This might be of the product of that intense 3 year period of fantasy reading as a kid, but I'm seeing this and starting to think of Dean as being the one with the anti-power. Does that make sense? He's a blank, can't get infected, possessed, and maybe, eventually, resistant to the Children's power. We still don't know much about how bloodlines/genetics may or may not play into the melodrama, and we have no idea what Mary might have done. If you're going the romantic route, that's a lot of layers of love and sacrifice. *g*