comment fic meme!

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Following the results of the poll we took last month (don't make it easy on us or anything, guys, haha!), we've decided to hold a comment fic meme once every three months. This gives everyone time to write and prompt to their heart's content, and allows us mods to keep up with y'all. And we're starting right now!

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THE RULES

→ Leave a comment here with your prompt. This is a Sam-focused hurt/comfort community, so Sam should be the one in the hurt/comforted role. Your prompts may involve sick!Sam, hurt!Sam, angsty!Sam, basically anything that results in Sam being on the receiving end of hurt/comfort. (No rules against whumping other characters as well, of course, but you have to whump Sam first. ;) )
→ In your prompt, please state your desired characters or pairings. All genres/pairings welcome, but no real-person (RPF) 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.
→ Anon posting enabled.
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→ Have fun!

THE MASTER LIST

Headache by verucasalt123
Sam has a headache and Dean tries to make him feel better.

Taming the Dragon by mentholpixie
Dean finds out Sam has become addicted to some kind of very hard street drug (heroin, meth, cocaine, something like that) and tries (with or without success, surprise me) to help him kick.

Light Will Guide You Home by tahirire
Sam/Sarah Blake, anytime after they parted ways at the end of "Provenance." Because Sam needs non-monster lovin', and he's into dark-haired girls anyway.

The Shadow Dancer by running_hot
Sam has a high fever. A monster has Dean. The rescue would be going much better if Sam could tell which things were actually happening and which were in his head.

Touched By an Angel by mamapranayama
Fill in the gaps between when Cas took down Sam's wall in that alley, until Dean and Bobby get Sam back into the panic room.

Mo Bhràthair E A' Chantainn by ramblin_rosie
Dean and Sam had their own language when they were children, like twins sometimes do. In long car trips, to signal each other, to communicate in close quarters without their father knowing what they were saying. It faded over time, but now, with Sam so often broken form reality and Dean desperate, remembering that language is what saves them. Post 6x22.

In My Time... by jennytork
Sam on a spinal board. Don't mind why, how whatever, but Sam freaking out due to being strapped down, and Dean reassuring him that it will all be ok.

Eternity by emmram
What if the cage were timeless, or outside of time, and returning to time after being timeless had major repercussions? Physiological, where all Sam's heart rate and breathing rhythms and such were fouled up; psychological, where he no longer knows how to follow a conversation or text or train of thought consecutively without jumping about. Go wild: anything from nausea and dizziness to psychosis. Maybe strong rhythms, like waves or music with a regular beat, help ground him. Or sex, if you wanted to go the pairing route.

don't let me know we're invisible by mimblexwimble
ean finds out Sam has become addicted to some kind of very hard street drug (heroin, meth, cocaine, something like that) and tries (with or without success, surprise me) to help him kick.

Real by brokenangel6662
Post-6x22. Sam falls apart. Dean tries to help. That is all.

Folk Rememdies by anonymous
Giant jellyfish. Sam's in the water. Dean isn't. GO!

Into the Night by youaredriving
Sam starts sleepwalking - he walks into the cold night air (not very healthy), he hurts himself while asleep (like cutting or banging his head)

Turn Your Back by vail_kagami
From Cas's POV. Post 6x22. During one of Sam's worst breaks, Dean clings to his brother in just another cheap motel room that make up their lives. He holds Sam and whispers and tries to soothe him, desperation radiating off him as Sam gets worse. Unseen, Castiel watches the two people who'd called him family. He either doesn't know why he feels compelled to watch them suffer like this or realizes he still feels something for them (love/remorse). Would prefer no romantic attachments.

Untitled by verucasalt123
Sam smokes cigarettes. He knows it's a bad habit. He knows he smokes way more than he should. He keeps on smoking anyway.

Automatic Reflex by monicawoe
Sam lifts a car. Of course, Sam throws his back out doing it.

Near Miss by laurificus
Sam does not want to be comforted. Dean is like, 'Yeah well I don't want to make you feel better anyway'

Vegetable Pot Pie by ennyousai
Dean has to feed up a Sam who doesn't trust the world around him. Dean is the only person he sorta kinda trusts; he won't accept food unless Dean is the one who prepares it and offers it. Cue lots of cooking!Dean, talking soothingly and acclimating Sam to a domestic routine.

To Hold Your Broken Soul by authoressnebula
I just kind of loved remembering-hell!Sam, and would like to see more of him. Especially some physical h/c. Sam’s face is burned and he looks like he could use a Dean to clean him up and take care of him, you know? And if you want to move on to emotional h/c after that, that’s fine too.

Spiders from Mars by anonymous
Sam loses his hair (reason up to you) and he is embarrassed by his lumpy skull. Depending on the cause of the hair loss, I can actually see this as being either really lulzy or really sad and either is okay with me.

Most Likely To... by monicawoe
Sam meets old friends from Stanford and they don't recognize him, what with him and Dean swooping in all huge and violent with guns and knives and arcane rituals to rescue them all from some horrifying eldritch creature. And then his friends are all, "OMG! It's Psycho Sam who was a closet satanist and was wanted by the FBI!" And Sam is very conspicuously injured, but he and Dean can't stop to patch him up because the eldritch creature is still trying to rip their throats out. And Sam's feelings are hurt because his old friends are scared of him now.

And They Cry to See Your Face by honeylocusttree
Sam meets old friends from Stanford and they don't recognize him, what with him and Dean swooping in all huge and violent with guns and knives and arcane rituals to rescue them all from some horrifying eldritch creature. And then his friends are all, "OMG! It's Psycho Sam who was a closet satanist and was wanted by the FBI!" And Sam is very conspicuously injured, but he and Dean can't stop to patch him up because the eldritch creature is still trying to rip their throats out. And Sam's feelings are hurt because his old friends are scared of him now.

Cold Hard Truth by jpunkin
Sam suddenly knows when people are lying.

Bleed as it Grows by transfixeddream
Post-6.22. One comparatively minor issue in the mile-long list of all the ways Sam's been screwed up by the destruction of the Wall is the fact that he can't shave himself anymore. But it's eating at him, not just because he's irritated by the way being unshaven looks and feels so much as it is the principle of it-- the fact that he's so freaking scared to do something that used to be so easy before. But so much as touching a razor freaks him out because of all the unpleasant associations he now has with razors and blades in general, let alone scraping one across his face, and he can't get over it. Dean realizes it's upsetting him and decides to help out.

Alone Without You by tattooeddevil
Sam has a terminal heart condition. Dean rents a beach house.

It's All Fun and Games by cherry916
Sam and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Haircut

Do I Not Bleed? by greeneyes_fan
Robo!Sam is still human, even if he doesn't sleep. He comes down with a really horrific case of the 'flu: fever, chills, that nasty cough that settles right in your chest and makes it hurt to breathe, aching muscles, the whole nine yards. Dean knows how to deal with Sam when he's sick, but Robo!Sam is a whole other matter. How do you take care of a guy who not only views this sickness as just an annoying inconvenience and resists any and all forms of caretaking, but also can't/won't sleep which is the main thing that would help?

The Language of Angels by monicawoe
Post 6x22. Sometimes Sam's breaks aren't too disasterous, sometimes they're catastrophic. He'll scream and tremble and speak only enochian. Desperate to help, Dean, haltingly, learns some broken Enochian words so he can try to reach his brother. Gen preferred.

Pandamonium by mamapranayama
Sam gets mauled by an escaped panda or other cuddly animal at the zoo.

The Other Brother by radiumgirl
Sam and Adam are pulled from the cage at the same time. Sam is not right, and Adam, stuck as his caretaker, is not pleased (the reason for Adam not being the same kind of drooling mess is up to the author). Basically, Adam really really doesn't want to care and holds onto his resentment for dear life, but Sam is all psychotic and hopeless so it's kind of hard. Cue grudging compassion and Adam dragging Sam around the country, hitchhiking with truckers and stuff while trying to keep Sam's lunacy on the down-low, in search of anyone else who wants to take him, anyone at all. When he finally gets his chance to be rid of Sam for good and for keeps, he barely has one foot out the door before he notices Dean/Bobby/the psychiatric nurse/whoever trying to calm Sam down and doing it all wrong. Breaking up is so hard to do.

Big Brothers and Hot Dogs Never Mix by cherry916
Sam gets sick in the Impala. Not just a little, we're talking projectile vomiting, splattering and making a big huge mess. Any season, but not pre-series. Gen, please.

Relief by si_star_x
After a bad fall Sam badly bruises and/or cracks quite a few ribs, he's in agony and relies on Dean to help him through his simple everyday tasks.

Misplaced Comment Fic by greeneyes_fan
Hilarious. Cas rocks! No wait, you rock!

Where There's Smoke by roque_clasique
Sam smokes cigarettes. He knows it's a bad habit. He knows he smokes way more than he should. He keeps on smoking anyway.

True Colors tifaching
CRACK. Or whatever. Castiel and Balthazar go on a roadtrip together in order to rediscover their inner peacocks. (Don't ask, it's an angel thing.) Unfortunately, things go horribly awry and Sam ends up getting pecked half to death when the peacocks turn murderous. Luckily for him, Dean is awesome.

Mirror, Mirror purplehrdwonder
There's an old belief that you see your soul when you look into a mirror. Sam's soul has been in the Cage for hundreds of years. What does he see when he looks at his own reflection? What's in the mirror, staring back at him every morning when he tries to shave?

My life on paper glovered
Seems like after what happened when the wall fell, Sam's brain periodically reverts to amnesia under stress. He doesn't go into a coma, but whatever random triggers he has for his hell flashbacks, his consciousness sidesteps them by becoming blank!slate!Sam.

Sam's Soul brokenangel662
Sam's soul watches, terrified and desperately wanting to join his body as it gets dragged from the cage.

Another Point of View ceedeeandco
Post-wall: It’s not that Sam is hallucinating so much as he’s now capable of seeing into other dimensions. Which, of course, to the untrained eye, comes off as Sam hallucinating. Dean, unfortunately, is an untrained eye, and the inter-dimensional being who might have formerly conveniently let Dean in on the secret is currently off playing God somewhere. So, Dean is going to go with the “Sam hallucinates ALL THE TIME” theory and acts accordingly. Does he ever figure it out?

Metronome geek_chic_girl
OK, this is an odd idea I've had kicking around since 5.22. What if the cage were timeless, or outside of time, and returning to time after being timeless had major repercussions? Physiological, where all Sam's heart rate and breathing rhythms and such were fouled up; psychological, where he no longer knows how to follow a conversation or text or train of thought consecutively without jumping about.

Your Name in Lights by honeylocusttree
What torments Sam most about his memories of the Cage, after he gets a tenuous grip on the flashbacks and fear, is how he broke there: in the worst way a Winchester could possibly break. He remembers wishing Dean was there instead of him. Dean assumes that Sam is miserable and ashamed because of something done to him, instead of anything he'd done, and Sam is inconsolable. Does Dean ever figure it out? Can Sam ever move on?

Along Came a Spider by mamapranayama
As many cellars, abandoned houses, rotting warehouses, and other manky spaces as these guys have run through, I figure their chances of getting tagged have to be pretty high. Sam has a run-in with Lactodectrus mactrans, which in turn leads to all the fun and joy of latrodectism. Dean's there to do the motel rool triage (and the big brother thing) when the agonizing full-body cramps set in, of course. Mega-super bonus points and my eternal love for some kind of background plot, especially if it gives Sam occasion to be awesome, but mainly, I'd just love to see him in agony from Black Widow venom.

Lest Thou be Consumed by jpunkin
After being in the Cage, Sam can't even really tell when he's been hurt, no matter how bad it is. He'll get hurt in a hunt and not know till Dean freaks and tells him he's bleeding. He'll wander off barefoot, lost in his head, and Dean will wake up and run after him. His feet will be all cut up and bloody and Dean's panicking that he doesn't know what's wrong with his brother and doesn't know how to help him. Gen preferred.

Unable to Stay by youaredriving
Sam is a bit shell-shocked after a hunt (maybe an innocent person dies? Someone he knew/got to know?) and has blood on his hands, arms, and face. Thus, Dean has to gently remove his clothes, get him into the shower, get in after him, and bathe him. Sam, still very much out of it, is highly compliant. Afterwards, Dean gets him dressed and into bed. Maybe he cuddles with him, and/or tries to coax him out of his stupor.

Just Following Orders by ramblin_rose
Sam shoots his father. On purpose or accident -- repercussions are going to be severe in any case.

You Never Forget Your First by authoressnebula
The boys are arguing. And this happens to be the one and only time that Dean ever takes his anger out on Sam in a violent way. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe he was really drunk. Maybe he was cursed. Maybe he was just really angry and he screwed up. The thing is, Sam actually gets hurt, and it's Dean's fault. Cue massive guilt and general awesomeness afterwards.
Brownie points if Sam thinks he deserved it for whatever reason. Or is angry about it. Or somehow scared of Dean.

The Cancer Inside by purplehrdwonder
Dean tangles with a djinn who grants you what you want most, with a wicked sense of what it probably thinks is humor. Dean's pissed at Sam, angry, just wants Sam to shut up and listen and grovel maybe a little bit more because hey, the guy jumpstarted the apocalypse and betrayed Dean. So yeah, Dean wants that. And in this world, Dean gets just that.

Cooler Than Me by authoressnebula
Wee!Sam (5-12) catches the eye of an infertile witch. She kidnaps him and casts a spell on him to make him believe that she is his mother.

Not Exactly Clarence by minviendha
Sam, Cas, gen, sometime in Season 5. Sam gets sick, and Cas is the only one who notices. Sam is ignoring the problem until it goes away; cue Cas trying (awkwardly) to take care of him.

To Be Redeemed by brokenangel6662
Sam falls apart. Dean tries to help. That is all.

Draining by 27_jaredjensen
Sam has the mother of all chest colds, a raging headache, draining fever, wracking chills. By all rights he should be in bed, but people are dying and bones need to be burned and Dean can't do it alone. So here they are, in the middle of a forest in the pouring rain, trying to light a stupid match because of course the lighter fluids all gone...you get the idea, right? One of those no good, pain in the ass, nothing going right, suck-the-life-from-your-bones days. Grumbling but protective Dean would be awesome.

Mother Instinct by norahy
Season 2: The boys are forced to crash at the Roadhouse for a time. Sam is hurt/sick/whatever and in bad shape, and Ellen decides the poor boy needs some serious mothering.

Comments

Black Widow spider bite

[road-rhythm.livejournal.com]

Man, I can't seem to post anything right tonight. :P

As many cellars, abandoned houses, rotting warehouses, and other manky spaces as these guys have run through, I figure their chances of getting tagged have to be pretty high. Sam has a run-in with Lactodectrus mactrans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_widow_spider), which in turn leads to all the fun and joy of latrodectism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectism).

Dean's there to do the motel rool triage (and the big brother thing) when the agonizing full-body cramps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectism#Symptoms) set in, of course. Mega-super bonus points and my eternal love for some kind of background plot, especially if it gives Sam occasion to be awesome, but mainly, I'd just love to see him in agony from Black Widow venom.

OCD!Sam, triggers

[road-rhythm.livejournal.com]

All Sam asks is that Dean doesn't touch his stuff--because, no, sometimes he can't control his OCD. It's how he controls his damned life during times of stress in the first place.

Well, it's a time of stress. Dean messes with his stuff. It's innocent, Dean doesn't mean to send Sam into a meltdown, but that doesn't change anything.

Re: OCD!Sam, triggers

[4thejourney.livejournal.com]

Please someone write! :-)

S7!Sam, therapy dog

[road-rhythm.livejournal.com]

What Dean didn't get about why Flagstaff is part of heaven for Sam is that Sam really loved that dog, more than he'd ever loved anyone or anything except his family. And Bones was the first creature Sam ever got to take care of as his own.

It takes a while, but after Cas brings the wall down, Dean eventually notices that Sam's better around dogs. He's more grounded when he can scratch an interviewee's mutt behind the ear. He even comes out of his shell a bit; Sam can be so far in his head that he can barely take care of himself and still come out of his memories enough to take care of a stray.

What the hell. Not like a dog is close to the worst thing they've ever smuggled into a motel room.

Re: S7!Sam, therapy dog

[(Anonymous)]

Not a fill, but you might enjoy this! :)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7106630/1/Along_Came_bZepp_b

[kiscinca.livejournal.com]

All right tossing this out as I was rolling it around my head a bit. S6 spoilers ahoy!

So, we know that Not!Sam was a ruthless hunter who did things Sam wouldn't approve, but not all of his memories are about what he did.

During the year he spent alone a hunt with Sampa went bad. Sampa had a plan to use him as a bait and kill their current baddie while it's distracted. Except the plan went awry and Not!Sam got stuck with the MOTW for days or weeks (up to the author) while it tortured him (again up to the author about how and how badly he is hurt etc...)

When Sam is brought back and he gets all of Not!Sams memories he is the one who has to deal with the trauma as Not!Sam never did. Maybe the baddie was never caught and it's gunning for Sam again. Cue hurt/vulnerable Sam and protective/awesome Dean.

All right, shutting up now as I am still working on my own fill for the last meme...

*scuttles off*

[sistabro]

Gangrene. Appendage and whether it is wet or dry gangrene, circumstances of acquisition, and severity are all up to the author.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

(Sorry for the absurdly long prompt) After 6x22, Sam has a very difficult time keeping the voices of Lucifer and Michael out of his head, of the times he was tortured for years on end and he's tired of trying to differentiate between what is real and what is a halluciantion or a memory of Hell. He wants it all to end and thoughts of suicide crowd his mind, but he knows that people that commit suicide go to Hell and he definately doesn't want to go back. So instead he takes dangerous chances, putting himself in harm's way and risking his life as often as possible to save people in the hopes that something will kill him, and that God might see him worthy of Heaven.

Folsom Prison Blues - Mishap in the air duct

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a fic where Sam had a little mishap while crawling through the airducts in 'Folsom Prison Blues'. Maybe he slips and falls down a shaft, maybe he cuts himself on some sharp metal, maybe he even has an asthma attack due to all the dust, whatever. I just want him to try and hide it from Dean until they get out of the jail (plus, he doesn't want to look weak to all those incarcerated dudes that are even bigger than he is).

Re: Folsom Prison Blues - Mishap in the air duct

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. ^^
(And your prompts!)

[beamin-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Sam gets knocked in the head during a hunt or something and it results in loosening a few screws and leaves him with the mindest of a little kid. So now Dean has to help Sam with pretty much everything, and reassure him when he gets freaked because Sam doesn't understand his own gigantor body anymore, and be just generally awesome. I'll bake you cookies if Dean gets all Wrath of Big Brother when Ruby shows up and scares Sam somehow.

And I make some mean cookies. ;)

Plane crash ( I know...subtle)

[jpunkin.livejournal.com]

So I actually got to the gym early enough today to get the tv remote :D so of course I flipped to TNT to watch the supernatural re runs, and 'phantom traveler' was on. Dean freaking out about flying is never not funny haha...ANYWAYS, what if dean got snagged by airport security ( weapon concealment? Suspicious behavior? Anything will do) and gets brought in for questioning. Sam, ever the hero, gets on the plane anyway, by himself, to try and stop the demon. Something goes wrong ( up to you) and the plane still crashes. *bonus points for uber hurt Sam helping the other crash victims and dean fighting tooth and nail to get to his brother.

Sam plays an instrument.

[dollarformyname.livejournal.com]

Sam used to play the guitar (or some other instrument). It was something he took up during those tense waiting periods when his dad and Dean were off hunting something and wouldn't let him come along (and/or other reasons left to author's imagination). John never really approved, all that time and attention dedicated to something that wasn't really useful to anyone, but that was all the more reason for Sam to do it. He even kept it up at Stanford.

But after Jess died, his interest dwindled, and after John died, it dried up completely. Now, with Sam back from Hell, re-souled, and his wall detonated, something happens to remind Dean of Sam's old guitar-strumming days (maybe they work a case in a music shop or something). Sam has trouble staying in the here and now but Dean figures out the guitar helps ground him. Maybe he tries to commit him to it via booking him a small gig at a coffee shop, or something, and it goes well, or it goes really, really badly. Or maybe he goes for something more intimate, and gets Sam to teach him. Wherever you wanna go with it. Any pairing/genre.

Re: Sam plays an instrument.

[27-jaredjensen.livejournal.com]

I love this prompt so SO much. ♥

Sam loses the amulet.

[dollarformyname.livejournal.com]

AMULET FIC WILL NEVER BE OLD, I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, LALALA

Sam loses the amulet during some rollicking adventure or other, and flips out once he realizes it's missing. Dean, not knowing Sam's had it all this time, has no idea why Sam is acting like a freak of nature and worries accordingly. I'd like a twist on this one, though. Something like Dean not finding out at all, and Sam continuing to he a secretive weirdo. Or Dean finds out and Sam doesn't want to give it back to him because he doesn't trust him not to throw it away again next time he's feeling crabby. Maybe they even wrestle over it. Any pairing/genre.

Re: Sam loses the amulet.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Who says amulet fic is old? Amulet fic rocks! As does this prompt!

Bad Day continued

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

Bela shoots Sam twice -- once in the shoulder and once in the arm holding his shoulder -- before Dean tricks her into holding the rabbit's foot.

The second gunshot hit that bone that had just recently healed -- breaking it all over again. Only this time surgery is needed to repair it.

Only this time, maybe Sam loses partial mobility in that hand.....

Michael and Lucifer's Ministry of Love

[rokhal.livejournal.com]

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!"
Those who've read 1984 will know what I'm talking about.

What torments Sam most about his memories of the Cage, after he gets a tenuous grip on the flashbacks and fear, is how he broke there: in the worst way a Winchester could possibly break. He remembers wishing Dean was there instead of him. Dean assumes that Sam is miserable and ashamed because of something done to him, instead of anything he'd done, and Sam is inconsolable.

Does Dean ever figure it out? Can Sam ever move on?

Filled: Your Name in Lights (PG)

[honeylocusttree.livejournal.com]

THIS IS THE LAST ONE SRSLY

Literally written in 30 minutes. Whoops!

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Your Name in Lights

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He fumbles the glass and it crashes into the sink. It doesn’t shatter but a crack splits from the heavy base clear up the side, and a tiny chip falls away somewhere. Sam doesn’t know where. Light flashes along the crack as he sets the glass on the sink counter with a lightly trembling hand.

No matter how hard he looks, Sam can’t find the missing piece.

--

Dean says, “Lay the hell off the coffee, would ya?”

Sam smoothes his hands over his thighs, denim biting his palms. “Sorry,” he says, “Sorry.”

Dean stares, and Sam thinks he might recognize that expression. Vague disgust, maybe. It’s incongruous. It sits wrong, not just on his face but in the room. Doesn’t match the wallpaper. Doesn’t match.

“I—Dean?” He almost bites his lip, remembers not to at the last moment. “I’m so—I’m going out. Okay? I’ll be back. I just need—”

“Sam!” Dean cuts the air with the edge of his hand. “Just…go, okay? Before you vibrate right outta your clothes, Jesus.”

He can’t keep the smile off his face (grateful, relieved), and Dean stares.

Sam scuttles out the door and grabs both his hands, holds them close to his belly.

--

And they

And they say

They say, “Sam,”

They say his name

His name

It burns because it’s his and it’s all of him. And it burns star-bright and it’s

him. It’s never anything, anyone else.

Always him.

Say, “Sam”

“Sam”

Clear and bright and white and burning.

No other names but one.

--

Dean says, “Sam, you gotta…” his hand passes across his face as if it belongs to somebody else. “You don’t have to pretend. Not with me. I…look, if anyone can understand. I just. You can tell me, okay?”

Sam looks at the two pieces of glass in his hand. He broke it, in the end, because he couldn’t stand looking at it. At the pieces that didn’t come apart when they should have. Held it in both hands and pulled, until they gave up. Snapped apart. Easy. Like they were meant to be, all along.

He says, “There’s nothing to tell. Dean. It’s fine.”

He says, “It’s fine.

“Dean.”

--

They say

“Who are you?”

“How dare you?”

“What have you”

“Sam what have you”

He whispers, “I didn’t”

It’s a lie. Of course. But it burns down deep. All the way to the bottom. Nothing but.

“Sam. What have you done?”

He says “No”

Says, “Not me”

Stop.

It wasn’t me.

--

“It wasn’t your fault,” Dean tells him, standing in the five a.m. sunlight, hands open and calm at his side. “Whatever it—Sam you have to know. It couldn’t be. It wasn’t.”

Sam lifts his head from his hands but doesn’t stand up from the asphalt. They’re the only people in the lot and it’s Sunday morning.

“S—” he starts, and Sam leaps to his feet.

“Shut up! Just—don’t. Don’t say it! I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Don’t say it. I’m sorry.”

Dean’s mouth hangs slightly open, gobsmacked. Jaw quivering. He licks his lips, lightning fast, and looks away.

“Sorry,” Sam says again, and turns away, wraps his arms around himself. Shivers when he hears Dean’s voice, low and flecked with dismay. Sam tightens his grip, but it doesn’t matter.

“Sam?” Dean’s voice pitches up at the end of his name, and Sam can’t help but flinch. “What did you do?”

--

“It was Dean,” he whispers. “Dean. It was D-Dean.”

“Please.”

Please. Oh please.

--

“Sorry,” he whispers. “I. I.”

“You have to tell me.” Dean’s voice is a long way off, but it carries. It was made to carry. “You have to tell me the truth.”

He stares at the pavement with dry eyes.

The light burns all the way down.

-end-

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There are about 12 prompts that make me drool a little bit, but I’m being good and resisting.

Every time I do a fic I think, "I'll write a happy ending. "Next time."

Wrong time, wrong place.

[dollarformyname.livejournal.com]

Post Swan Song. An AU Sam comes back from Hell. This Sam is still a hunter and grew up with John and Dean, who were both still alive last he checked. Other details are up to the author. The main thing is: his father and brother were both kinda whacked. As in serial killer whacked. Seeing Dean again is pretty much a terrifying experience. Plus? The Sam that belongs in this universe is still in Hell.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

There's an old belief that you see your soul when you look into a mirror. Sam's soul has been in the Cage for hundreds of years. What does he see when he looks at his own reflection? What's in the mirror, staring back at him every morning when he tries to shave?

[whatjuliewrites.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, cool! Someone definitely needs to write this.

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

Ok I'll admit that this Was epic beyond words.

[lobrien0914.livejournal.com]

This was so great! Especially with the fact that it's Sam smoking instead of Dean and Dean being anti-smoking instead of Sam. I love it!

Thanks!

IDEK, okay?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

CRACK. Or whatever. Castiel and Balthazar go on a roadtrip together in order to rediscover their inner peacocks. (Don't ask, it's an angel thing.) Unfortunately, things go horribly awry and Sam ends up getting pecked half to death when the peacocks turn murderous. Luckily for him, Dean is awesome.

(Yes, this is the OMG-what-was-ratherastory-smoking prompt from my mod post, but apparently someone wanted to write it, so who am I to deny the muse?)

Filled: True Colors Sam/Dean one sided Cas/Dean 1/5

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

IDEK either. I saw ratherastory's Castiel and Balthazar go on a road trip to discover their inner peacocks. I saw denugis' Sam getting pecked by said inner peacocks and the angels putting him in the back seat and giving him pillows and aspirin and putting ointment on the wounds. And this bit of wincesty insanity came out.


“Hmph.”

“Hmph?”

Balthazar looks at Castiel and sighs. “Hmph. A sound expressing thought, or consideration.”

“You are considering this vehicle?”

Balthazar completes his circuit of the van, pausing to admire the barbarian queen riding the polar bear. “Oh, I’m more than considering it. This is definitely… how would Dean put it? Our ride.”

“We will not be inconspicuous in this,” and Castiel’s missing the point so badly that he’s practically in a semi-circle.

“Inconspicuous is not what we’re after here, brother. We’re on a journey of discovery. “

“I’ve already discovered far more than I’m comfortable with lately. Did you have some specific quest in mind?”

Balthazar eyes Castiel up and down and stops short of rolling his eyes. He grasps the sleeve of the hideous tan trench coat and in the blink of an eye they’re halfway across the country on the grounds of a spacious estate. They rematerialize in the middle of a flock of birds, who continue to peck at the ground, oblivious to the sudden appearance of angels in their midst.

Castiel gazes imperturbably at the birds before raising a questioning eyebrow. “We are on a quest for avian life forms?”

“Not just any avian life forms, my sartorially challenged friend. We are on a quest for the regal peacock.” Balthazar sweeps his arm in an encompassing gesture. “And we have found him.”

“It would appear that our quest is complete. I had anticipated it taking a bit longer.”

“No, no, no.” A despairing headshake is the best Balthazar can manage. “Our quest is not complete. Not until we take the peacock into ourselves.”

“I do not eat poultry.”

“Not literally into ourselves …” Balthazar calms himself with effort, “figuratively into ourselves.” He waves his arms and the flock startles, tail feather popping open as far as the eye can see. They’re gorgeous, flashy and unexpectedly breathtaking. “We’re…well, you more so than I, a little drab in comparison. I can’t see two such powerful beings as ourselves being outdone by a strutting peafowl.”

Another blink has them back at the van and Castiel’s brow furrows in thought. A moment later, his trenchcoat is bright blue with iridescent circles of green, orange and gold decorating it.

“It’s a good start,” Balthazar encourages, “we’ll work on internalizing it as we go.”

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. You alone made me understand smoking. Asthmatic here, so it never made much sense. But I believed this. The last line was the kill shot.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

I'm going to take a guess and believe this was meant for my story? If so: THANKS BB. If not: *shame*

[rince1wind.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahha!

Dean must Choose

[(Anonymous)]

Post season 6 AU Sam post wall breakdown is pretty pissed that Dean is still hoping for a way to get through to Cas. Sam remembers Cas letting him out of the panic room in s4 and letting Sam think the whole killing Lilith thing was his fault like Cas wasn't helping nudge the way, (maybe Lucifer let him in on this), Cas took him out of hell and left his soul behind to be tortured and kept it secret, Cas deliberately let the wall down, so Sam thinks Cas should pay for what he did and if Dean really loved Sam, he'd let Castiel pay for all that. So okay maybe post wall Sam is a little unbalanced, but total showdown between Dean, Cas, and unbalanced Sam would be awesome.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Sam wants to fit in so badly during his freshman year at Stanford that he tries to join a fraternity only to get terribly injured during a hazing ritual. What the hazing involves or how Sam gets hurt is up to you.

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

[(Anonymous)]

Sam and Dean (and whoever else) - Gen - Post Wall. Due to the trauma he suffered in the Cage, Sam develops a Conversion disorder specifically Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1184694-overview

The seizures get triggered by a lot of things/situations, some seemingly inane and Dean tries to help Sam navigate the apparent mine-field the world has become for him.

Re: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Dear prompter, I love you. :)

[beckalooby.livejournal.com]

Sam and Dean are driving through a snow storm. It's a very bad idea and Sam pays the price. Though even with Sam's injuries, they have no choice but to move on foot until the car is free, otherwise they'll freeze to death. Any series, any pairing, any severty of injuries yada yads!

Thanks guys.

Re: Because My Internet Actually Works....

[beamin-sunshine.livejournal.com]

DO WANT.

It's so gross. Yet Awesome. It's... grossly awesome! Dunno when I'll be posting - but I thought I'd let you know I at least have it in the works. c: