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.
RE: Fill: Hiss (2/3)
Date: 2015-11-12 11:01 pm (UTC)Twenty minutes later, they’re still hobbling their way towards civilization. Dean’s carrying most of Sam’s weight by this point, with Sam doing his best to limp along beside him.
The emergency dispatcher had promised help was on the way, but Dean’s cell signal kept dropping out, cutting off the woman’s voice on the other end. He’d managed to give her their location, and she’d promised they would send a team out to keep them as quickly as possible. In a forest this dense, though, there was no way to get to them quickly. No roads, nowhere for a helicopter to land. So Dean’s best bet is to stay on the path and keep his brother moving.
“How’re you doing, Sammy?” he asks, panting with the exertion of moving both of them along the uneven ground.
“Mmmmnot so good,” Sam groans. “Leg hurts. ...Little bit nauseous.” He’d begun breathing heavily, and Dean can feel Sam trembling against him.
“Just hang in there, buddy,” Dean encourages him. “You’re gonna be fine.”
Maneuvering them down a dip in the path, Dean tries to keep Sam steady. Without a good source of light, though, neither of them can see very well where they’re going, and Sam stumbles over an exposed tree root, tripping forward and landing heavily on his injured leg. He cries out at the sudden pain. “Dean!”
“Whoa, whoa, I gotcha, it’s okay,” Dean reacts, not quick enough, but manages to catch Sam before he falls over.
But even that movement is too much, the sensation too overwhelming. “Nnngh, De--” Sam manages to gasp before he’s doubled over and retching, vomit splattering against the leaves and dusty dirt path.
“Shhh, it’s okay,” Dean reassures him, patting Sam’s back as he coughs roughly.
Sam takes a couple of wheezy breaths and spits on ground, trying to rid his mouth of the awful sensation. “Mmokay,” he pants. “Let’s... less’keep goin’...” His breathing is getting worse, Dean notices, but he can’t do anything but haul Sam upright again, and together they start hobbling down the path.
* * *
Sam is barely conscious now, being dragged along by Dean and just barely managing to stay upright. Dean isn’t sure how much longer they can do this.
His own legs are aching, every step feeling heavier and slower than the last.
Just when he’s ready to give up and stop, over the hill in front of him appear several bright flashlight beams, light sweeping in broad arcs through the trees.
“Hey!” he shouts, voice hoarse and dry. “Here! Over here!”
After that, there’s a flurry of action. The paramedics race down the hill towards them, shouting questions that Dean tries his best to answer. Before he can really process what’s going on, he feels Sam being lifted away from him, and watches as his brother is carefully laid onto a stretcher. After making sure Sam’s secure, two men lift the stretcher, carrying Sam through the darkness and to safety.
In front of Dean, a third paramedic is talking to him, her face illuminated by the bright lantern she held. Saying something about a hospital, what kind of snake was it, running out of time…
“Dean...” Sam moans in confusion and pain, one hand reaching back towards his brother, and that’s all Dean needs to push past her and rush back to his brother’s side. He holds onto Sam’s hand in the darkness, hurrying alongside the stretcher to keep up with the paramedics.
“It’s okay, Sam, it’s gonna be okay. I’m here.”
RE: Fill: Hiss (3/3)
Date: 2015-11-12 11:01 pm (UTC)When Sam wakes, it’s not dark anymore. The ceiling — inside, he thinks groggily — is bright white, and he blinks while his eyes adjust to the light. He squints, looking around the room. All hospitals look basically the same, and he wonders for a moment why he’s here. He looks down, and sees Dean, bent over in a chair with his head resting on Sam’s bed, fast asleep. He’s got one hand resting on the mattress, near Sam’s right hand, and Sam reaches out and pats it affectionately.
There’s a cannula under his nose, feeding him a steady stream of oxygen. It tickles. And his leg is throbbing, but in that dull, disconnected way that means they’ve got him on all the good painkillers.
Oh. Snake. His thoughts come to him slowly, drifting through the haze. Ouch.
Dean’s hand moves under his, and he watches as his brother jolts awake, head snapping up as he regains consciousness. When he sees that Sam is awake, a relieved smile spreads over his face. “Hey, Sammy,” he murmurs. “How you doing?”
One side of Dean’s hair is pressed flat, the other sticking up at a weird angle. Sam giggles.
“So, high as a kite, then,” Dean says, answering his own question.
“And nnnn… not dead,” Sam adds helpfully.
Dean shakes his head. “Nope. Not dead.”
“Thanks for… savin’ mmme.” Sam’s eyes close wearily. “I’mma… take a nap.”
“You do that, buddy,” Dean responds. “I’ll be right here.”
RE: Fill: Hiss (3/3)
Date: 2015-11-13 11:49 pm (UTC)RE: Fill: Hiss (3/3)
Date: 2015-11-15 05:23 pm (UTC)RE: Fill: Hiss (3/3)
Date: 2015-11-16 01:57 am (UTC)Thanks for filling my prompt!