The song here is "The Pretender" by The Foo Fighters
The Pretender
Nikolai had walked up to the corridor that led to Keara's room and beside him was a rocking chair with a cushion. He gestured to it and Gabriel glanced at it, back at him and then the chair again. He arched his eyebrow and then scratched his temple.
"This is the surprise?" he asked and when he glanced at Nikolai, noticed the dark smirk on his face.
"It gets better." Nikolai said and pulled out from his jacket a bag of assorted candies. "Free candy for your heart's delight." He added and Gabriel looked at the candy and then at Nikolai.
"I'm supposed to sit here and eat candy?" he asked and Nikolai grinned as he threw the bag of candy onto the chair.
"Keara's sleeping and you're out of Crowley and Clara's way, so yeah, sit here and eat candy." He said and Gabriel narrowed his eyes as if he didn't appreciate that. "What do you think I do? I have pretend tea with a two year old and when I'm not doing that, I'm doing whatever Crowley and Clara want. So, that leaves you to sit here and eat your freakin' candy." He concluded as he crossed his arms over his chest, glaring playfully at Gabriel. "Or I could always go with my plan B surprise." He concluded with a dark smile.
Gabriel looked at the rocking chair and the bag of candy, then shrugged his shoulders.
"Fair enough." He said and picked up the bag of candy, sitting down and then tearing into the bag, unwrapping a piece faster than Nikolai had ever seen.
"That's a good boy." Nikolai said and then walked away. He was going to see how the King and Queen were doing with a possible rebellion looming over their heads when his cell phone buzzed.
He pulled out his cell phone and flipped it open. He didn't have to check the caller ID; the only one that called him was Nerilla.
"What's up Buttercup?" he asked and got an ear full of babble. Nerilla talked so fast that he was surprised that he was able to catch all of it. When she stopped to take a breath, he knew she had given all the details. "Wait for Crowley." he said with a serious tone of voice and he hung up, taking large strides as he walked throughout the mansion to find their King of Hell.
He zoned in on the Master bedroom and he knocked before he could even think it over. There were gentle footsteps and he knew who would be opening the door. As the door opened, he quickly blurted it out before Clara could say anything.
"Crowley needs to get to New Haven, Massachusetts." He said and Clara arched an eyebrow and then glanced over her shoulder, no doubt at Crowley. Then there were those footsteps, the ones that weren't in a hurry for anyone and that resonate authority.
The door opened wider, as if Crowley pushed it open instead of nudging Clara out of the way, which he would never do.
"You need to see this." Nikolai said and Crowley maintained that expression that was difficult to read. However, he knew his Knight had something urgent. Nikolai walked back down to the end of the hall to give his King and Queen some time to talk.
Crowley reassured Clara, gave her a gently kiss and left the Master bedroom. He met up with Nikolai and before he could say anything, Crowley glanced at him and gave him an order.
"You, stay here, watch my family." He said and then vanished.
Crowley appeared in New Haven, exactly in a park with a pond. He stood exactly next to Nerilla and she sighed in relief as she glanced at him while he looked around. She didn't have to point across for him to look. He saw him immediately and his jaw clenched.
"Stephanie reported Kelley wandering around after making a deal, but it seems like she's persuading…" she said and let her sentence fall because Crowley was already mad; the last thing she wanted to do was say his son's name.
As Crowley watched, he thought about the rebellion. When Nikolai had first brought it up to his attention, Clara overheard and he reassured her that this was about him. The demons loathed him for claiming himself King of Hell. The rebellion, if there was one, was only to infuriate him.
Now there was no doubt that a rebellion was being put into motion because there was a demon talking to his son. If Crowley was to eliminate a competitor, it would be to target what makes that competitor vulnerable. And Gavin made him vulnerable just as much as Clara and Keara. His family was a part of him, demon or not. Of course, no demon would dare hurt Clara and Keara and not just because they are powerful, but they are too highly respected.
But Gavin wasn't.
"When he walks away, leave him to me. You attend to Kelley. We're going to interrogate her." Crowley said and vanished, but Nerilla knew he wasn't far. She kept a watchful eye on Kelley and the second Gavin walked away, she moved in on the unsuspecting Newbie crossroad demon that seemed pretty love stuck, although it's all an act.
