This was such a lovely story. I mean, not all of it was pleasant (I felt so ill during that torture scene that I had to quit for a bit and come back to this fic), but every part of it weaved together so well. I'm surprised you found writing in Cas's POV so hard because you do it beautifully.
There's a certain perfection in how you decided to end this: I'm left extremely uneasy about the fact that, when the Winchesters are finally left to rest in heaven and it's Cas's turn to die in the first realm, Cas will not be granted the chance to go and see them again. I HATE the thought that he'd be barred from heaven, from spending eternity with their souls, but what he had as an alternative to Morpheus's ultimatum was worse. And in making this an epilogue where Cas has a lifetime to love Dean and Sam as a human, but must leave them in the end, it just makes the love he feels so much more saturated and beautiful, what with the confines of its brevity.
Thanks for this. Cas was gorgeous and you're a wonderful wonderful writer. :'-)
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Date: 2012-04-11 10:12 pm (UTC)There's a certain perfection in how you decided to end this: I'm left extremely uneasy about the fact that, when the Winchesters are finally left to rest in heaven and it's Cas's turn to die in the first realm, Cas will not be granted the chance to go and see them again. I HATE the thought that he'd be barred from heaven, from spending eternity with their souls, but what he had as an alternative to Morpheus's ultimatum was worse. And in making this an epilogue where Cas has a lifetime to love Dean and Sam as a human, but must leave them in the end, it just makes the love he feels so much more saturated and beautiful, what with the confines of its brevity.
Thanks for this. Cas was gorgeous and you're a wonderful wonderful writer. :'-)