SPN fic: Letters Home (The Echo 2/1 Remix) [PG-13] John/Mary

[keerawa]

Title: Letters Home (The Echo 2/1 Remix)
Pairing: John Winchester/Mary Campbell
Challenge: Remix Redux 2010
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Supernatural
Thanks to: My betas, omphale23 and elementalv.
Original fic: This Strange New World by littlemissmimi.
Summary: John writes home as often as he can, to let Mary know he's safe.

Comments

[tifaching]

John likes pie! And he sleeps in a circle of salt in the jungle. To keep out the snakes. And Mary sent him a special knife and John used it to kill an enemy soldier that bullets didn't slow down. And Corporal Welling was unfit for society because he slept with a knife under his pillow. Love, love, love how the letters tie into something that will impact John's future, whether he knows it now or not. I'm going to have to go read the original now!

[keerawa]

Thanks for calling out the details that worked for you. And I'm so glad that you pulled out the bit about the knife taking down that enemy soldier! Sometimes I worry that I'm being too subtle. Corporal Welling was unfit for society because he slept with a knife under his pillow. Cuz that's just dysfunctional, right?

Thanks for reading, tifaching!

[counteragent]

Wonderful! Love the hints of the supernatural.

[keerawa]

Thank you counteragent! I like this idea of the supernatural elements always being there, seen out the corner of the eye, but never quite processed by normal people.

[arliss]

I narrowly missed getting that kind of letters from H--timing was perfect and he never had to go. But friends of ours, oh yes. Those letters mean everything, even though they really say so little.

That last line is lethal.

[keerawa]

I'm a generation too young to have lived it, but I tried hard to capture that here. Thanks so much, arliss!