Awesome meta on color choices in the show, here: [link]

So, I'm reading "Mockingbird" and I so want Dean to find out he has a kid in season 3. Preferrably a daughter.

Maybe he and Sam stop by a town they'd been to before, runs into someone who recognizes him, and gets arrested for being a deadbeat dad. Or maybe they're investigating a foster home/orphanage where wacky supernatural stuff is going down, and they eventually learn one of the kids is his.

And maybe things can be arranged so that Dean is put into the position of having to take care of the kid or leaving her to foster care. There would be much angst over Dean wanting the kid, not believing the road and hunting is the best way to raise a kid, the implied accusation that puts on his father, and the fact that he will die within a year and leave the kid alone anyway.

And of course he wants Sam to take care of the kid when he's gone, and Sam's not keen on it (or maybe he is) and there's the whole war that needs to be fought, all those hundreds of demons.

Basically, I want angst monkeys. "Life is short and Dean wants a family of his own before he dies" angst monkeys.

But of course, any type of angst monkeys will do.

I have a whole category in my memories entitled "Dean's kid".

I'm writing two different stories where Dean has a kid. Schmoopy angst. Save me.

Noooooo, no saving you! You have to share the schmoop!

Thanks for posting the color meta link, 'suela. I had skimmed it, intending to go back, but it slipped my (tinylittle)mind, so thanks. Should Ailleann post a link to the awesome Impala meta from S1 & S2? I would, but I don't have it handy.

Juliebird, have you read Gimme Shelter? It's the one I pull out as ammo in the "John should have left the kids with somebody who could give them a normal life," and "the road/the hunt is no place to raise kids" argument.

Oh, Gimme Shelter is awesome. As is the sequel, which is, in some ways, even more heartbreaking.

I second the sharing of teh schmoop.

Reading Gimme Shelter now!

Gimme Shelter is so awesome that I'm so frustrated by Nilchance's failure to write any more that I really really want to take it on myself. Which I never do, it's not like I don't have my own writing. But there's so much possibility there...

I was just looking for more! That was harsh, and good.

And now I'm seeing Dean and Sam arguing over this hypothetical kid of Dean's, Sam bitching that the road and the hunt is no place to raise a kid, and Dean countering that it worked out just fine for him and Sam, and then Sam looking pointedly at his brother, and Dean being all, "What?"