SPN Fic: Accountability (Gen, PG, In My Time of Dying)

[dodger_winslow]

Title: Accountability
Author: Dodger Winslow
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 5,020
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Up to In My Time of Dying
Disclaimer: I don't own the boys, I'm just stalking them for a while.

Summary: Karl Buckman had been driving a big rig since he was eighteen, and he’d never even had so much as a speeding ticket until now. For the life of him, he didn’t

Comments

[lady_octavia]

You do it every time!! I love that twist at the end and how throughout it seems as if the big reveal is Karl not knowing John is dead, when it is really Sam not knowing Karl's dead.

And the description of the boys is heart wrenching.

(and nice touch with the John's just missing a while, 'cause we totally know he's coming back... somehow... someday!)

[dodger_winslow]

Heh. When I first started writing it, the big reveal wasn't that Karl didn't know John was dead, it was that Dean would let Karl continue to think that. The ghost thing came later when I saw some unintentional foreshadowing that seemed to open a possibility that was just too much fun to pass up once I thought about it

[dodger_winslow]

Oh, and I meant to add, there is a little bit of the you and me in the idea that Karl is a ghost; but he doesn't realize John is dead, so if Karl is dead, wouldn't he KNOW something like that if John was really dead?

Hey, I think he would. I think being dead would mean Karl would have insight into the fact that John had also died. And since he didn't, I'm sticking to the idea they weren't walking the stairway to heaven together, baby. :D

[lady_octavia]

:D I was kind of wondering when in the pre/post mortem of John he spoke to Karl. I love the idea of John trying to give the boys (esp. Dean) some kind of comfort and promise esp. after dropping that bomb in his lap right before. And because he had to know they would figure it out and that it would tear Dean apart to think that John went to Hell -and with that Demon to boot- rather than let him die.

I think being dead would mean Karl would have insight into the fact that John had also died. I was wondering about that, which of course just leads to the conclusion that Johnny isn't dead and that what the boys burned wasn't their Dad... I mean remember what the reaper chick said - it's her sandbox. So John either has a plan (and he's always got a plan) to bust out of Hell (I'm not sure how he gets his body back, but certainly easily managed by John Winchester), or he isn't acutally dead, but in the process of paying off or double crossing the Demon before he comes back to his boys. (At which point they both ought to hit him really

[dodger_winslow]

Oh, I think he's absolutely dead, but I also think he absolutely has a plan that means he isn't dead-dead so much as just dead-but-not-for-long.

Kripke? Are you listening, dammit?!?