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.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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brenda m - Mar 13, 2009 4:22:47 pm PDT #1312 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Polter-Cow - Mar 13, 2009 4:23:23 pm PDT #1313 of 30002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh shit, you're right. They're always going to wonder if it's really Bobby on the phone now.
Fay - Mar 13, 2009 4:28:33 pm PDT #1314 of 30002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2009 5:42:14 pm PDT #1315 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Cass - Mar 13, 2009 5:43:41 pm PDT #1316 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
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.
Amy - Mar 13, 2009 5:53:34 pm PDT #1317 of 30002
Because books.
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.
Marcia - Mar 13, 2009 6:15:01 pm PDT #1318 of 30002
Kneel before Glod. ~Stephen Colbert
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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2009 8:01:32 pm PDT #1319 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Cass - Mar 13, 2009 8:23:34 pm PDT #1320 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I read her as dead the second that injury happened. It just took a little while for her to fall because of the Reaper situation. And, of course, because words spoken by the dying are given a greater dramatic weight.
But, yeah, that wound was lethal looking to me. Which sucks because I liked Pamela as a character.
Atropa - Mar 13, 2009 8:32:10 pm PDT #1321 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
and we're not talking damage you walk away from here. She knew she was dead before Death clocked back in.
Yep. The only reason I have for quibbling at her death (besides the fact that I liked Pamela as a character) is that there should have been SOME sort of mystical/occult-y protection going on. If there had been something and the demon got around it or tricked her to step outside of it? Then it would have made more sense to me.