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Lynn heard her daughter crying from down the hall…right after she heard a loud sound. “GABRIEL! SARAH!” She screamed as she ran down the hall and up the stairs to her daughter’s room.
When she got in, nothing seemed out of place, except for their golden haired daughter bawling her eyes out…and Gabriel kneeling before her trying to calm her down. “The hell happened?” Lynn shouted as she stepped forward and dropped to her knees.
Little Sarah immediately ran into her mother’s arms and sobbed into her shoulder. “Shh, it’s okay sweetie. You’re okay…”
Gabriel looked to Lynn with half worry…half terror. “I…Um…” Gabriel looked down and away as he made a funny face. Lynn knew that face. That was a guilty face. She knew her husband well enough to be able to recognize these things.
Lynn sighed as she looked down to her beautiful daughter. Damn, she looked just like Gabriel. “What did Daddy do?”
The little girl could only sniffle and pointed over to her ‘zoo’. It was an idea Lynn saw on Tumblr when she was pregnant. It was a wooden frame with elastic bands to make a little ‘cage’ to put all of her stuffed animals in. Easy to go in, easy to come out, much cleaner toddler bedroom. Watching Sam and Dean try to put it together was hilarious. Eventually, Gabriel just snapped it up.
Lynn looked over the cage and didn’t see anything wrong. She looked down to her daughter and saw tears in her beautiful honey colored eyes and she sighed. “Sweetie, what happened?”
Instead of answering, Sarah just tucked her head against her mother and stuck her thumb in her mouth. It was her way of saying ‘I’m not talking’.
Lynn rubbed her temples as she looked over to Gabriel. When she met him all those years ago, she never would have imagined that her life would be like it is now. Married, or mated as Gabriel called it, to an archangel. Having a home about two miles away from the bunker, where her ‘family’ was, and having an adorable daughter with said angel she loved so much.
Oh, yes. Lynn loved Gabriel more than she had ever thought possible, and Gabriel loved her just as much. And together, they had this beautiful daughter…but sometimes…she wanted to slap the grace right out of him...
Lynn reached over and put her hand on Gabriel’s face, pulling his chin up so he had to look at her. “Don’t make me get the holy oil…”
Gabriel gave a bitch face before he sighed. “We were playing…and I thought it would be neat if all the stuffed animals came to life…” Gabriel sighed as he looked at his daughter. “Sweetie, I didn’t mean to scare you…” Gabriel reached out for his daughter, to try to comfort her, but she just started wailing and tucking into her mother more.
Lynn could only watch as a look of pure heartache flashed across Gabriel’s face as he let out a defeated sigh. She knew Gabriel hadn’t meant to scare their daughter, he was probably just trying to make things more fun…but sometimes, and by sometimes she meant most of the time, that backfired.
“I’ll be downstairs.” Gabriel said softly as he got up and left the room.
Lynn looked back down to her daughter and sighed. “Sarah, did you get scared?”
The little girl nodded her head as she looked up to her mother. Lynn was always blown away by how much this little girl reminded her of her husband. Those whiskey colored eyes, that golden hair that was always tucked behind her ear. It seemed the only thing that Sarah got from Lynn was her attitude…which wasn’t always a good thing.
“Sweetie, you know Daddy didn’t mean to scare you, right?” She waited for the little girl to nod before going on. “Now, what scared you?”
Sarah lifted her hand and pointed over to the zoo again. “One of your toys?” She nodded as Lynn got up and took Sarah’s hand, leading her over to the toy pit. “Which one, sweetie?”
Sarah looked unsure of herself as she took a couple steps forward before digging around and then pulling out a long snake stuffed animal.
Lynn smiled as she saw her daughter drop the blue snake on the ground and then shuffle behind her legs. She remembered when they got her that toy. She and Gabriel took Sarah to the zoo. That’s where they found out that she was scared of snakes. Gabriel did such a great job of getting her a toy and showing her that she didn’t need to be afraid…he must not have thought of it when he brought he damn thing to life before his three year old daughter.
Lynn knelt down and picked the toy up, smiling. “Doesn’t seem so scary to me…” She wiggled the snakes face against her daughters so the felt tongue would run against her cheek. Sarah pushed it away at first, but when Lynn did it again, she started to giggle at the sensation. “See, not so scary anymore is it?”
The two of them spent some time playing with the stuffed animal before Sarah finally wrapped her arms around it and gave it a big hug and kiss. “You know…Daddy is really sad he made you scared. He thinks you’re upset with him…”
Sarah’s face went from a smile and fell into a frown. “I mades Daddy sad?” Her eyes looked like they may tear up again.
Lynn smiled down at Sarah before chuckling. “Why don’t you go cheer him up?”
“Otay!” She squealed…and then she was gone.
Lynn went to say something but shook her head as she heard Gabriel’s yelp of surprise from the living room. She could only chuckle and shake her head as she followed down the stairs. It was odd being the only one in the household that couldn’t fly.
“I sowwy, Daddy!” The little girl said loudly as Lynn made it down the stairs. She could only smile at the picture perfect moment before her. Gabriel had been laying on the couch, and Sarah just ‘popped’ right onto his lap and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug, the snakes head poking out between them. “Don’ be sad. I wuves you, Daddy!”
Gabriel looked up at Lynn and she gave a little wink. He could only beam at his mate before he wrapped his arms around his daughter. “Not sad anymore, sweet pea. And Daddy loves you too, Sarah-bear.”
“Good!” The little girl squealed as she sat up and looked at him. Sarah held the snake out to him and giggled. “Again!”
Lynn smiled as she saw Gabriel give her a look of uncertainty, to which she just nodded. “You sure, sweetie pie? I don’t want to scare you again.” Gabriel asked his daughter. He hated when his daughter was sad or cried or was scared…especially if he had caused it.
“Again!” Sarah said cheerfully as she bounced on Gabriel’s lap, making Gabriel huff as he shifted.
“Alright…” Gabriel snapped and the snake came alive in the little girl’s hands. It was still blue and fuzzy, just now it’s eyes blinked and it could move and flick its tongue.
Sarah squealed in delight as the snake moved up and around her shoulders, its tongue giving her a little kiss.
The smile that filled Gabriel’s face couldn’t be described. It was so full of happiness and love for his daughter. It was his mission to make this little girl smile and laugh every day, and he accomplished just that.
The two of them played in the living room for hours with their new ‘pet snake’ as Lynn made up lunch and did the dishes. It was little moments like this that Gabriel loved. Being with his family, his daughter and mate, not even doing anything special, just laughing the day away. It was perfect.
Later that night, Gabriel was laying across the couch and smiling down at his two girls. Lynn was tucked to the inside of the couch, her head laying on Gabriel’s chest and Sarah was tucked between them with her head on Gabriel’s stomach, the snake wrapped tightly in her arms. Both of them had conked out during their movie after dinner.
Gabriel smiled as he thought, ‘Heaven is nothing compared to this.’ He wrapped his arm tighter around Lynn as she shifted against him some more. Gabriel laid his head down on hers and shut his eyes, happy to rest with his family.