Great story and I haven't finished it yet!  I'm really behind in my reviews - we are in the midst of a major kitchen renovation so that is eating up my time.  I should be painting as we speak!  SOL.  Hope your cold is better.  This is too busy of a time to be sick.  This is a great early Christmas present!  Always looking towards your next.  I am waiting to read Sunday Bloody Sunday when it is all finished.  Also, what other zines have you published in?  Have a great one!!

Author's Response:

Thank you so much for reading!! 

You're so right -- it IS too busy of a time to be sick. I keep trying to ignore it. My baby laughs at my croaky voice, though. :) Hee.

I hope the kitchen renovation goes well! Kudos to you for that. It's nice to hear that you can come back to fanfiction to give yourself breaks.

SBS is practically finished now -- the epilogue will post after Christmas as a "wrap up." I look forward to your comments!

As for zines, aside from this story in Brotherhood 2, I will have a story called "Fix You" in the upcoming Brotherhood 4, both published by Yum@. I also have a story called "Rain Check" in Rooftop Confessions 2 and will soon have one called "Stay" in Rooftop Confessions 3, both published by Griffinsong Press. I have a story called "Breath" that will be in the upcoming Roadtrip with my Brother published by agentswithstyle, and my next story, "In the Light" will actually be published in a zine as well, after it's posted (kinda going against the usual zine rules), also by agenstwithstyle.

If you're interested, agentswithstyle also prints all of the Virtual Season stories in zines as well. Each of these zines have a fantastic collection of stories and writers, and I'm just fortunate to be included among them.

Aaannnddd... that was probably more than you ever wanted to know about zines. Shutting up now.

Gaelic

I'm so sorry to be late gaelic, it's just been one of those weeks!  I'm so glad you decided to publish this story here... I would never have seen it otherwise, and that would have been such a terrible shame. I'm disappointed it's only one more chapter though. You know I'm a huge fan of the gaelic epic!

The action in this chapter was awesome.... from the boys slowly coming to outside the booby-trapped house, to that excruciatingly-nail-biting-banister-swinging-scene.

You know, one of the (many!) reasons I enjoy your writing so much is that you write Dean Winchester as brotherly love incarnate - and that's exactly how I see him. This line sums it all up so beautifully:

“I’m not taking any chances with you, Sam,” Dean said without thinking. Just. Guh.

So after a few days of Christmas shopping disasters, I am going to treat myself and head off to chapter 3.....

Author's Response:

Ciel, a good reviewer like you is never late. Nor is she early. She reviews precisely when she means to. ::wink::

I'm sorry that you've had a tough week. I hear you. But the good thing about tough times... they can't last. Nature will find a way to balance, yes?

Thank you so much for reading. I'm glad you liked the bannister scene. Took a bit out of me to write that -- I know you know the feeling... when you're writing and you get lost in the story and you come up for air and realize that time has passed but you took no notice...

I'm glad there was chapter 3 to entertain you after the Christmas shopping disasters. I'm not even going to tell you where I am with that. Oh, who am I kidding. Yes I am. It's the 12th and I have one present. ONE. Uno.

Bad Gaelic.

 

As usual gaelic you have created a wonderful heartfelt story.

I love the way you write Sam and Dean, you sum up exactly how i feel they would react and act...

Brilliant writing, fab story

LOL Dix 

Author's Response:

Thanks so much, Di! I am so pleased that you enjoyed this. You flatter me with you comments. I'm happy that you enjoy how you see Sam and Dean through my eyes. :)

Best always,

Gaelic

That was great....really, really great! I liked how you had Dean remembering bits and pieces from when he was in a coma. You did something similar in Into the Fire, and I thought it was a cool idea. I'd like to believe that somewhere in his subconscious those memories exist, he just can't access them unless he's vulnerable.

Gotta say that my breath hitched in my chest when I saw those initials in the tree...that hit WAY to close to home. Not to mention Dean's dream of his father reaching into his chest and pulling out his heart! You sure do know how to pack an emotional punch...actually more like an emotional body slam!

I'm sooo excited about the new story you've got in the works! I love Abe and am glad to see him make a return. I will never get tired of reading your stories...once I find a writer that excites me and stirs my emotions, I tend to hang around. So I'm afraid you're stuck with me, my dear :)

Author's Response:

You're right! I did do something similar in Into the Fire! You have a memory like a steal trap, I swear. Looking back, I don't know if I realized the similarity when I wrote Into the Fire, but I'm glad you enjoyed it both times.

When I wrote this story, I was still struggling with the idea of what John had done to/for Dean with his deal. It was WAY before I even considered Dean doing something of the same. And I tend to put a lot of me into my stories (maybe too much??), so that's where the heart thing came from.

I love love love you for saying that you never get tired of reading my stories. You have no idea what that means to me. Especially right now. I'm serious. I'm very happy to be stuck with you.

I hope you enjoy In the Light... it's one of my favorite Zeppelin songs -- so it had to become the name of a story eventually, right? :)

Slainte,

Gaelic

Superb as always, Gaelic.  Loved every single moment of hurt Dean and protective Sam.

 

Author's Response:

Thank you so much, Vanessa -- it's always a treat to hear from you. I appreciate that very much. :) And we're such a sick lot, aren't we? Can't get enough of hurt Dean... Ah, well. At least we're not alone. :)

Slainte,

Gaelic

wow....amazing story...i'm speechless

Author's Response:

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking time to read and leave me a review.

Best,

Gaelic

Dear Gaelicspirit,

 I love reading your stuff.  You are so on cue.

Your stories have tension and they are filled with good villains.  I can't wait to see how much of a challenge Silas is to the boys.

 You get the pulse of the story and keep the reader hooked.

 In short, I love your work and look forward to it.  One of these days, I will get back to serious reading of the non-fiction type, but you make it difficult when you are writing such enjoyable Supernatural material.

 Thanks!

Author's Response:

Hi bernie -- thank you so much for your comments. I greatly appreciate them and am so glad you feel I have the beat of these characters. That is very important to me, as I enjoy reading and writing them almost as I enjoy watching them!

I'm with you about reading actual *books* books... heh. Since I found fanfiction last year, it's been a struggle to me to read even close to the amount that I used to. I could very well be kicked out of my book club... but writing these characters, writing this way, has shown me a piece of myself that I had no idea was there before. And I like that piece. I want to cultivate it, maybe help it grow into something that could sustain me beyond fanfiction...

So, if you keep reading, I'll keep writing... until all my SPN stories are told.

Thanks again for your time!

GS

Eep!  Boys!  In excellent form, as usual.  Although I feel a little topsy turvy trying to pin down who's who, or what.  But I expect things shall be resolved in the end.

Author's Response:

Well, I sure hope you're satisfied by the resolution. :) I am working a tiny bit on the next part -- I had to cut some stuff out to take care of the zine requirements, so I'm kinda posting a "directors cut" of the rest of the story.

At this point in the story, though, it was my intent for both the readers and the boys to be a little WTF?? So, yay! :)

Thanks so much for reading and taking time to drop me a line. More to come soon!

GS

The one thing i always admire about Dean is that he will get up and continue on even if he's straining his body to the limit. But at the same time, it's exasperating for me. He can't just let his body recuperate until he finished hunting whatever it is that he's hunting at the moment. Sigh.

Hopefully he'll get some rest in the next chapter.  

Author's Response:

Y'know, to me, that's what makes Dean such a hero. A *fictional* hero, sure, but still... one that I want to watch and read about over and over. A John McClain kind of hero. One that repeatedly defies the odds because they have to do the job, whatever they percieve the job to be.

To allow him to rest before the job was done in his mind (to me anyway) would be contrary to his character and... kinda not as exciting to read. But, I hear you, I do. We love this guy, and want him to be okay at the end of the day.

Even if "okay" isn't 100% healed body and soul... :) I hope you enjoy the next part.

Gaelic

Well, it seems like demon deals are quite the hot commodity! When will people learn they are a bad idea! So now I've shifted from wondering about what the deal is with Silas to wondering about Jenny. There are so many conflicting stories about the woman that my head is spinning! Is she friend or foe...Sam thinks she protected him so maybe...we'll see.

God, that scene at the end with the boys dangling from the staircase...my heart was in my throat the entire time. And Sam's statement: "Dean, I'm pulling you apart" just about ended me. Those words were true on so many levels...not just the obvious physical one, but on a deeply emotional one as well. I had forgotten just how turned inside out Dean was during that time, and you've really given me a forceful reminder!

Also, Dean's remark about how Wyoming seemed to have so many demons made me smile....if he only knew.....

Author's Response:

It's funny what you pick out. When I was reading through this trying to figure out where to break it up, I could see where my head had been when I wrote it -- what had just happened on the show, what was digging into me... the idea that Dean, too, might make a deal hadn't even occured to me at that time. I was still huting for Dean about John's deal...

I'm actually glad you're confused about Jenny. I didn't want her to be understand at this point in the story. I am so glad you were affected by the staircase scene. That's the moment I first thought of when I plotted out this story. How it would look, how it could feel, what they would say... I punched me a bit as I wrote it.

And I laughed out loud when I read Dean's line about there being so many demons in Wyoming. Swear to God I wrote that a year ago. Had no idea what those words might eventually mean...

Thanks for reading -- I hope you enjoy the final part.

Gaelic

What a lovely, lovely surprise this is. Totally made my weekend!

I love me some dreaming Dean, bruised Dean, worried Sam..... this opening chapter couldn't be better! Add to that the very-cool automatic writing, a brotherly bet and an awesome cliffhanger (wicked woman that you are, gaelic) and I'm in heaven. You know where I'll be, right here waiting for more....

 

Author's Response:

Ach, Ciel, thank you so much. I've been a bit spoiled by your "lists" from SBS, and was so pleased to see that you read and reviewed the start of this story. Truly hope you enjoy the rest.

Sorry 'bout the cliffie... but I was trying to figure the best way to break it up. Sometimes that's a struggle for me. :) Chapter 2 is up now and I'll have the last chapter posted tomorrow.

Slainte,

Gaelic

Ohhh, Gaelic, so glad to find this absolute gem of a tale....Scary, creeepy........awesome!!!

A broken Impala was evil enough...but then a nearly 'broken' Dean and a totally BROKEN town....Between the spooky, silver blue eyes, the veiled and not-so-veiled threats and warnings the attack and then automatic writing tossed into this simmering stew..........yummy...!!!!!

May I please have a second helping...fairly soon

Author's Response:

Second helping has been served -- and I hope you enjoy it as much as the first. I love that you find it creepy. Thanks so much for reading and offering me your thoughts. Muchly appreciated.

Slainte,

Gaelic