A/N: Thank you to everyone who read this! This story is AU. There may be some Season 5 spoilers. Also I do not own Supernatural. Also I'd like to say special thanks to my friend who inspired this!
With a fluttering of wings Gabriel appeared beside Raphael. Raphael raised his eyebrow at the disheveled Archangel. Leaning over it was all Gabriel could do to get his breath back.
"Cas-Dean-birth-remembers." Raphael, without even looking at Gabriel, smacks the youngest Archangel in the back of his head. Fortunately for Gabriel, Raphael wasn't paying attention when he flipped the older Angel off.
"What nonsense are you babbling on about now idiot?" Raphael remarks scathingly.
"I said Cas wants to know if Lucifer was pregnant because Dean Fucking Winchester remembers Lucifer being pregnant and that being the reason why she fell, but he shouldn't be because he's just a vessel. So how the flying monkeys does he know that?" Gabriel puffs up to his full height (which admittedly isn't much) and pokes Raphael in the chest.
"What the? Gabe?" Gabriel blinks slowly at the towering form of the younger Winchester bother Sam.
"Rat assed bastard Raphael flinging me out of Heaven, he didn't even give me any answers." Was the mumbled reply from Gabriel.
"You just lay there. Dean come on man! Wake up already!" Sam cries exasperated. Dean just turns over mumbling something that suspiciously sounds like double bacon cheeseburgers. Sam sighs and picks up his book on law settling down to wait for Dean to wake up. Gabriel watches Sam out of the corner of his eye deciding that he just might get more answers here than with his brothers and err- sisters. Gotta remember them.
Meanwhile Castiel was searching through the ancient tomes of knowledge that the Angels possessed. It could be said that perhaps Castiel was smarter than his Archangel older brother Gabriel. Castiel knew that asking the other angels would result in some sort of punishment or pain and he wasn't even as high up as Gabriel was. The story of Lucifer's fall was told to the cherubs. The ones who weren't born yet at the time it happened. It served to remind them of their places. Now that Castiel thought about it, wasn't it like those 'fairy tales' that humans told their offspring? He'd ask Dean when he was done.
Castiel tilted his head to the side with a frown when he saw a dusty book hidden on the back of the shelf he was currently looking through. The Angel Bible: The Chronicles of Michael was small, but in Heaven that could mean a lot of things. Castiel grabbed the book and carefully replaced the books back as they had been. He made his way towards a back corner and sank into a dusty couch.
For Heaven this place sure is dusty. Or at least that's what Castiel believed that Dean would say. A smile graced his features before he opened the book and began to read.
Back with the Winchesters and the lone Archangel Dean had finally woken up. Albeit it was because Gabriel had decided he was tired of waiting and doused the poor sleeping hunter with ice cold water. Sam cleared his throat and was going to ask Dean a question, but Gabriel beat him to it,
"So Dean-o how'd you know that dear old Lucy fell because she was with child?" Both Dean and Sam gave him a look.
"I don't know man. I just did. It was like Cas was telling me something I already knew, but with a lot of parts missing. For some reason I just knew it had to be because the other angels were watering it down and censoring it for the babies. And Cas is just a baby. Or he wasn't born at the time, but now he's just out of the nursery. It's not right that someone as young as Cas be sent on a job meant for someone older and better able to interact with the humans. Cas has so much trouble because he's so young. How could you let him be sent out to do the angel's dirty work Gabriel? It's your job to look after him and to protect him. You promised man." Dean let out a long sigh. It sounded as if the weight of the world rested on his shoulders. And Gabriel was beginning to think that just maybe it did.
"Dean-o. I'm thinking that maybe my brothers weren't truthful with me. You always feel compiled to protect everyone don't you? Especially when given a direct order to do so?"
"Yeah Gabriel I do. I also know why. I'm like Anna aren't I?" All Gabriel could do was nod.
Castiel jumped from his chair and dropped the book he had been reading.
"No…." he whispered horrified.