New chapter right after the last one, what a surprise!- What you just thought. A little present because I've been so behind lately. A lot of plot movement in this chapter. I'll try to make Loki a little less OOC, but I won't promise anything about any of the characters. Read and review.

P.S.

I usually don't write in third person POV, so in this chapter I'm going to try out first person POV for this story. I'll decide which one I like better (you may input your opinion on the matter as well) and continue in the one I choose.

Chapter 7

Castiel's POV:

"Cas, now would be a good time." Dean said.

I groaned and rose from the spot in heaven where I had been sitting. Things were peaceful for one second before the Winchesters were calling again. I mean, I loved them, nut couldn't I get a hour off? Maybe a day?

I flew to the door of the residence that Dean was in, giving it a good look. It was large- in human standards- and seemed rather cozy. I flew into the room with Dean, facing the hunter.

"What's wrong Dean? Do you have an update on Lucifer?" I asked. Dean cursed as I landed in front of him, dropping a glass full of alcohol. "Dammit Cas, give warnings and personal space to a guy, would you?" Dean growled. I stepped back, remembering human's odd thing about space.

"Do you have an update on Lucifer or not?" I asked. I was getting impatient with him, wanting to head back to the peaceful heaven I was in before I was called in for another mission. Dean stood and cleared his throat.

"No, but I think you should turn around right now." Dean said, rather forcefully. I spun around, drawing my blade in the expectation of any enemy, possibly one of Lucifer's demons. What I was met with was as close to that as you can get without it being the same thing.

I nearly dropped my blade when I noticed my brother, Gabriel, standing no more than eleven feet from me. He was just string at me, as if I was the one back from the dead and not him. My legs went weak and I felt Dean place his hand on my shoulder. "Hey Cas, you're pretty pale. Are you okay? I think you better sit down."

I let Dean lead me to a chair as I took in the brother I had thought I lost when I was just a child. "Gabriel? You're alive? For all this time? Why did you not tell me? Does Balthazar know?" I asked, unable to comprehend that my brother, the one to whom I was always closest, was alive.

"Slow down kiddo. I can't answer a million questions at once." Gabriel said, a small smirk landing on his lips. "I only asked five." I stated. Gabriel's face fell, all joking mannerisms gone in those few flatly spoken words. "What did they turn you into Cassie? Did they make you into one of their perfect little mindless soldiers?" Gabriel asked, his pain heard clearly in his voice.

"You didn't answer my questions." I said. He sighed and landed in a nearby chair, making a glass of alcohol appear in his hand. "Yes, I'm alive, I never died. I simply faked my death. I pretended to go on a mission to Hell during the war, and never came back. I knew they would write me off as soon as I didn't come home on the day I was due to. I didn't tell you because it would have been dangerous for you to know about me. And, no, Balthazar does not know an I intend to keep it that way." He sighed and took a sip of the drink in his hand.

I could barely speak, the shock having reached my mouth and making my tongue feel like lead. "How are you so calm about this? I haven't seen you in millennia, thinking that you were dead, and you can't even say you're sorry for deceiving me this whole time?" I choke out. Gabriel looks thoughtfully at his glass, seeming to consider my words.

"But I'm not sorry that I tricked you." He calmly says.

Those words send white- hot anger roaring through me like nothing I've ever felt before. I leap to my feet, letting my emotions take control of me for the first time in thousands of years. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I LOVED YOU GABRIEL! YOU WERE THE ONE PERSON BALTHAZAR AND I COULD PLAY WITH,, THE ONE BROTHER WHO DIDN'T TRY AND MAKE US INTO SOLDIERS, BUT INSTEAD LET US ACT LIKE THE CHILDREN WE WERE. WE WERE DEVISTATED WHEN WE THOUGHT YOU HAD DIED. I TRIED TO RUN AWAY TO HELL, JUST TO SEE IF YOU MIGHT BE ALIVE, BECAUSE IF THERE WAS THE SMALLEST CHANCE THAT YOU WERE ALIVE I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO FIND OUT. YOU CAN'T EVEN ACT SLIGHTLY SORRY?!" I shouted. My true voice took over for a minute, and the humans- even the demigod- covered their ears. I took deep, shuddering breaths, trying to control my rage before I hurt someone.

"I'm still not sorry." Gabriel said as he sipped from his glass again.

I lost all control. I launched a small table at Gabriel's head. He ducted it easily as the demigod leapt out of the way. "WHY NOT, YOU IDIJIT?!" I screamed.

Loki's POV:

We walked in on chaos. The man I didn't recognize was screaming something I didn't understand at Gabriel. A small table that had been across the room from where it now lay was upturned, and Thor looked as if he had been hit with a wave of magic that caused him to clench up in every known place.

"Because, if I had told you I was alive Lucifer, Michael, Raphael, and who knows who else, would have come after you, searching for me. They would have tortured you for my whereabouts, and after realizing that you didn't know, they would have killed you, and slowly. I couldn't risk that happening." Gabriel said, his voice not betraying the true turmoil of emotions I could feel running deep within him. He looked calmly on the raging man across from him, but I could see something akin to love in his gaze.

"I can protect myself! I'm not some helpless human babe!" The man's shouting had stopped, but his anger was still lying just below a fragile surface of control. "You could have told me as soon as I became a warrior! I would have been able to escape from anyone who would try to hurt me!" He continued to protest as the fight drained from him.

"Cassie, by then you were one of the mindless soldiers I had tried to keep you from becoming. You would have reported me to Michael or Raphael right away. I couldn't risk that. You were too deep in, and even if you decided not to tell them, they could have sent whole armies after you." Gabriel said, a small bit of emotion creeping into his voice. I couldn't identify it yet, but it was defiantly there.

"It's nothing less than what they are sending after me now. Not to mention the demons Lucifer has tailing me every other day if I kill the old ones." The man muttered.

"What is going on here?" Tyr finally asked, stepping forward to face Gabriel. I followed, moving to study the new man. He had a strong build- nothing close to that of Thor or the Winchesters, but strong none the less- a handsome face (buy Midgard's standards), a shock of messy black hair, and brilliant blue eyes. His eyes seemed to bore into me as I watched him. He frowned when his eyes found the scars on my arms and neck.

"My little brother decided to come party crashing without knowing I have been alive for the past few millennia." Gabriel answered. He was smirking again, and I hated to admit that it brought me a slight comfort to see his smirk again. "We were just discussing how we've been in that time." He added.

"Hey, Rock of Ages, if you stare at Cassie there any longer I'm afraid you might kiss him." Stark said, sipping from a bottle of scotch. I jerked my gaze away from the newcomer and fought to keep a blush from reaching my cheeks. "Don't you have somewhere to be other than here?" I asked. He laughed and turned to Thor.

"So, did we just come here to watch the drama feast or were you going to take Loki back to Asgard?" Stark asked my brother. I felt my stomach drop and I was suddenly aware of just how weaponless I was.

"That ain't happening pretty boy. Loki here is under my care, and I plan for it to stay that way for a few centuries." Gabriel said. He stood to face Stark, subtly placing himself between Thor and myself. I held my breath, waiting for Thor to protest.

"I was never planning on taking my brother to Asgard. The second he steps foot there, he would be killed by Odin's orders. I am taking you to a distant realm where Heimdall is willing to hide us from the All Father, if only for a short time." Thor directed his words to me. I released my breath, calming myself before answering.

"If you can only hide me for a short time, and Gabriel can hide me for centuries, does it not make sense to leave me here, where I will not be found?" I asked Thor. His face fell as he saw that I had no intentions of leaving. Suddenly, his face took on a happy glow. This can't be good. "Then I will stay here on Midgard with you! We can still be together, and you can help protect my brother." He chirped happily.

"More victims for pranking? Why not?" Gabriel said. He stepped aside and I had to fake a smile as Thor pulled me into one of his famous bone- crushing hugs. Remind me to put a snake in Gabriel's pillow later. I told Tyr. He grinned and nodded. Thor finally set me down and we turned to the other four.

"What are your plans?" Gabriel asked. Stark finished off his scotch and set it down on the upturned table. "I'm going home. Pepper and I have a date tonight." He sauntered out and left us with the hunters and Gabriel's brother. I realized I still did not know his name.

"Castiel, you're welcome to stay." Gabriel's voice softened and I stored the angel's name away in my memories. "Sam, Dean . . . If Cassie decides it's okay, you can stay too." Gabriel growled out.

"We've got a few hunts to follow, so we better get going." Sam hurriedly says, dragging dean away. Dean breaks away and looks straight at Castiel.

"Cas, are you staying?" He asks. Castiel seems to jerk out of a trance, and turns towards Dean. "Yes, I would like to stay." He seemed to want to say more, but he held his tongue.

"Do you want me to stay?" Dean asks, seeming to know what the angel's silence meant. Castiel looked relieved and nodded. "Dean, what about hunting demons? Following leads on Lucifer?" Sam hissed, sending a glare at Gabriel. I decided that I didn't like the tall hunter.

"We can still do research from here. And Cas can come with us on hunts in the area. I'm sure L.A. is a huge demon hotspot." Dean said, still standing beside Castiel. Sam seemed to panic inwardly before turning and walking out. "I'm taking the rental car. You can wait for the Impala to show up if you want to go anywhere!" Sam shouted as he left.

"Well, let's get you settled in." Gabriel announced.

AN: Hope you guys enjoyed that bonus chapter. I was sort of rushed to finish it, so I'm sorry if it seems weird. Review and tell me if you like the first or third person better. If you don't review Gabriel will use you as a pranking victim for all eternity.