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Heart of a Hunter Act VII - Ch. 7
Heart of a Hunter Act VII - Ch. 7
Characters: Dean x doctor!Reader, Sam Winchester
This story is Act 7 of a saga.
New to the story? Get caught up on the Heart of a Hunter Saga here.
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All your favorite Winchesters are alive, in spite of the curse that nearly took them from you. After coming so close to losing the only family you have left in this world, you’re taking matters into your own hands. There’s a witch to hunt.
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Series Warnings:
Character injuries/sickness - Take note that no one is excluded from this.
Canon-typical violence and language.
Lots of whump.
Lots of caring for hurt characters.
Smut (18 Only. NSFW. You were warned.)
Angst.
Fluff.
Medical talk. Is that even a warning
Image Credit: bing image search, google image search, @thejabberwock , @gaywitchtwins  
Wordcount: 1410
Chapter  7
A nurse was walking out of the door and held it open for you as you slid inside after thanking her. You eyed your surroundings as you neared the Help Desk. The man behind the counter looked old enough to have retired a few years ago, but he gave you a warm smile as you approached. “Can I help you?”
“I’m a doctor,” you said with a smile. “I’m in the area temporarily and was hoping to talk to someone about doing some locum work while I’m here.”
“I’m afraid H.R. has already gone for the day,” he answered. “I can have someone reach out to you tomorrow.”
You pulled out your wallet and produced a card with your name and National Provider Identification number on it. “That would be great. I really appreciate it. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
“This is going to sound strange, but the two men who walked in together a moment ago - I could have sworn I recognized one of them as an old colleague. Do you know who they were?”
He added some papers to a clipboard in front of him as he answered. “I highly doubt that, honey. They’re from the parish just a few blocks away.”
“Priests?”
He nodded. “They’ve only been in town a few weeks, but they’ve made a point to visit the hospital frequently to offer spiritual guidance and support to the patients. They’ve made a big impression around here.”
“Huh….” You couldn’t begin to wrap your brain around what on earth all of that could mean in relation to the witch, but the plot had definitely thickened.
“Could you point me in the direction of the nearest restroom before I go?”
He got to his feet, pointing, “The closest one is being cleaned, but there’s another just down this hall. Hang a left about halfway down. You can’t miss it.”
You glanced at the name on his badge and said, “Thank you, James.”
He smiled again and then looked over your shoulder to greet the woman who had just walked up behind you.
You followed James’s instructions and headed down the hallway, but rather than slide into the hallway where you saw the restroom side mounted on the wall, you continued on forward. You walked confidently. It wasn’t too hard to pretend you belonged. You could snap right back into your doctor-in-a-hospital mode in an instant, and you’d learned over the years that people were less likely to question if you belonged if you acted like you owned the place.
Eyes peeled for any sign of the suspected demon-priests, you continued through the corridors. You heard several voices conversing before you turned a corner and saw the Nurse’s Station. You only just caught a glimpse of one of the demon priests going into a hospital room directly across from the Nurse’s Station.
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“Hey,” you said, putting on a smile and walking up to the desk area. “Maybe you can help me.”
A fresh-faced nurse got to her feet, eyeing you briefly. “Visiting hours are almost over, but what’s the patient’s name?”
“Oh, no,” you said as you pulled out another card from your wallet. “I’m not here to visit a patient.” You offered her the card and introduced yourself by name. “I’m just looking to do some locum work and wondered what your thoughts are about the hospital and the staff. It's no secret the nursing staff runs a hospital.”
She read the card and looked you over one more time before the middle-aged nurse next to her said, “I like her.”
You smiled at her and said. “I’ll come back tomorrow to meet with the Chief, but I was hoping you could tell me if you’re currently short staffed and in need of help.”
“We’re always shortstaffed,” the middle-aged nurse answered without looking up from her computer screen. You glanced at her badge. Her name was Kathy.
Another nurse walked by just then and interrupted to say that Mr. Johnson in Room 117 had pulled his IV out again and she was going to need back-up.
The younger nurse followed her and left, leaving you standing there with the middle-aged nurse who finished typing something on her keyboard and then looked up to you with a soft sigh. “You know how it is,” she said.
“Long shift?” you asked sympathetically.
She glanced around to make sure no one else was within earshot and then said, “You know it. But I can’t complain. Miracles happening around this place lately.”
“Miracles? How so?”
“Had one patient who was practically on his deathbed make a miraculous recovery, and another come out of a medically-induced coma on his own. Still can’t explain it. But I’m not one for questioning God’s good grace.”
You furrowed your brow as you considered her words. “The priests,” you said, thumbing toward the room where you’d seen the demon priests disappear. “They just come to visit the sick?”
She nodded. “We could use the help around here. They’ll hire you if you want the job.”
“Good to know,” you told her. “Thank you, Kathy. Hopefully I’ll be seeing you around.”
She nodded and turned her attention to the screens behind her when a patient alert sounded. You took a few steps to the side and peered into the open door where the demon-priests had gone while Kathy was distracted. You could see the two men you’d followed, standing at the bottom of a patient bed and wearing their black leather jackets, turtlenecks peeking out above the collars. They weren’t wearing crosses, but otherwise, you supposed they could probably pass as priests.
You walked away, not wanting to draw suspicion to yourself. You may very well have to sign on to do locum work to get more information in the end, so you decided to be on your way before you overstayed your welcome.
You waved at James on your way out the front doors and watched your surroundings carefully as you made your way back across the parking lot and got in your truck. You locked the doors for good measure before you pulled your phone out again and called Dean.
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“Hey,” he said.
You smiled, knowing he was trying to hide his relief at your call. “Things just got interesting,” you told him.
“How so?” he asked. “Wait, hold up. I’m going to put you on speaker for Sam…. Okay, go ahead.”
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“So I just followed two guys from the witch’s shop who I’m pretty sure are demons. They went into a hospital parked across the street. Apparently they’re passing themselves off as priests and visiting patients.”
“Okay, didn’t see that one coming,” Dean admitted. “Priests just so they can gain access to patients?”
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“That’s my best guess,” you said. “It’s working. It's charming and charitable for priests from the nearby parish to have taken such an interest in visiting the sick. And it gets better, patients are making miraculous recoveries.”
“Demons are hopping into sick people for meat suits?” Dean puzzled out.
“Seems that way.”
“That’s a whole new level of twisted,” Sam said. “And it’s absolutely nothing like the witch’s M.O. the last time she was working with demons.”
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“I have no idea who the patients are or if they’re connected in any other way,” you said. “I’m pretty sure I can get on with the hospital to do some locum work if I need,” you told them. “But doing that would put me across the street in the hospital which will make it just that much harder to keep an eye on the shop.”
“It’s not ideal,” Dean agreed. “Don’t sign on for that yet. Let’s see what we can find out first. These patients may not even be connected aside from being convenient meat suits.”
“Okay. I’m going to watch for them to come back out and keep an eye on the shop. It would be great if I could catch a glimpse of this witch and get any semblance of her routine.”
“Be safe, sweetheart,” Dean added.
“I will. Love you guys. Give Jonah a kiss for me.”
You hung up the phone and started up your truck, moving to the far edge of the parking lot where you had a clear view of the hospital and the shop across the street. You opened a package of jerky and an energy drink Sam and Addie had stashed in the green cooler for you and settled in for a long night stake-out.
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deanstudies101 · 26 days
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2x11, Plathings
Critical theory: Incompatibility of constructed masculinity and the parent role (motherhood). 
Discussion question(s): Once again, who is more like John?
Sam tells Dean to kill him if he turns evil, just like John did.
Key quotes: Dean, “Yeah, well, Dad’s an ass! I mean, you don’t do that, you don't lay that kinda crap on your kids.” 
Further reading: (not hugely episode specific, but we read it today and the themes are relevant) Dean getting flustered around women / performative masculinity. (@thejabberwock-blog1 @castiel)
Discussion: 1) they always salt the bones to make sure, so why didn’t they? 2) cringe to grow up in a house with a swimming pool and not know how to swim. 3) how the fuck do neither Sam or Dean know CPR? Or do fucking anything to try and revive Tyler? Weird. 
This episode feels different. Writer seems to have only done No Exit aside from this—an episode in which they also don’t salt + burn, they do a cement burial. Weird. Writer Matt Witten did these two in season 2, but no more. I loved the cameral work and the director, Charles Beeson, also directed The Rapture, Changing Channels. and the French Mistake. King. 
Sam insisted on taking the job, pushed Dean into it and then… gets drunk and leaves the work to Dean? Pushes Dean into promising to kill him, which like… Isn’t gonna work? If Dean doesn’t want to kill Sam, then he’s not gonna do it. It’s giving The Good Place—saving people to prove that you’re a good person isn’t gonna work, Sammy. 
Dean is overtly fucking suicidal and ready to die, is desperate for a break, and he is just ignored and forced back on the job over and over again. 
The expression that Dean makes after “overcompensating”. How exactly were we supposed to read that? What is that supposed to mean if not “Dean is closeted”. It’s fear. Sam doesn’t give a shit that people think they’re gay—Dean is sacred. 
Re: further reading. Dean’s mask of masculinity is well constructed, and the fact that someone might be able to see past it is terrifying. 
Notes: Kai, “Dean has never experienced a life that isn’t this.” (revisit at 2x20) 
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