Hi!

Like a bad excuse, the reason why this is so late is because of the amount of work that's been given to me! :O The teacher's are being rather mean with the work load, I think. : )

A cute filled chapter here, again, (sorry!) hope its worth the wait!

Enjoy!

Onwards...

'Dean?' A small cough hacked through the darkness of Bobby's house. 'Dean!'

Castiel gently swung his legs over his bed, grabbing his teddy as he did so. Pulling his pyjamas closer to his small body, the little boy stretched his cold toes as he tiptoed across the landing, towards Dean's room. He gently pushed the door open and a ray of light shone through Dean's room, illuminating the hunters face in its light.

Dean was awake at once. 'Cas?' he shot out of bed and grabbed the freezing child, who took this opportunity to sneeze into Dean's shoulder, his whole body shaking.

'Little man' Dean murmured, sitting back into bed, putting Castiel between his legs, the angel clinging onto one arm and pulling himself closer. He buried his head in Dean's neck and coughed again, his body convulsing in Dean's arms.

Dean frowned and looked down at him. Flu, at his age? He put his hand to the angel's forehead and kissed the top of his pale, sweaty head, Cas leaning into his touch.

Dean brought his pillow around and put it under his back, so Cas was using him as a sort of armchair. The angel put his feet flush against Dean's legs, his little toes warming up.

'Dean, my head hurts.'

'I know, little man.' Dean cooed down at him, lacing his fingers through his dark hair. 'Just try to sleep.'

'Okay' Cas turned slightly and entwined his finger's in Dean's shirt, his feet curled up to his chest.

As the little angel fell as asleep, Dean kept a close watch on him, his breathing going up and down in a steady rhythm. He little face was flushed and he sniffled, before sneezing again.

Dean knew someone he could ask for help.

-x-

'Dean, he's got a cold.'

'But what if it's something serious?'

'Dean, it just a cold.'

'What if it's a serious cold?'

Bobby threw his hands in the air, looking fondly at the angel who was lying across the sofa, his head in the older hunters lap. Castiel giggled, which turned into a cough.

Dean raised his eyebrows and pointed, as though that rested his case.

'Dean, if he gets any worse, we'll take him to the doctors, ok? But he's fine. I promise you.'

Dean nodded, leaning backwards in his seat. He couldn't help but worry; what if Cas was coming down with something serious? What would he do then?

There was an almighty bang as Gabriel entered the room, a heavy metal guitar rift blaring through his headphones. Apparently, Sam had let him borrow his iPod, which Gabriel had now claimed for his own. The angel could pass off for fifteen, maybe sixteen. There was no way of telling, but Castiel definitely looked no more than ten.

Sam walked in after him, carrying a sock at arms length. He winked at Dean before holding both ends of the sock in his hands and stretching it over Gabriel's face.

The archangel reeled back in shock and yelped. 'What the hell?'

Cas gasped, causing another coughing fit and Gabriel glared at Sam, who was laughing at him. He pointed the dirty sock at his face.

'If you leave another sock on the bathroom floor, I'll get Bobby to melt them down and make a shirt out of them!' he stated sternly. 'I bet they can smell them in the next state!'

'Dude?' Gabriel grabbed his sock. Tentatively he brought it to his own nose, reeling back in disgust. 'Alright!' he flung his arms around. 'I'll pick them up this one time!'

'Thank you' Sam patted his shoulder as he walked past, the older angels shrugging him off with a groan.

Dean walked over and knelt next to Cas, who had just finished coughing. 'You ok there, Sir Coughalot?' he grinned, ruffling his hair.

Cas looked up at him with his big blue eyes and cleared his throat, wincing when he found it hurt to do so. 'My throwt hurts' he said slowly.

'Ok' Dean smiled and cupped his face, Cas leaning into the cool touch. Dean shimmied Bobby out the seat and sat in his seat, the angel grabbing his hand and cuddling onto it.

Gabriel came back in the room and, all teenage pretence gone, looked down at his little brother. 'Cassie, you ok?' he asked, smiling as Cas opened one eye.

Gabriel grinned when Cas extended his arms and he leaned forwards, picking up the young angel, who wrapped his arms and legs around him. The two brother's hugged for a few minutes, just content in each others presence.

Finally, Gabriel put Castiel down and the little angel snuggled up to Dean again. Sam and Dean carried on watching Gabriel, who turned to them with a frown on his face

'What?'

-x-

While Castiel was sleeping, Dean decided to do some good old home cooking. As his mother always used to say to him 'Nothing gets rid of a cold as fast as tomato rice soup'. Which was exactly what he was doing. After looking through some somewhat dusty cookbook, Dean came across a recipe that had a pictured he recognised and he got down to work.

As he mixed the lumpy soup, as well as hoping his was doing it right, he remembered the times when he was sick and his mother making the same for him. Smelling the tomato-ey smell that wafted from the stove reminded him of his mother, as well as her soft touch when he was feverish. They were some of his cherished memories.

Finally, when the soup was finished, Dean bowled them up and put one on the windowsill to cool down, ready for the angel to eat.

He looked out the window and saw Gabriel doing wheelies again on his bike, a group of teenage girls loitering around the entrance to Bobby's scrap yard. The archangel seemed to be revelling in all the attention.

He grinned to himself. Providing the angel didn't do anything wrong, he wouldn't have to intervene.

'Dean?' Cas's voice echoed from the living room, where the young angel was watching cartoons. Dean made his way towards him, when he stopped as Castiel gave the biggest sneeze he had ever heard.

During this time something strange happened. When Cas shut his eye to sneeze, Dean saw the angel disappear for few seconds, before appearing back again, opening his eyes. Looks like his mojo is coming back, Dean mused.

'Mmm' Cas clapped his hands and licked his lips as Dean brought forwards his bowl, the angel blowing on his one, just to make sure.

They ate in a companionable silence, listening to the squealing girls outside. Cas giggled to himself, before dipping his last bit of bread in his soup.

Sam came in at that point, covered in car oil. He had been helping Bobby in the yard, a lull of hunts meaning that the youngest Winchester got bored easily.

'Soup?' he grinned, looking at his brother. Dean swallowed his mouthful and pointed.

'Kitchen, you big baby'

Sam gave him a wide grin and disappeared, reappearing a few minutes later with two more bowls of soup, one for him and one for Bobby. Dean was glad he did more now.

Suddenly, the door opened and Gabriel came into the room, accompanined by a laughing girl, who looked slightly older than him.

'Me and Hannah are gonna go upstairs.' He told them all, grabbing his hand.

Sam stood up. 'Oh no, Mister.' He stood in front of the stairs. 'You two aren't going up there. You can stay outside or go for a walk.'

Dean tried to suppress a grin; Watching Sam trying to be a disciplinarian was amusing, to say the least.

Gabriel pouted at the young hunter, the young lady looking the same way. 'We're just gonna go up and talk.'

'Yeah, right.' Dean called. 'I was sixteen once, you know.'

'Now look at you.' Gabriel muttered. Dean raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.

'You know, I should be going.' Hannah turned slightly pink, pressing a kiss to Gabriel's cheek. She left in rather a hurry.

'You ruin everything!' Gabriel ducked under Sam's arms and he disappeared upstairs.

There was silence for a few minutes.

'They weren't going up there to talk, were they?' a little voice piped up.

Dean grinned at him, shushing him.

Looks like he and Gabriel would be having that little talk sooner than he anticipated.

God help him.

Hope that was good enough...I have lots of ideas just brimming to be written- it's just finding the time : ( Hopefully I'll update tomorrow...I can't see a reason why no...but please don't hold me to that! : D

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