Oh man, I wondered if this was you. I thought something about the cadence and style sounded familiar, and goddamn it I was right.
I don't think I commented on my first read at AO3, but I really, really loved this story. I liked the creeping sense of wrong, and I like how such a terrible thing was done, without intent, without Sam even knowing about it, and how much worse that made the entire thing. I like the question, at the end, of whether Sam did this to him, too, but also how Dean wondered if it was something he'd done to Sam, inadvertently, before Sam learned to block. But of course most of all I loved how it didn't matter in the long wrong, because Dean's a pragmatist and this is what they want now.
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Date: 2010-05-31 02:15 am (UTC)I don't think I commented on my first read at AO3, but I really, really loved this story. I liked the creeping sense of wrong, and I like how such a terrible thing was done, without intent, without Sam even knowing about it, and how much worse that made the entire thing. I like the question, at the end, of whether Sam did this to him, too, but also how Dean wondered if it was something he'd done to Sam, inadvertently, before Sam learned to block. But of course most of all I loved how it didn't matter in the long wrong, because Dean's a pragmatist and this is what they want now.
Just... loved it.