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God created all angels himself. There were the four archangels. Those oldest angels were much older than the others and more powerful too. After a break, in which God and the archangel imprisoned his sister, the darkness, God crated more angels. While God was busy creating said angels the archangels were tasked with raising and train the young angels. They taught them both how to fly and how to fight, for angels were to serve God as warriors. Someday God decided that he had created enough angels and turned to other projects.
With no new angels being created, the archangels' work diminished. The two oldest started to spend their “free time” with each other, away from their younger siblings. They liked to watch Gods news creation. In doing so, the two brothers formed a very special bond that would one day bring disaster to the Earth that was just being created. But for now the bond created something different, that was special nonetheless. A part of the grace from both angels merged to form a new angel. An angel who seemed to be some kind of archangel as well, but something already set this angel apart from the other archangels and all other angels too. This peculiarity would play a decisive role in the decision about the Earth thousands of years from now.
In that moment, neither the “parents “, Michael and Lucifer, nor Gabriel, who was near by and came to investigate the agitation in his brothers’ graces, knew that. The three archangels made their way to God with the newest angel. Their father already knew what happened. He knew that this would happen someday. He didn’t know when who how’s grace would be used, but he knew that this angel had to be created. He knew about his peculiarity and its significance.
God decided that no one should know, how the new angel came into being. He locked the archangelic powers in the fledgling’s grace so that it would not have access to them until the time came. God named the fledgling Castiel. So that it would not be noticed that Castiel was not created by God, God created more angels over several days. So it was possible that the only ones who knew of Castiel's unusual story were himself, Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel and God. Time went on.
God turned back to tinkering with the Earth and its inhabitants, not yet satisfied with the status quo. The archangels made capable fighters out of the stragglers. What was out of line, however, was that Castiel was kept after the actual training from time to time, be it by Gabriel, Lucifer or Michael. Although his archangelic powers were locked within him, the elders taught him how to use them. At the same time the mark, that sealed the cage with the darkness, began to change Lucifer. The bond that Michael and Lucifer shared began to change too, a change which Castiel watched in horror. Because the two angles were his fathers, the same way God was the father of all the other angels, and at the same time it was different in a way, Castiel himself couldn’t explain.
The training of the last angels finished. The changing of the brotherly bond began to reflect in the archangels’ behaviour, they were fighting more and more to the point they were at each other’s throat constantly. Two camps formed in heaven, one siding with Michael and by extension God the others supporting Lucifer. Castiel sat between the chairs, unable to turn to one side. The only one standing beside him, was Gabriel.
Then came the day, which was to be the worst day in Castiel’s life. God presented his newest creation to the angels: humans. He asked the angels to love the humans, created after his own image, more than him. Lucifer refused, he protested, he rebelled. God saw no other way than to exile Lucifer to Hell. Michael was forced to lock his brother, the one who once meant the most to him, up in a cage and secure the lock with 600 seals. Castiel was there live for everything, and it hurt amazingly for angels having no feelings.
But in that moment that turned Castiel's world upside down, that separated his parents, in that moment Castiel decided that he was going to hate humans, at least in secreted, as he was staying in Heaven with Michael. Castiel would learn soon enough that feelings didn’t work that way. After Lucifer’s banishment followed days of angels leaving Heaven and following him down into the pit. Those turned into the princes/princesses and knights of hell, the first demons. From than on they would be terrorising the humans together with the other god made monsters for eternity.
Days turned into weeks and Michael began to distance himself from Castiel. Again, Castiel could lean on Gabriel, even though the older was shaken by the whole thing too. Weeks turned into months. Months to years and God vanished, so that Michael gained dominion over heaven. Years turned to decades. Michael cut any personal ties with Castiel and demoted him to an angel like everyone else.
Before Castiel left his father's office, he took one last look at the puny remnants of what was once the closest brotherly bond, nothing would come even close to it before Mai 1983. This time Gabriel wasn’t there because he run away. Castiel was alone. Decades turned into centuries. The angels began to forget Castiel’s special connection to Lucifer, but also his connection to Michael and Gabriel, which they never understood anyway.
Castiel became an angel, who didn’t stand out any more and more and more frequently even he forgot about the fact that there were was something special about Castiel, besides the archangel powers sleeping in him. Very seldom did Castiel forget himself, the power that slumbered inside him, that God had imprisoned there.
Centuries tuned into millennia. Castiel was one angel amongst many, nobody remembering anything special bout him, not even himself. The angels learned of god’s plan for the apocalypse. The years went by. Finally, it became 1979. On the 24th of January, something shifted in Castiel. He couldn’t place it, so he just kept following his orders. On the 2nd of May 1983, the early stage of the strongest brotherly bond to date formed. On the 2nd of November 1983, this early stage evolved into the groundwork of just this bond, which would develop over the next years to reach his full potential.
Even tough Castiel believed himself to hate humans, for what the have done to his family, even if they did it unknowingly, he felt sorry for the two small boys, who just lost their mother and were put on their path to the apocalypse. In 2008 Castiel was informed that he would be part of the unit, which was to raise Dean Winchester form perdition, to raise him from hell. What he didn’t learned was, how that would tune his live upside down…