Happy Birthday, Sammy! - a commentfic meme

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






BOOST THE SIGNAL

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THE RULES
• Leave a comment here with your prompt. Any Sam-centric prompts are fine, even if it’s not necessarily heavy on the h/c. (Bonus points for birthday-themed!)
• If you have a preference for desired pairings or additional characters, please mention it in your prompt. No real-person prompts, though. Keep it Sam-centric.
• Post as many prompts as you’d like! Please post only one prompt per comment.
• Prompts can be as short or detailed as you’d like. Remember, though – more detail means less wiggle room for the writer, which might lower the chances of someone picking up your prompt.
• If you find a prompt you like, write a fic or make some art! There’s no limit to how many users can reply to a single prompt, or how many prompts someone can fill.
• When replying with a fill, put “filled” in your subject line, and then the title (and part numbers if needed).
• If you’re posting an art fill, please post a thumbnail or link to the art.
• Anon posting is enabled.
• NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES. Please warn for current season.
• Play nice - no flaming and no character bashing, period. Any comments that break this rule will be deleted without warning.
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• Have fun!






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.

Comments

[familybizness.livejournal.com]

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

Filled: Addict

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

Drinking helps fill the void left behind by a blond haired, blue eyed, beautiful, kind woman who took John by the hand and promised him a home and a life filled with love. She'd been his everything--his wife, the mother of his children--but she died so many years ago and there's nothing but the gaping hole in his heart and the warm buzz that Jack Daniels gives him.

Dean knows better than to speak of her and Sam doesn't have any memories of her to begin with so they all move on with their lives, a patched up family that's held together with hunts and frozen dinners. And John drinks because that's all he can do. Never while he hunts--sure, he'll have a few sips of beer right before, but he's always in control before a hunt--and his boys know never to question his drinking.

But as the years go by, and the memories get harder to deal with, and Mary's voice haunts his dreams, John drinks more. He crawls into the bottom of a bottle just try and get some rest and Dean is smart, Dean knows to keep Sam away when he gets like this, knows that John can't control himself when he gets like this.

John isn't an addict; he just needs a way to cope.

He's a hunter and a good father. He teaches his boys how to survive in this world full of monsters and creatures that go bump in the night. He loves Sam and Dean fiercely and he's willing to die for them. But sometimes, he has his moments--a barbed comment here, a sarcastic remark there--when all he wants is to be alone. The boys are pieces of Mary and Sam, especially, he's just so much like her.

Sam, always asking so many damn questions. Why don't we ever talk about Mom? Why can't we ever stay in school? Why can't I have friends over? Why? Why?

Why?

And as Sam grows up, he begins to talk back. He's different than Dean, more book smart, more willing to challenge his orders. Sam never listens, never obeys without a fight. Every order has to follow with an explanation. Every decision is questioned repeatedly, why, why, why?

And John loves both of his sons, really, but some days he loves Dean just a little bit more. Dean never questions. Dean always listened. If John says jump, Dean will say, "how high?" If he asks Sam that . . . why, Dad?

John is so sick of hearing that word.

So John drinks, Dean follows orders and Sam is kept out of his sight.

Until, he's not and Sam is there and he's asking questions, so many questions, and John doesn't have the patience for this. So he drinks and really, he can stop anytime he wants, but why should he stop when the alcohol numbs him to the world? But Sam is there and he's asking about why they can't be normal, why they can't have fun, why can't they--

And John hears nothing but his heartbeat thudding in his ears and the room darkens and he just wants everything to stop.

When the world comes back, Sam is crying, his cheek is red and John's fist is the one who caused it. He's hit his son. Mary's pride and joy is on the floor, looking horrified at him, like he's the monster and not the hunter.

Dad, why?

But then Dean is there and he's taking care of his brother, and John is alone, left to his bottle. Dean is the father here and John is the predator. Dean is the protector and that's why Sam looks to him first during hunts. He loves Dean, respects him and John is just . . . there.

And now, he's hit his son and this is the end for Sam and him, he knows.

So, John does what he always does, and drinks.

Being an addict is the only way he can survive. Maybe one day, his boys will understand that. But if not, there's always the welcoming embrace of Jack Daniels to welcome him home.

RE: Filled: Addict

[familybizness.livejournal.com]

AHHHHH BEST EVER TYTYTYTYTY

RE: Filled: Addict

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading!

RE: Filled: Addict

[shangrilada.livejournal.com]

ohhhh I love it so.

RE: Filled: Addict

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

I'm glad! Thank you for reading!

Re: Filled: Addict

[jasmineisland.livejournal.com]

awwww. broke. me.
*wibble*

RE: Re: Filled: Addict

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

It was hard to write as well. Thanks for reading though!

RE: Filled: Addict

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

So painful to read, but beautifully told. Take care :)

Re: Filled: Addict

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!