OhSam Triple Play 2015!
Nov. 2nd, 2015 12:06 pmThe 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. ;)
The usual courtesies apply:
→ If you notice that your fic is not on the master list after a decent amount of time (say, three days), please poke us in a PM. We might have missed it.
→ Anon posting enabled.
→ NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES.
→ Play nice - no flaming and no character bashing, period. Any comments that break this rule will be deleted without warning.
→ Feedback is catnip for writers. Leave some author-love!
→ No spam comments.
→ Contact one of the mods if you have a question.
→ Spread the Sam love - pimp this meme!
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.

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. ;)
The usual courtesies apply:
→ If you notice that your fic is not on the master list after a decent amount of time (say, three days), please poke us in a PM. We might have missed it.
→ Anon posting enabled.
→ NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES.
→ Play nice - no flaming and no character bashing, period. Any comments that break this rule will be deleted without warning.
→ Feedback is catnip for writers. Leave some author-love!
→ No spam comments.
→ Contact one of the mods if you have a question.
→ Spread the Sam love - pimp this meme!
Sick City by
1.) Las Vegas
2.) Dean
3.) Gall stones
Better Than Trick or Treat by
1. town of 200 people
2. john
3. parasite
What's in a Job by
1. the bunker
2. a service dog
3. PTSD
Hour of Darkness by
1. Squatting in an abandoned building.
2. Mary.
3. Fever dream.
Twist in the Wind by
1.) the bottom of a ravine
2.) the ghost of Sarah Blake
3.) broken bones
Untitled by
1. The bunker (maybe a newly discovered part?)
2. Dean
3. Impaled
It's Gotta Be a Hex by
1. Crappy motel room
2. Dean and John
3. Strep throat
We Shall Gather at the River by
1. Monument Valley
2. Dean
3. Staked out in the burning sun
Break No Bones by
a) Bobby's panic room
b) Bobby and/or Dean
c) broken leg
What You Don't Know (Can Kill You) by
1. A foggy deserted road.
2. Jess
3. Car accident.
Bleed by
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
1.) Setting: somewhere flat and Midwestern
2.) Other character: Dean
3.) H/C scenario: tornado related injuries
(Art) Untitled by
1. pacific northwest
2. dean
3. drowning
West of Omaha by
1) the lonesome highway
2) Dean & whoever's in the trunk
3) feverish magic-induced flashbacks
It's Gotta Be The Pie by
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu
Stone Number One by
1. Bobby's
2. Hallucifer
3. Psychotic episode that doesn't seem to want to end
(Art) Vatican Prison by
1) Vatican jail cell
2) Dean
3) stigmata
It's Gotta Be At Least 200 Stairs by
1. fire escape
2. Dean
3. permanent limp
Remember by
1. A cornfield at night.
2. Dean.
3. Bleeding out.
Surf's Up by
1) The beach
2) Jess
3) Kelpie attack
Can We Call It Bob? by
1. Hanging off the ledge of a bridge/tall building
2. Dean
3. Dislocation
Cor Unum by
1) the bunker
2) Dean
3) heart condition
The Forest at Night by
1) Car accident
2) John
3) Head Injury
I Can Move Forward Looking Back by
1) A hunt
2) A hunter (one we've met, or a new one)
3) PTSD
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream by
1.) Stanford
2.) Brady
3.) Chronic insomnia
The Definition of Insanity by
1. The Impala
2. Dean
3. Gunshot wound to the gut
In the Woodsman's Cottage by
1.) Setting: a forest
2.) Other character: Bobby
3.) H/C scenario: bear trap
Shaken by
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
1) Airport security gate
2) Dean
3) bullet wound
Trapped by
1. tunnels
2. Dean
3. mutism/voice loss
Cold as Ice by
1.) Byberry Mental Hospital
2.) Dean
3.) botched lobotomy
The Source of All Sorrows by
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) coma
Draconids by
1.) High school
2.) EMTs
3.) Fever
Like a Rock by
1.) middle of nowhere
2.) Baby
3.) dislocated shoulder
Dead River by
1. Impala
2. The ghost of a loved one
3. Poisoned
Broken Memories by
1) motel room
2) Jody Mills
3) head injury/concussion
Hidden by
1. backwoods
2. castiel
3. buckshot
Empty Hearts by
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) Panic attack
Unsettled by
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu
Splintered by
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
1. Roadhouse
2. Ellen
3. Respiratory illness
Bitter and Sick by
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
1) Decrepit old building
2) A priest
3) Demonic possession
Maleficus by
1. Field at night
2. Witch doctors
3. Blood-letting
Sup by
1) A grassy field at night
2) Castiel
3) Poison
It's Gotta Be a Damn Ghost by
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
1) Somewhere watery
2) Dean
3) Amnesia
Dis(connected) by
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
1.) Singer Salvage scrap yard
2.) Bobby
3.) exhaustion
Placebo by anonymous
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake
Hiss by
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly by
1) Coffee shop or Diner
2) Employee of said establishment
3) Gun shot wound
Check It Out by
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
1. A boathouse
2. Dean
3. Permanent physical disability (knee/hip/leg etc)
If Only by
1. Hell, the cage
2. Castiel
3. hallucinations
Bitten (art) by
1.) zombie infested suburbia
2.) Dean, Bobby
3.) bitten
Play It Again, Sam by
1) A hospital
2) Dr Cara Roberts
3) Axe wound(s) to the upper body
The Mustard Seed by
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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Date: 2015-11-06 01:37 pm (UTC)2.) Bobby
3.) exhaustion
It's Gotta Be a Day and a Half Now part 1
Date: 2015-11-12 04:35 am (UTC)“Sam!” The kid had to be out here somewhere. Bobby knew a thing or five about tracking, and everything he knew led to Sam and the demon heading this way. Besides, they had been on this thing's trail for a week now so if anyone knew how dangerous it would be for this demon to get out and head toward people, it was Sam Winchester. Even with a couple of screws loose, Sam knew not out toward the road or toward the town but into the scrap yard. After Dean's injury, it was all up to Sam to handle this demon now.
Dean's broken leg was bad enough, but his complaints about not being able to hunt with a broken leg were almost worse for the rest of them. Unable to hunt, he spent his time researching and finding hunts for Bobby. This time, though, it was bigger than Bobby could handle. And though he didn't like the idea of Sam watching his six, he liked the idea more than dying. Of course, that was before getting knocked down by the demon and losing consciousness.
He wasn't sure how long he'd been out for, but it had been at least half an hour. And a lot could happen in half an hour, Bobby knew, as he had headed over to the spot where he'd last seen Sam fighting the demon. From there, he'd picked up their tracks, heading deep into the salvage yard. There were scorch marks. There were small streaks of fire. There were small puddles of blood.
It wasn’t until the tracks stopped that Bobby’s concern grew into something stronger… like fear. “Sam! Sam!” he called, over and over, but the only response he got was silence. The only thing worse would have been the demon responding by rushing out at him. Bobby kept his gun raised the whole time, just in case. “Sam! You better not be seein' things right now.” He looked around, worried. “It's just me here.” Him and possibly a really vile demon.
It wasn’t like this was a leviathan, after all. It was just a demon. Sam had taken down demons before. Granted, usually Dean was with him, but not always. Sam could do this on his own, right? Without his brother. Without drinking demon blood and using his powers. Without getting killed in the process.
He gave up trying to track and started to just search thoroughly. Row by row, car by car, he checked around every corner and inside anything big enough to house an adult male. Luckily, Sam Winchester wasn’t just any adult male when it came to size. Practically everything in the salvage yard was metal, so why the knife caught Bobby’s eye was anyone’s guess. But there it was, moonlight bouncing off the blade just right. A few paces beyond the knife lay a body, the shape just visible in the darkness.
Bobby’s heart just about stopped as he raced over. It was a used up, burned out body that had once been host to a human and then to a demon. It lay still and dead. Very, very dead. Sam obviously must have gotten to him. So where the hell was Sam now?
There. Bobby finally spotted the top of Sam’s head sticking out from behind a mountain of old tires. Bobby raced over, expecting to find him injured if not dead. But it looked like Sam was only knocked out. Bobby was going to have to do some serious clean-up tomorrow before he opened, but right now he had bigger things to worry about.
“Sam?” Bobby knelt down beside the hunter and nudged him. “Hey, wake up.” Sam didn’t wake. He didn’t even stir. “Sam!” he said it louder this time. And he shook Sam by the shoulder. “It’s time to wake the hell up!” But, again, Sam didn’t move. He definitely didn’t wake up. “Balls!” He could move Sam if he had to, but he didn’t really want to. So he gave it one last attempt. “Sam! C’mon, boy. Get up!”
In the end, he pulled Sam’s body up off the ground and hauled him back to the house, grumbling and cursing the entire way.
It's Gotta Be a Day and a Half Now part 2
Date: 2015-11-12 04:37 am (UTC)“Sam?”
Sam’s eyelids fluttered, but didn’t open. For once, things were quiet in his head, and he was taking advantage of that. He had no idea how long it would last. Lucifer came and went as he pleased, and right now any silence was good silence.
“Sam, can you hear me?”
Bobby. It was Bobby. He had to respond if Bobby was trying to talk to him. Bobby and Dean were all he had left in this world now. But Sam’s head felt heavy, as if an elephant were sitting on it, weighing it down. His mouth felt dry and tight. He couldn’t speak, but he managed to give it a little bit of a nod.
“Good. You planning on getting up any time soon?”
Sam considered it, weighing his many options. On one hand, getting up meant more hunting and more responsibility. It meant tracking leviathan and listening to Dean and Bobby talk about how bad the situation was getting. It meant an uncontrollable dialogue in his head by Lucifer that was irritating at best and frightfully similar to what he’d felt every excruciatingly endless second down there in the case at worst. On the other hand… there was sleep. Welcoming, comforting, blissful sleep. Not much of a decision, really. “Nnnrrr-uh-uhhh,” Sam muttered in what he hoped Bobby would understand was a negative reply. He felt his head go dizzy, eyes rolling back, body getting heavier like he couldn’t have moved it to sit up even if he had wanted to. Which he didn’t.
“You’ve been asleep for a while… it’s gotta be a day and a half now. You sure you want to keep sleeping?”
Sam took a deep breath and exhaled, trying to throw the right vocalization in there, but he didn’t even feel like he had the energy to do that right. “Ayuff!” was all he managed. Luckily, it was enough.
“All right, then. Can’t say you didn’t earn it. I’ll check on you later, okay?” The blanket that lay over Sam was pulled up an inch and tucked around him a little more, extra assurance that Bobby didn’t really mind him sleeping more. Sam felt grateful for that. He’d done so much pretending lately, it was great to have people he didn’t have to hide his weakness from any more, people who didn’t mind if he needed a little more time or just a few extra hours of sleep. And he’d be safe here at Bobby’s.
Sam listened to the sound of Bobby’s boots on the hard wooden floor. The steps grew softer as Bobby crossed the room. There was a gentle squeak of hinges as the door was pulled closed with a soft clicking sound. Then the wonderful sound of silence filled Sam’s ears; he embraced it eagerly. Sam smiled into the pillow as he knew he was about to drift back off to sleep. He could feel it. It was coming. Any second now he’d be dead to the world again.
“Good morning, Sam, and goooood morning Vietnam!”
Knowing Bobby and Dean were probably just down the hallway, Sam tried very hard not to scream in frustration. Better they think of him as together enough to hunt and kill a demon all on his own rather than some crazy basket case.
“Oh, but baskets are so much fun, Sam. And so is messing with you. Admit it: you missed this. You missed me.”
RE: It's Gotta Be a Day and a Half Now part 2
Date: 2015-11-12 02:09 pm (UTC)