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Warning: Male pregnancy.

Chapter Thirteen

The scene was horrendous and it looked worse than on television but Cas should have listened when Dean said that they make things look a different way on TV. Either they didn't want to show all this to children or they were waiting for someone to know the scene to truly get them in the act of the crime. He glanced around not seeing anything indicating blood or anything here but he could sense that it was more aiming for outside within the one hundred mile radius than in here anyways. It just happened to blow this place up.

He sighed realizing it had been a total of eighteen weeks and four days since he had last seen Sam. He didn't see anything here but he did see another angel got the same idea and had decided to check out the scene as well.

"What the is going on here Zachariah?"

"This place is totaled and the demons around here have been exorcised making me believe it was another angel doing this. We don't let ourselves get known and we were almost exploited on national television. Next we are going to be told that the demon blood sucker is knocked up. We need to control our priorities and find what is going on here but that's what we are doing. I have a special job for you Castiel."

Cas nodded and the angel went on.

"There's a band of angels in Oklahoma and Florida. I need them to be questioned as to who these demon cult members are. We have a mystical baby coming and I hear we don't have long before it comes. You are willing to do anything to get what I ask done, right?"

Cas nodded again and watched as Zachariah seemed to find the fact that he was above him endearing. Everyone was afraid of Zachariah but then again, ever since he realized his feelings for Sam, hardly anything mattered. Not the angels above him nor did his goal of bringing on the appending apocalypse. He knew it was only going to happen if Sam did what they wanted and they couldn't if they couldn't find Sam which was odd if he thought about it. He used to be able to tell where he was even when he was with Dean.

"Sam Winchester isn't playing into our hands anymore. This is odd. You'd think he'd go after the demon responsible for the trip his brother took to hell. I mean if I was him, I would want to go after her. It would be far more easier for Lucifer to purge the demons if he were released. What is gonna happen before now? We don't know but it doesn't say if they would go away if the baby were to be born-"

"I think that Sam Winchester is out of this equation," Cas admitted bracing himself for Zachariah's anger. "He hasn't been thinking about it for such a long time and I don't blame him for not seeking revenge. It is rather nasty-"

"Michael is gearing to make it happen. What do you think is gonna happen if the apocalypse doesn't happen? Where is that going to leave us? We can't just think to do anything stupid Cas!"

"If it is causing our brothers and sisters to die then I could live without it," Cas explained calmly. "I guess that means I should question these demons and hope that I find Sam Winchester before anything would happen."

"That would be wise," Zachariah told him angrily.

"While it would, it wouldn't tell us anything new," The new voice had Cas whipping his head around to reveal Anna who had threaded her hands through the pockets of her jeans and Zachariah didn't know if he was pleased that she came along or upset that she had evaded capture for so long. "We have the baby and I think if you want to actually believe in the prophecy, it will be born in the summer of this year."

"What makes you think so girl? The prophecy didn't make sense and it could be a demon for all we know-"

Anna interrupted once again.

"It says things that are clear. It will be born under a blue moon most likely and you don't think that it won't be special? It will take an abomination and one of the fallen to make the baby. The abomination could mean Sam Winchester but what definition would mean fallen? Fallen angel perhaps. It would make them fallen if they fell in love without meaning to and made a powerful baby –"

"Which isn't happening. Me make Sam pregnant? Tthat would stupid and would result in him dying-"

"He'd die anyways if a demon would have went and knocked him up but it would take only four months and the demon spawn would kill him. He won't necessarily die if it was your child Cas-"

"I won't even put my enemy through that. Angels shouldn't breed-"

"What he says is true and we will find out if that is what happened." Zachariah dismissed and Anna sighed giving Cas a wary look which he ignored.

Once Zachariah left, Anna turned to him and glared.

"When was the last time you saw him anyways Cas? You love him and I can see why you would be angry if that were to happen because you would have been none the wiser but a baby is supposed to be a blessing-"

"Not if the baby would go on to kill Sam. Sam Winchester cannot die."

"He won't. As long as an angel is nearby to heal him as soon as he has pushed the baby out, he won't die-"

"Why would he go through the pain though Anna?" Anna was surprised by the broken look in his eyes then and couldn't decide whether that meant he was head over heels in love with Sam already or if he even realized how much he blatantly loved Sam already.

"Because he loves you. And when you love someone, sometimes the pain is worth it." She answered as truthfully as she could. "And sometimes when it comes to life and death, love overcomes the fear of dying."

If anything she wouldn't be surprised if he already realized how much he loved him. He was already showing it by fearing something that may or may not be true.

"Well you already know he's important so it's okay to be scared for him too."

"And if I mess up everything I have with him? I never expected to fall for him Anna. And if one of the fallen got together with the abomination to make a baby, where would that leave us afterwards?"

"Get a ring and make him yours. There's no way that his surrogate father would be happy with you if he knew you made a baby and didn't do that."

Cas nodded.

"I'll have to ask Dean about all that. I won't be mad at him either when I find him. I only want him to be okay."

"Of course, that's true no matter who you are that if you love someone you always worry. Dean does that with Sam enough times and they're only brothers."

Cas nodded.

He felt a little less scared but a part of him always would be. If not for the times that he was with Sam, he wouldn't have known the little thing called love with all your life either.

Life, he now came to understand, was too precious to lose.

"What is going on and why are you two fighting at," Sam paused to squint at the alarm clock. "Three o'clock in the morning?"

Meg glared at the trickster who only laughed at the thought of the demon wanting to strangle him. She wouldn't even get close enough if he had his way though, and she only seemed to realize that after Sam had switched on the light looking more pale than normal. Okay so he should be in bed not listening to them fight and the trickster frowned seeing the sheen of sweat on the young Winchester's forehead. He was really not kidding when he said he often felt hot at night. He was probably burning up. Meg pushed him on the couch, glaring back at the trickster ruefully but allowed him to slide onto the couch and feel for the fever. He was warm but wasn't that warm and that left the trickster to breathe a sigh of relief. Sam was breathing shallowly now and seemed to be in a light sleep but he did answer Meg's questions whenever she asked him something.

"you're thirty nine weeks. Should be able to pop that sucker out now."

Sam shook his head and sighed, seemingly falling asleep where he laid now. His belly seemed a little large but that only meant that he was getting ready to pop. He was after all getting really close to his due date. Sam had dozed off now and the trickster was only sure when he heard the unmistakable sounds of soft snoring.

"I think we should just cut the baby out of him. He needs to see a doctor," Meg said with an angry sigh.

"Yeah and listen to him bitch. Besides he needs to see his angel friend. The one he's madly in love with before he should pop that baby out."

"He doesn't look so hot right now though." The trickster nodded at that and Meg sighed. "We should get him to the hospital so that he could get oxygen to assist him before he really does die."

"Or we try my way. I'm a demi God so maybe if I give him some of my blood he would be able to breathe easier tonight." The trickster raised an eyebrow as though waiting for Meg to argue the point.

She didn't and instead got a knife out. Sam fought it though and after determining he was roused from sleep, Meg tried to get his mouth open with no success and instead gave up after he still refused it.

"What are you so afraid of?" Meg asked and Sam squinted against the pale light in the little kitchen.

"I don't want to be a blood sucker," he whispered breathing heavily and the trickster nodded, snapping his fingers. Sam looked hazily confused when a bag of red liquid appeared and the man just smirked when the Winchester looked like he would have appreciated an answer.

"Tell you what. We're going to make this sound like a blood transfusion and then you won't be considered a blood sucking freak. I know you hate needles but if you die, so does baby. Do you think you could sacrifice a needle going into your arm for it?"

Sam finally nodded and felt the poke as the needle slid into the vein. He breathed a sigh of relief and then watched in somewhat morbid fascination as the tube showed the blood going into him. He fell into another light doze soon after but it showed marked improvement already. His face was less pale.

Meg looked over thoughtfully and the trickster just shrugged.

"What can I say, I have the juice and us gods are the closest you could come to an angel right now. Let him sleep right here though and then if he gets worse you could call the angel tart and the brother mutton head. I mean I wouldn't want him to die without them making up."

"Me either. I know that both of them are stupid but Castiel, God that little angel is crazy for him. Seeing them though I know it isn't going great for them and I can't say he's going to be happy knowing that Sammy boy is having a baby but it's got to be the one thing that will stop the angel from being cold."

"Like he'd be cold at finding he's going to be a daddy. He's going to be ecstatic when the baby comes and Sam is fine. They won't ever be having another kid but they'll have one and it would be worth it. Hey you think the prophecy is wrong? I think the prophecy is bogus. It was never about a powerful baby coming into the world and purging it. There will always be evil and the baby coming won't change it."

Meg raised her eyebrows at that.

"No the thing that is all about is love. That's what God tried to teach everyone about. Love. It is powerful in life and even death. You realize that it's considered an ancient protection against evil. If someone dies because of love that evil cannot touch it. The prophecy has been around a long long time and I don't believe for one moment it has any intent other than telling people to live by example and to love as much as they can for as long as they can. They could be so pathetic but it's the reason I started believing in humans."

"You're just a bunch of laughs aren't you?" Meg moistened her lips before standing up. "If it's about love then I get what you're trying to say. You're saying in order for evil not to be able to touch the baby, Sammy has to stop breathing for a moment. Isn't that risky?"

"Sammy is strong willed and of strong mind. He may lose a couple minutes of oxygen but as long as he has a darling angel nearby and he's in a hospital then he'll be fine. He doesn't do either and he's dead. We can't have that." The trickster frowned and continued, peaking Meg's over all interest. "If it is going to mean anything I want Cas to realize that there are things that he could lose. He could lose them if he doesn't even bother to look at what he had. Fallen doesn't mean he is in disgrace but that he simply has fallen in love. And Cas probably spent the longest time losing things because they were out of his reach and never once did he ever try to fight for it. He needs to fight this. He needs to realize that if he wants something bad enough, he has to fight it."

Meg nodded.

"Guess he'll never come to realize how much something could mean unless he almost loses it as well. So what does the whole prophecy read anyhow? Even if it is a shameless love text."

"There's been a whole chunk misses but there's something that mentions a powerful baby coming about and being born around the blue moon and that its parents are going to be an abomination and fallen. Also that they would be the ones that defied death multiple times and that one would be meant to die but the act of sacrifice will come to account. I don't like it because there's any kind of interpretation in that. The last part is the memory of the fallen will soon be misplaced and there having to be a choice. Nobody ever would know what it means but my guess is that they will be able to be together and no one would die."

"I hope so too. Look at this. If it wasn't meant to be, the baby would've been miscarried ages ago."

"Talk to Dean and Cas again. Make sure that they get some clue before I come there and do it myself."

Meg smiled at that.

"Now you're talking. Let's just hope this idiot survives until then."

The trickster smirked and even though Meg hated it, it was hard to see that he would do anything else being a trickster demi god and all.

"But darling I could do anything I please."

There was hardly any doubt with that. That was for sure.

"Cas being in Detroit really?"

Cas sighed but didn't expect Dean to get it. He was trying to find some way to weed out the demons. Of course Detroit would have meaning as well. The blue moon would fold in about a week or maybe it was five days from today. He didn't really pay attention but the rays of the moon was symbolized for millions of years. He just couldn't stop to think of anything else.

"You do realize why people speak in different tongues don't you?"

Dean looked at him weirdly and Cas turned away, watching as Dean stopped to ask for directions. A ball fall near his feet and Cas picked it up seeing that it was a bouncy item that children usually played with. He never really got the chance to watch a child play but more than once he wished that he could see their interactions. A little girl with thick brown hair and dark blue eyes stopped before him, looking a bit intimidated, he could guess.

He held out the ball to her and watched as her eyes shined at the simple gesture. She quickly looked at him, biting her lip and broke out into a huge smile that Cas had previously doubted was possible. She looked back at the older kids playing in the soccer field and the angel guessed that her big brother's or sister's practice was commencing.

"I'm Katie." She finally answered.

"Castiel. How do you do?" he saw her laugh and thought for a moment that he said the wrong thing. Without Sam and Dean, he often said some idiotic things and he didn't want her to think that he was plainly that. She just beamed, looking at him and he couldn't understand why she wasn't laughing at him. She seemed to laugh at the act itself though earlier and he was used to being made fun of.

"I like the name. My little brother's name is Trevor and my older sister's name is Kaylee. Mommy wanted her girls to sound alike and I lost Kelsey because she drowned."

Cas nodded understanding that. He saw the girl Kelsey but couldn't interfere because he wasn't her angel and when he was called to heaven, he couldn't ignore it. He was told Kelsey was meant to die and that she had a greater purpose of heaven to serve now. She was only eighteen months old though and she never survived to her second birthday. He couldn't understand how anyone could survive the loss of any one of their children. If it was like the pain he felt at the thought of losing Sam, he knew it was horrendous.

"Are you an angel?" She asked suddenly wrinkling her nose as she tipped her head sideways.

"Why would you ask me that?" Cas asked.

"Lindsey says angels aren't guardians like people seem to think but they are the closest to heaven that anyone could even imagine. She said the key to knowing an angel is by talking to one. She died two weeks ago but she said that she knew her angel was going to where she was needed."

"Needed huh?" Cas had doubts with this. Since when did the angels ever do something like this? He still had problems understanding the orders and he was only beginning to question them. Take Anna though who had done it for years. She would never believe in them and it was so bad, one of the archangels up and left heaven several decades ago. "I don't know about that Katie. Angels aren't your friend. They are rude inconceivable dicks. When something good comes along, angels don't fight for it as they should and they cause chaos wherever they go. They aren't anything good and they allow your sister, mother, even grandmother to suffer. And I am so sorry because your sister was so small and so innocent. She had a light about her that is hardly seen anymore. The only thing Heaven is good for is making you believe you are home when you are far away-"

"Silly real heaven is not that," Katie said with a giggle. "Real heaven that you go to is all about happiness and loving one another. Real true love gets you there and this place you talk about. It is a holding place to the real heaven where you will rest for eternity with the one you love."

Cas tipped his head in confusion.

"I suppose you are wiser than anyone I've ever met." He concluded.

She laughed again, the noise itself making like music to his ears. It's been years since he met some innocent talking about something and actually believing in it. He allowed himself to smile and she looked up with a sad look in her eye.

"You'll understand when you become a daddy. Daddies are the best. They are there for their kids and they are special and nice. They will kill any boy that goes after their little girl-" she looked over at this and saw her big brother. "That's my signal to go. Nice talking to you Castiel."

Cas waved.

He noticed just then that it was all wrong and she hadn't seen a car coming. With everything still fresh on his mind, he quickly popped over to her and pulled her with him to the sidewalk, falling back with the quivering child in his arms. He breathed a sigh of relief just knowing that she was safe however and ignored Dean's yells as he slowly stood up and released her to leave. He ignored the car's honking and the jibes he got by other parents by telling him he was an asshole. No at that moment he froze.

Right in front of him was the last person he had expected to see and his eyes were wide with surprise as well. More surprising though wasn't the fact that Cas finally saw him but the outstretched stomach before him. Cas supposed if he was a human, he would faint from the shock but instead he only allowed his feet to carry him in front of the young man. Sure the man was taller on even the best days but he was making himself seem smaller. Not wanting to scare him off though, Cas smiled and allowed himself to settle for trying to hug him without pressing into his belly. The baby was definitely big. He pulled himself away finally and beamed for the first time in so many months. He didn't care that this was a shocking surprise or that Dean was catching up with them and would see it too. He was glad to be seeing him and it must have showed because the other started to smile a little bit as well although his face was really pale.

"Sam?"

Sam seemed to finally notice Dean and it was then that both Cas and Dean noticed that Sam wasn't alone either. And both had different reactions as well.

"The trickster and Meg?" Dean shouted in disbelief.

No it wasn't the fact that they were with him that surprised Cas in the end. It was the fact that he was there when he claimed to be neutral that did it in. He could only say the first thing that was on the tip of his tongue at the moment and when he did, he realized it wasn't something that they knew but then again, he was just too shocked today with everything.

"Gabriel?"

It seemed that he wasn't the only one though.

This is wasn't his day.

A/N: They finally all meet up at the end and secrets are going to be out and about. Including the Trickster's true identity. :)