ohsam | OhSam Triple Play 2015!

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The comm hosted this little event a couple of years ago, and as November 2 is an auspicious day for our darling Sam, today would be the perfect time to revisit this challenge. Welcome to the Triple Play 2015!

BOOST THE SIGNAL

And here's how we play!

Step One (mandatory): Write a three-part prompt.
1.) Pick a setting
2.) Pick an additional character or characters (Sam is assumed, naturally.)
3.) Pick an H/C scenario, with Sam as the focus. Other characters can share the misery, but Sam should get the brunt of it. That's how we roll. :D

You can make as many prompts as your little heart desires, one set per comment, but it would probably work best if kept simple. For instance: 1.) the Impala 2.) Dean 3.) a hangover, or 1.) autumn 2.) Rowena 3.) a curse.

Step Two (optional): Participants can choose to make visual art: create a drawing, painting, photomanip, or video based around an offered prompt set. All three points must be addressed. The art can be doodled or extravagantly detailed, artist’s choice. And, of course, Sam should be the primary focus of the h/c. Please reply with your art under the prompt you choose, and either put the art beneath a cut or supply a link to it, with appropriate header and warnings! (See "Posting Guidelines" in the left sidebar.) As subject lines are no more, please begin your fills with the word FILLED and a TITLE in BOLD.

Step Three (optional): Participants could also choose to write a ficlet, again with Sam as the primary victim of our dastardly h/c scenarios. (No minimum or maximum word count is required; just go where the muse takes you, as long or short as you'd like.) Again, please reply with your fic under the chosen prompt set, using the appropriate header and warnings. (See "Posting Guidelines" in the left sidebar.) As subject lines are no more, please begin your fills with the word FILLED and a TITLE in BOLD.

If more than one author or artist wants to work with the same prompt, have at it! The ideal goal is to make a Triple Play, where a prompt set gets both art and fic – the art potentially inspiring the fic or the fic inspiring the art. But no matter how it's sliced, we get lots of delicious Sammy h/c! Have all the fun … at Sam’s expense. ;)

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MASTERLIST

Sick City by

fireheart13
1.) Las Vegas
2.) Dean
3.) Gall stones

Better Than Trick or Treat by

septembers_coda
1. town of 200 people
2. john
3. parasite

What's in a Job by

cherry916
1. the bunker
2. a service dog
3. PTSD

Hour of Darkness by

amypond45
1. Squatting in an abandoned building.
2. Mary.
3. Fever dream.

Twist in the Wind by

thursdaysisters
1.) the bottom of a ravine
2.) the ghost of Sarah Blake
3.) broken bones

Untitled by

caranfindel
1. The bunker (maybe a newly discovered part?)
2. Dean
3. Impaled

It's Gotta Be a Hex by

tarotgal
1. Crappy motel room
2. Dean and John
3. Strep throat

We Shall Gather at the River by

crowroad3
1. Monument Valley
2. Dean
3. Staked out in the burning sun

Break No Bones by

milly_gal
a) Bobby's panic room
b) Bobby and/or Dean
c) broken leg

What You Don't Know (Can Kill You) by

center_galaxy
1. A foggy deserted road.
2. Jess
3. Car accident.

Bleed by

hugglewolf
1) The Bunker
2) Cas
3) Sam wakes up wounded and weak from blood loss on the floor of the Bunker—with no memory of how he got there, how he got hurt, or where Dean is.

Tornado Warning by

ameliacareful
1.) Setting: somewhere flat and Midwestern
2.) Other character: Dean
3.) H/C scenario: tornado related injuries

(Art) Untitled by

cassiopeia7
1. pacific northwest
2. dean
3. drowning

West of Omaha by

laughablelament
1) the lonesome highway
2) Dean & whoever's in the trunk
3) feverish magic-induced flashbacks

It's Gotta Be The Pie by

tarotgal
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Stone Number One by

caranfindel
1. Bobby's
2. Hallucifer
3. Psychotic episode that doesn't seem to want to end

(Art) Vatican Prison by

amberdreams
1) Vatican jail cell
2) Dean
3) stigmata

It's Gotta Be At Least 200 Stairs by

tarotgal
1. fire escape
2. Dean
3. permanent limp

Remember by

soserendipity
1. A cornfield at night.
2. Dean.
3. Bleeding out.

Surf's Up by

firesign10
1) The beach
2) Jess
3) Kelpie attack

Can We Call It Bob? by

soserendipity
1. Hanging off the ledge of a bridge/tall building
2. Dean
3. Dislocation

Cor Unum by

crowroad3
1) the bunker
2) Dean
3) heart condition

The Forest at Night by

thursdaysisters
1) Car accident
2) John
3) Head Injury

I Can Move Forward Looking Back by

hugglewolf
1) A hunt
2) A hunter (one we've met, or a new one)
3) PTSD

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream by

center_galaxy
1.) Stanford
2.) Brady
3.) Chronic insomnia

The Definition of Insanity by

center_galaxy
1. The Impala
2. Dean
3. Gunshot wound to the gut

In the Woodsman's Cottage by

thursdaysisters
1.) Setting: a forest
2.) Other character: Bobby
3.) H/C scenario: bear trap

Shaken by

cowboyguy
1. A laundromat
2. Dean
3. Trying to heal from a bad fight while trying to wash blood out of their clothes

It's Gotta Be a Plane This Time? by

tarotgal
1) Airport security gate
2) Dean
3) bullet wound

Trapped by

cowboyguy
1. tunnels
2. Dean
3. mutism/voice loss

Cold as Ice by

indiachick
1.) Byberry Mental Hospital
2.) Dean
3.) botched lobotomy

The Source of All Sorrows by

center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) coma

Draconids by

crowroad3
1.) High school
2.) EMTs
3.) Fever

Like a Rock by

caranfindel
1.) middle of nowhere
2.) Baby
3.) dislocated shoulder

Dead River by

crowroad3
1. Impala
2. The ghost of a loved one
3. Poisoned

Broken Memories by

cherry916
1) motel room
2) Jody Mills
3) head injury/concussion

Hidden by

hugglewolf
1. backwoods
2. castiel
3. buckshot

Empty Hearts by

center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) Panic attack

Unsettled by

cowboyguy
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Splintered by

themegalosaurus
1. THE BUNKER
2. DEMON!DEAN
3. HAMMER

Fingerprint by anonymous
1. Impala
2. Dean
3. touch starvation

It's Gotta Be Four in the Morning by

tarotgal
1. Roadhouse
2. Ellen
3. Respiratory illness

Bitter and Sick by

indiachick
1. Setting is author's choice
2. Dean
3. Forced/tricked into ingesting demon blood

words like glass by anonymous
1.) Camp Chitaqua, post-apocalypse
2.) Dean, Stoner Cas
3.) disfigurement, mutism

Feathers and Claws by

themegalosaurus
1) Decrepit old building
2) A priest
3) Demonic possession

Maleficus by

crowroad3
1. Field at night
2. Witch doctors
3. Blood-letting

Sup by

hugglewolf
1) A grassy field at night
2) Castiel
3) Poison

It's Gotta Be a Damn Ghost by

tarotgal
1. A busy bar in Stanford
2. Jess/Brady/Becky/Zach/Luis (any or all!)
3. Beaten up (bruises, bloody nose, scrapes, or maybe even a broken bottle to the head/body!)

Somewhere, Beyond the Sea by

center_galaxy
1) Somewhere watery
2) Dean
3) Amnesia

Dis(connected) by

center_galaxy
1) On the end of a phone
2) Bobby or Castiel
3) Blood loss, in and out of consciousness

It's Gotta Be a Day and a Half Now by

tarotgal
1.) Singer Salvage scrap yard
2.) Bobby
3.) exhaustion

Placebo by anonymous
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake

Hiss by

cowboyguy
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake

Across the clouds I see my shadow fly by

caranfindel
1) Coffee shop or Diner
2) Employee of said establishment
3) Gun shot wound

Check It Out by

themegalosaurus
1. MOL Bunker
2. Dean (and/or Charlie, Cas, or Kevin)
3. A curse involving plaid shirts or plaid in general (you're screwed, Sammy! Will they figure it out?)

The End of the World (and Back Again) by

harrigan
1. A boathouse
2. Dean
3. Permanent physical disability (knee/hip/leg etc)

If Only by

foolscapper
1. Hell, the cage
2. Castiel
3. hallucinations

Bitten (art) by

foolscapper
1.) zombie infested suburbia
2.) Dean, Bobby
3.) bitten

Play It Again, Sam by

caranfindel
1) A hospital
2) Dr Cara Roberts
3) Axe wound(s) to the upper body

The Mustard Seed by

kettle_o_fish
1. Out on a case
2. Dean
3. Sam develops minor healing powers (not angel-level resurrection or demon killing, more like curing lesser illnesses, fixing broken bones, moderate wounds, etc). However, each time he helps someone, there's a drain on his own health/strength. Dean wonders if it's worth the toll it takes on Sam.

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From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

A cadre of thugs armed with shotguns and dogs peered over the edge and, satisfied that the Impala would burn for a good while, made their way back to the birthday party. They only needed one Winchester anyhow.

Sam came to, coughing smoke and then a string of blood. "Dean...?"

It's raining hard and the light from the headlights doesn't go far. As the night progressed, humanoid shapes appeared far away, and over the next few hours more approached the Impala from all directions. Big acts of black magic always attracted the dead, and the birthday hostess had bragged about bagging a Winchester weeks in advance.

At last the first figure arrived and stepped into the twin cones of the headlights. Rain sizzled on it's head. It climbed on the hood and breathed and the ice against the windshield melted in the shape of a mouth, and at this the other dead cowered and faded into the shadows.

Sam smiled. "Hi Sarah."

He picked broken glass from his ribs with his good arm and rummaged under the driver's seat for a med kit and whiskey and guns. "Dean's in trouble," he said, biting off a length of duct tape and wrapping his left arm against his chest, "Can you get me up there?"

Sam shoved the tape in the glove compartment. Amidst the maps and ancient condom wrappers fell a photograph stuck to the back of a postcard. A spectral hand reached down and flipped it over.

Dean looked about thirteen, drawing Batman logos all over Sam's arm cast beside a cupcake he'd stolen from the nurse's private stash. Another birthday party in another world. When Sam tried to take it back, he found Sarah's grip to be quite real.

"Hold on Sam."

And pulling him through the windshield as though he were made of smoke, the thing that had been Sarah Blake...unfolded. One moment they were both several hundred feet above the Earth, her hair streaming behind her as he looked down at the houses spread across the valley like stars, the next he was standing before a witch's house with Dean shouting his name inside.

He never did recall how long that moment lasted. Even now Sam dreams of flying with her above the cloudline, twisting in the wind with only an old photograph to hold on to for purchase.

Sam turned to thank her, but the yard was empty save for him and the shadows at the edge of the light. He stared back at them and when no more stepped forward to his aid, he chambered a round in his gun and kicked down the door.

From:

madebyme-x.livejournal.com

This is just so cool, and ethereal, and wow - just a perfect way to tackle to prompt!

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks! I loved Sam in episode 11.2 sooooo much and really wanted more of him being all independent and badass :-D

From:

crowroad3.livejournal.com

Aww man, this whole thing is an act of magic-- the dead drawn to that power, the sizzling rain, the twin parties present and past, the way Sarah materializes, literally, "it" to spirit to real ( and then expands beyond, as time does), the way Sam himself is smoke, and a glass-picking duct-taping badass, the way this is ethereal yes, but also direct, stylewise: you flash us the spirit-world and then, like Sam all verb, kick down the door. I love it.

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks! Yeah some of my favorite spn episodes are the ones where ghosts are really frikkin dangerous (I've rewatched Fulsom Blues from season 2 like a billion times), the idea for this came from an old Italian folktale where an angel lifted an evil woman out of Hell, but other damned souls latched onto the woman's foot and she twisted around so much trying to kick them off that she let go of the angel and fell. :D

From:

crowroad3.livejournal.com

That's freaking awesome. I want more that tale.

And yes to dangerous ghosts.
(Classic vengeful spirit one of my fave monsters too.)

From:

caranfindel.livejournal.com

i agree with

crowroad3 - I'd love more of this awesome story!

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Hmm... *ponders what might await Sam in the house*

From:

milly-gal.livejournal.com

I so nearly did this one, glad I didn't cos you just ROCKED that! :D

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks! I love writing ghosts :-D

From:

quickreaver.livejournal.com

Dang, you did so much in such a short fic! Just magical. You always build the most AMAZING worlds. *smitten*

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks, glad you liked it! :-D ghosts were always a favorite of mine, and Halloween ended too soon for me (can we just have it again in a few weeks and call it Turkeyween?).

From:

tipsy-kitty.livejournal.com

This is beautiful!

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks glad you liked it!

From:

amypond45.livejournal.com

Oh man, I'm so smitten with this fic! The way you set the scene, with the rain and the headlight and Sam plucking broken glass from his ribs and the vaguely humanoid shapes peering over the edge...then the ghost pulling him along with that token of a memory from another broken arm...how do you DO that?! Thank you so much for this!

From:

thursdaysisters.livejournal.com

Thanks glad you liked it! :-D Halloween ended too soon for me, it needed more spooky ghosts.

From:

indiachick.livejournal.com

Ha ha, I love you. I mean, this: A cadre of thugs armed with shotguns and dogs peered over the edge and, satisfied that the Impala would burn for a good while, made their way back to the birthday party.

Perfect first line. PERFECT.

And how Sam is just so badass and nonchalant when he sees Sarah, and how he just fucking kicks down that door, and all those beautiful little details (like the photograph from some other birthday party!) Cool!