Hey guys!
Just to let you know, I am going on holiday now to the USA! The home of Supernatural :) Therefore, although this story is fully written updates may be a tad sporadic depending on hotel wifi, although they should be every 3-4 days tops!
Without further ado…
Chapter 3
When Dean entered the door with four shopping bags and two angels in his arms, Sam couldn't help but snort in amusement.
"Honey, I'm home!" Dean called out softly, shutting the door carefully behind him to avoid waking the sleeping angels.
Sam, on the other hand, did not lower his voice.
"Helllooooo, soccer Momma."
"Shuddup, and don't wake them up for god's sake. Especially not Gabriel, if he wakes up I might just cry."
"How come?"
"He's a stubborn little ass."
"So are you!"
"Hey! Less of the little part, bitch."
"Short-ass jerk."
"I'm gonna put them to bed for now, have you ordered any food?"
"Yeah, there's pizza on the way, should be here in half an hour."
"Did you get me a meat feast?"
"Yes Dean, unlike you, I get the shopping I am asked for." Sam was obviously still bitter about Dean not bringing back his vegetables and quinoa the other day.
"Don't be a whiny girl. Did you get something for Gabe?"
"Yeah, since he's a sweet tooth I got him a Hawaiian."
"Oh, and not just because that's your favorite since you such a girl, but don't want to admit it."
"Nope, I got a Vegetarian."
"Don't lie to me, Samantha. Anyways, what about the research, was that as successful?"
"No."
"Great, looks like we're stuck with Sleepy and Grumpy."
"Don't be hard on the little guy, he's just a kid. You'd be frightened too if you were suddenly pulled away from home and shoved in a room full of strangers. He's only three."
"I guess…" Dean looked over at the sleeping child and couldn't help but feel bad for him, the kid had his arms wrapped around his little brother and he had shucked off his baggy T-shirt. His wings were wrapped around the pair of them and the little boy was suckling on his thumb.
It was…adorable.
All too soon the pizza man arrived, knocking loudly on their door and rousing Gabe from his slumber. The angel frowned and rolled over to protectively hug his stomach, which was still churning a little from being sick earlier.
"Gabe, dinner's here, you hungry?" Sam gently rested a hand on Gabriel's shoulder and coaxed him up, gently helping the angel back into his shirt whilst Dean opened the door.
Gabriel nodded and allowed Sam to pick him up and carry him to the sofa where they began to eat their pizza. Gabriel only managed a quarter of his kid's size pizza before falling asleep with his head resting on Sam's arm.
Dean smiled softly at the adorable sight, going over to the shopping bags and unpacking the shopping onto the side and hooking out Gabe and Cas' elephant and teddy. He checked Cas' diaper wasn't wet before tunneling the elephant under his skinny arm and laying Gabriel and his teddy next to the baby.
Then he sat back with Sam enjoying another beer before offering Sam his bed and falling asleep on the sofa.
However, halfway through the night, Dean heard Cas crying.
He sat up immediately, searching for Cas but soon discovering that he wasn't in bed…and neither was Gabriel.
"Gabriel, Cas, where are you?"
He tracked the noise to the wardrobe, which he opened concernedly.
Inside, it looked like Gabriel had made some sort of nest in the wardrobe; there were four cushions inside and three blankets. Not to mention the four pillows from Sam's bed had been de-stuffed and there were feathers everywhere. And to add to it, Gabriel had also wrapped his wings around Cas, who was wriggling and crying despite Gabe's soft humming.
"What the hell Gabe? Those aren't our pillows!" Gabriel pouted, scowling and flinching back when Dean reached into the wardrobe to pull him up by the scruff of his neck. However, Dean immediately let go when Gabriel let out a terrified squeak of fright and began to squirm. The three year old collapsed in a heap on his bed of feathers and scowled up at Dean, cradling Cas and looking up at Dean as if he had just shot a damned puppy or something.
"Look, just give me Cas, he's probably just hungry or needs a diaper change."
Gabriel shook his head, standing and brushing the feathers away from himself before searching for the diapers, nappy cream and powder. All the while he continued to cling to Cas and shot Dean angry looks.
"Gabe, you're gonna trust me and Sammy with him at some point, there's no way you can look after him full time. Besides, you look exhausted."
"I's do it. M'not sleepy."
"Fine, but don't come crying to me tomorrow morning when you're tired and grouchy."
Dean threw himself back down on his bed and listened to the noises of Gabriel changing Cas and the ruffle of feathers as Gabriel zapped up some nectar and comforted the crying baby.
However, after a while Dean was dragged into sleep, not noticing that Cas didn't stop crying for a further hour and that Gabriel only managed to get three hours of sleep over the night.
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Gabriel pouted as he rolled his toy car across the floor and was interrupted by Sam scooping him up.
"Wha?" The angel was cut off by a wide yawn and Sam ruffled his hair affectionately.
"Well, we haven't found anything out on the research side yet and it's not healthy to keep cooped up inside, so we're going to the park."
"Don't wanna."
"Well tough, feathers, we're going and that's final." Dean interjected before Sam would cave under the force of Gabe's puppy dog eyes. Angel or not, Gabriel needed to be shown who was boss.
"No!"
"Yes." Dean said this with so much finality that Gabriel shut up, but he did proceed to stomp his way outside after eating a pack of Smarties for breakfast.
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"C'mon Gabe, stop slacking."
Gabriel scowled; dragging his feet angrily as he walked with Cas snuggled up to his chest.
He was sooooo tired.
It must be something to do with being on Earth, because he never felt like this in Heaven. At home he only ate and drank for pleasure, but here it was a necessity…and he was soooo over going to the toilet and washing.
Living on Earth sucked.
"Home?"
"Not yet, we're nearly at the ice cream place, if you're good I'll buy you a tub."
Gabriel nodded softly and tried to increase his pace, but once again he found himself lagging behind.
Eventually he gave in and allowed Dean to carry Cas, but he walked sullenly in his own little world of tiredness and fear until ten minutes later he realized that he had lost the Winchesters.
"Sam? De?" Gabriel spun around, terror creeping up inside him when the Winchesters were nowhere to be seen. He was alone.
The little angel blinked away the last few ounces of tiredness before finding a burst of energy and running back in the direction he came from. Adrenaline was pulsing through him and Gabriel felt sick to his stomach with fear.
He'd left Cas alone with the Winchesters, what if they did something to his brother now that he wasn't there to protect him?
Before Gabriel knew what was happening tears were streaming down his face and he was finding it difficult to breathe. The little angel was forced to stop running, slumping down against a tree and curling up into the smallest ball possible.
In a feeble attempt to make himself feel better, he materialized a lollipop to suck on, unwrapping the candy and popping it in his mouth between the side of his cheek and his teeth. He gnawed at the white stick, turning it around in his mouth until the paper was soggy.
And then he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Hello precious, what's a pretty little boy like you doing all alone in the cold?"
The man slid an arm under Gabriel's and pulled him up before kneeling down so they were face to face.
"Are you lost kiddo? I can give you a lift back home if you like. I'm sure that we can…come to a suitable arrangement."
Gabriel bit the man's arm when the man made a move to grab him, sinking his teeth in as deep as he could and using his grace to force the man back a few paces.
Although confused, the man didn't turn and flee like Gabriel had hoped he would.
"You little brat!" The man lunged forwards, grabbing Gabriel by the neck and pushing him against the tree the boy had been leaning on. Then, he reached out a calloused hand and cupped his cheek.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM YOU SICK BASTARD!"
Gabriel looked up, relief flooding through him when he saw Sam and Dean sprinting over to him.
"Shit!"
The man dropped Gabriel and ran as the Winchesters approached, Sam crouching down to check on Gabriel whilst his older brother chased the pedophile and tackled him to the ground before punching him in the face repeatedly and kicking the guy in the balls so hard that he was "gonna have to pull them out of his ass."
Gabriel sobbed limply in Sam's arms, clinging to the taller man and burying his face in the crook of Sam's neck as snot, sweat and tears poured down his face.
"I-I-" Gabriel tried to explain what had happened but Sam shushed him and pulled the distraught angel into his arms, stroking his concealed wings through the new T-shirt and kissing him gently on the forehead.
"Shhh, hush now, we're here, Dean's sorting him out, you're ok, he isn't going to hurt you, its ok. Shhhh, don't cry, it's all over. I'm so sorry Gabe, but it's all over now, he's not going to hurt you again. Shhh, shhhhhhhh. Are you hurt anywhere? Did he touch you anywhere?"
Gabriel shook his head shakily, "he, h-he on-only…my arms and-" Gabriel gestured limply at his face before curling back up and laying rigidly in Sam's arms.
"Ok, that's good. C'mon, the police are here kiddo; they might want to talk to you a little."
Gabriel nodded, popping another apple flavored sucker in his mouth and suckling on it as tears continued to fall.
"Hello sir, are you Dean?"
"No, I'm his brother Sam, Dean's the one over there pinning that man- no, monster, down."
"Alright." The policeman made a note on his pad before continuing, "can you please tell me what happened?"
"We were walking in the park and Gabriel here was tired, he fell behind a bit and we lost him. We spent what felt like hours searching for him, but it could only have been a few minutes, and when we did spot him that creep was-" Sam shuddered, unable to continue with that line of thought…god, what would have happened if they hadn't found Gabriel in time.
"Ok, thank you sir. Now then Gabriel, can I ask you something?"
Gabriel tried to hide further in Sam's hold, but Sam stroked his hair and coaxed the boy into looking up.
"Sonny, I need you to tell me if he touched you anywhere, or if he said anything. Did he hurt you?"
"N-no. Said I was pwetty, and touched m-my face 'n arms. He wanted to dwive m-me h-home."
The officer nodded solemnly before pulling out a sticker with a teddy bear and sticking it on Gabriel's top. Sam read the patronizing message spelt across it – 'well done!' Ugh.
"Well, you have been a really brave little boy, thank you for your help."
Gabriel nodded again before fisting Sam's plaid shirt and falling asleep. He was beyond exhausted.
Sam carried Gabriel and led Cas to Dean, the youngest angel toddling and swaying as he made his way over to Dean with a twig in hand.
Dean was too busy to notice though, he was currently explaining his violent actions to the police whilst the monster was being cuffed and led to a police car.
"He tried to hurt my son! Of course I beat him up!"
"Sir, under the circumstances I will leave you with a verbal caution, but if anything like this happens again, you will be charged with assault and grievous bodily harm. I have a kid myself, but next time one of my colleagues may not be so lenient."
"I'll bear that in mind." Dean turned his back on the police officer, taking Cas from Sam and looking worriedly down at Gabriel.
"Is he ok?"
"Yeah, just shaken up and tired. Shall we go back?"
"I guess so; do you want me to take him?"
"Nah, I'm good. He's light as a feather anyway."
"God knows how, considering the amount of candy he eats."
"I think he deserves a lot of candy after today, we should never have taken him out. It was obvious he couldn't keep up and that he was tired."
"Don't blame yourself Sammy, if anything it was my fault. I'm the one who forced the issue and didn't insist upon looking after Castiel last night." Dean smiled down at Cas, who was clinging to his jeans and looking up at him with wide blue eyes whilst tapping him on the knee with his stick.
"Alright Cas, put that down before you go getting yourself a handful of splinters."
Castiel cried out when Dean took his stick, but Dean pulled his toy elephant out of a jacket pocket and gave it to Cas to mollify him.
"Gab?"
"Pardon kid?"
"Gab!"
"Gab?"
"Gaaab!"
Then it clicked, Cas wanted Gabriel.
"He's sleeping Cas, you can play later. C'mon, let's see if you can walk over there."
Dean pointed over to the path and watched Cas closely as the baby angel toddled away excitedly, he didn't let Cas get more than five feet in front of him though, and he certainly didn't let Castiel out of his sight.
Poor Gabriel, he must have been terrified when he realized he was on his own.
Sighing when Cas gave up walking and plopped cross legged on the ground, Dean scooped up the angel and carried him the rest of the way to the Impala, which he revved up and drove in silence.
He didn't even bother turning on the radio, instead listening to the sounds of Gabriel sniffling in his sleep and Cas gurgling as he sucked on a long tuft of Sam's hair.
They spent the rest of the evening playing Junior Monopoly with Gabriel, letting the angel win multiple times as Cas toddled and crawled around them, gurgling and chewing on the pieces – luckily for Cas, Dean had good eyesight and reflexes and managed to prevent the fledgling from choking or swallowing the houses or the dice.
It seemed as though Gabriel had definitely perked up since the park incident now that he had slept for a couple of hours. In fact, he was back to his mischievous self, having changed all of Dean's houses pink, made the dice whizz around the room like a rocket when Sam had tried to role and had turned the light fitting into a disco ball.
Sam didn't have the heart to tell him off and Dean had to fight back laughter as he bit his lip so hard that it began to bleed.
Sam didn't have a clue why suddenly his brother's slightly irritated expression had changed into one of pure amusement, but then again he hadn't looked in the mirror and realized that he was wearing full on, drag-style turquoise glitter eye shadow and cherry red lipstick. Oh, not to mention the deep pink blusher and purple nail varnish.
"Right, I think it's bed time. Don't you?"
Gabriel nodded, making the lollipop in his mouth disappear before allowing Sam to help him clean his teeth as Dean changed Cas' diaper. It seemed as though the child now fully trusted the Winchesters to help him and not harm him after they had saved him from the pedophile. At least something good had come out of the whole ordeal.
Once done, he went over to the wardrobe, taking Cas from Dean before snuggling up in his nest and humming until both angels were fast asleep.
Dean looked down sadly at the two angels, they had been dragged away from their home and Gabriel had been molested. Earth clearly wasn't making a good first impression.
"Goodnight, my little angels."
"Aw Dean, is that your soft side I can see coming out of the closet?"
"Shuddup Sammy, go to sleep."
"Night, jerk."
"Sweet dreams, bitch."
TBC…
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