[ Jesse is quiet so Jack is quiet, and Jack is an excellent listener. He doesn't interrupt, he just lets Jesse say what he wants to, head tilted, his expression a mixture of blank but somehow also warm. Receptive. Open. It is a sad tale. He knows that parents aren't always like his. The majority of the time people struggle with family, they don't have certainty like he does. He frowns and he empathises even if he can't understand it the way Jesse does. ]
It sounds like they only cared if you were acting in a way that they wanted, not that they loved you for who you are, as you are. Ginny was your parent because she loved you the way one is supposed to. Unconditionally. My fathers love me even though I'm flawed and I've done bad things. I wish yours would have done the same.
[ Jack took their love for granted in some ways. He got too used to having it. He lost Dean's and he's never gotten it back. Parents are a tricky subject, he knows that, and he can tell in his friend's body language that this is difficult for him. Painful, even. He would be very sad if their positions were reversed, or rather, he would have probably destroyed the world if so.]
My mother died because of me. A human can't survive the birth of a Nephilim. I killed her by existing. She was a very good person and so brave.
[ He got to meet her in Heaven, at least. That was worth dying the first time if only to finally see her. Jack smiles at him, hesitant but hopeful. ]
I can tell the same thing about you. Your parents were wrong to make you think you had to be perfect. Everyone's imperfect. Even God himself is. But you care and you try. I can see it.
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It sounds like they only cared if you were acting in a way that they wanted, not that they loved you for who you are, as you are. Ginny was your parent because she loved you the way one is supposed to. Unconditionally. My fathers love me even though I'm flawed and I've done bad things. I wish yours would have done the same.
[ Jack took their love for granted in some ways. He got too used to having it. He lost Dean's and he's never gotten it back. Parents are a tricky subject, he knows that, and he can tell in his friend's body language that this is difficult for him. Painful, even. He would be very sad if their positions were reversed, or rather, he would have probably destroyed the world if so.]
My mother died because of me. A human can't survive the birth of a Nephilim. I killed her by existing. She was a very good person and so brave.
[ He got to meet her in Heaven, at least. That was worth dying the first time if only to finally see her. Jack smiles at him, hesitant but hopeful. ]
I can tell the same thing about you. Your parents were wrong to make you think you had to be perfect. Everyone's imperfect. Even God himself is. But you care and you try. I can see it.