Savin' Me

Chapter 2

The excitement had more or less died down after the improtu surgery. Word of the new arrival spread like wildfire through the camp. Like teenagers with a trashy rumour it went from person to person until finally, Dean confirmed it. He and the others had indeed found a woman during their last round. Though for the rest of the camp he didn't disclose the injures; the reason why she was cooped up in a cabin and shielded from the rest of the world. The group got a fluff piece to shut them up. It would work for now, till the mystery woman was back on her feet. He didn't know when that would be but he hoped it would be soon.

Like everything else in life the removal off the bullet had played out to be one of those 'easier-said-than- done' things. The woman had woken up almost automatically. God, the scream on her almost rivalled the ones he'd heard during his time in hell. She'd tried to get off the bed, which resulted in further injury when the scalpel slid further and deeper than intended. After a whole minute they all realized that if she kept thrashing she would giver herself a heart attack or bleed out right there on the bed. They had to tranquilize her. She was back out in seconds; luckily Lisa managed to finish the job before things had a chance to get worse.

They dressed her wounds and took away her ruined top and muddy jeans. Castiel had sacrificed an old green shirt for the greater good. She wouldn't have been totally naked when she woke up, Lisa had done the undressing so the navy bra and black boy shorts stayed; till she could find something else for her to wear. Once she and the cabin were cleaned up it was business as usual. Everyone else went back to business that is. Somehow he had gotten himself the role of babysitter. Dean had said that his time as an angel qualified him for the task of looking after the unconscious girl. Castiel disagreed with this, but somehow he still ended up sitting in a chair beside the bed.

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He had been sitting in the rickety wooden chair for at least five hours straight now. Five excruciating hours. There were bits of wood and nails digging into his back, but he barely noticed. That wasn't what was getting to him. The fact that time was passing so slowly was starting to irritate him. Lisa had said that the medicine would wear off by morning. By then the woman would at the very least be awake; but no. It was almost dark out and she was still out of it. A whole day wasted. A whole day spent staring into a blank canvas.

It truly was amazing, what narcotics could do. One minute she was in a violent frenzy, then the next it looked like she was barely alive. He hated to admit but the sudden jolt of life had caught him off guard. The fear in her eyes had been seared into his mind. He'd seen many of those expressions before, but for some reason that one wasn't proving easy to cleanse. The image stayed as it was. Right now there wasn't much to combat it. He had already downed a few pills, that did nothing to help the time pass or provide a source of amusement. If anything, it made his body say that it was okay to sit there and stare at the comatose girl

Unbeknownst to Cas, Dean had warned his usual bra-wearing entourage to stay away from the cabin and that Castiel was busy with something 'extremely' important.

Around noon Chuck had brought in some food and a beer, and the mystery woman's duffel bag; muttering something about him having to check it. Chuck was the last person he'd seen. Now he could smell the faint smoke coming from the fire pit outside and the landscape was slowly getting darker. He would sneak out for fresh air later but till then – back to observations.

So far he had the obvious. The woman was pretty despite the fact that she had a split lip and an assortment of bruises along her neck and the right side of her face, around her ear and along her jaw. Those were aged though, they'd be gone in a few days. She had long brown hair that fell an inch or two past her shoulders, and from that split second earlier he had seen a pair of murky but expressive green eyes. She was attractive that was for sure. Beautiful even, prettier than a few of the women that he constantly surrounded himself with.