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

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→ 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.”
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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.

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Sorry this took so long... it kind of got away from me. Hope you like what I came up with, though.

-*-

When Sam's nose starts running, John buys a box of Kleenex from the next gas station and tosses it into the backseat of the Impala.

Colds are nothing new to the Winchesters. It's a product of meeting more people in a month than most people run into in a year. Sam knows better than to whine about it. It'll probably be better after a few days and so they brush it off.

A week after they arrive in Nowheresville, Some-Midwestern-State, Sam starts coughing. At first Dean teases him, calls him asthmatic and an old man. They come in short fits, sometimes a few every hour and sometimes none for a long time, but in between them Sam is the healthy, energetic eight-year-old that he always is. Besides, it's hard to work up the energy to worry about a few coughs when Dad is preparing to go up against a Wendigo.

Sometimes, when Sam's coughing spells keep him up at night, Dean can hear their dad tossing and turning on the pull-out couch in the living room, unable to fall asleep. On those nights Dean feeds Sam sips of water and lets Sam cross the invisible dividing line in the bed that he started insisted on when he got “too old for all that”. After the spells tire him out, Sam falls asleep curled up against his side and Dean lets his soft breathes lull him into sleep.

–

“I'm going to head out tomorrow,” John announces one morning over breakfast.

Sam nods, used to the drill. Dean looks at his little brother, legs swinging beneath his chair.

“Dad,” Dean starts. “Sam's still coughing a lot.”

Sam looks over at him and glares. Weaknesses aren't shared in the Winchester family and Sam especially hates when he's singled out. He works hard to try and keep up with Dean.

“He seems fine now,” John says reasonably.

Sam's glare hasn't abated, but Dean just matches his stare. “He's fine now, but he has those fits all the time. I think he should see a doctor.”

Sam huffs in frustration, but that sets off a series of loud, dry coughs. He bends over in his seat, gasping a little for air in between the bouts. John has the same expression on his face right now as when he finally finds a clue that breaks a case wide open, the same astonished gape. As he catches his breath, Sam glares at Dean. Dean smirks back.

-*-

The doctor's office is tiny, the entire operation taking place inside a renovated house. Sam and Dean sit quietly in the waiting area as John chats up the receptionist. Dean hears the word 'bear' and 'maulings' and knows that John's pumping her for information about the strange attacks that have occurred in the area. Sam is pouting. Dean offers to let him play with the blocks and other toys with a smirk and ends up on the receiving end of as vicious a glare as Sam can manage, which ends up being pretty adorable.

“Sam Martins?” a nurse calls, and both the boys look over at John, who thanks the receptionist for her time but by the set of his jaw he wasn't finished with his questions. The three of them are herded into a room in the back. Sam's hand finds Dean's as they walk and Dean doesn't make fun of him at all, only squeezes back.

“Can Sammy sit up here?” the young woman asks, gesturing to a large padded table with thin white paper stretched across it. Sam nods and climbs up. She checks his ears and makes him take a few deep breaths and say “ahhh” before she leaves to get the doctor.

They wait for what feels like forever, John's boot tapping impatiently against the wooden floor. Dean pieces through two-year old magazines about houses and families. Sam pouts.

A knock at the door is followed by a harried-looking older man who does the same tests as the nurse. He swabs Sam's throat and puts the swab in a little plastic tube before turning to John. “Well, I'm going to test for strep throat, but it doesn't look likely. I'll give you a prescription for some cough syrup with codeine, but in all likelihood this is just a little cold. Sam will be fine in a couple of days.”

John thanks the man, shakes his hand, and they go to pay their bill with the card that matches their fake last name. They stop at a pharmacy and get the cough syrup, but they aren't even to the car before Dean can tell that their Dad's mind is once again fully on his hunt.

-*-

It's summer, so there's no school to worry about, and Dean and Sam spend their time going slowly stir-crazy. Dean digs out a deck of cards and they play so many games of Go Fish that Dean is ready to set the cards on fire by the time he makes them switch to poker. Sam's only just learning, so it's pretty easy, but he's smart and picks up on it quickly.

It's only the fourth day alone when the last of the Lucky Charms has lead to a spontaneous game of keep away. Dean has just escaped from being cornered in the living room when Sam starts coughing. Dean groans as the game comes to a screeching halt and waits for Sam to stop, but he doesn't. He's gasping in between and his face is turning red and he's not stopping.

Dean drops the box of cereal and gets to Sam's side just as his little brother falls to the ground dizzily. He has an arm around Sam's shoulders but Dean's already given him all the cough syrup he can for the morning and there is nothing else to do. Sam's bent over and there's saliva dripping from his open mouth.

It's another few minutes before the coughing abates, leaving Sam exhausted and gasping.

“Dude, what was that?” Dean asks, angry and frightened. Sam doesn't answer.

-*-

Edited 2010-05-07 00:19 (UTC)

Not all of the fits are that bad at first, but as time goes on the bad ones get more frequent. The first time that Sam vomits during one of his spells Dean is ready to call an ambulance. It's only Sam's terrified pleading, forced out in single syllables between coughs, that keeps him from dialling.

Dean clings to the simple fact that Sam doesn't appear very ill when he's not coughing. He says that his throat hurts a little, but he is smiling and joking. Dean feeds him chicken and tomato soup with rice like he thinks it'll cure him on feel-good-ness alone. Sam eats it happily, but a good portion of it gets thrown up the next time Sam starts coughing. Dean almost bursts into tears the first time that Sam apologizes for wasting food like that, having obviously caught Dean's stricken expression. Instead he dredges up a smile and asks if Sam wants toast.

At two in the morning on the day that John is due home Dean wakes up to Sam coughing again. He rolls over and Sam grabs his wrist as he gasps. The bedside light is flicked on and it's only Sam's weakening grasp on his wrist that keeps Dean from dialling 9-1-1.

Sam is lying on his side and his eyes are fluttering as he stares at Dean with a completely panicked expression and his lips are turning blue.

“Oh, God, Sam?” Dean chokes, rubbing at his brother's shoulders, his back. “Sammy? C'mon, buddy, breathe.”

Sam shakes his head, I can't, and Dean pulls him up into a sitting position against his chest. Sam's body shakes against him and Dean finds himself rocking back and forth as he hugs his brother to him.

“It'll stop soon,” Dean reassures, trying to quiet the panic he saw in Sam's eyes. “Stay with me, kiddo.”

It does stop, but only after another minute of mind-numbing terror. They stay on the bed, rocking slowly in the sudden silence, for minutes more.

“You okay?” Dean asks, even though he knows that this is far from okay, from normal.

Sam nods against his chest and Dean tightens his hold.

-*-

For once in their life, John is on time. They hear the rumble of the Impala and Dean sits Sam on the couch in the living room, throwing the comforter off the bed over him. His brother looks tiny under the blanket, face pale and thin.

John is only a step in the door, smiling wide with a happiness that he only ever shows after a successful hunt, before Dean is saying, “You need to take Sam to the doctor.”

“I thought we cleared this all up,” John says and he sounds disappointed, like Dean hasn't been taking care of Sam and suddenly Dean is furious.

“He's sick! The cough syrup didn't work and the coughing makes him puke. He can't even breathe!” He's glaring at his dad accusingly, throwing every bit of disappointment back. Taken aback by his son's unusual attitude, John looks past him to Sam. He draws his lips into a thin line and nods.

-*-

The doctor's office is the exact same as last time, except John is making no effort to chat up the flirty receptionist. They sit side-by-side in chairs, silent and still. When they get taken back to the office, it's Dean who grabs Sam's hand this time.

The doctor hums and putters about, but other than the fact that Sam has dropped five pounds, not much is different. “Sometimes these things just take a while to resolve,” he says, amicably but Dean gets the sense that he says this to a lot of overprotective parents. “I'll write a prescription for a different cough syrup...”

“No,” Dean interrupts.

“Dean,” John warns, but his son isn't listening.

“No, you need to see Sam cough.”

“Son,” the man says slowly. “Sam hasn't coughed at all. I know that it seems...”

“No,” Dean repeats. “You need to hear it. You need to see it.”

John tries to reason, but Dean won't be budged, and Sam is as always taking his cues from his big brother. They sit for another five minutes and John has begun apologizing for wasting the doctor's times when Sam begins to cough.

The doctor looks stunned once Sam is done, lips tinged blue and listing on the table, but Dean doesn't have time for him because his little brother looks miserable. Sam's wearing the exact same expression that he does when he's done something wrong and that's just too much for Dean. He gets up and goes over to the exam table and puts an arm around Sam's shoulders.

The doctor is much more serious now, as he asks Sam to lie back. Dean nods his okay and Sam does so. The doctor takes a long, thin swab and places it gently in front of Sam's nostril. Dean lays a comforting hand on Sam's arm and the doctor's hand plunges down quickly, swab disappearing into Sam's nose and coming back out just as fast.

Sam's coughing, but they're small and once Dean convinces himself that it's not another fit he asks, “What was that?”

The doctor puts the swab away. “A nasopharyngeal swab. I'm going to run some tests and get back to you tomorrow, but I'm going to write you a prescription for some erithromycin. It's an antibiotic. I think it'll help.” He scribbles on his pad of paper and gives the sheet to John. “Make sure that Sam takes all of the pills, even if he stops coughing.”

“What do you think it is?” John asks.

“Pertussis,” the doctor replies. “Whooping cough. I won't know until I get the test back, but I want to make sure that we start treating it right away, if I'm right. It's highly contagious.”

“Highly contagious? Will Dean get it? I thought people didn't get that anymore.”

“It's rare, now that there's a vaccine. Were your children vaccinated?”

“Dean was,” John replies confidently. “I think Sam got some shots, but... his mother died when he was six months old and... you know.”

The room is quiet. Dean strokes his hand along Sam's arm. Their dad does the best he can and sometimes things fall by the wayside. Dean understands, he does. But he's looking at Sam sitting hunched in on himself in the tiny exam room and he isn't feeling very forgiving.

-*-

Sam doesn't like being sick, but he sure doesn't seem to mind the perks. John buys them real food, good food, like steak and potatoes and ice cream. It turns out that he could've been home a few days earlier, but even as Sam was coughing and throwing up he was touring the area bars and cheating the locals out of a few hundred dollars. With a new surplus of cash, they live well as Sam finishes up his week of antibiotics.

Two weeks and they leave the town and it gets categorized as yet another thing that Winchesters Don't Talk About, but Dean never forgets the sight of his brother's face turning slowly blue. He loves his dad and even more importantly he understands his dad, but from then on there's only one person he trusts with Sammy's health and safety, and that's himself.

Edited 2010-05-07 00:22 (UTC)

Oh, BOYS! I love Dean being Supermommy with the doctor, and I love Sam's quiet stoicism.

Thanks for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :) Dean totally is Supermommy, even at some points in the show, and I love that about him.

Awesome and the last line was killer. Whooping cough! Brilliant!

Thanks! Glad you liked it. :)

Please ignore my complete inability to figure out how to split up comment fics and, more importantly, please ignore the fact that despite going to school for Microbiology, I managed to misspell BordEtella. Wow. Finals really are killing me.

All is forgiven.

In fact, I think I love you. ;-) This is exactly what I was looking for! Love that you chose pertussis. Ya know, I just recently got a bunch of immunizations for a trip and found out there's been a quiet pertussis outbreak here in Utah among adults. I sure didn't know we're supposed to re-up our boosters every 10 years. (I'm sure John's safe, though, as tetnus is also in the booster and he's bound to get more'n his fair share of those shots given his job.)

But, I digress. I wanted to say how much I loved that it could be mistaken and dismissed, and that Dean was the only one with Sammy enough to notice and realize that it was something more severe. Loved that he insisted they all stand there and listen to Sam and the last line was great. Very good backstory for Dean's caring for Sammy's health in the future. :-D

Thanks again!

I based a lot of this after my own experience getting Pertussis when I was 17. Specifically, how neither my parents nor my doctor believed me when I said "this is whooping cough". Even though there was a whooping cough epidemic going through my school. Until, you know, the test came back the next day and I was confirmed as positive. It's a tricky disease like that... Yeah, it's surprising how many people think they're still immune to things they last had shots for years ago (like smallpox or anything in the DTaP vaccine).

I'm glad you liked it! :) My microbiology classes often make me want to write h/c fics about all the crazy disease we talk about, but I have a feeling that'd seem... kinda weird. And crazy.

Ahhhh, but the past few episodes have given you an absolutely perfect opportunity! After all, Pestilence is a crafty figure, and he knew those Winchester boys were out there. ;-)

*yep, I'm the same kinda weird/crazy as you*

I must say, I was freaking out when Pestilence was talking. Japanese encephalitis? Dengue fever? Syphilis? Be still, my beating heart! Besides, you hear such weird things in micro classes... like Pseudomonas, and how people with severe infections can actually glow in the dark. That's just awesome!

Good to know someone else might be interested in fic about horrible diseases. ;) :)

I've never heard of that. That would be awesome. "Well, I think we have the correct diagnosis, but just to be sure, let's turn off the lights."

It also makes people smell sort of like grape bubblegum, so I'm thinking it'd be a very easy diagnosis. And it's mostly a problem with severe burns, so, that's perfect for some h/c fic!

That is the weirdest thing. Grape bubblegum smell and glow in the dark sounds like a toy, not an illness.

And being related to burns? As in the fire in the pilot (either one)? Or the fire in 1x21? Or a missing scene fic fire? I'd love to read any of 'em!

Stop that, lol. I need to finish editing my Big Bang fic before I can even think about writing anything else. Once that ordeal is over, I might have to write this.

And then this fall I'm screwed, because I'm taking a "Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Disease" class and I'm pretty sure that every lecture will seem like a fic prompt.

Bwahahahaha!!!

Ok, I'll stop, but only 'cause you're working on a big bang.

And hey, don't hold back when you're inspired! I'll devour whatever disease fics you feel like writing. Why no use your powers for good? ;-)

I wouldn't find that weird or crazy. I'd read it.

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