Hospitalized!Dean Themed Week: Brainstorming Post!

[hoodietime]

This is the post for authors/artists for the themed week mini challenge to look for inspiration if they’d like, but anyone can comment here, whether you’re participating in the challenge or not. You can TOTALLY use your own ideas, btw; this is just optional for anyone who likes working with a more specific prompt

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[i_speak_tongue]

YAY! So excited for this! I have a couple fics I'm already working on for this. And here's a little prompt, if anyone's looking for inspiration:

Season 9, sometime in the future? Dean’s experiencing crippling headaches. Sam, Cas and Kevin collectively drag his ass to the ER. But what they figure will be an in-and-out deal turns out to be a shadow on an MRI (or CAT scan?) of Dean’s brain. In other words, a tumor. You, lucky writer, get to decide whether it’s benign or not. Either way, everyone is just all about being there for Dean and huddling around his bed to make him feel safe and loved and cared for.

OMG, it’s a beautiful thing. I can’t even. If anyone writes this, I don’t even know what I’ll do. I’ll just die right here, is what.

[kalliel]

OH GOD MY HEART. THAT PROMPT. <33333

I AM SO EXCITED TOO, YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY. :DDDDDDDDDDDD

/dies with you

[boysinperil]

Tracking this post hard. BRING ME ALL THE PROMPTS!!

[kalliel]

YOU AND ME BOTH! :D

[ramblin_rosie]

YAY!

Okay, so once upon a time, Dean came down with mono. He didn't even catch it from a girl, although Sammy still gave him grief. It wasn't a horrible case, just kept him off his feet for a couple of weeks, much to John's chagrin. But once he was over it, he thought that was that. Sure, he knew that once you have mono, the Epstein-Barr virus stays with you for life and can become active again at any time, but normally, people don't have symptoms when it does so.
But the body is a complicated thing. And Dean is anything but normal.
Years later, something happens--physical trauma, emotional trauma, Winchester luck, whatever--that causes the EBV to become active again. Only this time, the mono is far, far worse, causing Dean's organs to swell and landing him in the hospital. (I'd prefer it if his spleen didn't actually rupture, though the threat thereof is certainly fine.) Cue awesome!family members, including Cas, Kevin, and Charlie if the setting calls for their presence, taking care of Dean and making sure he stays in that

[ramblin_rosie]

Take one dinged-up Dean, ambulatory but still in need of inpatient care. Add a mass of scary-looking bandages, a dash of the good drugs, Dean's sense of humor, a long-suffering Sammy, and a splash of seasonal spirit. Shake well.
Result: The pediatric ward gets a Halloween visit from a mummy and a mummy-hunter, with the occasional lapse of genre awareness....

"Raaawr! GRAAAAAWR! BRAAAAAINS!"
"That's a zombie, Dean...."
*kids giggle harder*

[geckoholic]

The prompt alone is priceless, I SO hope someone picks this up!

[ramblin_rosie]

The banner reminds me quite a lot of this exchange between Daniel Jackson and Rodney McKay in the SGA episode "The Lost Tribe," after Daniel has been electrocuted and nearly died (transcript courtesy of Gateworld):

INFIRMARY. Daniel is sitting up in bed with a tray of mostly uneaten food on his lap. He grimaces as he feeds a small spoonful of food into his mouth from a small plastic pot. Rodney walks in.

McKAY: Hey!

JACKSON: Mm.

McKAY: How are ya?

JACKSON: Well, it hurts to eat this fruit cup.

McKAY: Well, don't eat the fruit cup, then.

JACKSON: Thank you, Groucho.

Sounds rather like bro banter, wouldn't you say? Not that you have to use this exact exchange, but I'd love to see Sam in a good enough mood not only to give Dean's cast such garish decorations but also get in a couple of zingers before revealing that he's smuggled in better food, including pie.