ohsam | Happy Birthday, Sammy!

In honor of our dear Sammy’s 33rd birthday, we’re hosting a comment fic and art meme!

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Fills:

Somewhere Older Than I Was by

crowroad3
Sam opens a cursed box on his birthday. It activates a truth spell which Dean takes advantage of. Angsty Sam guilty Dean. Preferably in the bunker.

Cracks by

familybizness
Jessica/Sam, Stanford Era. After Jessica throws Sam a birthday party that goes horribly awry, she finally realizes why he doesn't want to celebrate. He misses his family. Cue comforting!Jess and if you want, a cameo from Dean. All the Jess/Sam feels please!

Solo by

shangrilada
Sucks to be sick and/or in the hospital on your birthday. Luckily, Dean's there to try to cheer Sam up.

Bonus points: Sam's cheered up the second Dean gets there, but he hides that fact because he enjoys watching Dean keep trying to come up with new ways to make him feel better.

Whatever Lies Beyond This Morning by

center_galaxy
Sam's had a recent head injury and doesn't remember, among other things, Cas. Dean is forced to go on a hunt for a few days and leave Cas in charge of his damaged brother.

Blindsided by

lennelle
AU, Sam's 17th birthday present was a hunt that went south, landing him in the hospital facing months of recovery. Sam's 18th birthday was him receiving his first daily living aid as he leaves the hospital.

It can be a wheelchair, braces, cane. Totally up to the writer what happened to Sam and who gives it to him.

Cupcake by

lennelle
Sam has miserable hayfever. Sam's birthday is in May. Dean usually teases him about it, but on Sam's birthday he indulges all the comforting and niggling worry he usually shoves down.

Addict by

center_galaxy
John Winchester is a high functioning alcoholic. He loves his boys more than anything. But one night he loses control and hits Sam.

These Old Shoes by

lennelle
Sam. Pneumonia. Camp Chitaqua.

Aftermath by

shangrilada
Sam. Pneumonia. Camp Chitaqua.

Messy as a Secret Shared by

dreamlittleyo
It's Sam's freshman year at Stanford, and all he wants to do is run home to his brother. But he made his decision and he's sticking to it...except for those nights when he gets drunk and calls Dean.

Because the Beyond Called by

mentholpixie
Sam wakes up on a psychiatric ward with no clue as to how he got there. The time setting and reason is all up to you, could be due to a curse, real life illness, body swap etc! Bonus points for including Dean!

California Dreaming by

center_galaxy
Dean shows up at Stanford unexpectedly, to surprise Sam for his birthday.

Bonus points for finding Sam the worse for wear, burning the candles at both ends and discovering California isn't nearly as "sunshine and lollipops" as Dean had imagined it'd be for his lil' brudder.

Behind Blue Eyes by

lennelle
It's Sam's first birthday at the bunker, and Dean has every intention of making it a good one. After all, now they have a real kitchen for Dean to make a cake in, and they're not currently in any life-or-death situations.

But Sam comes down with a cold the day of/day before his birthday, and Gadreel takes over, with the intention of healing Sam from his illness. Which is great, except that now Dean is stuck with an angel who doesn't really get the point of birthdays, instead of his actual brother that he just made this awesome cake for. How long does it take for Dean to get the real Sam back, and what does he do then?

Cold Flesh by

lennelle
Sam can't get warm

Bad Creek Fairytale by

crowroad3
On his thirteenth birthday, Sam is desperately sick and close to death; Dean's alone with him in Bumfuck, Nowhere, and Dad is nowhere to be found.

4500 by

steeplechasers
Sam counts the candles, there aren't enough. He's sure that there are not enough candles in the world to show exactly how old he is

Take My Heart (And Please Don't Break It) by

center_galaxy
Jess is worried about Sam; he's getting a lot of phone calls that he leaves the room to answer, there's a pile of books on his desk that she knows aren't for a class or paper, and whenever she tries to talk to him about it he tries to pass off one of those half truths that she sees right through. But it's the clothes she finds in the back of the closet in a duffle bag, covered in blood that freak her out. Well that, and the fact that one day, he doesn't come home.

A Floor Too High by

holyhelly
Gen. Any season. First line, "Sam always knew it would somehow come to this."

Empty Worlds by anonymous
The first time Sam discovers what anxiety is truly like: it's his birthday and Dad and Dean (or just Dean) are out on a hunt and unreachable.

Nightmare by

familybizness
Sam has a nightmare. Time period and situation is up to you. I just want to see him freaked out and crying, preferably with Dean there to make him feel better.

Santa Lucias by

crowroad3
Sam goes to Stanford. He and Dean lose contact, especially after the big blow up that severs any ties once and for all. Through the years, Dean assumes the radio silence is intentional, that Sam has his apple pie life and finally left his real family behind. He thinks about tracking Sam down when a hunt lands him in Palo Fucking Alto.

Turns out Sam's been dead for years and that ghost that Dean's in town to handle has an awfully familiar face.

He's My Witch by anonymous
Dean is really sick of randoms thinking his baby brother is some kind of devil-monster that needs to be destroyed. He did NOT spend the last two days losing his shit in this ass-backwards town full of jumpy yokels just to watch them torch Sam on a stake like some Salem witch bullshit.

By the time he's wrapped up his Big Damn Hero routine though, Sam's...well...he's stopped screaming.

Untitled (art) by anonymous
Sam's had worse birthdays for sure, but this is not fun: he's had to dig up a grave in cold, pouring rain, all fifty-nine layers of his clothes are muddy and clinging and chafing, and he's too tired even to get coffee reliably to the vicinity of his mouth. How fortunate that the Bunker has some amazing retro bath fittings somewhere, maybe with a surprising variety of retro bath gels. Sam/Dean? Gen? Other? Being plotless, it might make a good art prompt.

In The End by

lennelle
Blood don't matter. They're Bobby's boys. Always have been.

A father shouldn't have to bury his sons. Even at the end of the world.

Line 'Em Up by

center_galaxy
Sometimes, Sam needs to take a quiet moment to look through his memory box.

Heal by

foolscapper
Sam develops selective mutism, and will only talk to Dean.

(And sometimes, he won't even do that.)

In Memoriam by

backroadsspirit
Sometimes, Sam needs to take a quiet moment to look through his memory box.

Old Soul, New Body by

broken_cinders
What if your body and your soul don't have the same birthday, Sam?

Thirteen Ghosts by

broken_cinders
Sometimes, Sam needs to take a quiet moment to look through his memory box.

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Sam has a nightmare. Time period and situation is up to you. I just want to see him freaked out and crying, preferably with Dean there to make him feel better.

Dean’s eyes snap open.

The room is dark, the heavy pitch-black of three in the morning, before the sun starts to creep back over the horizon. Automatically, he lifts a hand to his face, gauging how close he can bring it to his eyes before the outline starts to resolve itself. The dark is comforting. A year ago, he and Sam used to occasionally fall asleep with the bathroom light on out of laziness, but they don’t do that now.

The thing is that it’s never perfectly dark in hell.

“We’re going to have to talk about it at some point, Dean,” Sam said as they were getting ready for bed, but it’s only been three days and how is Dean supposed to articulate everything when he hasn’t even fully come to grips with the fact that this is real?

He hasn’t slept through the night yet. He’s done two and three hours at a time, here and there, waking up to Sam regarding him like he’s a puzzle to solve (and he very much does not want Sam to solve this puzzle, he wants a drink and a hunt and a little brother who finds him simple and obnoxious and makes fun of his cassette tapes). All he’s eaten so far is bread.

Sam’s body makes different shapes in the dark now. He looks over as his eyes adjust, taking in the curled up ball of his brother. Sam used to sprawl. Sam used to sleep unguardedly.

And Sam’s breathing has never sounded like that, like he’s pushing air through a wet grate. So something’s wrong.

Sam’s asleep, muscles twitching, rapid eye movement betraying the fact that he’s dreaming, and Dean hesitates for a minute, but then he lets out a low moan laced with horror and Dean’s shaking him. “Sammy. Sammy. Heyheyhey.”

Sam jerks upright so fast Dean has to jump back to avoid their heads knocking together. He’s gasping, panting, staring straight ahead.

Dean approaches slowly, because Sam’s been known to wake up swinging. “Dude. You okay?”

“Dean?” He says it like it’s unbelievable, like it doesn’t make any sense.

“Yeah, it’s me.”

“No, you were…you were gone…”

“You were dreaming, Sammy. Hey. Are you with me? I don't think you're all the way here.”

“Dean?”

“Are you sick?” He lays a hand across Sam’s forehead. No fever, but he's clammy as if he's going into shock.

“Dean.”

“Yeah, Sam. Hey. It was a dream. Focus, okay?”

Sam meets his eyes for the first time, and shit, he’s crying. He grips Dean’s arms over and over, hands roaming the way Dad taught them to check each other for breaks, but Dean’s not broken, Dean was just sleeping. “I’m okay, Sammy. Shit, what did you dream?”

Sam lets out a sob that probably started life as a laugh. "It wasn't a dream, Dean, God, it was...it all happened."

"What did?"

"Hell. You." He ducks his head. He's ashamed.

“You need us to talk about it."

"No. No, we don't have to, I'm okay."

“Bullshit, you're not. God, Sammy, don’t cry…”

“Not.”

“Yeah, you are.”

“What did they do to you, Dean?” Sam shivers so hard he falls forward a little, and Dean catches him, pulls him close. “I have to know what they did to you. I have to.”

He can’t speak. There aren’t words.

“I know. I know. It’s selfish. Dean, I’m sorry – but you were gone, you were gone for months, and I – “

“Hey. Hey.” He grabs Sam’s shoulders and forces him upright. “You were gone for half an hour and I sold my damn soul, Sam. I get it. I get it, okay? God, Sammy. I’m sorry.”

Sam goes boneless in his arms, shaking. “Every time I close my eyes I see them hurting you. I have to know how much of it was real.”

It was probably all real. It was probably much worse than anything Sam could have imagined.

“It’s okay,” he says. “It’s over now.”

OH MAN. this is perfect!

Heartbreaking! I loved all the emotions, and how you captured the after affects of hell on both boys. Thank you for sharing :)

Happy Birthday, Sammy! - a commentfic meme

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