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OhSam Triple Play 2016!

It's November 2, an auspicious (if ominous) day for our darling Sam, so to herald his introduction to The Red Stuff, let's revisit an annual tradition. Welcome to the OhSam Triple Play 2016! This year, we're offering a focus on a reoccurring theme in Sam's life: blood.

"Blood" could be interpreted in many ways. Family don't end with blood. The demon blood addiction. Injury. Familial woes. Blood magicks. Simply the color red. If it can be related to blood, even vaguely? IT'S ON POINT.

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.) West Virginia 2.) Dean 3.) knives, or 1.) Bobby's Panic Room 2.) Mary 3.) demon blood withdrawal.

Step Two (optional): Fill a prompt!
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): Fill a prompt!
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. ;)

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Masterlist

My love will laugh with me before the morning comes by

caranfindel
1. A deserted road
2. Jess
3. Bleeding out

Maybe Together We Can Get Somewhere by

center_galaxy
1. The Impala
2. Ghost!John
3. Car accident

Whauksis by

crowroad3
1. New England in the fall
2. Dean
3. The hunter hunted

Binding by

fairyniamh
1. In a mirror
2. Lucifer
3. Banishing sigils gone wrong

Appointment in the White City by

crowroad3
1. A fancier than Winchester motel room
2. Balthazar
3. Sam's covered with blood. He can't remember how it happened or whose it is

Follow You Down by

tuesdaytoo
1. A cave or mineshaft
2. Any character - except they're actually a hallucination
3. Sam's bleeding and he's got to get to the surface before he passes out. But someone's trying to prevent that.

And From The Bunker Shall Come The Anointed One by

wetsammy
1.Bunker
2.Dean
3.Curse/Curse box

Time to say goodbye by

amberdreams
1. A field of wildflowers
2. Dean
3. It's time to say goodbye

The Descent by

lennelle
1. The Cage.
2. Lucifer and Michael.
3. Withdrawal. (Exactly how much blood did Sam drink before saying yes and falling in??)

Mercy by

lennelle
1. A church
2. Godstiel
3. Purifying the boy with demon blood as a "mercy"

To-do List by

lennelle
1. Bobby's house
2. Bobby and/or Dean
3. Unclean

Next of Kin by

lennelle
1. mental hospital
2. jody
3. next of kin

Collateral Damage by

lennelle
1. Bobby's house
2. John
3. A hunt goes wrong and John only has himself to blame as he cleans Sam's blood off the kitchen table they used for emergency surgery.

In the Precious Blood of the Lamb by

laughablelament
1) A kind of Kansas purgatory
2) Dean
3) rib-cracking spiritual seizure

Fix You by

center_galaxy
1. the impala
2. wee!dean
3. skinned knees

An Ocean Away by

center_galaxy
1. A dock
2. Bobby
3. Missing something important

The Collector by

lennelle
1. Impala backseat
2. John
3. Coughing up blood

Falling Leaves by

center_galaxy
1. A field of wildflowers
2. Dean
3. It's time to say goodbye

The Tide Rolls In by

broken_cinders
1. A lighthouse
2. Dean
3. Permanent injury

Battlefield Dressing by

wetsammy
1. College dorm room
2. Brady
3. Blood spill

Home for Christmas by

broken_cinders
1. Sioux Falls
2. Bobby
3. Sexual assault

Pressure Bandage by

themegalosaurus
1. A lecture hall at Stanford
2. A professor/classmates
3. Passing out

Here I go, turn the page by

caranfindel
1. snowy woods
2. Kevin
3. Where did Sam get to? Better follow the footprints. The bare and bloody part is disturbing, though.

The Recorded History of Sam Winchester by

indiachick
1. a natural history museum
2. Castiel
3. Castiel can perceive the blood on this dinosaur tooth/chunk of meteorite/bit of fossilized wood, even though it's older than human life on earth. He can also tell whose it is. Sam's. How?

The Holy Man and The Creature by

lennelle
1. A secret meeting place.
2. Dean, Castiel, Bobby
3. The devil walks the earth. The abomination who freed him must be destroyed by the righteous.

Soulsearching by

holyhelly
1. Abandoned church
2. Castiel
3. Soulfisting

Until We Close Our Eyes For Good by

tuesdaytoo
1) Throughout the years (pre-series to now if you wish or whatever span of time you like)
2) Dean (as his main constant; add other characters as you see fit)
3) Depression

Unclean by

zara_zee
1. A mental hospital, post re-souling
2. Dean and Bobby
3. 'Self purification'

Once Upon a Time by

center_galaxy
1) abandoned ruins of castle/other such structure
2) dean
3) sam pricks his finger on a statue - blood loss is disproportionate to magnitude of cut (perhaps because of some sort of spell/curse)

Phosphorus by

crowroad3
1. Rooftops
2. Ghost
3. Sometimes Sam thinks there's stardust in his veins.

Protection by Ксения Огородникова
1. The bunker
2. Dean
3. After Sam finds out Lucifer is on the loose again, he finds every protection and purification sigil in the MoL library and starts carving them onto his body.

Soda-Can Walls And Gravel Roads by

wetsammy
1) Seedy trailer park
2) Dean
3) Insomnia

बिन्द by

crowroad3
1. Wrapped in blankets on a couch/bed
2. Dean and/or character of choice
3. Having demon blood in him makes Sam susceptible to a supernatural illness

Grief is a fungus of the heart by

holyhelly
1. A dock
2. Bobby
3. Missing something important

Asclepias curassavica by

crowroad3
1- The Bunker
2- Mary & Dean
3- Blood related illness

Spells for the Watchers by

indiachick
1) A narrow spit of land
2) Rowena
3) Blood spell

Ponderosa by

crowroad3
1) locked in a small room
2) John and Dean
3) the smell of something dead

Tree Falls by

crowroad3
1.) the woods
2.) Dean
3.) nonverbal

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1. the impala
2. wee!dean
3. skinned knees

Awwww, what a cute prompt!

Mary can tell just how much of an overprotective older brother Dean will grow up to be.

"Mommy, give him!" Dean exclaims, arms outstretched, as if he is the only one capable of soothing a crying baby Sam.

"Dean, I've got him." Mary tells her eldest with a soft grin, but Dean just pouts, folding his tiny arms across his chest and oh boy, that one will be a tough one as a teenager, she can tell, he has his father's temper for sure. Still, she hates to see him upset and Sam is still wailing in her arms, the almost six month old set off by a car alarm going off across the street.

"Mommy." Dean insists.

Mary relents.

When Sam stops crying in his brother's arms, she can't help but smile.

Those two . . . they'll be the best brothers.

When Sam is five, he runs much too fast across the gravel in Bobby's salvage yard. He trips and falls, scraping his knee. He cries, of course, and before John can even react, Dean is there, picking his baby brother up, and soothing him with a calm, "It's okay, Sammy."

John watches as his eldest takes Sam to Bobby's couch and carefully washes the wound out, distracting Sam from the sting of the antiseptic by talking to Sam about his new favorite bedtime story, Robin Hood. Then, with a tenderness that he's never really seen from Dean, the eldest brother carefully places band-aids across Sam's skinned knees.

And just like that, Sam is back up and about, a grin on his lips.

"Sammy, slow down!" Dean chases after him, but he's laughing.

That's the moment John realizes he's been replaced in Sam's life.

Sam's 16 and he's grounded, yet again, sentenced to do research on the upcoming hunt as punishment for sneaking out to go to his high school dance.

"Hey, Sammy."

Sam looks up from the books, his gaze narrowing as anger rolls off him in waves.

Dean isn't fazed, "Dad will calm down soon."

Because this is Dean's job--look after Sam, keep the family together. It's the one job he takes more seriously than hunting and it's one that he refuses to fail. Both his baby brother and his father are stubborn as mules--it's up to Dean to play messenger between the two of them.

"It was a dance, Dean." Sam retorts, harshly turning a page in the book, "It's normal to go to dances."

And there's that word that Sam loves to throw out at every moment--normal. Sam is obsessed with normalcy, with living that white picked fence dream. Dean gets it, really, but he needs Sam to understand that hunting is what he will be doing for the rest of his life. He was born into this life and it's his destiny. And sure, right now, it sucks for Sam, but one day, when he's older, Sam will understand why John is so strict with him.

And he'll thank him.

But for now, Dean can sit next to his brother, let the keys to the Impala dangle from his fingertips and whisk Sam off to the diner down the road.

Sometimes, a little rebellion can be good.

Sam's gone to school.

His family is broken.

There's nothing more for Dean to fix.

And then they're back, on the road, searching for their father once more.

Sam spends his nights crying out for his girlfriend and Dean does his best to be there, to hold him while he cries, to make sure he's eating properly, that he's not letting his drive for revenge get in the way of being safe on hunts. Because, deep down, losing Sam . . . that's his nightmare. And the way Sam rushes into some hunts now, without regard for his own safety, it scares the shit out of Dean.

Because if he ever lost Sam . . . that would be the end of him.

"Hey." Sam rubs his red eyes--he's been crying again--as he comes outside of their shared motel room. "What are you doing up so late?"

"Nothing," Then, turning to Sam with a smirk, he adds, "C'mon Sasquatch. It's late. Back to bed."

The fact that Sam doesn't even protest proves just how much his little brother needs his rest.

No, as long as Dean is here, Sam will be okay.

Dean will make sure of it.

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Sam's knees are skinned.

His jeans were well worn and when Sam fell onto his knees, onto the gravel of Cold Oak, the material gave away just a bit. His knees are skinned. There are traces of dirt and gravel on Sam's knees. A bit of blood too.

Dean needs to clean it. If he cleans the wound and puts a band-aid on it, Sam will be okay. Just like he used to do--you haven't really changed, have you Sammy?--and then everything will be okay.

Because Dean is Sam's big brother.

And he always patches him up.

Hell burns.

And then Dean is back and Sam is broken, so broken, and it's Dean's fault, but this is not why he died, just to come back to see that Sam has thrown away everything they've ever fought against and God, it's hard not to be angry, hard not to let that anger harden into an impassable wall.

Because Sam is using his powers. Sam is teaming up with a demon.

And Dean? Dean is just lost.

Tell me how to fix this, Sammy.

Sam's dead, again.

He fell down into a pit and Dean wishes that he dove in after because this? This pretending to live a normal life with Lisa? It's excruciating. Sam is down there, being tortured for all eternity and he's just supposed to sit here and eat pie? To kiss Lisa and hug Ben and act like his life is good?

Please, Dean, do this. For me.

It's Sam that always wanted to be normal. Dean pulled him back into this fucked up life all those years ago and now look where it's gotten him.

Sam's dead.

Dean just wishes he could die too.

But then Sam is back and he's different, but Dean can't bring himself to care because Sam is alive. He's breathing. He's free from Hell.

"Your knees." Dean points out after they escape from a hunt gone wrong and Sam glances down, almost robotically, at his ripped jeans, at the blood rolling down his skin.

"It's nothing." Sam dismisses, but Dean shakes his head.

"Sit down."

And just like that, Dean is doing the one thing he's always known how to do--fix Sam.

There are seizures and the Wall and he knows at any moment he could lose Sam.

Don't touch the Wall, Sammy.

And he clings to his brother, tries to be there every step away, because if Sam does fall, then it's Dean's job to catch him. Dean is supposed to keep his brother safe. He'll be damned if he fails at that one more time.

"Dean," Sam grins tiredly at him, and he's missed that smile, didn't realize how much he cherished these moments until it was too late. "We getting dinner or what?"

This . . . this is what he fights to protect.

"Yeah, coming."

Sam's wall comes tumbling down.

But it's Dean's heart that shatters into a million pieces.

Purgatory.

Bloodied palms, dirt, skinned knees--Sam isn't there though.

No, Sam's free.

Bloody tissues line the waste basket.

Sam's body is shutting down. The fevers are climbing much too high--high enough that even overdoses of medicine aren't making a dent on them. His little brother refuses to eat, refuses to sleep and instead spends his time on researching the Trials.

The only way to end this is get through it, Dean.

Dean makes soup, cleans the bunker, and makes sure his brother is drinking water and taking his medicine around the clock.

"You can go out, you know?" Sam tells him softly one Saturday night, "You don't need to sit here."

Dean just takes a swig of his beer.

"There's no other place I'd rather be, Sammy."

Sam just beams.

The Mark of Cain.

Chasing Sam down the corridors of the bunker with a hammer.

He doesn't like to think about that time.

Mary feels like she's living the same moment over again.

Her boys have grown up. They've passed all their milestones and they're grown men that have been through way too much trauma. They're living the life that she never wanted for them. Her husband is dead. Being brought back to life . . . it's not exactly as great as she thought.

But this . . .

"Sit down."

"I can put a band-aid on myself."

Sam apparently trips quite easily. She can see how given how tall he is (and where did he get that? Not from her side of the family) and he scraped his knee. It's barely bleeding. It's not a big deal, but the way Dean pulls out a first aid kit and carefully cleans the wound before putting a band-aid on it brings a smile to her face.

These men . . . deep down, they are still her boys.

Dean catches her gaze, "Mom?"

She can't help herself from hugging both of them.

Some things never change.

Oh, I loved how you started and finished this fic with Mary as we see the boys through her eyes. Just lovely!

Thanks for reading!

Thank you so much for this! It is beautiful, how you filled it across all the different periods of their lives, and then brought it full circle with Sam and Dean still being those little boys in their hearts.

Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for the great prompt!

I love this, I love the full circle and I love that you go through each stage of their life through deans pov and how his instruct to care for Sammy never changes. c':

Yeah, some things never change! Thanks for reading!

Ahh this was a beautiful mix of sad and sweet. I love all these little snapshots of their lives, with Dean as a constant. The s4/s5 lines were especially hard hitting and the way you looped it back around to Mary was fantastic.

Thank you for reading!

Cute!!

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