ten thousand miles [spn][big bang 2009][master post]

[mimblexwimble]

This isn’t a story with a deeper meaning. There is no moral at the end. On December 28th, 2007,
Sam Winchester walked out of the motel room he was sharing with his brother and never
came back. This is the story of what happened after.

[Season 3 AU, Post It's a Very Supernatural Christmas]

[R ~ Graphic Imagery, Language ~ Dean, Sam, OMC, Bobby ~ 35,000]

One | Two | Three | Four | Five
Epilogue
Author's Notes

For lemanya

PDF without quotation marks | PDF with quotation marks

Note on the PDFs: I wrote this story without quotation marks. It's a stylistic device to give the atmosphere I wanted and without quotation marks is how I would recommend reading it. :)

Thank you to kruel_angel for the PDFs!

Comments

[lemanya.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I haven't read it yet... just about to though.
eeeeeeeeeeeee!
oh my god i love you soooo much
♥*kidnapsyou*♥

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I AM SO EXCITED AND SCARED AND NERVOUS!

And also frustrated, because this should have been up hours ago but my SERVER HAD TO CRASH. *headdesk*

*hugs*

[dmlpacker.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure what to expect...but what I got definitely blew my expectations out of the water. Your writing is so beautiful and your Dean just makes me ache so much. There's so much more I want to say, but I can't think of the words - just that, I hope you continue to write (possibly something with a Sam&Dean ending ^_~)

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[paxlux.livejournal.com]

I'M SO DAMN EXCITED AND I'M GONNA REC THIS ALREADY AND IT'S GOING ON MY REC LIST AND YOU KNOW YOU WIN AT LIFE, RIGHT? RIGHT? :D

(Look at the art! omg)

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I AM BLUSHING. ALL YOUR FAULT. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY! ♥♥♥

Isn't it gorgeous? I could just look at it all day.

[paxlux.livejournal.com]

I'M HAPPY IT'S MY FAULT. I ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY! NOW DO YOU FEEL BETTER? ♥ ♥ ♥

Man oh man oh MAN. I went and left her a comment. If I ever did Big Bang, that's the kind of art I'd want. I'm so jealous!

[onthehill]

OMG! *flail*

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

\o/

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEE.

I will read this TOMORROW. Because I have to work until then. But SQUEEEE. Also also your art is amazing! \o/

*HIGHFIVES YOU ALL OVER THE PLACE*

WE DID IT!!!

Also also also - my server crashed when I was uploading, too. *bitchface*

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

MY ART MAKES ME SQUEE EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

WE DID! \o/

Can't wait till you read it!

[labseraph.livejournal.com]

OMG! Another mega fic to read over the weekend!

AWESOME!

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

:D

[kaz2y5i67.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most moving fics I have ever read.....*sniffs*....
Firstly the story synopsis intrigued me. I thought...hmmm what's going to happen here. Where will this lead? Then I was drawn into your style of writing, then captured by your excellent characterisations and storyline.
I could feel the tension building. I wanted to know...Where was Sam? Why did he leave? Will Dean find him?
And then I came to the last few pages and I sat here weeping. I had to re-read the last few paragraphs again as they were all a blur the first time through.
Thank you. Thank you for writing such a moving peace. And it did make me happy at the end that Sammy was....
I hope to read more of your work. Good Luck!

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading. ♥

[desertskies.livejournal.com]

This story was so beautifully well written. You broke my heart but I really did enjoy reading this. You should be very proud of this work. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[supernaturalfun.livejournal.com]

Fantastic story, though I'm still sitting here with tears running down my face from it. I do believe you might have had some type of more intense warning included in your list, though. It was so incredibly sad, after such a very hard week - I really would have preferred to read this when I was in a stronger frame of mind myself.
But a truly great fic ... I know I suck ... still crying here ...

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I did have a fight with my warnings, but I asked my beta and in the end I decided that the summery/story's start itself was as big a warning as I was willing to give. For some reason, I felt that pointing out the ending in a warning would detract from the overall effect. I hope it wasn't triggery or anything.

Thank you for reading!

[supernaturalfun.livejournal.com]

It was, perhaps, triggery at the time I was reading. *hugs* That was during a difficult week with one of my children's health conditions so I was in a bit of an emotional state anyway. :D I was always glad I left a heartfelt response, though, because your writing really was that good. If I knew both guys would make it out in the end, I'd totally read another of your fics in the future, hands down. And if I knew one would die? *glances around* I might still read it for the writing skills. *shhh*

[florinnelinara.livejournal.com]

Since you've red it during a completely special emotional state you shouldn't jump to conclusions, though I totally agree with your opinion about the writing skills.
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[whiskyinmind.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! You've been nominated in round two of the Salt & Burn Awards (http://salt-and-burn.org/awarsd)!

There are various buttons and icons at the site here (http://salt-and-burn.org/awards/affiliates.php) to show off your nomination - and why not share the love by nominating another author and their work (http://salt-and-burn.org/awards/nominate.php)?

Congrats once again!

[syllamon.livejournal.com]

Hi.. Just wanted to say I thought this was magnificent. Difficult and brutal and heartbreaking to read. Dean crying in the shower was gut wrenching. I did keep waiting for Sam to turn up though.. but now that I've read the whole thing, kinda glad it ended the way it did. great job.. and hope to read more.

L.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[thandie.livejournal.com]

Ok, I've read this, and it's possibly one of the best things I've ever read! I CRIED, and it's never happened before while reading fic...you hit me hard with this.
The writing is very original, I'm not used to it, and it made this even more original and beautiful. I forgot I was reading a simple SPN fanfic, because it's THAT good. It draws you in your world, and it's kinda hard to regain footing after reading this. Like when you read those wonderful engrossing books and when you finish them you don't know what to do with your life for a moment :)

I loved Jo, so much. And Bobby...no words. The OC was pretty good too, it had a well-drawn personality of his own. And Dean...he broke my heart, with all his almost-going-crazy...it makes you think he'll probably never get over Sam, even if the ending hints at that.

So yeah, thanks for a wonderful writing, I hope you'll write a long story like this one again in the future, because the pacing was magnificent and you look like you can handle an epic.

♥

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Hee, Big Bang 2010, here I come.

[sothcweden.livejournal.com]

Just found this through roque_clasique's rec. Even if I didn't trust her rec, I'd have to read it for the Mary Chapin Carpenter epigraph. I adore that song. And a line from another of hers is the title to my journal, so I'll be reading soon. However, since I've been made aware this isn't a happy bouncy fic, I'll be waiting until the weekend. Thanks for writing!

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I can't listen to the song without getting emotional; there aren't words for how gorgeous it is. :)

Happy and bouncy, definitely not. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think! Thanks for reading. ♥

wow

[supernarttu.livejournal.com]

I read this a while back an thought it was the most heartbreaking fic I've ever read, but was too much of a wimp to comment (I usually just lurk, sorry). But after all this time, I still regard this as one of the best fics I've ever read so I smacked myself and decided to send you a word of praise.

You are wonderfully, creepingly, geniously, ridiculously talented and I hope you never stop writing :)

And this fic, moved me in ways that not a lot of fiction has, it is perfect, somber yet so real.

So thank you.

*back to lurkyness*

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you enjoyed it! And I'm flattered and overjoyed that you came out of lurkerdom for me. Comments like this raise my spirits over and over. ♥

(And I totally understand about lurkyness. I lurk all over the place. :D)

[kruel_angel_lj]

I'm reading this now and it's so good. But the no quotation marks when they're talking is throwing me off. Is there a pdf or word download with quotation marks?

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes. I'm sorry, it was a stylistic choice, so no... I don't have a copy with quotation marks.

[kruel_angel_lj]

OMG my heart hurts. It felt like a fist was around my heart the whole time I was reading this story.

This story was rec'd as one of the saddest stories and they're sure not wrong. This was heartbreaking and wonderfully written.

Also, I made two pdf's of this fic. One is the original and the other has marks. Did you want them?

[kruel_angel_lj]

Lol, I forgot to put the word quotation before marks.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for reading!

And I'd love the pdf's. ♥

[kruel_angel_lj]

You're welcome!

Here's the pdf's:

Ten Thousand Miles - Original

Ten Thousand Miles - with quotes

[weimar27.livejournal.com]

This story is heartbreaking. Beautifully written.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[hannahbellejude.livejournal.com]

This is heartbreaking. Thank god I knew that going in or I would be completely gone right now instead of just crying heavily. Such a change from most of the fic. I really needed that. Thank you.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[katemix.livejournal.com]

CRIED THROUGHOUT.
So amazingly written. <3
Seriously.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥

[biketest.livejournal.com]

Today is December 28th at around 3:19 AM which is the last time Dean ever saw Sam and I'm fighting back tears just thinking about this fic. Seriously. I can't even watch A Very Supernatural Christmas anymore without crying because I know that in 3 days Sam will leave.
Anyway, this is the best fanfic I've ever read.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

You made me tear up like nobody's business. I'm supposed to be immune to this now! ;_;

I'm so glad you enjoyed the fic. ♥

[yvonnegos.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I read the summary to this before I read it..of course, and thought that it sure didn't give away much. Didn't sound too appetizing cuz I have no idea what's in store...AFTER I read it..that summary is PERFECT for this.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I spent a whole day on that darned summary alone. :)