I agree with like, every word of this. It's so cool that so much of what happened in my story happens in this one - but for completely different reasons, and with a completely different weight to it. To me, that's the very essence of a remix. And ... There's a lot of twisted-upness in Dean even in canon, and this added layer just -- I don't know, it calls that out, and it also kind of flips it on its side.

I also sort of love that it's Sam worried about this permanent, unstoppable (by Sam anyway) change in Dean, and what it means to both of them and how it changes the past as well as the future. It's a role-reversal from their canonical pattern that just makes me happy in ways I can't even explain. =) (which is why i am back here, re-reading it yet again!)