SPN Fic: Shine (Crack!Fic)

[dodger_winslow]

All right. Blame my supportive f*list for encouraging me to put this to post.I have no idea where this came from, it just kinda showed up in bright pink tennis shoes and demanded to be told before it would let me get back to polishing the lynching story. So I guess I'm going to tell it.

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[bluesister]

Okay, I read the Rosetta Stone but not Decoded. Parts that jumped out at this second reading:

Somewhere along the line, she said, the hunters became the hunted. He nodded, knowing exactly what she meant, because that was pretty much the way it always played in the end.

We're used to the hunters being hunted. But his experience with "the end" has me wondering when John was turned. It sounds like it was post-Mary's death but that wouldn't explain the next quote. And I guess I have something in my head about vampires being able to recognize each other. I shouldn't assume such a thing.

That was the way it always worked, when men like him fell for women like Mary. Her humanity was their humanity; her heart was their heart. They inherited everything from her, and very little from him except his capacity for spilling blood, and perhaps his ability to see things in the dark that others didn’t know were there.

This and the bit about Mary's death giving him an excuse to pass off bloodlust for righteousness are good clues.

He had a bowie knife under one thigh when he asked her about the shine. If she’d lied to him, he would have taken her head off, even knowing what it would cost him, even knowing it was more than he could pay. He’d have gutted them both right there in the moonlight, left their corpses for the animals and been glad for the chance to do it, if what she intended for them was to be what he’d spent his life with Mary and Mary’s children hunting.

Lovely, whatever the details. The reader still sees John's isolation clearly. I'd probably need, in addition, some clue about his age, about a long life before Mary. And, like I said elsewhere, I thought we were in his head a little more. If I were fully awake, I'd say something about a 3rd person limited narrator. I think.

[dodger_winslow]

There's so much lore out there about vampires and werewolves that it is hard to separate out what we've been told by SPN and what we know by other sources, isn't it?

My take on the SPN vamps is what John said in Dead Man's Blood: Most of the vampire myth out there is crap.

Which opens up a whole bunch of opportunities, and utterly invalidates any limitations other vampires have if you don't want the SPN ones to have it. Until, of course, they clarify exactly what ISN'T crap about the SPN ones.

The reader still sees John's isolation clearly.

And really, this story is all about John's isolation, and his unwillingness to end it for fear he will suffer the same loss again if he risks being anything other than alone. I tried to hit that again and again to make it clear this was the core of the story: That John thinks being alone is the only way he can live, but in being alone, he isn't living, he's just existing.