“Hey, I can’t help it if I’m sexiest lying down. Put me in a hospital bed? She couldn’t resist." LOL Like millions of fangirls everywhere. ;)

"Dean would have to wait while he’d amassed enough paper towels to protect his hand from actually touching the bag." *snickers* That detail cracked me up--though I can't blame Sam. I wouldn't want to touch the bag, either. *ew*

Loved this line: “Huh. Like being stung by a seven foot smelly fur covered bee.”

“Dean, I’m sure there aren’t any haunted houses between Jill’s and the hospital, and…” he cut off Dean’s protest, “even if there were, I promise I won’t drive through the front door.” I did kinda think they'd bring this up again in Season 1, Sam's treatment of the Impala. But they never did. Glad you put it in here.

*still mad at John* I guess it's too much to hope for some resolution/healing and apologies from him? Or even for Sam to deck him? *sigh*

Well that was incredibly depressing. I think I hate John a little right now. Especially since with all the crap he dished out, he also erased Sam's messages.

This cracked me up: "Sam noticed, since he was hovering like some kind of emo vulture." *snickers*

I'm glad to find out that Sam never blocked Dean's number and ticked to find out that John blocked Sam's. It's hard to imagine him doing something like that, even angry, because I'd think he'd want to know if the demon came after Sam (and he had to know it might, with what he was finding out about the psychic kids). I'm glad Sam found a way to get Dean's coordinates to their dad, which probably saved Dean's life.

I loved that Dean's password is always Sam's birthday. Great detail. Hate that John left Dean while he was still in the hospital. *wants to kick him* And probably did something so Dean wouldn't get Sam's messages. I hate that Sam gave up after just one day--though Dean had been regularly calling him for months--and just stopped trying to contact his brother. Maybe Dean didn't return his call cuz he was unconscious, did he think of that?

It was a little diabolical how Sam waited until just before Dean went to sleep to ask his questions, so he'd get true answers. I was glad he did though. Poor Dean, always trying to do what's best for Sam and John, and all too often, they don't return the favor. Glad Sam's there now, watching over him, and Jill, too. I'm worried that Dean's still so out of it.

"Even if he did know how to kill something like that it would have been like killing a bald eagle, or a bottlenose dolphin, like it was a supernatural spotted owl or something." Love the sense of wonder Dean has toward the panther, even though it almost killed him. Is it a real mythological creature, too? It sounds really neat.

I got really aggravated at the motel manager. Who sees someone with heatstroke and bleeding to death and instead of showing concern or human decency or calling the paramedics, threatens to call the cops if the guy doesn't vacate the premises? That panther thing should've gotten him!

Ugh, Sam was making me so mad in this, yelling at Dean, threatening to block his number, accusing him of being drunk, AGAIN. GR. But then he did eventually come through, figuring out something was wrong with Dean and presumably sending the text message to get their dad there. I'm glad John showed up and got Dean to the hospital. Hope he feels bad for sending Dean to Ocala alone and stays with him while he recuperates. Dean could've died, alone, in that car. Which I'm still a little grouchy about.

Nice story. I really enjoyed it. It looks like you planned it all out from the first line of the first chapter and I LOVED the idea and effort behind it.
Now I have to catch up with your other spn fics :D

"But bro, try to remember, you stopped calling me two years ago, not the other way around.”
“I was just doing what you wanted me to do ….” He was blinking slowly, taking longer each time to open his eyes. “You blocked my number.”
“I what? What I wanted? You were …” He stopped, looking again at Dean. “We’ll figure this out later, I promise." I hope they do, and that it's less sad than it seems.

I can't believe John would just leave Dean in the hospital, alone and hurt. *wants to kick him*

"One of the reasons I had to leave, I had to go to college, was to stop hunting the things Dad and Dean do, to stop being a participant, a witness, even the cause of Dean’s ... injuries, hurts. He was always trying to protect me. God, the thing that scared me the most is that he would die in front of me." That's a really kind interpretation of why Sam went away to school. I hope that's true.

"He would call me and I wouldn’t pick up. All he wanted was to shoot the breeze for a few minutes. But I so proud of being in college, proud of getting away...” After a few minutes, he quietly added, “He never told me about what he and Dad were doing, not once. He knew it’d piss me off. He practically raised me, he was just a kid, and he had to bring me up, but once I got to college, I wouldn’t talk to him." He took a shuddering breath. “I suck, don’t I?”" Uh, yeah. You do. Sorry, I'm a little bitter towards Sam and John right now. Something about the image of Dean in the hospital, alone, hurt, near death, and all by his friggin' self cuz no one in his family can get their heads out of their butts and put him first. Grr.

“How’d she get here all on her own?” He knew she was a good car but..." This made me laugh.

And this made me sad: "When he tried Sam’s number it went straight to voice mail - always better than listening to it ring first knowing Sam was watching the call roll over." This is why I don't normally read Stanford-era stuff. It's just so painful. Sam's being a big jerk, not taking Dean's calls, yelling at him when he does get through. John's being a big jerk, leaving Dean in a motel room with a bounced credit card, not bothering to ask how his hunt went, just assuming he's been goofing off. And Dean's all alone and hurt. It breaks my heart.

I'm glad Sam was so frantic when Dean went missing. Also glad he found out a lot about Dean's previous Florida trip, and that Jill tracked him down.

And I really liked this: "He hesitated, not wanting to expose too many of Dean’s foibles to outsiders." I like that Sam was protective of Dean that way.

But mixing up the years? That's not good, not good at all...

Oh, poor Dean. He is having a seriously crappy day. First severe allergies, enough to cause anaphylactic shock, it sounds like. Then a chopper, too! His day couldn't get much worse.

“He’s OK. He’s just trying to turn this into a pissing contest between the pool and kites and of course, my awesome power over women. And besides, now I’m hitting him where it really hurts. You think pool and kites aren’t physics? You just hit the balls and they accidentally fall into the pockets? And kites are all physics. Lift and drag co-efficients, entropy, wind speed, galactic stagnation,” he smirked at Sam’s reaction, “and that’s just the wind.“ He pointed, “There’s the shop.” LOVE when authors portray Dean as smart, because I SO think he is. I loved this.

Oh, Sam. I wanted to kick him. He really can be such a jerk--and Dean was being so thoughtful, getting him swim trunks, making sure he had gifts for his friends, making sure Sam had a good time. Ugh.

Ah, poor Dean. At least he had the good luck to rescue a doctor so she can help him out a little.

“Yeah, well what’s in your head besides my high school schedule?” I love that Dean remembers stuff like that about Sam's childhood.

And I was glad Sam said this: "I didn’t miss the job, I didn’t miss the way we lived, but I really missed you, that’s all.” Very sweet.

The "Throat Clearing of Doom" cracked me up. I wish Sam would quit acting like Dean's going to embarrass him.

"By the time they finished, Dean had won three games and mostly allowed Sam to win two. The kid was getting really good. They’d collected an audience, led by Kit who spent most of the time ‘explaining’ to anyone who would listen as to why Dean’s shots looked hard but were actually easy. Dean wouldn’t reply, just shrugged it off, but after a while, even Sam protested which finally shut Kit up." I'd like to see Kit get his butt kicked. Though I guess Dean already beat him at pool. I wish we'd seen that. Glad Sam (finally) stuck up for his brother.

"Just proved the adage, well Dean’s adage, that only one child in a family inherited the cool genes and it hadn't been Sam." LOL

Dean having such a severe reaction already in this chapter, and apparently enough that he needed the epi pen in the last chapter, doesn't bode well.

Another really intriguing chapter. I like Jill and Adam.

This was a nice little glimpse into their past. I can totally see Dean being even more protective than John: "I swear you and Dad thought I was going to die if I stubbed my toe and you were way worse than him.”

Nice bit of continuity here: "As they stepped out the door, Sam heard him say, under his breath, “Check.”"

It cracked me up to think Sam could drive the Easter Bunny insane, "listening to you talk about trespassing to hide the eggs and de-beaking chickens and the inhumane conditions of modern egg production." ROTFL

And this was cute: "We didn’t spy on you, we protected you, just, um, well, we checked on you, in a totally non-stalkerish kind of way.” Yeah, keep telling yourself that, Dean. *snort* I think it was sweet they checked on him though. Glad he found out.

This totally cracked me up: "Dean said, “Yeah, all the beef here has chupacabra spit on it.” *snickers*

"But the nail in the supernatural coffin as far as Dean was concerned was the fact that Skunk Apes loved caves, which meant right there they had to be fuglies because only unholy sons of bitches would hide in them so hunters had to go into caves to kill them." ROTFL

"Other than the exquisite pleasure of calling Sammy Skunk Ape and maybe even better, Stink Ape for the rest of his life, he simply hadn’t found anything yet he could take home from his trip to the sunshine state other than ‘things that live here smell bad’. Next time, he’d make the chupacabras go into the cave and have the sasquatch eat them." *snort* Yeah, Dean, you do that! LOL

“You idiot, this isn’t a one to one relationship. You want to throw sponges at it or something? Maybe you could use a holy hairdryer? And you’re still a damned fool moron for going in there by yourself.” *snickers* I love Bobby!

Cedar, huh? That's pretty cool. I'm enjoying the Skunk Ape lore. I know they're a real mythological creature, so kudos for using something pretty original in here that hasn't been done to death. I liked Dean's interaction with Bobby, and him thinking about the differences between talking to Bobby and talking to his dad were pretty telling.

"it was like trying to breathe cotton,"--Great description. The paragraph that talked about all the fur, and the smell, made me feel like I couldn't breathe, either. Nice job!

"That’s probably because he hadn’t actually finished working through the desire to cut his own throat with a dull knife rather than go in." This was funny, but I so felt for Dean.

"Hell, he’d probably even eaten rat at some point considering how desperate he was sometimes to feed himself and Sam. Not like Dad ate any better all the time when they were little, but he could at least get more cash, while all Dean could do was check payphones for coins, turn in deposit bottles, and try to find a way to sell Sam’s hair for money." That picture of Dean as a kid, trying so hard to figure out a way to take care of Sammy, just broke my heart.

Love the "check" thing as Dean was going through his supplies. I used that recently in a fic, too. It just seems like a very Dean thing. Loved this tie-in to their past: "And Dad hadn’t been the one packing up a million and one itsy bitsy baby things trying to make sure that none of Sam’s favorite toys were left behind when they’d had to bolt over the years." Aw, Dean.

I love hunts in caves, and I love claustrophobic Dean, too, so this chapter was really enjoyable, even though the boys weren't together. I was pretty surprised how much I liked it, despite them being apart. Great job! Very creepy!