Now I'm itching to know which story is yours, Anne. I thought I had it narrowed down to one of two, based on unclaimed prompts when you posted about it, but then you got claimed!

I would be so nice, if they'd just send me stuff! I'd answer right away and tell them I was going to read and all sorts of stuff.

I think the personal side of this is very important. Even if I don't click with my author, I want it to be a pleasant experience.

I also want it now! Wahh!

I want it to be a pleasant experience.

It should be! It seems like it is for most people, too.

I can't imagine what's going to happen in the next two episodes. Except heartbreak all around, I guess. After the end of last season, I think I'd rather get a big juicy cliffhanger.

Well, we know we'll get Lisa, Ben, Crowley and Balthazar. Presumably Raphael. That's a lot to start out with. Will Death come back? Will the wall hold? Will Cas reconcile with the boys? Will he fall?

That's the thing -- there's so much to start with, and so many possible outcomes with so many players.

I had been most worried about Cas's fate, and Dean and Cas's relationship, until you reminded me about the wall. Yikes.

Somebody send Sam some spackle, quick.

Dude, Lisa and Ben could die. We have a lot of worrying to do in the next two weeks.

Gee, thanks, ita. I hadn't been worried about them.

Well, I forgot about them! Until the preview, and, um, you reminded me. Ben better not die, is all I can say. Or Lisa, because Two and a Half Supernatural Men is not really the show I want to see next season.

I think something has to happen with the wall, now that I consider it. They've left it mostly alone since Sam passed out and Dean recommended drink and drugs to medicate, but the exchange with Cas about the "piss-poor job" of getting him out of hell was a big reminder.

And since we never really saw any of the damage to his soul (although we did see the damage running around soulless caused), it seems like a smoking gun now.

My superpower is talking myself into catastrophe, I guess. Yay?

I think Dean would rather stop hunting and raise Ben than take him with them hunting, so I'm not worried about them raising him either way.

I click on a lot of fic I shouldn't, but I really have to uncross my eyes after reading stuff like this:

I’d been chosen long ago to look after Dean. I remember the day he was born and my older brother coming to me to tell me it had begun.

“You’re destiny is beginning, little brother.” Gabriel rubs my shoulder and smiles at me. I longed for his approval always.

Ignore the spelling for now. Gabriel did not tell Cas anything when Dean was born. Does anyone seriously think he wasn't off being Loki 30 years ago? And why is Cas longing for approval? Who is that?

Plus I despise the trope that Castiel had a special bond with Dean from before unless it's really sparely written. And usually it's not.

Mark Pellegrino is currently fucking people's shit up on The Breakout Kings.

I click on a lot of fic I shouldn't

Likewise. One of my questions about the portrayals I frequently see is that Castiel is presented as "the littlest brother." Is that canon? I'm not remembering it, but it might have come from a conversation that I just don't recall. Because it comes up all.the.time.