SPN Fic: To Everything A Season (Pt 2/4, Gen/Het, R)
Edit: Fine, LJ won't let me post it in one chunk, so part 2 is going up in two chunks.
Okay, y'all. I may have mentioned to a few people that the end of this think kind of detonated on me during the final polish, so I've been wigging out a bit on how to end something I thought was over, and it has thrown me a wee bit behind in my original schedule.
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Wonderful story, just the story itself is adorable, and also how Dean keeps using it to deflect in that scene.
I think probably the most fun I've had with this story is in coming up with different stories from their lives for the different characters to reference in ways like this ... it's all about Dean trying not to jump immediately into a "got a problem with dad" dynamic, but the story itself has to ring true, too. That was a BLAST to do.
This kind of thing fascinates me--when a character is on a single-minded quest for so long succeeds, what can they hold onto when it's over? So I get that John would unravel.
Thinking it might go this way came in large part from some of the things John said in DMB, Salvation and DT. It seemed almost as if he was determined NOT to survive this confrontation. Which, of course, begs the questions, what if you do? And given how much of his life has been devoted to this obsessive quest, I can see him losing all meaning to his life once he no longer has it to pursue ... especially if Sam and Dean are finding lives of their own, making him feel irrelevant ... and dysfunctional for not being able to move on himself.
In large part, I based his dynamic on the "back in the world" dislocate so many Viet Nam vets experienced when they came home. Going from such an intense, combat-oriented life where every decision was life and death and friendships were SO intense back into the mundane nature of the real world where choices don't seem to have much meaning or many real ramifications, especially in conjunction with PTSD ... that was very much the kind of play I was working with on John in post-demon self destruct mode.
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