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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 [livejournal.com profile] fireheart13
1.) Las Vegas
2.) Dean
3.) Gall stones

Better Than Trick or Treat by [livejournal.com profile] septembers_coda
1. town of 200 people
2. john
3. parasite

What's in a Job by [livejournal.com profile] cherry916
1. the bunker
2. a service dog
3. PTSD

Hour of Darkness by [livejournal.com profile] amypond45
1. Squatting in an abandoned building.
2. Mary.
3. Fever dream.

Twist in the Wind by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1.) the bottom of a ravine
2.) the ghost of Sarah Blake
3.) broken bones

Untitled by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1. The bunker (maybe a newly discovered part?)
2. Dean
3. Impaled

It's Gotta Be a Hex by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. Crappy motel room
2. Dean and John
3. Strep throat

We Shall Gather at the River by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Monument Valley
2. Dean
3. Staked out in the burning sun

Break No Bones by [livejournal.com profile] milly_gal
a) Bobby's panic room
b) Bobby and/or Dean
c) broken leg

What You Don't Know (Can Kill You) by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1. A foggy deserted road.
2. Jess
3. Car accident.

Bleed by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] ameliacareful
1.) Setting: somewhere flat and Midwestern
2.) Other character: Dean
3.) H/C scenario: tornado related injuries

(Art) Untitled by [livejournal.com profile] cassiopeia7
1. pacific northwest
2. dean
3. drowning

West of Omaha by [livejournal.com profile] laughablelament
1) the lonesome highway
2) Dean & whoever's in the trunk
3) feverish magic-induced flashbacks

It's Gotta Be The Pie by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Stone Number One by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1. Bobby's
2. Hallucifer
3. Psychotic episode that doesn't seem to want to end

(Art) Vatican Prison by [livejournal.com profile] amberdreams
1) Vatican jail cell
2) Dean
3) stigmata

It's Gotta Be At Least 200 Stairs by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. fire escape
2. Dean
3. permanent limp

Remember by [livejournal.com profile] soserendipity
1. A cornfield at night.
2. Dean.
3. Bleeding out.

Surf's Up by [livejournal.com profile] firesign10
1) The beach
2) Jess
3) Kelpie attack

Can We Call It Bob? by [livejournal.com profile] soserendipity
1. Hanging off the ledge of a bridge/tall building
2. Dean
3. Dislocation

Cor Unum by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1) the bunker
2) Dean
3) heart condition

The Forest at Night by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1) Car accident
2) John
3) Head Injury

I Can Move Forward Looking Back by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1) A hunt
2) A hunter (one we've met, or a new one)
3) PTSD

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Stanford
2.) Brady
3.) Chronic insomnia

The Definition of Insanity by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1. The Impala
2. Dean
3. Gunshot wound to the gut

In the Woodsman's Cottage by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1.) Setting: a forest
2.) Other character: Bobby
3.) H/C scenario: bear trap

Shaken by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1) Airport security gate
2) Dean
3) bullet wound

Trapped by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1. tunnels
2. Dean
3. mutism/voice loss

Cold as Ice by [livejournal.com profile] indiachick
1.) Byberry Mental Hospital
2.) Dean
3.) botched lobotomy

The Source of All Sorrows by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) coma

Draconids by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1.) High school
2.) EMTs
3.) Fever

Like a Rock by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1.) middle of nowhere
2.) Baby
3.) dislocated shoulder

Dead River by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Impala
2. The ghost of a loved one
3. Poisoned

Broken Memories by [livejournal.com profile] cherry916
1) motel room
2) Jody Mills
3) head injury/concussion

Hidden by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1. backwoods
2. castiel
3. buckshot

Empty Hearts by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) Panic attack

Unsettled by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Splintered by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. Roadhouse
2. Ellen
3. Respiratory illness

Bitter and Sick by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] themegalosaurus
1) Decrepit old building
2) A priest
3) Demonic possession

Maleficus by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Field at night
2. Witch doctors
3. Blood-letting

Sup by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1) A grassy field at night
2) Castiel
3) Poison

It's Gotta Be a Damn Ghost by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1) Somewhere watery
2) Dean
3) Amnesia

Dis(connected) by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake

Across the clouds I see my shadow fly by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1) Coffee shop or Diner
2) Employee of said establishment
3) Gun shot wound

Check It Out by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] harrigan
1. A boathouse
2. Dean
3. Permanent physical disability (knee/hip/leg etc)

If Only by [livejournal.com profile] foolscapper
1. Hell, the cage
2. Castiel
3. hallucinations

Bitten (art) by [livejournal.com profile] foolscapper
1.) zombie infested suburbia
2.) Dean, Bobby
3.) bitten

Play It Again, Sam by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1) A hospital
2) Dr Cara Roberts
3) Axe wound(s) to the upper body

The Mustard Seed by [livejournal.com profile] 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.

FILLED: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (1/2)

Date: 2015-11-04 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] center-galaxy.livejournal.com
Brady knew he got lucky with his choice in roommates.

Sam Winchester was quiet, kept his side of the room cleaned and he didn't try to fill their time together with awkward small talk. Sure, he and Sam got along well. They were on the path to becoming friends, but unlike some roommates, Sam didn't try to force the relationship, something that Brady appreciated. They settled into each other's routines, and slowly but surely, they formed a partnership. Sam would help him on his English homework in return for his aid on Sam’s chemistry homework. They would joke with each other, go get breakfast every once in a while. They became friends.

He got lucky when he was assigned Sam Winchester as his roommate, that Brady knew. But like most good things that came into his life, Brady knew there was a catch.

Sam was keeping secrets and hiding a dark and deep pain that seemed to consume in the night hours. While he would retire to his bed, Sam would stay up, seemingly unable (or maybe unwilling) to close his eyes and get some rest. He would be awake when Brady would go to sleep and still awake when Brady woke up, dark circles under his eyes. He thought about asking Sam about the monsters that plagued his nights, but chickened out upon seeing the temper bubbling under the surface.

Lack of sleep can, after all, lead to mood swings, among other things.

“Do you ever sleep?” Brady finally asked, three weeks before Christmas break.

Sam was typing away on his laptop, chugging his now fourth cup of what must now be cold coffee. He glanced up, flashed a rueful grin and shook his head, “Nah. I’ve never really needed to.”

He should’ve dropped the subject right there, but Brady couldn’t help it.

“Do you want to . . .” God, he sounded like such a girl! “Do you want to talk about it?”

Sam continued to type away.

“No, thanks.” His roommate answered quickly. “I’m good.”

And that was the end of that.

At least, until break came and he found out was staying in their dorm.

“You don’t want to go home?” Brady questioned as he finished packing his suitcase.

“I don’t really have anywhere to go,” Sam replied. Then, quieter, “Not anymore.”

“That settles it then.” Brady nodded to himself.

“What?” Sam inquired, his eyes widening as Brady tossed an empty suitcase towards him.

“You can come home with me this year, Sam.”

“Oh, no,” Sam began to protest, “It’s okay. I wanted to get some studying done—”

Brady chuckled mirthlessly, “Dude, the semester is over. There’s nothing to study for.”

“Really, Brady,” Sam continued, voice tinged with what sounded suspiciously like panic. “I’ll be fine on my own.”

“You’ve been on your own a lot, haven’t you?” Brady mused. “You never talk about your family. You don’t have anywhere to go for break. You don’t want to talk about it, that’s fine, that’s your business, but I’ll be damned if I let my friend sit here and freeze his ass off in this crappy dorm.” He shoved the suitcase towards Sam again. “Now, hurry up and pack.”

Sam was too stunned to do anything but nod. And slowly, he began to pack.

Brady just grinned.

RE: FILLED: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (2/2)

Date: 2015-11-04 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] center-galaxy.livejournal.com
But even at his house, Brady found Sam more often awake than not. Sure, his roommate “went” to bed, but he never slept. He was up, reading, or typing away on his computer. Not even some home cooking or plates filled with comfort food could calm the storm that seemed to rage in Sam’s mind. He didn’t sleep much, if he even slept at all.

Brady was losing hope and running out of options. He didn’t want to force Sam to talk about anything that he didn’t want to—Sam had been very clear when they first met that asking about his past was out of the question—but whatever had happened, whatever trauma his roommate had experience was eating him up inside.

Chronic insomnia was serious. People didn’t die from it, but they did die from complications from it. Car accidents caused by falling asleep on the road, depression, heart conditions—long story short, if Sam didn’t get some sleep soon, Brady might be close to attending his first funeral ever, something he wasn’t a fan of.

So, Brady took a cue from his mother, and resorted to more drastic means.

When Sam wasn’t looking—really, his exhaustion made it way too easy to sneak around him—Brady swiped his roommate’s cellphone and after marveling at the fact that Sam really only had four contacts (three if you took Brady off), he began to go down the list.

The first number was disconnected.

The second got him the voicemail of Singer Salvage. Brady wasn’t sure what that was about so he hung up.

But the last number got him the voicemail of Dean Winchester, a name that Brady recognized. Sam had mentioned once in passing that he had a brother. Brady wasn’t sure if they were close or not, but it wouldn’t hurt to at least try to connect.

Brady left a voicemail, returned the phone back on the dining room table where Sam left it and hoped that this would pay off.


It wasn’t until they returned to school that Brady found out what happened with the phone call. He left in the morning to go pick up some coffee, went to the library for the bit and came back to find his roommate asleep, his phone clutched in his outstretched hand.

Sam still had his secrets, of course. Maybe Brady would never find out why he hadn’t been able to sleep or why the subject of his family was so taboo. But this—seeing Sam finally at peace—it was worth it.

So, slowly, Brady closed the door behind him and left, determined to let Sam sleep in peace.

Author's Note: Hope this is remotely what you wanted. Thanks for the awesome prompt!

Re: FILLED: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (2/2)

Date: 2015-11-06 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassiopeia7.livejournal.com
This is heartbreaking on multiple level, from Sam's thinly-diguised misery at being separated from family, to Brady's thoughtfulness and concern (especially painful considering what happened to him later.) Beautiful snippet of Sam's early life at Stanford. ♥
From: [identity profile] center-galaxy.livejournal.com
Awww, thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

RE: FILLED: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (2/2)

Date: 2015-11-06 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madebyme-x.livejournal.com
Wonderful! I really liked your characterization of Brady, and how he goes out of his way to look after his friend. It's especially painful seeing Brady being so caring when he know what lies ahead for him.

Great exploration of Sam struggling without his family. Thank you doe sharing :)

RE: FILLED: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (2/2)

Date: 2015-11-06 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] center-galaxy.livejournal.com
Yay! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for reading!

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