All You Did was Save my Life

Angels and Antichrists

            "What are you doing here?" Sam asked.

            What are you doing together?" Cas asked.

            "Well I just happened to be wandering along a beach in Australia when I bumped into this little kid all by himself," Gabriel said, "I wouldn't have thought too much of it, but it seemed no one else could see him." Cas and the Winchesters looked down at the little boy who was clinging to Gabriel's hand.

            "So, you decided to bring him here so we could... what?" Dean asked.

            "I brought him here Dean-o cause I said I was going to take care of him and figured it'd be good to let my brothers know what was going on. They didn't seem to like it much last time I disappeared and didn't say anything." He looked at Cas and immediately noticed he wasn't smiling.

            "Y'all right there Cassie?" Gabriel asked, "Where's Balthazar?"

            "I-I don't know," Cas said quietly before turning and walking outside. Gabriel looked at Sam and Dean in confusion.

            "I, uh, I'll go talk to him," Dean said, "Ben's got some blocks in that box in the corner if Jesse wants ti play with them." He followed Cas outside, leaving Sam, Gabriel, and Jesse alone.

            "Go ahead," Gabriel said gently to Jesse, "Go play." Jesse walked over to the box and slowly started pulling out a couple of the blocks. Gabriel sat on the couch, watching the four year old with a smile on his face. Sam sat next to him, unsure of what he should do.

            "Cas had a hard time when we first met Jesse," he explained quietly.

            "I know," Gabriel replied, "Jesse told me everything."

            "So you know that Cas-"

            "Tried to kill him?" Gabriel said, "Yes, I know. I also know why."

            "Is it true?" Sam asked and Gabriel looked at him, "What Cas says Jesse is? Is it true?" Gabriel looked back at the boy and smiled sadly.

            "Yeah it's true," he nodded, "Jesse is the antichrist. He is Lucifer's greatest weapon."

            "Wow," Sam said, "Well, so much for you not being involved in this fight." Gabriel laughed without humour before he turned to look at Sam.

            "I ever wanted kids before," Gabriel said.

            "How come?" Sam asked.

            "You saw what happened to Cas when the angels found out he was pregnant," Gabriel said.

            "I thought that was cause Jamie is a nephilim?" Sam questioned.

            "True, nephilim they take and destroy," Gabriel said, "But even put angel children created in heaven are taken the moment the split happens."

            "Why?" Sam asked in shock.

            "They take them and train them to be soldiers," Gabriel said, "Angel babies hardly ever know who their parents are."

            "That's terrible," Sam said and Gabriel nodded.

            "That's why I never wanted any" Gabriel said, "I didn't want them taken away."

            "They can't take Jesse," Sam said.

            "No, but they could kill him," Gabriel said, "That's why I came here, I figured it was the safest place for him." Sam nodded in understanding.

            "Well, we won't let anything happen to him," Sam said, laying a hand on the angel's shoulder. What happened next happened so fast that Sam wasn't certain it happened at all. One minute, Gabriel was staring at him, and the next the angel had darted forward and pressed his lips against the hunter's. Sam sat there in shock for a moment, but before he could respond, there was a flutter of wings and Balthazar stood in front of them.

            "I heard my brother became father to the antichrist," he said, smiling widely.