Crashing in the Same Car

[purple_carpets]

Title: Crashing in the Same Car
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 5100
Disclaimer: Not my boys. Kripke broke them long before I ever got to them.
Summary: post S7 Curtain!fic with a twist? I don't know. The Winchesters have a little guest who's probably there to stay

Comments

[purple_carpets]

Heee. Carefull, don't squish my poor babies!

[cassiopeia7]

Jeez, just rip my heart into itty-bitty pieces, why don'tcha? This is so beautifully sad and heartbreaking. Even if I'm kinda worried that Dean might turn into John. D:

(I get the Bambi/Disney reference, I think, but why would Jurassic Park upset DJ?)

[ramblin_rosie]

Not Jurassic Park, I'm thinking. Land Before Time. Bambi I could handle, but LBT *always* made me cry when we watched it at school. And I still have both of my parents!
Seconding the rest, though. *sniffle*

[cassiopeia7]

Ah-ha! Thank you so much -- that makes much more sense. Man, I (obviously!) hadn't thought of that show in ages.

[purple_carpets]

That's probably my favorite thing about S6. The way Dean treated Ben and how he was trying so hard not to be John but in the end he just couldn't do it. And, you know, having mini!Dean around is a hundred times worse than Ben, because he's constantly reminded of all the things he thinks John felt were wrong with him and, let's face it, Dean isn't the biggest Dean fan out there. Ah, the angst, I want to eat it all up.

Yeah, I was thinking Land Before Time. Probably should have been more specific. ^^

Wow

[gatekeeper1324]

I got the Bambie reference not the Dinosaur or Disney reference.

I love the way you write them.

TTYAL,

ED.

Re: Wow

[purple_carpets]

I was thinking Lanf Before Time for the dinosaurs. And Disney, well, is there so much as one of those movies that doesn't involve at least one dead parent? I just don't see Dean as a big fan. *hugs him*

Re: Wow

[purple_carpets]

Oh, I think I went to see that movie with my dad when I was about 10. I even had a little wind up Happy Meal toy. Totally forgot all about it.

[honeylocusttree]

:D

This pleases me. I can take or leave kid!fic, generally, but I like those that aren't cutesy, where the kids talk in complete sentences and are in charge of themselves---the way kids really are in real life. And I like that I didn't get the impression the home was all flowery and whatever and the issues weren't black and white, and everything was kind of just itself, and then there was this mystical thing going on too. But the characters have depth here. Nice work!

[purple_carpets]

Honestly, there are just so many kid 'verses out there, I have pretty much given up on following more than maybe two. And those are definitely the angsty kind. What's the point of having all those beautifully fucked up charcters and then making them be happy? They've just been through so much, I can't buy them as entirely competent parents.

[irismay42]

What a fantastic concept for a fic! And how hard would it have been for grown-up Dean to have a constant reminder of how awful things had been for him as a little kid following him around all day?

Loved that part where they were sitting in the diner and DJ was in little Sam's position, Sam in Dean's and Dean in John's. Only the Winchester family could totally mess with their own heads that way!

[purple_carpets]

Right? Right?? I was totally set on not participating at all because while I love curtain!fic, I didn't want to do the usual thing and I'm not in the mood for alcoholic!Dean and then BAM, Dean hates himself. Literally. They're just all so beautifully messed up.