The Princess and the Other Princess

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Title:  The Princess and the Other Princess
Author: vail_kagami 
Genre: slash, winchest
Pairing: Sam/Dean, preslash
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 10,231 (two parts, link to second at bottom of first post)
Warnings: pre-incest, lots of cursing
Spoilers: Set after 4.18, The Monster at the End of this Book.
Summary: It's another case based on fairytales for the Winchester brothers. There is a message in there somewhere - or maybe someone just likes to piss them off.
Note: Witten for radiumgirl's prompt "*coughsam/deancough* It's another fairy tale hunt for the Winchesters. Sam is Sleeping Beauty. Dean is not amused." at the h/c prompt challenge.

He was still bored. Fairytales were so no cool reading material for adults.

Fic H/C challenge....

[zara-zee.livejournal.com]

Title: Little Engine
Total Words: 4,045
Genre(s): Gen; angst
Pairing(s): N/A
Rating: PG-13
Type: Prompt Fic…
Disclaimer: Not mine. Sigh. They’re Kripke’s….I’m just borrowing them ……for fun, not profit….
Spoilers: Up to 5.6
Warnings: Rated for language, adult themes, drug references, violence.

Summary: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, Sam learnt that the hard way. The road to redemption? That’s a long, hard, painful, uphill battle.

A/N:  This was written for the h/c challenge at ohsam.
The prompt (by cordelia_gray) was: “So there was this little interview in TV Guide with Jared and Jensen, and Jared said that Sam is his inspiration, because he takes so many hits and keeps on going. This is totally one of the things I love about Sam, too. Anything on this theme would be lovely, but particularly something set in early/mid S5, where Sam is trying to overcome his addiction and repair his relationship with Dean. Maybe he ends up going to NA meetings in between hunts?”

 

 

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This is no place like home 8/?

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Title: This is no place like home.
Author: gooferdusty 
Pairing/ Characters: Sam, Dean.(This is gen, for now but will become slash i think!)
Rating: pg this chapter
Warnings: None really, apart from it could be spoilery for season 6.
Disclaimer: Not making a penny profit, don't own the boys, no hurt intended, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Summary: There are things that Dean knows are a given. Since his brother's return he isn't so sure anymore. The one place that's home suddenly isn't. Sam takes a huge step this chapter.

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008 - [theme: sam gets his soul back; 4 gen, 4 sam/dean]

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title. oversoul
author. twilightshours
rating. pg-13
words. 4,680
characters. dean, sam, bobby, castiel
summary. oversoul: the ideal that all forms of being are spiritually united. sam's different since he came back, and dean is done putting up with it.

title. the greatest of these
author. wanttobeatree @ treeshouse
rating. pg
words. 2,270
characters. sam, dean
summary. when sam gets his soul back, all of his "sam-ness" doesn't automatically come back. first general empathy, sleep, assorted feelings, but he still can't figure out what he's supposed to be feeling for dean.

title. sam is...
author. hells_half_acre
rating. pg
words. 5,993
characters. dean, sam, bobby, castiel
summary. “are you sure you really want his soul back?” crowley had asked. “he’s bloody useful without it. i can’t make any promises he’ll be able to function with it. after all, it’s been in the pit for nearly two centuries.” [reccer's summary]

( five more under the cut )

reccer's comments. one of the biggest questions this season has been that of sam's soul - specifically, how and when he'll get it back and what condition it will be returned in. sam's soul is restored in each of these fics. often it is messy and painful. but each of these authors deals with the subject matter skillfully and originally, and every fic ends on a hopeful note. whatever the road brings, however terrible life might seem, we are given the sense that as long as sam and dean have each other, there is nothing they can't overcome. and what more can we ask for?

these are by no means the only fics dealing with sam's soul out there. feel free to rec your own fics dealing with this theme, as well as others you have read and enjoyed, in the comments.