Molly woke up in the middle of a dark room lit only by dozens on candles. Looking around she didn't see one face that she recognized! In fact, it was nothing but a dozen demons just standing around as though they were waiting on some order. As she moved amongst the demons it was clear that they could not see her.
"Well this is a plus."
Molly said with a happy sigh. She looked at the demons as she moved throughout the room until she reached where the majority of the lights were. Her heart stopped the moment that she saw none other than Asmodeus sitting on his little throne of power. Molly immediately turned to go the other directions but was stopped by a thick southern accent.
"Leaving so soon?"
Molly turned to see Asmodeus looking at her with an amused smile on his face. Molly swallowed, willing her self to remain as calm as possible.
"Yep, party's over time to go home."
Asmodeus chuckled.
"Party is far from over. Don't worry, I ain't after you."
Molly raised an eyebrow as she stepped back another inch.
"Well you aren't getting Gabriel either you stupid son of a bitch!"
Asmodeus chuckled again.
"I don't want him either. I have my eye on another prize."
Molly crossed her arms over her chest the last thing that she wanted was to appear weak in front of the asshat.
"Yeah, well I suggest that you just stop screwing with people because you aren't going to be getting anywhere."
Asmodeus sat down on his throne watching Molly with a smirk on his face. He knew that he had the upper hand here and he was about to use it.
"I kinda lied to you pretty lady. The thing I want is inside of you...your and Gabriel's child."
Molly's mouth dropped.
"You stupid fuck I am not pregnant!"
Asmodeus rolled his eyes,
"Maybe not now but you will be and when it happens I'll be waiting."
Molly felt herself beginning to tremble with rage.
"Gabriel won't let you. You'll be outnumbered. You know you will. You aren't a fool."
Asmodeus stood with a round of icy laughter.
"You think that archangel is going to stick around?Girly you tell him and he'll be gone and I'll be waiting."
Molly's eyes snapped open. She sat up quickly ignoring Gabriel who was looking at her like she had lost her mind.
"Molly, what is wrong?"
Molly shook her head. She didn't turn to look at Gabriel. It wasn't because of the dream itself it was because that she was allowing herself to be affected by it.
"Sugar?"
Molly turned back to face Gabriel.
"It's nothing."
Gabriel sighed, pulling her back to him.
"And I was born yesterday. What's going on?"
Molly shook her head, feeling even more stupid if possible.
"Bad dream. Asmodeus."
Gabriel's golden eyes were looking more afraid by the moment.
"You're gonna have to talk to me sugar."
Gabriel said in almost a whisper. Molly took a breath.
"Gabe, can I get pregnant?"
Gabriel's face went from afraid to worried beyond measure.
"Well I suppose its possible. One thing that I have learned lately is anything is possible. Why do you ask?"
Molly swallowed,
"Asmodeus said that I would be pregnant soon and he would be wanting our baby. He said that he wasn't interested in you anymore. Gabriel, we have to do something! That creepy mother fucker can't get our kid, if we have one!"
Gabriel was silent for a few moments before taking Molly's hands in his.
"Sugar, you are going to have to breath. If you get pregnant I think that I will know about it."
Molly looked back to her archangel.
"Gabriel when we are together 95% of the time you are inside of me. It isn't like we are really doing anything to prevent it."
Gabriel groaned again.
"Molly, everything is going to be fine. It was just a dream, nothing more. You don't have to worry about anything! I'm also taking care of Ketch and his making a move on you."
Molly's mouth dropped.
"How did you know? Wait, your not going to kill him are you? I mean, yeah James is annoying but he backed down when I told him that I was taken."
Gabriel smirked.
"Nah, I'm just going to threaten him really well. Kinda hard to go and kill the guy that saved your ass. He does it again though...well it won't end well for him."
The following months passed without excitement. Lucifer and Raphael were laying low on the radar and even Asmodeus wasn't putting a toe on anyone's radar. Sam and Dean had gone out on a few hunting trips. Molly spent her time either underneath Gabriel or helping Jack learn more about the new world around him.
It wasn't until mid spring did all of the crazy return with a vengeance! Molly stood in the kitchen fixing Jack's breakfast one morning.
"Jack, do you want eggs or assuage?"
She called over her shoulder. Jack sat at the table playing with the new laptop that Dean bought him. The boy looked up with an eager smile.
"Eggs, please!"
He said cheerfully. Molly smiled going back to fixing random things. She knew that she could snap her fingers and food would appear on the table but she enjoyed cooking. Judging from the excited smile on Jack's face as he watched her; he enjoyed the cooked meals too.
Molly carefully took the egg out of the carton and went to crack it. The moment that the gooey yellow yolk hit the frying pan, Molly felt strangely ill. She stood motionlessly looking down hoping that the feeling would pass. What a hell of a time to get sick!
"You okay?"
Jack questioned. Molly turned putting a hand on her head. Jack quickly stood and yelled for Gabriel. Before Molly had time to tell Jack that everything would be good, Gabriel was in the room.
"What's wrong?"
He questioned. Gabriel looked between Molly and Jack a little confused.
"Umkay, this is where someone talks. "
Jack quickly motioned to Molly.
"Something is wrong. She got really pale and stiff."
Gabriel's worried gaze turned to Molly. He quickly walked to her putting his hands underneath her chin tilting her face to his. In the time that he and Molly had been together she hadn't even been remotely near being ill. He internally rolled his eyes at the thought of Molly being sick! That was the last thing that he would let happen to her!
Molly watched her lover's face go from concerned to straight panicked as he jumped back from her.
"Oh no! No, no, no this wasn't supposed to happen!"
Molly couldn't help but looking confused.
"Gabriel, calm down. What is going on?"
Gabriel looked over his shoulder at Jack, who was also looking very uncomfortable. Rolling his eyes, Gabriel knew that there would be no preventing the awkwardness that was about to happen. Gabriel turned back around to face Molly. Her beautiful face was filled but nothing but worry as she looked to him for some kind of explanation.
"You're pregnant. I can't do this Molly."
Molly's mouth dropped. She held up a hand .
"Wait a minute! You can't do this? Excuse me?! Are you hearing yourself?!"
From cold vacant expression on Gabriel's face Molly received her answer! Her nightmare from months ago came flooding back.
"Gabriel, you promised."
Gabriel shook his head.
"I was just running my mouth. I didn't think this would actually happen. I was kind of banking on our genetics not working well together."
Molly slammed down that glass that she was holding sending glass shards all over the room.
"Do you know how stupid that sounds? You do realize that I am? What Jack is! How the fucking hell that we were created! You aren't backing out on me now lover boy!"
Gabriel looked down apologetically.
"I have to. You will be in too much danger with me now. If we split Asmodeus won't know what to do. It's better this way."
Molly's mouth dropped. What was Gabriel saying?! How could he think that this would be a logical action?
"Gabriel, if you leave we will be in even more danger! Would you really abandon your own child. Don't be like your father."
Gabriel's face went sour.
"Well I'm sorry sugar. Guess I have more of dad's tendencies then I thought."
Gabriel vanished without a word leaving a devastated Molly and beyond shocked Jack in his wake. He could only hope that they would be able to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives...
(8 months later)
Molly's eyes snapped open as she snapped her fingers exploding her radio without a word. She was sick of every song being the story of her life! It wasn't until Dean came running in ready to attack whatever beast was attacking her. Seeing the pieces of the exploded stereo system, he sighed sitting down on the bed beside Molly.
"That's the third radio this week."
Molly sat up drawing her knees to her chest.
"I'm sorry."
Dean shook his head reaching out putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't be. You have every right to be...this way. Mourning is some of the roughest shit. What you've gone through..."
"Dean, please."
Molly said in barley a whisper. The eldest Winchester stopped in his tracks letting an uncomfortable silence over take them. Molly sighed.
"I need to get over this...this hurting. It's obvious that he isn't coming back. I think his bond was bullshit."
Dean shrugged.
"He's bullshit. Molly, you aren't weak and you sure don't need some archangel to take care of you! I have seen you kick more ass over this past year. You know how to take care of yourself. Its Gabriel's loss. He needed to grow a pair and man up. No man abandons their wife and child like that. What respect for him I lost. But...we're gonna make it. We always do."
Molly looked at her feet for a moment before smiling up at Dean. She could only hope that he would buy her fake smile.
"You're right we always do. We always will."
(21 months later)
Gabriel sat in run down bar miserable. Over the past months he was deeply regretting bailing on Molly. Just like always when the tough got going he bailed. He just didn't know how to cope when things got bad. If he had just held out Molly would have probably showed him how to handle everything. She dealt with him when he was less than angelic. Molly gave up her life for him .Now when she needed him the most he abandoned her.
If he went back now, Molly would probably wouldn't want anything to do with him. Gabriel didn't blame her either! She wouldn't care that their bond was tugging at him and making him almost ill with need. He needed her! If Gabriel needed anymore clues that bonds were real then this was the perfect kick in the ass! There was also the fact that their baby had to be born now and Gabriel of course missed everything!
"Damn it!"
Gabriel growled, scowling at the wall. Everything around him was just getting to be too much! At the moment if he had an archangel blade, Gabriel was tempted to stab himself! Death would be better than all of this misery! It literally seemed like his father was somehow punishing him for everything that he had done!
"Feeling miserable brother?"
Gabriel looked up seeing Raphael looking down at him with a look of faint disdain on his face.
"You could say that. What do you care anyway and what are you doing here?"
Gabriel replied as Raphael sat down.
"I'm here to help you. You're my brother and for some reason I care about your stubborn self."
Raphael looked around the bar slightly disgusted.
"Dirty place this is. What is this music? It's horrid!"
Gabriel's eyes rolled to his brother's disgusted face.
"It's called classic rock."
Raphael raised an eyebrow,
"I don't see how this is classic."
Raphael waited a moment for Gabriel to make a sarcastic comment.
"Are you sure that you aren't Luci in disguise?"
Gabriel snapped. Raphael chuckled.
"No, definitely not."
Gabriel looked back at him appearing angrier than he was moments ago.
"Okay, I fucked up! I shouldn't have left her! Are you happy?!"
Raphael shrugged.
"Sure, thrilled. I don't know why I am so surprised with you. This behavior just lives up to your reputation. I thought that when you met your soulmate you would calm your ass down. Clearly that was some false hope. Gabriel we all expected more of you. Now look what you have went and done. You went and created some other hybrid creature that could cause some real damage got this earth."
Gabriel's eyes narrowed.
"Don't you even think about hurting the kid."
Raphael rolled his eyes.
"That is the last thing that I want to do. While I may have had regrettable behavior for some time, I am back where I need to be now. My concern is Jack and JoyAnna. You and Lucifer clearly don't think things out."
Gabriel looked down sadly
"Her name is JoyAnna?"
Raphael nodded.
"Yes, regrettably she looks a lot like you."
"Regrettably? What the hell are you talking about?"
Raphael rolled his eyes for the thousandth time in the conversation.
"It causes Molly some grief. How do you think your wife feels knowing that you are out doing god knows what with god knows whom. You made a commitment to Molly not some porn star or hooker. Clearly you are not picky about what is in your bed."
Gabriel looked like someone had force fed him a bunch of Lemonhead candies.
"I want my wife."
Raphael's cold eyes hadn't moved in some time. He was hoping that the ass chewing that he was giving Gabriel would be enough to hit home. Judging by the pained expression in his brother's eyes he was getting somewhere. Too bad that this wasn't the only thing that Raphael had planned for his younger brother for the evening! If Gabriel thought that an ass chewing was all that was going to happen; he had another thing coming!
"Too bad I don't believe you. Come, I have something to show you."
Gabriel didn't move.
"Eh? You think that I am going somewhere with you?"
Raphael nodded.
"You can and you are. I want you to something."
Gabriel frowned,
"What? The last time I went anywhere with you I was left hanging upside down from a tree in heaven."
Raphael smirked.
"That was many many years ago. Time to move on. I am going to show what the future will be like without you in it."
Gabriel mumbled something that sounded like fuck me. Raphael chuckled,
"Far from it. I am not your wife and that would be wrong."
The next thing Gabriel knew he was sitting in the back of a car. Automatically Gabriel recognized Jack sitting in the driver's seat and beside him was who had to be his daughter. Gabriel's heart began to pound looking at her. She was a perfect mixture of himself and Molly. Her golden eyes were focused in the same direction as Jack.
"This is stupid Jack! We need to be doing something."
Jack shook his head.
"Nope we need to observe the situation."
JoyAnna groaned.
"I say kick ass and ask questions later."
Gabriel meanwhile, looked back to Raphael who was sitting beside him as though nothing new as happening. Raphael motioned to his niece and nephew casually.
"And I give you the new Sam and Dean Winchester. She's a loose cannon and he's the voice of reason."
Gabriel's mouth dropped.
"They are hunters? Oh sweet Jesus!"
Raphael chuckled motioning forward.
"It gets better."
JoyAnna and Jack were still arguing over the next course of action.
"Joy, its too risky, even with our powers..."
"Jack, come on. Between the two of us, our grace, and our weapons I think we are lethal to whatever is in there."
Jack groaned.
"Look, Joy, I get that our father's never set much by the rules..."
JoyAnna held a hand up.
"Don't bring them into this. Clearly they don't give a good god damn about what happened to us so fuck it."
"You sound like Gabriel."
JoyAnna's golden eyes narrowed at Jack.
"Don't make me kick you. If I ever meet him I am kicking him in the shins. Anyhow, Jack we don't need to be having this conversation right now. We turned out just fine. You are just fine. Cas, Sam, and Dean have done just fine by us. We need to to what we were meant to do. Save people and kill things. We're doin just fine without them."
Jack looked like he felt a little better.
"I think we should call Raphael. He would have a lot more insight on this case."
JoyAnna shook her head.
"That would be a big hell no. I am not about to rip Raphael away from his Jim Buffet CD's and margaritas and be lectured for hours about being reckless."
Jack smirked.
"Well you are..."
"Shut it!"
Jack laughed.
"Oh please, you are so reckless! If I recall properly you jumped on a vampire. It was also you that had a demon tied up and was mock praying for it."
JoyAnna smirked.
"Good times."
Gabriel looked back to Raphael shaking his head.
"Get me the fuck out of here!"
Raphael snapped his fingers leaving Gabriel back in the same bar. Looking around Gabriel didn't see his brother.
"Yeah, that isn't happening!"
He growled before disappearing without a trace.
Dean sat in the library looking at a cat magazine that Cas had brought home. He chuckled at a couple of photos of kitten in teacups before the sound of wings got his attention. Looking up, Dean's rage meter went from 0 to 1,000 when seeing Gabriel in front of him.
"Son of a bitch what are you doing here?!"
Gabriel fought the urge to be a smartass.
"I need to talk to Molly."
Dean put the magazine down and quickly stood up.
"You aren't going anywhere near her."
Gabriel groaned.
"She's my soulmate. You can't keep her from me."
Dean laughed.
"That's clever feathers! She's your soulmate when you want her to be. You just abandon her any other time. Look she is doing great without you. Your kid doesn't need you coming in and out of her life either."
Gabriel's eyes started to glow making Dean step back automatically.
"Okay, sparkles calm down! What do you care anyway? You bailed as soon as she was knocked up? This kid is evidently pretty scary. I mean look at you, you're an archangel and bailed when you heard about the kid."
Gabriel reached up tugging at his hair.
"I talked to Raphael. He showed me what the future will be like. I need to fix the wrongs that I have caused."
Dean groaned.
"I told him to stay away from you and keep his visions to himself. I didn't even want to see what he had to offer. Whatever happens in the future happens. We'll roll with it. We don't need visions or some jerkwad archangel to keep things smooth. Gabriel, we have enough issues keeping the kid safe from Asmodeus without you ringing the dinner bell."
Gabriel scowled even harder at Dean,
"You of all people know that I am the best person to care for JoyAnna."
Dean raised an eyebrow.
"Raphael told you her name? Come on Gabriel, you would be clueless as to what to do with her."
The two stood arguing for a while longer before Gabriel had enough. Gabriel growled before pushing Dean in the same vision that Raphael showed him. He stood patiently until Dean appeared back in front of him looking uncomfortable.
"Still hate me?"
Gabriel asked casually. Dean looked up uncomfortably.
"Am I really that bad? Wait, don't answer that! Look I don't trust you and I can bet money that Molly won't either. You are going to have to kiss some major ass before she will let you touch her again."
Gabriel looked down.
"I know. I don't expect her to want to be with me again. I just want to make up for what I have done."
Dean crossed his arms over his chest.
"I just don't get it Gabriel! Molly saved your ass. She brought you back from that crazy place you were in and gave you a child. What did you do? You left."
Gabriel looked down miserably.
"I know, I left. I know that is all that I am good for but I want my wife and daughter back. I don't want the porn stars or strippers. I want to do what I was meant to do...seriously this time."
Dean didn't look too convinced but shrugged.
"Well it isn't me that you have to convince. Keep this in mind though; if you hurt Molly or the kid again you'll regret it."
Gabriel nodded,
"Fair enough."
Dean motioned to the den.
"Come on. Molly is on a hunt right now. She is due back today with Sam. JoyAnna is with Cas. Good luck getting her away from him or Jack. She is love with them. And Gabriel? Best not to mention the porn stars or strippers to Molly."
Gabriel shook his head giving Dean the best go to hell expression that he could.
"Duh."
Gabriel followed Dean into the living room.
"Good thing you can't get STD's."
Dean said with a chuckle. He smiled looking in the den where Cas sat in the floor with JoyAnna. The toddler sat in the floor across from Cas. The angel had a matching game between them talking to the baby in Enochian. Dean was used to this. Cas and Jack were always finding ways to keep JoyAnna's little mind challenged. For being only one she was extremely smart. Dean knew it was the angel in her but he was still amazed.
Gabriel meanwhile, was frozen looking at his daughter. Her little round face was focused on the card that Cas was holding out to her. Her golden eyes looked at the card before picking it up and pointing to a card that was in the middle of the rows of cards. She adjusted the stuff rabbit in her arms and turned the card over.
"Very good!"
Cas said with a smile.
"Yay, me!"
Gabriel smiled. Her little voice even seemed almost perfect to him! He was so occupied in watching his daughter focus on the cards that he didn't notice Cas look up.
"Um...Dean?"
Dean nodded.
"Yeah, I know. He is standing there. I'll talk to you about it later."
Cas stood up looking at Gabriel with wide eyes. Dean looked between the two realizing that they were having a silent conversation that he wasn't a part of.
"Well, this is fun."
Dean muttered as JoyAnna stood up and toddled over to Cas. She tugged on his trench coat with a grin. When Cas didn't look down she started to tug hard.
"Cassie! Cassie! Cassie!"
Cas shook his head interrupting Gabriel's long drawn out explanation of what happened and looked down at JoyAnn who was starting to untie his shoes.
"No."
He said calmly before reaching down and picking the child up who automatically went to chew on his tie. Cas coughed politely and flipped his tie over his shoulder.
"I haven't left you little one."
He said that as almost a bitch slap to his brother. In ways, Cas felt guilty seeing the hurt expression in Gabriel's eyes.
"I warn you Gabriel, she is very shy around strangers."
Gabriel nodded sadly as Cas turned. The moment the baby's golden eyes met his; all of Gabriel's past stupid decisions felt even more ignorant. She looked at him for a moment before looking back to Cas.
"Its all right Joy. This is your father."
Cas stepped closer trying to determine if she would go to Gabriel. JoyAnna looked between Cas and Gabriel a moment before flinging her arms around Cas' neck. She crammed her face against Cas' cheek. The angel sighed trying to loosen the child's grip. Gabriel looked down at his feet sadly. Cas was waiting for the archangel to start tearing up. Cas sat JoyAnna down. The toddler took off across the room to Dean holding her hands up with a smile. Dean picked her up.
"That is a pretty dress you are wearing Joy."
Cas turned looking at Dean.
"And she's only pulled it over her head 3 times."
Dean chuckled.
"Yeah, we are gonna have to work on that. Come on darlin, lets go get you a snack. Say bye bye for now."
JoyAnna smiled and waived as Dean walked out of he room. Gabriel looked up as her golden eyes met his again. She was clearly watching every move that he made until he was out of her line of sight. This was not going to be easy!
Once JoyAnna and Dean were out of the room Cas turned back to Gabriel.
"Well have you seen the light?"
Gabriel nodded.
"Yeah, I think my own kid being petrified of me is a good kick in the balls. Bet you're happy!"
Cas shrugged.
"Not really, none of this would have happened if you wouldn't have acted like yourself. It should have been you holding her when she was crying all night not Dean, Molly, Jack, Sam and myself pacing all over this place. You should have been the one that she feels the most comfortable with."
Gabriel groaned.
"Cas, I have had my ass ripped over this for hours over this. I feel awful as it is. Cas, I have regretted leaving for a very long time! Of all my bad decisions this is the worst."
Cas squinted his eyes.
"I do hope you mean that."
Gabriel ran a hand through his hair. He was realizing very quickly that not only did he have to gain Molly's trust back but his brother and the Winchester's as well.
"I mean it more than anything in this world."
Cas' blue eyes locked into Gabriel and stared him down as if he was looking for any signs of deceit. His attention was interrupted when Molly's voice came from the other room.
"Cas? Are you home?"
Cas looked to Gabriel before raising an eyebrow. The last time he had seen this panicked expression on Gabriel's face was the time that Gabriel was first rescued from Asmodeus.
"In the den, Molly. Please make sure that your gun is on safety."
Molly started laughing from the room as she walked in.
"Cas, that is funny. Why would I need to put my gun on...Gabriel."
Molly froze in the doorway. Her blue eyes widened as she looked at the archangel a few feet away. All of the miserable feeling from the past year came flooding back. Molly felt her heart began to pound as she looked at her feet. She quickly turned to walk out of the room but stopped when Cas called her name,
"Molly, wait."
Molly turned. Her eyes hadn't left Gabriel. She was trying to stop that feeling of love that was still there. After everything that he did to her she was still in love with him. He looked awful to put things lightly. To Molly, he looked worse than he did the first time that she met him. She was internally pleased to see that they were actually bonded. He looked as awful as she did. The conversation with Cas came flooding back to her,
"If Gabriel really bonded with you then he will be suffering just like you are. If and when we see him again, he will look bad. The bond will take a lot out of him. If he looks healthy and charming, then the bond was a lie."
Cas' voice pulled her from her thoughts.
"I think we all need to sit down and talk. Molly, please."
Molly looked to Gabriel again. Between the urge to kiss him and beat him over the head with the nearest book she had to find some common ground. She knew that she didn't trust Gabriel right now but that wouldn't stop the fact that they needed to talk. If it wasn't for her own sanity but for JoyAnna.
"Okay."
She said lightly and walked to the couch sitting down. She could only hope that this discussion was going to be something that could fix their problems instead of destroying it further. Only Chuck knew what was about to happen...