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"Do you remember anything, Annie?" Gabriel asked her, hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. As he was talking to her, both Isaac and Levi dropped their stuffed animals and started crawling towards their parents who were on the couch.

"You…you look familiar. And so do they," Annie pointed to the twins, who were now were pulling themselves up to stand next to the couch, smiling up at their mother. "And a little red-headed girl with curls. Where is she? I don't remember your names. I wish I could, but I don't. You…you all remind me of home. I want to go home, but I don't know where that is." Tears began to fall down her face.

"Annie," Dean interrupted. "Do you remember what happened to you? Where you were or how you got hurt?"

She looked up at him and tilted her head slightly as she regarded him. "You like pie."

Dean chuckled softly. "Yes, I do. So that is something you remember. But what about what happened to you?"

Annie closed her eyes and shook her head. Gabriel clenched his jaw. "Don't push her, Dean."

"I don't understand," Nicole said. "If you healed her, why doesn't she remember anything?"

"Healing the body is easy, but healing the mind is a much more delicate matter. Given that she was unconscious, I didn't know her memory was damaged, so I didn't even try at the time. Now we need her memory to come back on its own."

Just then, Abigail and Nicky came running downstairs. "Mom and Dad are back," Nicky announced. "They just pulled in the drive."

Abigail then saw her mom on the couch and ran over to her. "Mommy! You're back!" she exclaimed as she threw her arms around Annie, as Annie hesitantly returned the hug. "Are you alright?" the little girl asked, worry in her eyes.

"Abigail," Gabriel answered for Annie. "Your mommy was hurt, and she is having trouble remembering a few things." As Gabriel was talking to Abigail, Tony and Lila walked in and overheard what he had said.

"She lost her memory?" Lila gasped. "What happened?" While Lila was asking questions of Gabriel, Tony was talking to Dean and Sam. Nicky remained the only silent one, staring around at everyone with wide eyes. The amount of commotion being caused by so many people she couldn't remember started to overwhelm Annie. She got up off the couch and started to leave the room, but Gabriel caught her by the arm. He didn't even have to ask. He knew by the look in her eyes it was too much for her.

"You said we reminded you of home, that you wanted to go there. Let me take you home," he pleaded. "Maybe if it is just our family, it will help you remember."

Annie looked him in the eyes. Hoping she could trust him, she shook her head yes. Gabriel snapped his fingers and took his family away.

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"So how bad do you think it is?" Nicole asked, cuddling Kenzie on her lap. The little girl with the blonde pigtails wasn't too sure what was going on but knew her mother wanted the closeness so she didn't squirm.

"Don't know." Sam answered. He was sitting on the couch next to Nicole, his torso turned slightly in her direction. Dean was pacing around and basically locked in on himself. Tony was sitting on the floor, Nicky at his side. Lila had gone into the kitchen to call Gibbs because she claimed she needed a distraction, something else to dig into to keep herself from worrying too much. Tony knew her well enough and knew that she really did. Lila couldn't just focus on one thing, she had to be able to separate her attention, it was the only way she could actually figure something out.

"She'll get over this right?" Tony asked. "I mean...she's not going to forget forever is she?"

"I doubt Gabriel would let that happen." Sam reassured them all. Nicole's hand dropped from Kenzie and rested on the couch between herself and Sam.

"Dad..." Nicky ventured carefully. All eyes in the room turned to him, even Dean stopped pacing. Nicky hadn't said a word since he had announced his parents' return to the rental house.

"Yeah sport?" Tony asked, sighing and running over his face.

"Oh...uh...nothing, forget it." Nicky covered quickly, looking down.

"No, now come on." Tony said, frowning slightly. He took hold of his son's chin and made him look up. "What is it?"

"I just...I was only wondering..." Nicky stumbled over his words, unsure of how to ask what he was going for. "Never mind." He stood up and moved to a different part of the room. Tony frowned more and made to get to his feet when Dean suddenly snapped his fingers and everyone looked at him.

"Cake!" The oldest Winchester announced. Nicky bit his lip, going slightly red as he looked down again.

"Oh...my...god, Nicky." Tony looked at his son. "Oh god, buddy, I'm so sorry."

"It's okay." Nicky tried to assure him. "Work and...and then Annie...it's okay."

"Hey now!" Tony said sharply, moving over to Nicky and crouching in front of him. "Don't ever think that. It's your birthday. You have every right to get selfish on your birthday."

"You hear that Sammy." Dean teased, looking at his brother. He raised an eyebrow as Sam and Nicole both seemed to jump at the sudden attention towards them. Dean just shook his head and grinned. "I can be selfish on my birthday. Federal Agent dude just said so."

"Nothing I said about that ever stopped you before." Sam stated, rolling his eyes.

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Gabriel didn't exactly take them home. Instead he took them to a beach. The beach where he and Annie often went to in order to be alone, where he had first taken her years ago. He quickly snapped up a play area for the kids and created a barrier they couldn't get out of.

"How…how did you do that?" Annie stammered. "Bring us here…bring all that stuff for the kids? And I am pretty sure this isn't home… not on a beach anyway."

Gabriel raised an eyebrow and sighed. "It's that bad, huh? You remember my face, but not who or what I am? No, this isn't home, but we do come here quite a bit and I was hoping something about it would seem familiar."

Annie looked around then closed her eyes, breathing in the salt air. And then something came to her.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"On an island off the coast of Thailand. Nice little hidden gem. It doesn't get the same traffic as the fancy resorts, but the sand and surf here can't be beat."

Annie stood in silence for a few moments, taking it all in. Finally she said, "I never been to the beach before. I have never even seen the ocean before now."

"I guess that is my fault. Creating that barrier and all. Instead of sticking around and providing proper protection like a real Archangel should," Gabe said. "That's quite a shame, since you would look great in a bikini. I can provide one for you if you'd like." A wicked grin was plastered on his face.

"Gabriel," she said, looking up him, "You are the Archangel Gabriel. The first time I ever came to the beach, you brought me here. You even tried to get me to wear a bikini."

Gabriel grabbed her around the waist and pulled her in to his arms, "That's my girl. I knew you were in there. Do you remember the second time I brought here?"

She thought for a second before answering. "I did wear a bikini that time, but not for very long," she laughed, blushing.

Just then, one of the twins began crying and Annie and Gabriel walked over to where the kids were. Gabriel removed the barrier and Annie picked up the crying boy. It appeared as though he had cut his knee on a broken shell. Annie kissed him on the forehead. "It will be alright, Levi," she soothed.

As Gabriel healed his son's knee, he asked Annie, "How did you know it was Levi?"

"Levi has two very tiny moles under his chin, there and there, just like you," she smiled. "Isaac doesn't. Just one of their few differences."

"Okay, so you really are starting to remember, now. Are you ready for the tougher questions?"

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Nicky was still embarrassed by drawing everyone's attention from worrying about Annie to himself but they all were insistent on reassuring him that it was fine. Even Dean got down on the eight year old's level to confirm that he was more than in his right to want attention on his special day. While Nicky was upset that Abigail couldn't be around, he made due with having Dean and Sam as her substitutes (although he wouldn't say that bit out loud).

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Nicky! Happy birthday to you!" Everyone sang as Lila held out the cake to her son. Even Kenzie tried to sing but it turned into a bunch of baby gabbling that at least succeeded in making Nicky smile at his cousin. He let her attempt to help him blow out the candles which turned into Kenzie sticking her hand in the cake.

"Okay, I don't want that part." Dean declared. "I got nothing against the little missy but...nah...no baby part of the cake for me."

"You're so picky." Lila chided, rolling her eyes.

"Yes I am darling." Dean agreed with a smirk. Lila laughed, making Tony raise an eyebrow. He shot a look at Dean who just grinned at him. Tony shook his head. If this was the Winchester's way of getting action out of DiNozzo then he'd get the wrong sort of action.

"It's good thing we got pictures before Mackenzie stuck her hand in." Lila said, smiling at her niece who currently her hand in her mouth to get the cake and frosting off.

"And we'll take pictures when Nicky opens his presents so Annie and them can see his reactions." Tony decided. Lila smiled more and kissed Tony's cheek before setting out to cut the cake.

"Did you make this?" Sam asked, accepting a piece with a smile and a 'thanks'.

"Nicole did." Lila replied.

"Okay...if I could get pie from Annie forever...and cake from Nicole...I will be the happiest hunter on this planet." Dean announced with a mouth full of cake. Everyone laughed at him.

"That is so gross." Lila said, laughing. "Is that what brought an end to you and Abby?"

"What? No!" Dean answered. "She didn't like the long distance thing."

"And now she's back with McGeek." Tony stated, laughing slightly.

"Yeah, yeah." Dean rolled his eyes.

"Oh don't worry Dean, I'm sure you'll find a girl that can put up with you." Nicole assured.

"Thank...hey, what do you mean, put up with me?" Dean asked. Nicole just smiled innocently as she helped Kenzie get the cake in her mouth instead of on her face.

Once they all finished their cake, they moved onto presents. Gibbs, Abby, McGee and Ziva had all gotten together and bought Nicky a new bike since it was partially Ziva's fault for the old one getting broken (she did run it over with her car by accident after all). Tony and Lila had pulled some strings and gotten Nicky his own Orioles team shirt which was signed by a couple of the players. Nicole had spoken to Nicky previously to ask for ideas and gotten him a personalized bat.

Dean and Sam surprised everyone present by giving Nicky a CD with the Best of AC/DC.

Nicky was hesitant to open the one from Abigail and her family without having them there. Lila had switched the camera to video mode and assured him that they wouldn't mind and she'd have the whole thing recorded for them. With that said, Nicky opened the box that was almost the same size as him. Inside was a smaller box with a tag that read 'open me'.

"This must have been Gabriel's part of the present." Tony muttered by the fifth box.

A few more boxes and Nicky finally took out one small, long box. He paused then frowned slightly, tilting his head.

"Did they get me a necklace?" Nicky asked, remembering similar boxes like this going from Tony to Lila and containing jewelry.

"You won't know until you open it." Lila replied, trying not to laugh. Nicky sighed then looked directly at the camera.

"Abby...if this is a necklace...you're gonna get in a lot of trouble." He warned. Everyone else laughed as the boy slowly opened the box. His eyes widened and his mouth fell open. "I...this...oh...dad...DAD!" Tony came over and crouched down next to his son then he too stared at what was in the box.

"I swear if it's another box..." Lila muttered.

"It's tickets." Tony answered.

"Tickets to what?" Nicole asked, bouncing Kenzie on her hip, trying to get her to sleep now.

"The MLB All-Star game!" Nicky nearly shouted. He looked at the camera again. "Abs I take it back! No trouble, you and your family...you rock!" Lila laughed and shook her head, causing the camera to shake slightly. "This is so cool!"

"I'm willing to bet anything that there's two other tickets, sitting at Annie's house, for Abigail and Gabe too." Dean muttered to Sam.

"Oh yeah." Sam agreed, nodding. "Without a doubt."

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Gabriel and Annie sat on a blanket on the beach, each with one of the boys on their laps, while Abigail played in the sand.

"Why is it important?" Annie asked.

"Because someone took you away from us and hurt you. They hid you from me and they shouldn't have the power to do that. I am supposed to be able to protect you. It…it ruffles my feathers to think of what would have happened if the boys hadn't brought you back."

"I…I don't remember much, but I will try," she offered. "I remember that my hands were tied, above my head, I think, and I was sitting on the damp ground. My head hurt too much to open my eyes, but I heard a man's voice. He kept talking about it being too soon to make another sacrifice, and worried about being caught, and then I heard a woman's voice before I blacked out again. I'm sorry, that's all I can remember."

"No need to apologize," Gabriel said. "You are doing great."

Abigail stood up, brushed off the sand and ran over her to parents. "Daddy, Mommy, we left before Nicky opened his presents and got cake. Is there any chance we could go back soon?"

"Abigail," Gabriel started. "I don't think now is the time…"

"Wait," Annie interrupted. "This Nicky, he is a friend of Abigail's? One of those people back at that house?" Both Abigail and Gabriel nodded. "We can go back, and Abby can be with her friend. But, I…I would rather not be around everyone right now. Maybe I could just rest?"

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Back at the rental house, Dean was polishing off his third piece of cake, when he heard Gabriel proclaim, "Hey Winchester! Did you save any of that for the rest of us?"

Everyone looked up and saw Gabriel, Abigail and the twins heading down the stairs.

"Abby! You're back!" Nicky shouted as he jumped up to greet his friend. "You present was so amazing! Come here and see what else I got." The two of them went off to the far end of the living room, looking over Nicky's presents.

"Gabriel, how's Annie?" Dean asked, and everyone looked up at the angel awaiting his answer.

Gabriel sat the twins on the floor before responding. "She is starting to get her memory back, but it is not all quite there yet. She wanted to rest for awhile."

"Did she remember anything about what happened?" Sam wondered.

"Some," Gabriel responded. "Not enough to answer all my questions, but enough to know it wasn't an isolated incident." He then shared with then what Annie had remembered.

"Sacrifice?" Tony asked. "That sounds an awful lot like…you don't think it could be related to these others cases we've seen, do you?"

"That is exactly what I am worried about." Gabriel sighed and drug a hand through his hair, not wanting to discuss it anymore. "Enough about us, did any cake survive?"

"I set aside pieces for you guys, hid them from the chow hound here." Lila explained, nudging her thumb in Dean's direction. He tried to give some sort of indignant response but just ended up spitting out crumbs. "Oh for crying out loud, my niece has more manners then you." Dean just rolled his eyes. Lila went and got the rest of the cake, handing a piece that was nearly a quarter of the size of the original cake over to Gabriel and telling him he had to share some of it with the twins before giving Abigail a regular size.

"Mom I need the camera, I wanna show Abby the pictures and the video." Nicky looked up at his mother when she nearby.

"Sure thing honey." Lila agreed. She fetched the camera for him and left him and Abigail alone to look over the contents.

"So we missed cake, we missed presents...what else did we miss?" Gabriel asked upon Lila's return to the adult group.

"Like what?" Nicole asked. Gabriel's eyes drifted around at all of them then across the hands before he sighed and gave Tony a look.

"Honestly DiNozzo," the Archangel criticized.

"What now?" Tony asked, sighing. Gabriel raised an eyebrow at him then gestured with his eyes over at Lila. Tony glanced over at his girlfriend then frowned slightly. "Hey that is a very, very short period of time for that expectation."

"Ten years!" Gabriel argued.

"Shut up!" Tony argued back.

"What are you two Yahoos going on about?" Lila asked, crossing her arms.

"DiNozzo's supposed to..." Gabriel started but got cut off as Tony slapped a hand over his mouth.

"Supposed to what?" Lila asked, her voice taking a dangerous tone as she turned narrowed brown eyes on her boyfriend.