So I spent all morning finishing this story and I want to thank Mare for picking it. (and Mersey for writing it of course 
) I think it is my favorite of all the featured stories so far. I think what I liked about it the most was how well Mersey wrote the characters. (Backstreet Boys and Winchester Boys alike.) Each one had their own flair and you did a wonderful job of making them sound like the boys that we all know and love.
I loved the brotherly theme throughout the whole story and especially loved how you paralleled the relationships of Brian and Nick with Sam and Dean and also the similarities between Kevin and Dean. It gave the story deapth beyond just what you needed to know for it all to make sense.
The story was just wonderful and it made me actually start watching Supernatural. I don't think Sarah is the only poster child here -lol.
The only thing for me was that I never fully understood the visions. They were a little confusing every time I read them. Not enough for me to not understand whats going on, but I wasn't able to picture how they all came together at the end. Does that make any sense? I'm probably alone here, because my dislexic self gets confused a lot when I read and I have to read things over and over sometimes. SO I'm sure everyone else had no problems and if someone wants to explain it to me who's read it, that would be cool. Not in this thread of course because it would give it away for those who haven't read it yet.
Anyway, I'm rambling again. I loved the story! And I love this thread because its motivating me read things that I wouldn't normally read and so far I've been thrilled! I also think that reading things that are a little out of my norm might be why I've been writing things a little out of my norm too. Interesting... (you just watch Mare, before long I won't be writing fluff romance anymore.) ok that's not true... I'm a sap and always will be, but maybe I won't ONLY be a sap. 
Congrats again Mersey! Loved the story! and I'm excited that I don't hate Jensen Ackles anymore because now he can be Dean and not Jason!!! Yay!!!
Kelly, you've been very awesome with reviews, both here and on the fic site so thank you so much for that! And dont feel bad abt not really grasping the visions because i do believe it is partly my fault too. I read it again and I decided that it is a little confusing! lol. im going to try and explain it here the best i can and hopefully it'll help
So sam's visions are always about an incident that is about to happen. It's in the near future, so Sam's heroic responsibility is to try to stop/[prevent the incident from happening and help the would be victims from said incident.
In Nick's case, he sees visions of incidents that already happened, things from the past. So his um, heroic responsibility (lol) is to share his vision and then learn from the past, get information on those incidents in order to prevent it from happening again.
So in Nick's vision, he saw a father and son following a couple home and the wife ended up dead. there's nothing he could do for this couple because his visions are from things in the past.
In Sam's vision, he saw the father and son with another couple and the wife ended up dead but for Sam, this event has not yet taken place so Sam still has time to save this couple. From Nick's vision, Sam learnt a little more about what was going to happen so in a way, Nick's vision helped Sam to save this other couple, which of course turned out to be someone we know.
spoilers after this, so dont read on if you dont want to be spoilt
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Only in the end, they found out that those visions were planted by the YED himself, just to lure both Nick and Sam out and get to them. Kristin and the baby were never in danger to begin with, he was just a bait.
ok that's long, lol...but i hope it helped
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Topic: Featured Story for May 2007 - Children Like Me by Mersey (Read 39696 times)