Again I can't point out that this is AU that anything about angels and / or demons is purely fictional and should not be taken literally. Hopefully with this chapter I haven't offended anyone and apologise f I have.

John said "Can we grab another round of drinks and then I'll tell you."

John refilled his brandy, Bobby his scotch and I went out to the kitchen to brew a fresh pot of coffee. While I was standing filling the pot with water, I felt hands come around my waist and I leant backwards and was rewarded with a kiss to the side of my neck. "Are you ok with everything that has happened and what you've found out over the last couple of hours?" Will asked me. While the coffee was percolating Will led me to the kitchen table and he pulled me down onto his lap. "You know that I love you don't you, that we all love you and that we are all just worried about your health. That we trust you but that sometimes you do things for the good of others and forget about the potential effects that it can have on you. Dean and you are a lot like in that respect." I replied "I'm fine, I know that you're worried about me, but I really am feeling ok. My head feels fine and I'm not using any of powers to keep the peace in the living room so I'm not putting any strain on the aneurysm if that's what you are worried about. Can you take the coffee back into the living room, I'm going to go check on the boys."

I went upstairs to the nursery to check on my boys during the conversation downstairs they had been quieter than I had expected and before the next revelations I wanted to make sure that they were both alright. When I walked into the room, the stereo was on very low playing "Amazed" by Lonestarand the mobiles over their cots were turning very slowly. Both of the boys were asleep and I was allowing myself a minute to open myself to their emotions to check that they were alright when I felt a hand on my shoulder. "I thought that I asked you to take the coffee into the living room" I said without turning around, knowing from the hand on my shoulder that it was Will. The hand left my shoulder and turned me around slowly to face him and he responded "You did, but when I dropped the drinks off I realised what you were going to do and it is just as easy for me to pick up the boys emotions as it is for you. If I do it I'm not opening myself up to a potentially life threatening incident. By the way the boys are fine. I sometimes come in here when you're asleep and sit watching them. I switch on the stereo low and switch on the mobile low and this is their peaceful place. Its how I know without having to check their emotions that they are ok, that what is going on downstairs hasn't reached them and they will always be alright as long as they have both of us in their lives. This means my love that you really need to take care of yourself and not overtax yourself no matter what your brother tells us next."

I nodded at him, reached up and very gently put my hands on either side of his face and pulled him in and kissed him very gently. As I withdrew from the kiss, he said "We had better stop this now or we will never get back downstairs and we still have visitors. We also need to find out what John has to tell us." I looked up at him and said "We will get back to this later I promise now as you so kindly pointed out we have guests and John has a limited amount of time."

We went back down to the living room and were met by 'we know what you've been doing' looks from around the room. I went up to Sam and Dean and clipped them on the back of the head and said "We weren't actually doing anything but checking on the twins. Shall we move on and let John finish what he started earlier on." The look that I gave Bobby and John more than covered the ear clipping they should have received.

John took a deep breath and said "Yes, I need to tell you what I now know about the past and what this could mean for the future. As you all know Toni and Sam and every youngest generation of the Winchester clan has powers. What you don't know is where these come from why Lilith wanted Toni, Dean, Sam and the twins dead and why all of you are still in danger from the demon hoards. We need to go back many generations to the start of all of this. How much do any of you know about the hierarchy of angels?"

Sam responded "I know that there are three hierarchies of angels; the seraphim, cherubim and ophanim make up the first hierarchy and these angels have already reached liberation, thus no longer active in the work of evolution. Then there are the thrones, dominions and principalities in hierarchy two who work as heavenly governors. Lastly there are the powers, archangels and angels who work as heavenly messengers." We all looked at him in wonderment, when was it ever have been necessary for Sam to find out about the hierarchy of angels. As though he knew what was going through every ones head Sam spoke up "as part of my undergraduate course load, I took a course in Theology and one in Philosophy. They were recommended as a good basis for my law school as they would provide me with the ability to analyse texts and assist in skills building. The course in Theology looked at the both testaments and covered areas such as the hierarchy of angels. Why did you want to know how much we know about the hierarchy of angels?"

John responded "Well, seeing as everyone now has the same basic knowledge of the hierarchy of angels, I can tell what I've found out since I passed over. Toni, I know that you've been researching the family tree but I doubt that you've been able to go back far enough to find out the truth. There are old texts that discuss the possibility of angels and humans mating and the women having children from these relationships. In ancient texts they were referred to as nephilim as they were descended from 'fallen angels'. Well it turns out not all of the nephilim were descendent of 'fallen angels', some were the children of archangels. Archangels, as the messengers of heaven are incredibly powerful and these are angels that tended to fall more often and led to the thinking that the nephilim were the children of fallen angels. An archangel has a multitude of powers to allow them to act as messengers and when needed warriors of god. These powers included but were not limited to empathy, telekinesis, thought projection along with amazing strength and the ability to kill at the touch of a hand. Now each of the nephilim inherited a part of their fathers' powers and depending on whether their father was a fallen angel or not would depend on how these powers would manifest in later life."

When John finished telling us that part of the instalment he looked around the room to presented by shock in all our faces and the sudden knowledge that we knew what he was about to say. He took a large mouthful of his brandy and proceeded to tell the rest of his story.

"If you take the family history back far enough, you will discover that one of the Winchester ancestors and one of the Talbot ancestors was a nephilim. That the powers throughout the years have presented themselves in the families in different guises, in some of the descendents they received only part of the powers whilst other descendents like Toni and Sam appear to have inherited more than one power. The further down the family tree we travel the easier it has become for the members of the family to get a handle on their powers. Will, I'm assuming that the same is true of the Talbot line although I didn't manage to talk to your parents for very long before I got sent down here to explain what is going on. I'm told that as far as the powers skipping the eldest member of the Winchester clan, this is not a slight on you or me Dean. Our descendent already had a child when she became pregnant with the nephilim, and she never told anyone who the child's father. In those days it would have led to her being thrown out of the house and in some circumstances would lead to her death."

Sam looked up at John, and I could feel the fear and the trepidation emanating from him and when I looked at Will I could tell that he was feeling it to. "So what you are telling us is that we are related to one of the archangels, do you know which one? What was it about our ancestor that led to her being chosen above the others?" John looked at his son with compassion and love in his eyes and said "I know that this is a lot to take in. Not just for you but for all of you. You have to understand that I didn't know any of this until I got to the other side and met your mother again, and our descendents. When you arrive at the gates, everyone is there to meet you."

There was a sigh from across the room and we all looked around and saw Dean with a look of complete bafflement "You're not buying this bull are you. Sam you know better than this. There is no heaven, there are no angels. If there are where have they been for the last 25 years?"

Sam responded, "Dean, you told me that Mum used to tell you that there were angels watching over you when you slept. What if there really were. What if a great great relative was watching over us! The angels couldn't step in to stop what happened as that would be denying free will and from what I've learnt God want us to have free will. As much as you don't want to hear this, Mum made a deal and God couldn't step in to stop it playing out. Having heard what Dad has just said explains so much to me. What I'm not quite sure about is why they felt that we needed to know this now."

John jumped in to the conversation again and said "The reason that you needed to know this is that the threat from the 'fallen angels' or 'demons' did not go away with the death of Lilith. Instead of Lilith you now have Samael after you, he was originally Lilith's partner but when he and she started to procreate God castrated him stopping them from having any children. Lilith then left him to go and procreate with others. As you can imagine this didn't go down well with Samael and he has been attempting to attack heaven and the agents ever since. He knows that for the first time in two millennia, two descendents of an un-fallen archangel have joined together and produced children themselves. The power that this family holds could wipe the 'fallen ones' and their children off the face of the planet without the aid of heaven. This means that the armies of hell are going to target the Winchester / Talbot family. You need to ensure that the house is fully protected and that the twins are not let out of your sight at all unless the person has been thoroughly vetted. Bobby you know what I mean by that. We need to protect these children and all of you."

John finished telling us what he needed to before he disappeared and I stood up to walk across the room to give him a hug and thank him for coming. However, as I was half way across the room, I realised that that all I could hear was a rushing in my ear like a running water. I turned to face Will and become conscious that the room was spinning and that the rushing was getting louder, the next thing I knew Dean was sitting me down in the chair and Sam was on the phone calling for an ambulance. I started screaming in my head 'Not again, why does this keep happening. I've just found out that I need to protect my twins and you want to take me away from them, leaving them unprotected and at the mercy of a bunch of demons. It's not my fault that I'm descended from one of your children, why do you keep testing me. What did Will and I do to offend you?" As I finished my little tirade, I saw a bright light out of the corner of my eye and someone walking out of it towards me. I shouted at them "I'm not going with you, you can't make me. I need to stay here and protect my family."

I did it again... Left you hanging, I do love to put Toni through the wringer though. Do you think you know who is it at the end of the light, it's not John as he's still in the room. Any thoughts..

Hope I didn't push it too far with the angel connection but it has been 'buzzing' at the back of my brain for a while, ever since the powers to demon connection.