"You Only Hurt the One You Love" Meme!
Feb. 12th, 2016 08:44 pmAlright, everyone, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day! You know what this means? It’s the perfect opportunity to show our love for our favorite Winchester by doing what we do best – hurting him, maiming him, making him sick, putting him through emotional torture. Y’know, the usual.
Welcome to ohsam’s “You Only Hurt the One You Love” meme!

BOOST THE SIGNAL
The rules are simple:
1.) Post a one-word or one-phrase prompt in the comments ("blurred vision", "blue", "summer", "nervous", etc…). You can post as many prompts as you like, but please keep them to one prompt per comment. We’ll try to keep the masterlist of prompts/fills as current as possible so you can see which words have already been prompted. Prompting will stay open until February 22nd, but you can start filling them as soon as you want.
2.) Write an h/c-related, Sam-centric fill for the prompt. Multiple people can write for the same prompt – just make sure it’s left as a separate comment on the original prompt. Drabbles are awesome, but if you feel like writing something longer, feel free! Reply to the comment to post your fic, but please link to your journal if your fill ends up running longer than a few comments. Please begin your fics with the header Filled: and the title. Please include any ratings or relevant warnings after the title, as well.
3.) Art is welcome, too! If you’d like to fill a prompt with a piece of art instead of a fic, please leave a thumbnail/link to it in the comments.
All the usual rules apply:
• If your prompt or your fill is not on the masterlist after a few days, please poke one of the mods in a PM, and we’ll fix that.
• Anon posting enabled.
• No spoilers for unaired episodes.
• Play nice – no flaming, no bashing, no fighting. Any comments that break this rule will be deleted.
• Feedback is love!
• No spam. (See above re: deleting.)
• Contact a mod if you have a question.
• Share this meme, and have a great time!
EDIT: We've gotten a ton of great prompts so far. Thanks, everybody! Keep it up! However, given the fact that our list is getting longer and we've had a few duplicate prompts, we've also added the masterlist of prompts in alphabetical order so it's easier to look through (see below). Try to make sure your prompt hasn't already been posted before you add it. Any questions, ask a mod. Thanks!
EDIT (2/24/16): Hey, everyone. Prompting has officially closed, but that doesn't mean the meme is over! Please continue posting your fics and filling as many of these wonderful prompts as you'd like. It's been great so far, and we're looking forward to many more awesome fics from you all!
Prompts (in posting order):
1.) Head cold
2.) Insomnia
3.) Feeling broken
4.) Sam-in-a-box
5.) Ambulance
6.) Cactus patch
7.) Forget
8.) Immortality (as horror trope)
9.) Severe food allergy
10.) Exhaustion
11.) Silent
12.) Renunciation
13.) Sliced
14.) Fear of falling (literal or metaphorical)
15.) Parched
16.) Dentist visit
17.) Aphasia
18.) Anaphylaxis
19.) Holiday
20.) Hypovolemic shock
21.) Bloodlust
22.) Just keep swimming
23.) Take my breath away
24.) Tongue-tied
25.) Withering
26.) Hallucinations
27.) Hypothermia
28.) Sensory deprivation
29.) Pound of flesh
30.) Tachycardia
31.) Poisoned
32.) Depression
33.) Father
34.) Bound
35.) Postictal state
36.) Night terrors
37.) Tinnitus with dizziness and nausea
38.) Drowning
39.) Porphyria
40.) Punch-drunk love
41.) Grief
42.) Drought
43.) Faith
44.) Prescience
45.) Time after time
46.) Buried alive
47.) Limited range of motion
48.) Disorientation
49.) Complicity
50.) Betrayal
51.) Surrender
52.) Possession hangover
53.) Troubled waters
54.) Touch-starved
55.) Transformation
56.) Rub salt in the wound
57.) Synesthesia
58.) Dumbstruck
59.) Trapped
60.) Sensory overload
61.) Keelhauling
62.) Post-surgery
63.) Sprained
64.) Donating blood
65.) Wrong medication prescribed
66.) Resistance is futile
67.) Father knows best
68.) Trapped
69.) Fire
70.) Fence
71.) Recovery
72.) Texas
73.) Bomb
74.) High as a kite
75.) Stranded
76.) Hammer
77.) Lost at sea
78.) Bleeding out
79.) Itch
80.) Degeneration
81.) Depersonalization
82.) Testicular rupture
83.) Walking stick
84.) Friendly fire
85.) Deep vein thrombosis
86.) Stuck
87.) Spinal injury
88.) Misophonia
89.) Sudden hyperthymesia
90.) Blindness
91.) Chronic fibromyalgia
92.) Hearing impairment
93.) Allodynia
94.) Prosopagnosia
95.) Capgras delusion
96.) Stutter
97.) Twitch
98.) Tattoo
99.) Glasses (bad eyesight)
100.) Chained
101.) What's the point?
102.) Incomplete spinal cord injury
103.) Body integrity identity disorder
104.) Abandoned
105.) Exam stress
106.) Electric shock
107.) Cast
108.) Choke
109.) Fever
110.) Disfigured
111.) Stroke
112.) "I don't want him to see me like this"
113.) Fractured
114.) Tumor
115.) Diabetic
116.) If you love someone, you let them go.
117.) STD
118.) Mistaken identity
119.) Bricked up alive (Amontillado optional)
120.) Labyrinth
121.) Restless leg syndrome
122.) Alice in Wonderland syndrome
123.) Visual release hallucinations
124.) Eating disorder
125.) Sexual identity issues
126.) Starvation
127.) Gravity's a bitch
128.) Hunted
129.) Flesh wound
130.) Regret
131.) Tonsillectomy
132.) Life flight
133.) Accidental overdose
134.) Switched bodies
135.) Sex gone wrong
136.) Safe word/other code word
137.) Caffeine overload
138.) Rare/unpopular pairing
139.) Scarred
140.) Adult chicken pox
141.) PTSD
142.) Cage
143.) In love with my brother
144.) Sex repulsed
145.) Masturbation
146.) AKF
147.) Depression
148.) Response to sexual trauma
149.) Anxiety
150.) "No"
151.) Hypersexuality as self harm
152.) Hearing impaired
153.) Multiple personality disorder
154.) Drug addict
155.) Feeding tube
156.) Activated charcoal
157.) Poison ivy
158.) Serotonin syndrome
159.) Forced to eat or drink something disgusting
160.) Snowflake
161.) Indestructible
162.) Powers
163.) Hypoglycemia
164.) Terror
165.) Catatonic
166.) Withdrawal
167.) Psychosomatic
168.) Sacrifice
169.) Back brace
170.) KAFO leg brace
171.) PT
172.) Profound psychic pain
173.) Shredded
174.) Caffeine
175.) Tremble
176.) Diagnosis
177.) Prognosis
178.) Permanent
Prompts (in alphabetical order):
"I don't want him to see me like this"
"No"
Abandoned
Accidental overdose
Activated charcoal
Adult chicken pox
AKF
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Allodynia
Ambulance
Anaphylaxis
Anxiety
Aphasia
Back brace
Betrayal
Bleeding out
Blindness
Bloodlust
Body integrity identity disorder
Bomb
Bound
Bricked up alive (Amontillado optional)
Buried alive
Cactus patch
Caffeine
Caffeine overload
Cage
Capgras delusion
Cast
Catatonic
Chained
Choke
Chronic fibromyalgia
Complicity
Deep vein thrombosis
Degeneration
Dentist visit
Depersonalization
Depression
Depression
Diabetic
Diagnosis
Disfigured
Disorientation
Donating blood
Drought
Drowning
Drug addict
Dumbstruck
Eating disorder
Electric shock
Exam stress
Exhaustion
Faith
Father
Father knows best
Fear of falling (literal or metaphorical)
Feeding tube
Feeling broken
Fence
Fever
Fire
Flesh wound
Forced to eat or drink something disgusting
Forget
Fractured
Friendly fire
Glasses (bad eyesight)
Gravity's a bitch
Grief
Hallucinations
Hammer
Head cold
Hearing impaired
Hearing impairment
High as a kite
Holiday
Hunted
Hypersexuality as self harm
Hypoglycemia
Hypothermia
Hypovolemic shock
If you love someone, you let them go.
Immortality (as horror trope)
In love with my brother
Incomplete spinal cord injury
Indestructible
Insomnia
Itch
Just keep swimming
KAFO leg brace
Keelhauling
Labyrinth
Life flight
Limited range of motion
Lost at sea
Masturbation
Misophonia
Mistaken identity
Multiple personality disorder
Night terrors
Parched
Permanent
Poison ivy
Poisoned
Porphyria
Possession hangover
Postictal state
Post-surgery
Pound of flesh
Powers
Prescience
Profound psychic pain
Prognosis
Prosopagnosia
Psychosomatic
PT
PTSD
Punch-drunk love
Rare/unpopular pairing
Recovery
Regret
Renunciation
Resistance is futile
Response to sexual trauma
Restless leg syndrome
Rub salt in the wound
Sacrifice
Safe word/other code word
Sam-in-a-box
Scarred
Sensory deprivation
Sensory overload
Serotonin syndrome
Severe food allergy
Sex gone wrong
Sex repulsed
Sexual identity issues
Shredded
Silent
Sliced
Snowflake
Spinal injury
Sprained
Starvation
STD
Stranded
Stroke
Stuck
Stutter
Sudden hyperthymesia
Surrender
Switched bodies
Synesthesia
Tachycardia
Take my breath away
Tattoo
Terror
Testicular rupture
Texas
Time after time
Tinnitus with dizziness and nausea
Tongue-tied
Tonsillectomy
Touch-starved
Transformation
Trapped
Trapped
Tremble
Troubled waters
Tumor
Twitch
Visual release hallucinations
Walking stick
What's the point?
Withdrawal
Withering
Wrong medication prescribed
Fills
22.) Just keep swimming
Just Keep Swimming by
foolscapper
19.) Holiday
Hey, Dean by
cowboyguy
7.) Forget
Some Things Are Meant To Be by
center_galaxy
14.) Fear of falling
Wand by
crowroad3
17.) Aphasia
Aphasia by
excoyote
30.) Tachycardia
Where Your Treasure Is by
sharktheory
93.) Allodynia
Untitled by
the_lady_meg
38.) Drowning
Naiad by anonymous
53.) Troubled waters
Empty by
indiachick
98.) Tattoo
Black and Blue by
sharktheory
99.) Glasses
Denial by
center_galaxy
117.) STD
No Glove, No Love by
sharktheory
3.) Feeling broken
Pieces by
cowboyguy
17.) Aphasia
Still by
cowboyguy
21.) Bloodlust
Drabble by
de_nugis
23.) Take my breath away
Intoxicated by
center_galaxy
45.) Time after time
Breathless by
holyhelly
67.) Father knows best
Be My Escape by
center_galaxy
72.) Texas
Showdown by
crowroad3
81.) Depersonalisation
As Long as You're Around by
lauehime
Welcome to ohsam’s “You Only Hurt the One You Love” meme!

BOOST THE SIGNAL
The rules are simple:
1.) Post a one-word or one-phrase prompt in the comments ("blurred vision", "blue", "summer", "nervous", etc…). You can post as many prompts as you like, but please keep them to one prompt per comment. We’ll try to keep the masterlist of prompts/fills as current as possible so you can see which words have already been prompted. Prompting will stay open until February 22nd, but you can start filling them as soon as you want.
2.) Write an h/c-related, Sam-centric fill for the prompt. Multiple people can write for the same prompt – just make sure it’s left as a separate comment on the original prompt. Drabbles are awesome, but if you feel like writing something longer, feel free! Reply to the comment to post your fic, but please link to your journal if your fill ends up running longer than a few comments. Please begin your fics with the header Filled: and the title. Please include any ratings or relevant warnings after the title, as well.
3.) Art is welcome, too! If you’d like to fill a prompt with a piece of art instead of a fic, please leave a thumbnail/link to it in the comments.
All the usual rules apply:
• If your prompt or your fill is not on the masterlist after a few days, please poke one of the mods in a PM, and we’ll fix that.
• Anon posting enabled.
• No spoilers for unaired episodes.
• Play nice – no flaming, no bashing, no fighting. Any comments that break this rule will be deleted.
• Feedback is love!
• No spam. (See above re: deleting.)
• Contact a mod if you have a question.
• Share this meme, and have a great time!
EDIT: We've gotten a ton of great prompts so far. Thanks, everybody! Keep it up! However, given the fact that our list is getting longer and we've had a few duplicate prompts, we've also added the masterlist of prompts in alphabetical order so it's easier to look through (see below). Try to make sure your prompt hasn't already been posted before you add it. Any questions, ask a mod. Thanks!
EDIT (2/24/16): Hey, everyone. Prompting has officially closed, but that doesn't mean the meme is over! Please continue posting your fics and filling as many of these wonderful prompts as you'd like. It's been great so far, and we're looking forward to many more awesome fics from you all!
Prompts (in posting order):
1.) Head cold
2.) Insomnia
3.) Feeling broken
4.) Sam-in-a-box
5.) Ambulance
6.) Cactus patch
7.) Forget
8.) Immortality (as horror trope)
9.) Severe food allergy
10.) Exhaustion
11.) Silent
12.) Renunciation
13.) Sliced
14.) Fear of falling (literal or metaphorical)
15.) Parched
16.) Dentist visit
17.) Aphasia
18.) Anaphylaxis
19.) Holiday
20.) Hypovolemic shock
21.) Bloodlust
22.) Just keep swimming
23.) Take my breath away
24.) Tongue-tied
25.) Withering
26.) Hallucinations
27.) Hypothermia
28.) Sensory deprivation
29.) Pound of flesh
30.) Tachycardia
31.) Poisoned
32.) Depression
33.) Father
34.) Bound
35.) Postictal state
36.) Night terrors
37.) Tinnitus with dizziness and nausea
38.) Drowning
39.) Porphyria
40.) Punch-drunk love
41.) Grief
42.) Drought
43.) Faith
44.) Prescience
45.) Time after time
46.) Buried alive
47.) Limited range of motion
48.) Disorientation
49.) Complicity
50.) Betrayal
51.) Surrender
52.) Possession hangover
53.) Troubled waters
54.) Touch-starved
55.) Transformation
56.) Rub salt in the wound
57.) Synesthesia
58.) Dumbstruck
59.) Trapped
60.) Sensory overload
61.) Keelhauling
62.) Post-surgery
63.) Sprained
64.) Donating blood
65.) Wrong medication prescribed
66.) Resistance is futile
67.) Father knows best
68.) Trapped
69.) Fire
70.) Fence
71.) Recovery
72.) Texas
73.) Bomb
74.) High as a kite
75.) Stranded
76.) Hammer
77.) Lost at sea
78.) Bleeding out
79.) Itch
80.) Degeneration
81.) Depersonalization
82.) Testicular rupture
83.) Walking stick
84.) Friendly fire
85.) Deep vein thrombosis
86.) Stuck
87.) Spinal injury
88.) Misophonia
89.) Sudden hyperthymesia
90.) Blindness
91.) Chronic fibromyalgia
92.) Hearing impairment
93.) Allodynia
94.) Prosopagnosia
95.) Capgras delusion
96.) Stutter
97.) Twitch
98.) Tattoo
99.) Glasses (bad eyesight)
100.) Chained
101.) What's the point?
102.) Incomplete spinal cord injury
103.) Body integrity identity disorder
104.) Abandoned
105.) Exam stress
106.) Electric shock
107.) Cast
108.) Choke
109.) Fever
110.) Disfigured
111.) Stroke
112.) "I don't want him to see me like this"
113.) Fractured
114.) Tumor
115.) Diabetic
116.) If you love someone, you let them go.
117.) STD
118.) Mistaken identity
119.) Bricked up alive (Amontillado optional)
120.) Labyrinth
121.) Restless leg syndrome
122.) Alice in Wonderland syndrome
123.) Visual release hallucinations
124.) Eating disorder
125.) Sexual identity issues
126.) Starvation
127.) Gravity's a bitch
128.) Hunted
129.) Flesh wound
130.) Regret
131.) Tonsillectomy
132.) Life flight
133.) Accidental overdose
134.) Switched bodies
135.) Sex gone wrong
136.) Safe word/other code word
137.) Caffeine overload
138.) Rare/unpopular pairing
139.) Scarred
140.) Adult chicken pox
141.) PTSD
142.) Cage
143.) In love with my brother
144.) Sex repulsed
145.) Masturbation
146.) AKF
147.) Depression
148.) Response to sexual trauma
149.) Anxiety
150.) "No"
151.) Hypersexuality as self harm
152.) Hearing impaired
153.) Multiple personality disorder
154.) Drug addict
155.) Feeding tube
156.) Activated charcoal
157.) Poison ivy
158.) Serotonin syndrome
159.) Forced to eat or drink something disgusting
160.) Snowflake
161.) Indestructible
162.) Powers
163.) Hypoglycemia
164.) Terror
165.) Catatonic
166.) Withdrawal
167.) Psychosomatic
168.) Sacrifice
169.) Back brace
170.) KAFO leg brace
171.) PT
172.) Profound psychic pain
173.) Shredded
174.) Caffeine
175.) Tremble
176.) Diagnosis
177.) Prognosis
178.) Permanent
Prompts (in alphabetical order):
"I don't want him to see me like this"
"No"
Abandoned
Accidental overdose
Activated charcoal
Adult chicken pox
AKF
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Allodynia
Ambulance
Anaphylaxis
Anxiety
Aphasia
Back brace
Betrayal
Bleeding out
Blindness
Bloodlust
Body integrity identity disorder
Bomb
Bound
Bricked up alive (Amontillado optional)
Buried alive
Cactus patch
Caffeine
Caffeine overload
Cage
Capgras delusion
Cast
Catatonic
Chained
Choke
Chronic fibromyalgia
Complicity
Deep vein thrombosis
Degeneration
Dentist visit
Depersonalization
Depression
Depression
Diabetic
Diagnosis
Disfigured
Disorientation
Donating blood
Drought
Drowning
Drug addict
Dumbstruck
Eating disorder
Electric shock
Exam stress
Exhaustion
Faith
Father
Father knows best
Fear of falling (literal or metaphorical)
Feeding tube
Feeling broken
Fence
Fever
Fire
Flesh wound
Forced to eat or drink something disgusting
Forget
Fractured
Friendly fire
Glasses (bad eyesight)
Gravity's a bitch
Grief
Hallucinations
Hammer
Head cold
Hearing impaired
Hearing impairment
High as a kite
Holiday
Hunted
Hypersexuality as self harm
Hypoglycemia
Hypothermia
Hypovolemic shock
If you love someone, you let them go.
Immortality (as horror trope)
In love with my brother
Incomplete spinal cord injury
Indestructible
Insomnia
Itch
Just keep swimming
KAFO leg brace
Keelhauling
Labyrinth
Life flight
Limited range of motion
Lost at sea
Masturbation
Misophonia
Mistaken identity
Multiple personality disorder
Night terrors
Parched
Permanent
Poison ivy
Poisoned
Porphyria
Possession hangover
Postictal state
Post-surgery
Pound of flesh
Powers
Prescience
Profound psychic pain
Prognosis
Prosopagnosia
Psychosomatic
PT
PTSD
Punch-drunk love
Rare/unpopular pairing
Recovery
Regret
Renunciation
Resistance is futile
Response to sexual trauma
Restless leg syndrome
Rub salt in the wound
Sacrifice
Safe word/other code word
Sam-in-a-box
Scarred
Sensory deprivation
Sensory overload
Serotonin syndrome
Severe food allergy
Sex gone wrong
Sex repulsed
Sexual identity issues
Shredded
Silent
Sliced
Snowflake
Spinal injury
Sprained
Starvation
STD
Stranded
Stroke
Stuck
Stutter
Sudden hyperthymesia
Surrender
Switched bodies
Synesthesia
Tachycardia
Take my breath away
Tattoo
Terror
Testicular rupture
Texas
Time after time
Tinnitus with dizziness and nausea
Tongue-tied
Tonsillectomy
Touch-starved
Transformation
Trapped
Trapped
Tremble
Troubled waters
Tumor
Twitch
Visual release hallucinations
Walking stick
What's the point?
Withdrawal
Withering
Wrong medication prescribed
Fills
22.) Just keep swimming
Just Keep Swimming by
19.) Holiday
Hey, Dean by
7.) Forget
Some Things Are Meant To Be by
14.) Fear of falling
Wand by
17.) Aphasia
Aphasia by
30.) Tachycardia
Where Your Treasure Is by
93.) Allodynia
Untitled by
38.) Drowning
Naiad by anonymous
53.) Troubled waters
Empty by
98.) Tattoo
Black and Blue by
99.) Glasses
Denial by
117.) STD
No Glove, No Love by
3.) Feeling broken
Pieces by
17.) Aphasia
Still by
21.) Bloodlust
Drabble by
23.) Take my breath away
Intoxicated by
45.) Time after time
Breathless by
67.) Father knows best
Be My Escape by
72.) Texas
Showdown by
81.) Depersonalisation
As Long as You're Around by
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Date: 2016-02-13 05:34 am (UTC)FILLED: Where Your Treasure Is (1/3)
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They’ve only been at the graveyard for an hour or so. There’s a restless spirit roaming the town, a man named Mr. Frederickson who’s got a nasty habit of going after the descendants of people who had wronged him in his life. A simple and uncomplicated hunt for once. Just the thing to get Sam’s mind off - well, everything.
Sam’s been quiet since they left Palo Alto. Dean can’t say he’s surprised; Sam’s always been a brooder. He’ll sulk and mope to his heart’s content. When he was a kid, not even their dad could shake Sam out of a mood when he really dug his heels in.
But this - this is different. This kind of tragedy, of heartbreak, isn’t something that’s gonna heal in a day. So Dean does the two things he does best: hunting and taking care of Sammy.
If he can do those both at the same time by dragging Sam into a hunt to take his mind off things - well, Dean’s not gonna say no.
Dean’s been digging for most of the past hour. They’d started out taking ten-minute turns, but before long Sam had started stumbling. Dean had watched as his shovel shook lightly under his brother’s hands.
“I feel weird,” Sam had told him. “Dizzy, kinda.”
Dean had frowned. “It’s probably just the leftover afternoon heat,” he’d said, though the evening air around them was probably only in the 50s.
“I don’t think leftover heat’s a thing, Dean,” Sam had objected.
“Sure it is,” Dean had replied easily. But looking at his brother’s pale, sweaty face, he’d frowned. “What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing, I don’t think. Just a little lightheaded.”
“I swear, you’re delicate as a flower sometimes,” Dean had teased. But he’d taken the shovel from Sam anyway. “Go lie down for a second or something before you keel over.”
“I’ll be fine. I’ll just, y’know, keep watch.”
“Fine.”
So Sam’s walking around the graveyard, only sitting down every once in a while. Dean keeps a discreet eye on him, fighting back the concern scratching in the back of his mind. Sam’s his little brother, but he’s also a grown man. Dean’s gotta trust him to tell him when something goes-
“Dean,” Sam says, and his voice sounds off. Breathy, thready. Not normal. Not healthy.
“Sam?” Dean barks back, instantly on alert.
“Something’s wrong,” Sam chokes out. “My- my chest-“
Immediately Dean’s jumping out of the grave, grabbing Sam just before his legs can buckle out from under him. The unexpected weight forces them down to their knees, so Dean has to shift around a second before he can get a good look at his brother.
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Date: 2016-02-13 05:43 am (UTC)Filled: Naiad
Date: 2016-02-14 05:57 am (UTC)Mine now, beautiful one. Mine forever.
Sam kicks down. It's a mistake; the naiad's now giggling warmly, and he's letting out more air. He follows the bubbles feeling the pressure inside his head grow firmer. It's not the only thing; his chest is constricting, twitching, bending down enough to hurt his ribs and his sternum. He can't draw in the water, because if he does, it's over for him. His body is burning with the need and his eyes seem to bulge and his lips press together so hard the inner sides are going numb, but it's all translating to him through a thick veil like fog. Inside his head, it's oddly clear and calm - there aren't many potential outcomes here, just enough to make it interesting. Either he holds his breath long enough for Dean to grab a hold of him and Dean swims fast enough to make it before the naiad's hidden him with the rest of the bodies, or... one of them fails, maybe both. He remembers this clarity from before. He's been through so many near-death situations that this one just feels familiar. Like maybe it's his time now, finally, to die. He's almost alright with it. The surface is gone and everything he sees now is just flashing lights and stars raining through his vision and cracks in the fireworks where he can just make apart the dark particles floating in the murky water. The panic is there, but it's not his panic. Not yet.
It'll come, too.
His lips part and he gags. Some water flows in and then, suddenly, the panic floods over him. His lungs contract, and he knows it before it happens, feels like it all moves in slow motion: the naiad holds his leg. He's breathing in the water. It spirals down his throat like it never touched his tongue and his heart is racing so hard it's about to break out, his eyes fly wide open again but he's not seeing anything, just black with the slightest glimmer of light like the memory of it only upon the form of a bubble falling behind him, above him. Without it, he wouldn't know where the surface is.
It's over.
(rest @ AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/5999758) or Tumblr (http://samscoffee.xyz/post/139276563048/the-naiad-has-him-by-the-ankle-her-smile-still) :> )
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Date: 2016-02-13 06:38 am (UTC)Filled: Breathless
Date: 2016-02-15 10:11 pm (UTC)He tries to breathe of course, gulps oxygen into his mouth like a fish on land, but it does nothing.
Because nothing will pass the frosty fingers.
Lungs burn, catch fire in the need of air, burn out again from lack of air. Flames and ice twisting inside as the world grows cold.
The sky converges, melts to one as he scrambles vainly under the hands. His fingers pass through them, through steady air that he can’t have. Can never have.
It’s like they understand that, all those fingers, all those hands. Year after year, curled around his neck in an icy embrace. An applause, a slow-clap of murder against his neck. It’s there for everyone, they tell him, but you can’t have it.
Normalcy. Love. Life. Peace.
Air.
Every time that they let go, he thinks he can have it. All that oxygen. All that air. Sometimes he almost thinks he can breathe.
Then they’re back. Like they always are. Hands crushing his windpipe. Crushing his dreams.
Year after year.
Time after time.
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Date: 2016-02-13 07:09 am (UTC)Filled: Daily Grind
Date: 2016-02-25 02:03 pm (UTC)http://archiveofourown.org/works/6105019
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