John Winchester has always sucked at wrapping presents.
Mary had been good at it—edges always even, corners military sharp. John, on the other hand, is starting to feel desperate. A grown man should not be defeated by gift wrap. Unfortunately, gift wrap is laughing in his face.
Does a one-year-old really
care if his birthday present is wrapped or not?
Well, Sammy won’t, but Dean sure will. Dean’s birthday had passed with very little fanfare, a fact that John feels a healthy dose of parental guilt about. Dean didn’t seem to care, but what he does care about is that Sammy’s first birthday is done right.
They’d gone to K-Mart to pick out his present; a board book about ducks and a red plastic dump truck. He had grabbed a pack of balloon print paper and a roll of tape almost as an afterthought.
An afterthought that he’s cursing now as he attempts to scrape off the twisted length of tape that’s binding all the fingers on his left hand together. The half-wrapped present on the table looks like something that’s gone through a trash compactor.
He’s keeping the volume low, but the air around John’s table is growing thick and blue.
[OOC: A brief character note.]