#altprequel

This boy was special. Something about him had drawn Santino in the moment tha the had seen him. The way he took charge of the children that had accompanied him, the way he had yelled and screamed as, one-by-one, they had been torn from his arms. How he wept over the child-monster that had been thrown in last. Though Amadeo had also been spared, there was no way that they could be put together. No, to break the fledgling, they needed him to think he was alone. So completely alone.

This one, though. Marius had not turned this one, and Santino had to wonder why. He knelt down beside of the boy and gripped his jaw with a firm grip and forced the boy to look up at him. "I spared you from the fire, you should be thanking me on bended knee, boy," he stated simply, watching him carefully. "Yet I hear you've done nothing except scream and curse at those who come in to care for you during the day." He smirked slightly, dark eyes fixed on youthful.

"I spared you from paying for the sins of your Master. He was a blasphemer, you know... he denied the one true god and his Dark Servant below. He was called for a greater purpose and he refused..." he stated simply. "This was the will of God..." he added. "And that boy. The one you cried for so desperately? The one Marius favored? Surely you knew that he was different? That Marius was different? They were not human, dear boy... I could show so many amazing things. You are the one I chose... you are my chosen one, boy..."

I was just thinking about the terrible prequel Jensen and Co came up with.

How could he have thought that it would be okay to throw canon to the wind and reinvent some weird, scooby-do ensemble version of his mother and father’s early relationship.

However there could’ve been a story to be told here, just not the one we got. 

If they had followed canon, we could’ve had Mary and John perhaps attending the same high school, disliking each other intensely for whatever reasons. 

He goes off to war and when he comes home they bump into each other, with Mary still being unfriendly toward him.

Of course up pops a Cupid and Mary and John’s relationship takes on a different aspect. They start courting and become a couple. However, Mary still wants out of hunting so she doesn’t tell John about any of it.

We could still have had all the necessary back-story of Mary’s life with her parents, of her desire to get out of this hunting life she was born into, etc.

As for John, I’m quite ready to believe that his mom knew about the Men of Letters and that Henry went off to be initiated and never returned. Because of this she disavowed anything to do with the MOL, eventually remarrying. 

Maybe her new husband was a mechanic, so she could still have been that ‘strong independent working woman’ that seems to be necessary in every piece of media, current day.

As for Samuel, although he likes John well enough, he doesn’t want a son-in-law who is a civilian as far as hunting is concerned, etc. etc.

It could have been a kind of Smallville wannabee, giving us John and Mary in the early days, continuing on into the tragedy of John being killed and Mary’s demon deal. 

How they eventually marry, and the kids are born, and if a success, continuing on to Mary’s death and John’s discovery of the supernatural.

There was so much to explore by keeping it IN canon.