Robin0203: Hold onto that feeling girly! HOLD ONTO THAT FEELING! LOL! Omg I love that! Thank you so much! It is not wrong, not at all! I know exactly how you feel tho! And there's a reason that Anubis was so persistent on getting them back together again that will be brought to light later on in a future chapter here in the near future! I'd be the same tho, like forget you, I'm out! But no, there's a reason for that! Rant girl! RANT! This is not a rant free zone! Thank you so much, I'm so thrilled that someone likes it!

Broken Twisted Lullabies: Right! Someone who understands what it feels like! The bromance with Azrael and Anubis is so much fun to write! Now that certain things are in motion, Anubis is going to be a lot more vocal, and him and Azrael are going to be a lot more vocal! He's like an excited puppy most of the time lol! I hope the conversation is well done and makes sense, I went back and rewrote and rerewrote and rererewrote it multiple times over but I think I like this one... XD and your not rude at all, thanks so much for pointing that out, I wasn't even aware that it was even happening, the spell check on the program I use to type is way wacked up, but I will deff try and pay more attention to it!

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"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss...That's the trade-off.

But I'll take it."

Brad Pitt

There was silence after his admission, clearly neither group was looking forward to this little pow wow, but now that he was here he was going to do this no matter what outcome it might lead to. He nodded towards the door before turning on his heel and leading the way, he thrown the metaphorical ball into their court now.

Alex and Anubis watched as the three Archangels watched as the younger opened the door and walked out into the gravel driveway. Dante and Nero watched him go, huffed quietly at the silent command the others obviously didn't hear, and laid back down on their paws with their gazes locked on the doorway. There was a long pause after Azrael's back disappeared from the shadow of the door frame and they turned together to watch as the other three all shot up from the couch as quickly as they could, clearly having to hold themselves back with as much strength as they could in order to not show just how desperate they were in the form of running across the floor.

Unfortunately for them, the desperation could be read off of them like a book.

They stood at the bottom of the porch stairs, watching silently as Azrael kicked at some of the loose rocks. His shoulders were tense, drawing together as he bent forward. His back cracked as he leaned backwards, echoing around the clearing in the woods loudly. His voice was small, smaller then they ever remembered it being, but the anger behind it was like bomb threatening to explode.

"Why?"

There it was, the first step, and it was the hardest thing he had ever done. Raphael licked his lips carefully, stepping forward in a way he deemed as nonthreatening as possible, placating even.

"We were or-"

"Don't patronize me! Why! Why did you betray me! Why did you do this to me! Why didn't you think for yourself! Why did you ruin my Life!"

"We didn't know what had happened! All we knew was that your Hounds had attacked another Angel, what were we supposed to do!"

That seemed to be the wrong thing to say, Azrael spun around so fast, his eyes blazing with uncontrollable fury. They were making excuses for what they had done, they knew this and he knew this.

"I told you what happened! They betrayed me first by taking them from me! I TOLD you and you didn't believe me?"

"What were we supposed to believe Azrael! They stole them from you, sure, but they were the ones covered in wounds not your Hounds!"

"You were supposed to believe ME! Trust me enough to listen! But you obviously didn't!"

Gabriel had yet to speak, he was paying attention to everything, he'd always been different then his brothers in that regard. He was watching as his older brothers fell for Azrael's baiting like it was nobodies business and he resisted the urge to giggle at it, so much for being wiser! He watched Azrael carefully, he wanted something, he wanted to hear something, but neither of them would ever come out and simply say it.

It was still a pride thing.

They had been following commands, sure they were misplaced commands, but one simply doesn't ignore a direct command from Father. And at the same time they were also betraying the one thing that they all cherished most in this world.

Alex and Anubis were side by side as they leaned against the back of the couch, peeking out the window at the display outside, they saw the yelling, the arguing, and for a brief moment Anubis was sure maybe he had misguided and had misjudged the situation.

Maybe there wasn't hope for them after all.

"What are you guys doing? Give them some privacy! Come on!"

They waved the elder Winchester away, Anubis because he was an Egyptian God and did not have to bow to the whims of a mortal, and Alex because he was not Jody.

However, Sam came up beside Alex a moment later, his hand pulling the curtain aside slowly so he could watch too.

He placed a careful hand on his brother's arms, having fallen into Azrael's trap, and pulled them back. This time it was Gabriel who licked his lips as he stepped forward carefully. They all knew that although the Hounds were not out here physically that all they needed was a simple call and they were as good as.

"We're sorry...We are so so so so Sorry!"

"And an apology is meant to fix everything! You admit you were wrong? It does not change the fact that you made me an even bigger outsider among my own family! I was already isolated because of my looks, because of who I was, all I had was you and you couldn't trust me! And now everything that happened after is as good as gone? Because you apologized!"

Power was forming around his hands, balled into fists, but he quickly shook it out. He would not lose it, he wouldn't.

Their eyes narrowed slightly at that statement but they didn't press him on about it too much. There was still much about his time here on Earth that they were not enlightened to, nor that he had ever actually felt like an outcast among his brothers and sisters, but let it not be said that they would not dig in deeper at a later date. Azrael was calm, staring at him with the same brilliant eyes he had once looked up at him with when he had been a small toddling toddler.

Despite what he might say or try to appear as, he could see, he could see what Azrael wanted, what he needed. He was still a kid, barely fourteen, and he still wanted his family, his older brothers, he could see that and he could see that although he wanted this as bad as anything that it was his anger and his feeling of betrayal that would not allow him that simple pleasure in life.

Lucifer seemingly caught on soon enough, stepping forward slowly much as Gabriel had.

"No, but it can be a start...We were wrong Azrael, so wrong to do this to you...There is nothing we can think of that we can do in this universe or the next that can make up for our betrayal, but we are willing to try, tell us what you want us to do and it is done"

Raphael moved this time, everyone finally on the same page. Azrael was breaking at the seams, his entire world collapsing and rebuilding at the same moment and it made every instinct that they had intuned in them want to move forward and embrace the younger angel, hold him until the pain had passed, but Azrael was most dangerous when he was in this state of utter loss.

He didn't know what to do.

"If you want us gone, we will go and not bother you again, just allow us to make sure that you are healed and we are gone"

Azrael shook his head, his hands rocketing upwards when Raphael took another step forward. He had never planned for this moment, for this confrontation, as he had never thought it would come. He didn't know what to do now, he was breaking, about to fall apart by the very essence he was made up of and there was nothing he could do about that.

"No, no, NO, no!"

"Azrael?"

He shook his head, tears of either anger or distress or both filling his brilliant eyes as he returned his gaze to his brothers once more. Raphael froze midstep, not daring to make another movement in the off chance his baby brother was feeling particularly deadly at the moment.

"Ok, ok, ok, it's ok...Just...What do you want Azrael? What is it?"

"I...I don't know! I don't know ok! I don't want you to leave but I do...I just...I don't knoooow!"

He spun around in a circle, clearing close to loosing himself and it broke them to pieces to know that this was their doing.

"You never came to find me!"

It was a last ditch effort and he knew it. They knew it.

"We did!"

Gabriel was moving now and he wished they would stop moving, but then he didn't, his mind was in circles!

"We looked everywhere for you, fought for you, we would have done anything for you, we looked for you!"

He got closer and closer, Azrael sank to the ground in his trace, sinking to his knees, and Gabriel followed him down. Grasping the sides of his face with both hands gently. It was not time for talking now, it was time for action, this was a situation that did not call for words any longer, this was a situation that called for movement. Tears flooded from the angels eyes and he watched them fall for a moment.

"We looked everywhere for you Azrael, everywhere", He whispered softly, "We looked for you, we did, just because we never found you didn't mean we didn't look for you"

The clouds above them opened up in accordance to Azrael's emotions, always having been somehow connected together and influenced, but they didn't care. Not as the rain soaked their hair and their close, as the drops hid his tears and his dark hair stuck to his face, Gabriel didn't move an inch his hands still cradling the boys head gently.

"We looked for you"

Azrael drew in a breath, and slowly, oh so slowly, he sank forward into his brothers chest. Gabriel's shock was evident as his hands were frozen midair for a long moment before slowly he wrapped his arms around the boy buried in his chest. Hugging him tightly, his cheek sticking to the boys hair as he laid it there. Tears hid in the rain as they fell from his eyes too.

"We looked for you...We did kiddo...We looked..."

Raphael and Lucifer exchanged quick looks, both slowly walking closer to their brothers, kneeling down on the ground beside the younger's and wrapping their arms around his thin shoulders.

Anubis and Alex both turned to smirk at the hunter next to them. Sam rolled his eyes dramatically at the two.

They exchanged another fist bump.

"Anu why were you so keen on getting them back together?"

"I just knew"

He knew exactly what it felt like, to be missing something in his life, to be utterly alone. That's why he had been the one to go to Osiris, the one who apologized first.

"This doesn't change anything...Nothing..."

Even as he said it, his fingers digging into the back of Raphael's left shoulder, burying himself deeper into his big brothers embrace. Raphael laughed lowly, a deep rumbling reverberating from deep inside his chest that sounded like thunder rolling across great spans of clouds, his hands gently cradling the sides of his face as he pulled away from him for a mere moment coming to rest their foreheads together.

"This changes everything Little Brother, we have missed you every single day, more then you will ever know"

Azrael sniffed hard, his hands coming up to grasp onto his older brothers hands, this was becoming a common position for them all.

"But can we get out of the rain, we're not as young as we used to be and it isn't as warm as it was"

"Speak for yourself gramps"

Lucifer snorted, shoving Gabriel away in the arm. The messenger let out a sound suspiciously like a squeak and fell over, Azrael watched from where his head was cushioned against Raphael's chest, laughing out with shaky wet giggles as his brother fell over and splashed a puddle at his elder. The Healing Archangel grabbed at his face one more time, lifting his head up to gaze into his eyes once more.

"Come back inside with us?"

He could still see the distrust in his younger brother's eyes, and it would take a while for them to rebuild what they had broken, but it would not be because of their lack of trying. Now that they finally had their youngest back they were bound and determined to keep him. Azrael stared at him for a long moment, all three archangels clearly waiting for his answer.

After a long moment, despite his brothers hands still cradling his head, he nodded.

"Yes...I'll come back with you."

The phone in his pocket had rang hence the reason for Sam's early departure from the room as the four dripping angels came walking back inside surrounded in companionable silence. Lucifer squeezed the younger shoulder once as he broke off and came to stand in front of the Egyptian and the girl. He gave them each a look, his gaze settling on Alex first.

"Do not get me wrong, I find most humans to be disgusting vile creatures, but you, you I like...And thank you...However if you ever double cross me like that again..."

He left the threat open at the end but she shivered slightly at the things that ran through her mind, and his knowing smirk as her mind did that only made it worse. His gaze turned towards the Egyptian next, meeting his gaze head on, Lucifer could see why Azrael was good friends with Anubis. The Jackal boy smiled at him flashing his canines.

"And we have questions for you, lots and lots of questions! And I guess...Thanks for getting him to talk to us...I don't usually say this but we owe you, I owe you"

Anubis grinned, making a sound and waving his hand in a sign of no big deal. Lucifer chuckled motioning them both over with a wave of his own as he turned to make his way back to the couch his brothers were taking occupancy on.

"Dean what do you mean? Slow down?"

"..."

"What did you find?"

"...!"

"Are you sure? It can't be anyone else?"

"..."

"Do you think it might be the same stuff that had affected Azrael?"

"..."

"A bigger dose? What? You're confusing me Dean?"

"..."

"But why would they want Chuck? And Death?"

"..."

"What do you mean it smells like blood?"

"..."

The key in the lock turned, the lock making a popping sound as it slid out of place and the door was able to be opened. Jody stepped in, shaking rain off her head as she did and quickly shut the door behind her. It was raining as if it was the end of the world, Again.

'Seven days and seven nights, right?', she thought ruefully.

Stripping of her coat and hat she hung them on the hooks next to Alex's jacket and slipped out of her boots. She turned towards the light in the living room and walked down the hall.

"Alex I'm ho-"

She froze in the spot at the sight the awaited her.

Three grown men were sitting on her couch.

With three kids.

Two she recognized and one she didn't.

Azrael must have woken up while she was gone as she was wrapped into Lucifer's side, his hed resting lightly on the archangels bicep, his feet stretched out in the short brunettes lap, he lightly massaged them absentmindedly. Alex was on Lucifer's other side curled up in a blanket. Next to her was a dark toned man and a kid wearing clothes she remembered seeing in the museum as a kid, the man was scratching at the kids scalp slightly.

All in all it was a very-

"What the Hell is going on here?"

And as if it couldn't get any worse, Sam chose that moment to return as well.

So Jody is back! And The angels have sort of made up! And Lucifer kind of likes Alex!

BUT!

What is it that Dean has found? What's happened with Death and Chuck? Is Chuck God? We know that but do they? Where is Michael? What is it that the Leviathan are using to bind and harm celestial and primordial beings? What is going to be said between Anubis and The Archangels? How's Jody going to react to the new occupants in her house? Lucifer and Alex, anyone?

Stay Tuned!

;D