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

Comments

i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 1/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

You promised yourself you wouldn't even call him, and you last less than a week. Frankly, you blame the booze.

You blame the booze, and you blame that douchebag who decided to be ironic and played "Back in Black" real loud as he bounced around the party air-guitaring like some moron. And yeah, that seals the deal, because all the things you've been trying not to think about, all the things you've been trying not to feel, they're crackling to the surface and suddenly you miss your brother so much it hurts. Your brother, who loves this song totally unironically, who knows every word of the fucking album, who'd sing louder at you when you told him to shut up. You know every word to "Back in Black" too, but only because Dean gave you no choice.

You're stumbling out of the party and you sort of push this one dude out of the way, you feel kind of sorry about it. You don't know your own strength when you're wasted. You know exactly how strong you are when you're fighting monsters though, ha, you know exactly how hard to hit them, how fast to run, you know where to aim the bullet and the blade.

You push past the smokers' circle hanging outside as Dean's cellphone rings and rings and there's a part of you that says hang up and a part that says don't pick up, but when you hear your brother's sleep-fuzzed "Wha?", you say his name instead of hello and hate the way you say it, all tight and cracked and desperate.

"Sammy?"

"I'm back," you say, forcing laughter, "I'm back in black!"

"You drunk?"

"No. Yes."

"Fuck off, Sam, I just killed three ghouls, okay? I'm going back to sleep."

"No!" And you hate the way you say that too, you hate the way your heart seizes up, so you start making up some bullshit about a girl you're unsuccessfully trying to screw, because if there's anything Dean loves more than calling you a girl, it's calling you bad at girls, and it works. Suddenly it's bitch this and geek that, and you think maybe you can hear the smile in his voice, tired as he is, and there is no smile on your face but now that Dean's here, there's a chance one might show up.

You cast one last look at the frathouse behind you, and then you make your way back to your dorm, calling Dean a jerk while he calls you a bitch and it's all so familiar, you might as well be in the Impala. You might as well be waking up in anonymous motel rooms with the only thing that the world will ever let you know. Dean's hands have set your bones and his eyes have seen through every lie, he taught you how to ride a bike and shoot a gun, and when you came here to Stanford and listened to everyone talk about their families and friends, you wondered if they have a brother like Dean, or a friend or someone, anyone who ever pushed them out of the way of danger, ever ripped up their own shirt to make you a bandage even if they were bleeding just as badly. Ever said "Over my dead body" to creatures that wanted you dead, and meant it.

i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

And that's the problem, that's what you tell yourself: you're not supposed to measure love in blood and violence, but you have no other reference. You came to Stanford to get away from all that, but here you are, Orientation Week is barely over and you're drunk-dialing your brother because you won't dial him any other way, not even when you want to, especially when you want to.

"I told myself I wouldn't call you," you say. "You make me break my promises."

"I didn't twist your arm to call me, dude. I was perfectly happy asleep."

"You make me break my promises, Dean," and you think thank fuck because you're finally at your dorm, fuck, Stanford is huge. You make your way up the stairs and to your single while Dean calls you a sappy motherfucker, and the first thing you see when stumble inside is that fucking plant you bought on impulse at the supermarket, as if plants were enough to make this box a home. You loathe it. You loathe that plant right now. It's fucking ugly, and you wish you had bought fabric softener instead.

"Okay, it's time for you to can it and pass out," Dean says.

"No," you slur, collapsing on your bed, "it's time for you to--" To what? You don't even know. It's time for you to go back to them. No, never. It's time for Dean to be here, now, because you've spent your life fighting against your family, and now that you have cut that cord, you are set adrift. You don't know who you are without the constant struggle, and you miss the friction that Dean provided, which kept you on the ground and warmed you.

"Dean," you say again, and you are tired, and heartsick, and it's probably the booze, and it's probably that stupid song, and you promise yourself that you won't feel this way tomorrow, tomorrow you will pick yourself up like a grown-ass man and live the life you won for yourself, but tonight: tonight you will give yourself this, because you don't know when you will again.

And Dean understands, in that weird Dean way of his. Of course he does. He's your brother. So he stays on the phone with you, talking nonsense as you talk nonsense back and drift closer to unconsciousness. When you finally sleep, somewhere in the middle of Dean talking about how the Impala needs another tune-up, his voice slips into your dreams, and you dream of bloodstains and open roads, your brother beside you and the endless sky above.

FILLED. Whoops, forgot to put that in the previous subject lines, sorry. Completed commentfic above!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

What the subject says.

Cleaned-up version now available.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

What the subject line says, here: looking at the sky (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/138259.html)

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[pkwench.livejournal.com]

Ah, you did such a good take on that prompt - it's edgy, unhappy, sad, and kinda sweet. And that last paragraph is perfection.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks, glad you like, and also for leaving the awesome prompt.

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[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is BEAUTIFUL. I love it to pieces. Thank you thank you thank you.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU for reading ;)

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[saschi212.livejournal.com]

I love this!! This is so in character of both boys, and the part about how Sam measures love and how Dean's hands set his bones is just...SAD. And beautiful. And Dean saying "Over my dead body" and meaning it. I love it!!

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thanks, glad you think so. :) Yay Winchestersss

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

This is so well done. A great study of both brothers. Sam knows every word of Back In Black, because Dean won't let him NOT know them. He says "over my dead body" to bad guys that want to get at Sam and means it. And Sam misses him, but won't do anything about it if he's not drunk. Such a great story, thank you for sharing!

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU, dude! Glad you liked. Oh lovely dysfunctional Winchesters!

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Really nice. I'm especially fond of your final paragraph. It's very evocative. I love the image of bloodstains and open roads.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 2/2

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

And Dean understands, in that weird Dean way of his. Of course he does. He's your brother. So he stays on the phone with you, talking nonsense as you talk nonsense back and drift closer to unconsciousness. When you finally sleep, somewhere in the middle of Dean talking about how the Impala needs another tune-up, his voice slips into your dreams, and you dream of bloodstains and open roads, your brother beside you and the endless sky above.

This was really beautiful. It's so hard to pull of 2nd person POV but you did a wonderful job.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 1/2

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

I love this line. It's so true.

Ever said "Over my dead body" to creatures that wanted you dead, and meant it.

This is how they are.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 1/2

[shyriann.livejournal.com]

"Ever said "Over my dead body" to creatures that wanted you dead, and meant it."
"you're not supposed to measure love in blood and violence, but you have no other reference."

These two lines just broke me.

This was beautiful. Thank you.

Re: i've been looking at the sky, Sam & Dean, PG13 - 1/2

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

So terribly poignant. Loved this.