Same Time Next Year [Gen, PG-13]

[apreludetoanend]

For fleshflutter on the occasion of her birthday, which I swear it still is in my timezone! You are lovely and talented and I had the hardest time deciding what to write for you! *g* In the end, I decided to take inspiration from your diversity and stretch my limits a little. Hope you like, and Happy Birthday!

Same Time Next Year [Gen, PG-13]
Pilot AU. Some

Comments

[fleshflutter]

Oh my goodness, you broke me. You made me cry on my birthday and I love you so much for it. A perfect, heart-breaking twist and I then had to reread it four or five times to properly appreciate it. Thank you so very much, my lovely. ♥

[apreludetoanend]

I hope your birthday was wonderful, and I'm so glad you liked this! *hugs*

[girlfan1979]

Oh wow. What a tough, sad piece - such an economy of detail, nothing belaboured.

Incredibly well done, so so meming this.

[apreludetoanend]

Thanks! I am so, so happy you liked this because it was actually kind of challenging to write! Much more than I expected when I got the idea, anyway. =)

[girlfan1979]

You carried it off beautifully, though.

[thatotherperv]

oh my GOD. goddamn. this hit me like a punch in the gut, man. and the fact that Sam can't tell him because it would mean him not coming back.

*whimper*

you did a good job of holding off the reveal until the very end, even though it was right there to grasp onto through the whole thing, from Jess in the Obama shirt.

[apreludetoanend]

and the fact that Sam can't tell him because it would mean him not coming back.

That's how I like my deanless!Sam: knowingly doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, and taking it farther that what might be considered rational.

Also, hi! This is me being completely relieved that you understood it! I had to leave the reveal for the end, but it was lots of fun putting in all of the hints along the way, like Obama and the unprotected window.

Thanks! =)

[laisserais]

HEE. oh man, you killed me. poor dean! not understanding it all. and the details that led up to the reveal were perfectly spaced. first, with jess looking sad and older, the non-ring having finger, dean not knowing about obama (that one was so solid, giving us a timeframe as well as an eyebrow wrinkling clue) and the unprotected window.

god, and sam trying to articulate the "six years ago I didn't do what you asked" thing! *wibble* that building on his lack of resistance, and dean's unspoken worries. SO GOOD.

by the time jess left, with sam knowing she wouldn't come back, i had it, but i didn't want to believe it. the dismay and the angst were all there in the pit of my stomach. such an awesome ghost story. and so sad! you're a genius.

[apreludetoanend]

How much do I love this selfish Sam, torturing himself and ruining his life and not putting Dean's spirit to rest just so he can have these few hours with Dean, one night a year? You know me, though, I think that given extreme circumstances, Sam would absolutely do things that aren't necessarily reasonable. Anyway, hi! I'm glad you liked the little clues, and the big ones. It was really fun, putting it all together.

[smilla02]

Oh, sweetie. You left me in tears.
I had to re-read to pick up all the clues you had left behind leading to that last shattering line. And this:
red-eyed and puffy like she just woke up in the middle of the night after a shitty life, for some reasons had me stopping to read twice. Beautiful.

[apreludetoanend]

Thank you. It's really so much fun to write something that hinges on a reveal at the very end (I've done it once before, but not to this degree) and it's so cool to hear that you went back to catch all of the little details afterward. And that line about Jess, I'm so glad you liked it.

Funny thing, though, I think my brain might be trying to tell me something. Like I said, I'm mostly avoiding SPN fic and sticking with RPS this summer to avoid the dead!Dean angst, and somehow *this* is what I end up writing? I have no explanation! *g*