comment fic meme

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

In celebration of Sam's birthday, we're hosting another comment fic meme!

THE RULES

→ Leave a comment here with your prompt. Because it's Sam's birthday, I'm going to say that any Sam-centric prompts are okay, even if there's not much hurt/comfort in them.
→ In your prompt, please state your desired characters or pairings. All genres/pairings welcome, but no real-person prompts.

Example A: “Sam, Dean, gen, set in season 2. Sam has a vision and passes out. Cue caring!Dean and limp!Sam.”
Example B: “Sam/Dean, trauma. Sam is injured on a hunt, Dean freaks out when he thinks Sam might be dead.”

→ Post as many prompts as you like - but one prompt per comment. If you've got a couple, comment with each separately.
→ Prompts can be as short or detailed as you like. Remember though - more detail means less wriggle room for the writer, which might lower the chances of someone picking up your prompt.
→ Go through the prompts! If you find one you like, write a fic for it. There's no limit to how many users can reply to a prompt, or how many prompts someone can write for.
→ When replying to a prompt with your comment-fic, put ‘filled’ in your subject line and then anything else you want, like a title if you have one/part numbers. It’s not a big deal if you forget this step, but it will make it easier for people to find your fic.
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THE MASTER LIST

tahirire wrote The boys are in a better place emotionally. Dean thinks past his hurt at what he saw in Sam's heaven, and gets Sam a golden retriever puppy for his birthday.

dime_for_12 wrote 5x03 AU. Sam already said yes. He just doesn't know or remember it. Vessel!Sam, Possessed!Sam, Eeery!Lucifer. Please include lots of Dean.

anonymous wrote After a Narrowly-Averted-Apocalypse, an old friend from Stanford runs into Sam Winchester at a gas station. He's surprised/disturbed by what he sees.

ratherastory wrote Sam discovers an intricate symbol that will allow him to wrench back control from Lucifer. Now he just needs someone to carve it into his back.

maskedfangirl wrote Happy Birthday, Sammy! Pity that it's alternate universe 5x04 and that you're having your birthday trapped inside of your own skin while the Devil ruins the world. Still, it was nice of the guy to sing to you on your birthday and he even got you a gift - he let you wander around in your body for an entire night out in the bleak remains of civilization. Of couse, everyone thinks you're the Devil and you're reviled and feared wherever you go. Worse, you're probably pretty far gone to find yourself weeping at the sound of birds on the wind or the scent of burning tires because it's just been so damned LONG since you've felt anything at all. Hey, I wonder what your chances are of getting Dean on the short wave are?

tifaching wrote The book that changed Sam's life. NOT The Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders, please.

authoressnebula wrote I kind of have a thing for tired!Sam. And we know from 5x19 he's not been getting a lot of sleep. So, something where Sam is fighting to stay awake, maybe researching or in the car, and Dean's trying to get him to go to sleep?

mute90 wrote Angel/AU Spn crossover in which lawyer!Sam works at Wolfram and Hart. Sam's not evil. Just morally ambiguous in a goofy, adorable way. And now Angel has taken over Wolfram and Hart, and Lorne has instituted staff birthday parties, and it's Sam's birthday. All his work friends are there, and his non-work friends and family are invited, and it's a catastrophe. Dean is trying cheesy pickup lines on Illyria, and Bobby is making awkward smalltalk with Spike, and Castiel and Wesley are having, like, brooding, stubbly, eyesex in the corner, and Sam's pretty sure that still!alive!Jess is developing a crush on his darkly handsome, undead boss. It's the worst birthday ever, and there's something supernaturally not right about the cake...

authoressnebula wrote AU version of 5x10 Abandon All Hope: Sam is the one attacked by a hellhound, not Jo.

dime_for_12 wrote Sam's crazy plan works. He says yes to Lucifer to trap him, and manages to get him into the cage. Somehow, then or later, he is rescued, but he is physically and emotionally messed up from being possessed and locked up with Lucifer. Dean is there for him.

dime_for_12 wrote After a Narrowly-Averted-Apocalypse, an old friend from Stanford runs into Sam Winchester at a gas station. He's surprised/disturbed by what he sees.

sistabro wrote Set in or after Sam Interrupted. Sam and Dean didn't get away and the doctor fills out his threat of sending Sam to a facility that deals with violent patients. Lucifer starts visiting Sam in his dreams.

kalliel wrote The book that changed Sam's life. NOT The Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders, please. [Part 2] [Part 3]

klutzy_girl wrote A witch the boys meet on a case decides to cast a spell on Sam as a gift for his birthday (she notices the guys have some communication hang ups)--he will not be able to inhibit what he says for a full day. Basically everything he thinks and feels comes spewing out of his mouth without his control. Including many thoughts of self-loathing and doubting Dean could ever love him the same after all that's happened, any other things you want, etc. Sam is mortified and feels exposed and stupid.

anonymous wrote A witch the boys meet on a case decides to cast a spell on Sam as a gift for his birthday (she notices the guys have some communication hang ups)--he will not be able to inhibit what he says for a full day. Basically everything he thinks and feels comes spewing out of his mouth without his control. Including many thoughts of self-loathing and doubting Dean could ever love him the same after all that's happened, any other things you want, etc. Sam is mortified and feels exposed and stupid.

lassiterfics wrote Sam starts smoking at Stanford, a slow but inexorable climb towards addiction. He tries halfheartedly to hide it from Dean after Jess dies, but Dean finds out pretty quickly and is shocked and appalled.

caerial wrote The Winchesters spend a lot of time in Humboldt Park (a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Illinois) tracking down old contacts. John leaves Sam and Dean in the care of a friend and Sam, precocious child that he is, starts learning to speak around then. But Dean doesn't talk anymore, and John's never around, so Sam's first acquired language actually ends up being Spanish. John's beginning to realize it wasn't just his and Mary's life went up in flames. So what now?

m14mouse wrote A Supernatural/Buffy crossover. Stanford-era Sam and recently-chipped Spike save the world. The problem is Sam has no one to tell and Spike has no one who will believe him. So, Spike comes back to Stanford a year later with a whole bunch of bear to celebrate the day they saved the world. Sam loves the company.

27_jaredjensen wrote Sam, Dean - season five after "The End". Sam is taking the Impala out to get food when he wrecks the car. He thinks this will be just one more thing that Dean will be mad at him about. Then he realizes he's hurt and ends up in the hospital. Dean takes care of him.

27_jaredjensen wrote Stanford era--Sam is sick during his birthday (could be the first one at Stanford or not) but a birthday present arrives that cheers him up.

roque_clasique wrote Stanford era--When Dean goes to check on Sam, he's shocked to be pointed in the direction of a busy club. Turns out Sam's the lead singer of a super-emo rock band (and, yes, he IS wearing eyes liner. AND leather pants). Sam is mortified to see Dean looking like that (he finds being bombarded by female groupies while he croons melodramatically embarrassing and only joined the band to get some cash for school).

greeneyes_fan wrote Gen. Like we all know, Sam gets his arms sliced up pretty bad by the ghouls in 4.19. BUT for some reason, the stitches Dean put in keep dissolving and the boys don't know why. Dean is afraid that Sam is pulling the stitches out himself and Sam won't contradict him because he thinks that maybe the demon blood running through him is eating the stitches away. Either way, Sam's not healing, just getting worst. All ends shmoopily after h/c hi-jinks ensue.

phx69 wrote Ever since his rape on his birthday, he hasn't celebrated. Sam finally gives into Dean's questioning in why.

dime_for_12 wrote Sam suffers an injury that won't be fatal but that will be intensely painful for some time and/or take a long time to heal enough to get back in the hunt if it'll heal at all. Frustration, h/c, and finally he gives up and asks Dean to kill him, because he knows perfectly well he'll bounce back from that much faster.

sistabro wrote Sam, Chuck, booze, and useless college degrees.

Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

“Jed,” says Sam, “this is my brother Dean. Dean, this is Jed Henderson. We knew each other at Stanford.” Jed’s a bit stuck on the “brother,” first because of the bodyguard/boyfriend thing, and second because brother? Sam Winchester? The man without a past, who had materialized on the Stanford campus with so little backstory that if he weren’t so damn happy and open (apart from how no one ever knew shit about him) you’d think he was some junior mobster in witness protection. But Jed shakes Dean’s hand – the guy doesn’t smile -- and tries valiantly to get through this encounter, though it’s getting more awkward by the second.

“Yeah,” he says, “Sam and I were in a few Latin courses together. Your brother is one amazing Latinist. I was the Classics major, but he fucking ran rings around me.” That almost seems to lighten the Dean guy up a bit, because he kind of pokes at Sam with his elbow and says, “You took Latin at Stanford, Sammy? What, you were homesick or something?” But Sam doesn’t even glance at his brother. He’s staring at Jed with his one eye and this weirdly intense look and he says, “Yeah, Dean, Latin, you know, like Christus, Christi, Christo, Christum, Christo.” And that’s pretty bizarre, because why on earth is Sam reciting the second declension, and why is he using the name of Christ to do it? But it’s almost like Sam relaxes a bit then, and he leans back on the car and smiles at Jed almost like he used to and asks him what the paper he’s giving at the conference is about.

It’s about prophecy and irony in the Thebaid, and Jed is launching into all its glorious detail and forgetting that he’s at a gas station having the most awkward mini college reunion of his life when the Dean guy interrupts with “What the fuck is the Thebaid?” And Jed starts to backtrack and explain that it’s a Latin epic, later than Virgil, and that it’s about this epic, tragic contest between two doomed brothers, the sons of Oedipus. And suddenly Sam is laughing, laughing so much that he can’t talk and he has to wave his hand helplessly at Dean and Jed while they watch him crack up. There’s a bit of a hysterical edge to it, and Jed can’t see what on earth is funny about a gloomy gorefest in Latin hexameters, but Sam looks like Sam, like he used to laugh himself weak and breathless over dorky Latin jokes at Stanford. And Dean is staring at his brother, and it’s like he’s a bit outraged and bit worried, but Jed thinks he can also see some of that sudden recognition – hey, this is Sam -- that he thinks is on his own face.

Finally Dean says, “Come on, Sam, we need to get going,” and he shakes Jed’s hand again and says “It was nice to meet you,” and he actually sounds like he might mean it. Sam says “Yeah, man, good to see you again,” and they get in the car and drive off and it occurs to Jed that he didn’t ask Sam a single question. Later on he calls Liz and tells her about the Sam Winchester sighting and she peppers him with questions, but all he can say is “He didn’t say much.”

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[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

Not very good at this? Pff, this is really good. \o/ A really nice outsider-POV that says a lot about both Sam and Dean. I love all the little details, like Dean being protective of Sam (and it being misconstrued, heh), and Sam sneaking in Christo, and Sam's reaction to the Thebaid. ♥ The concept of Sam laughing at dorky Latin jokes makes me full of glee X3 And both Dean's and an old acquaintance's reaction that it's a very Sam thing makes me even more charmed by it.

Really nicely done. :)

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[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was wonderful! Not very good at this? This rocks! I love Jed and his conference and his misconstruing Dean and Sam throwing out Christo and the two doomed brothers and that bit of the old Sam at the end. Great story, thanks so much for sharing!

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[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

This is a great take! I like how suspicious (poor one-eyed) Sam is - ack, after Brady - but then loosens up a little. Lol, hilarious reference with Thebaid, too. Very nice job!

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[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Oh this is wonderful.

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[kalliel]

This was absolutely phenomenal. I love what you did with Jed, here--how he's so obviously collegiate and just, well. Very much in that mindset. It worked well to characterize him and set the tone of the piece in as streamlined a manner as possible.

And the way you handled Jed perceiving Sam perceiving Jed (with Dean in there, too, and everything!) was just what I was thinking of when I was writing the prompt. Thank you so much for that.

As people above me have said, Sam's inclusion of "Christo" was a nice touch. (Haven't had the opportunity to see 5x20 yet, but I do understand the ep reference, which just made it that much better.)

This was so great, Anon. Thank you!

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[(Anonymous)]

Thank you all so much for the supportive feedback. That was literally my first fic ever (what can I say, I can't leave Sam's birthday uncelebrated), so it means a lot to me that people read it and liked it and commented.

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[kalliel]

No yes, definitely. This was absolutely fabulous. Unless you don't want to, I'd highly encourage you to post it at large in fandom! I love it to pieces.

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[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

you are too modest! this is brilliant!

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[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

This was excellent! Loved your outsider POV and the little things he noticed.

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[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

For someone who claims "not very good at this" you certainly hit this out of the park.

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[blubird-pie.livejournal.com]

Sam sneaking in the "Christo" and then relaxing was so sad and yet perfect. I love fic that blends in early season stuff like Stanford (laughing at latin jokes! Oh, Sam...) and the recent apocalypse arc, and this little fic does that so well. And of course nothing's as refreshing as a well-written outsider POV, which this certainly is <3

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[sistabro]

This is great! I have totally done the grad student spout off about weird esoteric things. And while I'm not familiar with the Thebaid, you put in just enough info about it that I don't need to be :) Well, done.