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Oh! I like this. I just can't decide whether I find it sad/depressing or not. (That could be the associations with The Postman, which I watched with a loved one now estranged....)

Poor Impala. :(

Oh! The Impala, gah. *heart clenches* I love the vivid, visceral feel of this, a world fallen apart even after it's been saved, and still nothing but ashes left. But as long as they are together, it's okay. And I love the way Sam won't separate from him, the way they've never really been safe, except in each other. So sad, but so beautiful.

Oh my. I like the Postman concept too. :)

you write the most wonderful stories.

Oh god, they fit into The Postman perfectly -- which is a little creepy. *g*

Oh, HEART! I LOVED the Postman concept and kind of hated the execution but this! this is all the best things about it with Sam! and Dean! and the valiant end of the Impala! &heart;

I was crying by the end of the first paragraph, you beautiful writer. Oh, the Impala - she's supposed to be forever. Winchesters are always forever.

I love how even when it's saved, the world is broken. I love how they run into their own shadows by accident, stretched tall and awe-inspiring. I love how nothing changes and everything does. I love how they bring her with them, in pieces and part. I love how Sam vomiting is a fact like fire causing smoke is a fact, and how "hello" is almost as dangerous as a gunshot. Beautiful. Thank you.

I was trying to explain to someone, just the other day, how normally continuity errors kick me right out of a show. And SPN has lots of those, not least of which Destruction #1 of the Impala followed by its miraculous resurection. I mean, anybody who knows anything about cars knows that after that crash, there's no way it could be rebuilt.

But SPN is fiction, in its most glorious form, and I'm so attached to the car, that I'm willing to forgive.

The beauty of fan fiction is that it allows us to reconcile those two competing impulses, and this story does that mightily. I would have been content if the story had ended in the first section because it was an elegant ode to the car we've all come to love. I mean, if you stopped to think about how much gas it takes to keep using the Impala for cross country trips, you'd see it makes no sense at all, and yet, I don't care I want more Impala. However, at some point in the future, the reality of a post-apocalyptic world would make it impractical, and the dignity this story accords its end pays fitting homage.

Now, much as I said that I'd be fine if you'd stopped after the first section, that's meant to say that I liked that section that much. The fact that we got a story, and a good one at that, after that--well, that's like gravy.

I've seen a possible answer in a couple of fanfics to the problems with Dean's Baby. There has been so much Winchesters blood spilled and Winchester magic done in and around her that she's semi-sentient and somewhat aware of Dean and Sam and that she loves Dean and feels at peace when the brothers are driving her. Works for me.

Thanks for making me cry! No, really. The Impala! *mourns* I love how they come together here, soft and easy, now that everything's changed. I love the rumours and folk tales following in their wake, a little like the couple of recent SPN/Amercian Gods crossovers only Sam and Dean here are still all too human. Love how they run for the bathhouse rather than get laid :)

Ow. Ow ow ow. OW.

Oh god, this kind of broke my heart. The Impala, and the boys, and oh. This line: he'd gotten Sam through in one piece, so the world hadn't ended for him is just perfect. Oh, Dean.

Absolutely beautiful, thank you for writing.

What a gloriously raw and stark world. It's sad but there's so much hope.

I really liked this, particularly the last sentence. Thanks for writing and sharing it :-) .

Awwww that was just beautiful. :0)

I'm such a sucker for post apocalypse fics. I can't help it. I'm the same with movies yet I've never actually seen the Postman.

*mourns the Impala, Dean's baby*

Aww. Beautiful!

I think, actually, that you should just put all your fandoms through the Apocalypse. You do it so well.

oh, Boys. When Dean finally let himself cry for the Impala, I started crying too. Seriously awesome fic. I love the idea of them doing the Road Warrior thing so very much.

(and okay, I always cried for Max's car and his dog too, but not like I do whenever the Impala is hurt)

Okay, so there's this beautiful new future universe and the "Marshals" and that amazing Old West feel... please, sir, may I have some more?

All of the emotion reads so subtle, and so wonderfully deliberate. Dean maintains absolute control over himself, and only lets go for Sam. Lovely.

Absolutely gorgeous. :)

I liked this story. though it was kind of bleak in places.

I usually don't like apocalyptic stories but this was great. I like Sam and Dean as road warriors; I like Sam and Dean's world growing even smaller; I LOVE Sam saving pieces of the Impala.

And it made me cry, at the end. Though I won't admit it if you ask me later.

Oh, that was just gorgeous. It was bleak but hopeful at the same time (how do you do that, anyway?) - I loved how no matter how torn up the world is, it's okay for them as long as they're together.

Great little glimpses of what happened (and is it wrong to think 'woot! Apocalypse!'?) and how everyone's dealing with it, and how even in a demon-free world, the boys are still taking care of what unpleasantness is left.

Loved, loved, loved this. I am totally having one of those "fandom is the best thing ever" days now. *g*

I just -- I love you so much right now.

Oh my. How sad and wonderful all rolled into one.

Wow, I loved this.