This story is *exhausting* to read, I don't know how you keep up the pace you're writing at because it must be even more exhausting to have it living in your brains. ::zombie flashback *shudder*::
I really love how you're using a mix of familiar monsters (aka the ones that get all the screen time in the movies) and more exotic critters from myth and legend. And having the Winchesters use their signature pragmatism to defeat all comers. Well, except for that damned (no pun intended) demon.
I'm feeling lots of sympathy at this point for Sam and John (though John needs to be less quick to decide Dean's "lost to us", just the way he wants the other hunters to slow down a bit). But watching brother and father following in Dean's wake, interpreting all the chaos and destruction he's left behind, watching Sammy deal with the latest visions ... it's all just heartbreaking.
Plus also, poor Dean. ::pets Dean, feeds him chocolate pudding while the best trained doctors clean and care for his wounds:: That phone call....
I also like how you continue referencing back to Bobby, using John's connection to him as a way to introduce what's going on with the rest of the world (oh no, Apocalypse - damn, where's a Slayer when you really *need* one?!) and with the hunter community. Bobby as lifeline, sort of.
Also, due to reading the comments preceeding mine, now I have this mental image of Dean as parapsychology's answer to MacGyver. (Richard Dean Anderson - Dean Winchester ... there's a connection there!)
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This story is *exhausting* to read, I don't know how you keep up the pace you're writing at because it must be even more exhausting to have it living in your brains. ::zombie flashback *shudder*::
I really love how you're using a mix of familiar monsters (aka the ones that get all the screen time in the movies) and more exotic critters from myth and legend. And having the Winchesters use their signature pragmatism to defeat all comers. Well, except for that damned (no pun intended) demon.
I'm feeling lots of sympathy at this point for Sam and John (though John needs to be less quick to decide Dean's "lost to us", just the way he wants the other hunters to slow down a bit). But watching brother and father following in Dean's wake, interpreting all the chaos and destruction he's left behind, watching Sammy deal with the latest visions ... it's all just heartbreaking.
Plus also, poor Dean. ::pets Dean, feeds him chocolate pudding while the best trained doctors clean and care for his wounds:: That phone call....
I also like how you continue referencing back to Bobby, using John's connection to him as a way to introduce what's going on with the rest of the world (oh no, Apocalypse - damn, where's a Slayer when you really *need* one?!) and with the hunter community. Bobby as lifeline, sort of.
Also, due to reading the comments preceeding mine, now I have this mental image of Dean as parapsychology's answer to MacGyver. (Richard Dean Anderson - Dean Winchester ... there's a connection there!)
Two parts tomorrow? Yay!