Castiel's Secret

Chapter 14

"At first I thought it was Cas who had brought us back," Gabriel heard his brother say before sighing, "but now, knowing what I know...Is this the reason we are back?" Balthazar asked as he leaned back against the wall with his arms crossed against his chest and his eyes focused on the floor as if it held the answer he so desperately wished to know.

"I don't know," Gabriel said as he allowed himself to further sink into the chair he had been sitting at for the past hour. "I don't think any of us could ever begin to understand why Father does what he does. But I suppose this is the best guess we got." Gabriel said with such seriousness that it made Balthazar sink further into his thoughts.

"A nephew...we have a nephew..." Balthazar repeated over and over in his head. No matter how many times he repeated it, he still couldn't seem to wrap his head around it. Their little brother had a son, with a human. He, like Gabriel, didn't particularly hate the Winchester brothers. He just didn't know how to feel about Dean impregnating their baby brother. Because of course, it had to be Deans! Who else's baby would Castiel carry?!

"...Maybe his grace?" Gabriel hummed to himself. Yes, maybe his grace was something they had to save. Is that what their father wanted them to do? Is the boy's grace something far more important than what he had thought a nephilim's grace to be? It would make sense. The boy's grace did seem to becoming a bit more alive now that he remembered.

"What grace? I didn't feel one in the boy at all and I've been following him for days..." Balthazar said looking at Gabriel with an 'Are you stupid?' look. "You can't feel it? That's weird..." Gabriel asked a bit surprised. So Gabriel could feel a grace? Huh? "Maybe it's because you're an Arch angel?" Balthazar said as he moved to sit beside him.

"Hey! You brought me out here, the least you could do is listen to what I'm saying!" Balthazar heard a very annoyed teenager growl out as he leaned back in his chair, "Jeez, I don't even know why I'm here." Balthazar couldn't help but let out a small chuckle, "Sorry kiddo, I was thinking about something my brother said."

That's right, that time he and Gabriel followed Castiel to the emissary, and this boy was there. He had grabbed him and used him as a shield to hide from his baby brother. He had more half expected to be caught, but he supposed Castiel was far too worried about his son to not have suspected the invisible werewolf in the corner. There was something that just didn't make sense to him. Castiel wasn't stupid, he knew what the boy would be and the dangers that alone would bring him, but yet he let him go without protection? That didn't sound like something Castiel would do.

"I just can't believe my best friend is half angel and half human." Scott said as he ran his hand through his hair. It's been a few days since he found out by accident, but it was still hard to believe. "Well he isn't exactly half human. I wouldn't say his real dad is just any regular human." Balthazar found himself saying subconsciously. Dean had hardly aged from the last time he had seen him, and from what he's figured out so far he's been 'dead' for about 19 years. Castiel must have kept both of the Winchesters from aging normally.

"What do you mean he's not a regular human? Who's Stiles real dad?" Scott asked curiously as he leaned forward showing his obvious interest on the subject. Balthazar couldn't help but scrunch his name at his nephew's name, "Cassie really has bad taste in names. What kind of name is Stiles?!"

Scott couldn't help but narrow his brows. This angel had an annoyingly short attention span. "'Stiles' isn't his real name. No one could pronounce his name growing up, so he decided he wanted to be called Stiles. His real name is Hieronim." Scott explained before stumbling over his best friend's real name. "Sacred?" Balthazar said as a smile appeared on his lips. So, Castiel really loved the boy. Now he understood why Gabriel wanted to keep quiet about it, well partly.