Hello again. I would like to thank Mummabro, nerdchick394 and Anonymous Guest (Guest) for you wonderful reviews. I would also like to thank Mummabro, rainystv and nerdcick394 for the reviews for To Relieve Boredom. And I would like to thank those of you lovely people who have already followed and favoured this story. You guys are awesome.

So now I'm going to be a little bit mean (no change there then), this is a Kali chapter. As we don't see much of her in the show I'm kinda making her up a bit, based on some of the more benevolent law. I hope you like her. You may also see a few random names because well why not right? Its "super natural".

Anyway enough of my waffling in bold. Let's get to my story waffling instead shall we?

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural. If I did Gabriel would feature far more heavily. Gotta love him.


After Gabriel had left Kali became first inconsolable, then distance. She did not know what had happened. Why he had left her. But the more time that past the more bitter she became. And the more traits of the goddess of destruction she was named for she exhibited. In fact there was only one person who could actually stand her at her father's restaurant and that was the kitchen porter. For all his humble position in the restaurant Benny (he pops up in the strangest of places doesn't he?) was actually extremely clever, and a great listener. Not that he stayed long, he was just passing through. But he was there long enough for Kali to vent her wrath at Gabriel's disappearance and move on.

She decided to throw herself into her work. Now she may not have had the culinary skill of her father but she did have his palate. She therefore choose to go into the wine business, learning to become a first class sommelier and from there she opened her own business. Importing and exporting the finest of wines. She then branched out opening her own chain of wine stores called The Goddesses Nectar. It was through the start-up of these she met Baldor.

He was nice and attentive and while he was no Gabriel she felt for the first time since his departure the surging of true feelings for the man. These feeling developed into what she decided was love and a year after meeting they got married. Her father was happy for her in a reserved way. He was happy that she was happy but he knew that this man would never take the place of Gabriel in her heart. He often wondered what became of the man. He looked for his name and picture everywhere yet always came up empty. He wished he knew the truth of what had driven Gabriel to leave that fateful night, but he realised that that was not going to happen. So he shelved his disappointment at not having his rising star as his son-in-law and tried to make the best of it.

Kali and Baldor were married for five years before they both realised that it had run its course and got an amicable devoice. Kali once again throwing herself into her work. She had learnt after years of practise to never think the name Gabriel Novak.


She was sitting at her desk one morning when an email came through marked private from an email account she did not recognise. Frowning she was tempted to bin it but curiosity got the better of her and she opened to see all it contained was a short note which read

Watch this

And a YouTube link. Frowning even more she clicked on it.

Suddenly on her screen was filled with the picture of a man standing on top of a bar. What an earth? But she didn't stop it. Now she was intrigued. She watched the man as he came out with eyebrows raised but it was the name of the man he loved that caught her attention. Castiel Novak. Now she had in her time crossed paths with other Novak's, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael to name a few but when she asked if they knew a Gabriel they said they did not. And nowhere in her research of the Novak family (yes she had looked into them, many years ago now, but she had still looked) she had never found a Castiel. Shrugging she was about to turn off the video when the camera, obviously someone's phone, picked up a laugh she remembered as well as her own. It couldn't be. But then the camera swung and there filling the screen was Gabriel rolling on the floor in laughter. The video ended with him looking up and to her it felt as if he looked her right in the eyes.

She quickly closed down the link and deleted the email. She was over Gabriel Novak. Nothing could induce her to go back to him. But… and there was always the but wasn't there? (Yes.) She had never found out why he left. She had never got as Benny had once said 'closure'. With that thought and with rude comments to herself about her weakness she removed the email from her email trash and opened the link once again. Stopping it just before it ended, when it was on Gabriel and the people with him.

He was with a man and a woman. She chose to study the man first, though she didn't investigate her reasons (probably wise), looking at him she saw the likeness to Gabriel. Yes his colouring was completely different, and from the looks of his staid behaviour his personality was also. But it was the eyes. They were different colours, different shapes but they both held some indefinable quality that she come to learn was reserved especially for the Novak's. At a guess she would say that this was the mysterious Castiel. She then took a deep breath and turned her attention to the girl. She was young. No more than 27 or so. She had red hair and the she was looking not at Gabriel but at Castiel with a smug smile on her face. In fact she seemed to be ignoring Gabriel completely. If this girl was in a relationship with Gabriel Novak Kali couldn't see it. No one in a relationship with him could ignore him for a minute. (I imagine that is true. I doubt he would let you.)

With a sigh of resignation she once again closed down the link and brought up the email. She hated herself for what she was about to do. But she had to do it. With that in mind she clicked on reply.

I don't know who you are but I want to know where this was filmed. Now.

Kali.

With that done she put the video from her mind and went back to doing her work.


It was over a month later that she realised that she hadn't got a reply. She had so effectively put it from her mind. Keeping herself occupied with her job. Or maybe it was that it took a month for her thoughts to wear her down. Either way she realised that whoever had sent that to her was never going to reply. Fine she didn't need to know anyway.


A month after that decision found her in the offices of one of the most prestigious private detectives in New York, Victor Henrikisen. She didn't give him the video, thinking that that was embarrassing, instead she asked him to track down Castiel and Gabriel Novak. And when he returned two months later saying he had nothing she asked him to track a detective Dean Winchester instead. This resulted in better answers. And now here she was, five months after the original upload date according to YouTube and she finally had the name of the town in hand. The question was what was she going to do with it now she had it? (Oh good question.)