"True, that. Here's to the ones worth bothering with, then." John raised the whiskey bottle slightly in acknowledgement and yawned again, thinking about Crowley's other observation.
"It's a survival mechanism," he said finally, "the not believing. Once you know it's all real, it's almost impossible to leave it alone, and humans who get mixed up in the supernatural tend to wind up either dead or fucked up beyond hope." He rubbed his eyes tiredly. "Christ, look at my family. We've always been into the shit, it's in our genes or something, and we've paid for it."
He started ticking off points on his fingers, reciting the familiar litany with clinical detachment. "Dad killed my Mum and brother, he's in Hell, Cheryl's a drunk, I am what you see before you and Gemma's well on her way to upholding the tradition. Oh, and my biological daughter is the world's first human plant elemental, wrap your brain around that one." He chuckled. "We're practically poster children for willful ignorance. A normal, sane person who saw the shit we got up to today would do the reasonable thing and either lose their mind or pretend it never happened. I was just born with more stubbornness than sense."
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Date: 2006-02-02 07:53 pm (UTC)"It's a survival mechanism," he said finally, "the not believing. Once you know it's all real, it's almost impossible to leave it alone, and humans who get mixed up in the supernatural tend to wind up either dead or fucked up beyond hope." He rubbed his eyes tiredly. "Christ, look at my family. We've always been into the shit, it's in our genes or something, and we've paid for it."
He started ticking off points on his fingers, reciting the familiar litany with clinical detachment. "Dad killed my Mum and brother, he's in Hell, Cheryl's a drunk, I am what you see before you and Gemma's well on her way to upholding the tradition. Oh, and my biological daughter is the world's first human plant elemental, wrap your brain around that one." He chuckled. "We're practically poster children for willful ignorance. A normal, sane person who saw the shit we got up to today would do the reasonable thing and either lose their mind or pretend it never happened. I was just born with more stubbornness than sense."