"A Matter of Principle"

[blueiris08]

Title: A Matter of Principle
Rating: PG
Category: Gen.
Characters: Sam, Dean, Original Character, and a bit of John.
Word Count: 5300
Summary: Wherein a school administrator from days past nearly blows Sam and Dean's cover.
Author’s Notes: The setting is post-'Nightshifter/'Folsom Prison Blues.' Thanks to just_ruth   for superfast beta and the title idea.

Comments

Why Flint?

[blueiris08]

I slacked off on my feedback: sorry, and thanks for the info on the middle school/high school locations. All I could find were street addresses, and none of them seemed to be on the same streets.

Why Flint? The long answer:

I'm from the Midwest, so places like Detroit and St. Louis jump to mind when I think crime, rather than LA or DC. The show had already done St. Louis. Funnily, I did Flint over Detroit because Wikipedia showed Flint to be more racially diverse--I didn't think through how sharply segregated cities can be by neighborhood. The location had to be relatively close to hunting/recreation areas so the hunting knife would be plausible, but urban enough that Beverly's two carjackings were believable. Flint seemed to fit the bill.

I put way, way too much time into establishing background for fics. I'm not even going to say how long I spent into looking up forest biomes and transportation history for another story located near a national park.

Anyhoo, that's the Flint story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_michigan#Demographics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%2C_Michigan#Demographics

Re: Why Flint?

[coell]

Wow, thanks for such details! I was really just curious -- it's such a tiny detail in the story -- 99.5% of people probably didn't even bat an eyelash. Still I'm impressed to see you put so much thought into it. Looking forward to reading more of your work!