Well, my own reply is incredibly tardy *winces* I'm a firm believer in the "better late than never" school of thought *grins* I agree with you about Sam's state of mind. After everything else that was going on and had happened, that revelation was going to have a take a number on the list of things to get excited about. Dean's been tossed for a loop, but not nearly as much as Sam is having to cope with as far as trauma and resettling of his world view.

I didn't really delve to much into Sam's view of that because I was on the backburner for consideration if I did a sequel, I still had some things in the air plotwise that I didn't want to commit to yet, and then also back to Sam generally being in a state of shock. His own experience with Dean that time wasn't really voluntary on his part, and kind of falls into a long line of things he has to deal with. Dean was also not his first "conquest," even if the others didn't go quite as far, but without the sibling angle and against everything else going on... not much on the physical part for him to be obsessing over. Any other more psychological effects were deliberately not explored.

I'm so glad you liked the story and made the effort to reply at this length! I love hearing about how other people view the fic and their impressions of it.