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Annie bit her lower lip as she struggled to hang more lights on the Christmas tree. Isaac and Levi were sitting on the floor giggling thinking that they were helping by making the lights turn off and on even though they weren't plugged in yet, while Abigail was sorting through her favorite ornaments.
"You know it would just be easier if you just let me," Gabriel held up his hand, ready to snap his fingers.
"No, this is supposed to be a family activity," Annie said. "If you're going to help, then why don't you help me with the lights and stop hovering."
"I am not hovering," Gabriel pointed out. "My feet are planted firmly on the ground. I am saving the hovering for when it's time to put the angel on the top of the tree."
"Are you going set yourself up there?" Annie snorted and Gabriel just stared at her.
Annie realized that Gabriel knew full well what she meant by hovering and it had nothing to do with putting an angel on the tree. Ever since Sam and Dean told him that they thought her attack was linked to not only the two murders that NCIS had investigated, but several others they had uncovered, he had hardly let her out of his sight. He was even threatening to attend Lila's Bachelorette party with her instead of going to Tony's, since both parties were at the same time.
Annie wasn't yet convinced that her attack was related to the murders. Yes, Sam and Dean had shown both her and Gabriel pictures from several crimes scenes. Gabriel, too, thought some of her injuries were similar. And she would even admit that it gave her an eerie feeling to look at the photographs. But all of those other women were alone, far away from their families, and the one person close to them was gone at the time they were killed. She didn't fit the profile at all. That's when Gabriel stepped in and offered up his own theory. He thought it was someone who knew him and he had pissed off over the years, just trying to get back at him. He had put Sam and Dean to work on that list. Annie figured it had to be a long one, even if he just limited it to supernatural beings that were able to interfere with his ability to sense her location.
Even if he was right, she was not going to miss Lila's Bachelorette party, and there was no way she was letting Gabriel come with her. Bobby had agreed to take care for all three of their kids for the evening so they both could get away, and she was going to make sure Gabriel went to Tony's party. With both Lila and Ziva at Lila's party, she would be plenty safe. The two of them were trained NCIS agents, and Ziva was former Mossad. How many times had she heard from Gibbs that Ziva didn't need a weapon, she was a weapon?
"Just because she was Mossad, doesn't mean she can handle herself against the kind of enemies I have made over the centuries," Gabriel piped up, interrupting Annie's thoughts.
"Reading my mind again?" Annie accused. "Ziva was Mossad, she is now NCIS and she has spent some of her free time training with Dean and Sam now that she has learned about what else is out there. From what Dean says, besides being a really good shot, she has picked up a lot of the other stuff pretty quickly."
"There isn't a lot those two muttonheads could teach her that would be helpful against the big guns, Annie," Gabriel scoffed.
"Are you forgetting who put Lucifer back in their cage?" she asked.
"Are you forgetting who told them that was even an option or what they needed to be able to do it?" he countered. "I just want you to be sure you are safe, that's all. I could always come along with you to the party."
"I don't think that is going to happen," Annie stated flatly. "What exactly would you do with all of us women around?"
"I could entertain all of you," Gabriel responded, wiggling his eyebrows. "I have an extensive resume in that area."
"No, you are not going to entertain us," Annie said, gritting her teeth and narrowing her eyes. "I would kill you first."
"No, you wouldn't," he shrugged. "You love my entertainment. Are you afraid to share my awesomeness with other people?"
"I don't think the other girls would appreciate it," Annie sighed. "Besides, if you want me so close to you, how would feel if I came to Tony's party as the entertainment there?"
"You wouldn't dare," Gabriel snorted. "If you went anywhere near that party as 'entertainment', why I would…"
"What?" Annie challenged.
"I would gauge all of their eyes out!"
"No you won't because I'm not going anywhere near that thing you call a Bachelor party," Annie laughed at him. "This is the can of worms you open when you insist we go everywhere together. You are going to go to Tony's party and I will go to Lila's party and I will be just fine."
As Abigail watched her parents talking she realized not for the first time that her Daddy could read other peoples thoughts. When he left the room for a moment, she asked her Mommy about it.
"Mommy," she spoke up. "When do you think I will be able to see into people's minds like Daddy does? I can fly like him, and make things happen like he does. Why can't I see into people's minds like he does?"
"Oh sweetie," Annie replied. "I know you want to be like your Daddy, and that is a good thing in many ways. But I wouldn't be in such a rush to be able to read minds if I were you. It won't be an easy thing for a little girl. Your Daddy has had a lot of practice in his life, getting it right, and even now we have an understanding as to when it is okay for him to read my mind and when it is not. You wouldn't want to read someone's mind and misunderstand what they are thinking or feeling, now would you? That would only upset you, or your friends, sweetie."
Abigail didn't answer her mother. Instead she continued to go through the Christmas ornaments as she thought about what Annie had said, and still wondered what it would be like to know what other people were thinking.
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"For the love of all that is holy Gabriel, she is fine, if you call my cell phone one more time I will figure out a way to...how do the Winchesters say it? Gank you?" Lila threatened, glaring at her cell phone. She knew she should have had everyone turn off their phones.
"You can't gank an Archangel." Gabriel muttered, not without an angel killing blade anyway, but he kept that part to himself. He wouldn't want to give her any ideas.
"I will figure out something!" Lila replied. "I've seen you back away from me when I was mad. Now I'm hanging up and I swear to every single God in creation, not just your daddy, that if you call again while this party is going on, I will hurt you in ways you can't even imagine."
"I don't know, I can imagine quite a few..."
"GABRIEL!" Lila snapped. "Hanging up now!" She hung up her phone and went back to everyone else.
"Here, Lila, try this!" Abby insisted, pushing a shot glass in front of Lila.
"Is this going to be one of those things where we try to get her drunk?" Annie asked. Abby smiled brightly and nodded. The rest of the girls laughed. Lila looked skeptically at the shot before tilting her head back and downing it all at once. The girls laughed harder at the face she made.
"What the hell was that?" Lila asked.
"You don't wanna know." Abby answered.
"Okay let's give her something she likes." Nicole decided, waving down the bartender.
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"Come on DiNozzo, last chance for this." Dean insisted.
"Why are you here?" Tony asked.
"Because we were in town and there's no way I'm passing up this sort of thing." Dean replied, smiling at one of the dancers.
"Better question is how we did we get convinced to actually go to a strip club?" McGee asked.
"Ask the single men." Tony stated, sipping his beer.
"Don't look at me." Sam put his hands up in defense. "This was not my idea. Dean hears the words 'bachelor' and 'party' and he automatically assumes strippers need to be involved."
"Oh please!" Dean muttered. He lifted up his beer. "I don't need a bachelor party to involve strippers." He drank down the rest of his beer and put the bottle on the table. "Now if you girls aren't going to enjoy this...then I am."
"Did he just call us girls?" Gabriel asked, watching Dean wander over to one of the stages.
"It's just Dean." Sam said
"Whatever," Tony replied. "As long as this doesn't turn into the DC version of The Hangover. Lila would kill me of we all got that drunk and you guys lost me."
"I could make you disappear without ever being drunk," Gabriel laughed, eyeing the federal agent.
"Besides," Sam chimed in. "Gabriel would have to drink a liquor store before he became as drunk as anyone in that movie."
"Don't compare me to Cas, Sammy," Gabriel smirked. "He can't handle his liquor. It would take at least four liquor stores to get me anywhere in the neighborhood of drunk."
"Really?" Sam questioned, his eyes on his phone as he replied to yet another text message.
"Dude, what's up with you and that phone?" Tony asked. "You expecting a call?"
"I thought you guys weren't on some sort of case right now." McGee spoke up.
"We're not. I just...yeah...expecting a call." Sam confessed.
"Oh Sammy's got a girlfriend." Gabriel bugged. Sam raised an eyebrow then rolled his eyes.
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"Nic are you having a love affair with your phone or something?" Lila asked her sister.
"Uh...well...sort of." Nicole replied, smiling slightly.
"You're seeing someone." Annie pointed out. Nicole went red and looked down. All the girls laughed and clapped their hands. Well...all but Ziva who just wasn't the relationship type of girl.
"Who?" Abby asked. "Come on Nicole, spill."
"I can't tell you guys." Nicole replied, chewing on her lower lip.
"Oh come on, why not?" Lila asked, leaning towards her sister. They had been feeding her drinks all night and she was finally starting to feel it. "I'm getting married! You can make it my present!"
"No!" Nicole exclaimed.
"Nikki!" Lila whined. "Please? Please, please, please, please, please..."
"Lila stop it!" Nicole laughed and waved her sister off. "I am NOT going to tell you."
"But there is someone, right?" Lila asked.
"Leave her alone." Ziva stated, talking around the rim of her glass.
"Oh my god, Ziva knows!" Lila yelled. "You guys!"
"She doesn't know!" Nicole reassured. Annie raised an eyebrow and tilted her head. She was pretty sure she knew but if Nicole didn't want it revealed then she'd respect the young woman's decision.
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"It's Ziva, isn't it?" Tony stated.
"What?" Sam asked, blinking.
"Oh come on, you've been spending all this time with her." Tony rolled his eyes. "How do we know there aren't any one on one sessions?" All eyes turned to Sam. Gibbs raised an eyebrow as he took a sip of beer.
"What? No, come on." Sam stuttered. "I've only spent time around her with Dean around. Come on, the woman can kill me without weapons."
"Same thing as Ruby then." Dean muttered, rejoining the table. Sam sighed.
"Who's Ruby?" Tony asked.
"Demon bitch that messed with Sammy for over a damn year." Dean explained.
"In my defense, I actually thought she meant well." Sam tried to defend himself. "And come on, it was how many years ago? How long are you going to hold that over my head?"
"Oh well, let's see." Dean spoke sarcastically. "You slept with her, drank her blood, chose her over me, and started the damn apocalypse because of her. And it all started while I was in Hell. So I'd say it's gonna get held over your head for a long time pal!"
"Hey, hey, hey, now!" Gibbs snapped. "Enough! If you two are going to start your sibling bullshit, take it somewhere else. And the rest of us are going to leave Sam alone on who he's seeing because this night isn't meant to be about him." There was a pause while everyone just sat there, drinking their beers.
"So that means we get to mess with Tony about his past girlfriends?" McGee asked finally. "What does Lila know about your times with Ziva, Tony?"
"There were no times!" Tony defended. "There was just that one case, it was all fake. And no one EVER brings this up around Lila."
"But if there was nothing going on..." Gabriel stated.
"Right, but still...never bring it up to Lila." Tony repeated. Gibbs sighed and shook his head.
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"So Ziva, I hear those Winchester boys have been giving you some training." Abby pointed out, grinning.
"Well it wasn't exactly their choice." Ziva stated. "I made them." Lila laughed and nearly fell off her chair.
"What have they taught you?" Nicole asked, looking surprised.
"Just different methods of defense. Ones I haven't been exposed to before, from their line of work," Ziva shared, sipping her drink. "Which methods work on which…creatures."
"Really?" Nicole asked.
"Yes." Ziva answered.
"Sam...and Dean...they taught you all that?" Nicole asked. Eyebrows were raised.
"Yes." Ziva repeated.
"Huh." Nicole said, looking at her glass.
"Is it Dean?" Abby asked suddenly. Nicole blinked and looked at the forensics specialist. "That you're seeing."
"What?" Nicole asked.
"We all know you're dating someone. Is it Dean?" Abby asked.
"What? No!" Nicole exclaimed.
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She heard giggling as she walked through the forest. As she looked around her she realized this wasn't just any forest. It was filled with Christmas trees. Completely decorated Christmas trees. As she rounded the corner she saw him. He was sitting on the ground, opening presents.
"Nicky!" she exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"
"Me?" he asked. "I have been here for awhile. I am opening all the Christmas presents I hope to get. Video games, remote control cars, maybe even a drum set. What are you doing here Abigail? I think this might be my dream." He tossed her a candy cane.
"Really?" she gasped as she caught the sweet treat in her hands. "Cool! Can we play with some of your toys?
"Yeah!" Nicky shouted. "Let's play with the Wii Mario Kart. I heard it's a lot of fun. But I don't see a TV we can hook it up to."
"Nicky," Abigail smirked as she picked up the game box. "We don't need a TV, if we are in a dream. In fact if I'm here, we don't have to play it in the normal way."
He looked up at her and smiled as realization dawned upon his face. Abigail snapped her fingers, and soon she and Nicky were sitting in cartoon vehicles racing each other around the track. They sped around the track for what seemed like hours, laughing and giggling. Occasionally they would change the tracks or the vehicles they were using. When they finally stopped, the pair was breathless.
"Oh, Abigail, that was absolutely fantastic!" Nicky declared. "So much better than just a regular game. What are we going to do next?"
"Let's explore the forest," Abigail suggested. "Maybe we will find something else we can play. If we split up, we can cover more ground and find what else is here."
"Sounds good to me. I want to go that way," Nicky pointing over her shoulder. "That looks like there is a castle up there."
"Great, because I want to go over there. It looks like a giant cotton candy mountain," Abigail grinned.
The two split up, agreeing to try to meet back up in an hour. As Abigail walked into the forest towards what she thought was the cotton candy mountain, the Christmas trees turned into regular pine trees and the forest became darker and colder. As Abigail began to wonder if she was still in the same place, she began to hear new noises. She heard a man grumbling and a woman moaning.
As she approached a clearing, she saw a man tying a woman to a tree, with her arms above her head. She gasped and the man turned to look, but Abigail quickly hid behind one of the trees out of his sight. She didn't think she was in Nicky's dream anymore.
The man was wearing an old army jacket. His brown hair was thin on the back, but he had none on the top of his head at all. His teeth were crooked and he was missing one of them in the front. His pale skin was worn thin and he moved slowly as he continued to secure the woman to the tree. He kept mumbling something about offering a sacrifice to his mistress. He took out a long knife and started to cut the woman who was tied to the tree on the wrists. The woman was barely conscious and she only moaned as he cut her.
It was Abigail who was horrified at the scene before her. She started to scream and the older man turned to look at her. Realizing his current victim was not going anywhere, he slowly made his way toward the little angel, who was momentarily frozen with fear.
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Bobby Singer managed to get through an evening with Abigail, Isaac and Levi without any of them bringing any uninvited guests over, such as Nicky or Kenzie and scaring their babysitter half to death. They had been in bed for a few hours and he had been catching up on his reading. Annie had called about half an hour ago to check in on him and the kids. Given the noise levels in the background, he was fairing better than the ladies at Lila's party. Annie sounded like the only sober one at the gathering. He didn't even want to think about what was going on at the guys' party. He doubted even Gibbs could keep a reign on Dean and Gabriel if the two of them put their minds together to come up with some wilder times for Tony's last fling as a bachelor.
But Bobby's quiet evening was soon shattered by the screams he heard coming from Abigail's bedroom.
