ohsam | 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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You've got a fast car, is it fast enough so we can fly away?

The first thing Sam is aware of when he comes to is that his chest is burning. He can barely draw in a breath and when he does, he wants to cough, as if his body is trying to reject the oxygen he so desperately needs. Adrenaline courses through his veins and the feeling of panic starts to well up, but he remembers his father's training and forces himself to count his breaths, to listen to the erratic rhythm of his heart beat. Panicking won't do him any good.

Turning his head causes him to groan, the muscles stinging from what must've been whiplash, but he forces himself to survey his surroundings.

"Shit."

He's in the Impala, or at least, what's left of what used to be the only home he's ever known. He can barely make out the familiar shape of the car and the fact that he's upside down means the car must've flipped at least once. He was resting against the windshield, which had cracked but miraculously hadn't shattered. It was a good thing too or Sam might've been flung out of the car. As it stood now though, he had to get out. Then, he could piece together what had occurred in the first place.

"C'mon." Blood dribbles down his lip, the metallic copper taste landing on his tongue and he spits it out, trying not to focus on the fact that he might be bleeding internally. His head pounds and he can't really focus too hard on one thought for too long. What had he been doing in the Impala in the first place? How had he crashed? Where was Dean?

Oh, God, Dean would kill him for this.

Well, if he survived, a sarcastic voice within him noted.

He tried to move, but a sharp pain in his chest caused him to stop. Broken ribs for sure. Maybe even a punctured lung. Sam wasn't going to get far with injuries like that. And with this road being in the middle of nowhere, he couldn't rely on medical assistance coming without him contacting them. He was on his own.

Just like Stanford.

What caused him to think of that? Stanford had been a whole other lifetime ago. A life that held the promise of normalcy, of a loving wife and kids, of a white picket fence and a home that he could welcome Dean and John into. Stanford hadn't just been for his sake--he'd gone to try and save his family. He knew the risky road that hunting led down. He hadn't wanted to lose his father or brother to a monster that went bump in the night.

Funny thing about that though, he lost them both anyways. John had died so many years ago and frankly, after Hell, Sam stopped counting how many times he and Dean had died and come back.

But now, trapped in the Impala, bleeding internally, his vision blurring before him, it occurs to Sam Winchester that this might just be it. This is how he meets his end--not on some hunt, but because of an accident. There's some sort of irony in that, he's sure, but he's too tired to figure it out. All he's knows is that he's going to die here.

"No, you're not."

Sam remembers that voice--the low timbre of it, the warmth hidden deep within the words. It's been years since he heard it, but he'd never forgotten it. The youngest Winchester forces his eyes open and gasps.

"Dad?"

John Winchester is there, in the crushed car, a tired smile tugging his lips upwards. He's in the same clothes he always wore. He's not injured or possessed--it's just his dad, just as he always remembered him. It's impossible, but there John is, like nothing has changed, like he never died in the first place.

"Dad--" Sam coughs, the force of it wracking his body, and more blood stains his lips.

"Hang on, Sammy." John's calloused hands rest on Sam's shoulders and he grits his teeth, "This might hurt."

And then he tugs.

The pain is blinding and blissfully, Sam blacks out for a few seconds and when he comes to, he's lying on the dirt road, his cellphone in his hand, a call to Dean having just been placed, according to the recent calls tab.

"Dad?"

John sits next to him, a hand resting on Sam's chest. His eyes are tired, but he hasn't aged a day since Sam last saw him and this has to be some sort of trick, a side effect of the blood loss, but if it is, Sam doesn't care. He's missed his dad and grieved for him every day. Time hasn't dulled his grief for the regrets have always been there. How, the last time Sam saw his father alive, they had argued. John had died thinking his youngest hating him. And Sam had always wanted to take those words back, to make peace with father--

"I know, Sam." John smiles, that smile he used to give him whenever Sam did something right in school or on a hunt, a proud grin, "Just close your eyes."

There are so many more words that Sam wants to say, but in that moment, with his father's hand on his chest, reassuring him that no, he's not alone, he's ever been alone, Sam lets his eyes fall shut.

I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone . . .

Oh man, this hurts in all the good ways-- bittersweet. I'm glad Sam got some closure with John.

Bittersweet is right. I always felt like Sam's grief over John was pushed to the wayside to allow Dean's grief to show through. Thanks for reading!

A perfect blend of h/c, and ghost!John was wonderful! I loved how you left it open to interpretation whether he was really there, or part of Sam's imagination. I loved that they could share this moment together and the closure it gives.

Thank you so much for filling the prompt! Take care :)

Your prompts are always so much fun to fill! I'm glad you enjoyed.

Eeee, those lyrics! Perfect needle drop! :D

Thanks :)

This flowed so well, from Sam assessing the situation to encountering his dad and getting a little help and peace. I loved how you wrote John and gave Sam a chance to see him again. Sad, but so sweet too. Awesome!

Thank you so much for reading!

That was so cute, I love John- Sam relationship! It is one of my favorite, I wish they played it more in the show.

OhSam Triple Play 2016!

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