned around, and looked at Joshua, the older Angel had Uriel in his arms, the Hatchling had a plush green and red stripped ball in his mouth.

"Yes?"

"I will be returning to Heaven, Father has an assignment for me and I will not know how long I will be gone"

"That's fine, Dean and I can handle things, and we have Cupid if it gets too bad"

Joshua nodded, the Angel then frowned when the Hunter suddenly froze and stared off into the distance.

"Sam?" he called.

The Angel shifted his sibling and moved closer to the man

"Sam!"

Sam jumped, and blinked at the Angel.

"What?"

Joshua stared at him before shaking his head; the hallucinations had been coming more persistent, even the Fledglings were starting to notice. Dean had suggested putting up the wall, but Joshua couldn't, he was not a warrior or healer, he was a merely messenger and his powers were very limited.

Dean had not been happy about that.

So the two had sat down with the Fledglings while Sam was out shopping, and explained that their Mother was sick and if they saw him staring off into space they should get Dean, Joshua or Cupid. If none of them were available then they should try getting their Mother's attention.

"Mama!"

Sam sighed and went over to fighting Angels.

~.~

Dean took Raphael, and Michael, shopping for food, actually; Sam made him go. They needed some things and it was Dean's turn anyway, only his brother was reluctant to leave him alone. Sam had kicked his brother out with a list and the two Archangels.

When the three came back, Dean stared at his brother and the now five year old Anna.

"Sam"

"Oh, you guys are back, did you get everything?" Sam said.

"Yep!" Raphael said after putting the food on the counter and hopped over to his mother and sister.

"Uncle Dean flirted with the lady at the check-out counter" Michael informed.

Sam snorted and looked over at his brother who had yet to move from the door, the younger male frowned.

"Something wrong?" Sam asked.

"You're doing hair" Dean finally said.

Sam looked down at the Angel in his lap whose hair he was doing, in her lap was the doll they brought her, she was doing its hair.

"Yeah, did her nails too"

"Always knew you were a girl" Dean mumbled as he made his way to the kitchen to put the things away.

Sam shrugged, Anna didn't want to play with her brothers, saying they were too rough, Sam had offered to read to her or watch TV, the Angel didn't find any of it appealing so Sam asked her what she wanted and that's how he found himself doing hair and nails; after finding everything in the Mary Poppins's bag. Dean looked at the Angel's hair that had gotten longer, it was now braid in swirled patterns and went down to hang over shoulders, her toes and nails were painted black with white tips.

"I use to do this in Stanford to get money, scholarship could only go so far, it was Jess's idea when she found out that I knew how" Sam said.

"Who—"

"Remember that time when stayed in Atlanta for nearly half a year, and I was always hanging out with that girl Maria"

Dean nodded, the only reason he remembered her was because he kept teasing his brother about them being together, that, and her older sister was really flexible.

"Her mom owned a hair solon, and since we hung out there a lot, I picked up a few things"

"Huh" Dean said, and wondered how he missed that.

So much teasing materiel missed.

"What about the nails?" Dean then asked.

"Jess"

"….Oh"

"Done yet Mommy?" Anna asked.

"Almost" Sam said.

Dean watched before shaking his head, sure he was going to tease his brother about it, but he was glad his brother found a way to make money at Stanford that didn't involve one of his greatest fear, his brother having to sell his body.

~.~

"Dean!"

Dean swatted the hand away, and rolled over.

"Dean, wake up!"

Dean growled and sat up, "What?" he snapped, instantly regretting it when he saw his brother's wide frantic, watery eyes, "Sammy, what's wrong?"

"My egg is gone!" Sam whimpered.

"What?"

"My egg is gone! Someone took my egg!"

Dean looked over at the nest to find that the sheets and pillows had been scattered and the egg was in fact gone, the Angels were all around the room looking for the egg, Dean took a deep breath and tried to calm his racing heart; when he got that under control, he turned his attention to his nearly hyperventilating brother.

"Sam, Sammy!"

Dean grabbed his brother by the shoulders, barely noticing the Angels surrounding them.

"Look at me" he ordered

Hazel eyes looked at his brother.

"I need you to calm down, breath"

"But—"

"Breath"

Slowly, Sam regained his normal breathing.

"Okay?" Dean asked.

Sam nodded though his eyes frantically searched the room.

"Okay" Dean said letting go and getting out of bed, "tell me what happened."

"M-M-Michael woke me up and told me that the egg was g-g-gone. I-I looked everywhere b-but—"

"Breath Sammy"

"Uncle Dean"

Dean looked at the eldest Angel.

"I've called for Joshua" he informed.

Dean nodded and went back to his brother, who had calmed down and was now holding onto as many of the Angels as he could as though they were disappear as well, the Angels clinging back. The Hunter wondered what could enter their highly-protected room, steal an Angel's egg and get out unheard.

"Dean"

The older Winchester turned to the door to see Joshua standing at the door, Dean blinked when he got a good look at the Angel, he looked tired.

"Brother!" Gabriel cried from his mother's arms, "Brother, the egg is gone and Ma's really upset!"

Joshua's eyes widen and he looked at the destroyed empty nest.

"How did this happen?" Joshua asked.

They had to calm Sam down at least five times, the Angels at least two, as they explained.

"I will look into this" Joshua said, blinking when Cupid appeared next to him, looking extremely nervous, dressed in pants and a shirt (Dean had forced the other to wear some kind of clothes when with them, after nearly getting arrested at the local drug store). In his arms was…..

"My egg!" Sam let go of his Angels and went over to the Cherub, the younger ones behind him, he took the egg into his arms.

"You took the egg brother?" Joshua asked surprised.

"Um not exactly" Cupid said scratching the back of his head and looked behind him.

Large pale grey eyes peeked from behind the Cupid's legs, along with a familiar face.

Dean's eyes widen, Sam's breath hitched.

"L-Lucifer"