"You Only Hurt the One You Love" Meme!
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ohsamAlright, 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
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7.) Forget
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14.) Fear of falling
Wand bycrowroad3
17.) Aphasia
Aphasia byexcoyote
30.) Tachycardia
Where Your Treasure Is bysharktheory
93.) Allodynia
Untitled bythe_lady_meg
38.) Drowning
Naiad by anonymous
53.) Troubled waters
Empty byindiachick
98.) Tattoo
Black and Blue bysharktheory
99.) Glasses
Denial bycenter_galaxy
117.) STD
No Glove, No Love bysharktheory
3.) Feeling broken
Pieces bycowboyguy
17.) Aphasia
Still bycowboyguy
21.) Bloodlust
Drabble byde_nugis
23.) Take my breath away
Intoxicated bycenter_galaxy
45.) Time after time
Breathless byholyhelly
67.) Father knows best
Be My Escape bycenter_galaxy
72.) Texas
Showdown bycrowroad3
81.) Depersonalisation
As Long as You're Around bylauehime
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
foolscapper19.) Holiday
Hey, Dean by
cowboyguy7.) Forget
Some Things Are Meant To Be by
center_galaxy14.) Fear of falling
Wand by
crowroad317.) Aphasia
Aphasia by
excoyote30.) Tachycardia
Where Your Treasure Is by
sharktheory93.) Allodynia
Untitled by
the_lady_meg38.) Drowning
Naiad by anonymous
53.) Troubled waters
Empty by
indiachick98.) Tattoo
Black and Blue by
sharktheory99.) Glasses
Denial by
center_galaxy117.) STD
No Glove, No Love by
sharktheory3.) Feeling broken
Pieces by
cowboyguy17.) Aphasia
Still by
cowboyguy21.) Bloodlust
Drabble by
de_nugis23.) Take my breath away
Intoxicated by
center_galaxy45.) Time after time
Breathless by
holyhelly67.) Father knows best
Be My Escape by
center_galaxy72.) Texas
Showdown by
crowroad381.) Depersonalisation
As Long as You're Around by
lauehime
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Date: 2016-02-13 07:45 am (UTC)Fill: Aphasia (1/2)
Date: 2016-02-13 10:21 pm (UTC)An exorbitant amount, really, not just for someone his age but for a hunter, too. It’s like spirits and ghouls and demons alike have a fascination with throwing him into brick walls.
Even so, it seems a little rude that this time, whatever-it-was decided to fuck with his head and put him into a washing machine with a super fast spin cycle. Really.
His vision’s all fucked up and his head feels like there are thirty-pound weights pressing it from every side, but he feels strangely calm, strangely put together, and he’s got enough of his wits about him to realize this is one of those Very Serious injuries, the ones they get Cas to heal so he doesn’t end up hemorrhaging in his sleep or something.
It’s not a good feeling.
He groans, and a long drop of some warm liquid (drool? blood?) slides out of his mouth, pulled away by gravity. Which is currently beating the shit out of him.
He hears some inane screech, like metal on metal, and the spin cycle stops. Whatever he gets placed onto is soft and smells like home, so he bets he’s probably not in any immediate danger. Good.
He passes the fuck out.
The next time he wakes is considerably less traumatic.
He’s in bed, he knows that much, drowning in downy comforters, propped up by feather pillows. Back at the bunker, then. That’s a good sign.
His head still feels like it went twenty rounds with a particularly aggressive pinball machine, but he’s glad that his eyes are cooperating with him. He blinks owlishly, squinting up at the stains on the ceiling. His neck aches a little, so he just barely tilts it to the side, where Dean sits in a chair at a desk that’s hardly ever been used.
He’s in Dean’s room, then.
Dean stands up the moment Sam shifts and breathes out, crowding closer to Sam.
“Sammy?” he says, but he sounds like he’s at the far end of a long tunnel, and muffled like he’s speaking through a cloud of cotton balls. “Sam, you okay?”
“Dean?” Sam responds, even though it’s redundant and useless. It makes both of them feel better. “What the hell happened?”
Dean freezes, his head ticked to the side like a dog who doesn’t know where the ball went. After a moment, he pulls the chair over and sits down right at Sam’s side, peering deeply into his eyes with an intensity that makes Sam think something’s up. “Sam, you feelin’ okay?”
Sam shrugs. “My head hurts a little, but other than that, I feel fine. What happened?”
Dean’s adam’s apple bobs and Dean wets his lips. There’s a strange, hybrid expression on Dean’s face--he’s caught in the middle of deciding whether he should laugh or cry. Or at least that’s how it looks to Sam.
Sam’s heart picks up speed in his chest, because he does not like how things are going. Why won’t Dean answer his question? Why does he look like Sam just kicked his puppy?
“Sam, you’re not making any sense,” Dean finally says, his voice hoarse. Sam watches as Dean runs a hand through his hair. He doesn’t get it.
“What do you mean?” Sam asks, frowning. He opens his mouth to add something but slams it back shut when he sees the look that shutters across Dean’s face.
Something is seriously wrong.
He decides to wait instead, as verbalizing his concerns seems to make Dean look weaker and weaker. Dean stares at him, and he stares back. He tries to write “what the fuck” across his features as eloquently as possible, so Dean will get with the program and explain something, anything.
“You keep saying shit, but it doesn’t make sense.” Bingo. “Like you’re just talkin’ nonsense. Gibberish. It’s fucking creepy, dude. You seem fine otherwise but I think that witch really did a number on you when you went through that fireplace.”
So it was bricks again. God damn it.
Okay, maybe Sam shouldn’t be finding humor in this situation, but he just doesn’t know what else to do. He clears his throat and tries again, enunciating each word as clearly as possible. “Should we get Cas?”
Dean’s face falls and he looks away, rubbing a hand across his face, and wait--no. He can’t be.
He’s hiding a smile.
RE: Fill: Aphasia (2/2)
Date: 2016-02-13 10:22 pm (UTC)Sam nods.
Dean hands it over and Sam clicks the pen, scrawling thickly and sharply in a way he knows even sounds pissed. Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. He tears off the top sheet and thrusts it at Dean, who plucks it off of his fingers.
This isn’t funny, Dean.
He thought Dean would make some joke and lighten the mood, do that Dean-patented goof thing that makes Sam feel better every time he freaks out, but he doesn’t. His lips thin and his jaw tightens, and Sam would ask what’s up this time but he doesn’t want to make things worse.
Dean holds the note out.
Sam’s handwriting weaves up and down the page, the letters wide and sloping like a first grader who hasn’t quite mastered his penmanship. The words are legible, but just barely. The childish scrawl makes something tighten in Sam’s throat and he looks away, biting his lip.
“Sam, look at me.”
Sam blinks back the frustrated pinpricks of moisture at the corners of his eyes and turns to Dean. He looks past Dean at the wall. He just feels so fucking useless. He can’t speak, he can hardly hear Dean, he’s developing tinnitus, and he writes like a damn toddler. He doesn’t even want to try to open a book just because of the possibility that he might not understand the print that lies on its pages.
“No, really look at me.”
Sam can’t argue with Dean’s tone. He looks at Dean’s eyes, so sincere, Dean’s brows pushed together in the picture of brotherly worry.
It makes him feel a little bit better.
“We’re gonna fix this, okay?” Dean says, and it’s not up for argument. “You just lie in bed and watch some porn or something, I’ll get Cas to patch you up. I’m gonna get you some water. Just don’t freak out, alright? You’re fine.”
Sam nods, letting out a breath and relaxing all the tensed-up muscles in his body along with it. Dean looks satisfied and gets up, ruffling Sam’s hair before he leaves. He plants a rare kiss on Sam’s temple. “Be right back,” he murmurs, and Sam nods. He watches Dean go and keenly feels the separation.
When Dean comes back with a peanut butter and banana sandwich and a glass of milk, he doesn’t leave. He plops onto the bed next to Sam and grabs the remote off the nightstand, flicking through channels as Sam quietly munches on his meal.
Dean settles on some old nineties movie and throws an arm around Sam.
“Prayed for Cas,” he says as Sam takes a sip from his glass. “We can just chill out until he comes.”
Sam nods, feeling warm. Dean’s arm tightens around his shoulders. If this is the kind of treatment he gets for having a bump on his head, he doesn’t really give a shit about all of the other consequences and side effects.
This right here? This makes it all worth it.
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Date: 2016-02-13 11:29 pm (UTC)I think it's okay to post it in as many places as you want. That means there are more opportunities for people to enjoy it. <3
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Date: 2016-02-14 02:58 am (UTC)Trees!
Cow!
Sky!
Dean, airplane! Look! Airplane!
As he’d grown up, the words changed but the habit didn’t. Even at the height of his surly teenage years, they’d always talked in the car. Just him and Dean and Dad, together.
Now, the conversation has been replaced by silence. At first, Dean had tried to fill the void with music, jokes, endless chatter about nothing in particular. But eventually they got used to it, and the silence became comfortable, too.
He gazes over at Dean in the driver’s seat, then past him to where the sun is low in the western sky, saturating the clouds in deep shades of pink and orange.
“D-de--…” he stammers, voice catching at the end. There are some sounds he still can’t quite manage.
Dean glances over, waiting patiently.
They’ve been driving all day, and Sam is tired, has a headache that is slowly sapping his remaining energy.
He opens his mouth, takes a breath, pauses. Endless cycle of speak, falter, repeat, one frustrating word at a time.
“…Bed,” he finally manages, the single syllable escaping his lips with a breathless sigh that’s part relief, part triumph.
Dean needs no further explanation. He just nods and answers, “Yeah, it’s been a long day. I’ll keep an eye out for motel signs.”
Sam’s not so good with reading these days, either.
He nods in appreciation as Dean navigates the two-lane blacktop and settles back against the passenger seat, watching as the first stars blink into view over the darkening horizon.
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Date: 2016-02-16 12:33 pm (UTC)Thank you for sharing :)