Title: Ari’s Choice (prequel to the Home series by @maraisabellegrey) Subject: Dean x reader (

Title: Ari’s Choice (prequel to the Home series by @maraisabellegrey) Subject: Dean x reader (Ari’s POV), Sam, Cas Words: 991 Summary: Bad happened. The Result.Angst, smidge of fluff. It had been four months ago that Enyo had been vanquished by me and the gorgeous men I lived with. One was my boyfriend, another one of the most human angels I had ever met, and my sexy bookworm of a best friend. Waking up next to Dean in the bunker was an adventure everyday. We were practically inseparable, and it just worked. Cases came and cases went and we took out wendigos, banshees, evil witches and kitsunes. Varieties of things that just scratched the surface. I was beginning to feel like I fit into the hunting life. That is, until Sam and I got injured by a demon on what was supposed to be an easy salt and burn run. My power wasn’t enough to stop the demon from slicing me from my right collarbone to my left hip and stabbing Sam millimeters from his heart. I killed it, but not before almost getting us both killed first. My healing got us home. My coven healed us completely though, much to Dean’s protest. I hadn’t called them, they just showed up on the bunker doorstep and influenced their way in. Sam was put back together, I took more time. My magic and soul were damaged. Diana, my coven leader, our high priestess decided that I would be safer and more apt to heal magically if I left to study in a small city called Olean, New York. It was 1200 miles from Lebanon, and she figured it was someplace they could bury me. I was to study and practice with another High Priestess in a place that that no demon could find me. Needless to say, the idea didn’t go over well, and well you know Dean… “Ari, you aren’t going. That’s final,” Dean said angrily and I shook my head. “It’s not that I want to leave Dean, believe me. I have to get stronger or I am a danger to you all. I am like a magnet, demons are drawn to me. Diana guaranteed I will be safe there and so will you here. Sam is still healing. Cas says he is better everyday, but I still see it. I see him get stabbed and there is nothing I can do to save him, Dean! I can’t go on being a hunter if I am not effective. This is how I get there, like it or not, honey, it’s the truth.” My arm was still in a sling to punctuate my argument and he looked like he wanted to grab me and shake me. He knew I was right, deep down, and I could tell that he absolutely hated it. He sat on the edge of the table in the den and put his face in his hands. He was my boyfriend and I loved him more than life, but he still hadn’t said it back. This was his chance. I saw a myriad of emotions cross his face, but nothing came out of his mouth except, “Where does that leave us, exactly?” He said softly and I looked at the floor, swallowing past the lump in my throat, my hope shattering. “It leaves us wherever we want to leave it. I would like to say we could be amicable about it. You would be free to date whomever you want, and so will I. Long distance really doesn’t fit into our lives, Dean, let’s be brutally honest here…” I swiped my hand through my long hair nervously it didn’t even sound right to me. It sounded hollow. I was honestly waiting for him to tell me to go to Hell as tears threatened. He surprised me by locking those gorgeous emerald eyes with mine, and saying, “When you go it will kill us all, Red. You know that, don’t you?” I nodded and biting my lip against the inevitable tears. He had said when, not if. That was as close to permission as I was going to get from him. I walked over and he hugged me, then kissed me softly and it was over just like that. He headed for the garage and I stood there alone for a moment before I went to pack. My stuff went into my grey Subaru Spec-b and I ran through a last minute checklist with Dean. He told me he had changed the oil, tuned her up, greased all of her moving parts and they all had chipped in for new tires. It was Dean’s way of saying he cared and I felt it painfully deep in my soul. Cas had blessed my car for safety and I said my goodbyes. It wasn’t until I was on the open road that I let my heart break and tears finally flow from my eyes. I would probably never see my boys again. Sam promised to call, so did Cas, but I knew how it went. In time they would all forget me, but I would never forget them…or stop loving them. Dean saw her car pull away and watched it as it drove out of sight. Sam looked at him and said “You all right bro?” Dean smiled but it didn’t reach his eyes, so Sam knew it was a lie about to tumble from his lips. “I’m fine, she’s gonna be safe, and that is all that matters,” He said softly and turned to go inside where Cas had already disappeared, with a telltale sniffle. “I think I just let my best chance at an apple pie life go, is all.” Dean said brokenly and Sam watched him go, looking at a picture of the four of them he pulled from his pocket. “Yeah, I am pretty sure you did,” He said softly and stroking his thumb over her smiling face, then went inside. -- source link

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