Written for @rosemoonweaver Fic-o-Ween Writing Prompt Challenge (where i signed up through my main blog @dragonpressgraphics )
Prompt #5 : All their life Character A hoped for a someone to take them away from their crappy life. They always hoped for a hero or maybe even a fairy godmother. Yeah! A fairy godmother would be great! That was until they actually got one…
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Supernatural, Denny (Dean Winchester/Benny Lafitte) pre relationship
TAGS: Fairy Godmothers, John Winchester’s A+ Parenting, Dean and Sam have a craptastic life, Angst, Happy Ending, john hits dean
Word Count 2989
Summary Dean’s mom always told him that Angels were watching over him. The way his life’s been going, he’s stopped believing that a looooong time ago. But it doesn’t stop him from wishing that Angels or Fairy Godmothers or something similar really existed and could solve his problems with the swish of a magic wand or the snap of their fingers.But wishing doesn’t make it true.
So why is there a Fairy Godmother standing in front of him?
Excerpt:
Dean hated living at home.
They never had enough money for things they wanted to do,
much less food. The house was falling apart (Dad had never had much motivation
for anything after Mom had died. At least, not for anything worthwhile, like
being a Dad or even a responsible adult), and Dean wasn’t even allowed to have
friends over because while Dad couldn’t be bothered enough to keep the place –
well, if not in better repair, at least tidy
– he was too ashamed to let anyone see how far they’d fallen.Neither Sam nor he ever knew if they’d have electricity or
heat and oh, that’s right, Dad drank.Dean supposed it could be much, much worse.
That was cold comfort when he was sporting another bruise on
his cheek because of Dad. To get things straight, Sam and Dean’s father didn’t abuse them. No! He didn’t go out of his
way to hit his sons, or do real damage to them. He never even laid a hand on
Sam at all. Dean just…hadn’t…gotten out of the way fast enough when they’d been
arguing. That was it. No big deal. Dean could take it.And if Dean fervently wished that angels or fairy godmothers
or just something were real so they
could magically make this shit life of his better, nobody had to know.“Boy, what is that purple thing on your face?” Bobby nearly
growled at Dean when Dean showed up at the shop that day. He worked three jobs
with the hope that he could make enough money to move him and Sam outta their
house and away from Dad.“Nothin’, Bobby. Just tripped, is all,” Dean countered.
“Whattya got for me today?”“Continental, bay 2,” Bobby grunted, staring at Dean
suspiciously. Dean just gave him a wide old grin and got to work. And when, 5
hours later – because Bobby didn’t have enough work to keep him on the schedule
full time (gotta love big chain shops, squeezin’ out the little people) – Dean
clocked out, it was time to head out to Benny’s Gumbo Shack where he got a
similar reception.“Cher, why is it every time I see you, your sporting another
shiner?” Benny leaned over the counter, the dull grey dishrag paused on the old
wood countertop.“Just clumsy, I guess,” Dean muttered, ducking around the
counter and into the back, shucking off his thin jacket – inadequate against
the autumn cold – and hanging it up, snagging his apron.Dean didn’t think Benny bought it, if that squinty eyed,
thoughtful look was any indication. But if Benny didn’t bring it up, Dean was
gonna operate as if he had. And if Dean daydreamed about big burly men with close-cropped
beards and light blue eyes while he worked – well, who could blame him with
that fine, distracting man that he liked to call a friend so often in his view?Tagging:
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Tag: john winchester negative
@trisscar368
Imo, Bad Boys could be debatable but given that 1) we know Dean lies and 2) the whole episode is about how shitty John was and how happier Dean is without him, I don’t think we’re supposed to believe a werewolf did it.
Dark Side of the Moon, though, yeah. I’m of the opinion that whatever happened was deeply traumatizing but I don’t think it has to be physical. Mental abuse can do the same thing. But I don’t discount it. Maybe it was both. But yeah. That look. *shudders* A+ acting though.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post
I can see him being rough with them – after all, he’s rough with them when he shows up in S1…
Yup!
Like, what blows me away is when I see things like “if you think John was a bad dad you probably didn’t watch the first two seasons” and I’m like…. no I watched the first two seasons. I watched John use one of his sons as bait, blame his other son for not killing the monster, almost get in a fist fight with one of his sons, be rough with both of them, ignore Dean’s tearful and worried phone calls, ignore the fact that one of his sons ALMOST FUCKING DIED, and yelled at one of his kids for not killing him.
A+. Dad of the year material, right there.
@trisscar368 replied to your post
… yep you’re going to fit in in meta club just fine. The room was named “the John Winchester Hate Club” for like… two months straight >.> complete with a glorious “fuck john winchester” picture
lol. Yeah, I’m gonna fit right in.
I’ve always said I have sympathy for John Winchester the man but not John Winchester the father, and I stand by that. He was in a shit situation, but I think he was a crap dad.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post
For drug use I think it depends what we’re defining as drugs. I tend not to think of pot as a drug, at least not in the dangerous way. It’s basically canon that Dean at least has smoked weed. Emotional abuse and manipulation for both Dean and Sam is also canon. For harder drugs, I’m not so sure (cocaine, heroine, etc) but I lean toward no – maybe psychotropics, that seems a little more in character – and I’m on the fence about physical abuse.
(pre-series mental illness is imo as much as a given as during-season mental illness)
The thing for physical abuse is…my inclination is that John didn’t hit them, didn’t beat them in the traditional sense. But I do think his neglect shaded into what would probably legally constitute physical abuse – both in terms of food deprivation, etc., but also in the “it’s just a little scratch quit being such a baby, be a man” kind of way – leaving them to suffer through injuries that COULD have been succored if John wasn’t so fixated on “toughening them up.”
And yeah, I agree that’s both Dean and Sam. I do NOT think in canon that John did any form of sexual abuse against the boys, nor do I think it very likely that Sam had to turn to prostitution – Dean would never have let that happen.
I can see psychotropics. I wouldn’t put it past Dean to at least try things here and there but I’m not sure if it would pass experimentation.
It’s funny to me because I posted a thing about Dean having anxiety a while back and the response was basically “yeah, totally”. I thought I was going to have to explain that one, but it seems like everyone I talk to is just like “yup, mental illness is a given”. Which is fine.
I can definitely see John letting them suffer through injuries he doesn’t deem “serious” enough. I don’t think they were ever hit or sexually abused, but I do think they could have been grabbed or smacked or shoved in ways that might’ve left bruises, even if they were unintentional. I seem to be the outlier in that respect, but I feel like it could have happened a few times. I don’t think John would have intentionally hit his kids, but I think he might have been rough with them.
And yeah, there is no way Sam would have had to turn to prostitution. Unless he was alone at the time, Dean wouldn’t allow it.
@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post
I even kinda hate it – I hate that John W being a douche bag put Dean in the position of being young and desperately needing money. He had to be an adult so early. Even if he didn’t have to turn to prostitution we know he turned to theft and other crime. He had so few choices and was so determined to support Sam as John was unwilling to do. Poor Dean.
Like I don’t find in sexy (no offense to those who do) I find it fucking tragic.
Incoming John Winchester rant.
I hate him. Like, I don’t like to use that word a lot and especially not for fictional characters, but I really do hate him. I hate that he put a child in the situations that required that child to be the full-time caregiver of another child. I hate that he put Dean in the position to learn to fight and kill and understand that there were things out in the dark that wanted to kill him at a young age. I hate that Dean was desperate enough he stole to feed Sam. I hate that he was neglectful. I hate that he was emotionally abusive. I hate that the last thing he said to Dean was “Sorry for sucking. BTW you mihgt have to kill Sam. Okay, bye!” I hate John Winchester. And I hate that sometimes his actions are supposed to be “justified”. Like, maybe it’s me as a child of an abusive alcoholic but I hate that he gets defended. I don’t believe he was doing his best. He may have loved his kids, but he wasn’t doing what was right by them. And I hate the justification is usually “but the apocalypse!”. Fuck the apocalypse, he could have done better! He didn’t have to be neglectful and abusive in order to keep his kids safe. He didn’t have to put Dean in a position where he was that desperate to steal, let alone whatever else he might have done.
Okay, end rant.
But yeah. I agree that it’s a tragedy. A Pretty Woman type AU is a lot difffernt from canon verse, imo, so I am a bit torn on reading about it. I don’t find it all that appealing in canon verse, but to each their own.
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