Oh my god, it's so sad. I'm crying. I like it, but can't you break out some happy? Please?

wow. that's one of the best 'one-of-the-brothers-died-and-the-other-has-to-move-on-with-their-lives' fics that i've ever read.

i love the characters: i think you captured them all really well.
i like teh way dean moved on with his life. it seems...realistic.

Wow. I cannot begin to tell you just how painful that story was. I think as difficult as it is to think about one of the brothers surviving the other in a cloud of revenge-driven kamikaze missions, it inexplicably causes me more pain to think of one of them actually living while the other is dead. Perhaps because it's so much harder to do. After all, I'm sure someone has once said that dying is easy, life is hard.

I'm not sure how soon I'll be recovering from this story, especially the part when Dean left his father. I'd like to think that if Dean actually did let Sam stay dead, then maybe Dean would have been able to live again after a while. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem possible. Once again, great story. Well done.

wow, what a lush and inviting tale you have created! I thought the pacing was marvelous, it held my attention well. A particular favourite: -He couldn't tell his dad that, wouldn't tell him that. His father wouldn't understand, and Dean wouldn't risk it. So he'd play bait, let his father do the dirty work, and wish the entire time he'd thought of necromancy before they'd burned Sam.-

I recently read a introspective one-shot called Sundown that explored who the Winchester men would save if they were forced to choose, and it had me convinced that John would save Sam, but you've swayed me the other way now. I'm not sure it's intentional or not, but throughout the story I didn't feel like John was an 'evil' character; he just came across as a man who made a difficult decision to the best of his ability. Excellent job all around!

!Zil!

Wow, this really got me deep down, lol. I cried so much. I'm so partial to Dean. This was a very interesting and awesome take on how things could've turned out differently. Great job, and thanks so much for sharing this!

Oh my god, you totally made me cry. It's a masterpiece, really. Just amazing, I loved it

Huggels, Tomorrows Dust

Great! Builds up a depressing athmosphere but kinda solves it in the end. Really good. *sniff* Love the way you DIDN'T bring back Sam from the dead for once. :-D

This is the best deathfic ever! Sad, heartbreaking.

Oh man, this story moved me so much I'm still sniffing whilst typing this review.
I felt as numb and as cut off from the warmth in his life as Dean felt when he learnt of Sam's death. And of the coldness of betrayal at the secret that John had kept from him. All of Dean's emotions I felt vividly as I read further, and I also cried for him when I felt that he couldn't. Then for him to finally find some happiness in the 'normal' of working in a coffee house of all places.
You managed to switch there roles with the flick of a word...masterful
This is one of the best fics I have read for a long time.
Keep up the good work. You are in my favs/alerts.

all i have is one word for this--amazing! i cried...i really did. you did a great job!

This story broke my heart in so many ways that I didn't even feel up to it for a review. I don't know how to review this. It was so sad that it was wonderful, and it offered the viewers a What-If. I like how you integrated what happened in the show with what would have happened without Sam (like the part of Simon Says).

The ending was so painfully bitter, yet with a tinge of sweetness, just a little bit. How John, broken and needy, wanted Dean. But Dean finally forsaked John, after a lifetime of obedience. Arh. I just don't even know what to say.

I'm glad it didn't turn out this way in the show. And I think it's mainly because Daddy knows Dean and Sam need each other so badly.

Oh. My. God. That was just incredible! I've actually had to sit here composing myself before I could compose a review because you've just completely shattered my brain.

You certainly went a little bit further than rewriting IMTOD, didn't you? I can't believe how you more or less worked every single episode of season 2 into this! The way you echoed all of the season's most important points - only with Dean and John mourning Sam instead of Dean and Sam mourning John - was just incredible. You could really feel Dean's grief and Sam's presence through every word.

I particularly liked the Croatoan rewrite, with John having to explain what he couldn't sacrifice for Sam's life. Although you didn't say whether the YED had demanded John 'sweeten the pot' in the same way as he did in IMTOD, I was still wondering why John wouldn't at least have offered up the Colt... But the explanation you gave was well thought out and certainly didn't suggest John loved Sam any less than he loved Dean, which was appreciated.

I especially loved how you had Dean going to live in an apartment in Palo Alto, finding a pre-law student and settling down into a 'normal' life.

Inspired genius. I really ought to stop typing now as I could go on for another 20 pages I'm sure...

Oh - just noticed you've done a Nightlife story! I bought that book on vacation in the US and thought how SN it was...! If I ever get to finish it I'll be sure to check out your story!

Great story! Kinda hard to read it for all the crying I was doing! This story should come with a kleenex warning. (Guess I should pay more attention to the words death fic,huh?) I'm not too sure John would have given his life for Sam either. Not that he didn't love Sam. But with what John knew about Sam, it makes you wonder if he would take that way out of the problem. You and Kaly have really set the bar high for round 4 fics.

That was fantastic. A total rewritten tragedy. I loved how everything came in just like season two except different, and more depressing. Awesome job!

Oh poor Dean. Wow. This was amazing, excuse me while I go get some tissue. I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, very emotional. Great work.


-a2011