Uh, so ths took far longer than it ought to have done. Sorry I suck?
Lyla: Little towns like this always have ghosts. Dean has yet to stumble across a town that doesn’t have its fair share of hauntings, usually the benign kind that scare local kids with their spectral appearances, the kind that ignore the teenagers who sneak into abandoned houses and old graveyards on cloudless summer nights because there isn’t much else to do. Sorry. I had to quote that because oh.my.god that was beautiful and utterly amazing and um, please to be writing something original about a ghost town? that's, if you want, of course.
Right, fic now. Dean does think about what life might've been like and I love how he's equated that with Dillon, that the life right here could've been his. Dean is just excited because Cindy’s Diner has the best pie he’s ever eaten and there are six more kinds to try. BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT IN PIE. You always draw the differences between Sam and Dean really, really well. Sam's rushing into the case, developing theories and trying to get it sorted. Dean's lazing back and eating pie, but still keeping an eye on things. But mostly pie. For this I love you.
She just makes a noncommittal comment about him being new in town, one that he could easily bat away if he wanted her to leave.
He doesn’t. That to me is really significant. That he isn't choosing the flirty girl, the girl with a shorter skirt or a bigger smile, he's choosing her. And he's aware that this is different, that this is new.
Her story, when he hears it, doesn’t surprise him, but he aches for her, and that’s something new. He cares about the people he helps, always has, but he doesn’t let himself empathize with them or feel their pain. Okay, so I loved the entire paragraph but it begs for dissection of love. These two lines are amazing because this really is Dean. It's not that he doesn't care, but he is aware that he has a job, that he has more than enough to bear already. Sam always seems perturbed by his lack of connection with these people, but that's not the truth of it. It's that Dean had a big heart but it's filled with Sammy and he just can't fit anything else in. Except Lyla. I love the way you put that, that he isn't in love with her, but he feels for her.
and Dean’s finally met a girl who’s a bigger mess than he is. That paragraph was so heartbreaking because I've really warmed to Lyla and this is so true. Also, that section about Dean knowing that she's different and being both okay and a little weirded out by that because, this is Dean Winchester we're talking about here.
The way she starts to finds out about the Winchester life and that is doesn't faze her is just so wonderfully well done. That he worries for her reputation and that he wouldn’t let the guy he normally is around Lyla, not ever just breaks me a little bit more.
And how she gets hurt by trying to figure him out and him saving her (and by the way the action was absolutely gripping) and that she'll be alright.
That he doesn't stick aroung and Sam doesn't question it. And this: Dean could never stay in a place that wasn’t his in the first place. which killed me. All of these are just little bits of the awesome of just this section alone.
Lyla's section.
Lyla:
Little towns like this always have ghosts. Dean has yet to stumble across a town that doesn’t have its fair share of hauntings, usually the benign kind that scare local kids with their spectral appearances, the kind that ignore the teenagers who sneak into abandoned houses and old graveyards on cloudless summer nights because there isn’t much else to do.
Sorry. I had to quote that because oh.my.god that was beautiful and utterly amazing and um, please to be writing something original about a ghost town? that's, if you want, of course.
Right, fic now. Dean does think about what life might've been like and I love how he's equated that with Dillon, that the life right here could've been his. Dean is just excited because Cindy’s Diner has the best pie he’s ever eaten and there are six more kinds to try. BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT IN PIE. You always draw the differences between Sam and Dean really, really well. Sam's rushing into the case, developing theories and trying to get it sorted. Dean's lazing back and eating pie, but still keeping an eye on things. But mostly pie. For this I love you.
She just makes a noncommittal comment about him being new in town, one that he could easily bat away if he wanted her to leave.
He doesn’t.
That to me is really significant. That he isn't choosing the flirty girl, the girl with a shorter skirt or a bigger smile, he's choosing her. And he's aware that this is different, that this is new.
Her story, when he hears it, doesn’t surprise him, but he aches for her, and that’s something new. He cares about the people he helps, always has, but he doesn’t let himself empathize with them or feel their pain. Okay, so I loved the entire paragraph but it begs for dissection of love. These two lines are amazing because this really is Dean. It's not that he doesn't care, but he is aware that he has a job, that he has more than enough to bear already. Sam always seems perturbed by his lack of connection with these people, but that's not the truth of it. It's that Dean had a big heart but it's filled with Sammy and he just can't fit anything else in. Except Lyla. I love the way you put that, that he isn't in love with her, but he feels for her.
and Dean’s finally met a girl who’s a bigger mess than he is. That paragraph was so heartbreaking because I've really warmed to Lyla and this is so true. Also, that section about Dean knowing that she's different and being both okay and a little weirded out by that because, this is Dean Winchester we're talking about here.
The way she starts to finds out about the Winchester life and that is doesn't faze her is just so wonderfully well done. That he worries for her reputation and that he wouldn’t let the guy he normally is around Lyla, not ever just breaks me a little bit more.
And how she gets hurt by trying to figure him out and him saving her (and by the way the action was absolutely gripping) and that she'll be alright.
That he doesn't stick aroung and Sam doesn't question it. And this: Dean could never stay in a place that wasn’t his in the first place. which killed me. All of these are just little bits of the awesome of just this section alone.