Category: Gen (pre-series)
Characters/Pairings: John Winchester
Rating/Warnings: K+
Word Count: 221
Author's Note: This is the first Supernatural thing I have ever written so I hope you enjoy. :) This might later turn into a drabble collection, but for now it's just a short little one-shot drabble. :)
Disclaimer: I in no way own Supernatural...no matter how much I wish I did.
And So He Hunted
He could see the path he was on and he knew it wouldn't lead anywhere good. He watched as his oldest grew up faster than any boy ever should have to. He saw his youngest pull farther and farther away. He watched from a distance as his boys raised themselves and all he did was drag them from place to place, from hunt to hunt.
And he hated himself for it.
He hated how he had grown distant from his sons. He hated how he had become gruff and cold, always criticizing, never praising. He hated hoe Dean had to take on the roles of father, mother, and brother. He hated how Sam resented him more with each passing day. He hated everything about the life he had chosen.
But he couldn't change.
He had tried to, he had. For his boys he had tried, but the pull of the hunt called to him. And he answered every single time. He would look his sons in the eyes and say this was it, one more hunt and he would stop. He lied to them each and every time. He tried to stop, he really did, but with each night that passed, memories of his Mary haunted him, calling him to hunt down the thing that killed her.
And so he hunted.