The Chuck narrative is wonderful. Just wonderful.

Now I'm reading disgruntled Dean/Cas shippers.

Huh. I feel like a bad Destieller. In my fluffy little head, Cas can come and visit. I do think they weren't done any favours, and I craved more. But, as usual, the feelings of betrayal and anger are more than I thought to get from the ep.

Just read a fic, in fact, where the author seems pissed at Dean ranking Sam over Cas. Which, really, what show have you been watching? And what episode did you see? At what point did Dean pick? Cas was the one that picked.

AND HE CAN COME BACK AND VISIT ONCE THINGS GET ORGANISED UP THERE.

It's not like those fics haven't been written a thousand times.

The important betrayal that Dean would have done of Castiel was when he was going to say yes to Michael, and Castiel forgave him for that already. Wanting to be there with Sam when he died is completely freaking predictable.

Man, this better not mess up my fic-reading this summer.

eta:

I'm wondering how much time has passed from the graveyard to the last scene. Because Dean was magically healed it could be as soon as that night. But with them settled in at dinner, it could be much much longer.

Clothing wise, he'd changed. And the car windshield was fixed. But he was similarly dressed between the door and the table.

The Chuck narrative is wonderful. Just wonderful.

Agreed. It got me crying the first time.

Clothing wise, he'd changed. And the car windshield was fixed. But he was similarly dressed between the door and the table.

That means room for fic where he is so broken he can't move until he can function enough to fix the window or even change clothes before he can bring himself to go to Lisa. Although I don't want too much time to have passed with Dean not knowing that Sam is out of Hell.

Here, have a BLEAK AS HELL AWESOME coda: [link]

I worry what this series has done to me that I seek such pain. That was awesome.

Okay, I'm on board now with this season finale.

Things that still don't sit right, though, are the touches of Dean feeling guilty over Castiel's fall and becoming human/more human and Lucifer messing with Sam during the mirror scene(s). The former has been a long time coming, and to be reminded of such and then have it done away with is unsatisfying. The latter seems like a long way to go to remind us that Lucifer is a bad guy.

And here's the fluffy marshmallow bunny coda to salve the pain of Kassie's. [link]

Dean and the Impala went back to Bobby's to fix the windshield. When that was done they went their separate ways. At least that's how I read it. So there would have been a few days before he showed up at Lisa's.

I skimmed it the first time. I like the way it is written, but

Dean is a shitty dad

narratively, they were destined to save the world. Inside their universe, they were destined to lay it to waste. They didn't.

This is how I felt about it too.

I'm mainly wondering how much time between Dean showing up at Lisa's and Sam appearing outside.