Great story!

Nothing better than angsty Dean worried that Sam is going to leave him or has left him already.

And that ending, with Sam promising to always come for him and that he hasn't yet saved him (from that BIG thing...) yet was just perfect. Great story.

Lol, Maja - I laughed so hard when I read the summary, I just had to check it out.

And Dean was damaged, in a way, he was definitely cranky and complaining and driving Sam up the wall, so hey, I'm all for this! A little humour is needed in between all the whumping.

And seriously - an albino hedgehog? Dude, it should totally be on the show.

That starts omnious...And it got me thinking, which is always a quality I admire in a fic. Because yeah, Sam knows the difference between a vision and a nightmare, even if he doesn't quite admit it to himself there.

But what would get Dean to the point where he puts a gun against his own head? It's an interesting thought, one that also doesn't bode too well for Sam, since I think Dean being driven to that is closely connected to something bad happening to/going on with Sam...

This has definitely gotten me curious for more :D So please update soon.

I totally missed the "character death" warning you put up, and I was hping for a miracle for the entire time that I was reading this story.

*bawls eyes out in complrete dispair*

I just loved how Dean held on until Sam was there, and that you managed to bring John into this, but Dean...*sniff* Okay, so it's totally my fault for going into this unprepared. I mean, even the title was a dead giveaway.

But still, it was beautiful, even if it was also horribly sad.

*gulp*

I'd love to hurl a sharp pointy object at you right now, but I'm too...I don't even know what to call it.

I love small insights into moments between the scenes that we get to see on screen, and you really manage to capture the despair really good. Dean with his mask down is always a thing to enjoy, sick as that sounds. And yeah, Dean in mental anguish over going to hell, but still, always making sure that Sam is all right - it's just so Dean.

And I'll take you up on that promise of a no-death fic in the future. Yes, it was a promise. You just didn't know until now.

Okay, this was beautiful. In a heartwrenching, soul-tearing, make-me-want-to-cry-kind of way.

All the instances you picked are so beautiful and in character, and Dean's feelings of fear, helplessness and pain respectively were so tangible, it was a real treat to read it.

I distinctly remember reading this before, on fanfiction.net probably. But I'm sure I never reviewed, and reading it now I'm absolutely not sure why.

You really tell me that you wrote all this in one sitting? Because that is incredible, whether or not you pulled an all-nighter for it.

I'm a complete sucker for hurt/helpless Dean (otherwise I probably wouldn't be here, right?), and you managed to write his confusion and also desperation at not being able to remember so convincingly. The scenes when the memories started flashing back were great, his reaction to hearing Sam's name for the first time had me shivering, and when he remembered their father's death it was simply heartbreaking.

Not to mention that this story also had me completely hooked concerning who was the bad guy. For a lont while I was torn between wanting to believe Sophie, suspecting that she was using Dean's condition for her own sinister means, uncertainty about Rena (because surely, Sam wouldn't help him if there was something wrong with him, right?). The final reveal put everything into place nicely, but the fact that the story left me guessing for so long makes it all so much better.

And of course, it's always great to see a Sam and Dean reunion that is both heartbreaking, yet at the same time true to the characters that we see on the show. As much as I love to see hugging and clinging, sometimes the subtle notes are so much more powerful than that.

Thanks for sharing this, and again kudos for writing a piece like this in one sitting. That thought still doesn't want to get into my head :-)