comment fic meme!
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ohsamFollowing 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!
THE RULES
THE MASTER LIST
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verucasalt123
Sam has a headache and Dean tries to make him feel better.
Taming the Dragon bymentholpixie
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 bytahirire
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 byrunning_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 bymamapranayama
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 byramblin_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... byjennytork
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 byemmram
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 bymimblexwimble
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 bybrokenangel6662
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 byyouaredriving
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 byvail_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 byverucasalt123
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 bymonicawoe
Sam lifts a car. Of course, Sam throws his back out doing it.
Near Miss bylaurificus
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 byennyousai
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 byauthoressnebula
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... bymonicawoe
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 byhoneylocusttree
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 byjpunkin
Sam suddenly knows when people are lying.
Bleed as it Grows bytransfixeddream
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 bytattooeddevil
Sam has a terminal heart condition. Dean rents a beach house.
It's All Fun and Games bycherry916
Sam and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Haircut
Do I Not Bleed? bygreeneyes_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 bymonicawoe
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 bymamapranayama
Sam gets mauled by an escaped panda or other cuddly animal at the zoo.
The Other Brother byradiumgirl
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 bycherry916
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 bysi_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 bygreeneyes_fan
Hilarious. Cas rocks! No wait, you rock!
Where There's Smoke byroque_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 Colorstifaching
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, Mirrorpurplehrdwonder
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 paperglovered
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 Soulbrokenangel662
Sam's soul watches, terrified and desperately wanting to join his body as it gets dragged from the cage.
Another Point of Viewceedeeandco
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?
Metronomegeek_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 byhoneylocusttree
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 bymamapranayama
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 byjpunkin
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 byyouaredriving
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 byramblin_rose
Sam shoots his father. On purpose or accident -- repercussions are going to be severe in any case.
You Never Forget Your First byauthoressnebula
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 bypurplehrdwonder
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 byauthoressnebula
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 byminviendha
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 bybrokenangel6662
Sam falls apart. Dean tries to help. That is all.
Draining by27_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 bynorahy
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.
THE RULES
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→ 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.
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→ Anon posting enabled.
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THE MASTER LIST
Headache by
verucasalt123Sam has a headache and Dean tries to make him feel better.
Taming the Dragon by
mentholpixieDean 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
tahirireSam/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_hotSam 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
mamapranayamaFill 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_rosieDean 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
jennytorkSam 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
emmramWhat 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
mimblexwimbleean 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
brokenangel6662Post-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
youaredrivingSam 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_kagamiFrom 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
verucasalt123Sam 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
monicawoeSam lifts a car. Of course, Sam throws his back out doing it.
Near Miss by
laurificusSam 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
ennyousaiDean 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
authoressnebulaI 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
monicawoeSam 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
honeylocusttreeSam 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
jpunkinSam suddenly knows when people are lying.
Bleed as it Grows by
transfixeddreamPost-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
tattooeddevilSam has a terminal heart condition. Dean rents a beach house.
It's All Fun and Games by
cherry916Sam and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Haircut
Do I Not Bleed? by
greeneyes_fanRobo!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
monicawoePost 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
mamapranayamaSam gets mauled by an escaped panda or other cuddly animal at the zoo.
The Other Brother by
radiumgirlSam 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
cherry916Sam 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_xAfter 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_fanHilarious. Cas rocks! No wait, you rock!
Where There's Smoke by
roque_clasiqueSam 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
tifachingCRACK. 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
purplehrdwonderThere'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
gloveredSeems 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
brokenangel662Sam's soul watches, terrified and desperately wanting to join his body as it gets dragged from the cage.
Another Point of View
ceedeeandcoPost-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_girlOK, 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
honeylocusttreeWhat 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
mamapranayamaAs 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
jpunkinAfter 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
youaredrivingSam 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_roseSam shoots his father. On purpose or accident -- repercussions are going to be severe in any case.
You Never Forget Your First by
authoressnebulaThe 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
purplehrdwonderDean 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
authoressnebulaWee!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
minviendhaSam, 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
brokenangel6662Sam falls apart. Dean tries to help. That is all.
Draining by
27_jaredjensenSam 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
norahySeason 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.
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FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 1/? Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 03:17 pm (UTC)How the poltergeist managed to lock Dean in the basement and Sam in the attic, Sam has no idea. All he knows is that there’s a whole bunch of boxes over his only exit, and his legs are trapped under a massive pile of fallen clothes and knick-knacks.
They’d gotten ready to leave that afternoon in a haze of Dayquil, Tylenol, and ice packs, Dean muttering about Sam’s girlish sickness the whole time. As if it was even Sam’s fault that he was sick. He’d tried to stay back at the motel, curled up in a ball under a heap of blankets with a trash can at his side, but Dean just pulled shoes onto his little brother’s feet and shoved him out the door.
“Sam! Sam, you there?”
Dean’s voice is coming from -- everywhere.
“Answer me! There’s an intercom up there somewhere, I need you to find it and --” Dean cuts off in a passionate yell, and there’s a blast of shotgun fire. Sam tries in vain to reach around for the intercom button, but he’s smashed in a corner, and he can’t really get up.
“Sam? Are you alright? Sammy?” His legs finally come free, and he’s able to stumble around. He can even see the intercom machine. It’s right in front of him, with a big red button that’s covered in blood and there’s a raven on top of it and there’s blood everywhere and he doesn’t want to press it and --
“Sammy! I can’t get outta here to come rescue your pansy ass, so you’d better get yourself into this basement before I run outta shells.” He can’t deny Dean when he uses the Dad voice, all gruff command and stern intent. Oddly enough, though, the surface of the machine is slick and dry, not gooey as he’d been expecting.
“Dean, there’s -- there’s a raven, and there’s blood, and I don’t -- I can’t --” he mutters as his hand slips down to his side. Something’s banging at the walls, coming closer and closer to him.
“Did you hit your head? Doesn’t matter right now. Just come down here and we’ll hightail it home, alright? I’ve got the hair, if you’ve got the doll,” Dean reminds him.
“No, I didn’t find -- I didn’t see it. There aren’t any dolls, there’s just a raven and little girl clothes and -- I don’ feel good, Dean.” He leans over, pukes on his shoes, wipes off his mouth.
“You didn’t find it? I guess we’ll have to come back later, because you do not sound like you’re in tip top shape. How you feelin’? Still feverish?” Sam obediently presses the back of his hand against his forehead.
“I don’t know. I wanna go home. Gonna take a nap, I’ll talk to you later.” His lips turn to jelly as he speaks, and the last few words are hopelessly mumbled. Since he can’t really hear Dean’s protests, if there are any, he decides that it would totally be okay to lay down right now and find the raven -- no, the doll -- was it a raven doll? -- he’s gonna look for whatever it is later.
He hasn’t even hit the floor yet when he hears Dean bellowing, “Sammy! You stay awake, come down here and get me! Don’t you go to sleep on me!” Dean’s being really loud, when Sam just wants to sleep and pretend there isn’t a dirty-looking little girl staring him down from across the attic.
“G’way, little girl. It’s naptime.”
The boxes all fly into the air, and Sam realizes that he really needs to go through the hole in the floor before the boxes are on it again.
He can hear Dean’s voice yelling at him through the walls, down the stairs, in the living room. “Dean, you’re everywhere. Stop that, it’s fucking confusing,” he demands, but Dean just keeps yelling stupid things like “make sure you have your gun” and of course Sam has his gun, he always does.
There’s another intercom mounted into the nearest wall, and he mashes his hand against the call button. “Dean, where are you? You sound like you’re everywhere, but all I see is the puppy. That’s not you, right?” Nothing makes sense. The world swirls around him, and reality slips out through the drain under Sam’s feet.
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 2/? Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 03:18 pm (UTC)“Sam, I need you to get downstairs, right now. The basement’s on your right, there’s a big brown door. Do you see it?” Dean’s put on his momma bird mask, Sam can tell. It’s a good complement to Sam’s bitchface. That’s what Dean says, anyways.
His head swivels over to the right, but there are two brown doors cut out of the wall. “Which one is it?”
“There’s only one door on that wall.”
“No, there’s two, and one of them has little flowers and one of them has leaves. Is it flowers or leaves?” He thinks that it’s the one with the leaves on it, because the flowered door is fuzzed over and hazy.
When he tries to open it, his hands smacks into the wall. He reaches out again, right where the doorknob is. “Sam, just open the goddamn door, that bitch is coming back, she’s -- Sam, get your ass down here!”
He decides to try the flower door, and it opens. Down the stairs -- he has to be careful, there’s people sitting on some of them, he thinks -- and he sees Dean curled up in the corner, leg at an odd angle and pinned under a filing cabinet.
“There you are. Damn, my leg hurts. Think you can get me out of here?” Dean asks, with a weak, pained smile. Sam tries to approach and pull the cabinet away, but a shadow peels off the wall and blocks his way.
“Come on, what’s the hold up?” Dean sounds grumpy now, probably because his leg hurts.
“Someone’s in the way. Like, a … like a person, but not really a person.” He sees several more of them, all standing in a line and swaying slowly from side to side.
Dean groans from under the cabinet, and he sounds even more pained than before. “Sam, there’s nothing there. Just please come over here and get this thing off my damn chest, will you?”
“Are they … there?” Sam asks, hesitant and nervous and woozy all at the same time. One by one, the shadows danced back into the wallpaper and faded away into the darkness. “No, wait, they’re not … they’re … they’re not real.” He smiles and nods. Suddenly, he’s much more sure of what’s going on. It’s pretty clear, in fact.
Sam is dreaming.
“No, Sam, no, you’re not dreaming, you’re in the basement of some dead chick’s house and you need to get me out from under this hunk of metal because she is standing right behind you,” Dean whispers. Breath rushes in and out of his lungs, betraying his calm face and cocky grin -- if Dean is upset, maybe there is something going on.
An icy cold hand grips his shoulder, throwing him against the wall. “Sam!” Dean bellows, as his head smashes into the wall. Large patches of flickering black fly across his vision, and he’s dizzier than he’s ever been, and all of a sudden he is violently sick all over his chest.
He loses himself for a moment, the shadows covering his vision, and then --
“Sam! Come on, Sam, you gotta get up, we need to get out of here,” Dean hollers, and then he’s grunting and groaning with effort and the filing cabinet screams under the stress of Dean pushing on it, and Dean moans loudly as it crashes back down onto him. “I can’t lift this thing, you gotta get up and help me, come on, come on --”
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 3/? Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 03:19 pm (UTC)“Oh, thank God. Alright, come with me, we gotta go, now.” Dean’s breathing all heavy, and Sam wants to ask what’s wrong but the shadows are spinning in front of his face and he can barely keep one foot in front of its brother, let alone form the words to ask what’s wrong.
“We’re gonna be fine. There’s a back door over here that we can go through, just follow me.” All of his weight is draped across Dean’s slumped and shaking shoulders. That just doesn’t seem fair, since Dean is the one who’s been unable to breathe due to pounds of metal crushing his ribs. Sam tries to struggle away, because he can certainly walk on his own, but Dean just grabs onto his wrist and keeps him in place.
It must have been cold down in the basement; Dean’s skin is blessedly icy against Sam, and he breathes a sigh of relief. He’s been so hot, cooling down makes him sleepy again. Dean’s having none of that, though, insisting in Sam’s ear, “You can sleep when we get in the car. All you gotta do is walk through this door, and the car’s parked right outside. Jesus, you’re burning up. I knew this was a terrible idea.”
Shadows follow them as they amble down the narrow alley driveway, and one of them is shaped just like a little girl. Sam jumps -- they were hunting a little girl, and she was after them, trying to hurt Dean -- he grips tightly to his brother’s shoulder and moans, because he can’t tolerate the world spinning around him as swiftly as it is.
At least the little girl melts away into the pavement as they approach the Impala. Drizzles of blood fall down the sewers like so much rain and muck, and despite his exhaustion, Sam flinches away and tries to scurry back toward the house.
“No, no, just stay with me for a few more seconds. Stay with me, Sam,” Dean growls in his ear. His head bobs in what Sam thinks might have started as a nod, but ends with his chin smeared against his chest, jaw slack. “Okay. We’re at the car. I’m gonna get you sitting down in the backseat, so you can sleep.”
Sam makes a move to sprawl out against the familiar, well-worn leather bench, but the raven is perched in the center, its beak wide open in a terrifying avian grin. “No no no. Dean, there’s a -- fuck, I can’t tell if -- I can’t.”
Dean just pushes him, and he tumbles into the Impala, keening as he goes. “Just go to sleep, and I’ll wake you up when we get back.”
Sam sleeps.
--
He tosses and turns in bouts of dreamless slumber and nightmarish lucidity. Several times, he hears Dean’s voice bellowing at him, and cannot help but smile, because he’s got someone to follow back through the steaming fog to reality.
--
Sam clings to his big brother, riding out the tide of fire that ebbs and flows atop his mattress, shaking with the fear that he will be left alone amongst the flames.
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 03:20 pm (UTC)“I hauled your gargantuan ass into the Impala, out of the Impala, into this room, into the bathroom, and into bed, all without breaking a sweat. I swear, they should give me some sort of Olympic medal for that shit.” Dean pauses to laugh, but the sound is choked and strained. “Why didn’t you tell me it was that bad, you asshole? You clocked out at 104.7, which is so beyond the realm of covering up it’s not even close to funny. You should have told me--”
A smear of a giggle oozes out of the corner of Sam’s dry, cottony mouth and puddles on his stained t-shirt. “Dude, I told you so many times that I wanted to stay home. You called me Samantha, and said that only pansy girls got the flu. You cannot even attempt to pin this on me,” Sam insists, as his hand connects with a glass of lukewarm water and brings it to his lips, hands trembling with exertion.
“Whatever, man. As soon as you’ve kicked this My Little Pony, rainbow-spewing nonsense, we’ve still gotta go clean out that poltergeist.” For a moment, it seems as if Dean’s hands will reach for Sam’s head, card through his baby brother’s hair as they did so often when they were younger.
The tender moment is shattered when Sam lets out a tremendous, retching cough that sets all his joints to aching simultaneously. Dean’s common sense returns to him in a flash, and he shoves his traitorous fingers into his pockets, propelling himself out into the kitchen to ‘fetch Her Royal Highness some tomato and rice soup, with an ice cube if she asks very sweetly’.
Sam pretends he’s not imagining a soft body at his side, curly blonde hair brushing against his cheek, warming up his icy bones and chasing away the chill that’s settled below his sternum. She’s gone, anyways.
Still, Dean returns with a bowl of carefully chilled soup and a spoon, only to find Sam slumbering peacefully, arms twined around a pillow and murmuring something that sounds suspiciously like ‘Jess’ under his breath. If Dean were feeling particularly cruel, he’d shake Sam awake, prod him into eating, call him a few more names before letting him drift back off. Isn’t it time the kid got to have a happy dream, though?
Dean leaves the soup on the nightstand, and lets Sam continue his sojourn from the world.
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 04:20 pm (UTC)And the hallucinations are awesome. Ravens, people, extra doors. Still, he figures it out in the end!
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-03 03:02 am (UTC)Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-06 10:04 am (UTC)It's hard to know wht's real and what's not. Even when I KNEW that pillow wasn't really there, I kept reaching for it. Although, I was pretty sure the melting gift-bag was a hallucination, since it was floating in midair and changing from green to purple as it melted. :P
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-02 05:24 pm (UTC)Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-03 03:03 am (UTC)Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-03 02:58 am (UTC)Gotta admit though, I totally laughed out loud at “G’way, little girl. It’s naptime.” LOLOL.
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-03 03:04 am (UTC)Doesn't Sammy always need a good snuggle? Poor guy. We fans sure do love to torture him! Thanks for reading :D
Re: FILLED: The Shadow Dancer, 4/4 Gen, implied past Sam/Jess
Date: 2011-08-06 10:03 am (UTC)Scary, funny, and tender all at once, that's not an easy trick o pull off. Wicked hallucinations! I had trouble sorting out what was real. (That's not a bad thing.)