WHO: John Winchester & Claire Winchester WHAT: John wants to make things right with his sons. He and Claire discuss possible ways to make him seem like not such a crap dad. WHEN: January 30th; Afternoon WHERE: The Video Store RATING: PG STATUS: In Progress
There was a lot of things that John Winchester was good at, but there were so, so many more than just flew right on by his radar. And realizing when he'd made a mistake was one of the huge blind spots that he suffered through more often than not. Hindsight was always his worst enemy, but it was his stubborn pride that more often than not made it impossible for him to fix things even when he realized that he'd made a mess of things. He could have fixed stuff with Sam, apologized, at least patched some of the holes that he'd blown in their relationship long before things got as heated as they did. And as it was, he only seemed to be making things worse with Dean now by doing what he'd always done.
He needed to take a different tact, but as much as he might want to do that, he was at a complete loss as to how to go about it. Help wasn't something that John sought out very often, but approaching his daughter-in-law (as bizarre a thought as it was that he had one of those now) had seemed like a potential way to go about at least repairing some of the damage that had been done. He wasn't a perfect man, after all. He had his flaws and his faults, but he wanted to be a good father.
He just needed to figure out how to do that now.
Stepping into the video store, John felt oddly at ease. With the way things had advanced in the years since his death, this was familiar, homey, old fashioned but not in a yet outdated way. Glancing around, idly wandering the shelves near the front for a moment, John turned to the counter the second that he felt comfortable enough to actually approach the young blond. God, she looked young. It was still something he was having a hard time getting his head around, but it seemed like that feeling never really ended.