Well done, it is difficult to kill off anyone, but Dean...come on...but you did a good job...thank you.

Very good fic. I liked the questions you raised - Dean's salvation, the fact that Dean enjoyed torturing souls in Hell, the nature of Sam's powers... It was nice to see angels and hunters working together on stopping the Apocalypse, and the mutual respect there (something we haven't exactly seen on the show). I enjoyed the flashbacks, and the way you weaved them into the story. I also really liked the idea that something as 'primitive' as a GPS in a phone could eventually stop the big evil plan (and that Dean came up with it). I admired Dean's sacrifice - although it really was very tough to read the torture scenes - 'no, not his face!' - and I loved that Sam was able to let him go. That they were both able to let each other go.

I had tears in my eyes when I finished the story, but they were good tears. Thank you!

I can't believe i haven't seen this story before in all these years. Only now i understand what i was missing. Because WOW. That story just blew me away. It was hard seeing Dean die, and the aftermath, it was like a punch to the gut. But damn, the story was everything i look for in a fic and i appreciate you for that. Thank you for this awesome piece. It will surely be stuck in my head for some time

You killed Dean. You... you actually killed him. You let him give the "it's time speech" and then you actually let him die... I don't- I don't know what to do with that. I think I hate it, but...
So I'll change the subject. I really appreciated your treatment of the "why do bad things happen to good people" not giving an answer, but... in a way, kind of giving an answer; like, "we don't know but that's okay" or something like that... anyway, I liked it. I'm going to have to go read Clarke's "The Star" now, too.
Anyway, for all my complaining, you did a fantastic job with this. The writing was exquisite to read, and the story was so rich, I couldn't stop reading. You have every right to be proud of this, I think.

Amazing. you are very talented :) only two stories out of the many i have read have made me cry and this is one of them! i quite liked the different ending/AU or whatever ya call it! x you are amazing!

oh. my heart is extremely heavy right now. my throat's closing up. I don't have words.
But i just.
I'm a Christian ... maybe not the kind of person you expect to find around a story like this, I don't know. And maybe this is gonna sound weird. But this story meant a lot to my faith. I really, truly loved your portrayal of God, of why he lets awful things happen, of his love, of his forgiveness. You tackled the hard questions - some of the absolute hardest - and what you had to say was, frankly, lifechanging. Forgiveness isn't earned by checking off numbers on napkins. People fall down and stay down and it hurts like hell, but it doesn't mean that we're without ending was hard as anything to read - Cas leaving, Dean dead, Sam and Bobby exhausted and left with broken hearts - but it was also so, so beautiful. Oh, Dean.
Thank you for writing this, from the bottom of my heart.

bawling like a baby.

I just recced this fic over at LiveJournal's hoodie-time comm and at my own journal and then it occured to me that I've never reviewed the fic itself.

Long story short - it's glorious. It's one of the first fics about Supernatural I've read when I started watching the show some time ago and I love it still.

I love your Castiel-voice; your characterizations are generally very spot-on, be them Dean's or Sam's or, as I mentioned above, Cas'. I also loved your Ruby - as much as I love her as a villain in canon, I love her maybe even more as an ally to the brothers.

I love, love, love the ending. I adore it. It's sad, yes, it's *tragic* - but it makes the story stand-out so much. Bad endings do that to me often ('oh, everyone's happy ever after, very nice, now let's move on,' never stuck with me as much as 'oh my, everything's ended badly but such is life, now let's mourn.').

Thank you so, so, so very much for writing this.

I just want to say this fic was great. It was a hard read at times because of the emotional roller coaster I was on. But I do love a good roller coaster ride haha. I enjoyed the flash backs how you brought them in with what was happening presently. I have read a lot of fics and some have tried that but theirs was not as seemless as yours. I truly enjoyed this. The torture was very how can I say this well my first thought was "OH MY GOD she sliced his face!" out of all the things I have read in fics this is the worst torture to bestowed upon our poor poor let me say this it was needed I think. It makes it more real I guess I mean really if they are going to torture him they would do it through his vainty. Even if he doesn't think he is all that he tells everyone he is sooo haha they would use that against him I would think. All and All this is one of the best fics I have read in a while. I will stop my rambling now and say thanks for this. I really enjoyed reading it.

I had no idea this was possible, but I've cried and cried and cried, and now I've reached some point beyond even crying.

This was heart wrenching, eloquent, but beyond all else it was beautiful. Quite possibly the most perfect thing I've ever read. It's all tied together so cleanly, the timelines are various but so intertwined, and the soul of this story and the diction you use are beyond be honest, I'm an avid reader of books. Thousands of them. Holy books, fiction, nonfiction, war novels, travelogues, tales of whimsy and woe; yet none have so deeply affected me. I started reading this and could not stop. At all. It's a little after 4 am, and I work a 12 hour factory shift in a short time. But sleep is not what I want, no, your writing has so profoundly cut me with it's diamond edges that I must go find my sleeping cat and hug him to bits. You've reduced me beyond tears and into cat harassment. Anyways, I hope you continue writing. Not just fanfiction, although I adore it. But you have a voice that the world would be all the better for if it made it to the masses. And for all I know you are already a published author. In fact that strikes me as likely. But if you are not a published author, please strive to be one. It would be an honor to hold your book in my hands. I'll be printing and binding this story of yours for my book collection. I hope you won't mind, but I refuse to leave such wordcraft bereft of physical embodiment.

In all, thank you for writing. Thank you for allowing others to read your works. Thank you for your time, for your skill, and for your words.

You have again captured my heart in warm sorrow. I have a weird attraction to stories that entail Dean dying with a sense of peace, finally. As if finally he can move on. I found your route to their finally letting go painful and overwhelming, as if I was also trying to accept an end to the endless loop of sacrifice. I have some agreement with Dean's assessment that younger siblings shouldn't die before the older one.

I liked your version of Sam in this. I found it believable that he would be wearing his heart on his sleeve while being parted from Dean like when he cried in the airplane after Dean's call. I think he already knew things weren't going to turn out all rosey this time around.

Have I ever mentioned that I Love that you do afterwords? Well it's awesome. You have such an interesting grasp on plot progression and I love reading about what was going on inside your head as you spit out yet another tear jerking literary masterpiece.

I have to mention the torture, briefly. It was write brutal and I certainly Was uncomfortable when you started in on our boy's lovely face but I was also fascinated because it painted a new perspective on Dean's suffering that I had always shied away from and probably many other fans, too. It's so hard to imagine marring his face. It was brave and had the profound affect on me I'm sure you intended. Please keep writing in this fandom and you should seriously consider writing some original fiction, too. You have a wonderful gift. Thank you for sharing it!

I don't normally review individual chapters when the story is already complete, but I just had to applaud this. It was frickin' brilliant. I enjoy the slow absorption of loss and acceptance that unfolds between the brothers. I am truly touched and feel a stinging kind of peace settling in my core. I will read on, because I can't resist the tragedy you hinted at, but I wanted you to know answer a masterpiece this first chapter really is. Superb.

Hi! I really enjoyed your story! It was well written, the characters were well written and I loved the idea of Sam and Dean actually joining up with God's Army to defeat the demons. It was like they had a more grounded purpose and more involvement in stopping the seals breaking. I also really like your writing style, I found it engaging and a great read. Keep on writing! I'm actually going to read all your other stories now :)

This was a really interesting way to end the 4th season and series.

every time I read one of you fics its like getting slapped with a literary miracle. if you ever branch off into original fiction please let me know.