Angel Circus

Bobby sat at the table, watching Cas and Balthazar color in the coloring books Sam had just bought for them and Dean sat on the counter with Gabriel in his lap, massaging his small wings. The stupid angel had been showing off his flying skills to his brothers and now was paying the price with two sore wings. Dean was just thankful they weren't broken. He had no clue on how to fix broken wings.

"How's the coloring books?" Sam asked as he came into the room, hair still soaked from his show he just took. Cas and Balthazar nodded, too intent on staying in the lines to speak. He sat down nest to them, watching as they colored in juggling animals.

"Are there any circuses out here?" Gabriel asked suddenly from his spot on Dean's lap. Sam and Dean glanced at Bobby and the old man nodded.

"Yeah, the next town over is doing a circus tonight. Why?" Bobby questioned the curious angel. Gabriel shrugged pointing at the picture of an elephant balancing on a ball that Balthazar was scribbling on.

"I wanna see an elephant." Dean glanced down at the angel that was now looking up at him expectantly. He thought it over briefly in his head.

"Yeah, we need a little break from being stuffed in here I guess," Dean thought out loud, gaining the little angels' full attentions. Castiel and Balthazar had stopped drawing and were now preparing themselves to rush to the door.

"Dean, you can't be serious!" Sam shouted, eyes blazing. Dean glared at his brother as he lifted Gabriel to the floor and grabbed the keys to the Impala.

"What's the matter, Sammy? Scared the clowns will get you?" Dean teased. Sam opened and closed his mouth like a fish and Dean chuckled to himself. "Come one, Man, maybe we can accidently leave these trouble makers there," Dean teased, ignoring the frowns he was getting from the little angels. Sammy sighed dramatically and with great annoyance before getting up from his chair and grabbing his coat.

"Fine," he spat. The angels jumped for joy, cheering happily as they raced to the door. Dean followed them, helping everyone in their bulky coats to hide their wings and helping them tie their shoes. Once everyone was ready to go Dean lifted Cas up onto his shoulder, Bobby picked up Balthazar, and Sam held onto Gabriel.

The little angels looked amazed when they entered the tent of the huge circus. A huge ring was in the center of the tent, surrounded by benches for people to sit at. Clowns stood by the doors, greeting visitors and handing out free balloons. Dean made sure to get a group picture with the clowns, instructing a clown to hug Sam in the picture.

"Jerk!" Dean heard Sam swear after the picture was taken. Dean only laughed, buying his brother and the angels some cotton candy. Bobby in the meantime bought some peanuts to feed the elephants later after the show.

"Dwean?" Dean ignored the call he was so used to. Nope, Cas could say it. Dean's heard Cas say it before and he will get the angel to pronounce his name right. The angel didn't seem to want to cooperate though. "Dwean?" the angel repeated. "Dwean?!" he continued to shout now. Finally, Dean had enough and glanced down at the angel holding onto his pants leg as they walked towards their seats.

"What's up, Cas?" The angel glanced at his brothers briefly and then to the hunter again.

"Can we be in the circus?" If Dean had a mouth full of soda he would have spat it out.

"Why would you want to be in a circus and do all kinds of freaky dare devil shit?" He questioned, earning a glare from some fat lady for swearing at the kid. He ignored her though and kept his eyes on the angels by his feet. They were dressed in long puffy coats to hide their wings so now they just looked like normal three to four year olds.

"It looks fun!" Balthazar stated.

"Yeah, and the clowns in our coloring books have tons of candy to throw out!" Gabriel added, taking a bit of his cotton candy.

"Guys-"

"The Ring Master has a job specifically for each of his team. If he substituted on of his people so you three could join in don't you think they'd feel sad?" Sam asked the angels. Balthazar, Gabriel, and Cas stared at one another for a moment.

"We don't wants to make people sad," Cas whimpered, looking up at Sam with those big puppy eyes.

"Well then, Idjit, no joining the circus," Bobby huffed, slurping down his soda. The angels all got sad faces then, but they were gone when the Ring Master appeared from a spray of smoke and announced the beginning of the show.

The first half of the show was going great until the angels said they had to go to the Bathroom. Dean volunteered to take them and threw Cas over his shoulder, picking up Balthy and Gabe in his arms. He waited patiently for them outside the bathroom, chatting up one of the performers. She had broken her leg performing a few nights before. Apparently she walked the type rope in the show.

"I'm just upset that the act won't be in the show," she said, staring sadly at Dean. Dean continued to comfort her, wondering if she would give him her number. He was so busy flirting that he didn't even notice the little angels listening in. Cas turned towards his brothers.

"People are going to be sad if they don't see the type wope act," he told his brothers. Gabriel glanced up at the ring where three clowns were juggling now.

"We are angels. We are here to help and help we shall!" Gabriel announced, taking his brothers' hands and running towards the ring.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that tonight we will not have the type- wait what?!" Dean froze as he heard the Ring Master's cry. His eyes spun away from the very hot woman in front of his and to the rope high above their heads. Gabriel, Balthazar, and Castiel stood on the rope. Their wings were out, but they had put on some costumes from one of the dressing rooms, making the wings just look like costumes.

"Where did they come from?" the woman questioned. Dean's heart pounded in his chest and he dashed from where he was standing. Balthazar and Gabriel held their hands up, diving from the rope. Screams echoed from the crowd, but the bows flapped their wings and flew gently to the crowd. Laughter and cheering filled the tent for the two amazing performing angels until Dean suddenly grabbed the two.

"What the hell?!" Dean shouted angrily at the angels. Sammy and Bobby were now getting up from their seats and making their way towards the angels and hunter. Balthazar and Gabriel just smiled.

"We didn't want the performer to be sads, so we performed insteads," Balthazar explained.

"Yeah, don't worry about it Dean-o. We can fly you know," Gabriel huffed, flapping his lovely wings. Dean gritted his teeth and pointed up at the rope above their heads.

"You two can, but Castiel can't!" he shouted. The angels each paled and their eyes flew up to the little angel flapping his wings and skipping up and down the middle of the type rope.

"CASSIE!" they screamed, making to fly to their brother, but Bobby and Sam grabbed them, holding them down.

"No way, we don't need any more of you idjits in trouble," Bobby grumbled. The angels tried to argue, but Dean was already gone, climbing up the latter to the rope.

"Cas!" Dean shouted standing on the thin line of the type rope. His heart was beating out of his chest and it took all of his will power to keep from looking down. Instead he kept his eyes on the little stupid baby angel jumping up and down on the rope. "Castiel!" Dean called again. This time Cas looked up at him, eyes beaming brightly and wings flapping on his back.

"Dwean! Dwean, look! I'm in the circus!" Castiel looked so excited and fearless, like he didn't even know that one wrong step and he'd go crashing to the ground. Those useless little wings wouldn't do a thing to help either. The angel still hasn't grown into them after all.

"Yeah, you and your brothers put up an awesome show, Cas. The ring master actually wants to talk to you guys. Come over here and we'll go and meat him, alright?" Castiel's eyes beamed and he slowly started to make his way towards Dean. Dean did the same, holding out his arms to grab Castiel. They were now only inches away from each other now. Just a step or two and they'd be safe.

No such luck. The rope was only made to hold a certain amount of weight for so long and Dean didn't really way as much as the stick figured girl he had talked to previously. Without warning the rope snapped and the crowd screamed in terror. Dean reached out, grabbing the shocked angel and pulling him into his chest.

"Hold on, Buddy, we'll be ok," Dean hushed as the angel yelped. It was a lie. There was no way they were going to make it out of this one. They were…

"My father you're heavy, Dean-o!"

"Lay of the pie!" Balthazar shouted after Gabriel. Dean and Cas both opened their eyes to see Gabriel and Balthazar, holding Dean by his coat and keeping him and Cas from plummeting to their doom. They slowly fluttered towards the ground, wings working double time as they held on to ten times their amount of weight. Good thing they were angels or he and Cas would have been dead already. When they hit the ground the crowd cheered in awe, praising the angel acrobats and Dean. Sam, Bobby, and the Ring Master rushed over, checking over the boys for any injury. They were all fine. The Ring Master was going to explain to the angels the danger they were in, but he was still in far too much awe by their performance. Those fake wings were brilliant. They actually worked like real wings. He asked Dean how he got the wings and the hunter simply shrugged, stating,

"God only knows."