Title: Maybe . . . Eventually
Prompt: Written for cougarcat on livejournal: Supernatural, Winchesters & Harvelles, After the hunt goes wrong John finds himself raising Jo on the road with his boys.
The motel lights pulse in the rain and the warmth of the Impala is a welcome reprieve from John's jaunt to the office.
The children are asleep in the backseat, although Dean's been making noise about moving up to the front recently. For now, his oldest serves as a living pillow to the younger children. Sammy is sprawled boneless across his big brother's lap, and Jo's curly golden head rests sweetly against Dean's shoulder.
She fits in with an appalling ease. In Sam's hand-me-down jacket with Dean's best attempt at braiding hair terribly evident, Jo could very well be their little sister . . . that last child that John and Mary never got around to having.
Maybe one day, John will think of her as such. Maybe one day, she will not remind him of yet another failure, and he will not begrudge her place in the backseat. Maybe.
The three children make a pretty picture despite Sam's snoring. John should move them inside. And he'll get around to it.
Eventually.