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tigriswolfTitle: Pandora’s Gift
Fandom: “Supernatural”/Greek mythology crossover
Disclaimer: not my characters; just for fun.
Warnings: spoilers for everything
Pairings: John/Mary
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 590
Point of view: third
Notes: While watching part two of the finale, I kept calling the hellgate “Pandora’s Crypt.” Hence this.
More notes: I'm posting this two days ahead of schedule to celebrate my B in Macroeconomics.
She once had an itty jar, a gift from her father the King. It was beautiful, pale marble, and stoppered with ivory.
She, in her curiosity, opened the jar and cursed the world.
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As a Daughter of the King, she is immortal. Her body dies on a pyre of power, like the Phoenix of old, but she awakens in a new one. She's worn every race and both genders, generation after generation, always remembering her first life on the thirtieth anniversary of her birth.
And then something goes wrong.
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This life, her name is Mary. She wed a kind man called Winchester, bore him two beautiful sons. And the night her second is six months old, she rushes into his nursery and recognizes her brother, though she has not seen him in near-on six thousand years.
She is not yet thirty, this life, merely a month away, but it all comes back to her as he kills her, and parts of her soul stream from the confines of her flesh, seeking purchase.
And as she dies, bits of Pandora’s spirit find sanctuary in the blood of her firstborn.
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She has a new body, of course, but that form dies at age twenty-one and she recognizes her killer: again, her brother.
She does not know the design, why he wants her son. Nor does she care.
She sees her children at the house, saves them. Feels parts of her in Dean, a protection he sorely needs with War doggedly pursuing him.
She is spread far too thin—bits in Dean, bits at her house(until the boys arrive), and most of her named Rosie.
As Rosie, she is carried out of a fire by her firstborn, nearly killed by her brother for the third time.
Now, he’s just pissing her off.
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In that cabin, her brother’s golden eyes stare at her soul and his malice seeps into her son’s flesh.
I see you, Sister, he croons.
Why? she asks, shielding Dean as best she can.
You opened the door once, my dear, he tells her, tearing into Dean. I think the world’s long overdue for it to open again.
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She sleeps in her boy for a long time, worn out from keeping him alive.
When she wakes, Rosie is nearly two years old and John is dead. Dean is ripping himself apart with guilt and Sam doesn’t know what to do.
John thought he knew something, but he got it completely wrong. Pandora’s children and Pandora’s bodies are always more.
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When she was Samuel Colt, she sealed the door. She believed that she alone knew how to open it again.
But, apparently, her brother knew, too. And he’s been biding his time.
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In her first life, she unstoppered a jar and cursed the world.
In every life since, she’s tried to make up for that.
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Demons know. They’re not quite sure what Dean is, but they sense he’s more than human. Pandora has molded herself to his every fiber and won’t be undone until he dies.
That crossroad’s bitch will get them both when she comes for Dean’s soul. And Pandora will erase her from existence.
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Dean holds the Colt on War and pulls the trigger.
Pandora keeps her brother from moving as the bullet speeds for him.
Samuel Colt knew what he was doing.
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Later, as Sam sleeps, Dean sits awake, watching. He counts Sam’s breaths.
Pandora wonders at her sons' strength.
He traces the contours of Colt’s demon-killer and calls the hellgate Pandora’s Crypt.
In the inner reaches of his soul, Pandora laughs.
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Date: 2007-05-22 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-22 06:41 pm (UTC)Also, still adoring like whoa your crossover/AU(?)-versions of the characters. But yeah, I can easily see how the Gate could be called Pandora's Crypt.
*happy*
And the fact that you had as her brother 'War'?
*glee*
Puts a whole different meaning to that whole idea of 'War' that seems to be on in Season Three, doesn't it...? ;)
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Date: 2007-05-22 07:21 pm (UTC)I had a test the day after part 2 of the finale. So, what'd I do? I wrote this instead of sleeping.
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Date: 2007-05-22 07:40 pm (UTC)*saves to rec. yep.*
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Date: 2007-05-22 07:48 pm (UTC)Nice icon.
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Date: 2007-05-22 07:54 pm (UTC)and thanks ;D
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Date: 2007-05-23 01:52 am (UTC)i did notice your "vampire dean" and "vampire sam" tags... hee! i'm going to take look at the gen fic, though. i'm a sucker for vamps. and i did the vamp AU, too. i'm still writing it too. :D
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Date: 2007-05-22 08:10 pm (UTC)Tracy
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Date: 2007-05-22 08:31 pm (UTC)You caught that, did you? *snickers*
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