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You see, this is where I wish I trusted the show to be completely in tune with and in control of its own agenda. Because those last few episodes with the Roadhouse folks were fun and interesting, and I like them all well enough, but they didn't mesh with the first impressions the writers gave us. When we first hear of Ellen, it's through that motherly, exasperated message on John's phone. When we first meet Ellen, she grins--these are the Winchester boys, come back at last. She tells them that she and John "were like family once," and for a man with as strong a sense of family as John? That's not a simple bond. And when she finds out about John's death, she mourns him, if only for a second, in the falling of her eyes, in her silent acceptance of Dean's, "Really, lady, I'm fine."

That's not something you do for someone whose last encounter with your family involved killing your husband. It just isn't. Not without a whole lot of bridges and peace offerings and forgiveness.

That's also why I can see the Ellen-lying-to-protect-Jo angle very clearly (and why I liked it in your pair of fics, which I have been a terrible lurker and not commented on *cringes*).

Oh, Ash. Why have I not yet read an Ash story? (This actually just occurred to me. Aren't there any Ash stories? I must seek one out.)

But yeah. That turned out much longer than I expected, but I suppose I should have seen it coming, because I love John. And Ellen. And their twisty, repressed relationship. *hugs them*