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Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: John Winchester x Mary Winchester
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG
Notes: For 1sentence.
01: Motion - Mary wrinkles her nose when she laughs, and with that small motion, John falls in love.
02: Cool - He walks her to the door after their first date and leans against the cool brick wall of her parents’ house once she’s inside, trying to catch his breath and failing.
03: Young - He’ll always hear her voice screaming, impossibly small hands curled into angry fists and beating helplessly against his chest as she chokes out the words - “eighteen is too young to go off to war, John!”
04: Last - She meets him the morning of departure with a paper bag in her hand, just something for the long flight - he eats everything but the last Hershey’s kiss, a token he keeps to remind him what he’s fighting for.
05: Wrong - The ground explodes like Fourth of July fireworks right in front of him, and all he can hear is the sound of her summer skirts rustling; maybe he was wrong, after all.
06: Gentle - He is gentle and precise as he takes off the soldier’s dog tags and places the cool metal in the comrade’s still-warm mouth, but he nearly drops it down his throat when he realizes that his lips are almost the same colour as Mary’s are.
07: One - He keeps a picture of her in his breast pocket, laughing as she pouts her lips in mock seduction, with one wild rose tucked into her coiled hair.
08: Thousand - Mary writes a thousand letters each day, snippets that are thought out and then stored on mental post it notes; when she finally sends one to John, all it says is I still love you in her tight cursive.
09: King - She watches as Martin Luther King speaks on their TV about the war, and when he says that the war effort is about shipping African American men off to Vietnam, a part of her almost wishes that it were true.
10: Learn - She learns not to count the days, the hours and the minutes; he learns to never take off his watch, because counting is the only thing he has out here.
11: Blur - The first four months of 1975 are a blur for him, but ultimately the whirlwind he’s caught in lands him on American soil once more.
12: Wait - Eventually the wait is over and John is at her doorstep again, tangible and corporeal again instead of messy scrawl on military-issue stationary.
13: Change - The only change that John sees is in Mary’s hair, flaxen blonde cut to the shoulder instead of the waist now.
14: Command - It’s only when he commands her to take off her dress that he understands how deeply rooted the military is within him.
15: Hold - He holds her afterwards, and makes her promise that the tears dancing down her cheeks are happy ones.
16: Need - John tells Mary that he needs her, both because he needs something to stop the sound of gunfire and the combat dreams, and because he does.
17: Vision - He wakes up in the middle of the night in his bedroom, and for a moment he sees a vision of Mary projected onto his ceiling, blotting out his nightmares with confusion.
18: Attention - Mary has trouble paying attention in her women’s studies classes, and her notebook has the doodled hearts and familiar fourteen letters to prove it.
19: Soul - Mary prays for John’s soul when he confesses that he killed a man in ‘Nam; she doesn’t tell him that it makes her a little afraid, too.
20: Picture - The Polaroid picture never develops properly and Mary is out of focus while John is jarringly sharp, but he keeps it in his wallet anyhow.
21: Fool - She laughs like a fool as she runs down the moonlit beach, John close in pursuit and threatening to put sand in her underwear as soon as he catches up.
22: Mad - Susie, her best friend, thinks that Mary is mad to love John Winchester as much as she does, but secretly Mary thinks that Susie is just jealous.
23: Child - She watches the child play in the park outside her apartment, and picks out the names for her own future as she does so.
24: Now - John tries to live in the now as much as possible, focusing on Mary’s heat under his palm and the grease under his fingernails, trying not to remember the past or guess the future.
25: Shadow - A shadow clouds his features as he reads the letter, a Dear John with all of the irony that he can handle at the moment.
26: Goodbye - Her mother makes her write it, saying that he’s no good for her; it’s a goodbye that Mary knows she’ll never choose to make on her own.
27: Hide - She decides to hide the letter in her backpack, not knowing that John will need a sheet of paper when she accidentally leaves it in his irreparable Impala.
28: Fortune - It’s good fortune that she finds out that same day, bringing his lunch to the shop; it’s even greater fortune that he believes her when she swears that she still loves him.
29: Safe - Mary decides that she feels safe in John’s arms, and John decides that he feels safe in Mary’s heart.
30: Ghost - John shivers and Mary asks if someone is stepping on his grave; he shakes his head and refrains from telling her that ever since Halloween, he’s been seeing her as a ghost with far too much ease.
31: Book - Her beloved book of gospel says that love should be confirmed by marriage, and for once, John agrees with it.
32: Eye - He looks her in the eye as he drops down to one knee - the one that still aches when it’s damp out - and pulls the ring box from his pocket.
33: Never - They write their own vows, and John vows to never make Mary cry, but he says it with a smile because everything makes Mary cry and the congregation knows it.
34: Sing - Living with Mary is fresh and exciting - John is drawn to the way that she dances while she cooks dinner and sings quietly while they wash dishes together, things that he’d never known before.
35: Sudden - The pregnancy is sudden, but Mary is so happy that John can’t be anything but.
36: Stop - The world stops when Mary discovers the spot of blood on her underwear; John holds her as she cries and whispers that it just wasn’t meant to be, but that they’ll try again.
37: Time - The second time is the charm and they have no need to wait for a third; Mary grows large as the months pass and she glows like an earthbound angel.
38: Wash - Beyond comprehension, John becomes obsessed with the cleanliness of their little house and washes every surface that he can get his hands on - his baby may be coming into a dirty world, but they won’t be living in a dirty house if he can help it.
39: Torn - John is torn between wanting a little girl and wanting a little boy; Mary calls the bump in her stomach ‘Dean’ - after a character in her favourite book - when John is out of earshot.
40: History - John reads out loud from Mary’s history books directly to her tummy, because she’s determined to have one of those genius babies that they’re always talking about nowadays.
41: Power - The power goes out with the first storm of the season the night that Mary goes into labor, and John wonders if this isn’t another one of god’s little jokes.
42: Bother - He goes to carry Mary to the car and she laughs her warm laugh, telling him not to bother and waltzing past him in between contractions.
43: God - John does not find God in the booming silence of a church congregation or in a hospital corridor, but rather in the freckles that dust over Mary’s skin and stand out when she screams to high hell.
44: Wall - He writes it on the wall of the nursery closet the day they get home - JW + MW FOREVER AND ALWAYS, in messy, scrawled letters.
45: Naked - He thinks that next to Mary, this naked, writhing baby is the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen; four years later, he’ll swear the same thing all over again as his second son murmurs in his arms.
46: Drive - Mary says that the Impala is too dangerous for her babies, but John can’t see himself driving anything else and so Mary clips ads for practical vehicles that she’ll never get the chance to drive.
47: Harm - He vows to himself that nothing will ever harm his family; failure strikes him as he looks up and the ceiling ignites.
48: Precious - As the fire smolders, Sam’s crying stops and their precious baby begins to coo in his arms, cheeks smeared with ash and the track of tears.
49: Hunger - John no longer hungers for food - he only craves Mary’s kiss, her hands, the numbing of pain and the repression of memory that he promises himself is coming.
50: Believe - Dean smiles, one of his front teeth missing, and asks when mama’s coming home; John doesn’t believe in god, but he believes in Mary’s freckles across Dean’s cheeks and nose.
Pairing: John Winchester x Mary Winchester
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG
Notes: For 1sentence.
01: Motion - Mary wrinkles her nose when she laughs, and with that small motion, John falls in love.
02: Cool - He walks her to the door after their first date and leans against the cool brick wall of her parents’ house once she’s inside, trying to catch his breath and failing.
03: Young - He’ll always hear her voice screaming, impossibly small hands curled into angry fists and beating helplessly against his chest as she chokes out the words - “eighteen is too young to go off to war, John!”
04: Last - She meets him the morning of departure with a paper bag in her hand, just something for the long flight - he eats everything but the last Hershey’s kiss, a token he keeps to remind him what he’s fighting for.
05: Wrong - The ground explodes like Fourth of July fireworks right in front of him, and all he can hear is the sound of her summer skirts rustling; maybe he was wrong, after all.
06: Gentle - He is gentle and precise as he takes off the soldier’s dog tags and places the cool metal in the comrade’s still-warm mouth, but he nearly drops it down his throat when he realizes that his lips are almost the same colour as Mary’s are.
07: One - He keeps a picture of her in his breast pocket, laughing as she pouts her lips in mock seduction, with one wild rose tucked into her coiled hair.
08: Thousand - Mary writes a thousand letters each day, snippets that are thought out and then stored on mental post it notes; when she finally sends one to John, all it says is I still love you in her tight cursive.
09: King - She watches as Martin Luther King speaks on their TV about the war, and when he says that the war effort is about shipping African American men off to Vietnam, a part of her almost wishes that it were true.
10: Learn - She learns not to count the days, the hours and the minutes; he learns to never take off his watch, because counting is the only thing he has out here.
11: Blur - The first four months of 1975 are a blur for him, but ultimately the whirlwind he’s caught in lands him on American soil once more.
12: Wait - Eventually the wait is over and John is at her doorstep again, tangible and corporeal again instead of messy scrawl on military-issue stationary.
13: Change - The only change that John sees is in Mary’s hair, flaxen blonde cut to the shoulder instead of the waist now.
14: Command - It’s only when he commands her to take off her dress that he understands how deeply rooted the military is within him.
15: Hold - He holds her afterwards, and makes her promise that the tears dancing down her cheeks are happy ones.
16: Need - John tells Mary that he needs her, both because he needs something to stop the sound of gunfire and the combat dreams, and because he does.
17: Vision - He wakes up in the middle of the night in his bedroom, and for a moment he sees a vision of Mary projected onto his ceiling, blotting out his nightmares with confusion.
18: Attention - Mary has trouble paying attention in her women’s studies classes, and her notebook has the doodled hearts and familiar fourteen letters to prove it.
19: Soul - Mary prays for John’s soul when he confesses that he killed a man in ‘Nam; she doesn’t tell him that it makes her a little afraid, too.
20: Picture - The Polaroid picture never develops properly and Mary is out of focus while John is jarringly sharp, but he keeps it in his wallet anyhow.
21: Fool - She laughs like a fool as she runs down the moonlit beach, John close in pursuit and threatening to put sand in her underwear as soon as he catches up.
22: Mad - Susie, her best friend, thinks that Mary is mad to love John Winchester as much as she does, but secretly Mary thinks that Susie is just jealous.
23: Child - She watches the child play in the park outside her apartment, and picks out the names for her own future as she does so.
24: Now - John tries to live in the now as much as possible, focusing on Mary’s heat under his palm and the grease under his fingernails, trying not to remember the past or guess the future.
25: Shadow - A shadow clouds his features as he reads the letter, a Dear John with all of the irony that he can handle at the moment.
26: Goodbye - Her mother makes her write it, saying that he’s no good for her; it’s a goodbye that Mary knows she’ll never choose to make on her own.
27: Hide - She decides to hide the letter in her backpack, not knowing that John will need a sheet of paper when she accidentally leaves it in his irreparable Impala.
28: Fortune - It’s good fortune that she finds out that same day, bringing his lunch to the shop; it’s even greater fortune that he believes her when she swears that she still loves him.
29: Safe - Mary decides that she feels safe in John’s arms, and John decides that he feels safe in Mary’s heart.
30: Ghost - John shivers and Mary asks if someone is stepping on his grave; he shakes his head and refrains from telling her that ever since Halloween, he’s been seeing her as a ghost with far too much ease.
31: Book - Her beloved book of gospel says that love should be confirmed by marriage, and for once, John agrees with it.
32: Eye - He looks her in the eye as he drops down to one knee - the one that still aches when it’s damp out - and pulls the ring box from his pocket.
33: Never - They write their own vows, and John vows to never make Mary cry, but he says it with a smile because everything makes Mary cry and the congregation knows it.
34: Sing - Living with Mary is fresh and exciting - John is drawn to the way that she dances while she cooks dinner and sings quietly while they wash dishes together, things that he’d never known before.
35: Sudden - The pregnancy is sudden, but Mary is so happy that John can’t be anything but.
36: Stop - The world stops when Mary discovers the spot of blood on her underwear; John holds her as she cries and whispers that it just wasn’t meant to be, but that they’ll try again.
37: Time - The second time is the charm and they have no need to wait for a third; Mary grows large as the months pass and she glows like an earthbound angel.
38: Wash - Beyond comprehension, John becomes obsessed with the cleanliness of their little house and washes every surface that he can get his hands on - his baby may be coming into a dirty world, but they won’t be living in a dirty house if he can help it.
39: Torn - John is torn between wanting a little girl and wanting a little boy; Mary calls the bump in her stomach ‘Dean’ - after a character in her favourite book - when John is out of earshot.
40: History - John reads out loud from Mary’s history books directly to her tummy, because she’s determined to have one of those genius babies that they’re always talking about nowadays.
41: Power - The power goes out with the first storm of the season the night that Mary goes into labor, and John wonders if this isn’t another one of god’s little jokes.
42: Bother - He goes to carry Mary to the car and she laughs her warm laugh, telling him not to bother and waltzing past him in between contractions.
43: God - John does not find God in the booming silence of a church congregation or in a hospital corridor, but rather in the freckles that dust over Mary’s skin and stand out when she screams to high hell.
44: Wall - He writes it on the wall of the nursery closet the day they get home - JW + MW FOREVER AND ALWAYS, in messy, scrawled letters.
45: Naked - He thinks that next to Mary, this naked, writhing baby is the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen; four years later, he’ll swear the same thing all over again as his second son murmurs in his arms.
46: Drive - Mary says that the Impala is too dangerous for her babies, but John can’t see himself driving anything else and so Mary clips ads for practical vehicles that she’ll never get the chance to drive.
47: Harm - He vows to himself that nothing will ever harm his family; failure strikes him as he looks up and the ceiling ignites.
48: Precious - As the fire smolders, Sam’s crying stops and their precious baby begins to coo in his arms, cheeks smeared with ash and the track of tears.
49: Hunger - John no longer hungers for food - he only craves Mary’s kiss, her hands, the numbing of pain and the repression of memory that he promises himself is coming.
50: Believe - Dean smiles, one of his front teeth missing, and asks when mama’s coming home; John doesn’t believe in god, but he believes in Mary’s freckles across Dean’s cheeks and nose.