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Four headcanons
[: :] John spent weeks trying to get Dean to talk again, within his limited scope. After all, they were essentially on the run from CPS and for awhile, he had no idea what he was doing with their lives, let alone the kids. He’d lead off on sentences, purposely get his favorite things wrong, tried his damned best- only to give up and decide that if the kid didn’t want to talk, he’d come around when he was ready.
[: :] John didn’t leave them without food, or limited food as much as possible. If he felt there was a chance they’d run out, he left money with them. What Dean did with the money- sometimes was what John approved of, sometimes not. [: :] Dean behaved, yes, but that didn’t mean things always ran smooth. There’s a lot of talk out there over simplifying things where John only argued and fought with Sam, and not Dean. Hardly so. He argued with both, he had to be tough parent with both, especially Dean and his running out and around- after all, the shtriga event did happen. He just fought more with Sam than Dean. Sam’s rebellion was to his father, Dean’s rebellion was against society.
[: :] There were times John honestly didn’t know how to punish or act on what Dean would do. Especially when he ran around with girls, or drank, or gambled- after all, John had done a lot of the same things, if not all, when he was young. It was hard to go after him hard when he saw where the kid was coming from, it helped smooth things between Dean and John, as compared to John and Sam- where he never understood the ways he misbehaved.
