Tick-Tock-Tatt
By: ShyGiirl18
Summary: If you could have a timer that could count down the minutes up till that moment when you would meet you soul mate would you want one? "Sorry" the blue eyed boy murmured before running away. Dean was in so much shock that he didn't follow the boy, he didn't even know if he could follow him. Destiel and Sambriel.
A/n: The other day I was watching TiMER and started to think "What if Dean and Castiel had timers?" and so this idea plagued me until I just had to write it down. I hope you guys enjoy it. And all mistakes are mine since I don't have a beta. Anyways, enjoy and please let me know what you think about it.
Disclaimer: I don't own TiMER nor Supernatural. *Sigh* That sucks.
"Deaaaan wake up!" Sammy yelled at the top of his lungs in his brother's ear. The older brother only rolled to his side and nestled back under the blankets.
"Come on Dean we are going to be late!" Sam yelled again trying to wake up his lazy brother by jumping on the bed.
"Fine, fine I'm awake" Dean said in an exasperated tone. He stood up and rubbed his eyes with the heel of his palms in order to shake the sleepiness that he still felt away. He froze when he saw the black numbers tattooed in his left wrist. The numbers had reached zero, which meant that today was the big day. Many people looked forward to this but not him, he dreaded those zeroes that were now forever printed on his wrist.
"I don't feel good maybe I should stay home today" Dean said while trying to calm his heart. He didn't want to get a panic attack with his little brother mere inches from him. Sam turned towards his brother and gave him a sympathetic look.
"You know that it won't work hiding here forever" Sam tried to reason with his brother. There was a moment of silence and then Dean gave a small nod.
"Ok, yeah I'll just go take a shower and then we can leave to school" Dean said grabbing a set of fresh clothes from his closet and making his way to the bathroom. Sam winced when he heard his brother close the door. He turned his gaze towards his left wrist and saw the black dashes tattooed there. With a sigh he went to the kitchen to prepare a quick breakfast for him and Dean.
"Woke up late little brother?" Gabriel said in a baby voice to his brother. Castiel appeared in the dining room clothes all rumpled. He made his way to the table where his family was already seated and eating breakfast.
"My alarm didn't go off today, although I'm pretty sure that I set it up last night" Castiel said grabbing a plate and stacking it of pancakes. Gabriel tried to contain his laughter by eating a mouthful of pancakes. Anna rolled her eyes and Michael finally decided to put the newspaper that he was reading away and joined the family in eating breakfast.
"I thought I told you to wake up Castiel" Michael said to Gabriel giving him a 'for once stop being immature' look that seemed to always be present when talking to Gabe.
"I forgot?" Gabriel responded by making it more of a question than a statement, he followed this sentence with a shrug of shoulders. Castiel punched him lightly on the shoulder.
"What's that?" Michael inquired squinting at the marks inked in Castiel's left wrist. Everyone froze in their spots their eyes staring at the marks.
"Oh my…" Anna was the first to break the silence. Castiel quickly retrieved his hand and hided down the table.
"I said was that?" Michael asked again an angry look now covering his always looking passive face.
"I…umm…" Castiel kept opening and closing his mouth. He shrunk on his sit.
"I want an explanation now!" Michael yelled at his little brother.
"Gabriel and Lucifer…" Castiel started.
"Snitch" Gabriel mumbled under his breath loud enough for only Castiel to hear.
"Lucifer!" Michael yelled from his sit at the same time Gabriel had mumbled snitch.
"Lucifer!" Michael yelled once again his angry voice carrying throughout the whole house.
"What's all the ruckus about Mikey? People are trying to sleep is too early to be yelling" A very drowsy Lucifer said entering the dining room and looking at the clock that read 7:40 a.m. His gaze went from Anna looking scared, to Gabriel looking like he wished he could be anywhere but there, to Castiel who looked like a deer caught in the headlights, and finally his gaze rested on Michael who looked ready to murder someone. And judging by the way he was looking at him he guessed that his big brother wanted to kill him.
"What's the meaning of this?" Michael said standing up and strolling to Castiel who flinched when he saw him coming. Grabbing his hand Michael shoved it to Lucifer's face who now had a clear view of Castiel's left wrist.
"Well you see brother you're always going on about hanging together as a family and bonding together, that I decided to take your stupendous advice and hang out with Gabriel and Castiel here," Lucifer started to explain standing behind said boys once Michael had returned to his sit, "and we decided to participate in an epic dare war that resulted in Castiel getting a tick-tack-tatt."
"WHAT!" Michael yelled now beyond furious, Castiel could even swear that the whole house quaked. Lucifer never before seen his brother this mad decided for once to stay quiet and not instigate a fight.
"Everyone put their left wrists on the table facing up" Michael ordered, he even stood up straight to look more menacing. Everyone not wanting to get yelled at by their older brother scrambled to do as he demanded. Lucifer, Castiel, and Anna had their left wrists inked.
"Anna not you too" Michael whined as he slumped back on his chair with an air of defeat.
"What I'm a hopeless romantic" was her only reply.
"You know I'm surprised that Gabriel is the only one, apart from Michael obviously, who doesn't have one" Lucifer observed.
"Well I don't want commitment I enjoy being single, besides when girls see guys T.T.T'ed they tend to avoid you like the plague" Gabriel responded and everyone nodded agreeing with him.
Everyone was looking at each other's wrist gauging the numbers written there.
"Castiel yours have zeroed" Anna exclaimed excitedly.
"What?" Castiel replied before checking his wrist and seeing for the first time the zeroes. His eyes bulged out and it was a wonder that they hadn't popped out of their sockets.
"Oh god I don't wanna go to school, Michael please don't make me go please?" Castiel started to beg his older brother who was looking at him with a shock expression. Castiel had never intentionally miss school, even when he got sick it was a battle to get him back to bed and out of his school clothes.
"I'm sorry brother but you decided to follow this doofuses dare and so your punishment is to go to school," Michael told his poor quivering brother, "and while we are at it, Gabriel your punishment is to be at home by 9 o'clock for two weeks, Anna you won't go to the mall tomorrow with your friends, and Lucifer you are getting a job." Immediately there was uproar.
"But why does Castiel's only punishment is going to school?" Anna asked with a pout.
"The purpose of punishments is making one miserable and think about his bad decisions, and since Castiel looks terrified of the prospect of going to school it makes sense to make that his punishment," Michael explained his philosophy, "besides Castiel never gives me trouble this is his first time and I'm pretty sure it will be his last one." They all nodded at that, Castiel was their perfect little angel.
"And why am I grounded if I'm the only one that doesn't have a Tick-Tock-Tatt? Shouldn't that tell you something about me?" Gabriel whined to Michael.
"The only thing that that tells me is that you are a womanizer and that's not something to be proud of," Michael told his brother, "and the grounding is for making Castiel get that thing, you know your brother is naïve and you chose to abuse that."
"Hey I resent that!" Castiel said but everyone chose to ignore him.
"Now could someone explain to me the concept of that thing?" Michael said pointing at their tattooed wrists. Truth was he didn't know much about those marks and their concepts.
"A Tick-Tock-Tatt, or T.T.T for short, is a timer that is implanted on your wrist that counts down up to the minutes when you are to meet your soul mate. The morning when it reaches zeros means that it's the day you are bound to meet your soul mate. And when you touch that person your black zero's turn to the color white…"
"Yeah because white means perfection, purity, innocence, wholeness and completion. It represents that your soul mate completes you" Anna ever the romantic one interrupted Lucifer.
"Don't interrupt me," pouted Lucifer and then continued explaining, "Anyways you go to this place where they Tick-Tock-Tatt you. You sign some papers that say that you are an adult and if you are not 18 or older your parents or guardians have to sign the papers. They also make you sign the papers to promise to not sue the company if you are not satisfied with who your soul mate turns out to be. This thing is 99.9% right, there's no re-set, you can't go to the middle of the sea and expect to get another day, the Tick-Tock-Tatt is never wrong. Anyways, the process of actually getting a T.T.T. is quite easy they just inject you with a black substance on your left wrist. The substance contains some chemicals that are powered by your body heat and monitors the level of oxytosin, also known as the hormone of love. When you're injected with these chemicals it takes some time for it to appear in your wrist with the numbers, or lines, telling you when you are meeting your soul mate. If you get little dashes it means that your mate hasn't been T.T.T.'ed but the minute he does the numbers when the day you are going to meet him appear."
"So I gather Castiel is going to meet his girl today?" Michael asked now understanding why his little brother looked as if he was about to faint.
"Not exactly" Gabriel said. At Michael's confused face Anna continued.
"It does not have to necessary be a girl, it could also be a guy. It has happened before that a guy turns out to be the soul mate of another guy."
"That's why politicians are now alright with gays and lesbians because if they are your soul mate then how can that be wrong?" Gabe said standing up from his chair, they were late for school.
"Anyways we have to go we are going to be late and I want to find out whose Cassie's soul mate is" Gabriel said with a wicked smile.
"Text me when he finds his soul mate" Lucifer told them, Gabriel and Anna both nodded before going out.
"What am I gonna do with you guys?" Michael asked in an exasperated voice but his eyes hold mirth in them.
"Love us and feed us?" Lucifer responded batting his eyelashes. Michael punched him in the arm and gave him the newspaper so he could start looking at the jobs column.
"Dean! Come on hurry up we are late for school!" Sam ever the nerd complained.
"We are already late a few more minutes won't make a difference" he said driving slowly in the Impala, the only good thing his father had left him.
"Dean just… please hurry up" Sam said giving him his best sad puppy eyes, the ones that Dean could never say no too. So with dread he pressed the pedal down and got them to school. Dean saw an empty space next to a red mustang and hurriedly parked there. Sam almost gave himself a concussion trying to open the door as fast as he could.
"Nerd" Dean said.
"Jerk" Sam said with an easy smile and without waiting for the usual reply ran to the school.
"Bitch" Dean said to the back of his brother. He walked slowly to the front office to get a tardy slip. The only good think of being late was that no one was in the hallways. If he could only last today without touching anyone he would be ok. Even though he knew that was impossible, he was in a freaking school with thousands of kids bunched up together for crying out loud. He unconsciously scratched at the black zeros in his wrist. He was so enraptured in his thoughts that he didn't saw the kid on the floor trying to get all his papers that were thrown all over the floor together. If maybe he had noticed him then this next part would have never happen. But obviously him been Dean freaking Winchester fate was never in his side and with that thought he crashed with the boy sending all the papers that the boy had gathered scatter to the floor again.
"Ouch, watch where you're going!" A gruff voice told him, Dean quickly got up and started to help the black haired boy up.
"Well if you wouldn't have been on the floor none of this would have happened" Dean said getting all riled up.
"Oh so now it's my fault" The kid said finally facing him and Dean stopped breathing for a few minutes. The boy had the biggest and bluest eyes he had ever seen, he could easily get lost in them. He shook his head in an attempt to erase those thought, he liked girls damn it. Dean had never seen this boy before maybe he was new, but then again the boy looked nerdy so maybe that's why he hadn't seen him before. Dean was a popular guy and he couldn't be bothered with little geeks, not that he was like those douches that he called friends. How could he Dean be mean to nerdy guys when his brother was also a nerdy boy?
"Look I have to get to class so if you would be kind enough to give me my binder I would appreciate it much" The boy said stretching the words kind and appreciate, he was clearly in a bad mood.
"Sorry" Dean said now realizing that he indeed had the binder in his hands.
"Here you go" he said handing the binder, their hands touched each other as the boy grabbed his binder. There was a slight tingle where their hands had connected and then the boy gasped. Dean tore his gaze from the blue eyes and turned towards his wrist. He just stood frozen staring at the little zeros that had now turned white. This could not be happening to him, not right now, not with a guy.
"Sorry" the blue eyed boy murmured before running away. Dean was in so much shock that he didn't follow the boy, he didn't even know if he could follow him. And with a zombie state he made his way to his classroom. Thinking about the blue eyed boy that he didn't even know what his name was.
A/n: Can anyone guess why the Tick-Tock-Tatt is place on the inside of the left wrist?