Title: Distant Father, Dead Daddy
Author: huntinghellhound
Word Count: 2126
Original Imagine/Request/Summary: I wanted to make a one shot request while i still remembered it. Could you do one where the reader is working a case with sam and dean, the dead victim is her old step-dad? (Long story short her mom and the stepdad got in a huge fight then broke up, and the mom go together with someone else but the reader still loved the other guy like a father?) so the reader runs off and dean goes after her. She explains everything and it just gets fluffy? Sorry for it being complicated ^^ - godstiels-fallen-angel
Trigger Warnings: Death, mentions of a distant father
A/N: I think I just wrote an entire episode holy shit where is my social life
Fic:
“I thought we had a deal, Sam! If you’ve got to do that, get Dean to pull over!” You scolded with disgust trailing every word on your spiteful tongue. You slouched down in the passenger seat, tugging your body into yourself as you covered your nose with your shirt. The younger brother was rested in the backseat, stifled laughter trying to break through his lips. The older hunter, Dean, was just grinning at the fiasco, keeping his line of sight entranced with the road ahead. They were both donning suits that hugged their muscular bodies in all the right places and ties that you had to adjust for them since neither of them were raised how to dress properly.
“I’m sorry! I wasn’t the one who chose to eat at that Mexican restaurant back in Irwin County. Remember?” He reminded as he pulled his upper body over the top of the leather seat and brought his lips to your ear. “That was you,” He coolly murmured, then launched himself back into his seat and strapped a seatbelt across his midsection.
“Well, I didn’t know that a few burritos would turn you into a weapon of mass destruction,” You sassed as Sam chortled out of amusement. “There’s probably a hole in the seat,” The repulsive joke slid off your tongue and into the nauseous air and caught the attention of the older brother.
“Sammy, you ruin baby, I ruin you,” He sternly said, eyeing his brother in the rearview mirror while shaking a menacing hand. You giggled at the scolding, which Dean saw and gave you a small smile. “So, what exactly are we looking for on this hunt? A witch?”
Sam shook his head in disagreement while he pulled out a few papers that he had printed off at a library on the case. He unfolded them and studied them with interest for a few moments. “No, I don’t think so. Can a witch cause an entire body’s blood to turn into bleach?” The image of some poor man dying in his home, unaware that his insides were turning into white liquid sent a pulse of disgust and motivation to find whoever, or whatever, committed the heinous act.
“Sure, one could. You remember that case back in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana where that witch was turning people’s brains into fruits?” You spoke up as you all recalled that insane case. You all never really found out why she did it, but bodies were turning up with apples, papayas, and any other fruit you could think of in their noggins. Everyone simultaneously shuddered at the memory of discovering the body with the watermelon, but continued the conversation.
“Okay, so maybe it is a witch. We’ll just look for a hex bag when we get there,” Sam tied up as he slouched back into the seat and stared out the window as you followed suit. You had six more hours until you were going to reach the scene of the crime in Kensett, Arkansas, so you thought it was best to get some sleep before you reached the murderous site. Who knew when was going to be the next time you would sleep again?
When you pulled up to the crime scene, it was the typical kind you saw on television. Nosy neighbors who claimed to be concerned stood outside of the tape that stretched around the perimeter and looked on, hoping to overhear any official business. The real police force stood with their beer bellies pooching out over their belts as they talked among each other about the wildness of the incident. While you were asleep in the car, Dean had gotten an alert from Bobby that yet another body had turned up in the same town, fresh. He wasn’t sure what the cause of death was yet, but he already had his suspicions that dark magic was at work so he didn’t hesitate let you all know. You opened the car door to the impala and strutted out, your pencil skirt hugging your body. You knew every time you had to dress up in your own personal monkey suit, Dean didn’t take his time to examine your body with his eyes, but you didn’t mind. You did the same to him whenever he was dressed up as well. Your group strode past the first line of caution tape, flashing all of your badges to the lazy cops who didn’t even investigate into why the feds were there. The house was enormous with pale green paint decorating the outside. The landscaping wasn’t too marvelous, but trees were attempting to sprout here and there. The home was easily detected as being old, being made towards the early nineteen hundreds. The smell of cleaning supplies conquered the air as your heels clicked on the ancient wood floors. You circled around the house and followed the sounds of unfamiliar voices murmuring until you located the scene that had four people surrounding the space. Dean took the lead and spoke up first to the detective that was overseeing the case. “I’m Agent Whitford,” He cleverly spoke as he pointed towards you and Sam. “This is Agent Perry and Agent Tyler,” He smiled.
The detective who was a woman of dark skin in her late forties gave your group a suspicious look, examining Dean’s badge with deep concentration. Her brown eyes scanned the flimsy piece of plastic as she handed it back to the older brother. “Nice names. You could impersonate Aerosmith,” She joked as she began to walk around the body to give all three of you room to investigate. You crouched down over the body that had a plain white sheet casing it’s deceased state. If you had a blindfold on, you would have guessed you were in a public restroom since it smelt so strongly of bleach. Sam and Dean continued standing and discussed clues that the detective’s team had picked up as you tuned the talking out and studied the body. You had an eerie feeling biting at your bones and subconscious. You slid your finger’s along to corpse’s arms, the coldness nipping chills in your spine. You fought with your body telling you to not remove the sheet, yet you did anyway. The top of a nearly bald head was shining through, then a wrinkly forehead, and finally a face that you had never expected to see again. His eyes were blue, when they were actually brown during his life, but death and bleach changed their shade. His skin was almost as white as the sheet that had concealed his vessel; he even lacked the ability to breathe like the piece of cloth. “His name is-,” The detective started.
“Jeffery Donovan,” You muttered out as you continued to hunch next to the body, fighting the urge to shake from fright and cry from a sudden loss. The detective looked at you warily, her eyes squinting in wonder. The brother’s stood next to her, mimicking her glare.
“How did you know that?” She asked, her voice waiting for an answer. You stood up, and neglected the urge to continue to stare at the man in the corner of your eyes.
“I interviewed him the other day to see if he knew anything about the first murder,” You lied. The detective shook her head in understanding, shook hands with you three, and left the room. The brother’s stared at you with an intense gaze, Dean peering around the corner to make sure the woman truly left.
“So, how do you really know him?” He asked with wonder in his voice. He crossed his arms over his chest defensively, and copied the detectives concern about the discovery. You let a stressed sigh slide from your lips as you gave the man a powerful gaze in return.
“He was my stepdad at one time,” You admitted. You turned your head down and started at the body, memories flooding back to you of your childhood. You could vividly remember Jeffery taking you to your first baseball game and buying you your first slushy even though your mom had told him not to. He was the one who had gotten you interested in knives and guns, and every killer weapon in between. Hell, he was even the one who introduced you to hunting, and that’s why your mom left him.
Your young feet creaked on the tile that covered the floor of the hallway that lead to the attic, sending your body the message to raise goose bumps from the cold surface. You knew that you weren’t supposed to wander around the second floor of the house, but curiosity had filled every cell in your body. A few days ago, you had seen your stepdad, Jeffery, lugging some sort of chest up the stairs while your mom was asleep. You were supposed to be asleep, too, of course, but you decided to sneak a few cookies before you had gone to bed. The chest was large and had ‘Don’t Touch This’ written all over it, but you decided to ignore your gut and give in to your mind.
You placed you small hand on the golden doorknob that would allow you to access the stuffy attic, and you turned it with anticipation filling your body. The door creaked open, letting a smell of dust and old paper fill your nose. You stepped into the space, eagerly searching for the chest that had piqued your interest so many days ago. You found it covered with many old blankets, and you hungrily uncovered it and studied it with your eyes. It had black outlining that made it seem like a pirate’s chest that had somehow winded up in your house. It wasn’t locked, so it easily opened to reveal many books and papers that had confusing scribbles all over them. One paper had a drawing of a large star with a circle encasing it with weird words etched on it. You threw that behind you and tore the biggest book out of the wooden chest’s grasp and studied it. The title read, ‘The Campbell Gospel’s’. You were confused then since you had no idea who the Campbell’s were, but you later found out. The author’s name was sketched on the bottom of the book in elaborate cursive: Vince Shurley. You laid the book down in front of you, and began to hungrily read the pages, beginning to end.
“I need to go outside,” You muttered as you left the room with quickness and unsteadiness about your every step. You threw the screen backdoor open and marched outside, putting your hands over your face when you reached the grass. It was an odd feeling not seeing someone who played such a big part of your life for nearly fifteen years, and finally finding him dead. It was almost like being twenty years old and running into that gold fish you had when you were eight, and finding it was dead when your parents had always told you he ran away. You sighed as another revelation hit you with the gold fish, and you felt tears begin to sting away at your eyes, but more from the death of your father figure. You didn’t even hear the sound of the door reopening as the eldest hunter stepped down onto the grass behind you and sighed.
“I know it’s hard losing someone. Hell, I’ve lost Sammy, my mom, my dad,” He rambled one. You pulled your face from your hands and turned to face the improvised therapist. “I’m guessing you two were close?”
A small, tearful smile spread on your face as you recounted some of the memories with him. “Yeah. He taught me how to shoot my first gun, how to kill a vamp, how to accessorize with a low cut top,” You kidded to lighten the mood. Dean huffed out a laugh because he knew how you were during a stressful or melancholy situation. You always tried to brighten it up, no matter the devastation. He held his arms out towards you and you obliged, letting your body give into his as you held him tight. You had already lost one man in your life, and you weren’t about to let go of this one. His grip was tight around your hips as he placed a small peck from his lips on the top of your head.
“You ready to go find the son of a bitch that did this?” He slyly asked you. You nodded your head as he let you lead back into the house with him to follow, but he wasn’t watching your body. He was watching himself, because he was starting to think he was falling in love.
(If I get a good enough response to this, I’ll write a sequel!)