We, Reborn - A Mixtape from Sam Winchester

[of_waves]

On Castiel's first birthday, Sam hands him a small package wrapped in brown paper.

"It's nothing much," he says as Castiel turns it over in his hands, examining it as though the paper itself is part of the present, part to be savoured. "I just thought, y'know, if we're getting you all the people things you should have some music to call your own."

Comments

[p_sharkbait]

Oh wow, the music here all look so promising! I know about 4 artists from here whom I love and that's about it. (I am shamefully not so well-versed in today's music!)
I'm very excited to hear this (downloading it ATM) because I'm not sure if I've heard these before.

This is probably the part that makes me cry the most. The loss of Sam echoes through the story. I've come to love Sam so much more than I ever had in the recent months so when him and his fate are mentioned in this fic, my heart feels like it's going to shrivel up and die.

I could see this scene bathed in sepia in my head, like a true,old-fashioned style flashback. It's such a beautiful thing to see this and go back to how much this CD meant to Cas. When Sam's intentions and wishes are communicated here, it becomes all the more meaningful.

[signalfire]

I'm glad you liked this bit! I didn't actually start out with the intention of writing a little accompaniment to it, I was just going to link to the download, but I thought it was probably more meaningful to add in how Cas got it and what it meant- I felt that Sam deserved to have a part in this and to maybe put across that he didn't feel he had any choice in saying yes. That he'd thought about it and already knew it was going to have to play out that way.

I hope you enjoy the tracks, anyway. The download may not spew them out in the way I wrote them above, but that's the preferred order if you can shuffle them into that position =)

[hugyourangel]

This is easily my favorite Supernatural fanmix and I have like 40 of them. Every time I listen I hear something new that relates to Dean and Cas or something that Sam is trying to tell the two of their subconscious-es.

[signalfire]

Oh goodness, thank you so much! I have so many myself and to have that kind of compliment is just amazing, I can't thank you enough! I'm glad you enjoy it every time as well, I know I did a good job then =)