What you talkin' about? Dean didn't buy the T-shirt! He has the T-shirt, but he didn't buy it. ;)
I think part of what affected Tony, too, was not just the beating he took, but the psychological aspect. He knew pretty soon, essentially from when he started believing that Dean was telling the truth, that his team wasn't going to be able to save him. That no matter how good they are--and they are *good*--they weren't prepared to fight freaking vampires. He let himself go to that place in his head where it's all happening to someone else, and that's a hard place to come back from.
Dean was mentally prepared for what he was going through, and he was worrying about someone other than himself, too, which gave him a reason to stay in the moment, even if that meant more physical pain. The whole thing was personal for him, he didn't just feel like some guy that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Apparently? I'm still thinking about this fic a lot. ;)
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Date: 2007-05-13 10:21 pm (UTC)I think part of what affected Tony, too, was not just the beating he took, but the psychological aspect. He knew pretty soon, essentially from when he started believing that Dean was telling the truth, that his team wasn't going to be able to save him. That no matter how good they are--and they are *good*--they weren't prepared to fight freaking vampires. He let himself go to that place in his head where it's all happening to someone else, and that's a hard place to come back from.
Dean was mentally prepared for what he was going through, and he was worrying about someone other than himself, too, which gave him a reason to stay in the moment, even if that meant more physical pain. The whole thing was personal for him, he didn't just feel like some guy that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Apparently? I'm still thinking about this fic a lot. ;)