A Sam-focused h/c meme!

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Awww! Our fledgling community already has 136 members! *beams proudly* You guys ROCK!

So in order to celebrate the glory that is hurt!sick!Sam, we are hosting a comment-fic meme. You guys probably know the drill by now, but just to be on the safe side, I'll post a couple of rules below.

I will be keeping track of the meme and compiling a master list as new stories appear.




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Ground Rules:

1. 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. ;) )

2. Comment to this post with your desired characters or pairings, and a prompt. All genres/pairings are welcome, BUT no RPF/RPS, please. Please focus on the fictional characters only.

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.”

3. You can leave as many prompts as you like, but please write one prompt per comment. If you've got a few (and feel free to prompt at will!), comment with each separately. This is to keep the meme manageable.

4. Your prompts can be as short or as detailed as you’d like. i.e. "Sam, Dean. Fever." Or a three-paragraph epic with details. The more detailed your prompt, the less wriggle room you're giving the writer, though, so bear that in mind.

5. Scroll through the comments and when you find a prompt you like, write a fic in reply to the comment. There is no word count limit.

6. More than one comment-fic response to a prompt is totally acceptable, and in fact encouraged. The more fic, the better!

7. When replying to a prompt with your comment-fic, put ‘FILLED’ in your subject line and then anything else you want, ie: 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, and for me when I’m compiling the master list.

8. Anonymous posting is enabled, but I haven't figured out whether I.P. logging is off because I suck at this sort of thing. If you're embarrassed by how schmoopy your prompts are, don't worry, we won't tell on you. ;)

9. No spoilers for future episodes. NONE. We will send Missouri after you with a spoon.

10. Standard rules of politeness apply. Do NOT bash any characters. Do NOT say rude things to prompters and writers. In short, don't be a douchebag. The mods will ruthlessly delete any ridiculousness we see.

11. Questions about the meme? Comments? PM your mods! We will be happy to answer your queries.

12. Do feed your authors! They’re awesome. Feedback is THE BEST DRUG EVER.

13. If you want to advertise this, that’s fantastic! It would be really appreciated. Just copy and paste the code provided above into your journal.

In conclusion, have FUN!

Master List

redrum669: Season 5 Sam needs to be forgiven and loved regardless of what he is and what he's done. For the love of God, do it! Gen, Slash, whatever. Just get that boy some damned hugs.

pkwench: Permanent injury. Any flavour.

blubird_pie: I'd love to see both boys get taken (for whatever reason) and Dean cares/comforts a distressed young Sam whilst in captivity.

dime_for_12: Are you brave enough to kill one of them? Your choice. Sam's either in agony and dying. Or Sam's trying to hold it together while Dean's slipping away.

lassiterfics: Pre-series: Sam's first week in the dorms at Stanford. He draws a single room and is shyly buying a plant, school supplies, and congratulating himself on making his tiny little room a home. Trouble is? He can't sleep. No matter how much he tries to wear himself out, he can’t sleep without Dean. Gen or slash is fine.

dime_for_12:Sam is shut down and hurting after Jess dies. Dean takes care of him through the next few days and the funeral.

blubird_pie: Season 5 Dean finds himself with DeAged Sam & he'd forgotten how much that kid like hugs - especially when scared.

blood_ecstasy: Wee!Sam gets the chicken pox and Dean gets to deal with it. I expect there to be lots of whining, smacking hands off of itchy spots, and tomato rice soup.

dither_river: Sam is shut down and hurting after Jess dies. Dean takes care of him through the next few days and the funeral.

annonwrite: Sam had a bad back and it hurts. A LOT. Dean makes fun of him. Then Dean realizes how bad it is. Then Dean feels guilty.

callistosh65: On a hunt in midwinter, Sam almost freezes to death. Dean finds him blue-lipped and still in a snowbank, gets him inside + takes care of him.

authoressnebula: From episode Swap Meat: Sam-in-teenage-boy's body has an asthma attack. Dean helps.

wicked_crayon: Sam agrees to let Michael try him on for size. It's an extremely, extremely bad fit and lasts for all of maybe a minute. Agony, issues of self worth, and one distraught, angry older brother are the result.

slsh_lvr08: A younger Sam gives birth on Dean's lap. Impala.

annonwrite: Early S1, Sam gets a cold/flu from not sleeping. Possibly also related to going swimming with his clothes on (1.3) or riding on an airplane (1.4)?

ancastar: S5 Sam is out of his head with fever for whatever reason. Thinks Dean is Ruby and that his brother is still in Hell.

pkwench: Sam's trapped inside his body with Lucifer in control. His thoughts/anguish/fighting to break free as Lucifer kills present!Dean and confronts past!Dean.

ratherastory: Crucifixion. *cough*

rosestoo: Michael and Lucifer face off in their best Winchester suits. Michael wins and sends Lucifer back to hell. He also sends Sam with him. Dean goes to find his brother. Sam suffers. A lot.

shyriann: S5 Sam is out of his head with fever for whatever reason. Thinks Dean is Ruby and that his brother is still in Hell.

ratherastory: Eye patch Sam! Sam loses one of those pretty eyes and has to cope with altered visual perception and looking like a pirate. Dean is awesome, over protective, angry as hell that this happened to Sam, and a completely amusing little shit.

sytaxia: After Sam has gone through detox after My Bloody Valentine he's still weak and feverish. Dean and Cas take care of him.

dime_for_12: Aftermath of Mystery Spot. Sam in serious fucking trauma, Dean slowly realizing the extent of what happened (hundred days of watching him die, six months without him). Sam needs to touch him at night to know he's real, afraid to sleep because he may wake up back in the Trickster's world without Dean, etc.

authoressnebula: 5x14. At the end of the ep, Sam locks himself inside the panic room using the original locking system (keep those inside safe from those outside). They've added anti-angel protection since last time so neither Dean nor Castiel can break in.

4422shini: The semi-bulletproof advantages of being marked as the devil's chosen vessel - being able to get between your brother and bullets. Trouble is? It fucking hurts, reapers turn their backs to you/hide behind their hands when you die, being brought back to life is scary, and your brother is really fucking pissed off at you for having done it.

dime_for_12: Something involving a bullet wound. Either one that Dean has to clean and stitch up or one that is already healed.

wicked_crayon: Sam's absolutely terrified to drive, feels just as guilty over John's death as Dean, has the occasional nightmare, and refuses to get behind the wheel.

ratherastory: Sam and Dean go undercover as Manly!Maids to investigate a haunting. Sadly, Sam has a dust allergy and just keeps sneezing.

pixymisa:Sam's always eaten more healthy than Dean, but he does have the occasional greasy burger. However, Dean's noticed since 4x22 Sam's eaten nothing but salads at every meal. They don't even have any meat in them. Can that be healthy? (Sam's gone vegetarian after quitting demon blood, avoiding the taste of anything even remotely like blood/meat.)

dante_s_hell: After Jump the Shark, Sam was bleeding so profusely. Surely there should be some h/c after that? :) He'd be weak and in pain and unable to do a lot of things for a few days after that.

dime_for_12:
Aftermath of "Heart." As soon as they walk out of that apartment, Sam falls back in the same place he was after Jess's death, except worse because it's the second time it's happened and he had to pull the trigger this time. He's shut down, doesn't want to talk, and Dean has to pull him out of it.

pixymisa: a severely injured S5 Sam gets sent to the past and is met by his preseries self/S1 self.

saberivojo: Pre-series, Sam is cleaning the knives at his father's request, and Dean's out for the night. In typical teenage boy fashions, screws around with them, trying out fight fighting moves he's not ready for. He cuts himself and tries to hide it from John, but John finds out.

saberivojo: Old Weschesters. It's no secret that Sam doesn't have as good of a seat on a horse as Dean does...

dime_for_12: Michael and Lucifer face off in their best Winchester suits. Michael wins and sends Lucifer back to hell. He also sends Sam with him. Dean goes to find his brother. Sam suffers. A lot.

faye_dartmouth: Some baddie is beating the crap out of our boy. The beating could be physical (fists and feet) or more magic related (along the lines of what happened to Dean in the season one finale). Dean is being forced to watch, but cannot intervene. All Sam has to do to get the whumping to stop is to tell the baddie to go pick on Dean instead. But he won't. No matter how much Dean begs him to.

pkwench: Wee!Chesters - Sam experiences night terrors.

melanth0: Sam goes insane. Not, oh, I'm a little crazy, but INSANE in whatever form you choose and Dean must reach him somehow.

m14mouse: The shifter in Skin really worked Sam over good. Some Dean taking care of him after and the two of them not dealing with what the shifter told Sam.

rosestoo: Michael and Lucifer face off in their best Winchester suits. Michael wins and sends Lucifer back to hell. He also sends Sam with him. Dean goes to find his brother. Sam suffers. A lot.

m14mouse: Wee!Chesters - A very wee Sam gets separated from John & Dean and winds up in protective services. He's sent to a state home while they try to figure out who he is, what to do with him. Sam does not thrive in this new environment and keeps looking under his bed and in the wardrobe, closets, big scary industrial kitchen, basements, attic ... everywhere for Dean and his Dad.

tifaching: History is littered with stories of brothers. This is one of them. Two brothers set out to save the world. The cost is high and the older brother is lost. It's said that the younger brother walks the country calling for him. From Maine to Kansas to Oregon, he walks. In torment, looking. Always looking. There are those that hunt things like him and they try, they do, but there are no bones to burn, no spells that will cast him out, no rituals that will ease his suffering. The only way to put this tormented spirit to rest lies in summoning the brother to take him home.

vail_kagami: Castiel takes care of Sam and Dean when Sam comes out of the panic room in 5.14.

vail_kagami: Following their separation in Good God Y'all, Sam gets a ride from someone allied against him. 'Break him,' they said. So the bad man, rapes him to a bloody mess.

Sorry, everyone. Spammers have found this entry, so I have to freeze all remaining comment threads. I think we're safe, it's a pretty old comment-fic meme. If anyone absolutely needs to comment here, PM me to let me know, okay? ~ratherastory

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[pkwench.livejournal.com]

Sam agrees to let Michael try him on for size. It's an extremely, extremely bad fit and lasts for all of maybe a minute. Agony, issues of self worth, and one distraught, angry older brother are the result. Wouldn't hurt my feelings any if you tossed in a little Cas.

FILLED: His cup runneth over (1/3)

[wicked-crayon.livejournal.com]

Notes: Pretty much the first thing I've ever written and posted for SPN, so feedback is very welcome!
Spoilers for episode 5.13 – The Song Remains the Same

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Michael is still wearing a young John's flesh when he meets Sam in a place that is nothing but whiteness and bright light.

Sam gasps as life returns to his new, unharmed body. Reflexively, he grasps at his stomach, pawing at the area where only a second ago there'd been a pipe impaling him. His heart thumps wildly, like it's surprised to be beating again.

“Samuel,” John's body says, and Sam fixes wild eyes on him.

“You're not John,” he says, confidently. The younger version of John wasn't the man that Sam had known growing up, but he could see his father in him. Not so anymore.

John's head nods serenely.

Sam's mind races and it only takes a few seconds for the pieces to click into place. “Michael.” Silence between them for a beat. “What do you want?”

Michael's smile is devoid of warmth. “Honestly? Your brother. His disobedience is wearying.”

Sam quirks a grin that he usually saves for telling off demons. “Dean's like that.” His smile fades as he looks at Michael, really looks at him. “You're using my dad as a vessel.”

“How very observant of you.”

“No, don't you get it?” Sam asks, hands waving. “You all keep saying that Dean's your only vessel.”

“Of course Dean is not my only vessel. The ability to harbor an angel is passed down, through bloodlines. You know this.”

Sam nodded. “Jimmy's daughter. She was a vessel for Castiel.”

“This is in your father's bloodline, and he passed it on to your brother... to you.”

Sam snorts. “Except I'm reserved for your brother.”

Michael tilts his head to the side, a gesture that reminds Sam of Castiel so vividly that he almost laughs. “Yes. That is the theory.”

Something about the way that Michael pauses has Sam on high alert. “You don't agree?”

“We are not all-knowing, Samuel. There is much we do not understand; like you, we are simply doing our jobs to the best of our ability.” Michael fixes Sam with a pointed stare. “It is possible that we have misread the situation. Underestimated the possibilities.”

“You're talking about using me. As your vessel.”

Michael nods.

“What makes you think I'd say yes where Dean won't?” Sam asks.

Michael raises his eyebrows in amusement. “Dean is not facing the choice that you are. If Dean says 'yes' to me he worries that he will be destroyed in the process; he worries that I may cause unnecessary harm to this world. But you?” Michael laughs, a quick and inhuman sound. “If you say 'yes'? You will destroy the world. Your body will be used to kill everyone you have ever known, anyone you have ever cared about, and then you'll tear your world to pieces.”

There is a cold pit in Sam's stomach at Michael's words because he knows they're true. It's why Sam will never say 'yes' to Lucifer. He can't blame Dean for fighting, but in his darkest moments, Sam wished that he had Dean's choice. He wished that all of his options amounted to saving the world, instead of being its destructor.

“What if you're wrong?” Sam asks quietly. “What if it doesn't work?”

“I do not know, Samuel. You could be destroyed, or maybe nothing will happen at all.” Michael says the word 'destroyed' like its the better of the two options.

In the end, it's the easiest decision in the world. If it does work, Dean is off the hook... and if it doesn't work, maybe Sam will be blown into enough pieces to stop Lucifer from riding him to judgement day.

“Do it.” Sam says through clenched teeth.

Michael's eyes shine. “You agree to be my vessel?”

“Yes.”

FILLED: His cup runneth over (2/3)

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Light.

Sam is ripped from the bright, white room and sent spiralling into the deepest depths of his mind. There is pain there, all-encompassing.

He's being squeezed, suffocated. Pressure around him, building, brick by brick.

He's not large enough, overflowing, spilling out into a sea and being washed away. He's a membrane stretched thin over the head of a drum and beaten until he tears and the pieces wash away.

Bright.

Pain.

Nothing.

-

It isn't like waking up. There is nothing and then, somewhere, there is Sam.

Time doesn't pass here.

The bits and pieces never make sense. Sometimes he feels parts of his body, and those times are filled with a pain so intense that it sends him reeling back into the darkness. Sometimes he can hear rhythmic sounds that he recognizes as language, but his brain can't put meaning to the melody. His eyes are sometimes open but he understands of what he sees as if they'd stayed closed. None of this registers on any levels but the very superficial, the sensations washed away by each bout of unconsciousness.

Slowly, he begins to heal.

Finally, he consolidates enough to wake.

-

Sam's eyes focus and he sees his brother. Dean is sitting at a small table at the foot of the bed with his laptop. Sam moves his head and pain shoots through it behind several layers of medication. He makes a sound and Dean looks up casually and then he's standing above Sam, the time in between lost in the empty spaces in Sam's mind.

“Asm? Ouy herte?”

The sounds don't make sense. They get jumbled up in his ears or his head. The audio doesn't match the visual. Everything is skipping like a video that's been corrupted. Unspooled.

Sam stares at Dean and wonders what has happened. He nods and his vision dims and he reels with the motion.

“Woah,” Dean is saying. “Awake. Hey. Stay.” The words are still jumbled and Dean's hand leaves his arm like a black hole opening up. Sam floats away.

FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[wicked-crayon.livejournal.com]

It's a long time before Sam comes to himself long enough to carry on a conversation. Dean is almost always there when Sam awakens, helpful like no one else would expect from Dean Winchester because they're not his little brother. It's almost as if the last two years never happened except for a look that Dean has when he meets Sam's eyes, like he can't decide whether to punch Sam or hug him. It's a feeling Sam understands all too well, and he knows when he wakes up and the pain is only background noise that this talk is long overdue, at least on Dean's end.

“Why'd you do it?” Dean asks, like he knows everything that has happened and Sam imagines that he might.

Sam doesn't shrug because movement still isn't his friend, but he answers in a low, raspy voice. “Had to.” Words feel strange in his mouth; it's taken this long for him to reclaim language.

“It wasn't hard to figure out,” Dean says without being prompted. “Michael showed up in the motel room in the middle of what looked like a seizure before he started barfing light. You fried the whole room.” Sam has a question but Dean answers it without being asked. “Cas zapped me away.”

Sam really doesn't have anything to say to that. He expected worse.

“So, why'd you do it?” Dean is trying to sound angry and he has enough practice at it, but Sam can tell that he's tired. They're both always tired nowadays. That's why Sam did it, but he doesn't know how to tell Dean.

“For you,” he rasps, and before the words leave his mouth he knows that they're the wrong thing to say.

“Bullshit,” Dean snaps and this time his anger is clean and bright. “I would never... you almost died, Sam. You know that? Do you know how long you were out of it, catatonic?”

Surprisingly, Sam doesn't know. His brain hasn't been much up to asking questions.

“Almost a month.” Dean sounds like he's felt every second and Sam tries to cringe when he thinks about what a month of the apocalypse may have done to the world outside his room, but he can't gather the energy to care.

“So, tell me. Why? Sam?”

Dean watches as Sam struggles to find the right response, the one that his brother wants to hear, but all he has is the truth. “To make it end.” And he doesn't mean his life, not really; he means the apocalypse and the fighting and maybe even the hunting, because even Sam can tell that Dean wants out nowadays. Although maybe part of him does mean his life because every second that Lucifer walks the earth is a weight on Sam's shoulders.

Dean looks like he wants to be mystified and angry, but Sam can read the understanding in his eyes. There's a long silence. Dean sighs. “It's not over, Sam.” He says and maybe Sam can hear the wistfulness in his voice, but maybe not.

“Heal up. We have work to do.”

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Dude. If this is your first fic into the SPN fandom, may I be the first to request that you write more? PLEASE?

*bows*

This was FANTASTIC. I love how you described Sam being pulled on by Michael, how Sam loses language and describing his trying to understand everything again. You = awesome.

And please to be writing more.

~Nebula

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

“To make it end.”

*wibbles*

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

That was a great take on the prompt... you really conveyed so much sensory confusion and pain through Sam's POV. Well done!

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

Welcome! It's so exciting to discover a new writer with so much promise!!! Hope to see much more from you!

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[pkwench.livejournal.com]

That was awesome. The simplicity of how you wrote Michael's attempt and Sam's perceptions of it and his return are kind of hypnotic. And Dean. Oh, Dean is Dean is Dean and I love him for it. That last bit where Sam tells him that he did it to make it end and Dean's all understanding a little wistful and then just so Dean when he says Sam needs to heal up so they can get on with it all already? PERFECT. Just so damned Dean. Great job!

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[brianshanelvr.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE TO WRITE MORE IMMEDIATELY!

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[shyriann.livejournal.com]

Well done. I loved the imagery of Sam being smooshed into the back of his own mind and how painful it was when he surfaced. Loved the line about no one else seeing Dean be so attentive because they aren't his little brother. And absolutely adored all the meanings behind "To make it end" and how Dean understood and probably agreed with each one.

Re: FILLED: His cup runneth over (3/3)

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

This was incredible. Thank you so much - what a creative and believable take on that prompt. Please write more soon.