SPN fic: A Thousand miles behind

[dotfic]

A bit early--although it will be right on time for her--a very happy birthday to smilla02!

A thousand miles behind
Dean, Sam, Castiel, Risa, Chuck, various OC's; implied Dean/Risa and Dean/Castiel | 3,000 words | PG | End 'verse

a/n: Title from Bob Dylan. Written for smilla02's birthday to her prompt, so this is her fault. Thank you to sargraf for the beta

Comments

[zatnikatel]

It could be years ago.

I love this: the thought that Cas can maybe be what he once was when it's Dean who is at stake, and how he sobers up so he can take care of Dean.

I love this whole thing, its sadness, how mundane camp life is, and the feeling that all of these people really care for Dean's welfare. And all undercut by the melancholy derived from that missing person, and Dean can't hide his sadness and vulnerability even if he tries, and he wants to preserve the books as some sort of proof that his brother was there. And Bobby, oh…

Tho I love End!verse there always is that sadness with knowing how it all ends for them, and it's especially sad with that image of Dean and Cas holding onto each other at the end... it makes me think of that cut line from the script about how all they had left was each other. ;_;

Beautiful, bb. You have such an economic and precise way of writing sequences of words that evoke real depth of feeling despite their surface simplicity: it's a real gift...

[dotfic]

Dean and Cas are each other's anchors in this timeline--and Cas is the one (besides Chuck, and Dean wasn't close to Chuck) left who knows Dean from Before, and a lot has changed between them but a lot has stayed the same, as the core of the relationship.

This Dean has frozen himself off and built up such a thick armor, more successfully than regular flavor Dean ever has even though regular Dean certainly tries to bury and bury things but 2014!Dean has managed to keep a hard shell in place. But the shell is just a shell and it's to cover the vulnerable spots underneath. So writing his pov and having him be both things at once, and be hurting so much underneath was tricky, I'm so glad it worked!

Thank you for the lovely comment! ♥♥♥

[rumi_nyo]

Oh my heart is aching. The scene with Sam, so much pain and sadness. I am crying. And the scene with Cas! Such tenderness... I am crying, again. T_T Loved it!!

[dotfic]

Oh, thank you! End 'verse is so heartaching to write in, and writing 2014!Dean pov especially. So glad you liked (even though it made you cry. *hands you a tissue*)