A/N: Right, so I was really excited about having a little fun with this chapter and I've missed writing with Gabe because he's so much fun to write seriously. I hope you guys liked this, I've missed writing a bit of crack too! So sorry about the wait but regular updates should be happening with summer here! Let me know what you think and I will ultimately love you forever!
After leaving the house, Castiel was already nervous about the events that were to transpire during the course of the day. After somehow obtaining three car seats, Zach, Uri and Raf were strapped into the back of the car making a painful amount of noise as they attempted to make a break for it every time the windows were open.
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Dean opened the door to the shop, a little confused as to the point of 'Take Your Kids To Work Day'. Switching on the lights and taking down the chairs from the tables he glanced over at Anna who was inspecting the counter of goodies and he smirked.
"Hungry?" He laughed and she smiled, nodding.
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Arriving at the office was easy enough but getting the kids actually into the building was a different matter entirely.
"Okay, mission ostrich is go." Gabriel said in his 'Agent Novak' voice, prompting an eye roll from Cas.
"Ostrich?"
"Running really fast." Gabriel pointed out as if it were obvious.
"Oh, sweet lord," Cas whispered as he made his way around the car to get the kids out. Gabriel managed to get Uri and Castiel took Raf's hand carefully but firmly to help him from the car, but Zach, who they were quickly realising was the little leader of the tyrannical threesome leapt from the car and, shrieking like a banshee, made his escape.
"Aw, crap!" Gabriel threw Uri under his arm and charged after Zach, ready to tackle him to the ground.
"Gabriel, don't hurt him!" Castiel shouted in reminder. Finally catching him Gabriel fixed a hand to his wrist and dragged the two boys with him.
"Seriously, dude?" He asked Zach who was still grinning.
"Still convinced this was a good idea?" Castiel asked with a sly smirk and Gabriel, unfortunately, grinned.
"Hell yeah, this is gonna' be hilarious!" And with that they made their way into the office. The secretary cooed over the children who stuck out their tongues and threw a jar of pens onto the floor and attacked her physical appearance to the point of which she began to cry.
"I'm really, so sorry." Castiel apologised again as they made their way to the elevator. Once inside, he pressed the button for the fifth floor and turned to the children.
"That was very disobedient of you. That lady was very upset." He attempted to scold them but Raf went straight for the elevator buttons and pressed every single one in a random order and Gabriel burst out laughing as Castiel groaned and it went to every floor except from the fifth.
"Really, Raf? Was that necessary?" Castiel asked, exasperated already.
"No." Raf grinned and Gabriel laughed harder. They at last reached their floor and stepped out but Castiel froze at the distinct lack of other children.
"Gabriel," He hissed.
"There's no other children here! Did you get the day wrong?!" Gabriel rubbed his neck awkwardly with a coy smile as he surveyed the distinct lack of any other children in the office.
"Er, that might be a possibility…" Castiel blanched at his brother.
"Now what do we do?" He shrieked as quietly as he could.
"Relax, bro, okay abort mission ostrich. Mission hedgehog is go!"
"Hedgehog?!"
"Yeah, small and good at hiding," He said, seemingly proud of his own analogy and Castiel raked a hand through his hair, regretting every step he took.
"We cannot be caught with these kids, Gabe!"
"We won't be! Relax, it'll fly by!" Yet again Gabriel's blasé approach to events that were very likely to end in disaster was endlessly frustrating to Castiel.
Castiel took Zach and Gabriel took Uri and Raf and they were to swap over during the day. Castiel, determined to get some work done, provided Zach with colouring utensils and paper and placed him under his large desk as a roomy but hidden place for him to play.
Gabriel, on the other hand, had transformed his office into a play pen, or rather had allowed the other two to do whatever they wanted to. He only had to do about two papers and then his work for that day was done. The noise coming from his office was loud to say the least but everyone in the office was used to Gabriel's antics and didn't care to check. He ducked as a well aimed stapler made its way to hit him in the face.
"Yeah, nice try, mini-me." He laughed and Uri scowled as he picked up some scissors and began carving profanities into the wall. It was incredible how developed they were on street slang for their age, impressive almost in Gabriel's opinion.
"That has two L's in it, Uri," He corrected as he saw that he'd misspelt a swear word on the wall and Uri nodded, correcting his mistake and Gabriel smiled in approval as he saw Raf had discovered permanent marker pens and proceeded to cover himself in them.
"Awesome, Raf. You missed a bit on your nose." Gabriel helped, feeling remarkably paternal. He didn't understand what all the fuss was about, parenting was easy.
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"I'm boooorrreeeedddd!" Zach whined yet again and Castiel ground his teeth, this routine was growing wearing very quickly.
"I'm aware of that, Zach, and, as I've already informed you, it's only thirty five more minutes until lunch and then you get to switch with your brothers, but until then you'll have to-" Castiel yelped in pain when Zach, having grown bored of this speech bit down hard on his ankle.
"Really, Zach? Have we really digressed to biting? I must say I'm disappointed in your lack of creativity. That's it, I've had enough. Clearly you're a ring leader who misses your posse so let's reunite you before I lose a digit." Castiel babbled, keeping his distance from Zach who was most definitely plotting his escape. Castiel picked up his phone and rang Gabriel's office.
"Hey, bro." Gabriel said, sounding remarkably chirpy considering the level of noise that was coming down the phone.
"Gabriel, I'm going to have to smuggle Zach to you," Castiel hissed conspiratorially down the line, glancing around as if there were cameras in his office. Gabriel snorted down the phone.
"Why're you whispering? Cassie, the lines aren't tapped, this isn't James Bond," He sassed and Castiel glowered down the phone.
"Gabriel, this is all your fault, you know! I'm hiding in my office, being physically assaulted by a minor who shouldn't even be here!" Castiel hissed down the phone.
"Hey, okay! Chill out! Look, bring Zach over here and we'll have an early lunch and then we can ship out and call it an early, alright?" Gabriel reasoned and Castiel huffed in exasperation.
"Fine! But if anything goes wrong I'm holding you responsible." Castiel snapped and Gabe just rolled his eyes and hung up the phone, whooping in approval when Uri managed to throw the hole punch directly out of the window ignoring the smash that came from the floor below.
"Good shot, kiddo!"
Castiel bolted from his office to Gabriel's dragging Zach along with him. When he actually got in the office the debris he found was incredible and yet Gabriel was sitting, happy as ever, at his desk ignoring the chaos around him. Castiel let go of Zach as he quickly pulled the compass Uri had been about to launch at his brother from his hands. Speaking of Raf, Castiel squawked when he saw the little boy balanced precariously on the window ledge, tipping a large container of water out of the window. Rushing over Castiel lifted the boy down.
"Gabriel?!" He shrieked. Gabriel looked to him in quiet bemusement.
"Uri was going to throw a compass at Raf! Raf was on the window! With a bucket! Where did he even get the bucket?! Were you going to intervene or let him go crashing to his death or would you have rather him be impaled on a piece of non-child proof stationery?!" Castiel was getting rather hysterical at this point.
"Jeez, Cas, lighten up! Uri's a rubbish shot, no offence, dude," He added to Uri who waved him off, preoccupied with booby-trapping the door.
"Plus, Raf has the reflexes of a cat, Uri's been chucking stuff bigger than that at him for the past hour, dude just dodges that crap, I dunno' how he does it, freaking ninja," He laughed and Castiel thought he was going to pass out.
"Besides, I wasn't going to take Raf down in the middle of his rain dance, uh, rude. Come on, man, have a little respect for the little guy's beliefs." Gabe scolded disapprovingly at his disbelieving brother.
"Sorry," Gabriel added to Raf who scowled at Castiel looking offended and stalked off to join his brothers. Castiel made another noise of disbelief.
"Oh, you're right though I have no clue where he got that bucket, should probably check into that."
Just as Castiel was about to completely explode in a tuscan coloured fit of rage at his brother's blasé approach to child care when the door flew open to reveal a furious – and very wet, man. Before the explosion of this man, however, booby trap kicked in and a bucket tipped sending a mountain of gluey feathers onto the man in the doorway. The man was a deep shade of scarlet from his rage, Castiel was frozen in fear as the floor below's supervisor seemed to overheat in the doorway.
"Dude, where're they getting all these buckets from?" Gabriel muttered and Castiel turned wide incredulous eyes to his brother who promptly shut up.
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"He got you what?" Dean asked.
"SUSPENDED!" Castiel yelled storming into the kitchen of the apartment to get something to distract himself.
"Seriously!" Dean turned his glare onto Gabe.
"Gabe!" Sam sounded shocked.
"Hey, I'm suspended too!" Gabriel chimed in and Dean shook his head in warning as he could feel the ice radiating off of his boyfriend in the other room.
"I hate you, Gabriel! This is going to be on my permanent record!" Castiel shouted, completely fuming. Dean had already dropped the kids off who thankfully, when asked how their day was, replied with delirious happiness saying they loved their new 'Uncles' and Anna had, had a great day with Dean, he'd even let her serve a couple of customers who found her bumbling endearing.
"What the hell happened to get you suspended?" Dean asked incredulous, still giving Gabriel evil eyes. Castiel stormed back into the living room, pointing an accusing finger at his brother.
"It was not 'take your kids to work day' at all. Plus he let the kids go crazy, oh and did I mention he let them prank one of our head supervisors because, and I quote, 'they're my prodigies' and let me be the fall guy when all of this happened." Castiel's cheeks went pink with anger as he let his arms fly up at his sides and he stormed out again.
"Wow, dick move." Dean frowned at Gabe before sighing and going after his boyfriend in an attempt to calm him down.
"Gabriel, that was seriously out of line! Why'd you get Cas to take the blame?" Sam scowled and Gabriel rolled his eyes at everyone's dramatics.
"Sammy, I just got promoted, I was trying to be a douche but they'll only give Cassie a little slap on the hand, if it was me I'd have to deal with all the big wigs and that's a pain in the ass." Sam stared at him like he was speaking a different language, a disgusting one at that.
"Wow," Sam let out one humourless laugh.
"What?" Gabriel drawled, uninterested and suddenly Sam was raging.
"I just didn't realise you could be such an asshole," Sam spat out as he grabbed his coat. Gabe's eyes snapped up in confusion.
"What?" He repeated.
"Don't bother coming back until you sort this out with Cas." Sam snapped, shaking his head as he stomped out of the apartment.
"Sam!" Gabriel called after him but the jarring of the door slamming silenced him and he sighed heavily, guilt settling uncomfortably in his stomach. Maybe Sam was right, he had been a bit of a dick.
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"Cas, hey, hold on a second!" Dean pulled at Cas' arm and he span around in a fury.
"What, Dean? What do you want?!" Castiel snapped, instantly regretting it as it came out harsher than he meant it to and Dean visibly recoiled, hurt shadowing his eyes for a split second before they turned soft again.
"I just wanted to check you're alright." He said a little awkwardly and Castiel's heart melted and he scolded himself for being so aggressive but he'd just been so upset and angry. He surged forward into Dean's arms and found deep relief in burying his head into Dean's chest.
"I'm sorry," He mumbled into Dean's torso and Dean chuckled.
"They work you too hard anyway." He smirked as he pulled Castiel's chin up and kissed him softly with a slight smile as the other man sighed into it.
"Now, judging from the slam of the door, Sam's giving Gabe some of his own medicine and you two do need sort out your crap-"
"But you always 'stow your crap', how come you get the cop out?" Castiel pouted and Dean laughed kissing his hair.
"Because you are wonderful and will do the right thing," He whispered against Cas' lips making him shiver.
"Now go on, consider yourself under house arrest until you make it up, I'm gonna' stay with Sammy." Dean said firmly and Castiel's eyes widened.
"You mean you're not going to be here?" He said with his biggest puppy dog eyes. Dean groaned but called his bluff.
"Nice try but you're not getting me to stay." He smirked at the even bigger pout on Castiel's lips and he kissed it away. After a few minutes of what could only be described as a painfully good goodbye kiss Dean pulled Cas into a tight hug.
"Love you," He mumbled into Cas' hair and with one more chaste kiss he grabbed some stuff and left. Castiel growled at the sight of his traitorous brother on the sofa and slammed off to the bedroom. Gabriel sighed, this was going to take a while.
A/N: I'm so sorry about the wait for this chapter but a LOT has happened and my muse for this fic kind of disappeared whilst I was thinking about my other two but just writing this chapter has made me inspired to write more and this story is likely to turn into a bunch of connecting but random one shots that suit my imagination. If you have time and could leave a review to let me know what you thought that would be amazing and would help me incredibly! Also please excuse any spelling/grammar mistakes this was written at midnight! Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading! Izzie.