Supernatural Imagines: Book One

You Came Home (AU)

Characters: Army!Dean x Reader, Sam

Warnings: some angst, major fluff at the end

Summary: The longer Dean is gone, the harder it gets. Especially around the holidays. You just want him to come home.

Author's Note: This was so much fun to write. For those of you who have family members or friends serving in the military, I thank them for their sacrifices. I know it must not be easy to have them gone for long periods of time and I hope you all appreciate this fic.

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It's been too damn long since you've seen your husband. It's been a rough 8 months without him but you always managed in the past. You always tried to keep your head high, to tell people that you were fine because you thought if you said those words enough times, you would start to believe them. But that wasn't the case at all. You knew what you were getting into, you knew what your life was going to be like but no matter how many times you tell yourself that you were going to be fine, you never were.

Dean was enlisted into the military a few years ago and you thought you could handle him being away, only seeing him through video chats once in a while, calling him when you could get the chance and writing him every single day, even if you didn't receive letters back. At first, you managed on your own, the thought of seeing him was what got you through your days.

But now, it's been getting harder and harder. Christmas was right around the corner and you missed Halloween and Thanksgiving with him. It was hard, seeing all these families together on the holidays and it hurt you that you couldn't be with your husband. Ever since he got enlisted, you probably saw him three or four months out of the twelve. Each year was the same. He would come home for a few months, which was great but then the military would need him back and those months he was gone, were the hardest on you.

It wasn't like you were struggling financially, he was doing great with the money he made. It was the loss of comfort and safety that you had when he was with you. Of course, you weren't completely alone. You had your best friend and his brother, Sam Winchester.

He was the only person who knew what was going on with Dean and knew how you felt since you weren't the only person who lost Dean. You didn't like being alone and staying alone in your house for months at a time didn't appeal to you so you asked Sam to stay with you until Dean got back. He agreed and you both lived in your house together.

Christmas was a few days away and you hoped and prayed to a God you didn't know if he was there that Dean would be home for Christmas, even if was a few days. Christmas has always been special to you growing up. You didn't care about the presents, just that fact that you could spend time with your family and just enjoy each other's company before their lives took them away from you.

The reason you weren't with your parents was that they lived in Chicago and they were having really bad snow storms there and no planes could fly in or out of the city. You were stuck at home since you didn't have any family close by. You had bought presents for Dean, hoping he would be home but it was three days to Christmas and no word from him yet.

You had tried to keep yourself busy by making cookies or other desserts, wrapping presents to get them under the tree, decorating the house even though you had already done it or just cleaning. Sam had tried to help but you didn't want him help, knowing the job would get done faster if he did.

You were in the middle of baking cookies when your phone rang. You rushed over to see Dean's name and you smiled widely, feeling your heart race in anticipation.