Castiel!Bobby called the boys about the job

Ah...I haven't rewatched, but I think you guys are right. I was wr-- wrrr- wro--, not right. Still, Poor Pamela.

It doesn't make a lot of sense that Sam and Dean didn't lay salt lines to protect their own vulnerable bodies, if nothing (and no one) else.

This.

By the way, Matt's icon is very amusing, but if someone made a Sam icon that said something like "Sam Girl Who Is a Boy" or something equally contradictory...that would be cool? Remember, Sam can kill you with his brain.

Leaving aside all the rest of it, it occurred to me this morning that there was more or less one thing in the world these two still trusted, and possibly their only concrete tie to the real world. And Castiel just fucked the hell out of that.

Oh shit, you're right. They're always going to wonder if it's really Bobby on the phone now.

Typo - yeah, the parallels between Ruby and Dean really struck me when I first mainlined the first half of the Season. (Points at fic.)

Mind you, I have thinky thoughts about Ruby, and a Rubycentric plotbunny nibbling at my toes.

It doesn't make a lot of sense that Sam and Dean didn't lay salt lines to protect their own vulnerable bodies, if nothing (and no one) else.

Could they get back to them past the salt? Or would it be up to Pam to let them in that way too?

I am pretty sure that a salt line would have kept them from their bodies. Or, at least, up to Pam to let them in through it. They were certainly susceptible while in their wispy state.

Oh, that's true. Good catch!

Pam was sort of on her own, then. Maybe Friends of Winchester should supply themselves with giant iron hula hoops they can sit inside.

I was thinking that salt might be a problem for the boys in their incorporeal forms, but still a hex bag might have hidden them from demons.

Yeah, I too had the epiphany (while writing) that having protection might have done a number on what they were trying to do.

Still, a well-placed Devil's Trap or three, people!

I didn't think she'd survive, but I thought the reason Sam didn't even try was because Pamela needed to be near Dean's body.

I thought the reason Sam didn't even try is because Pamela told him no, and to get him a drink.

I'm actually into full-on baffled now, having caught up with the flist, by how many people did not read it the way ita and I did. I mean, a gut wound is a nasty-ass injury, a gut wound delivered with demonic strength probably extra-nasty in terms of damage, and we're not talking damage you walk away from here. She knew she was dead before Death clocked back in.

Oh, and as I said to Jilli on our way home from work, TOTALLY a Mercurtio role played here by Pamela.