I like the "daily life" glimpses. And who DOESN'T love more pranks?!

I love, love this concept, a trail of motel rooms.

This is Great !

I love all those different moment and situation ! just them and their awesome brotherly love !

Didn't realize Dean and Jess shared a birthday... how horrible for Sam.

I really, REALLY liked the way you described different motel rooms, not only the ambiance, but also the different ways they were used. Birthday, hospital, joking, war, prison, emotional backdrop (clarifying for myself)
Love it.

Wonderful. I loved all of the different stories you were able to tell in and around various motel rooms they've stopped at, all the while crafting a larger story that builds and builds until that last scene where Dean realizes that they are "home" for each other, no matter where they happen to be at the moment. It was lovely seeing that all come together.

Dean and Jess shared a birthday? That's...kind of wierd.

Great story. I enjoyed it very much.

I know you wrote this story like ten million years ago, but it still holds everything I love about the show in it that's amazing. I've almost finished reading EVERYTHING you have posted. The sheer amount of what you've written and the quality of it always shocks me, and now when I watch the show (re runs on tnt, woho!) I get confused because I can never tell what actually happened or what I just read from your stories, which is wonderfully horrible. honestly, I love you in a totally not going-to-stalk-you way. And not just cus you're my favorite writer, or that you update all the time, or that you contribute to all these magazines that I would of heard of w/o you, but because you also mentioned Skokie, Il in this story. Yay skevanston! (sorry about the rant)

Aw, this was lovely:-) You really have such a gift with writing - have you ever thought of writing your own novel? And it never ceases to amaze me what a grasp you have on these boys' characters - you just seem to know what they think and feel and what they would do in any given situation - your stories read like something that could actually appear on the show. Finally, I never knew that Dean and Jess share a birthday? Now THAT'S something that I wish they had actually brought into the show because it has all kinds of possibilities...

Wait, what? Dean and Jess share a birthday?

Anyway, nice work, as always. Much enjoyed, as always. :)

Wow! You hit on most things here. The prank war was one of my favorites. They have to do something to break up the 'boredom'. :)

They've had some interesting rooms and I imagine some of them have stuck with them, whether by how they looked or what was going on at the time.

Very enjoyable. :)

As always, a nice story, well actually, many stories or snippets of their life, very creative and beautifully written. Just wanted to let you know that I loved the first and the last one best. The first one, because it just made me very sad that Dean couldn't even feel happy anymore on his birthday, even with Sam there and having set up a Twinkie with a candle and some gift and card. And I liked how - during the night - it all seemed to get better somehow... where Sam's nightmare triggered Dean's caring and then Sam's promise. My favourite lines from this one:

The ball of hurt came back to the pit of Sam's stomach, but not for him.

But Sam was here now. Things were going to change. It was a promise.

There was a long pause. He wished he could see Dean’s face, but he could hear the emotion when his brother eventually answered.

“Chocolate."

He smiled. “All right."

...and I liked the last story... a lot! ...probably because I can pretty much imagine what it is like to always be with someone 24/7. I'd probably need time for myself (alone-time) much more often than even Sam does. Anyway, my favourite lines here were:

There was needing space from each other and then there was needing 'space', and he had a feeling Sam was dealing with the latter.

Sam’s head tilted a tiny bit at the sound of the opening door, but he didn’t comment, didn’t do more than shuffle over to make room on the step he was sitting on.

Then the entire scene where Dean tries to make Sam feel better about taking some time to meet up with Sarah and how he always seems to be able to just read Sam like a book.

and where Sam again makes a promise to Dean:

Sam bounced into him on an elbow. “I’m not running away from home again, man."

...and (but you already know this) and I guess I'm repeating myself here... anyway, I just LOVE you endings:

“Dean?”

He shut his eyes, the tightness in his chest not at all unpleasant. “Don’t be such a little brother, Sammy."

“Uh-huh." A smile in the words. “I love you, too, Dean."

And when they finally went back into the room, it was together.

Thanks for the treat!

Cheers, D.

Okay, I almost shed a tear when Dean snuffed out that birthday candle in the pathetic Twinkie. But the bonding over Sam’s nightmare afterwards made up for it. Did you write this before Jensen Ackles made it very clear that chocolate was his favorite? Dean himself seems like a very chocolate-loving guy—skip that vanilla stuff, he wants full-on flavor. And also, is this set after Dean made his deal? At first I thought so, but then you mention the Bloody Mary episode and to reference something that far in time from Dean making his deal seems to set the story towards Season 1.

The section with the warring werewolves was cool, the beginning full of military-precision, even in the writing. It’s a summary of actions and ideas, no dialogue. I really liked this bit, for some reason: **The map had taken over the one table, wolf sightings marked in red, their location and strategic points in green. Other lines—routes, diversions, escape routes—were sketched in pencil, subject to rethinking at any time.**

The section with the wraith was awful (the emotions it stirred up, not the writing). Dean’s accusations that Sam just whined, should have been left to die, were terrible. This was such an interesting premise, I wish it was a full story, rather than just a piece of this one. I mean, the guilt trip Dean would be riding from that? Talk about some angst.

In sum, this was a great little collection of stories, with that common thread of bro!love that I love so much. ;)

P.S. There’s a typo in the first paragraph: “Sam could wanted.”

This was an interesting look at all the meanings motel rooms have to the boys. I really enjoyed it.

Good job!

I really love this, always love insight into what happens between the hunts. I've read it a few times and the birthday twinkie gets me every time.