Over the Mountains of the Moon, for lyryk

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Title: Over the Mountains of the Moon
Recipient: lyryk
Rating: G
Word count: about 4500
Warnings: Spoilers for the classic 1968 Disney movie The Love Bug. Angst.
Author’s Notes: To lyryk, I hope you like what I’ve done with your lovely prompts.
Many thanks to my amazing beta for her extensive knowledge, wisdom, and encouragement.

Summary: In a coda to

Comments

[bratfarrar]

I think this is the one and only post-5.16 samulet (sort of) fix-it fic that 100% works for me. Everything about it is perfect. From the characterization, to the little details:

“No,” said Sam, “you’d be the guy they shoot out of a cannon.” The sharp points of Dean’s amulet dug into Sam’s shoulder blade, and he yelped “Ow!”

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“You never know,” he intoned in a goofy parody of a 1950s tv announcer, “how far you can go with a GED and a give-’em-hell attitude.”

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They never went back. They didn’t know why. Maybe it was a fear, lurking like a monster in the shadow of their thoughts, that they would find Carmody One-Stop Auto Repair shuttered and abandoned, or gone altogether, covered over by the parking lot of Target or Home Depot, no trace left of the summer that was so normal it was weird.

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Sam eyes Dean narrowly, but his brother appears to mean this at face value only. Sam’s the one who’s reading a lifetime of fraternal push and pull, gravitation and repulsion, into a simple memory of a car

[brightly_lit]

Aw, man, I love this. I love everything about it: the unadorned, clear, excellent writing; the subject matter ("Dark Side of the Moon" is probably my favorite beginning to an episode, and one of the most disappointing endings for me, so this fic is serving as both delicious delving more into the beginning, and fix-it for the ending); the truth of the characters, and their transparency. I knew going in that I could trust you as an author, a rare event, and delightful; I could just relax into reading the fic.

“Yeah, that’s what I mean.”

This is so wonderful.

I love the details about the town they're in--it made it feel very real.

And Herbie! My first woulda-been car was the family VW bug, so this brought back happy memories.

“Oh, you betcha, sweet cheeks,” said Dean, and Sam wondered, not for the first time, how was it that his brother could sound so corny, like an elderly diner waitress, and yet Sam was the one who got called dorky.LOL

[borgmama1of5]

I am in love with this story...

The dialog is perfect, I can hear Sam and Dean saying your words...the tone of their interactions, both in the present and in the past, are perfectly in keeping with their characters in the show...and the visual word pictures you paint of Herbie and the town made the story touchably real!

[kalliel]

I don't think I've ever thought "Omg, this is so perfect I feel like it was written for me!" so often about a fic that wasn't actually literally written for me. XDD But this is so perfect. So perfect

[bratfarrar]

I absolutely adore this. I adore your writing, and your Sam and Dean, and just how vibrantly, specifically them this is. It's like nothing else. <333

YES. THIS.

This is one of those fics that rings so true to show it's almost eerie. (Or it's like getting struck upside the head with a gong; you can't help but vibrate in sympathy with it.)

[tyrsibs]

This is so beautifully written! I love how you centered the story with mundane details, and yet also dramatized moments I've been curious about, with Dean's GED and Sam learning to drive and prepare himself for Stanford. The painful framing story works so well to highlight what the Winchesters were on the brink of losing at that time. So well done.