Ah, the other side, finally, with what happened with Sam. That was so sad! I mean, imagining Sam bringing back Lilith instead of Dean, and then figuring out it wasn't him--as he would, because he knows his brother.
I love the way you told the story here, how it was just laid out very plainly since that's the way Bobby would tell it and think about it. There's just this regret in everything, like this is the way it is and they have to just say it, but there's also this sadness about how it had to be this way. Not just from the boy's pov, how Sam had to do what he did and Dean had to die the way he did, but the way the rest of the world was so open to the demon invasion that they could take over as easily as they could.
For some reason my favorite line in this chapter was this one: "In Barstow he finally sat down beside the pay phone outside a derelict gas station and he put his head in his hands and cried. Crazy old man." Because this is one of those stories where the people who look like nobody and who have been so flawed their whole lives are the heroes!
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:53 pm (UTC)I love the way you told the story here, how it was just laid out very plainly since that's the way Bobby would tell it and think about it. There's just this regret in everything, like this is the way it is and they have to just say it, but there's also this sadness about how it had to be this way. Not just from the boy's pov, how Sam had to do what he did and Dean had to die the way he did, but the way the rest of the world was so open to the demon invasion that they could take over as easily as they could.
For some reason my favorite line in this chapter was this one: "In Barstow he finally sat down beside the pay phone outside a derelict gas station and he put his head in his hands and cried. Crazy old man." Because this is one of those stories where the people who look like nobody and who have been so flawed their whole lives are the heroes!