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Sid was stretching his impressive quadriceps before bouncing on his toes to get loose before his job. He had to be ready for anything the day could throw his way be it a squirrel, kids with tempting treats, or something shiny.

As the best dog walker in Pittsburgh, Sid couldn’t afford to shirk in his duty to his clients. His clients were two Great Danes, a Mastiff, a Dalmatian, a retriever mutt of some sort, and a Shih Tzu (which ended up being carried until they got to the dog park.)     

Sid loved his job. He was able to be outside, getting exercise, with companions far better than most humans he knew.

Today was shaping up to be perfect. It was sunny with clear skies. While that would make the sidewalks and parks busier, it also made for a much more enjoyable day.

After his stretches he made sure the leashes were all secure and Little Miss Patty was secure in her spot in her bag and they were off. 

Sid had a few different routes that he alternated between to give them different scenery and challenges to keep them healthy and happy. Today, he was taking them along the Allegheny River Trail. This trail offered lush trees and views of the river as he guided them along. 

Things were going well, too, until they reached the part of the trail that had a lot of hills and included a few sets of stairs to help hikers traverse the steep path. They were just rounding a bend and starting down the stairs, the dogs leading the way, when a shout came up from behind them. 

Sid and the dogs all stopped and turned toward the noise in time to catch a huge barking blur as it barreled towards them. Not having the time or space to react much, Sidney tightened his hold on Patty and the leashes and tried to angle his body out of the way.

He was not successful. He was slammed into and taken down the steps by the dog. He instinctively twisted his body to protect Patty and the others, allowing himself to land awkwardly at the bottom. Feeling a twinge in his ankle and his elbows already starting to smart, he knew he would be feeling this one for a while. 

All of the dogs, including the mysterious monstrosity, had all gathered around Sid and were whining and licking any bit of him they could reach. He smoothed down shiny coats and ruffled ears all around to reassure them that he was fine; it was just a little tumble. 

Just as he was looking up from an enthusiastic face wash of two very enthusiastic tongues, he saw him. Tall and lanky, with nice brown hair, a guy right out of Sid’s mental attractive folder stood at the top of the stairs. Taking in the sight of Sid still sprawled on the ground, he clamored down the stairs.

“You okay? Jeffrey not great at listening, sorry,” his voice was deep and accented and Sid found himself melting a little. (Or that could just be his blush taking over his face.) 

“I’m fine. Just a little bruised I think.” With that Sid tried to stand up, but found himself crumpling when the pain from his ankle made his legs weak. But before he could hit the ground for a second time, the guy caught him gently with big hands and steadied Sid’s weight against his side. 

“Okay, maybe not fine,” said Sid, grinning sheepishly up into brown eyes that crinkled back at Sid with his own smile. “Sorry.”

“No, no. I’m most sorry. Is my dog almost kill you.” With a slightly smug smile, the guy just bends down and sweeps Sid over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry.

Mortified, Sid hides his face in his hands. “Please put me down!” he says muffled. “It’s just a sprained ankle. I don’t even know your name!”

“I’m Evgeni, call me Geno,” said Geno chuckling. “And I’m trying to help! Is my fault.”

 With that, Geno gathered up the dogs and maneuvered them back to the trail.

“Wait, Geno, you aren’t planning on carrying me all the way back?” asked Sid, slightly panicked. “No, stop! Put. Me. Down!”

Geno huffed, but found a grassy spot to set Sid back on his feet. Keeping his weight off of his ankle entirely, he sat down and worked off his shoe, taking in the swelling. He hissed as he pocked at it. His hand was caught by those big hands as Geno looked at him in concern.

“Is bad?”

“Well, I’m going to have to stay off of it for a while.” Sid looked up at Geno, contemplating. “Can you help me back to my SUV? I need to get the dogs home and ice this.”

Geno’s face lit up and he reached for Sid again. Sid held up his hand. “No carrying!”

Geno’s face turned a little sour at that, but he pulled Sid up to stand and drew his hand over his shoulder. 

“Not give me name of man my dog almost kill?” Sid glanced at Geno out of the corner of his eye. Geno was grinning at him in mischief. “Want to make up for ruining walk with dogs.”

“Sidney, but you can call me Sid.” Sid answered and felt his own mischievousness come out. “You can help me get home and take me to dinner and we’ll call it even.”

"Well Amelia broke her last pair of drum sticks so she decided to delay practice untill she buys new ones, she should be coming back soon I guess..."

"And Eddie?"

"Our dearest bassist got hungry, then he left, but I think he's bringing pizza for all of us, so we can keep him even if he ditched practise for food..."

"Ahh" The lead singer looked a bit put off for a second before looking at Caradoc again with an exited smile "Nevermind then, you have no idea what I found out!"

The guitarrist rolled his eyes "Okay I'll bite, what did you found Amos?"

He dropped himself in the sofa next to him

"So, I was googling us..."

Caradoc let out a groand

"You know, just because I told you you can google anything with your new phone it doesn't mean you have to..."

Amos really didn't seem to listen

"... And I found we have a lot of fans! I mean, most of them are local fans, plus the ones following our youtube channel, and some from I don't even know where... The internet is full of them! And they write about us! Like... Stories, like liveshows and us meeting them and just us going out or doing normal things"

The younger men took a moment to consider what the older was saying "You mean us as in the band? Or just you and me?"

"Both!" He answered happily "I mean, I think we all appear in, at least, most of them, but there are a lot about us! Us playing together, us going on a date, us just watching a movie..."

"Going on a date you said?"

"Yes! Oh there's one in which apparently we go to this... School for wizards? To learn magic, like in A Wizard of Earthsea, and we are all friends there but I'm not sure if we have a band...There weren't many bands at Roke..."

"Do we end up together on that one too?" Caradoc had no idea when did Amos took out his phone, but he couldn't help but get closer to take a peek at the screen, the other men shrugged

"I don't know, I haven't read it yet, but we probably do" he looked up from the device to Caradoc's face inches away and smiled "Isn't it amazing? They created a whole other world for us!"

Caradoc laughed

"What I really wonder is why they think we are together in the first place" he replied with a smirk, not bothering to move away even when he could feel the other's breath on his lips

Amos chuckled, eyes on his face, smile still in place, he lent in the few inches between them

Dean was Rachel.

When he could finally open the door -the goddamned keys were obviously at the bottom of all the paperwork- he found his angel sitting alone on the sofa next to some blankets, zapping his fingers at the rythm of some old blues.

"So you decided to just skip work today I see..." he smiled amused walking towards the empty spot on the couch

"I thought you could bring the bread home now that you are a well recognized lawyer..."

Sam pushed him by his shoulder "Lazy..." Gabriel just smiled back "Do I need to remind you you are still the boss and should speak with the exaple?"

"Mmhh feeling kinky Sasquatch? Want to be my sexy secretary?"

"Asshole." he stated half chuckling and leaned back to kiss him softly as a greeting "Wasn't Dean's day off today? I thought he said he was going to spend it with the kids here, where is he?"

"Well, right now I think he's somewhere between our room and the kitchen wall... Nope, not anymore, he just walked inside a playroom..."

"We don't have a playroo-" and there Sam noticed the anrchangel was still snapping his fingers "GABRIEL!!" he jumped to grab the other man's hand "Where is he now? Bring him back!"

"Relax Sambo-" Gabriel started but was interrupted by a shout and footsteps coming into the room

"SAMMY!" of course, cause this was his fault, he looked at Gabriel

"The kids just wanted to play hide and seek with Deano and I just wanted to help them..."

"Oh my god. Where are the kids Gabriel?"

Suddenly, out of the big ball of blackets to liitle bodies jumped Gabriel to land on his lap at the happy screams of "Daddy!" and "Uncle Sammy!" at once

After giving him a kiss on the cheek the little girl hanging from his side looked at Gabriel "Did we won Uncle Gabe? Did we beat Dad?"

"Of course you did kiddo! Did you ever doubt it?" he answered smiling

An even smaller boy sitting in his lap tugged from his work shirt to get his attention "Pappa help us hide under magic blanckets so we could won and have cookies" he whispered softly like he was confiding a big secret

"He did so, didn't he?" he said smiling at his son and turning one more time to the archangel "And you thought playing with Dean was funnier than playing with blankes...."

Gabriel shrugged "Can you blame me?"

He chuckled and looked at his brother, sitting defeated were the pile of blankets and kids used to be, beer in one hand, cookies on the other

"I am never going to win am I?" he said smiling to his daughter as she grabbed one cookie for her and passed another to his cousin

"Not when uncle Gabriel plays with us, is the rule"

"Yeah?" Sam asked "And who put that rule?"

"Uncle Gabriel."

Sam laughed as Gabriel patted his niece's head

He started walking through the corridor of the house wondering if he was going in the right direction. it wasn't like he didn't knew the house, like this was his first time there, he just always wonders when he's alone. Even if at the end he always ended up were he intended to be, Gabriel just had this thing about changing things inside his own house and he still wasn't really sure where the nursery was, or even Samandriel's room.

If you asked Dean, Gabriel just liked to move things around for his amusement and probably so he wont find them so easily, he would, the asshole.

He walked straight through the route leading to the kitchen, if he was right Gabriel and Sam's room was the nearest and the nursery was probably right next to it, as a door leading to a place that couldn't physically even be there.

It was clearly much easier to find than what his paranoia let him believe, specially when he heard the sound of humming in the silence of the almost empty penthouse.

He stood on the open door and looked inside at Castiel's back, he was standing facing the window with Andrew on his arms. It didn't look like he had noticed him and Dean didn't want to interrupt, so he stood there, his weight resting against the door frame.

It had been a pain in the ass to convince Sammy to let them take care of the kid, he understood it was hard, it wasn't like he didn't trust them, it was more about the 'what if's, what if something happened to him? What if something happened and they weren't there? It was normal, he remembered the first time they looked after Zepp, he had threaten them both with holy oil, and he wasn't even leaving for a hunt, Gabriel had just thought he and Cas -and specially him according to the annoying archangel- needed a day for themselves. And still, they had to practically drag him out of the house.

Lucky for him, Gabriel just told them to call him if anything happened, and then looked like he was giving his angel blade to Lucifer himself or something. Sammy's lower lip must have been purple under his teeth.

He wondered if he and Cas had looked that funny to them too.

The silence of the room brought him back from his thoughts to look at his angel slowly turning around to face him with a small but pleased smile.

"Hey" Dean whispered finally walking into the room and towards the only other awake member of the family "looks like you made it..."

"He was feeling lonely." Castiel explained like it was necessary, he looked up from his sleeping nephew to stare back at those green eyes "What about Zeppelin? Is she asleep?"

"I had to promise her she would keep playing with her cousin tomorrow after breakfast, but she's now sleeping in our bedroom here" he sighed and a chuckle scaped from his lips "for a second I thought I would have to promise the same to Samandriel to be honest, I'm glad he just went to sleep like... Well, like a human."

"He does enjoy very much human pleasures as sleeping" the angel replied leaving the baby softly on his crib

"Well he does have a bunch of well-adjusted-to-human-pleasures brothers to learn from" he joked grabbing the other by the back of his waist "What were you humming to him? Looks like it worked pretty good..."

"When we were... Created, when we where what you would call kids, babies even... Sometimes Gabriel used to come and sing to us, it was always a different lullaby... He always said he was bored and I didn't understad but... I think he just liked it, being around the new angels, playing with us, singing songs in enochian to calm us down... I thought maybe Gabriel did this with Andrew and it will comfort him."

"And you actually remember all this songs...?"

"Of course."

"Well aren't you just the best brother and best uncle ever?" he smiled against the other's shoulder, looking at the baby sleeping pacefully "Everything okay...?"

Castiel looked back with concerned blue eyes

"Do you think it's okay to just leave him here? What if he wakes up? Isn't our bedroom too far away? What if something happens? I guess I could just stay here, or we could sleep in Sam and Gabe's room for the night-"

"Nothing is going to happen Cas, come on" Dean smiled reassuringly "And even if he wakes up crying we already took the baby monitor to the room and you can just zap here the second you hear something" the other man relaxed a bit and nodded so he started to guide them both to their room "besides, I really don't need to sleep were our brothers have kinky sex..."

"Considering this is their home they had probably engaged into kinky sex in most parts of the house."

"And that was exactly the image I did not want in my head, thanks Cas..."

Characters/Pairings: Cas and Gabe and sort of a mention of Destiel

Warnings: One day I might snap and kill everybody... Oh you meant about the fic. No, none of that. OOCness (clearly what I always warn you about)

Author's notes: So either we stop speaking Mar or I stop writing fics about it... Also wrote under my usual sleep depravation and a bit of a cold.. And uhm, what else? Oh yes, Idek man, I'm sorry okay? Idk why do you let me write this crap Mar. You're kinda the responsible bro here, you should stop me... Even if you can't

And god I most certanly should re-read this but I am so not gonna...

   He wasn't expecting to find his brother sitting on the edge of his bed, legs crossed over the mattress and a childish smile on his face.

Then again no one would really expect to find the archangel Gabriel with his lips curled up, sitting on their houses like he was a five years old, not even Castiel, but at least the angel wasn't that surprised either.

"Baby bro!" Gabriel welcomed him to his own bedroom with his arms open in the air

"Gabe." he responded "Do you need anything?"

"Ouch! You hurt me Cassy! Can't a big mighty brother check on his little baby angels just because?"

Castiel stared at him for a moment, the archangel assumed little Cas was just deciding if he was joking or not

"It is late, you have work tomorrow, I have college" he resumed his walk and sat besides his brother turning his face to look at him "How are you brother?"

The golden eyes litted up with joy when the other started the conversation "I'm pretty fine thank you, and how are you?"

"I'm good..." he paused, feeling he was fighting a yawn he didn't even need "I'm tired... And sleepy..."

"Boohoo, should I let you sleep then?" Gabriel asked with a pout that quickly became a smirk, he moved as closer as he could, noses almost touching "But come on Cassy, are you going to tell me Dean-o wears you out that much? That aint proper of an angel of the lord..."

"Is not Dean" he answered quickly, almost trying to ignore what his brother said last, trying to ignore the bits of truth it had "It's just college. Dean never tires me... And I haven’t seen him in a while now, with all the exams and papers..."

He made another paused and looked away from the eldest’s eyes, not because he was ashamed, he wasn't still quite sure how shame worked, but seeing the golden gaze upon him, waiting, ready to hear anything he wanted to tell, it made him feel suddenly uncomfortable, not like he couldn't trust his brother but more like he was about to trust him with something big, with something he haven't said out loud yet, for a second he wondered if this was what Sam meant as embarrassment

"I miss Dean..." He blurted out, looking distractedly at his fingers

Gabriel let out a sight, half relief, because even if he didn't have to admit it, his body tensed when he saw how stressed Castiel looked

He put a hand over the messy black hair and shifted his position a bit to sit closer "I'm sorry baby bro..." his voice was softer, honest. He moved his had to hug the angel from over the shoulders "Hey I could just smite some of your teachers to make you happy..." he added in a more playful tone and then shrugged "But then again you and Sam don't tend to appreciate that kind of little jokes..."

Castiel's face and shoulders relaxed a bit "No, I won’t appreciate it of course, I wouldn't believe Sam will either. Besides we need the teachers to pass the classes." he explained

"So you want me to smite all the class then?" the archangel came back acting exited, the hand that wasn't hugging his brother moving in front of his face, trying to make him imagine all the possibilities "I could make everyone forget about it! I would even erase it from your college documents and all!"

A slight, almost invisible smile appeared on Castiel’s lips "There is no need for that, I can cope"

“Aw come on Cassy!” he took his arms from around his little brother and crossed them over his chest “See? I’m always offering my help from the bottom of my heart and that’s what I get!” he continued, acting offended for a few more seconds before changing furrowed eyebrows for a fake surprise, his elbows on his again crossed legs, the back of his hands holding his chin “What if I just pout long enough? Would that make your decision to let me erase everything easier?” he offered, already doing it

A soft, sincere laugh came out of Castiel’s mouth, and for a second Gabriel wasn’t sure if he was just amused or there was actually a bit of relieve, of gratefulness for the help offered, even if he disapproved of the method.

“No Gabe, you can’t smite any of my classes.” He answered looking once again at the archangel “I need them. And I like them. I’m just tired, is normal.” Castiel looked up staring at nothing in particular, like if an old, not completely accepted realization was hitting him again “I am so human sometimes”

The words came so natural they just lingered in the air for a second before Gabriel tapped his shoulder and said “Jeez that you are Cassy, can’t deny it…”

It was honest but playful, trying to light the mood, trying to make the subject pass like a joke, but he could see the other angel tense again, avoiding looking to his direction

And the archangel could see this unspoken conversation was terrifying Cas, Gabriel knew it, he could feel it, because he had lived in the human world long enough, because he had been an angel and a trickster and a pagan god, because he knew what was like to fall from grace, to feel far from it, far from home, because he have talked with his little brother about humanity, about the things he have seen, the things humans have done, and half of them in the name of some god.

So Castiel was scared, and confused, because he knew humanity, he had seen humanity himself and he had heard about it from most his brothers, and he had fallen, like lots of them, and he wasn’t sure how much of a cursed and how much of a bless he had from humans anymore, sometimes Gabriel thought he wasn’t even sure how much of a bless he did still had from home, or maybe even how much of a bless it was.

“But it’s kind of a good thing you know?” The archangel said putting his feet down on the floor so they could be side by side, looking too at the closed door that was in front of them “I mean, in you. I said it as a compliment and all…” he turned himself a bit to look at him again “There are tons of good humans out there Cassy, and if you were a human you would be one of them”

When Castiel looked back at him he seemed more relaxed, with one of those really unusual smiles, with one of those relieved looks people had on their faces when they are being accepted, when they understand is okay to just be, to make your own decisions, to have your own mistakes, to just be received.

Gabriel smiled brightly at him, just letting the other know how happy it made him that he could actually gave him that, because he didn’t know how many more time his little brother was going to receive that acceptance from somebody else, at least from the family. As a matter of fact, he actually did know how he wasn’t going to, because he was there once, turning his back to that, leaving heaven alone.

“You would suck as a Trickster thou” He said with his usual smirk on again, suddenly making his brother appeared in some ridiculous –but comfortable- pajamas under the bed covers

Castiel’s eyes looked lost for less than a second before turning to his brother with a stern look “You know I don’t appreciate when you do that.”

“I know, that’s what makes it funny” he smiled innocently “Now now off to bed, I don’t want you all grumpy in the morning because you didn’t have your beauty sleep”

The younger angel was about to complain when he realized he was just not going to win against his brother tonight. Instead he made himself comfortable and looked at Gabriel one more time “Goodnight then, Gabe”

“Sweet dreams” he smiled, seeing his brother’s eyes getting close “You are a good human baby bro, a better angel, but a good human”