If ever a story deserved a sequalgirlfan1979June 24 2007, 16:18:29 UTC
It was "Little boys"
And this never fails to deliver. Thank you so much for writing and sharing this.
Its reality keeps Sam from seeking any sort of refuge in the false hope that Dean’s just exhibiting the symptoms of a typical cold. Besides, the sight of Dean extracting air in heavy, difficult breaths does little to contradict the need for concern.
If the first part of the paragraph doesn't truly scare you, the last two sentences absolutely do.
Sam feels a stab of frustration brought on by the situation. Dean was nursing a cold for almost a week when he was held under stagnant bog water by a sprite trying to make her annual kill.
For someone who only needs one kill annually, she sure picked wrong.
“You will not have him,” she said in a voice that squelched like water trapped in the tight places of black earth
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Re: If ever a story deserved a sequalemrys777June 27 2007, 23:17:22 UTC
Hey!!
Thanks so much!!!! I've learned over time that my gratitude expresses itself in the form of exclamation points when I'm responding to a review---just something you should look out for during this message!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
I really do appreciate all of the time you took to write this review. Let me tell you---it helps!! A lot!!!!!!
OMG---I loved the first one so much. The second was just as good. I do hope you write more. I don't know if you plan on continuing w/ the Dean sick story but wow this was really good.
Thanks a lot!! I'm glad you liked this, and I have no doubt that a little SPN plot-bunny will eventually start kicking me in the head again sometime soon (those SPN bunnies are persistent little creeps! And they all have big bunny feet that make them hard to ignore when they start kicking at you!).
I love the story and I loved the previous one even though I've never really bought the whole Dean turns to prostitution for money idea for the same reasons as the commenter mentioned. He's a hunter, a scam artist, a hustler, and a control freak and putting himself in such a terribly vulnerable position (literally) would be the last thing he would do not the first. Plus, he really doesn't have trouble stealing from people, this is the man who stuffs his face while visiting the relatives of deceased dressed as a priest. Still good stories.
Just an alternate perspectivegirlfan1979June 24 2007, 18:52:27 UTC
While I don't disagree with this assessment of Dean's character as he appears in the series, I do think that assuming that Dean hasn't changed at all since childhood is perhaps a little unfair. (And those character changes probably didn't come about in a nice way - 'this is the man who stuffs his face while visiting the relatives of deceased dressed as a priest' if you think about it, it doesn't really seem like something Dean would do until he does it - a lot of Dean's canon quirks only make sense if you infer some truly hard and troubling times as a kid.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if John had forbidden Dean from theft (the consequences, if he got caught, being a lot more serious giving their circumstances than for most kids) but having failed to forbid Dean from hustling himself (because why the hell would he? For example, my parents (both sex-obsessed) warned my about just about everything to do with sex, but never warned me against becoming a hooker (probably because it never seemed like something I might/have to consider).
Re: Just an alternate perspectiveandromakhe001June 26 2007, 03:51:12 UTC
I don't know I think straight out stealing is different. When Dean hustles pool or poker he's not really stealing, he's playing a game of chance that he just happens to have greater strategic skills at. :) When he's faking credit cards, he's using fake names and scamming a corporation at least in his mind
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Re: Just an alternate perspectiveemrys777June 28 2007, 00:59:49 UTC
To andromakhe001:
I just left a message with girlfan1979 explaining that this perspective (the one that you talk about in your response to my fic) was the one I went running with in "What Little Boys Are Made Of" and "Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails."
I do appreciate your comments!! Thanks so much for them!!
I'm not sure what else to say except...thanks! Again!!
No matter what he should or shouldn't have done. What he would have more likely done. Whatever his reasonings were. In the end. He was still a kid. As much as we try to think Dean would or wouldn't have acted this way, we associate too much to the adult character. A lot has/would have changed since then. So I think it's entirely believable he acted that way when he was a child.
Thanks for writing this sequel (and of course for the original too)
Thanks a lot for your comments! Yeah, I was just speculating what could have happened to poor Dean when he was a kid. And I always picture him as a serious little wee!thing--not the wise-cracking playboy that we know him to be as an adult. His reactions to his mother's death (the not talking thing)and his wee!behavior in "Something Wicked" (the episode with the shtriga)were taken into consideration when I wrote the first fic.
Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the fic, and again, I appreciate your comments!
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And this never fails to deliver. Thank you so much for writing and sharing this.
Its reality keeps Sam from seeking any sort of refuge in the false hope that Dean’s just exhibiting the symptoms of a typical cold. Besides, the sight of Dean extracting air in heavy, difficult breaths does little to contradict the need for concern.
If the first part of the paragraph doesn't truly scare you, the last two sentences absolutely do.
Sam feels a stab of frustration brought on by the situation. Dean was nursing a cold for almost a week when he was held under stagnant bog water by a sprite trying to make her annual kill.
For someone who only needs one kill annually, she sure picked wrong.
“You will not have him,” she said in a voice that squelched like water trapped in the tight places of black earth ( ... )
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Thanks so much!!!! I've learned over time that my gratitude expresses itself in the form of exclamation points when I'm responding to a review---just something you should look out for during this message!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
I really do appreciate all of the time you took to write this review. Let me tell you---it helps!! A lot!!!!!!
So--
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
What else can I say? You're a good egg!
:)
Em
P.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Also, I wouldn't be surprised if John had forbidden Dean from theft (the consequences, if he got caught, being a lot more serious giving their circumstances than for most kids) but having failed to forbid Dean from hustling himself (because why the hell would he? For example, my parents (both sex-obsessed) warned my about just about everything to do with sex, but never warned me against becoming a hooker (probably because it never seemed like something I might/have to consider).
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I just left a message with girlfan1979 explaining that this perspective (the one that you talk about in your response to my fic) was the one I went running with in "What Little Boys Are Made Of" and "Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails."
I do appreciate your comments!! Thanks so much for them!!
I'm not sure what else to say except...thanks! Again!!
:)
Emrys
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No matter what he should or shouldn't have done. What he would have more likely done. Whatever his reasonings were. In the end. He was still a kid. As much as we try to think Dean would or wouldn't have acted this way, we associate too much to the adult character. A lot has/would have changed since then. So I think it's entirely believable he acted that way when he was a child.
Thanks for writing this sequel (and of course for the original too)
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Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the fic, and again, I appreciate your comments!
Thanks!
Emrys
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