Hello again. So time to find out who is the other side of the door.
Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural.
Gabriel and Rose pulled up outside the bunker with their two very excited children in the back.
"You know, we should probably have called them before we turned up on their doorstep asking for a bed for the night." Rose commented to her husband with a smile. It was what she had suggested an hour ago but Gabriel was having none of it. She just wasn't sure how her brothers, or his, would respond to having visitors at a supposedly top secret base.
"Where would be the fun in that?" Gabriel asked his eyes twinkling at the idea of playing a prank on not just the Winchester boys but Cassie as well.
"Nowhere, but it would also make sure that no one gets hurt." Rose stated with a dry tone. She knew exactly why Gabriel hadn't wanted to call them, but she also didn't want her children to meet the end of Dean's gun.
"I'll go down first, you and the kids follow once they answer." Gabriel said simply, he knew exactly what she was afraid of and he couldn't fault her for it. But he really wanted to see Dean-o and Cassie's faces when he knocked on their door. Plus the fact that if Dean did shoot him it wouldn't do him much damage. A bit of pain and maybe a scar, but nothing serious, his soul was made of grace after all and he had got rather good at tapping into it over the years.
"Fine. But I will make sure I bring the pie. I know how to appease my brother." Rose replied with a smile at her husband. She knew that nothing she said would get him to phone them first. For while she knew he loved their life, and he loved teaching his father's word to any and all who would listen, she also knew he missed pranking people and punishing those that deserved it on occasion. Gabriel wasn't a fighter, but who didn't like a bit of an adrenalin rush now and then?
"So true." Gabriel responded smiling at her and leaning over to give her a gentle kiss. He knew if Dean-o was appeased then so would Cassie and Sam be, though you never know, Sammy boy may finally be too busy to even realise what was going on. They had better be or he was going to have to put his head together with his dad to think of ways to get Sam and Melissa together, the kid really needed to have his special someone.
Pulling away from the love of his life and turning to give a wink to his two children he hopped out the car and ran down the steps raising his hand and maybe using a small amount of grace to bang, hard on the door, so that no matter where anyone was, they would hear his knock. Oh this was going to be so much fun.
Finally the door was pulled open and he was greeted by his brother-in-law holding a gun to his face.
"Well took your time about it didn't you? Care to put the gun down Dean-o? You know if you want to seem threatening I would advise having the former angel with the weapon that can kill most things on earth as your first line of defence." Gabriel said as he sauntered forwards and pushed his finger on Dean's gun to lower it as the man seemed too surprised to act as fast as Gabriel would like him to.
"Gabriel, what are you doing here?" Dean asked incredulously, I mean really? What was he doing in this top secret place that no one had ever found before now?
"Thought I'd pay a visit to my new parishioners, my wife has even brought pie, though I left her and the children outside. Didn't really want Issy to be sacred by the sight of her daddy holding a weapon on her. Shall I call them in?" Gabriel said with a smile as Dean just got more confused by his words and Castiel just rolled his eyes and went to walk out the door to go and collect the rest of the family. He wasn't surprised by who their visitors were, he was sure that Gabriel and Rose had known exactly where they would end up ever since Henry had fallen out of the closet.
"No need we're here, with pie." Came Rose's British accent as she appeared in the doorway holding two homemade apple pies, which the sight of made Dean forget all about strange visitors to unground bunkers, and instead salivate at the thought of eating them. Rose made the best damn pie ever.
With that the Gabriel-Rose contingent of the Winchester family moved in with full force. The children having to run into the library to hug their Uncle Sam and wave at the rest. But once that was done Rose managed to get them to sit at the table and Dean and Castiel had retrieved plates for everyone so they could all have some pie. Though Dean briefly wished he could steal one just for him, but no he had to share, with the children and Cas if no one else.
And so soon enough everyone had settled down and relaxed back into a family atmosphere, the children it seemed, breaking any tension that had been there before they had arrived. Henry was even watching them, hoping to get to know them, they were after all his great grandchildren, somehow. He really needed to work out both there parentage now he had the time.
"So my brothers, like the new digs?" Rose asked with a smirk for Dean and Sam as she took a bite of pie.
"There awesome, wait, you knew?" Dean asked then closed his eyes at the stupidity of that question. This was Rose, of course she knew.
"Helllllooo! Of course I knew. The Bat Cave's a big thing in the Winchester story." Rose replied her smirk even more present now.
"You have been spending too much time with Gabriel. You're starting to sound like him." Dean grumbled to his sister, though he knew it would do no good.
"He's my husband Dean. Of course I spend time with him." Rose responded with a chuckle at the inanity of Dean's sentence.
"Well you could have told us." He replied crossly. I mean if she and Gabe had known the exact location, they could have shared it with them. Would have saved a whole load of time.
"We could have." Gabriel responded with a shrug and a smug look on his face that made Dean just want to punch him.
"But isn't a story more about the journey rather than the destination? If we had given you the answer you wouldn't haven't learnt all you have on route." Rose stated in her cryptic manner which made Dean give her his best explain glare. Not that it did much she just waggled her eyebrows at him and took another mouthful of pie. She had said all she was going to on that one, though her eyes did cut to Sam and Melissa who were once again holding hands and sharing secretive little smiles, and Dean catching it couldn't begrudge her for that one. Without the need to investigate maybe his little bro wouldn't have got the time to get to know his destined girl.
"What did you mean by new parishioners?" Castiel cut in before the conversation could devolve into Winchester sibling banter. He had his own questions after all. He may have accepted that Gabriel and Rose had known where they were going, but he didn't understand that part of Gabriel's greeting to them, and he would very much like to have some answers from his brother, as remote as that possibility was.
"I have a new church on the outskirts of town. Seems I come 'highly' recommended. Anyway has a nice house connected to it with room for Rose to work as well. We came down to get things organised for the move and meet with a few prominent people in the area." Gabriel replied with a roll of his own eyes at their father's latest non-intervening manipulations. All he had said to his dad was that if the Winchesters were moving down here then he and Rose would need to as well and the next thing he knew he was offered a post just down the frigging road.
"Are you going to see Larry?" Castiel asked remembering his thoughts about the man who had given them the location of the bunker. He deserved to be repaid for his work, though whether Gabriel could do anything or not Castiel didn't know. But if anyone could he knew his brother would.
"Larry?" Gabriel asked with a frown trying to place the man in his memories of this 'episode' in the show. But it had been so long ago, and so much had happened. He just couldn't remember the guy.
"The last man of letters, excluding me and Josie." Henry replied before Castiel could, hoping that the archangel could help his friend in some way. He had no idea of the beings powers, but he was sure they were great.
"Oh him, yes I could do, why Cassie?" Gabriel asked turning to Castiel with a quizzical look. Just what did his brother want him to do?
"He is blind, I was hoping you might be able to help him in some way. He deserves a reward for his devotion and faith to the protection of this place." Castiel stated simply meeting Gabriel's eyes so he could show him how much he felt that the man deserved something, how much he respected him.
"I'll make sure to visit him." Gabriel replied with a nod of a promise to Castiel before turning back to his pie and taking another bite.
"Thank you." Castiel simply said with a smile, thought he knew Gabriel would dismiss it as nothing.
"What are brothers for? Well apart from looking after your kid while you save the world and all that." Gabriel replied with a shrug and a wave of his hand at his sacrifice, making Rose chuckle at his dramatics.
"Hey you hadn't done that, you would never have met my sister." Dean agued, cos come on, Gabe couldn't complain about looking after Rose and Issy for the two years they were stopping the apocalypse now could he?
"True enough. I can't say that that's a bad thing. Speaking of which, you kids worked it out yet?" Gabriel asked turning his stare onto Sam and Melissa.
"None of your business Gabe." Sam replied with a glare of his own at his brother-in-law. He did not want to be having this conversation at the dinner table thank you very much, in fact he would prefer to never have it.
"I'll take that as a yes then." Gabriel said with a smirk but he turned the conversation to more general things and away from the pair that his father was so determined to set up. It seemed everything was going to plan and so he could relax with his family. Yes this was definitely where he wanted to be. Annoying the Winchester boys while he beautiful wife intervened before it could resolve itself into violence. Damn he was the luckiest guy he knew, she understood him completely and yet still seemed to love him.
And with the general turn of conversation Sam and Melissa went back to being with each other, and forgetting the rest of the room. They had found each other and they couldn't ever see a time where they would want to let go. Yet they both knew that this was going too fast, there would come a time soon that they would have to put the brakes on. But that time was not yet, so they decided to just relax and enjoy the happiness they currently were feeling with each other. It was time to live in the moment and let the future be what it would, when it would.