I started reading for the John h/c - and planning to read all of it as I also want to see what you do with John/Mary, which I usually enjoy reading, also. Those first two comments seem way out of line to me. I can maybe even see that kind of criticism if one has been reading a long fic and at the end it does a strange OOC flip or something similar that feels like a cheat, but you made your intentions clear in chapter 1 for cryin' out loud.