[fic] clex_monkie89: All the King's Horses
[ moresomes ]
Title: All the King's Horses
Writer: clex_monkie89
Alternate links: On Ao3
Status of work: Complete
Characters and/or pairings: Sam/Jess/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]Sam's wall issues, various physical and psychological results
Length: ~10k
Summary: Sam is broken (like Humpty-Dumpty without all the fun). And Castiel's idea of saving Sam (for some unknown definition of "saving") is to rip Jess out of heaven to help Dean try and take care of Sam.
Reccer's notes: A lot of Sam/Jess/Dean is AU from Stanford, and fair enough too. This one is AU from the end of season 6: Castiel's installed himself as a new higher power, Sam's a mess, with a mix of days where he's mostly okay, and days where his body or mind are out of his control, and Dean is barely keeping it together trying to take care of him. Dean eventually breaks and does some angry praying, calling on Castiel to do something about the mess he made. Castiel's appearance is brief and in keeping with his colder, more distant God-persona, and his solution is, as the summary says, to resurrect Jess.
Referring to it as ripping her out of Heaven is no overstatement; she arrives suddenly, with no idea what's going on, with Bobby and Dean convinced she's a thing, and Sam not lucid enough to do more than desperately try to get to her. She's disoriented and it takes days before she's in anything approaching a normal state. I really liked this because it didn't present an instant happy ending for them all; if anything, it gets worse for a while before it gradually, slowly, starts to get better. This isn't a quick fix story, but they do find a kind of balance.
It's closer to a gen-moresome than a threesome; any romantic elements are way down the list of what's going on here, and Sam, at least, is in no state to have much going on with anyone, but there's a clear connection between them all in the present as well as the prior relationships the story mentions. All three of them have a strong presence in the story, and you can tell their connection is only going to strengthen with time.
Also, there is a puppy, who answers to a variety of names including Jerk and Muttly :).
[Short excerpt]
Sleeping is a weird arrangement (as opposed to the completely normal arrangement that is everything else in their life). Dean gets this embarrassed (ashamed, disgusted, horrified, scared) ball in the pit of his stomach at the thought of splitting a bed with Sam while Sam's... Jess is there (she was his girlfriend, and then she died, and maybe she was going to be his fiancée before, but now Dean doesn't know exactly what they are, and he can't really make himself call Jess Sam's girlfriend when he doesn't know completely for sure). But he doesn't want to let Jess and Sam have the bed (because what if Sam needs something and she doesn't wake up, or what if he has one of those seizures from the horrifically bad days).
Dean takes to sleep deprivation to cure it (because he can't not be there if Sam needs him, and he can't stand the thought of Jess being able to help because Sam doesn't need him). He stays up all night on the chair next to the bed Sam and Jess now sleep in (he uses the laptop to keep him awake as he sips at bottles of whatever alcohol he can find; he still hates the fucking thing, but Sam showed him how to get movies on it, so at least that's better than researching shit he can't hunt anymore). He makes them breakfast when they wake up (if Bobby isn't there or hasn't done it first) and naps throughout the day (an hour here, ten minutes there, all of the A side and most of the B side of some album playing so low even Dean can't tell who it is) and doesn't wallow (in his misery or Sam's, or the pity he gets when he answers Bobby's phone for him).
He can't really think straight much anymore, and he has a permanent headache (to go along with the heavy liver damage he's trying his best to give himself), but this way, Sam gets to cuddle with Jess (he always was a handsy freak, ever since he was a baby and used to wrap his pudgy arms around Dean's chest in the crib), and Dean gets to make sure Sam is safe (and always has a glass of water when he needs one, or something to eat, or help to the bathroom when he thinks he isn't going to make it out of the bed in time).