SPN (New): The Cat Came Back (gen, post-ep for 516)

[cofax7]

So, I got inspired to write this.

Rating: Teen for language
Spoilers: through 5x16, "Dark Side of the Moon"
Summary: It's not something you can tell anyone, after all. It's not something to be proud of, even. For Roy and Walt, it was just a job, like any other.

Story is also archived here on AO3.

Comments

[maraceles]

Yeah, this was awesome. *g*

[cofax7]

Thank you!

[faithintheboys]

This was so cool. So far I've seen a lot of codas to this episode but nothing like this. Great job, thanks!

[cofax7]

I figure the show itself gives us enough followthrough on the boys' state of mind: I wanted to know what happened to Walt and Roy when they found out they'd wasted their efforts.

[sophiap]

Oh, nice. I was wondering what happened to those two, and I love your take on it.

I can't help but think that Dean leaving Roy alive was as much a punishment as a mercy, given what Dean knows about what it's like to lose your partner/brother/cousin.

[cofax7]

Oh, I think you're probably right about that.

I'm glad I didn't read any other stories before I wrote this, since it turns out there's another one about Walt & Roy posted just ahead of mine on SPN_gen. Woops!

[serenada]

Nice and chilling!

I think everyone else is running around having Team Free Will group hug and making sure Sam fishes the amulet out of the wastebasket.

Which I think are perfectly understandable knee-jerk reactions, but why waste all that nice jaw-clenching work JA did there in the opening scene? There was a lot of wrath there, and I like the idea that karma's a bitch and Dean is watching.

[cofax7]

Thank you!

I tend to think that Dean wasn't actually looking for those guys, but he wasn't going to pass on an opportunity to make a point when he had one. Frankly, he's got way too much on his plate to waste time on those yahoos.

[destina]

Wow, I'm glad you pointed out you had posted something this morning, because I almost missed this. (Although I did have to backtrack for it, because your link goes to DW, where I do not travel.) I love this a lot, because it says a couple interesting things about Dean: that he isn't really a killer of humans, no matter how much he has tried to live in the black and white of good and evil (dude, I think he even has sympathy with their point of view); and that he has to understand that Roy is going to suffer much more with the grief than he would if Dean ended him right there. And I also always love to read the POV of the secondary characters. These guys are just hunters, trying to do what's right. This really hit the spot.

[cofax7]

I'm very glad you liked it! And yeah, I don't see Dean as murderer if he can avoid it.

I'm sorry I forgot to link to LJ too: do you also not travel to AO3?

[destina]

I do travel to AO3! But since I appear to be totally unable to remember my password there, I often travel out again without commenting, and I wanted to comment to you. So I just checked back to see if it was here. *g*