Sweet Child of mine Chapter 14

Disclaimer. I do not own supernatural and none of the characters are my own.

A/N I can't believe it has been so long since I last updated this story. I have a million and one excuses but it would be extremely self indulgent for me to list them here. I am sorry to all those that have been kept waiting for an update, and hope that they still read this update and enjoy. R/R thanks Jaybee x

Previously...

"Cassie, I will not judge." Gabriel said as he felt his brother's tension lesson at his words. It was then that Gabriel heard someone call out quietly, clearly in a massive amount of pain. That's when he decided he needed to see what, or who else his brother was protecting and he lent over his brothers shoulder to look.

"What the…."

Now...

Gabriel had been stood leaning over the sofa for a while, mouth wide open in shock. Dean could understand that. He had been shocked the first time he had seen the angels together, hell he had even drawn his weapon on the future angel. So he knew just what the archangel was going through, he just hoped the angel wouldn't smite them all.

"Gabriel, I understand that you are shocked by this fucked up situation and want answers, but we just don't have time to do this now…Or to have an archangel melt down, and smite all our asses. I promise that we will answer all your questions as soon as we can, just please Gabe…Help him." Dean said, almost begging the angel for his help.

Gabriel could see how much the hunter cared for the injured version of Cas, by the way the hunter gently ran his hand through his hair and he could see the comfort it brought his injured brother.

But it wasn't the feelings the hunter and the injured angel felt for each other that had him concerned, it was the emotions he was getting off the perfectly healthy Cas. With every movement of the hunters hand through his brother's hair, Gabriel could feel the small knot of jealousy that this Cas felt grow. It worried him. He didn't want to go through healing the angel, only for his brother to rip him apart the minute he had. He could also feel the guilt Cas felt for the jealous thoughts he was aiming towards the dying Angel, even if he still didn't know what the emotion was that had his stomach twisted up in knots. Gabriel decided he would explain it to the angel later, out of the sight of the hunter and other angel.

Gabe also got the impression from Cas, that he would die or kill for the angel lying on the sofa bleeding, it was just too confusing for Gabe. He had so many questions running through his head right now, like why the hell there was two of his baby brother? But first he had to heal said brother or he would never get his answers. But when he was done he knew they would tell him, if not, then it was a one way trip to Lucifer's cage for the lot of them.

"Fine, I'll help you. But after that we need to have a little chat about what's going on here…If not, you're on your own." Gabriel said as he made his way around the sofa to where Dean was knelt next to his fallen brother.

From where he sat at the hunter's side, Gabriel could see the full extent of the fallen angel's injuries. The wound, as far as he could see, wasn't meant to be fatal. It was more like whoever had done this to Cas had wanted it to hurt, wanted Cas to suffer. But to an Angel in such a weakened state, the gaping hole in his side would be fatal if Gabe didn't do something now. But even with all the powers at the archangel's disposal he was still worried that it wouldn't be enough to save his fallen brother.

"Dean, you need to leave- now." Gabe said to the hunter as placed his hand over the bloody one that his healthy brother held over the wound.

"I'm not going anywhere." Dean said as he ran his fingers down the fallen angel's clammy cheek.

"We don't have time to argue about this Winchester. Do you want him to die, do you want to die? Because that is what will happen if you don't do as I say." Gabe told Dean in frustration.

"Told you Gabe, I'm not going anywhere, he needs me." Dean told the angel stubbornly, taking Castiel's hand in his and kissing it softly, before resting it against his own tear soaked cheek.

"It's not that I'm not glad my brother has someone that cares so deeply about him, that they are willing to die alongside him, believe me Deano I am. But I know that Cas would never forgive me if something happened to you, so Dean we have a problem." Gabe said, not hiding the threatening tone he used, they just didn't have time for Dean and him to get into yet another pissing match.

"So what are you going to do about it Gabe? Nothing short of…." Dean began to say before he felt the room swim around him and saw the light of the room he had been sat in turn pitch black.

"What did you do?" Castiel yelled at his brother, who was now sat on the floor next to the injured angel alone.

"What I had to, what you should have done to protect him Cas. I don't know what has gotten into you, or what is going on here. But the brother that I know would never have let a little thing like human emotions cloud his judgment like you are right now. Do you want this other version of you to die Cas so you can have that piss poor excuse of a human to yourself? If that's what you want, you could at least let me end his suffering mercifully." Gabe yelled back at him. "It's decision time brother." He said as he moved his hand to rest next to Castiel's, slowly pushing his little brothers away from the wound as his own replaced it.

"Please help him." Was all Castiel said, and that was all the encouragement he needed to move Castiel's hand away completely, and fully gain access to the still bleeding wound in the angels side.

The minute his hand was free from holding in the future angel's grace, Cas sagged against the back of the sofa. Never had he felt so exhausted, it took the last of his remaining strength to walk slowly around the sofa and sit next to his brother and his still bleeding double.

"Gabriel, why is he still bleeding?" Cas asked his brother who had his eyes closed in concentration. "He isn't healing at all…Why isn't he healing? He can't die, we need him, Sam, needs him. Please do something. I'm sorry I had all those bad thoughts; I didn't mean a single one of them. I don't want him to die…Please brother, help him." Castiel begged his brother as he felt his eyes begin to prickle and the first tear he had ever felt the need to shed, made its way slowly down his face.

"I'm trying" Gabriel said opening his eyes and looking at his distraught brother. "He is healing" He reassured his brother. "It's just taking longer than it normally does." Gabriel said once again trying to reassure his baby brother and stop the tears that were running unchecked down his face. But Gabriel was beginning to worry that rather than healing the angel laid on the sofa he was just prolonging the angel's pain and everyone else's misery.

"Hang in there little brother, Gabe's gonna have you fixed up in no time and back to being a pain in my ass." Gabe said brushing the hair out of his brother's eyes with the hand that wasn't holding in his grace, before bringing it to join his other over the slowly healing wound and doubling his attempts at healing him.

Gabe could feel his grace flowing into his brother and he could feel the other angel begin to relax as his pain lessened with each passing moment. But even with all the healing grace he had already given him, Gabe knew he had barely scratched the surface of his brother's injuries and he wasn't sure how much longer he could keep it up. He was weakening; even archangels didn't have infinite power. He needed help and he needed it now. Castiel was too weak still from holding in his doubles grace and protecting that pitiful human from it and he had no idea who he could trust enough and ask for help. He just hoped he could keep it up long enough, heal him enough to buy him and Cas some time to come up with another plan.

"We need help Cas… I can't keep this up for much longer." Gabriel cried out in a voice that was filled with pain.

"There isn't anyone to help us, Raphael is fighting Michael and none of the other angels will answer my calls for help. There's Sam, but he doesn't know how his powers all work." Castiel said while calling for Sam who should have been back by now.

Sam had to send Bobby in search of bandages for the bleeding angel because the minute he had been sent off to bring them his nephew had begun to cry inconsolably. Sam had tried everything as Bobby started to tear the upstairs of the house apart looking for anything that they could use to stop bleeding, to get Samuel to stop his heart wrenching sobs. But nothing worked, and now he was being called.

"Hush Sammy, there's a good boy." Sam said as he lay the still screaming child back in his make shift crib, only to turn to leave and find that the tiny infant was somehow once again nestled in his arms. No matter how many times Sam placed the baby in the crib and tried to walk away, his nephew would not stay put.

"Seems to me that the kid knows something's up with his Daddy." Bobby said as he walked into the room carrying a bundle of semi clean looking sheets. "he kind of reminds me of you and Dean. You two always knew when your daddy was in trouble or hurt." He said as he took the sobbing child from Sam. "I got him, you take these downstairs." Bobby said handing the sheets over to Sam and indicating that he should zap himself to Dean and the Castiel's and he was just about to do just that when he felt the Baby once again in his arms, only now Bobby was along for the ride. Bobby wasn't in Sam's arms, thank god. But he was also still cradling the child awkwardly.

"Looks like we're all going." Sam said as he concentrated on where he needed to be.

"Sorry it took me so long, Sammy wouldn't let me leave." Sam said after he entered the room. It took Sam a moment to process just what he was seeing. Castiel looked like he had been to hell and back, while the other Castiel's lay still bleeding a small amount out of the gash in his side. But it wasn't this that shocked him; no it was seeing a very alive and perspiring Gabriel who was grimacing in pain as he tried to heal his fallen brother.

"A Winchester, Cas seriously is that all the help you can offer me? I need another angel, not a human that I have to protect. There is still a very good chance that his grace could burst out, he could kill him. What on earth are you thinking brother?" Gabriel ranted at Cas as Sam came closer to the sofa and began to inspect the fallen angel.

"Sam is an angel Gabriel, he can help you. He just needs you to tell him what to do." Castiel told him.

Sam Winchester, an angel? That couldn't be. Their father had decided after Castiel had been created that there would never be any other angels made. But as Gabe reached out with his powers he could feel the grace in Sam and he knew what Cas had said was true. But Gabriel could see that his father had gone back on his word, the Winchester boy was all the evidence he needed.

"Come here Sam and rest your hand over mine and focus on the wound. Imagine your grace flowing out from your centre and flowing down through your fingers. See it filling the wound and healing it, feel your grace entwine with mine, feel them become one as we try and connect that with Castiel's own grace." Gabriel instructed the hunter/angel.

Sam was strong. Gabe felt it the minute his grace touched his own, but he wasn't a pure bred angel and that became obvious after only a few minutes. Sam's batteries were already starting to run down, whether this was because he wasn't a pure bred angel, or that he was just new to his powers, it really didn't really seem to matter. Gabriel knew that he and Sam would not be able to hold on much longer and the constant wailing of a baby that Gabriel had never seen before, was not helping his concentration.

"Could somebody shut that kid up?" Gabe yelled when he could no longer take the noise.

"Give him to me." A weak voice said quietly.

"I don't think that's a good idea Cas." Sam said as he looked down at the pained look on the angels face.

"Please, give him to me. I need to comfort him." Cas said as he held his arms out to Bobby for the child. Bobby bent to place the baby in his arms knowing that the angel needed to hold his son, that he too was in need of the comfort of knowing that he got to hold his son one last time.

"Thank you Bobby." Castiel said as he held his son close to him. "It's ok Samuel, daddy's here." He whispered as he kissed the little boys cheek.

Gabriel thought he had gone deaf because the minute the child had been put in the angels arms, his tears had stopped. He wished he was deaf when he heard his brother tell the now quiet child that he was ok, because his daddy was here. Castiel was a daddy, shit that meant that he was now an uncle.

"It's ok Samuel, uncle Gabe and Uncle Sam are going to make Daddy all better." Gabriel heard his brother choke out between his tears. It was clear that even Cas didn't think that they could help him and that this was him saying goodbye to his child. Gabe couldn't, no wouldn't allow this.

"That's right isn't it Sammy? We just need to try a little harder, because no nephew of ours is growing up without his father." Gabe said as he once again focused all his power on healing his brother.

Gabe could feel Sam pushing his grace into Cas with every ounce of strength he had just as he was doing, but they were failing miserably. Then he felt it. It was amazing, this power was the purest thing Gabe had ever had the pleasure to be around. He could feel it pulsing through his brother, healing as it went. Was Raphael back, had he talked Michael into changing sides? Gabe didn't think so, he knew his brothers and how their powers felt when they used them together. This was someone new, someone with an immense amount of power and the purest heart.

"Sweet Jesus." Gabe heard Bobby say from somewhere nearby and that's when Gabe decided it was time to take a look at the newcomer.

All Gabe could see at first was a bright blue light that filled the room, but once his eyes adjusted he could see that the light was flowing out of Baby Sam. The child was using him and Sam to heal his brother, and Gabe couldn't be prouder. His nephew was a genius.

"That's it little man, lets heal Daddy." Gabe cooed to the baby. "Who's a clever boy helping uncle Gabe and uncle Sam." He said again, hoping his encouragement would help his nephew and hoping against all hope that Castiel had called Sam 'uncle' as just a turn of endearment and not that the other Winchester ass-hat had knocked up his baby brother. His hopes were dashed when baby Sam's mind connected with his and he saw that his nephew wanted Dean here, that he felt nothing bad could happen with his father around.

"You have got to be freaking kidding me…" Gabe said before disappearing from the room, only to return seconds later with an extremely pissed off Dean.

"There, No harm done Sammy." Gabriel said pushing Dean towards his son.

"No harm done? You sent me to freaking hell. I'll give you no harm done. Cas, sword now." Dean yelled.

"You're lucky I'm not sending you back down there after what you did to my brother." Gabe yelled back.

"What I did to your brother. I haven't done anything to your brother other than be there for him when he needed me… unlike his so called family." Dean spat back.

"You call knocking him up and leaving him vulnerable, being there for him? My brother could have died, no, he would have died if it hadn't been for the baby." Gabriel shouted, but his voice didn't hold the anger it had only seconds ago.

"Ok Gabe lets get a couple of things straight here. Number one, technically I haven't done anything to Cas yet, so I am not to blame and number two if he would have died without our son, what's your freaking problem?" Dean shouted at Gabe again, he was still mighty pissed at the angel. How dare he judge what he and Cas have?

"You don't get it do you Winchester, has my brother never taught you even the basics of our kind? If Cas hadn't got knocked up he would still have had all his grace and would have been able to fight who ever the hell he wanted and still heal himself. Even having a child Cas would have been up and back at full strength within a few months, but no you had to go and send him out on one of your stupid crusades."Gabe yelled again and Dean was sure he heard some of the angels true voice escape along with his anger.

"Please stop shouting, you are upsetting my son." They heard the now completely healed Castiel say from the sofa as he struggled to sit up. "Gabriel, this Dean did not 'knock me up' as you so eloquently put it, nor did he send me out on one of his 'crusades'. I am from the future and Samuel is mine and Dean's son, but the Dean I knew and loved is…" Cas broke off for a moment to choke back the sob that threatened to escape his raw throat. "My Dean Is back there and I came here looking for help. Who else would I go to? Not my family because most of them want me dead. Not you because as far as I knew you were dead. Dean, Sam, Bobby and Samuel are all the family I have." Castiel said with a sigh. "Oh and the other Cas." He said alarmed that he had almost forgotten the other angel that had risked his life to save him.

"Castiel, I was bound to Kali and trying to keep my ass off heavens radar. But I would have come to you anytime you called brother and I am here now." Gabriel said, trying to show his brother that he wasn't alone. "I'm here to help and I'm not going anywhere until I know that my brothers and nephew are safe. Heck I will even look out for Deano and the Sasquatch, if that's what you want me to do. We're family Cas and family sticks together." He said, showing a side of himself that Cas hadn't seen in a long time, even Dean believed what he said and found that although he still hated the angel with a passion, he now had a little more respect for him.

"Ok brother, I believe you. But if you ever let me down again, or decide to betray me, know for certain that I will never forgive you." Cas said after a few minutes.

"I won't Cas, I promise. Hell I will even try to be nicer to Deano. I could even give him lessons on being a father to a half angel half human child. I was good at that, it was about the only thing I was good at." Gabriel said, his voice breaking in an as of now, unknown sadness.

"Excellent that's another angel for team free will. Now how about we all try and get a little rest before Raphael gets back or another angel attacks." Sam said as he made his was at human speed over to the other couch and lay down. "Gabe and I will take first watch, Castiel and the baby will stay here with us, because it is too soon for him to be moved. Dean you and Cas take the first bedroom upstairs because you are on next shift and Bobby you take the room you took a nap in earlier and you can take the morning shift with future boy. I suggest you enjoy this down time because god knows when we will get it again." Sam said as he stifled a yawn and sent them all on there way.

TBC…. I know that's a crappy place to end it, but it's getting late and my lazy ass brain needs a break. As always please R/R and don't be to mad with me over the extremely long hiatus this story has been on. x