Shadow Stains My Heart

Oh, hey. I wrote something, and it's not Buffy related, and it's gen. Crazycakes.

So, a while back, rivestra wrote a lovely bit of werewolf angst: Steel on Shadow and then varkelton followed up with Sam's POV in Descent into Shadow and I was immediately smitten with the idea of doing John's story.

Title: Shadow Stains My Heart
Fandom/Pairing: Supernatural, gen
Rating/Warnings: Um, gen. Also, angsty and kinda dark. Reading the previous pieces is probably not required, but I definitely recommend it; and the story jumps around in the timeline.
Beta Love: Many thanks to the wonderful snarkgoddess for going over this and giving me lots of great feedback. I couldn't follow every suggestion, but this is a better piece for her efforts... any remaining flaws are mine.


( John studied his hands, still resting on the steering wheel, and tried to summon up the energy to go inside. )

If you want something a little happier to climb out of the dark with, you can go on to varkelton's In the Shadow of Hunger. Also, um, I have no idea where to post this. Community suggestions, anyone?