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And May All Your Christmases Be White

Dec 11, 2011 22:35

Title: And May All Your Christmases Be White
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1500
Disclaimer: Not my boys. Kripke broke them long before I ever got to them.
Summary: The first Christmas after Sam left, both Dean and John are down with colds, but somehow it doesn't suck as much as Dean feared it would.

Fill for 'Archaic Medical Treatment' on my hc_bingo card. Four ( Read more... )

oneshot, john, dean, hurt/comfort, supernatural, hc_bingo, hurting dean is like crack to me, sort of almost fluff

Comments 30

borgmama1of5 December 12 2011, 01:54:27 UTC

Oh, your stories are like crack to me--I know they are going to be wrenching but they are so real I have to read them anyway.

purple_carpets December 12 2011, 20:17:08 UTC

Wow, thank you so much. I still have a couple of fics all lined up and ready to post before the deadline :)

somer December 12 2011, 20:13:46 UTC

Now, that's someting I call fluffy schmoop ;)

Awwwww and it's so cute. The socks and the baseball tickets Dean wanted to buy and the memories and the whiskey/tea/tylenol cure-all and John smiling and...just the two of them, somewhat content *sighs*

Perfect :)

purple_carpets December 12 2011, 20:18:48 UTC

Heh, see, I can write fluff, it's just not what most people consider fluff XD

I just finished up another christmas fic that's the exact opposite of this, so enjoy the fluff while it lasts ;)

embroiderama December 18 2011, 00:25:19 UTC

Aw, I love this!

purple_carpets December 18 2011, 09:50:46 UTC

=))

thruterryseyes December 18 2011, 01:00:11 UTC

that was sweet and sad and nice. And dammit. John was a bastard but I liked him.

purple_carpets December 18 2011, 09:51:37 UTC

Hee, I totally know what you mean. Nobody's ever going to accuse him of being father of the year, but damnit, I like him!

kinkthatwinked December 18 2011, 01:25:38 UTC

Man, I may spend my school break backtracking your fics. This was good.

First off, as sweet as John comes off at the end, you don’t forget the rep this guy usually has at parenting. The description of the drunken one-night stand “he insisted on calling Mary,” apparently right in front of his sons, was awful and perfect and sounded exactly like him.

It feels true to Sam, too: the contrast between the little kid who insisted they call all fellow hunters every holiday season and the furious college student who won’t even call his own family during Christmas Break. Good commentary on how much Sam’s changed and how much the family relationship has deteriorated.

Cute that they’re looking for a hunt that just happens to take them to California; sounds like that episode “Bugs,” where Dean said John would drive up there just to watch Sam from afar.

Again, good work.

purple_carpets December 18 2011, 09:55:53 UTC

Yay, you should totally do that!

This is probably the sweetest I've written John in ages. I like the guy, I really do and I know he loves his boys more than anything, but unfortunately that doesn't automatically make him a good parent.

And I love playing with Sam. How the sweet, caring kid from the flashbacks turned into the Sam from the pilot who wouldn't talk to his brother in four years...

Well, it's not like they can admit to driving to California just to check up on Sammy. No, no, it's because of this hunt that just happens to be there and hm, yeah, maybe they'll drop by Palo Alto if they find the time ;)