Not officially part of the birthday-verse.

[janissa11]

A couple of folks expressed some interest in a story wherein the birthday-verse Dean and Sam meet up again with John. There is such an animal, but I am dissatisfied with it, always have been; it doesn't match up sufficiently well with the verse canon, skewed as it admittedly is. I wrote it ages upon ages ago, but it's what stalled me; I could never

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[janissa11]

I think John's return screws everything up, yes. I mean, Dean's no longer really HIS Dean -- this version of Dean has spent nearly half his life with Sam effectively his father. Not to mention Sam's conflict, as multifaceted as that must be.

The way I see it, had John not gotten wind of hints that the YED was sniffing around Melanie, understood that this time it isn't waiting for the baby to get to six months but doing this out of sheer malevolence -- then John would potentially never have come back into his sons's lives. He keeps tabs; he knows where they are, what they're doing. That they hunt a little, but are mostly civilians. But he's John -- the only thing to truly stir him barring a deathbed decision is the hunt for the demon.

Would he want Dean back -- I mean, I believe a part of John wishes he'd taken Dean right from the start, but he always knew that couldn't be. And now, well, I think he believes that Dean is far, far better off with his brother/father surrogate than with his real dad. With Sam, John doesn't have to worry about Dean being unprotected, unprepared. It's best for all concerned.

Or at least that's how it sorta appears to me on the face of it.

Thank you for this feedback -- I truly appreciate it!

[jennierenee]

Yeah, this Dean is definitely not his Dean and it totally makes sense that he feels that Dean is in a much better place now. Because Dean really is in a better place. And he's already raised his child. So while Dean's memories of his dad are so much more recent, John's memories of Dean from birth to 7 are from such a longer time ago.

Poor Dean. *hugs him* John shows up to take out the demon, on Dean's B-day, and now he's going to leave again. And I can't imagine that a 13 year old would take that very well. Poor kid.

One reason why I adore AUs like this is because it gets me thinking of all the different things that can happen. Could you imagine if Adam exists and Dean found out that his dad was taking him to ballgames \o/?