Oh my you most certainly turned my emotional screws with this chapter.  Dean realising his dad was gone was so intense, man I was welling up good and proper.  The funny thing is that I didn't really think about the things Dean would have forgotten, so that was like a bolt out of the blue. Wham! And OMG taking your breath away as the reality hits you, the reader, as it folds completely over poor Dean and we get dragged into how he's feeling too.

I love a happy ending and this one was certainly that but with a real unhingedness about it. A vamp with a soul, yup, and her great niece, wow its certainly a chick flick moment but deliciously warped.

Sam and Dean sitting on the floor and Dean taking energy from the fragile touch of shoulders. I wanted them to hug, tight, but this tentative contact was just so much more.

Fabulous, absolutely thanks for sharing this story.

 Jane :)

Thanks for that snippet of info, I didn't realise that there was such an option, but I have now found it, author alert, great stuff. Doesn't appear to be working right now but its no chore coming back and forth. I hope SJ is feeling better.  :)

I'm infinitely patient, *g and tea can be microwaved!  Cookies... erm ::wipes crumbs::

Jane :)

I found the moment with Dean standing outside the motel door, not wanting to cross back into his difficult 'world' really heartbreaking and slightly disturbing. Sometimes you just want to pluck the pair of them out of it all and into normality, don't you?  (Heck, I am just way too involved in this tv series, LOL.) 

But now I'm worried because Lust is last and we all know Dean is a young healthy man who doesn't like to go without!!  I do hope that one isn't going to be reserved for him?!

Dean's reluctance to see it as a hunt has me on edge, I hope that a demon isn't laying a trail with a trap for our boys at the end.

Did I mention I am loving this.  And I keep on forgetting to rate!

Jane :)

My cuppa is waiting its two cookies, its nearly Monday....

 Jane   ;)

Gentle poke!!  Will we be getting Friday, today??  ::offers English tea and biscuits::

Jane ;)

Oh definitely belgiun cookies for this chapter, so much to take in I kinda feel like I need another read to get it all in my head.

But lets pull up a chair 'cos the trains run through the staition and I'm standing here with my hair whipped up on end and my nerve endings jangling.

DEAN! Thank yea gods at last the boy has seen the bottom of his last glass.  I believe he needed to get there to realise how destructive his own behaviour was and really how precious his life is; the little time he has and I think all the care that Sam's been showing him has made him sit up sharpe and think.  This was more than the morning after hangover this was epic months after the events prior hangover.  Glad he's getting focused, I was worried.

If I give you all the cookies can I have that one dance with Dean? Loved the description that he was all over her but barely touching, GUH a girl could live on that for a week.  He's so charasmatic. 

And there I was this morning watching AHBL and that delicious part when the demon intimates that maybe Sammy hasn't come back quite as he was before.  And there you girls had him fingering that matchbook in your story, building on that little nugget.  That's black and dark and deeply worrying and had me seriously thinking that maybe he actually would strike it!  I could almost taste Sam's hesitation. Its a side if they play it out in the series I will seriously weep from fear.

Can I ask if you mapped out your burning building before you wrote that scene?   I thought it was very well written, the descriptions of different rooms and levels., I was in there running dragging my own feet behind our exhausted boys. I was panting and puffing and my fingers (naughtily nibbling on them and here I am trying to grown them, not possible reading your stuff) aching as Dean desperately held onto the torn floorboard.   His weakness described by Sam feeling his grip lessening, simply told but telling the reader so much of the desperateness of their situation.

I loved how you linked Dean's dreams of burning in hell, with a real life situation of hanging over a burning floor. I really enjoyed that, his vaugeness and disorentation as Sam dragged him out of the building and poured him into the car. Fabulous!

And was that a scruffy angel that Dean saw?  The description of two shadows folding back behind, sounds rather like wings to me. Could this be an angel that's fallen out of heaven?

i'm guessing that Sam's phone number was taken by whatever, I hesitate to say person, was in the room a few chappies back?  I hate that it has been that close and are now really involving Sam and Dean in their evilness.  I just hope that the ending doesn't have the boys pitting against each other.  Oh okay, I do really, love angst, hurt, comfort just bring it on, LOL.  Love that delicious brotherly stuff too.

There's a few body repairs to be done to our boys, you do love to tear little pieces out of them don't you girls?

This was well worth the wait, very satisfying. Go eat your cookies girls you more than deserve them, and I think there maybe some dark chocolate ones just for you GS ;)

I'm off to watch a football match and cogitate on the journey to London on all that's happened in this chapter.  Have a grand day.

Jane :)

Ops, Clint was the guy that took out our Captain, gave him a fractured cheekbone ::ouch:: thoughts of Dean there, as John Terry is as stoic as him!  Thank goodness you dont support Manchester United, now that would stop me reading!! *vbg*

Thank god its nearly end of September, roll on SJ's wedding I say!

Jane :)

This has utterlyblown me away. It had it all, girls I am awed at your ability to put so much emotion, angst, action, plot and sheer horror into one chapter.

I have to give you a high ten for the plot line, you've both obviously put so much thought into that and its quite easy, as a reader, to just enjoy it and trill along without giving it due praise; so praise I shall give. It's deep and well thought out, with lots of nice twists and turns that keep us guessing.  I hope that you are both very proud of yourselves, because you should be.

And how did those boys drag themselves back to the motel after the fire. Both trying hard to hide their injuries and yet manage to find the substance to carry on the next day. Heroes, no less.

The barn was a horror and fear fest. I was reeling at the guy sewing up his eye sockets and I loved how you played the reader giving us hope that maybe, just maybe, the guy was really crying and not gouging himself,. But ha! No, you drew us in and you got us good, gory in it's technicolour.

How worrying was it that Sam could 'sense' the Angel. That had me thinking back to the YED's words that maybe Sam hadn't come back exactly the same ::shiver::  I think it concerned Dean a little there too.

Dean, thrown like a ball against the wall and enjoyed by the Angel in a way that is so-not-good. The description of his face just made me shudder in my shoes, evil in sheeps clothing. Dean's poor battered body just how much more can it take and his total devotion to his brother, tactics, albeit ones destined to mean a whump for him, had the Angel backing off of Sam, momemtarily.  Dean, everything he does it's just for Sam.  It's so painful to watch because really he 'needs' sometimes. He's like a punch bag for evil, anything to keep Sam from suffering.  God I just love that guy LOL! Typically, as they go back to the car and hotel, Dean is in as much a state as Sam but he ignores his own wounds in favour of his Bro.

The barn hooks, well just yuk, how gory was that!  That was a go for a cuppa and regroup moment!!

What really made my heart clench was that Bob has drained Sam's faith from him.  All that he held in his mind, I guess justifying their fight against evil, but now seeing that maybe there is no good guy up there to help them fight that they are alone.  It must be a dreadful thought. But then who can blame him. All that he held good has been tarnished by Bob. And to echo Dean, how do you kill an Angel? I can't wait for the nex chapter to see what rolls.

I wonder if its more faith that they need to combat Bob, that and a huge bucket of holy water maybe?! And, if he's up there, divine intervention.  ::wisful:: Bu, hey, they need a break huh!?

Somehow Dean got them out of there, home, patched Sam up then almost fell apart himself.  He's so near that edge I feel that he could fall anytime. And he needs his strength more than ever now, lets hope he finds it before the morning comes.

So, we are left with Sam with no Faith and Dean with his anger and wrath building up in him so badly that I'm dead scared that Dean will be the next victim. Wrath afterall is next on the cards!!

Hell, I'm scared!

Jane :)

Oh I have just done the most contented sigh ever. What a grand ending, on the impala looking up at the stars and two positive young men, with, if not a game plan, but definitely with hope for the not so far off future.

The end of the hunt was overwhelming to read, the relief that they were both still alive flowed over me through your words, leaving a vibrating warmth - like coming out of a cold room into the sunshine.  And in the aftermath, Dean reconcilling all that had happened, that Sam had faith and their faith in each other it was all just so delicious.  That hint of something up there actually giving a dam was very comforting.

And you couldn't give them peace, nah, throw them back into another hunt, LOL.  Great switch with the mother btw.  Can they go see Uncle Bobby now and have a wee holibob??

Girls, I truly enjoyed this epic fic and thank you both for sharing. I've not looked at the video yet, it's taken me this long with RL to find a quiet moment to enjoy the end without any interruptions. RL sucks sometimes *g.  But, hey, it's earmarked after the ironing! Cuppa tea, a slice of sticky toffee pudding (with cream, naturally) and the vid! Perfection, huh.

Take care, Jane :)

Why is it that when you read about someone needing to sleep, but they can't, it makes you yawn constantly!  Its a.m. here, I should be sparky but I'm wanting my bed again, thanks Dean!

Typically Dean to want the full picture before actioning.  He's in a whole load of trouble and it just got worse. Love it, bring on the evil cackles.

Jane

Well, the gas clerk certainly needs to get a life doesn't he, comics, LOL.

Darn and blast that annoying thing with the mobile phone, its a bitch isn't it that it cuts out just when you need it most. I have a feeling that razor tooth has left something not so good inside Dean and its now creeping round his body and doing all kinds of things that are not going to be nice *g. Oh here she goes loving the hurt, I so need a life!

Hopefully, Bobby is on his way, floods and high water not stopping him, because it sounds like Dean is going to need some help.

Love your end notes. Your on meds, I'm on the red wine, same difference really, I guess. 

You really are stoking the readers fire, getting it warmed up so that, I am sure, you can hit us with a backdraft.  heehe, bring it on m'dear.  This gal is ready to take the hard stuff, bring the angst and hurt to this page, I'm a-waiting. Heehe.

Jane :0)

A very interesting and hopeful start. Or is it?  Hmmm, not sure if this is a demon, assuming he is, you call him that, but I have a strong suspicion of writers, LOL. Maybe I'm clutching at hopeful straws, but he came with no sounds of hell and he's not been overly threatening. He's higher than the YED, hmm I guess I'd like to think that he was the better side of bad.  Guess I'll just have to go onto the next chapter to find out.

Rather horrified that Sammy will wake up and find Dean gone,  as I'm sure he will head right over to the crossroads, only to find an empty car. Can't imagine how catastophic that will be for him.

Oh yes, loving the start, bring on the rest. Oh and please don't make Dean do horrible evil things!

Jane :)

Ouch poor, Sam. Not sure I'd want to be Jax when Sam recovers, two headaches and being dragged away from his bros precious impala, ain't going to get a good reception.

I hope that this Jax turns out to be okay, Sam needs someone to help him through the next couple of months, he's all over the place at the mo.

This fic flows so well, it's a pleasure to read.  :)

Jane