Author's notes: So my original plans for this chapter got scraped after I realized it wasn't how I wanted it to go. Instead, I bumped somethings up. My story is meant to be Canon Divergent and this is where it starts to take that path. Everything is about to go down.

The Winchester Sister Tales: The Story

Chapter 10: Gabriel's Vessel

"And the angel said to her, ""Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.""

- Luke 1:30

She was gone.

Dean and Sam panicked, looking around for their sister. She was just here in the motel with them last night. She had fallen asleep next to Sam and then this morning when they woke up, she was gone.

There was no sign or note of her going anywhere. Jayne would never do this to them. She always left a note of some kind to tell them where she was.

Sam began calling her number, but found her phone in the room with them. Next step was to try Bobby and then Mick. No go.

Dean began to call Castiel, hoping the angel could help them locate their sister. Within a minute he was there.

"I haven't been able to find her." The Angel reported. "I can't even sense her."

Dean and Sam wondered worryingly were Jayne could have gotten to.

Jayne opened her eyes groggily, smelling dirt around her. Her blue eyes fully opened to see she was in a forest. That explained the smell of dirt. She furrowed her brows, confused as to how she got here. She was chatting with Gabriel in a dream.

The forest was big and vast, many green big trees surrounding it. The only thing that visibly told where the way out lead was a small dirt path. Jayne picked herself up, but not before noticing she was wearing a blue dress with a little white apron, just like Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Even her feet were covered with white stockings and black flats.

Jayne sighed, realizing the only one who would do something like this to her had to be the Trickster.

She yelled around her for him to hear. "Alright, I know you're behind this. Show yourself Loki. I need to have a talk with you anyway."

"I knew you'd figure it out. What do you want to talk about?" Loki's voice boomed from above in the sky.

"Come down here so I can talk to you face to face."

Loki chuckled. "Aw, but that would make this game way too easy. Besides, I don't want you trying to stake me again."

Jayne rolled her eyes. "Why are you doing this?"

"I needed to talk with you myself." He replied.

"And what exactly do you have to say?"

"You have to play the game first to find out."

Jayne looked down at her dress. "You mean, play your little Alice in Wonderland game? I don't think so."

"Then we will both be here, forever wondering what the other has to say."

Jayne crossed her arms, growing more frustrated with him. "Oh, you won't have to wonder what I have to say because I'll say it right now. How dare you toy with Sam by killing Dean over and over again. I thought working for an archangel would make you kind, not a dick."

Ah, so she still hasn't caught onto it yet.

"I had to teach Sam a lesson. He needed to know how to live without his brother." He paused before continuing. "I'm going to do the same for you."

"Teach me a lesson?" Jayne asked, finding this ridiculous.

"It sounds so kinky when you say it that way. Yes." Loki told her. "Play the game and learn the lesson from it."

"And will I find out what you have to tell me and then go home?" She asked.

"Yes."

With a snap of his fingers, it felt like the clock on the game began. Jayne could hear voices talking off in the distance. It sounded like Sam and Dean. She began to run to it, finding both of her brothers talking with each other.

"Do you think we should tell her?" Sam asked Dean, not even noticing Jayne there.

Dean sighed, frustrated greatly over something. He looked like he was debating with himself. "No, we promised Dad we wouldn't tell her. We promised to keep her safe. She's better off not knowing about them."

"Tell me about what." Jayne spoke, causing the both of them to look in her direction. She felt a chill down her spine. "What are you trying to keep me safe from?"

They both looked as if they were trying to find something to say to her. "Uh, the demons that are after you." Dean answered.

"Seriously? I can tell when you're lying." Jayne replied, looking to them with a sense of worry. "Just tell me."

Sam sighed, giving in. He couldn't lie to his little sister who looked up to him so much. "The truth about you."

"What about me?" Jayne gave a nervous laugh. "Just cut to the chase already Sam, you're scaring me."

Suddenly the surroundings changed, the forest was gone and so were Sam and Dean. The Slayer found herself in a dark room, it looked like a living room. She could hear a couple talking in the distance and a baby crying. Jayne began to walk upstairs, trying to figure out what was going on.

She peeked around the corner to find the couple in the nursery room. At first she thought it would be her parents, Mary and John, but it wasn't. These people were different. She had never seen them before.

"Why are you showing me this?" She whispered out to the Trickster.

The couple looked happy as the mother cradled her baby and the father held up a toy for her to play with. It made Jayne want to cry from how happy and cute the scene was. She always wanted a family like that. She didn't get to know her mother, but John was a somewhat good father. Granted, he went out hunting all the time and she only had few happy father-daughter times with him, but Jayne figured that was better than nothing. She cherished those moments with him the most.

But she always wanted something more though.

The couple began to walk away, causing Jayne to flee and hide in one of the rooms. They walked past and went into their bedroom. She looked back over to the baby to see the sight that took her breath away. It was Gabriel and he was at the baby's bedside, talking to her. She could see his true form clearly this time.

"Hey Jayne, it's me again." He said.

Those words causing her to freeze in the hallway. He was talking to her...as a baby. The baby just giggled, reaching up her little hands towards the angels. Jayne felt tears coming to her eyes as she began to inch closer to the scene.

"My, you're just a little ball of energy already, aren't cha?" Gabriel chuckled, looking happily to her. He paused, looking solely sad for a minute. It made Jayne wonder what he was thinking. "I'm sorry for wanting nothing to do with you at first." Jayne's heart clutched. "I just, I thought it was best. Now I see how wrong I was."

"Gabriel...?" Jayne spoke out, at a loss for words at everything happening.

The archangel didn't seem to hear her and continued talking to the baby. "I'm also sorry for what happened to your parents. I should have stayed around longer that night. I should have protected-" He bit his lip, anger evident in his tone.

Jayne looked to him, confused. What was he talking about? "What's going on Loki? You think this funny?" She yelled out to him again.

"No. I'm showing you the truth."

"The truth about me?"

"Yes."

"Are you saying that these people are my parents?" She asked him, fearfully, tears already falling from her eyes.

"Yes."

"THAT"S A LOAD OF BULLSHIT!" Jayne screeched at him from the top of her lungs. "You've played tricks on my brothers, but I thought you said you would never play tricks on me. Now I see how wrong you are. I hate you!"

Gabriel turned from the baby to look at Jayne. "It's true." He said.

Jayne jumped back, startled that he could hear her, much less he was talking to her now. "No, it can't be." Gabriel looked to her sympathetically. "I'm Jayne Winchester, I'm a Winchester. My mom and Dad are Mary and John Winchester. My brothers are Sam and Dean Winchester."

"I'm sorry." Was all the archangel could say to her.

She looked to him, eyebrows furrowed with confusion, before looking back to the ceiling. "Loki, get your ass down here right now and speak to me face to face!"

"I am." Gabriel said, walking over to her.

"What?" Jayne shook her head. "Stop playing with me."

"It's me Jayne." The archangel said. "I'm Loki and Gabriel. It's been me all along."

She gave him a ludicrous look, squinting her eyes and studying him, before finally putting all the pieces together in the puzzle. "Oh my god."

Suddenly Castiel's voice sounded from around them. "Jayne, it's the Trickster. He's too powerful and I can't-"

Gabriel snapped his fingers and the other's voice faded away. Jayne narrowed her eyebrows at him. "What's going on?" He didn't answer. She tried again. "What did you do?"

They looked into each other's eyes, Jayne challenging him and Gabriel trying not to stand down from the challenge. Jayne jumped back quickly seeing the archangel was surrounded in a circle of fire. He snapped his fingers and the Slayer looked to find herself in a Warehouse, her brothers off to the side.

"Jayne!" Sam and Dean both said, running towards their sister. They took her into a hug as she remained frozen. When they pulled back she looked to them with a blank expression, still trying to process all that happened.

"What did you do to her?" Dean yelled, glaring at the archangel.

"I showed her the truth." Gabriel hinted to them. Both boys hitched their breath, glancing to their sister. Gabriel clapped his hands, looking to the holy oil bounding him in the circle. "Well played, boys. Well played. Where'd you get the holy oil?"

"Well, you might say we pulled it out of Sam's ass, thanks to Cas's help." Dean replied sarcastically, receiving a look for Sam.

"Where'd I screw up?" Gabriel asked them.

"Well, aside from kidnapping our sister, you didn't. Nobody gets the jump on Cas like you did." Sam answered, glaring at the archangel.

"Mostly it was the way you talked about Lucifer and Jayne."

"Meaning?" Gabriel looked lost at what he was trying to get to.

Dean explained it to him. "Well, call it personal experience, but nobody gets that angry unless they're talking about their own family." Gabriel looked irritated by this.

"Cas told us Lucifer has four brothers. So which one are you? Grumpy, Sneezy, or Douchey?" Sam asked.

"Gabriel..." Jayne finally spoke, her voice cracking. It seemed she snapped back into place, but was trying to keep herself together.

Sam looked to his sister, worried, but with a raise brow. "Gabriel? The archangel?"

Jayne nodded, her eyes focused blankly on the angel. "Guilty." He replied. Sam put a hand on his sister's shoulder, but she jumped back.

"You're Jayne's Guardian angel?" Dean asked, finding this hard to believe.

Gabriel nodded. "Yes I am."

"What did you mean by you showed her the truth?" Sam questioned, wanting to comfort Jayne.

The Archangel looked over to him, a serious expression on his face. "What do you think I mean Sam."

"Okay, Gabriel. How does an archangel become a trickster?" Dean asked, not noticing how Jayne was acting.

The smirk came back on Gabriel's face, looking to Dean. "My own private witness protection. I skipped out of heaven, had a face transplant, carved out my own little corner of the world. Till you two screwed it all up."

"What did Daddy say when you ran off and joined the pagans?"

"Daddy doesn't say anything about anything."

"Then what happened? Why'd you ditch?" Sam asked him.

Dean chuckled, looking over to Sam. "Do you blame him? His brother is the literal devil."

Gabriel finally lost his patience at that, snapping at the brothers. "Shut your cakehole. You don't know anything about my family. I love my father, my brothers. Love them. But watching them turn on each other? Tear at each other's throats? I couldn't bear it! Okay? So I left. And if you don't stop the breaking of the seals, it's going to happen all over again."

"Then help us stop it." Sam told him.

"There aren't that many seals left boys. This is your mess you have to clean up. You're the ones who started it." Gabriel told them bluntly.

Dean rolled his eyes, giving him a murderous look. "You wanna see the end of the world? You wanna see Lucifer rise?"

Gabriel threw his hands up, shouting. "I want it to be over! I have to sit back and watch while you fail to stop the seals from being open, and have us be one step closer to setting my brother free. Then after that, I have to watch my own brothers kill each other thanks to you two! I don't care who wins, I just want it to be over."

"It doesn't have to be like that. There has to be some way to, to pull the plug." Sam suggested, desperate to try anything.

Gabriel let out a laugh. "You do not know my family. What you guys call the apocalypse, I used to call Sunday dinner." The archangel sighed, shaking his head. "That's why there's no stopping this from happening, because this isn't about a war or demon's bringing their daddy back from the cage. It's about two brothers that loved each other and betrayed each other. You'd think you'd be able to relate."

Sam and Dean glanced at each other. "What are you talking about?" Sam asked.

Gabriel whistled, his expression falling. "You sorry sons of bitches. You don't know what's in store for you if Lucifer's set free."

"Enlighten us." Dean remarked.

"Now tell me if this sounds familiar: Michael, the big brother, loyal to an absent father, and Lucifer, the little brother, rebellious of Daddy's plan."

"What are you getting at?" Sam asked, looking to him confused.

Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Lucifer is going to need a vessel if he's set free and Michael is going to need one to fight him and start the Apocolypse. And you two just happen to be the vessel's for the both of them." Sam and Dean looked between each other, shocked. "You were born to this, boys. It's your destiny! It was always you! As it is in heaven, so it must be on earth. One brother has to kill the other if you don't stop the breaking of the seals."

The three siblings looked to the archangel at a loss for words.

Gabriel continued, having more to say as he rested his eyes on the Slayer. "And let's not forget your role in this as well Jayne. You were born to this as well, but, you were chosen to be the Slayer and kill Lucifer." He looked at her sympathetically again. "You're most like me, the younger sibling, caught in the crossfire of your two brothers fighting, just wanting peace to come back between you all again."

"Are you saying I'm your vessel?" Jayne spoke, her throat felt dry doing so.

"Yes, but you don't have to worry about me stealing it from you. I'm perfectly content in this one." Gabriel said, giving her a small smile. Jayne looked away from him, having a difficult time looking at him.

"No, that's not gonna happen." Dean commented. "We refuse to be their vessels."

"I'm sorry, but it will." Gabriel sighed. "Guys. I wish this were a TV show. Easy answers, endings wrapped up in a bow...but this is real, and it's gonna end bloody for all of us. That's just how it's gotta be."

Jayne walked up to Gabriel, standing in front of the holy fire, looking at him. "Is what you showed me true?"

"What did he show you?" Sam dared to ask.

She looked behind her to her brothers, eyes narrowed. "My true parents and the fact that you've been hiding it from me."

Dean and Sam sighed, hesitating with it, before finally giving in. "Yes, it's true."

Jayne couldn't believe it. It just- it could be true. No. But yet, it explained how she always felt so out of place in this family. "So I'm not really a Winchester? I'm not really your sister?" She choked out through the tears. They nodded. "And you lied to me!"

"We were trying to protect you." Dean started, but Jayne put a hand out to stop him.

She turned back to Gabriel, her eyes puffy and serious. It sent chills down the archangel's back. "Bring Castiel back now." Gabriel gave her that look of challenge once again, but she wasn't messing around. "Gabriel, please."

He snapped his fingers and the angel returned. Dean ran to him. "Cas, you okay?"

He nodded. "I'm fine." He looked to the archangel. "Hello Gabriel."

"Hey bro." Castiel just glared.

"Okay, we're out of here. Come on, Sam and Jayne." Dean turned, heading for the door.

Jayne didn't follow, still keeping her eyes on the archangel, debating what to say to him next. There was so much she wanted to say, so many emotions she was feeling. She felt so tired from it all.

"Jayne, I'm sorry." Gabriel said to her.

Dean stopped at the door, turning back around. "Jayne!"

She began to walk away towards her brothers. "Jayne, don't tell me you're gonna leave me here forever?" Gabriel called out to her, shocked. She stopped in her tracks.

"No. We're not, 'cause we don't screw with people the way you do. And for the record? This isn't about some prize fight between your brothers or some destiny that can't be stopped. This is about you being too afraid to stand up to your family." Dean pulled the fire alarm roughly, causing the sprinklers and alarm to go off. "Don't say I never did anything for you." He turned back, heading out the door with Sam and Castiel.

Gabriel looked down from the sprinkler to notice Jayne was still standing still. She turned back around to face him, walking towards him. The fire in the circle had already disappeared by this time. "You know, I trusted you. I looked up to you, the archangel Gabriel, my guardian angel. I thought you would never lie or betray me, not like the Trickster did, but it turns out you're just the same person."

Gabriel looked saddened by this, even guilty. "Jayne, I-"

Jayne began to let out the sobs that were violently fighting her within. "Now, I don't even know who you are anymore." She wiped away her tears, wanting to get her words out. "But I want to know you. The real you. I shouldn't, but I do. Let's try to start over." She held out her hand for him to take.

The archangel looked at it, confused and bewildered for a moment. This girl who had every right to be mad at him for lying to her amazed him. Here she was, trying to move past what he did and trying to forgive him. Wanting to get to know the real him, when she could have just easily walked away and left him in the dust.

He accepted her hand, putting his own into hers. We will see what happens. "Yes, let's start over."

Author's note, again: I didn't meant to make this as long as I did, but it just wrote itself pretty much. I bumped it up because it made more sense to me Canon Divergent wise, especially with what I'm going for in this story. It was important for Jayne to find out who The Trickster/Gabriel really was. He means so much to her, but she doesn't know the REAL him. Now, everything else between them with the vessel thing and Jayne's family will be explained in chapters coming up.

I was originally going to have Chuck "accidentally" tell her the truth about her family, but finding out from Gabriel is a bit better. Also, Jayne may seem weirdly chill about it at the end of this chapter, but next chapter is when it's brought to life of how she feels about it. Of course Jayne was going to find out about her true heritage sooner or later, it plays a KEY ROLE in this story.

My sweet, precious girl though trying, and I do mean, trying, her best to start off on the right foot with this archangel again, even though she has every right to be pissed at him, which she is. It's called forgiveness. But who knows what might happen again? Heh.

See you in the next chapter. Let me know how this chapter was by leaving feedback. I won't know unless you say something. Thanks.