NEW (SPN): Her Tracks Are On The Land (PG, Gen)

[cofax7]

Title: Her Tracks Are On the Land
Author: cofax
Rating: PG (Gen)
Spoilers: through early season 3
Summary: The boy she's spent twenty years searching for, in memory of her dead sister, turned out to be a serial killer. How's that for a kick in the pants? Could be read as AU, but not yet entirely jossed.
Notes: 9,700 words. Beta by vee_fic.

Comments

Re: that is so utterly cool

[cofax7]

Thank you!

Well, I couldn't say, because Karen wouldn't know this, but they've just come from resolving the deal, somehow. Bobby didn't even tell them about her call until afterwards. Which made Sam yell at him, but Dean understood. Dean bitched, because he totally wanted to go to Vegas, but Sam insisted on getting in the car and driving 1300 miles to meet his aunt.

Re: that is so utterly cool

[veritykindle]

Oh! I was trying to count back the days in my head, and I figured they must have shown up around the time the deal was about to come due, and I was trying to decide if this was right before that, or right after. And then Dean said that Sam was the one who wanted to come, and I *knew* the deal must have been resolved, because right around this time, I don't think Sam would have been able to think about *anything* but saving Dean, unless the deal had been resolved

[lilacsigil]

I really loved Karen's determination not to be alone, and not to let Mary's sons be alone either; it was a very Dean-like dedication to family. My brother has two little boys the same ages that Dean and Sam are when they vanish from Karen's life, and I live a long way away from them - I can very much feel Karen's pain and shock as she finds out, too late, what happened to her sister, and missed her chance to help the boys. Her growing sense that something is wrong - not just from Becky's statements but from the holes in the FBI story - is beautifully charted here, and I'm really glad that she got to meet Mary's gigantic, familiar sons, finally.

[cofax7]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it. It's always bothered me how the Winchesters appear to have no relations, and didn't even notice when the ones they did have started dying off...

[kroki_refur]

So much love. I can't even say. I swear, I was right there with Karen through all her frustrations and disappointments, desperately hoping she would find the boys and terrified she never would. And then she did! Thank you, thank you.

It's amazing that you can write nearly ten thousand words in which the boys appear in only two scenes, and have me completely riveted. I love Karen so much -- she feels so real. I'm rambling a bit but it's late here and really I'm just blown away.

♥ x a billion

[kroki_refur]

Also, I loved this:

It took a few minutes to strap Dean into the car-seat; he really wanted to be up front with his mother and aunt. "No! Want the car!"

Oh, Dean. In love with that car from the day he was born :D.

[cofax7]

Oh, of course. *g*

[cofax7]

Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! It had to end with them meeting, really: it's all about the journey.

I put a lot of my relationship with my sister and nieces into Karen, so I'm very glad she feels real to you.

[la_perkins]

Oh, this is just wonderful!

I had lots of things I wanted to say and quote, but then I got interrupted (stupid work), so I will have to settle for This is wonderful!

Love Karen, and Dean loving the car even when Mary was alive.

[cofax7]

(you can always quote later! *g*)

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

[la_perkins]

This is true.

If I do there will be lots of Karen!s and one or two Henrickson!s and Rebecca! and YAY outsider POV!s.

I did like it a lot, and wish it hadn't gotten Jossed, because it should have happened this way.

[cofax7]

Well, it's not entirely jossed. But probably. And I suspect it'll get jossed this Thursday...

[amothea]

I loved your story, I got tears in my eyes at the end.

[cofax7]

YAY! That's the best compliment on a story!