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Warning: Contains M/M slash and male pregnancy.

Chapter Five

"Are you honestly okay?"

Sam thought that was a weird question to ask all of sudden since he wasn't the only one who had lost a loved one today. Ellen and Jo were close to Dean just as they were to him and Bobby but by asking that, Sam wondered if there was something else he was implying.

"I think I'm walking into the wrong conversation," Sam admitted confused and Dean didn't stop once he realized that Sam apparently didn't comprehend anything.

"Lucifer man, Lucifer. Did we not hear the same thing?" he asked shaking his head. "Lucifer took one look at you and said that you were particularly strange, more than usual. Is there anything that would make that possible? Demon blood or any new addictions you want to tell me about?"

"No Dean," Sam said incredulity. "I have under no circumstances done anything that would be considered weird even for the devil. We have traveled the same way and we have done the same things. Well you have been with Lisa at periods of time but I'm usually at Bobby's doing research man and he could tell you that I usually don't do much more than that."

"For a while you vomited in the morning and when it wasn't that it was in the evening. I think you still throw up when Dean asks for cherry pie."

Sam winced when Bobby brought that up. His cravings were getting worse and if that wasn't so bad, now it was anything that had even a hint of sour or sweet, sometimes both. He still refused to see a doctor for his unusual habits because they weren't that bad and he wasn't even vomiting anymore except when he had cherry pie and that was because he couldn't stop the amount he had when it was placed in front of him.

"If that isn't bad enough, you are slowly working up to diabetes and you are gaining weight. A lot!" Dean added crossing his arms. "I could bring Cas in to talk to you because he noticed that you have strayed away from your normal habits and even Gabriel seemed a tiny bit pleased when you yanked a twizzler out of his hand the other day."

As always whenever the certain mischievous trickster/archangel was mentioned, everyone in the room seemed to tense up but for different reasons. Obviously Bobby remembered him as the one that tried to kill them when they had first met him and Dean thought that the archangel had a hidden agenda. Sam's was more out of guilt since unbeknownst to them, he was getting laid by a heavenly being that ran away to join the pagans. Apparently Cas still hadn't forgiven him either for whatever it was Gabriel had done to him when he left all those centuries ago.

"It wasn't my fault that you eat Bobby out of house and home," Sam tried protesting.

Dean just smirked when Bobby opened his mouth.

"Actually Sam I'd hate to be the one to say this but you keep asking for seconds and sometimes thirds that it is sadly rivaling Dean's appetite. It makes it worse by all the damned junk food you eat in between and you don't have to add sugar to toast sticks, just FYI. The maple syrup already has enough in it," Bobby added although he was clearly amused as well.

"I really don't know why alright but everything else aside, it doesn't change the fact that the devil has got to be stopped," Sam quickly put in. Despite their skepticism, he was fine. Gabriel was being a nuisance, that would never change but Sam wasn't sick anymore and it lasted surprisingly for the first eleven weeks. He was just glad that he has now gone three successful days without the need to hug the toilet.

"Fine but it doesn't add up. Lucifer seemed surprised by just seeing you. You said he came to you before and asked you to say yes. So why would anything about you surprise him now?"

Sam shrugged and attempted to avert his head. Just when he thought the subject was over, Cas spoke up and Sam suddenly noticed that Cas had stood there the whole time listening in.

"I'm an angel as well, not quite as powerful as Lucifer or any of the other archangels but I can see that something is different about you Samuel. You, how do they put it, you are glowing."

"Glowing?" Sam asked slowly, not sure if he got what he was going for.

"Humans have distinct auras. A lot of the supernatural could sense it and angels could see it just like they see demons for what they are," Cas started out. "The thing that had me worries was the aura that wasn't there before. Many people have different color auras and it shows how pure they are and if they follow God truly. The thing that worries me-"

"Really Cas?" Dean interrupted. "Auras mean shit and doesn't tell us what's wrong with Sam these days. Ever since the apocalypse happened anyways, Sam has been all ways of fucked up!"

"IDJIT!" Dean looked over and Bobby glared. "If you stopped talking Castiel will get to the point but your whining and sniveling isn't going to help any. Carry on Cas."

Cas nodded and did.

"The reason it was so worrisome to us is because around Sam's lower stomach, there has been a patch of white slowly appearing and growing bigger. At first I couldn't see it but now, like I said, it's a small patch and Lucifer probably read into it more than me."

"That's it?" Dean asked when Cas didn't have anything else to say. Rolling his eyes Sam didn't know what auras were supposed to achieve other than to cause him pain because apparently his aura wasn't normal either.

"Aura is makes up the physical and mental wellbeing of the body. If you were sick, then it will show there before you would notice. The reason Lucifer could have been mystified by it is by, and this going to seem a little silly but the only reason there would be that small bout of white is if Sam were pure of mind which he isn't or if he has something divine in him."

At that there was a pause as nobody else in the room knew how to approach the subject. Sam didn't know why he was mad that they would think he wasn't pure of mind but then again with all the demon blood and being with a demon, he could see it. It wasn't like he was denying it but then again he didn't like the talk like he wasn't even hear. He was also sure that if there was something divine in him, he'd know about it.

"So let's say he has something divine in him, how'd it get there?" Dean asked and Castiel tipped his head.

"I don't understand-"

"How would a divine aura appear in there where it shouldn't be?" Dean asked impatiently. "Listen Cas, I lost two of our friends today and I'm not in the mood for conversation that isn't going to lead anywhere. The colt's useless and Lucifer is still killing people. He has death on a leash so I don't want to hear I don't understand, I want to know the how."

"You are very impatient," Cas replied making Dean throw his hands up in the air. His next answer had all three turning his way in shock by saying, "If someone were to copulate with some divine being and come to carry a fetus then that is one possibility."

"A fetus?" Dean finally asked. "As in a baby growing in the inside?"

Cas tipped his head sideways at the question.

"That is a fetus Dean. It's a developing baby that hasn't been born yet."

"I frigging know what it is Cas!" Dean shouted before controlling himself. It made sense and yet it didn't. "Please just tell me that there isn't one growing in my baby brother right now!"

"Dean the reason the angels are suspecting that is because it's low leveled and a fledgling has little power while it is still developing, even more so for a half fledgling."

Sam felt like he was sucker punched quite literally. He tried to remember if he had used protection at all during the times he was actually engaging in sexual intercourse with Gabriel. Now that he thought about it, he couldn't really remember but didn't Gabriel have his own special ways? He couldn't be pregnant but then again, owning up to having sex with an angel was almost as bad as saying he was having a baby with one.

Looking back though, it was the look that sealed it for Sam.

"What? No, there's no way I could be Dean. I would have known way before now."

"Really?"

Sam raised an eye brow and wondered why Dean was really finding this possibility possible. He wasn't and he stuck by that he would know. He would know his body best after all and he would like to say that he was definitely in tune with it since the demon blood fiasco. The strange vomiting that lasted for a little over two months didn't mean anything and neither did the attempt at going into a sugar coma. He was just eating more sweets because Gabriel was. Really he couldn't have been.

"Yes. I know my body better than anyone," Sam answered irritably.

"And I say again Sam, really? You didn't have sexual intercourse or as Cas says 'copulate' in the last four months? At least not with anybody divine?"

"Dean there's no way-"

"You're not denying it Sam," Dean quickly warned him.

Sam hesitated and bit his lip. By then even Bobby was looking at him like he grew a second head. He couldn't be though and they just didn't understand. He couldn't have been carrying a baby because Gabriel-But he wasn't here at the time and if he thought about it, it did fit…No absolutely not; Sam would not believe any of it. He couldn't.

"This is Lucifer acting like I am but I'm not. He causes mayhem anywhere. There's-"

"My question has shit to do with the devil Sam and more to the question you're denying."

Sam took a deep breath and biting his bottom lip, he looked away.

"Really Sam? Why? What happened to protection?"

Bobby seemed to be in deep thought as well since he didn't say anything and Sam knew he didn't have to say anything for Cas to look on in that I'm really 'disappointed in you' type expression. Sam gulped knowing that Dean was really going to either get at it about what he did or didn't do and/or he was going to the big who. He couldn't really think to tell him.

"So you could be pregnant after all and we've been thinking someone has been deliberately poisoning you. Sam that was irresponsible! You were drinking alcohol and if you could actually keep any of it down you probably would have poisoned your unborn-damned I'm not having this conversation with my brother! My brain is seared because my brother had copulated with a dude and got knocked up. Who was the dude anyways before I bleach my mind completely?"

Sam froze and knew there was no way he could tell him. For one there was the whole Dean already being pissed thing but now it looked like he was seriously going to yell and throw things. He winced and paused seeing as how Bobby finally looked like he was coming out of his surprise.

"You could fight with your brother later about this possible fetus that may just be the result of him engaging in the activity. Besides you said you didn't know so it could be for nothing-"

"Bobby he didn't deny it though," Dean interrupted. He shut his mouth when Bobby glared at him though.

"Martin, your daddy's friend called and would like some help. He said there has been something in the hospital he is at and it doesn't look like it would be dangerous if Sam was carrying a child or not. We'll talk about this when we get back and talk about options. Hell you could adopt the baby if it were true but whatever you come up with, do a fricking pregnancy test first to verify you idjits."

With that Sam knew everything was going to change.

"Before we even go to see Martin we should have stopped to get that damn pregnancy test!"

Dean certainly was not happy since Cas told him about the possibility of Sam being pregnant and even though Sam wanted to deny it and say there was absolutely no way in hell, he feared that there was a small chance he could be and gently wondered what Gabriel was going to say if he found out. He didn't mean for it to exactly happen this way but it was happening and he couldn't deny it anymore, Dean wouldn't let him.

"Martin seemed pretty scared on the phone. I think that helping him first would be ideal before any problems we have at the moment-"

"Those problems should be dealt with first!" Dean snapped. "If you really are pregnant there are some hunts you will absolutely not go on and there will be no complaints."

Sam nodded warily.

"Besides I thought we were done keeping secrets from each other-"

"How was this a secret when I didn't even know?" Sam interrupted only to have Dean glare at him. He smartly shut his mouth and Dean continued.

"You should know the dangers of the job and okay I don't care who you have sex with or whatever but, you always need to use protection because something like this could happen. Come on Sam you're smarter than this. A baby is not something we should be concentrating on with the end of the world coming up."

"I know that, I just can't change it," Sam told him. "Looking back I know I should have double checked but if it happens shouldn't you at least be happy? Babies are supposed to be a miracle and a joy to be around."

"Some miracle alright," Dean muttered with a snort. "You do realize you are going to gain more weight than you already have? I can't believe I didn't really suspect it before. Nobody throws up that much on a daily basis and you aren't just eating that nasty rabbit food."

Sam groaned.

"Please, I don't really need to think about that right now. Besides we don't really know right now anyways and if I am, I think the father isn't-"

"Isn't what? So you know the father?" Dean questioned, turning to give Sam a confused look. Sam quickly swallowed back a retort and tried to think of an excuse he could use not to tell him. He could say that he died or something but in a way he knew he couldn't lie anymore or else it would come back and bite him as any other secret he had in the past has. But Dean was going to be angry and he could tell by the way he still acted around the archangel.

"Yeah I've been with him for a little while now," Sam answered instead.

"Okay so who is it?" Dean rolled his eyes when silence reigned in the car. "Come on Sam you learned your lesson from having sex with demons so I think we have that part covered. It's okay and I don't think it could be any worse especially if it is 'divine'."

"Even if it could be Gabriel's baby?" Sam asked biting his lip. He closed his eyes to block out Dean's reaction only to open them and let out a small squeak when Dean almost drove them off the road. He put the car into park on the side of the road before turning to him with eyes burning with anger.

"What the hell Sam! No, what the fucking hell? Son of a bitch! I finally allow some trust back and you get it on with the douchebag archangel? You have to be kidding me Sam! When did this all happen and why would it? You haven't forgotten what he did right?"

Sam gulped before shaking his head.

"He was there Dean when I was alone and I wasn't doing so good at the time. He helped Dean, he didn't even have any reason to help me but he did. Everything he did was to make me smile and he's been trying to help me like he knew what would happen if I were not to listen. I can't forget but I've learned to forgive and-"

"No, not that! Not that ever! You copulated with a fucking archangel who ran away from home like a scared little boy or whatever and you didn't care to tell me when you started getting sick? Sam this angel messed with us and he was okay with us being the vessels for Michael and Lucifer. He probably wouldn't mind it if you still became the vessel even though you might be, you might be carrying his kid." Dean trailed off looking sick and Sam choked back the urge to vomit.

Dean turned back to him then and gave him a look that Sam knew well.

"When did it first start?"

"I believe it started at the time you told me to pick a hemisphere," Sam answered a little worried that Dean was going to get to the point of anger. He just looked as though he was trying to hold back feeling it for the moment and Sam knew he should have kept his mouth shut, he really should have.

"So do you even love him?"

Sam bit back the sound of surprise at hearing his brother say that but nodded nonetheless without hesitation. He really did and Dean couldn't very much deal with it but he was. Dean took a deep breath and nodded as though he was having a silent conversation with himself.

"Okay, we have a hunt to get to and then we call Gabriel and settle this once and for all." At Sam's shocked look, Dean snorted. "First off all, there is going to be the pregnancy test that will help us verify if you are or not and then we are going to be calling Gabriel down to teach him a little thing called taking responsibility. I don't like him Sam and I ain't going to hide that but if you really love him then I want what's best for you too, since you most likely would want to keep the sucker once you saw it anyways. I know you would. You are like a fricking girl."

Sam nodded.

He may not have been happy with everything but Dean was compliant and no longer digging into him so he was happy for that at least. He was right too. At least it wasn't with a demon. And if anything else, Dean truly supported him. Sam was happy with that. There was no way that he would have thought that that would have happened. But it did and they were going to find out. He couldn't say he was exactly looking forward to it though. There was still Gabriel that needed to know

And he had no idea how to tell him let alone discuss it with his brother nearby.