Amazing story, but (tear) why'd it have to end like that? :*( see? You made me cry... (j/k). It was kind of sad though...

Okay, about a quarter of the way through this chapter and I realised it wasn't going to be Sam dying in Dean's arms, but Dean dying in Sam's. This is like the time I found these movies in the video store and they sounded really good and then I got home and found out that in every single one - there were six - the bad guys won, evil triumphed over good! I still loved the movies, but it was shocking to have picked out so many like that at once... and this fic is one that I absolutely love, but Sam lost the battle to be himself, and Dean lost the battle to save him. That was even more tragic than good losing to evil...

This was a courageous story to write! Well done, you did a fantastic job!

Sammy's the first lieutenant? Well that's hardly fair! Now what's Dean gonna do? Go out there and hope he can get Sam to listen before he kills him to bring him back again? Hope that there's enough of Sam left to get through to him?

Okay, I can't even stop long enough now I have to go on to the next chapter. This is just too good to stop - I'm glad i found it after it'd been finished!

Wow, so not content to play with the brother's anymore? You're dragging everyone into it? lol This is definitely what I would call a gutsy move, you're not just sending them on a hunt, you're bringing about the end of the world and using Sam to do it! ouch!

I feel so sorry for Dean because he's just had to sit back and accept that his brother is running around with demons causing all kinds of hassle. He has had to put aside wanting to get him back and focus on saving the world instead, hoping that maybe he'll get the chance to save his brother somewhere along the way!

Why do I see this not turning out very well?

You have raised a GREAT point, you know. What would happen if the world was ending and everything was destroyed and our way of life was thrown into ruin, if you had medication that you relied on... how long could you survive before it ran out and then how long before you could find more? My husband's diabetic, he takes insulin and his time frame would be a lot worse than Dean's, so it really made me go 'oh yeah, medication isn't just for a headache, it could save your life!' and realised the stroke of genius it took to write that so beautifully into the story! AND of course Dean's reluctance to let it worry him, he wasn't going to tell anyone about it because he didn't want to be a burden and figures they had better things to send their time on...

Having said that, the dude's an idiot! He's vital to the hunt, and if he ever wants to get his brother back from the darkness, he needs his damn meds!

Uh oh, I just had an image going through my head of this story ending with Sam dying in Dean's arms and pleading for forgiveness or something... please tell me that's not what happens?!?!

I just realised I'm not far off finishing this story, and I'm really bummed! I'm gonna miss it, even though the boys aren't together you've written everything so well that it just really keeps me going anyway. And I'm sitting on the edge of my seat - literally, I bought a special pillow to help with back pain and it's too big for the couch so although it helps my back I keep sliding off the edge of the couch especially when you write something that makes me go 'oh!' and jump and stuff then hit the floor and go 'ow!' - waiting to see what's coming next.

So before I fall off the chair again, I'm going to click that funny little button to submit this review, and then skip on to the next chapter!

I feel like you've just let me breathe with this chapter and the previous one...

...why do I get the impression I'm not going to be breathing much from this point on?

Oh, and the banter with Dean and Jo was great, but I'm not sure he'd have the patience to go long term with her! She's a bit high maintenance, but you've captured her beautifully!

And Dean's sticky notes were brilliant! Get Sammy laid by something not evil was great! :) Very Dean!

And I'm glad that Dean finally snapped and put them all in their place. Still dying to know what the rifle means in the graph, though. Is it really there, is he seeing something the others missed? I think he needs to figure it out and soon!

Here's hoping for a happy ending! I'm crossing my fingers and toes here! Which is making typing reviews more difficult, so forgive any errors :)

Why would anyone complain about Dean in the shower?!?!? Crazy people! hehehe

Finally, a chapter that didn't make me want to curl up in a ball and howl about the unfairities of the universe! I feel much better now... although there were way too many guns pointed at Dean for my liking and I had to give Jo and Bobby credit for stepping in like that. Mind you, Jo may sound lik her mother but apparently she doesnt get the same reaction Ellen did. Bobby, on the other hand... nobody messes with Bobby! Yay!

Got the houmous :) Well done! hehhee

Since my world isnt currently falling apart, I'm gonna go on to read more :)

Hehehe I know where you got the inspiration for Bobby's cooking from! You mum right? hehehe I thought that was really cute and I was laughing out loud at that part!

Now, onto my review where I'm gonna get real upset and crazy and go:

WHY COULDN'T SAM JUST LISTEN!

If he'd listened to Dean a moment, been more patient, then maybe he would understand that the demon was taking advantage of him and that he hadn't really killed Dean after all. The guilt over leaving him to die and not being there to support him in his recovery is bad enough, now he's gonna have to deal with the body count too! The demon damn well knows Dean's alive, and Sam should know that if the demon wants to bring him back - or get someone to bring him back - he would! Why would Dean being dead longer make him come back better? See? Sammy clearly not thinking straight! The boys all brains and still stupid! hehehe He has to listen, he has to understand!

But I guess there is ONE bonus to this... at least now that Sam thinks Dean's come back wrong and he wants to fix it, he's gonna go looking for Dean to fix it... which means that if Dean and Bobby stay still long enough, Sam will find them.

But if that's the case they REALLY shouldn't be going to the roadhouse! I dont think I like the idea of how quick Jo is to condemn him, either, but with the body count - of hunters now less - stacking up around him, how if he ever going to manage to get his life back? He's never going to be able to walk away from this is he?

I'm losing hope for a happy ending here :( I know this is a dark fic, but I have hoped it'd get happy at the end where everything is just rosey and they're back together and normal and BOTH fighting for good again... but that's not looking likely at the moment.

I'm trusting you here... you wouldn't make a pregnant woman cry would you? LoL

Seriously, I absolutely love your stuff! I've never read anything so thought-provoking before. I've never reacted to stories like this! I love it/I hate it/You can't do that!/Sammy should listen/Dean's dead/Dean's alive?/Sam killed WHO?/What the hell?/they're all gonna kill him/please let this end happy/this is gonna make me cry! reactions are all very knew to me! hehehe

*sigh* I really REALLY need to read more. My readers are gonna be mad if I dont finish this soon and start writing again, but I cant stop in the middle, I need to knw, i have to read it! Physically impossible for me to stop reading!

Okay, gotta go!

My muses name is Missy - named after the freaky little girl in Benders who got the jump on Dean :) - and yet she takes on the form of many of the characters! Sometimes they just insist on having their say, dont they? :) No need to panic, I think it's an insanity we all share, and as long as it's shared you wont be lonely - not that you would be if the voices in your head are as loud as mine are! lol

I have to say one thing before I rush onto the next chapter in a mad panic... you have captured Dean perfectly in this story! This is exactly what I'd expect him to be like after something like this. This is exactly how I would imagine he'd react to not being able to do simple things like talking and using his right side properly. His frustration is perfect, his determination is perfect, even right down to the fact that he's favouring his right side. The whole thing is great! And you're not forgetting to let him deal with it slowly, which is fantastic!

I just hope that they can save Sam now and that the fallout isn't going to be too great...

Awesome story, hun!

OMG! But that's so much worse! Now Sammy's shot him and left him to die? Killing people and letting demons kill people when he didn't have to? Wow, you weren't kidding when you said this was dark, this is more like... I dont know... something darker than dark? What's darker than dark? Oh! I know! This is!

You threw me! Never did I think that Dean was actually alive this whole time! Never did I even consider that possiblity! I've never been this surprised by anything before - fic, movies, shows anything! No, this takes that cake! You should write professionally, like for tv or something! You just... wow... I'm really...

Okay... deep breath! Must read on!

Geez! So... not happy! Dean's dead? You said this was dark but whoah! Sam killed him, didnt he? But Dean hadn't seen the yellow eyes! Does that mean that he didnt actually have to kill them? Or Dean? Sam's not gonna be happy when he finds that out! The YED has managed to get him to kill willingly, to protect demons and fight for the dark side in the hopes of getting his brother back... this bastard is one helluva cheeky demon!

Oh, I hope that's Sam at the door... and I hope he doesn't have a shotgun aimed at Bobby's head! Bobby's his only hope - but even if he can help Sam be Sam again, can he save him from the hunting world? He's made quite an impact there!

Man, you've got my attention that's for sure! This is a great fic, and I have to say it's courageous!

Normally I'd wait to the end of a chapter before beginning a review, but you have just written at least two things in the very beginning of this one that I dont wanna miss commenting on!

First of all, does Sam never learn? Hide the piece of paper in his pocket... sure, coz Dean'll never find it then! lol

And my absolutely favourite line of all time! Out of every supernatural quote in history! You've done it, this line just had me p*g myself laughing!

"Does this look like the face of someone with all the answers?"
"I dunno. I'm having a little trouble differentiating between 'Puppy has an ouchie' and 'Puppy found a new toy' faces."

I just LOVE that! Absolutely brilliant! I'm STILL laughing!

Okay, why am I getting the idea that Sam's killing them too quickly here? Maybe that's just my fear since normally he would hesitate a little, but every time he's been after people who are going to hurt his brother and he's showing the lack of hesitation that Dean usually has in this type of situation. Hard to see on lil Sammy who likes to believe in the best of everyone... can't wait to see what's going to happen! You have me addicted!

Okay, so maybe I'm right, Dean couldn't see the golden eyes could he? Does that mean the YED is messing with Sam even more? Why is Dean convulsing? What is Sam shooting at? Better not be Dean! No way!

Must read!

Gr, freaky things getting freakier? How come they get to change the rules?!?! hehehe

Why do I get the feeling that Sam is eventually going to have to come clean about the motel chick? I didn't expect the cops to suspect Dean, though, I must admit. Poor guy, all because of a pain in the a** shape shifter! Gr again!

Oh, and I was close when I said that Dean was gonna tell Sam the girl wasn't who he'd said she was... she was the daughter of the witch, but she didn't know that at that time! Still, if she'd just told Sam where her mother was she might not have gotten herself killed.

Cant wait for the angst to set it about Sam killing that girl... is he gonna start thinking that he's already going dark side? Is he worried that if he tells Dean, Dean might think that too and have to kill him? Oh, the possibilities!

I managed to stop reading for long enough to get myself a bowl of cereal - not quite my normal lunch, but I didnt wanna stop long enough to make a sandwich! Not that patient! :)

hehehe Your email is going to be so tired! I wouldn't be surprised if it sighed when you open it next :)

Loving this story!

Okay, so when I said I wanted Sam to go in there, guns ablazing and shoot up the place until he got the answers he needed, this isn't quite what I had in mind! How is he ever going to tell Dean what happened? I have this horrible image in my head of Dean telling him he chick hadn't really been the daughter of the witch or something, but he wouldn't do that - but then again you've shocked me a hundred times already so who knows? Maybe I just shouldn't guess anymore!

Guessing in your stories seems dangerous!

You had me LITERALLY gasping out loud when Sam killed that girl! The car that pulled in only to drive away, what if he saw Sam? What if he went to the cops and reported it? What if the cops find him and throw him in jail? There's worse places than jail, what if...? Oh okay, I just have to keep reading! I was gonna go find food, feed the hungry pregnant woman but no... now I have to sit here and read more before I explode from curiosity!

Exploding is bad, I'm sure I read that somewhere :)

huh! didn't see that one coming! I should have known! it was too easy for Dean to assume Sam would be the bait, but in the end Sam ended up being the distraction that made it possible for Dean to be taken... how ironic was that?!?!

I knew that woman's comment meant something, Dean should've know, he should've asked her what she meant! What's gonna happen now? Is Sam's vision coming true? Or was that still planted by the demon and this whole thing is just some weird coincidence? ARGH! Too many questions!

Tell me he's gonna barge in there and demand to know where Dean is and that he's gonna shoot the place up til he gets him back!

Oh, and one thing occurred to me... considering how ambushed Sam gets by the older generation, you'd think he'd be more uncomfortable than Dean in an old peoples home wouldn't you? hehehe But then there's Dean who doesnt like watching people he thinks are just waiting around to die, and he's all about family so he thinks that no one should ever end up in a place like that. My Grandad has just ended up in a nursing home after a stroke and I went to see him there yesterday for the first time (he's only been in the home for a week and before that he was in hospitals and stuff an hour away and with bub starting to kick me in the bladder I havent been much up to the travel). I have to admit, I really wasn't looking forward to it, but seeing the place I was much happier about things. He looked well cared for and the people I met there were very nice and seemed to care about him. Still, I'm with Dean... if mum and I could take care of him ourselves, we would but we just cant. We cant lift him and my husband and my dad have to work - mum works too, but if she was capable of taking care of him I think she'd give that up. Still, it's not hard when things happen and you have to take them somewhere like that. Grandad is like Amelia, he thinks he's going home and back to work (he's 74 and refused to retire!) but he's paralysed down one side and there's just no way he's going to be strong enough to go back to work. He had a few jobs, but one of them was he was a partner in a removalist company, he also drove a crane... he cant do that again, but he refuses to give it up. Still, I think that's a good thing because it keeps him motivated and determined... I'm not sure why I wanted to tell you that, but I think the character of Amelia in this chapter just really made me think of how strong he is and how hard it is to leave him there.

Okay, enough of the blabbering! I got more reading to do :)

Oh, interesting! I knew it was gonna be the chick at the motel from the vision, and I figured the vision had to be in some way connected to the coven, but I hadn't even considered the possibility of the chick being the daughter of one of the witches! Hopefully that means that Dean wont go getting up close and personal with her, but I can just tell that he's going to insist on talking to her. He's not going to be able to leave her alone now :( Sam's gonna have to come up with something more plausible than 'I ate something that didn't agree with me' if he wants to keep Dean from the scary motel chick!

Meanwhile, I would love to know how Dean always manages to find the women with the big boobs waiting tables! Like he's not gonna eat all the gooey food as it is, do they really need to make it look like an all-you-can-eat buffet by serving up women like that? Poor Sam! He has to watch his brother devour the food - by the way, gross! - and then have to watch him visually devour a woman serving them coffee! I feel sorry for poor lil Sammy, he's so worried about his brother, he's trying to stop his vision from coming true and for some reason refuses to tell Dean about it, though it might be the best thing he could do if he just said 'Oh yeah, I saw some woman torching you alive last night' and it might just change the outcome... but then, how the hell do you get out words like that?

Gotta hate that YED! Evil SOB messing with poor Sammy. So does that mean that the vision isn't real? That Dean wont suffer a horrible, awful, torturous (is that a word?) death? Did he plant it to throw Sam off his game? Did he want him to go to this motel? Is he gonna try and take Sam? Did he just want to distract Sam so he could get up to something? Is he up to something? Does he have a plan in store or is he just getting his freaky demon jollies off on this?

Geez, so many questions! lol

Btw, I loved that line 'Jerking off in a diner is just unsanitary' hehehehe I liked that, quick thinking Dean on the ball with that comeback! :)

Okay, so I loved it and I'm gonna be reading some more... but unfortunately I gotta take a break :( No marathons for me today :( No fair! But I will be back to read on! Cant wait to see what's going to happen next... ooh! Is Dean gonna be some sort of human sacrifice for the coven? And what the hell kinda witchcraft is that room? Neon orange carpet? Yuck! I'd get a headache too, and I have to admit that Dean's idea of salt and burning the bed spread wasn't an entirely bad one... I personally think the internal decorate was possessed by either a colour blind demon or he was playing silly buggers to get a laugh!

And I love the Craft! hehehe Witches with a bad case of PMS hhehehe Great touch!

So much more to say, but gonna leave it there before I hear you snoring ;)

Great start!