Hello darlings. I would like to thank those who have followed and favoured since my last update.

So here we are the next chapter, I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural.

Gabriel sat slouched on the hard couches in the waiting area of Michael's office flicking through magazines which all seemed to have glowing articles about the various members of his family, excluding him and Castiel of course, in the mind of the world he was pretty sure his brothers had made it so they didn't exist. Not that that mattered, though looking at the magazines it did look like his brother hadn't lost his over inflated belief in his self-worth. Bloody idiot that he was. With that Gabriel stood and walked to the wall of windows and looked out over central park from the 50th floor office. Yeah okay granted the view was good, but he had always felt that Michael liked to be up high so that he couldn't see all the people who he stepped on to get there. He was pulled out of his thoughts by a condescending man addressing him.

"Mr Gabriel? Mr Novak will see you now." He said with a smarmy look on his face that really made Gabriel want to say something to remove it. But he refrained (well done). He was here to talk to Michael, not destroy his staff, no matter how much fun that could be.

"Thank you, Zachy." He replied instead, not being able to stop himself from giving the pretentious idiot a snappy nick name. God he remembered this guy from 20 years ago. You'd think he would have moved on and stopped licking his brother's ass by now wouldn't you? But again, he was here to see Mikey, time to put his game face on. With that Gabriel swan his way into Michael's office with a massive care for nothing smile on his face and threw himself into the chair opposite the desk which Michael was sitting rigidly behind. He then twisted so his legs went over the arm of the chair and pulled a lolly out of his pocket and putting it in his mouth before turning to Michael.

"Hey big bro. how it hanging?" He asked in a voice reminiscent of the one he had had 19 years ago when he had last visited this office. He wanted Michael to be at ease, let him believe he had the upper hand in this conversation. Until that was, he didn't. (Good plan.)

"What are you doing here Gabriel? I had thought you dead." Michael replied not bating an eyelid at Gabriel's behaviour, he had learnt many years ago that Gabriel did things just to get a raise from him. To push his buttons as if were, and he wasn't going to give Gabriel the satisfaction of reacting, not now after all these years.

"Hoped more like. Oh well wishful thinking never gets anyone anywhere right?" Gabriel asked with a smirk at his brother.

"Gabriel, why are you here?" Michael asked with a sigh. He had truly believed that 15 years ago he had seen the last of his brother.

"Just to tell you I'm coming back. You know family courtesy and all that." Gabriel replied with a shrug as if he had not a care in the world.

"And what exactly are you going to do in New York Gabriel? It is not like you have any friends or talent to fall back on." Michael replied snidely at him, smirking in return. Though that smirk soon left his face as he watched his brother change before him, morph into someone he didn't recognise at all.

At those words Gabriel sat up straight and threw his lolly so it landed in the trash can that he couldn't see but knew was next to Michael's desk without breaking eye contact with his brother.

"Actually I'm taking over Shiva's business and as such am about to become one of the most power restaurateurs in the city." He replied with a predatory smile on his face.

"You really expect me to believe that? After the way you left?" Michael asked his a huff of disbelief, there was no way that Gabriel would get that family behind him again.

"Oh yes. And I'm planning on marrying Kali, just so you know." Gabriel replied studying his nails as if this conversation was boring him now.

"I don't believe you." Michael responded narrowing his eyes at Gabriel.

"Don't believe or do, I don't care. But know this, Castiel and his husband will be coming to New York to visit me and my family often, and you will do nothing about it." Gabriel said with enough emphasis on the word husband that Michael visibly flinched.

"What gives you that idea?" Michael growled at him.

"Cos if you do I will get you banned from every restaurant in this town. And we all know how this world works Mikey, the best business is always done over a fine dinner and an even finer wine." Gabriel replied leaning on Michael's desk as he stared him down.

"You don't have that power." Michael spat in reply.

"Really? You sure about that bro?" Gabriel asked with the raise of one eyebrow.

"If you did you wouldn't have left 15 years ago." Michael blustered, Gabriel didn't have that power, did he? (Not yet but soon I think he will my dear.) No he couldn't Gabriel was nothing compared to him.

"What can I say? I was young and an idiot. But people change and grow and I'm not going to fold to you anymore. You'll do what I say." Gabriel stated leaning back in the chair once again with a calm and determined look on his face, in that brief second Michael recognised that look as one his father had perfected over his years in business, and it was one that none had ever found a way to counter.

"No I won't." He spat, he was not going to let his younger brother dictate to him, no matter what.

"Then I would advise you cancel your dinner plans for next Friday evening. If you don't you will find yourself refused entry, and that won't look to good to your foreign investors will it?" Gabriel replied with an unconcerned shrug making Michael gape at him. How did he know about that? (He's Gabriel?) No one knew of that meeting.

"What? How do you know about that?" He demanded to know, he wanted to find who had told Gabriel so he could fire them.

"Cos you have a table booked at my soon-to-be restaurant and I would very much like to start as I mean to go on." Gabriel replied in a 'duh! Isn't obvious?' sort of voice.

"But, that isn't even booked in my name." Michael continued in confusion causing Gabriel to roll his eyes. Before he stood and leaned over the desk getting into Michael's face.

"I'm your brother Michael, and I'm not stupid. So what's it to be? Leave me and mine alone? Or try to find somewhere else to eat out in this town. Which believe me could be rather hard, Shiva does after all have his finger in many pies, and as such, so do I."

At that the brothers just glared at each other, Michael in shock at Gabriel's behaviour, because this man in front of him was not the Gabriel he knew. No this man was someone he had no idea how to handle, but it seemed it was someone who also held all the cards. For now.

"Myself and my brothers cut Castiel off without any connection. Castiel Novak dies 15 years ago in our mind." He finally replied when it seemed that Gabriel could and would stand there all day waiting for his answer.

"Good, keep it that way." With that Gabriel turned and left Michael's office with a calmness he really didn't think he would be able to pull off. He really wanted to smack the bastards face in, but he couldn't he had to keep the upper hand. He had stated his position, and if any of the Novak's tested him, then he would bring everything they had built down upon their heads. And he would take great pleasure in doing so. After all it wouldn't be long until his name was as well-known as theirs once again. And with the power that would bring he would rip them apart if they so much as blinked in the wrong way. He was after all a Novak too, he knew just how to play their games in their world, even if he hadn't been in it for nearly 20 years.

With that Gabriel left the office block and collected his things from the hotel. It was time to leave New York for now, it was time to go home, to his Kali and his brother. But he would be back, and when he returned he would have to see just how the rest of the Novak's reacted and act accordingly. (You go Gabriel, but now you have to deal with Kali. Oops.)