I feel really bad. I had like a spazzy spaz fit getting this back and then don't update for about a billion years. WHY AM I SUCH A TERRIBLE PERSON?

As usual, FALLEN ANGEL I AM IMMENSELY GLAD TO HAVE BROUGHT A SMILE TO YOUR FACE!

And thanks to Arkriel who now has this on their alert list. YOU GO! WHOOP!

Anyway, this chapter involves more apples. I don't actually know why, it just happened, so lets just go with it and hope it all turns out okay in the end and I eventually get to the stage where Gabe and Mike and Luce are involved in the story BECAUSE I MISS THEM SO MUCH!

So here we go...

"I have to go."

"WHAT?" Dean all but shrieks.

Ariella rolls her eyes at him, a habit which seems to be becoming more and more common. "In case you hadn't noticed, there's a civil war going on up there and I don't care how 'powerful' Cas is now, I'm not letting my little brother lead an army."

"You seemed to be fine with it before."

Her eyes narrow. "Well before I still had hope of finding someone who would make Raph stop, didn't I? Now, seeing as I'm apparently doomed to never find them, I've decided to step in. I can't just keep sitting around waiting, can I?"

Dean cannot seem to find any response to this. Ariella smiles. "I'm glad you agree. Call if you neeeed me!" She choruses before vanishing.

"'Sup Gramps." Samuel turns quickly to see the angel behind him. Before he can ask why she is here her eyes narrow at him. "Despite the fact that you have some serious explaining to do about your various wheeling and dealings, I'm here to tell you that I am very unimpressed. I'll be keeping an eye on you." And with that she disappeared in a flurry of wind.

It wasn't that Ariella liked fighting. It wasn't even necessarily that she wanted to help Cas as she had told Dean. In fact, it was a bit more of a massive 'up-yours' to Raphael that made it seem so attractive. That and the conversations she constantly overheard would actually start to make sense now she was involved in the actual fighting.

And it meant that she would be able to have discussions with Balthazar like the one she was having with him now as they sat on a park bench waiting for a few of their siblings to arrive. About how wonderfully he had done up his mansion… before it was trashed by Raphael's minions that is. And about how Raphael seemed to be taking 'Dude Looks like a Lady' very seriously. And why that child in the house across the world was staring at them through the window.

Wait what? Ariella's eyes fixed closely on the window, and sure enough a small girl sat there, staring right back at her and tingling across Ariella's skin could only possibly mean one thing, either there was another angel here somewhere that she and Balthazar didn't know about, or this 'Gated Community of Eden Heights' really did have something strange and heavenly going on that she had somehow missed the first time she came here.

The curtains in the window fell back into place and seconds later the front door of the house opened. A child, and really she looked no older than 4 years old skips out, golden hair streaming out behind her as she does. Her eyes widen slightly as she sees the par on the bench, but none the less she continues over towards them, her face breaking into a smile as she reaches them. "Why are you sitting outside my house?"

Ariella is stumped. Why was she sitting outside this girl's house?

"Um… I'm bird watching. Watching rare… birds." She finishes lamely. After a brief pause she looks around before realizing that any trees here look about a year old and this place is very unlikely to have any wild life at the moment. She hopes the girl won't notice.

"But there are no birds here." The girl responds, her eyebrows raised slightly. "Why would you go watchin' birds that aren't here, Miss?"

"I'm just making sure none of them have come while I was away. So I can tell them that they shouldn't be here yet." She hears Balthazar snort from beside her, but she ignores it and continues. "I wouldn't want them to get lost here. They'd have no food or other birds to play with, and then they'd be hungry and lonely. And that wouldn't be very fun at all."

"Right." The child responds, as confused expression on her face.

"- And then she gave me an apple!" Ariella exclaims, throwing her arms in the air wildly, as though she somehow thinks it will add to Sam's understanding of the situation.

"An apple." He deadpans.

Ariella nods enthusiastically. "Not just any apple. ONE OF HER APPLES FROM A TREE IN THE BACKYARD! It was the most amazing thing ever."

Dean throws a quizzical look at his brother across the angels head. Sam nods. "Right. An amazing apple. I thought you said you weren't going back to Eden Heights."

"Well you see, when you don't work something out the first time, you should try it again. It's like making a soufflé like that. You just have to keep trying."

Yes. I did reference soufflé in this chapter. What of it?

WHY DO I REFERENCE FOOD SO MUCH? WHY AM I SO HUNGRY NOW?

Please review. I kinda don't like this chapter as much as all the others. I need constructive criticism and fast!

HELP ME PLEASE!