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

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[2010]

Sammy, it’s okay. It’s okay, I’m here. I’m here. I’m not gonna leave you.

He comes back to Dean’s face, bloodied and smashed by his hands. He felt every hit. He felt the surge of power when he exploded Cas and wrung Bobby’s neck. Just a few final failures to add to his list.

When he leans back toward the hole, ready to trap the devil, it doesn’t exactly feel like victory. It’s just an attempt at penance for a life full of mistakes.

But as he closes his eyes —

Peace.

(Then his eyes reopen.)

[2011]

“Sam,” Dean’s shaking him. “We’re making a pitstop.”

Sam blinks the gas station into focus. He wonders absurdly if he stole cigarettes and beer from this one. He wonders if his soulless self was into smoking and booze, like his body under Meg’s control was. He stops. He’s not supposed to scratch the wall.

He’s just supposed to ignore his past mistakes and sins, all the things he did without his soul.

“Make sure you pee,” Dean’s saying. “I’m not stopping in two hours for your girly bladder.”

“I’m not the one who pulled over,” Sam points out.

Dean huffs and mutters something about Baby needing some fuel as he slams the car door shut. Sam guesses turning over and going back to sleep is out. He follows his brother into the gas station.

His chest feels tight as he walks through the junk food aisle, as he feels customer’s and clerks’ eyes on him. The weight of all the blank spaces in his memory presses in and everyone else knows.

Dean interrupts. “Sam, buy me some candy, would you?”

Sam wants to say I can’t but it’s easier to just nod yes. No voice required.

While he waits to pay for Dean’s peanut M&Ms, he reads headlines.

LOCAL TEEN FOUND BEHEADED IN FOREST. NO SUSPECTS.

(Blood on his hands and he doesn’t know why.)

And he wonders.

[2013]

“Hey, Sammy.”

Sam stirs into awareness at Dean’s voice. He’s tangled around the sheets of his bed. This is his second nap of the day and he’s still exhausted.

“Time for some grub,” Dean says, leaning in the doorway to Sam’s room. Sam pushes himself up while Dean’s gaze roves over the bare walls. “Would it kill you to hang something up in here? I’ve got some magazines you could borrow.”

“And fill my walls with porn?” Sam coughs through a tight chest. “No thanks.” He glances at the blank walls. Maybe he should care.

He must wait a bit too long to get up. “C’mon. I made burgers,” Dean prompts.

Sam coughs again, this time quickly folding the bloody tissue. Sam doesn’t feel like eating, doesn’t feel like getting out of bed, doesn’t feel like doing anything, and he’s tired all the time thanks to the trials, but he but he can’t put down Dean’s cooking.

“Might even be able to scrounge up some rabbit food for you.”

Dean’s trying so damn hard. Sam wishes he could too.

[2015]

Sammy, close your eyes.

Sam’s on his knees, eyes shut, split skin across his cheek, his brother towering above him, expression hard with the mark of Cain.

He hears the whistle-thump of the sickle swing. Then —

His eyes open. Death crumbles into dust.

Sam stands, watching Dean with wide eyes and a mouthful of blood leftover from his brother’s fists.

Dean’s okay. The mark is zapped off and Sam’s brother is back. Dean's okay.

This is good, he tells his brother.

(If death is gone, how does it end?)

[2016]

Sam consciousness comes back with the creak of the basement door. It’s a better awakening to a bucket of ice water, he guesses, though he feels the sting of all the bloody cuts just the same. He drags his head up wearily. Toni, righteous ambassador from the British Men of Letters, is watching him.

“Screw yourself,” he says.

He’s so done. He’s lost Dean so many times, and this time doesn’t hurt any less. His chest is hollow and everything is heavy, like someone switched out his bones for lead. Dean’s gone which means Sam is too.

Except. Toni is saying that he and Dean messed up, that they’re the monsters. What a load of crap. His brother just sacrificed himself to save the world from destruction. Those self-righteous pricks wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for Dean. So Sam sets his jaw.

(He’s never, ever gonna say that Dean — the real Dean — is anything but good.)

Toni’s hands go to grab something outside the doorway and Sam vaguely wonders what new torture she’s thought up to try and change his mind.

His brother steps into view, heavy shackles across his wrists, but body whole, eyes appraising the scene.

“Dean.” He whispers hoarsely.

He can’t quite comprehend and isn’t quite sure that this isn’t another hallucination. But he does know that if Toni expects this to be how Sam breaks, then she’s wrong.

Dean is the only reason Sam’s still going.

omg it's tragic how canon this is D:
Great writing!

Yeah, I felt sad for Sam while writing this. :( Thanks so much for reading!

This is so amazing! Loved how you followed Sam's struggle through the years and kept Dean in the picture. Great job! Thanks for filling my prompt!

I’m so glad you liked it! Thank you for the awesome prompt! It was interesting to look back at Sam over the seasons and I really enjoyed writing this. :)

That last line is so perfect!!! I loved you traveled through time to explore Sam's mindset, and that last line really pulls it all together. Thank you for sharing :)

Thank you! :)

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