For beees

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It's a reasonably warm and sunny day and Gabriel is sitting on a park bench, leaning back against it with his arms folded over his chest and legs stretched out in front of him, a backpack sitting on the ground by the bench. He's watching the kids playing in the playground area when he gets distracted by Castiel's arrival. He turns his head to look at him before squinting. Okay, there's sure something going on. "Hey. This is a bit of a time hop for you, isn't it?"

And maybe a bit more than that, he isn't entirely sure. "You seem to be about a century off from when you're supposed to be."

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He's a kid. Kids are made of energy. Until suddenly they're not. Gabriel is sure that Joshua will be passing out for a nap sometime later whether he wants one or not.

"You're one of my siblings, hence the moniker," Gabriel points out. "Balthazar gets called 'Uncle Bal'. Which he doesn't mind coming from a kid. Joshua still gets tripped up by the entire thing sometimes. Usually when he's excited and doing the mile a minute thing or when he's tired."

[beees]

"That makes sense," Castiel nods in approval. He's not entirely sure how he feels about being an uncle, but he likes Gabriel enough to like Joshua just on the basis that they're family.

"Does anyone else in Heaven know about him?"

[lotsoflaughs]

"I'd rather not tempt fate. There's always someone who thinks they don't need to listen to an archangel." One of those someones standing right there as proof.

[beees]

"Generally speaking, that's true, of course." Although Castiel's not likely to harm Joshua. Or stand against an archangel without a very good reason for doing so.

[lotsoflaughs]

Gabriel's aware that Castiel knows to leave his kid alone, so he's not worried about him.

Time for a change of subject, he thinks. "So, what was the thing important enough to check out sixty years from your time but not important enough to tell me?"

[beees]

"I was following a demon." That's probably not as much of an explanation as Gabriel was looking for.

[lotsoflaughs]

"Yeah, gonna need more than that." No, it was not.

[beees]

"It was a demon we believed traveled back in time and stole an artifact from the bunker." Castiel offers as a further explanation.

[lotsoflaughs]

"You have to be kidding me," he says with a groan. "Isn't that thing supposed to be buttoned up against anything not invited that's of the Dark Side?"

[beees]

"Yes. When I left, Sam and Dean were going to work on discovering why the demon was able to get in in the first place," Castiel nods. "We have the situation relatively under control."

[lotsoflaughs]

"'Relatively'," he repeats drily. "That's not very encouraging, you know."

Right, he should probably pay attention to what's going on where the kids are, shouldn't he?

[beees]

"It's as under control as it can be, given the circumstances." In other words, given that it's still something they're working on, and Castiel overshot giving chase by a few years.

[lotsoflaughs]

"Just try not to let the world blow up," Gabriel sighs. There are days when he thinks the three of them should be locked in an empty room to make sure they couldn't possibly break something.

[beees]

"We're not going to allow the world to blow up." Besides, if the three of them were locked in an empty room, who would be chasing after the thief?

[lotsoflaughs]

Obviously, the being put in lock-up would be when there isn't an emergency happening.

"See that you don't," Gabriel says, maybe letting just a little of their elder brothers leak through.

[beees]

"We won't." Besides, clearly they haven't broken the world yet. Even if they have come close a few times.

[lotsoflaughs]

"Good. How long are you planning to hang around? Are we going to need to stick you in our backyard?" May as well find out this information.

Sorry for late reply - my internet has been down.

[beees]

"Probably not long, to be honest, I should go find the demon I was following." You know, before it causes any more trouble.

No internet always sucks.

[lotsoflaughs]

"Probably. Whatever it wanted with the thing it stole from the bunker can't be good." Gabriel doesn't want a mess to clean up. The Winchesters are dead and they're still managing to cause aggravation. Granted, across time, but still.

Re: No internet always sucks.

[beees]

"No, I can't imagine it is." Castiel offers a bit of a smile, though, "It's good to see you doing this well for yourself."

[lotsoflaughs]

"Instead of being Kentucky Fried Chicken, extra crispy version?" he asks with a wry smirk.

[beees]

"Yes, exactly." Castiel nods.

[lotsoflaughs]

"Well, as you see, I'm fine and you have a demon to go make not fine." Best get to it, little brother before the demon manages whatever it stole the doodad for.

[beees]

"Yes, yes I do. Goodbye, Gabriel." There's the sound of wings, and Castiel is gone.

[lotsoflaughs]

That was quick. Ah well, not like Castiel really should have spent as much time there as he did. Time to go back to paying attention to the kids.