Destiny

by cirobert

Gabriel, Archangel and imitation Trickster, has been dead for years when suddenly he's called back from the darkness to fulfill the destiny he never knew he had. Little did he know it would involve a woman who had won the heart of not only both Winchester men but also the angel Castiel. Could he accept his place in his father's design?

4. Chapter 4

4

Snow wasn't sure when things changed between her and Gabriel, but she stopped thinking of him as an angel and started to think of him as family some time between David's seventh and eighth birthday. She was filling out some beneficiary papers at work and automatically signed Gabriel's name as her next of kin. The pen wasn't even off the paper when she stopped. Was Gabriel really the one she wanted raising her son? Wasn't he already?

"Whats up Snow?" Elizabeth, another nurse working the night shift, asked Snow when she noticed her smiling.

"Nothing." Snow shook her head but couldn't stop smiling. For the first time since the death of the men in her life she felt like she actually had something that meant something to her. And it was in the form of a blonde haired archangel that her son called Uncle.

Unfortunately her revelation wasn't shared by Gabriel. He treated her the same as always, like she was a fragile piece of ice that would shatter any second if he didn't watch her. She found his constant hovering to be annoying and wondered how she had put up with it all these years. Sadly she admitted it was because she hadn't been fully here, fully aware of just how much he was a part of her life.

"Gabriel, you have to stop trying to do everything!" she said in anger one night when she caught him doing dishes by a snap of his fingers while helping David with his homework.

"What?" the angel looked up in surprise.

"I am perfectly capable of washing the dishes. I won't break." she put her hands on her hips and gave him a stern look.

"Sorry." he shrugged but there was a small smile tugging on his lips. David was giving his mom a soft smile, the same one he used when she was doing something he found confusing.

"Just let me do some housework please Gabe, I can handle it I promise." she gave him a small smile.

"Ok." he gave in. He watched as Snow puttered around the kitchen with a small smile on his lips. David was asking him some questions about math and it took him a few seconds before he could pay attention to him.

After that the housework was split evenly between the two of them, even when Gabriel insisted it was literally a snap for him to do it all, and David even got a list of chores to help out with. Things settled into more of a domestic balance then any of them had ever experienced and life started to become more normal.