Supernatural fic: Now Ashes Rise in My Footprints
Now Ashes Rise in My Footprints (3/3)
( In the end, he leaves the children in the car while he breaks into Josiah Blake's house. )
( In the end, he leaves the children in the car while he breaks into Josiah Blake's house. )
Your John POV feels canon, he loves the boys desperately, but he just gets sucked into the hunting.
Yes. That's the view I've always had of John - he's not trying to be a jerk, he just ends up one sometimes when he's not thinking.
The first time he forgets them at the library was perfect - I felt his terror and guilt and panic. Oh John.
*grin* Thanks! As I've said to another commenter, my mom forgot me once, and my uncle forgot my cousin, so these things do happen. I wanted to write the scene in a way that didn't make it obvious that he'd forgotten them until he remembered, so we're sort of with him all the way.
Your OCs were wonderful. Melanie was, of course, my favourite, with her hints of John hero-worship, and her steadfast determination to protect her family even when no one else would support her. I loved the scene where's she's reading to Sammy and Dean. *heart cracks open*
Thanks! She was never meant to be a main character, it just sort of happened, so I'm very relieved it works. She ended up very dear to my heart.
Btw, the story she's reading from is "The Invisible Child" (and "The Secret of the Hattifatteners") from Tales from Moominvalley. Originally I'd intended Who Will Comfort Toffle, but it doesn't seem to have been translated in -84. Both stories are basically about finding your strength and courage... :-)
Your Dean broke me utterly. Quiet, but thinking, always listening. Taking in much more than John's aware of.
He was hard to write, so thank you so much! I've written quiet characters before, but never that unresponsive - but of course he does respond, I just had to figure out how.
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