Castiel wasn't quite sure why he was doing this. All of this was just so stupid, but there he was standing in front of Gabriel Novaks house.
After he had read the article over and over again he had sat back into his armchair. There had to be a mistake, this picture had to be fake or something like that. He had promised Charlie to call her when he read the article but he didn't feel like calling her that moment. Charlie was lovely and she was really nice but sometimes she was a little noisy and he didn't feel like he could stand that right now. Instead of calling Char, he decided to find Gabriel Novak, the brother of the victim. He looked through the phonebook, there weren't as that much Novaks.
Like that he found the house he was standing at. It was a white coated bungalow, fenced by a wodden fence that barely reached Castiels waist. There were a few angel statues in the yard that were looking at Castiel with dead stone eyes. He felt a little uncomfortable when he passed them and stepped up the three stairs that lead to the door. He was already about to ring the bell when the sound of the Harry Potter theme stopped him. Charlie had called him twice in the last fifteen minutes, he didn't pick up but when she called this time he decided to pick up.

"CASSIE! WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME?! I WORRIED!"

Yep, there it was. The reason to never never never miss Charlies calls. Castiel sighed a little.

"Char-"

"NO! Don't do this: 'c'mon Char, I'm sorry Char,' Thing.", she said mocking Castiels deep voice. "Man I thought you had done something stupid."

Castiel chewed his bottom lip. He heared the worry in her voice and felt a little guilty.

"I'm sorry I just didn't feel like talking to someone. It's really strange you know? This guy looked exactly like me!"

"I know Cassie. Maybe you wanna talk now? Where are you?"

Castiel took a deep breath.

"Uhm I am ... I'm at home, still not really ready to talk. Uhm I have to feed Bee now. See ya" , Castiel lied and hang up quickly. He usually didn't lie to Charlie but if he told her about what he was about to do, she probably would have freaked out. He looked up at the doorbell again. Once again he took a deep breath before pressing down the button.
It didn't took long until someone opened the door. The man that was now standing in front of him was a little smaller than Castiel. His golden hair was a bit shaggy, he had swept it behind his ear to keep it out of his eyes. The mans eyecolour reminded Castiel a little of the colour of whiskey. There were so many expressions on the face of the man and none of them seemed to be positive. He looked surprised then confused, that turned into sad quickly. It took only seconds to change from sad to angry.

"Go!", he hissed between clenched teeth. Castiels mouth dropped open. He expected all sort of things, but not that.

"Uh... I-", he stuttered but the men cut off his word.

"That's just sick! Dressing up as my brother. I don't know how you do the thing with your face but it's not funny so just leave already!" The man was nearly yelling. Castiel felt bad now. He didn't think of that good enough about that, he had acted out of a pure impulse, he didn't consider that this man had just lost his brother, who look just like him.

"No it's not like that! See, my Name is-"

His word got cut off again, this time it was an elderly woman that appeared behind the man.

"Who is it Gabriel?", she said but when her gaze met Castiel she froze.

"It's nothing mom, he wanted to leave." The man, Gabriel, looked at the woman and stepped back to Close the door, but the woman stopped him. Her eyes were still pinned at Castiels face. Castiel felt a little uncomfortable. He ran his fingers through his dark hair and slightly looked at the floor.

"Castiel?"

This one word shocked both, Castiel and Gabriel. They looked at the old woman that looked a little shocked and happy at the same time. Her still vivid blue eyes started to fill with tears but the rest of her face was crinkled in a smile.

"Gabriel, take your brother inside. We have to talk..."

Castiels heart stopped for a second.

Did she just say brother?

Castiels eyes were pinned on the floor, holding the porcelain tea cup in his hand that Mrs. Novak had given him. How could that even be true? Not only that he had a dead twin brother, no! There were three other brothers. Mrs. Novak was his mother, the woman that had left them when he was just a child.
She had told them, them is actually Castiel and Gabriel, about everything.

When she was younger the father of Gabriel, Raphael, Michael and Lucifer left her. She was alone with four children and she didn't knew what to do, but then she met Jimmys and Castiels father. He tried to help, he really loved her, and he loved the children aswell, but like every other couple they argued. One day the argueing got worse, they argued for days but in the end they both agreed that it'd be better if they would part ways. At that time she already was pregnant with Jimmy and Castiel.
When the twins were born Mrs. Novak told their father that she wanted to keep them, but he didn't agree. He insisted on keeping one child, so he took Castiel and she took Jimmy. Michael and Lucifer, the oldest two of the remaining Brothers, were the only ones old enough to remember, but they were told not to speek about it.

While she told them that Gabriel didn't took his eyes off Castiel. He looked like Jimmy, was it possible that this guy really was their brother? Jimmys twin? He didnt't know what to think about it. His mom lied to him, Michael and Lucy had lied to him. And still the worst part of it: Jimmy was dead. He still couldn't believe that he was never comming back. He had always been his favorite brother.

"So I've... I've got four ... brothers?", Castiel asked still not really recovered yet.

"Uhm yeah. . . guess so.", Gabriel answered giving Castiel a little smile. "Welcome to the family..."

Castiel smiled back at him. This smile reminded Gabriel so much of Jimmy. It was impossible how similar the to of them were, there were just a few differences. Castiels hair was a little more messy than Jimmys, even though Gabriel never thought that that would even be possible and Castiels voice was a little deeper.

"We didn't have a good start so I guess we should try it again", Gabriel said as he put his tea cup on the table. "Hi my name is Gabriel Novak, nice to meet ya lil' brother"

Castiel couldn't help but chuckle a little. "My name is Castiel Lord, nice to meet you too ... big brother."

Castiel shook Gabriels hand, a big smile on his face. He had never admitted it, but he always secretly wanted to have a big brother.

The to of them talked a lot. About Jimmy, the rest of the Family and about their jobs. Gabriel told Castiel that the best two Novak brothers to be friends with were Gabriel himself, and Jimmy.
"I never liked the other three anyways, they're so... boring.", Gabriel just said.
Gabriel had to admit that he liked Castiel, he was a bit alike Jimmy not only because of his looks. They both had this strange kind of humor that only Gabe was getting, they were both a little shy they even shared their love for cats, but unlike Jimmy he was extremely polite and apologised a lot. Gabriel found that really funny, he already counted the 'sorrys'.

After like half a hour talking Gabriel asked if Castiel wanted to look at some family pictures. Castiel simply nodded and smiled a little when Gabe handed him a big photo Album. It was bounded in a leather cover that had a golden writing on it, it read memories.
The first few pictures were really cute. They were pictures of when they were kids. Castiel could see that Gabriel said the truth when he told him that he didn't really like the others. On every group photo of the children Jimmy and Gabe were standing next to each other but they kept a little distance from the other three kids. On the first pictures Jimmy had been smaller than Gabriel but Jimmy overtook his older brother pretty fast.

They were almost done with the Album, it was one of the last pages, when Castiel frowned a little.

"Gabe? Who's that?", he asked as he pointed at the picture he was looking at. It showed Jimmy who kissed the cheek of the man that had taken the photo. The man grinned straight into the camera, showing off two rows of perfect white teeth. His skin was perfectly tanned and spotted with freckles but Castiel saw the slight blush that glinted on his cheeks. The mans beautiful green eyes seemed so alive, it felt like he was looking at Castiel right through the picture.

"Uhm I think his name was Dean Winchester... or something like that. Jimmy dated him a few times when we were on our holiday trip in spain last year. Jimmy never really forgot him I guess.", Gabriel answered and shrugged. Castiel looked at the picture again, Feeling a slight tingle in his stomach.

"Could you ... Would you mind ... uhm can I have a copy of that picture? I kinda like it."

"Sure Cassie.", Gabriel said with a little grin on his face. "You don't if I call you that, do ya?"

Castiel chuckled "No I don't. You're not the first one calling me Cassie."

"Well who who's the first one then?"

"My best friend Charlie, I tried to make her shut up but since it didn't work out I just tried to get used to it.", Castiel explained while he closed the album. "I think you'd like her."

Gabriel smiled and took a swig of tea. "You know what? We should go get a beer with that Charlie girl tonight, I could also bring around the copy of that picture you wanted. What ya thinkin'?"

Castiel nodded. Going out with friends, or brothers, was not one of his usual activities, but Charlie would be happy to see him leave the house for once so he agreed.

"Great. 8.00 pm at the 'hell hounds' okay?"

"Okay.", Castiel just said looking his phone display. Three missed calls, all of them were from Charlie. "Damn", he whispered as he quickly got up. "Sorry Gabe I have to go now."

The smaller man pulled him into a quick hug. "See ya at hell hounds okay?"

Castiel smiled and nodded before he walked through the living room, down the hallway and out of the door.

The first thing he did after leaving the house was calling Charlie.

"CASSIE?!"

"Before you yell at me: We have an appointment tonight at eight."

He heared a sigh from the other end of the line, followed by an angry silence.

"What appointment?", Charlie asked after she had calmed herself down.

"We're going to grab a beer with my brother Gabriel.", Castiel said extremly casual as he walked down the street towards the bus station.

"Wait, you told me that didn't have silblings!"

"I thought that too but looks like I've got four brothers."

He heard that Charlie was freaking out on the other side and smiled broadly.

"FOUR BROTHERS?!", she asked. To be honest that wasn't asking, it was screaming. Castiel had to take his phone away from his ear to avoid going deaf.

"Four brothers and a dead twin.", he laughed. "I'll explain later my bus is comming. See ya"

When Castiel hung up and got into the bus he was smiling. So much had happened in such a short time, there were things he had to think of but that wasn't possible because somehow he wasn't thinking of this family thing anymore.
There was a picture that had crept into his thoughts. It was a picture of sparkling green eyes.