Years ago, Dean Winchester made a deal with Death. After the tragic deaths of his mother and father and the fatal wound that should have killed Dean, he made a pact to become a part-time reaper in order to stay alive and care for his baby brother. The rules are simple: Dean reaps the souls of the sick and injured in exchange for whatever time they’d have left barring their illness. Usually, he gets two to five years at most, as all the people he escorts through the veil are older.
Until one day he’s told to reap the soul of Castiel Novak. Cas is about as old as he is, and the time reaping his soul would grant could give Dean enough time to not only see Sam go to college, but also get married and have a life of his own. However, Cas isn’t ready to go and as Dean tries to convince him, he’s not sure he really wants to reap Cas, either. Dean is torn between extending his own life for his now adult brother and taking the life of this witty man who’s everything Dean could have wanted, if he ever allowed himself the chance for romance.