Thank you so much for your commen! It's great that you liked it and thought the characterization worked for all of them. You're right: wroting Dean this way was fun, but it also wasn't always easy.

And you're lucky: I'm about 40,000 words into act two and am going to post the next chapter soon. It's at the beta factory right now.

By the way, there's also a short timestamp from Michael's point of view, if you're interested. You can find it here.