Supernatural Imagines: Book One

Counting Down The Minutes

Characters: Castiel x Reader, Sam (mentioned), Dean (mentioned)

Warnings: Injured!Reader, fluff at the end

Summary: Everyone has a timer on their wrist, telling them when they will meet their soulmate. You can't wait till your timer reaches zero but when you're in a fatal accident while hunting, you have to fight to stay alive for your soulmate.

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Being a hunter is everything you've always wanted to be. You didn't like the gore and the constant threat of death but you loved helping people. If you weren't a hunter, you would have been a doctor. You were actually in school to be a doctor when a whole wing at the hospital was murdered by a spirit. No one was there to help you but you quickly learned about the Supernatural and took care of it yourself.

After that, you realized you couldn't be a doctor and hunt at the same time so you quit despite a bunch of people telling you that you shouldn't. You didn't let them know about the supernatural even after the incident at the hospital. They just thought it was a murderer that killed those people but you knew different.

So, you left and didn't look back. You've been hunting ever since. You met hunters along the way, Sam and Dean being one of them but you didn't stay. You said that if they ever needed help, then they could call you and they said the same thing to you before you departed from them. You also met a few other hunters but Sam and Dean stuck it the most to you in your mind. No matter how gorgeous they were, you knew they weren't your soulmate.

Everyone grew up with a timer on their wrist. Sam didn't have one since he met his girlfriend, Eileen but Dean still had a few more years until he met his soulmate. That time would count down until you met the person you were supposed to be with for the rest of your life. You were getting close, only a week left. You had no idea who it could be and hoped they were a hunter so you didn't have to give it up to be with them. If your soulmate wasn't a hunter, you didn't want to bring them into this life.

There are rare times where timers jump up in time. You guess it's because of the choices someone makes but one minute their clock says fifty minutes until you meet your soulmate but because of the choices you made in this fifty minutes, it could be changed to angel hours, even a few days. It never happened to you but you only heard of it happening a couple of times.

Nonetheless, you were counting down the days you had left until you met that person. Unfortunately for you, you took a case and you couldn't focus on the people around you. You knew this case would take all week and during that week, you would be meeting the person of your dreams. It was all very exciting and it got your hopes up that you would meet a hunter.

When you got to the town the hunt was in, you immediately got to work and interviewed potential witnesses. Going from witness to witness you pinpointed the monster to either be a shapeshifter or a spirit. You got it down to those two monsters because countless people around town claimed they've seen their loved ones try and kill them. Unfortunately, some have succeeded which meant you needed to work fast.

You went to the library, the hospitals, and the police stations to figure out who could be doing this and had a lot of trouble getting the information. Just when you were going to call Sam and Dean to come over and help you, you figured it was a shapeshifter when you found shedded skin in a cave in the woods. You scooped the place out to make sure this was their home and not a pit stop and when you got what you needed you knew you had to get into action.

After a pointless shower, you got your gear and packed your car up. Driving over to the cave, you got out and armored up. You held your flashlight in one hand and your silver blade in another. You sighed and left your car, entering the cave. The deeper you got, the darker it became. You weren't afraid though.