"fatherhood" and "submersion" - SN ficlets - PG

[tigriswolf]

Title: fatherhood

Fandom: “Supernatural”

Disclaimer: not my characters; just for fun.

Warnings: SPOILERS for 4.19; slight AU

Pairings: mentions of canon het

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 370

Point of view: third

 

 

He didn’t love them more. He didn’t even know about Adam until the kid was twelve, and Adam wasn’t Mary’s son. 

 

“Look, just come meet him,” Kate begged. “Please. You owe me that much.”

 

So he left Dean and Sam in South Dakota with Bobby and headed back to Windom. He knew it’d just fuel Sam’s fire about getting out of the life, being dropped like that, and it pissed Dean off, but (of course) Dean didn’t say anything. He never said anything in front of Sam, just stared at John with Mary’s sad eyes and did as ordered (which Mary never had. She’d have kicked John in the balls if he dared give her an order. “I’m not a soldier, Johnny,” she said. “I think for myself.”)

 

In fact, the whole reason John was in the mess with a third kid is because of how much Kate looked like Mary. Her strong, gentle hands stitching him up, like Mary did the first time they met, after that brawl got out of control. (Come to think of it, that might be why Mary’s dad never liked him. Not much of a first impression if your daughter is giving some punk first aid after a fight he started, and then the kid shows up at your house to take her on a date. Yeah. That’s probably why.)

 

He met the kid and took him to a baseball game, talked with him a bit, kissed Kate on the cheek, and drove out of town. Adam was a good boy, with a sharp mind. He’d be going places. He was normal. 

 

Adam didn’t need John Winchester hanging over him like a curse, didn’t need hunting to ruin his life like it had Dean and Sam’s. They would never be able to escape, no matter what Sammy thought, running away to college. Dean understood. He took the burden and made it his own, embraced it. 

 

He went back to those pages in his journal, that hunt in Windom. The drunken scribbles about a blonde nurse with Mary’s deft touch. He reread it and then tore it out. 

 

Adam didn’t need John Winchester, and Dean never had to know John had been unfaithful to Mary.  

Title: submersion

Fandom: “Supernatural”

Disclaimer: not my characters; just for fun.

Warnings: SPOILERS for 4.19

Pairings: none

Rating: PGish

Wordcount: 160

Point of view: third

 

 

 

He can’t get free. They slice him and the mom-sister-what-the-fuck-ever is lapping up his blood and he can’t get free.

 

He killed Alistair with no problem but two ghouls have him trapped. What the fuck?

 

“His blood tastes different,” the female says, glancing up at Not!Adam. She licks her lips, Sam’s blood dripping down her chin.

 

He’s losing blood fast, and even as he reaches for the power he can feel hovering out of reach, he knows it’s too much.  His mind is still foggy from the sucker-being-whacked-in-the-face-with-his-own-fucking-gun, and it’s been too long since Ruby juiced him. Not since the night he killed Alistair.  

 

He can feel the strength leaving him, everything getting colder and further away. Not!Adam jams his finger into Sam’s side, crooking it under his skin, digging the tip into his muscle. It hurts, but distantly. Like a mosquito. Burrowing beneath his skin, draining him dry. He’s getting tired. So tired.

 

Dean, he thinks. Dean. 

 

I’m sorry.

 

 

 

Comments

all i can say is...

[catdancerz.livejournal.com]

never turn your back on a ghoul john, you should know...

sam was so right...adam was just meat...innocent, naive lamb to the slaughter...

john did her no favors by keeping her ignorant...

Re: all i can say is...

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading.

[lynzibell.livejournal.com]

Gah!!!!! These are beautful! and so Hurty!!!!!!!!!! The last lines on both killed me!!!! Thanks so much for sharing these!!

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!

[lemanya.livejournal.com]

gsvbughukilx

♥

[tigriswolf]

... what?

Thank you for reading.

[may7fic.livejournal.com]

Truly enjoyed these both.

I may be one of the few who agrees with John keeping Adam's existence from Sam and Dean though I hate that it's another lie, another secret he kept from them.

And I loved that Smart!Capable!Dean did come to Sam's rescue! He still has his mojo, all he has to do is let his instincts guide him and he's still a superhero :).

Thank-you!

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!

[courtneyturney.livejournal.com]

I love the first part with John, and his feelings about Adam.

But i loved Sam thinking about being stuck with Ghouls even more, Dean. :]

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

Ouch! But thank you! Your John rings true, and glimpses into Sam's headspace are rare treasures this season.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so much!

[erinrua.livejournal.com]

Poetry as always, luv. Though I wonder did you overlook the time references on purpose? John didn't know about Adam until Adam was 12 years old, which if he was conceived in 1990 and born in 1991, means John met Adam @ 2003. By then, Sam was in Stanford and Dean was taking hunts alone ... Just curious. ;-)

Still, a stunning premise, and the second one just *hurts*

[tigriswolf]

Yeah. *shifty eyes* I wrote this, then checked the timeline. That's when I added Slight AU to the warnings. I could've fixed it, but that would've changed the whole thing, so... *shrugs* In my little 'verse here, John meets Adam in the spring of the year Sam headed for Stanford.

Thank you for reading!

[erinrua.livejournal.com]

LOL! Shifty eyes work for me. *G* Timelines aside, you always and ever write gorgeous, lyrical, thought-provoking stuff. *smishes amazing author person*

[tigriswolf]

*blushes* *twirls you*

[redheadforever.livejournal.com]

Lovely as ever! Your stuff is so finely crafted, such a pleasure to savor.

Yes! Dean comes to the rescue not once, but TWICE this episode. Resourceful and brave like we need to see him more.

But Sam shouldn't feel bad about getting waylaid by ghouls twice -- they came out of left field. And. the sewer...

Maybe his powers only work on hellthings, not plain old meat-and-potatoes supernatural thingies.

I've always wanted to see a writer take on the vampiric Grandma Epstein's reaction to having a cross thrust in front of her face...

But, the boys need to made damn sure what protection Sam's powers afford them before they go much farther on with him thinking he's something special to EVERYTHING not quite human.

Red

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!