Prompts and claiming for the h/c challenge are here!
Okay, from November 2nd to November 11th inclusively, leave as many prompts as you would like! You don't have to participate in the challenge to leave a prompt, although it is encouraged! I will compile a master list under the cut, along with claims. (You don't have to prompt in order to claim, either, for that matter, but again, it is encouraged!)
One prompt per comment, please, and warn for spoilers. Oh, and specify if it's gen, slash, het, other (Other? Eep!) or if you don't mind either way. :)
After November 11th, prompting will be closed, and claiming commences until November 20th, but you can post at any time until February 2nd.
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Because of the OVERWHELMING number of prompts (you guys rock!), claiming will be extended to Nov. 30th. Please make only one claim from Nov. 12th to the 19th, after which we will open up the challenge to multiple claims.
Only one claim per prompt, please. There are so many prompts, I want to be sure as many of them get claimed as possible. No prompt left behind, that's our motto!
Note for spoilers: For some reason, greying out the text doesn't seem to work in the comments. Boo. So if you're prompting with spoilers, you can make your text white. Just use the following code and replace the brackets with regular html ones: [font color="#FFFFFF"]Your spoilery text here.[/font]
Gen, No Preference, or Unspecified Prompts
1- Sam has a case of hypothermia that may leave him with a bad case of frost bite. Gen or Sam/Dean. Prompt is here. Claimed by twilightshours.
2- We all know that Sam has a beautiful smile. But when he gets hit in the face with a very large, very heavy object, he has to learn what life is like without his pearly whites. Prompt is here.
3- Dean comforts Sam as he comes off of demon blood (coda to 5.14). Gen or Sam/Dean. Prompt is here.
4- The first time Sam tried to use his new powers to exorcise a demon -- while Dean is in hell -- he not only gets a nosebleed and headache, he loses his sight. And he loses Ruby, who sees her carefully laid plans fall apart and shows her true colours. Dean returns to a "useless" (according to Sam), blind brother. Prompt is here. Claimed by delanach.
5- Sam is losing an inch of height a day. Suddenly he's the same height as Dean. Then suddenly he's smaller -- and smaller every day. Prompt is here.
6- Sam is convinced that when he dies, he's headed straight back to hell. Castiel convinces him otherwise. Prompt is here. Claimed by dime_for_12.
7- Sam is slowly losing his memories -- first the bad memories of his childhood, then unimportant things like his favorite foods, and gradually things that impact his personality and ability to function. Sam and Dean, gen or slash. Prompt is here. Claimed by dither_river.
8- Gen. S4 or after: Sam gets strep in August, prompting much teasing from his brother (Who gets sick in the middle of the summer?). Then it happens again, a little worse, at Thanksgiving, then once more, a lot worse, at Christmas. Dean tries to convice his brother to see a doctor (It's not normal to spend half the year without a voice, Sam.). But Sam shrugs him off and insists they go on with business as usual. Over the next week, he slowly wears down to the point where he whispers everything, randomly sleeps away a few hours every afternoon and barely touches food. A week later, when Sam's stomach forces them to pull over on the interstate and he's still running a high fever, Dean puts his foot down, drives them to an ER where they depressingly ring in another year amongst rowdy drunks who refuse to shut up so Sam can sleep while he gets IV antibiotics into him. Dean, in true Dean form, takes control of the situation. Some rather crude threats are made. Sam's too out of it to care. Prompt is here Claimed by vicious_trade.
9- Prior to the season 6 opener, Sam is shot with djinn poison. On a level, he's aware of what's happening, but then the hallucinations hit and his mind is opened to a wealth of hurt and emotion that has - fortunately or unfortunately - been denied to him over the past year. Prompt is here.
10- Heatstroke. Any where, any season. Prompt is here. Claimed by twilightshours.
11- In the beginning right after Dad's death Sam and Dean are at odds. Sam hides his illness from Dean which turns into many complications for both brothers. But Bobby can see right through all the bullshit. Prompt is here. Claimed by dontknowmyname.
12- Dean's deal is coming due soon but Sam's too sick to even realize the days are counting down. Sam let his health go for the sake of helping Dean and now it's Dean who needs to help Sam. Prompt is here.
13- Gen. late S1/early S2 'verse... Sam gets one of those horrible, blinding visions that leave him all pale and shaky and his head's hurting. He recovers soon enough and shakes it off, writing it off as "just a vision". But then it recurs, and recurs again... basically it becomes almost daily (or more than once a day). And each time, it becomes more violent and more debilitating, but it's always the same vision. Eventually, Sam's too sick and too weak to even move from his bed, often puking with the intensity of it and he gets little to no reprieve. Prompt is here. Claimed by lissa_ann.
14- Unbeknownst to anyone, Jess' ghost has been following the boys around all the time, trying to watch over Sam but ultimately unable to do anything to help him.
At some point after Sam broke the last seal (but before he is reveled to be Lucifer's vessel) he either falls very ill or is severly injured. Either way, he is going to die. Castiel still has enough mojo to help him but hesitates, thinking that considering Sam's nature and actions it might be better, in the grand scheme of things, if he didn't make it. But then he becomes aware of Jess and she manages to make him see beyond the "boy with the demon blood". Prompt is here. Claimed by claudiapriscus.
15- Gen. S1-S4, preferred. Sam gets something involving gastrointestinal badness and excruciating cramps along with diarrhea, vomiting, simultaneously having the runs while puking, the works. Go insane. Can be anything... supernatural or not. Prompt is here.
16- AU. Sam had an accident when he was a child. he has special needs. John is dead and Dean and Bobby still hunts, everything is like it is now but with Sam having special needs. Dean finds out about Adam, Sam is kidnapped by Lucifer, both brother help him though the aftermath. Prompt is here. Claimed by reading1066.
17- Gen. AU-post S4/apocalypse. Sam loses his hearing -- all of it. And on the top of it he has severe Tinnitus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus). He's always taken his hearing for granted, not realizing just how much of it is auditory-based until he loses it. Dean's awesome and there and solid and stops Sam from withdrawing completely into himself and shutting down. Prompt is here.
18- Gen. AU-post S3/S4-ish. Dean's back from Hell. Sam's been de-aged but retained his ginormous size. There is no hope for reversal (maybe because of something relating to his demon blood). Due to his mental age (which is complete - he has no memories of ever being an adult or anything that happened in his life... no Dad dying, no Jess, no YED, no Dean gone to Hell), people see him as "special" and Dean has to quit hunting to take care of his massively huge, five-year-old brother while grappling with his own PTS demons from Hell. The Seals are never broken (aside from the first few... namely Seal 1) and the apocalypse never happens because Sam never breaks the final Seal.
And at some point, while a child, Sam gets sick... like REALLY sick the way little kids do and he's all crying and clingy and all that stuff and Dean's stuck dealing with a huge, feverish Sam being all octopus all over him... Prompt is here. Claimed by 27_jaredjensen.
19- Sam and Dean, for some reason or another, are forced to encounter not just one but dozens of clowns. At first, Sam just freaks out a little and continues on. Eventually, though, he completely freaks out, full-blown screaming panicking fit. He doesn't recognize Dean at all, too busy flipping his shit to actually be aware of the outside world. Dean has to help get him out and calm him down. Prompt is here Claimed by cece_away.
20- Gen. Pre-Series. When Sam’s 15 he becomes seriously ill/seriously injured and Dean takes him to the hospital. Hospital staff, very concerned and trying to do the right thing (if you make the hospital staff evil schmucks who just don’t understand, I’ll be very sad), ask repeatedly about the father and if Dean is in fact the legal guardian of Sam. Dean can provide no documentation to prove this and, for Sam’s benefit, he’s moved to another facility to recover and then he’ll be put into a foster home by CPS. Dean’s distraught, probably hysterical, but this is Sam’s story. After a come and go recovery where everything’s blurry and bright and painful, Sam’s sent to a foster home and everything he ever wanted. Stability. Normalcy. A cute neighbor girl who doesn’t think he’s a giant freak despite what he’s just been through. A school he can stay at. He’s still weak from his ordeal, hell permanently damage him if you wanna, and everything logical tells him that he needs to stay put, keep his head down, and get stronger. His heart tells him otherwise and Sam, weakened, maybe injured, turns away from the bed that’s soft and his, and sets out to find Dean and, yes, John, too. (I think this should maybe be more than Sam calling up Dean and saying ‘come get me’ - so rule out the phones in whatever fashion you think best. I want Sam to go on a little journey here.) Prompt is here Claimed by ratherastory.
21- AU (maybe pre-series). Sam and Dean grow up with a drunk father who likes to take his anger out on his kids. Dean gets out, Sam lies and tells him that Dad backed off. Dean comes home (from college, or wherever he moved to) to find out Sam lied and John's abuse has gotten out of control. Prompt is here.
22- Sam has cancer. Either pre-series or Stanford-era... can be brain tumor, leukemia, whatever...but it's bad and he's really ill and hid it from everyone until it was to the point he collapses.
note: if Stanford-era, Jess calls Dean to tell him Sam is in the hospital. Prompt is here. Claimed by 9tiptoes
23- Partial picture prompt. Clicky Me, Please. Sam dives into the cage with Michael/Adam and down they go. The fall is long, painful, full of accusation and fighting and torment. At the bottom is the silvery shimmer of water. Michael, Lucifer, Sam, and Adam all plunge into the river Styx. Sam eventually comes up again despite the weight on his ankle and Lucifer and Michael both trying to burn their way into (back into) his body. (Adam's just gone on. Soul spared. WTFever, I do not care.) Sam fights to reach the shore, fights to stay sane, and maybe he's not sure why, maybe he knows he deserves this and that he should just allow himself to be pulled down. But he doesn't.
Eventually, he sits on the shore of the river, listens to the creaking sound of wood over water as, oh, say a ferry draws near, and he thinks of Dean, life, and the desire to go home to both.
Gen, please. Prompt is here.
24- Gen, please. Sam has Trigeminal Neuralgia (tic douloureux). Which wikepedia (or Webmd or medscape, just use your google-fu) will explain in further detail. Basically, pain may be felt in any or all of the following: the ear, eye, lips, nose, scalp, forehead, cheeks, teeth, or jaw and alongside of the face, it is not easily controlled or cured. Poor Sammy. Please to be seeing this section: Wind, high pitched sounds, loud noises such as concerts or crowds, chewing, and talking can aggravate the condition, in many patients. Sam's having such an attack and it's loud, the wind stings with ice, there's a roaring in his ears, and his eyes fucking burn. But? Dean needs him and Sam will find him. Prompt is here
25- Gen S6 During a hunt, Sam falls and hits his head quite hard. When he wakes up- he is convinced that he's back in the cage and Dean is really Lucifer who wants to break Sam using Dean's body. Prompt is here. Claimed by minviendha.
26- Sam on the outside, looking in.
Sam and Dean are both dead. Sam never got his soul back, but there is some vestige left, echoes and memories. He is like a ghost in heaven, trying to get Dean to see him, trying to communicate with Dean. Maybe he uses Ash's radio. Maybe Cas can hear him. Maybe dead!Pamela can communicate with heaven ghosts. Up to you whether team!heaven can manage a soul rescue, or if Sam is left as a shadow of unsatisfied longing forever. Prompt is here. Claimed by annj_g80.
27- Sam was born with special needs (I.E autism etc.) Dean looks back through the years remembering what it was like to take care of a special needs brother and how their Dad helped and how he didn't help. Which means Dean remembering his child hood so a lot of flashbacks maybe he's recounting his time with someone else. Maybe another hunter (because come on you guys know that even John would still hunt even if Sam was special needs). Prompt is here.
28- Gen or wincest. Sam has revealed that he is currently feeling no emotions. I would love some lovely comforty fic where gets his emotions returned to him and suddenly has to actually feel everything that happened to him: Lucifer possessing him, the true depth of his manipulation through the years being revealed by Lucifer, all the possessed people Lucifer killed and drank while wearing him, beating Dean so badly, killing Castiel and Bobby, being trapped in Hell for who knows how long etc.
Basically, Dean hugging the bejeesus out of Sam and both of them getting the emotional, clinging, teary reunion that we were all denied in episode one. But AMPLIFIED because a year of the most epic enforced repression ever and then the dissatisfying troublesome reunion this season has to have made them need it even more, right?? Prompt is here. Claimed by captainlon.
29- In the beginning of season 5 Sam's feeling a butt load of guilt and Dean pretty much won't have a normal conversation with him that doesn't involve "You started the apocalypse".
Pretty much alone, scared and in need of someone to talk too Sam befriends another hunter who seems to understand what hes going through and talks to him like a normal human being. Sam's not stupid through he's already been duped once and has his guard up.
But what Sam doesn't know is the hunter is part of a ring of them who want nothing more than to Torture Sam till there hearts content. Sam's expecting just having a stern talk down and maybe a few punches but he doesn't realize the length these hunters are willing to go through to tear his insides out. Prompt is here.
30- Future!fic, with a lot of lingering issues. Sam/Dean or Gen.
Things are OK between Sam and Dean, but not great. Then Sam ends up with some permanently disabling injury or chronic illness. He needs a lot of care, and it's not like Dean's going to shirk the job. But from Sam's point of view, he's back to being a complete burden on Dean's life. As long as Sam's around and in this state Dean can't hunt, nor can he go to Lisa or some other happy, independent existence. Cue first, Sam finding ways to contribute and function and be awesome, and, second, both of them finding out that things are actually better for Dean when Sam is around. Prompt is here. Claimed by roque_clasique.
31- In Season 5, after Dean knows about the demon blood, Sam is hurt on a hunt but is trying to hide it. However, he starts coughing up blood, for whatever reason, and Dean, seeing the blood around Sam's mouth, mistakenly thinks it's evidence of Sam drinking blood again. Prompt is here. Claimed by vail_kagami.
32- On a lighter, less angsty note. As always, Sam/Dean and Gen equally welcome. I generally prefer series era or later rather than teen! or wee!Chesters.
They are in full throttle research mode when Sam manages to drop a dictionary on his foot. A seriously heavy dictionary -- say the Oxford Latin Dictionary, since it's not online. A lot of swearing from Sam, a lot of mocking from Dean, till Dean realizes that the foot actually is broken. Pretty nastily broken, as it turns out. Followed by a trip to the ER and a few weeks of Sam on crutches, with Dean alternately being helpful and telling every witness they interview a new, embarrassing, and completely fictitious story about how Sam broke his foot. Finally Dean's moronic how-could-anyone-hurt-themselves-with-a-book brother has to do some seriously kickass stuff on nasty terrain, broken foot and all, getting them out of a tight spot, and there is sarcastic, concerned, bantery bonding. Prompt is here. Claimed by electricalgwen.
33- After the Devil's Trap/IMTOD car crash, Sam is hiding or ignoring physical repercussions from the accident. Dean finds out when Sam can't hide it anymore. Prompt is here. Claimed by jennytork.
34- Gen. AU to beginning of S6--Sam shows up at Dean's door after he gets hurt while hunting with the Campbells. Prompt is here. Claimed by moviegeek03.
35- Sam/Dean or Gen, any series or post-series time.
Sam's not making it out of this one. He's alone, he's badly hurt, he's way the heck in the middle of nowhere, and it's starting to snow. But, miraculously, his cell phone is working. There are some things he wants to say to Dean, and this is his last chance.
Up to you if Sam lets on what's happening or keeps Dean in the dark, or if last minute rescue is possible after all. Prompt is here. Claimed by harrigan.
36- When Sam's body sleeps, he connects with his soul. He knows the tortures his soul is experiencing and his soul finds out everything his body is doing. Prompt is here.
37- AU/Gen In the episode Hunted Gordon does more than try to shoot Sam, he somehow captures Sam and begins to torture him for more information. That's where uber/protective/caring Dean intervenes to beat the crap out of Gordon and dish out some hurt/comfort for our poor Sammy. Prompt is here.
38- 6.07 spoiler. So it seems like on Friday we will learn that desouled Sam DOESN'T SLEEP AT ALL. NOT SINCE HE GOT BACK. So what if they resoul him and that just comes crashing down? A year and more of exhaustion and sleep deprivation catching up. Combine that with some cage nightmares. Be sadistic. I love me some tired!Sam, and this is like the Iliad of tired!Sam. Prompt is here. Claimed by debbiel66.
39- General season 6 spoiler. Sampa and the evil cousin Clan have been using Sam to there advantage since he has no soul therefore no repercussions or judgment. Sam get's sent on a dangerous hunt that seriously injures him. Dean is called and while Sam is recuperating (hospital or Sampa clan place you choose) Dean is going to find out what the hell is going on. Prompt is here.
40- Gen, please. Any season. AU but of course. Sam suffers from seizures as a result of a previous head trauma. Sam has a seizure response dog which can be trained, in the event of a seizure, to get help, immoblize him, carry med info (the thought of Sam & said dog having matching medic alert bracelet/dog tag is kinda cute), sense the onset of a seizure, move items, block victim from walking into dangerous things if it's a partial/walking seizure, etc.
This is probably all very handy when one's misplaced one's brother during a hunt and more than protecting himself, really just wants to find him. Of course, the dog may be conflicted -lay on Sammy, keep him safe, or go get help.
I dunno. Just the thought of Sam telling the dog to go find Dean is somehow awful and cute and sweet and I'm probably touched in the head.
Dean whump is always an appreciated bonus. Prompt is here.
41- Gen, post season 5/pre-season 6. I'm not mentioning spoilers, but if you want to use info from upcoming episodes to write this, you can. It's mostly dreamy and descriptive and sad and abstract, so the logistics are only as important as you want to make them.
Between the cage and Sam waking the night of his return is a lonely, surreal time. A time for a quest, maybe. A search. Not for his brother, whom he loves and can find. But for his father, who he knows cannot be found in Heaven and whom Sam now searches out to make his peace. To forgive and be forgiven. Maybe just to tell him that he loves him, he gets it, even if he wishes it could have been different, and to say/do whatever he thinks needs to be said so that his Dad can find his heaven, his peace, and the love of his life. Make it as dreamy and creepy or sad or as unglued as you possibly can/want. Prompt is here.
42- Prompt: Gen. After the end of Season 5, Sam is reborn back into his life, but with his memories intact. Being an adult inside a baby's body is hard. Unable to express himself except through the most basic of actions, unable to control his motor functions, he withdraws into himself, mostly lost in thought. John and Mary think that he may have autism or another handicap. The only one that brings Sam back to them is little Dean (who doesn't have any adult memories). Prompt is here.
43- Sam is horrifically burned during the time Dean is in hell after S3. When Dean returns it's to a brother whose face he barely recognises. Sam is still in a lot of pain and won't look in the mirror for fear of seeing the monster he knows is there.
If there's going to be any pairings, I'd rather it light wincest please.
As an additional request, I'd love it if this was somehow made cannon with Ruby getting Sam addicted to demon blood as it's the only thing that will relieve his pain. Prompt is here.
44- Gen! S5 preferred. Generally a progressively downhill - physically and mentally - Sam fic. (Dean is tired, and barely cares anymore. Sam is guilt-ridden, but trying.) The brothers run into something- can be a witch, trickster, angel, whatever fits. In order to make Sam see the evil inside him, it curses him by taking the proverb "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" literally. Nothing happens for a while, and Dean dismisses it, until they start their next hunt. At first it's little things while Sam's researching: ringing in his ears, blurry eyes, coughing. It hits full force when they go against a poltergeist (or whatever) and Sam is physically blind and deaf to it. No extreme injuries, but Sam's curse gets progressively worse, as well as his mental state (due mostly to guilt and self-doubt). Not only is he unable to research or even talk about the hunt, but he temporarily loses his sight every time he sees his reflection, goes completely mute, etc. (You can take his impairments as far as you want.) They finally go after what cursed Sam. But does the curse function on the guidelines of the one who cursed him, or Sam's own perception of evil? Prompt is here.
45- 6.07 & later spoilers. Sam is seriously injured while covering Dean's back on a hunt. He's clearly dying and Dean has no intention of leaving his brother's side when suddenly Tessa appears to him. She's come to reap Sam's soul, except she can't find it. She enlists Dean to help in searching for it while he tries his hardest to convince Tessa to let Sam live when they find it. Sam, meanwhile, keeps fading even though Tessa swears that neither she, nor any of the other reapers, have touched him. Whether or not they find Sam's soul and whether or not Dean makes a convincing argument is up to you. Prompt is here.
46- Gen or Sam/Dean; s6 AU. Sam's visions are back. Only now they are always of the same thing, Lucifer and the cage. At first he and Dean think they may just be flashbacks, but they last longer and longer, and Lucifer begins talking to Sam during them, and Cas warns them that Lucifer may be building a kind of bridgehead, finding a way through Sam's powers and the connection between them to slip out of the cage and regain his vessel. Because once Sam said Yes, he said Yes; Lucifer doesn't need his consent again. Could be that the only way to stop him is for Sam to die while he still can. Prompt is here. Claimed by emmram.
47- Canon S4, gen. So at the end of S4, Sam was obviously struggling through withdrawal (even before Dean pulls the all-stop and locks him in Bobby's Supernatural Bomb Shelter). Sam's point of view as he struggles though the cravings, the tremors, the sweats, the whole nine yards. Feel free to take it all the way through to the Bomb Shelter scenes of LEVEE. Just... make Sam go through Withdrawal. Preferably a very painful one. Prompt is here.
48- S1 or 2, Sam/Dean or gen. I don't care how they got there. I don't care how/if they get out. The boys get locked in one of those big industrial walk-in freezers with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and maybe some handwarmers if you're feeling generous.Sam took a dunk in the pool/alligator moat/communal shower/whatever, so he's not doing so hot. Dean may have been the lucky one in that he got locked in dry, but he's still not having a picnic watching Sam turn blue and frosty and incoherent. Prompt is here.
49- Gen, any season. Sam gets a head injury that leaves him with some serious motor-control issues -- he can't grab well, can't aim his feet well, has trouble judging distances, all that jazz. Other than that he's all right -- no pain, nothing like that, just a bad case of not being able to do SHIT for himself anymore. How do he and Dean deal? Prompt is here.
50- After watching the pilot of The Walking Dead, I want to see a season six AU where Sam comes back from hell immediately after a zombie apocalypse. He's weak, emaciated and traumatized when he comes to in Stull Cemetery, but killing zombies and trying to find Dean - who he prays is still alive - takes his mind off everything he's been through. I'd love to see the same confusion and process of discovery that we see Rick Grimes go through in The Walking Dead (or Jim in 28 Days Later, if you haven't see the first), with Sam leaving Stull to maybe hunt for some food and water and finding deserted shops and towns. Sam leading a band of survivors, while trying to get find Dean, dealing with PTSD and with the realization that he saved the world from Lucifer, but not from everything, will all get double bonus points.
Somehow, I think Sam/Dean might make this more interesting, but I'm a gen-lover, so either way works for me. Prompt is here.
51- Gen or Sam/Dean, pre-series (preferably with Sam older than fifteen) or canon timeline, Chelsea Grin. Prompt is here.
52- Gen or Sam/Dean. Anyone seen the BBC Mystery series Second Sight? The detective was suffering from a rare eye disease, which was slowly destroying his sight and causing distorted vision and hallucinations. (The disease was meant to be AZOOR, but a brief look online suggests that Second Sight made the hallucinations spookier and more psychological). That would be worse for a hunter, now wouldn't it? Not just losing the ability to hunt and research, bit by bit, but seeing things out of the corner of your eye, and maybe it's just the disease progressing, but maybe there IS something there. Dean doesn't know what to believe, when Sam says something is after him, something he can never quite see clearly, something Dean doesn't see at all. Prompt is here. Claimed by cordelia_gray.
53- Season 6 spoilers. Sam's soul has been in hell all this time and when it's put back into Sam's body, he's a mess. For weeks, he varies between screaming, crying and being catatonic. Finally, Dean gets through to him somehow. Of course, Sam's first word should be Dean. Prompt is here. Claimed by arialyre.
54- If heaven is reliving your best memories, hell is reliving your worst ones over and over again. When Sam gets back from hell, Dean deals with the fallout. Prompt is here.
55- Sam gets gum in his hair and has to cut it all off. Prompt is here. Claimed by cherry916.
56- A spell (or whathaveyou) physically de-ages Sam down to infancy. Luckily, it's temporary and Sam starts growing up again really quickly - at the rate of about two months/hour or two years/day. Almost immediately Dean realizes two things:
1) Sam's adult mind is intact, which becomes evident as soon as his physical body is old enough to talk, and
2) Everything that Sam's body went through in his real life happens again as he regrows- all the injuries, illnesses, etc. Cuts and bruises appear out of nowhere, that leg Sam broke when he was 12 snaps all over again, he gets hit with fast brutal waves of fevers and flu. It all heals really quickly, too, but Dean starts getting really freaked out at the sheer number of big and small hurts Sam suffered as a kid and teen, including some Dean never knew about (A minor injury was bigger than Sam let on? Stanford era meningitis?). Dean gets a little angsty regarding his perceived failures as a protector, and tries to make up for it this time around.
Sam/Dean or gen are both welcomed; Dean POV is adored; any season is great (although season two is my personal favourite h/c period). Feel free to mess with the details, and thanks just for reading the long prompt! Prompt is here.
57- After returning from Hell, Sam has problems adapting to the bright loud world filled with people. Dean not knowing what to do with a extremely paranoid and scared Sam. Prompt is here. Claimed by faunaana.
58- Season 6 spoilers. Dean thought he wanted his brother back. When they manage to get Sam's soul back into his body, he isn't so sure anymore. Instead of a cold, unfeeling shell he gets an insane wreck who is completely overwhelmed by the memories of centuries of neverending physical and emotional torture. Cas tried to warn Dean that this would happen, but Dean thought he could deal - and anything's better than leaving Sam's soul in hell forever. Claimed by radiumgirl.
Unfortunately, Dean can't deal with this on his own and eventually Sam ends up in a mental hospital, drugged and restrained to keep him from hurting himself and others in his madness. Unable to tell reality from his memories to begin with, the restrains make Sam freak out even more. Completely refusing food, plagued by horrific nightmares whenever they drug him to sleep and under constant emotional stress, he wastes away and falls sick. Castiel sticks around to help him as best he can, because he somehow feels responsible for Sam, or just because Sam is his friend. Dean can't bear to see his brother suffer like that but stays anyway because he's an awesome big brother.
Whether Sam eventually gets better, stays like that or even dies is up to the author. Prompt is here.
59- Gen. Someone watched Avatar one too many times and thought it funny to curse Sam Winchester into a Na’vi. Dean finds it hilarious as the transformation progresses (it goes slowly and over a period of time, up to the taker to decide how long, like for it to be painful whenever a new change hits). Things stops being funny when Dean realize that eventually the physiology is going to catch up and Sam will suffocate on air he can’t breathe. Prompt is here
60- The first time Sam drinks Ruby's blood. Prompt is here. Claimed by phreakycat.
61- Gen. Wee!chesters. It's the first anniversary of Mary's death and John has got plastered just like he planned leaving Sam's care to Dean. Which is fine by Dean but then Dean notices something wrong. Sam won't quit crying, he won't eat anything and his cheeks are a rosy red. Dean realizes that Sam must be sick and needs help fast.
So Dean does all he can to get his Dad's attention. Which at first is hard because his Dad is varying between drunken slurs and times when he's completely passed out. So Dean does something in a million years he never imagine doing... (Up to author) Prompt is here.
62- A bit of an AU s5, after 5.08, maybe. Just when Sam thinks that he and Dean have finally started on the long, hard road to redemption, he discovers that he's beginning to change. He can't make holy water. Salt irritates his skin. Soon he's getting hemmed in by Devil's traps. His body's changing - more muscle, his skin rippling and shifting like something's moving inside. After all, for a man who survived the heart-rate-temperature overload while raising Lucifer with no repercussions, there would need to be only these final finishing touches to finish prepping him to house the devil. Prompt is here. Claimed by rokhal.
63- Gen - Unpleasant truths: Sam's premonitions are back. But there's a catch - this time he sees the past and learns a lot more than he ever wanted to. Prompt is here.
64- Gen. or Sam/Cas if you're feeling adventurous. Preferably around the end of Season 5. Sam and Cas find themselves trapped somewhere Cas can't just zap away from (maybe Cas' powers have faded too much, maybe the place is warded for him, up to you). Sam's asthma is acting up, and what started out as a mild cough and maybe some wheezing quickly starts to turn more sinister-sounding. Naturally his inhaler is MIA, and Cas finds himself in the unfamiliar role of caretaker, trying to keep Sam calm and awake even while each breath gets thinner and more desperate and he slips closer and closer to unconsciousness, until Dean (or whoever else) can get there and get them out. Additional whump will get you cookies. :) Prompt is here. Claimed by rainylemons.
65- Gen. Stanford-era/Pilot. Dean comes to fetch Sam back from Stanford to go look for their father, only to find that his baby brother has been permanently injured/impaired in some way for well over a year, possibly since the last time they talked on the phone two years ago. Bonus points if Sam goes with him in spite of the newfound disability. Further bonus points for Sam having learned to deal mostly on his own but taking comfort in the knowledge that his brother does have his back after all. Prompt is here. Claimed by embroiderama.
66- Gen, post season 5 or 6. Sam develops Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and goes on treatment. Radiation and chemo. Loses his hair, Dean buys him hats, and they mostly just deal because that's how they are. But, Sam doesn't take to the chemo well and starts to get a little paranoid, starts to think that someone's poisoning him. Everyone thinks he's just depressed, has psych issues from the illness, and is maybe associating how badly the chemo makes him feel with poison or the intent of harm. Psych meds ensue and more pain meds and Sam tries repeatedly to ditch chemo, get out of it, or just rip it off. This is very hard for Dean, of course, because he knows chemo makes Sam feel like utter shit, but it's for his own good.
Except, yeah, Sam's right and he's being murdered slowly via the medication meant to save him.
Please don't make Dean the dumbass who can't see that Sam's clearly right about this. More also? Evil nurse? So overdone. Prompt is here.
67- Gen. Sam's first panic room experience, please. Probably prior to being tied down. Sam's craving for demon blood and his general hallucinatory state lead him to think that drinking from the only available source of demon blood on hand is a good idea. Said source? Himself. Cut, bite, whatever you've got to do. Dean and Bobby are horrified and Dean maybe almost lets Sam out after he holds him down, sutures him, comforts him, but he doesn't. Maybe it makes things that much harder (or easier?) for one guilt-ridden little angel who does eventually let Sam go. Prompt is here. Claimed by minviendha.
68- The hunters' attack on Sam in 5x03 left Sam with some sort of permenant injury (or something horribly painful with a long recovery period--like 3rd degree burns requiring grafting--but really whatever writer wants) so, not wanting Dean to feel obligated to take care of him, he tells Dean he was right the first time and they should stay apart when Dean calls wanting to reunite. Dean's pissed and a couple of months go by until somehow he finds out that Sam has been suffering alone all this time. Bonus points if Sam is depressed and not doing much to heal, thinking he deserves this and maybe Lucifer won't want him for a vessel if he's damaged. Prompt is here.
69- Gen. Season 2. After the car accident Sam keeps having frequent panic attacks, loss of sleep and little appetite.
Feeling even more shitty than before Sam stumbles across a conversation Dean has with another bar patron talking about what a pain in the ass he is and how Dean would be better off without him. Feeling more alone than he's ever felt Sam leaves in the night with no note or forwarding address. Dean wakes up to a missing brother and a whole heap of emotions. He'll do anything to find Sam again and make it right.
While Sam is trying to live life on the road with little money he gets into his own problems along the way. Prompt is here. Claimed by earthquakedream.
70- Warnings for potentially triggering material. Sometime in season 1 or 2 it comes out that Sam was sexually abused when he was a little kid, but the twist is that it was by a woman. At first Sam liked the attention/affection because he craved a mother-figure so badly. Then when things first seemed off, he figured he was just being paranoid because he didn't know how mothers were supposed to act. When the abuse crosses the line into painful and invasive, he's too embarrassed to tell, one because he let it get so far when he's supposed to be trained and tough, and two because it's a woman and Dean (maybe 13) who has started talking about girls, has teased Sam about being scared of girls because he always blushes when Dean talks. Plus, Dean acts like any guy should be happy to have a girl want to do things like that with him. He'd probably think he was a loser for hating it and crying about it. Prompt is here.
71- Pre-series, no pairings. Flagstaff! Sam runs away, you pick the reason, but no evil family members- no evil Dean, no evil John, no evil Sam. They can fight, but no everlasting grudges. I'd like a happy ending on this too, but not too sappy. Run with it however you want. Prompt is here.
72- Stockholm Syndrome. Can be monster or human (heck, it can be something looking like Dean or Jessica, I'm just throwing out ideas). Hopefully includes Dean to the rescue and slow but optimistic recuperation. Prompt is here. Claimed by micalaux.
73- Spoilers for 6.07 Sam gets his soul back and now has to deal with all the trauma of his time in hell and the year of being without Dean. Cue comforting!Dean and Bobby and Castiel. Plenty of schmoop and hugs. Prompt is here. Claimed by asilia.
74- Spoilers for 6.07 Sam's body seems to have made off with more faculties than is typical when a body and soul part ways -- it's not in a vegetative state, for one thing. This has left his soul with the emotions and the moral compass, but extremely limited cognitive abilities and only those memories anchored to very strong emotions, confused and terrified and angry and floating around like an incomplete ghost. It ends up "haunting" somewhere attached to some very strong emotion, torn between the influence of the moral compass on one hand and the confusion-terror-anger on the other. --A haunting at this emotionally charged location inevitably attracts attention from certain persons. Sam's soul recognizes Dean, of course, but what is that thing? (Self-loathing tendencies? Not going to help here.) When and how does Dean figure out what's going on? What does Sam's soul try to do to his body? What does Sam's body try to do to his soul (keeping in mind a basic salt-and-burn is impractical)? Can Sam be reconstituted, or is he the one who will be haunting the car henceforth? Prompt is here. Claimed by mercuryblue144.
75- Post season 5 or 6: While the relationship of Dean and Sam is once again difficult and tense, Dean decides to finally get away from his pain of a brother and leaves during one assumedly easy hunt. He doesn't leave a note, just plans to call at some point to let Sam know he hasn't been eaten by anything. But he gets distracted for a while (a girl, maybe) and during that time, Sam notices he's gone (Dean doesn't answer his calls), thinks he was taken by whatever, and goes to find and save him.
Before Dean gets a chance to get in contact with him, whatever they were hunting turns out to be a bit more dangerous that they thought. It takes Sam and tortures him for a few days or weeks (go wild here, if you want to, almost anything's fine, but if you just want to brush over it, that's fine too). Eventually he manages to kill the thing and escape, but not without being severely injured in the process, on top of everything else. Prompt has been truncated in the post as a concession to length. Full prompt is here.
76- Sam/Dean, slash or gen. Post-apocalyptic world filled with dangers but nothing the Winchesters couldn't handle -- except that as soon as they find a relatively safe, secure place to settle, Sam develops severe agoraphobia and doesn't want to leave their house. Prompt is here. Claimed by justmmy.
77- Gen. Sam and Dean get stuck in a loop (Trickster/Mystery Spot style -- for whatever reason the author chooses), but this time they are both aware that they're reliving the same day over and over again for weeks. The really crappy part is Sam happened to be suffering from bronchitis/teetering on pneumonia when the spell was cast, and is forced to relive the same day over and over again at the peak of the illness after barely getting any sleep the night before. Every day he wakes up just as sick as he was the day before and his exhaustion/tolerance keeps mounting, but he knows that if he doesn't at least make an effort to help Dean figure out how they get out of it, chances are they'll be stuck in the loop twice as long. Dean's freaking out trying to find a way to break the spell (because, frankly, he can't take much more of it either) and struggles between needing Sam's help and making his miserable brother rest. Prompt is here. Claimed by 27_jaredjensen.
78- During a hunt Sam disappears. Dean kills the monster they were hunting, but can't find a trace of his brother. A month later Sam shows up at Bobby's, desperately ill and unable to tell what happened. Now Dean has to figure it out in order to save him. Gen, prefer Season 1 or 2. Prompt is here. Claimed by nwhepcat.
79- Gen, post BUABS. I would love to see something that deals with the traumatic fallout of being possessed in a way that parallels the aftermath of sexual assault. (Details greyed out due to potentially triggering subject matter - highlight to read).
The way I see it, having a demon take total control of your body and forcing you to do things against your will would produce reactions and emotions very similar to those associated with rape (violation, shame, anger, flashbacks, etc). Sam is traumatized by Meg's possession but is in denial, trying his best to carry on as normal and pretend nothing happened. After all, it's over and done with and Winchesters don't dwell and mope. Bonus points for Dean slowly realizing how traumatic and violating the whole experience was for Sam and being determined to help him heal. No total woobie Sam, though, please. Tough-but-wounded Sammy is awesome! Prompt is here. Claimed by lissa_ann.
80- In Yellow Fever, Sam is the one who becomes scared of everything instead of Dean. Prompt is here.
81- Devil's Trap AU. Gen. Azazel possesses Sam instead of John, thinking that there is no way John or Dean would ever kill Sam. John and Dean struggle to make a decision that might lead to the ultimate sacrifice. Prompt is here.
82- Season 6 general spoilers. Gen :)
After living without a soul for a year Sam finally get's it back (how is up to you) and is flooded with all types of emotions. He misses human touch because he was deprived of it in Hell and without a soul he just didn't care. So he does little things at first like brushing Dean's hand just that bit longer and touching of the shoulders more often. At first Dean just thinks Sam's being a weirdo then he gets it. Claimed by twirlycurls.
83- Season 2 following BUABS. Gen. Sam's still holding a lot of guilt over killing Steve Wandell even though Dean says it wasn't him he still doesn't believe it. So when Sam decides to go for a evening walk to clear out his head he's ambushed by a van and kidnapped. Sam later realizes that these are hunters and there not going to let Sam get away after what's he's done. Dean thus searches frantically for his brother ans is all badass like usual.
84- Early-ish S1. Gen. There's something hunting second-born sons and the guys decide to go and hunt it because... duh... that's what they do. Only they don't figure out the creature/fugly/witch/whatever's M/O before it latches onto Sam. Sam, who hasn't been eating, hasn't been sleeping, and is still a wreck over Jess' death goes down fast and hard. Symptoms can be anything but preferably entailing some/all of the following: crazy-high fever, night sweats, sweating, shivering, peeing pure blood, hard distended stomach, excruciating cramps, muscle spasms, seizures, being unable to keep anything down, etc. Pretty much go crazy (anything up to and including the kitchen sink is included -- but preferably stuff involving the stomach and plumbing) and make Sam weak beyond belief. As in to the point where he vocally wants to die. Dean's the one who has to hunt and end the fugly while taking care of Sam. Keep the guys IC please -- no wooby-ing, etc. Prompt is here. Claimed by wallflowerlady.
85- AU, around the timeline of S1, gen or wincest, I don't really care.
Deaf!Sam leaves John and Dean because of the usual issues with John, made even worse by John thinking that Sam can't hunt because of his disability. After Sam leaves Dean has a major fallout with John and goes to find Sam. The brothers start to hunt together and it works well for them, until Bobby calls them up because John needs help on a particularly difficult hunt. John discovers that Dean chose Sam over him, that Sam is a good hunter despite being deaf... bonus points if there is wincest and that is another issue the boys and John have to deal with. Prompt is here. Claimed by nwspaprtaxis.
86- Gen. Pre-series or season 1. Sam is hurt/sick or both and ends up in hospital. Detailed hospital procedures, examination, etc. Big brother protective Dean. Prompt is here.
87- Gen. Sam breaks his pelvis and fractures a vertebrae sometime during or after S1. Sam's functional and still able to hunt effectively, but wages a daily battle against the (sometimes debilitating) chronic pain and is occasionally forced to rely on a crutch of some sort -- but not all the time. Not so much interested in the actual injury/recovery, but rather the aftermath. The good days vs. the bad days, the regimented drug therapy, not being able to stay in one position for too long, the agonizing rise from his bed in the mornings. Would love Dean to very quietly make adjustments in their lives so as not to make Sam feel like he's a burden on those days when things get really tough. Prompt is here Claim has been abandoned.
88- Gen. S2. Post-NO EXIT. A hunt that turns personal (maybe the guys couldn't save the victim, it involved kids, or had something connected with Dad... I don't care and am not fussy) goes seriously south, leaving the boys both injured and bleeding (Sam more than Dean, obviously, and it doesn't matter what their injuries are... just make them both a little bloodied-up) and grappling with "what the hell just happened?" But the thing is, Sam was already coming down with something -- preferably of the pneumonia/bronchitis variety -- when the hunt began so with his injury, he's really feeling crappy (maybe even passing out in the car). Dean's also at the end of his rope, so he hauls their butts to Harvelle Roadhouse because it's the nearest "safe" place he can think of, despite being chewed out by Ellen in NO EXIT.
Ellen's no longer seriously furious at them -- her temper burned itself out and she knows that the Winchester Boys really did do everything they could to keep Jo safe and that the events of NO EXIT wasn't entirely their faults because, hello, it's Jo, and she doesn't blame them for their father's actions involving Bill because she knows they had nothing to do with the incident -- and when she sees how beaten-to-west-hell-and-back they both are, she takes them in and tends to them in her hard-as-nails-yet-maternal way, taping up wounds, kissing their poor shattered souls, tucking them in bed and forcing them to sleep and heal, and also helping Sam through his bronchitis/pneumonia. Prompt has been truncated due to length (holy crap, people!). Full prompt is here. Claimed by vonnie836.
89- Spoilers for 6.07 Okay, we all know Sam can't feel and Dean seems to be Mister Emotional this year. What if the reason behind that is that Sam's missing soul latched onto Dean's body?
Sam not sleeping is causing his body to slowly break down. Dean's housing two souls -- inadvertently -- is causing his mind to snap.
How does the wandering soul get back to Sam where it belongs? Will there be any residuals from being inside Dean for so long?
I'd love to see Sam a blubbering mess once his emotions return along with a whole other set of memories....
Gen only, if possible. If gotta do slash, nothing more'n a kiss or two onscreen... please. Prompt is here.
90- Comforty schmoop, please. Sam/Dean or Gen. It's a miserable, sleety day, Sam has a cold, and the boys are investigating something that involves trudging from door to door endlessly, interviewing people, while Sam gets sicker and sicker. By dinner his voice is totally gone, he's not eating, and Dean can see he's running a fever. He agrees to swallow a couple of aspirin, but he's not going to go back to the motel and lie down while the thing's still out there. So they trudge off into the woods -- and of course Sam is wearing that ridiculous light jacket meant for balmy spring nights and sneakers with no waterproofing -- and kill the thing and then Sam just collapses. Lots of getting him out of soaking, icy clothes, forcing him to swallow warm beverages, concerned forehead feelings, yelling at him for being an idiot who doesn't know how to take care of himself, and general insane levels of schmoopiness with Sam all groggy and croaky and miserable. Prompt is here. Claimed by tifaching.
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Gen, No Preference, or Unspecified Prompts
1- Sam has a case of hypothermia that may leave him with a bad case of frost bite. Gen or Sam/Dean. Prompt is here. Claimed by twilightshours.
2- We all know that Sam has a beautiful smile. But when he gets hit in the face with a very large, very heavy object, he has to learn what life is like without his pearly whites. Prompt is here.
3- Dean comforts Sam as he comes off of demon blood (coda to 5.14). Gen or Sam/Dean. Prompt is here.
4- The first time Sam tried to use his new powers to exorcise a demon -- while Dean is in hell -- he not only gets a nosebleed and headache, he loses his sight. And he loses Ruby, who sees her carefully laid plans fall apart and shows her true colours. Dean returns to a "useless" (according to Sam), blind brother. Prompt is here. Claimed by delanach.
5- Sam is losing an inch of height a day. Suddenly he's the same height as Dean. Then suddenly he's smaller -- and smaller every day. Prompt is here.
6- Sam is convinced that when he dies, he's headed straight back to hell. Castiel convinces him otherwise. Prompt is here. Claimed by dime_for_12.
7- Sam is slowly losing his memories -- first the bad memories of his childhood, then unimportant things like his favorite foods, and gradually things that impact his personality and ability to function. Sam and Dean, gen or slash. Prompt is here. Claimed by dither_river.
8- Gen. S4 or after: Sam gets strep in August, prompting much teasing from his brother (Who gets sick in the middle of the summer?). Then it happens again, a little worse, at Thanksgiving, then once more, a lot worse, at Christmas. Dean tries to convice his brother to see a doctor (It's not normal to spend half the year without a voice, Sam.). But Sam shrugs him off and insists they go on with business as usual. Over the next week, he slowly wears down to the point where he whispers everything, randomly sleeps away a few hours every afternoon and barely touches food. A week later, when Sam's stomach forces them to pull over on the interstate and he's still running a high fever, Dean puts his foot down, drives them to an ER where they depressingly ring in another year amongst rowdy drunks who refuse to shut up so Sam can sleep while he gets IV antibiotics into him. Dean, in true Dean form, takes control of the situation. Some rather crude threats are made. Sam's too out of it to care. Prompt is here Claimed by vicious_trade.
9- Prior to the season 6 opener, Sam is shot with djinn poison. On a level, he's aware of what's happening, but then the hallucinations hit and his mind is opened to a wealth of hurt and emotion that has - fortunately or unfortunately - been denied to him over the past year. Prompt is here.
10- Heatstroke. Any where, any season. Prompt is here. Claimed by twilightshours.
11- In the beginning right after Dad's death Sam and Dean are at odds. Sam hides his illness from Dean which turns into many complications for both brothers. But Bobby can see right through all the bullshit. Prompt is here. Claimed by dontknowmyname.
12- Dean's deal is coming due soon but Sam's too sick to even realize the days are counting down. Sam let his health go for the sake of helping Dean and now it's Dean who needs to help Sam. Prompt is here.
13- Gen. late S1/early S2 'verse... Sam gets one of those horrible, blinding visions that leave him all pale and shaky and his head's hurting. He recovers soon enough and shakes it off, writing it off as "just a vision". But then it recurs, and recurs again... basically it becomes almost daily (or more than once a day). And each time, it becomes more violent and more debilitating, but it's always the same vision. Eventually, Sam's too sick and too weak to even move from his bed, often puking with the intensity of it and he gets little to no reprieve. Prompt is here. Claimed by lissa_ann.
14- Unbeknownst to anyone, Jess' ghost has been following the boys around all the time, trying to watch over Sam but ultimately unable to do anything to help him.
At some point after Sam broke the last seal (but before he is reveled to be Lucifer's vessel) he either falls very ill or is severly injured. Either way, he is going to die. Castiel still has enough mojo to help him but hesitates, thinking that considering Sam's nature and actions it might be better, in the grand scheme of things, if he didn't make it. But then he becomes aware of Jess and she manages to make him see beyond the "boy with the demon blood". Prompt is here. Claimed by claudiapriscus.
15- Gen. S1-S4, preferred. Sam gets something involving gastrointestinal badness and excruciating cramps along with diarrhea, vomiting, simultaneously having the runs while puking, the works. Go insane. Can be anything... supernatural or not. Prompt is here.
16- AU. Sam had an accident when he was a child. he has special needs. John is dead and Dean and Bobby still hunts, everything is like it is now but with Sam having special needs. Dean finds out about Adam, Sam is kidnapped by Lucifer, both brother help him though the aftermath. Prompt is here. Claimed by reading1066.
17- Gen. AU-post S4/apocalypse. Sam loses his hearing -- all of it. And on the top of it he has severe Tinnitus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus). He's always taken his hearing for granted, not realizing just how much of it is auditory-based until he loses it. Dean's awesome and there and solid and stops Sam from withdrawing completely into himself and shutting down. Prompt is here.
18- Gen. AU-post S3/S4-ish. Dean's back from Hell. Sam's been de-aged but retained his ginormous size. There is no hope for reversal (maybe because of something relating to his demon blood). Due to his mental age (which is complete - he has no memories of ever being an adult or anything that happened in his life... no Dad dying, no Jess, no YED, no Dean gone to Hell), people see him as "special" and Dean has to quit hunting to take care of his massively huge, five-year-old brother while grappling with his own PTS demons from Hell. The Seals are never broken (aside from the first few... namely Seal 1) and the apocalypse never happens because Sam never breaks the final Seal.
And at some point, while a child, Sam gets sick... like REALLY sick the way little kids do and he's all crying and clingy and all that stuff and Dean's stuck dealing with a huge, feverish Sam being all octopus all over him... Prompt is here. Claimed by 27_jaredjensen.
19- Sam and Dean, for some reason or another, are forced to encounter not just one but dozens of clowns. At first, Sam just freaks out a little and continues on. Eventually, though, he completely freaks out, full-blown screaming panicking fit. He doesn't recognize Dean at all, too busy flipping his shit to actually be aware of the outside world. Dean has to help get him out and calm him down. Prompt is here Claimed by cece_away.
20- Gen. Pre-Series. When Sam’s 15 he becomes seriously ill/seriously injured and Dean takes him to the hospital. Hospital staff, very concerned and trying to do the right thing (if you make the hospital staff evil schmucks who just don’t understand, I’ll be very sad), ask repeatedly about the father and if Dean is in fact the legal guardian of Sam. Dean can provide no documentation to prove this and, for Sam’s benefit, he’s moved to another facility to recover and then he’ll be put into a foster home by CPS. Dean’s distraught, probably hysterical, but this is Sam’s story. After a come and go recovery where everything’s blurry and bright and painful, Sam’s sent to a foster home and everything he ever wanted. Stability. Normalcy. A cute neighbor girl who doesn’t think he’s a giant freak despite what he’s just been through. A school he can stay at. He’s still weak from his ordeal, hell permanently damage him if you wanna, and everything logical tells him that he needs to stay put, keep his head down, and get stronger. His heart tells him otherwise and Sam, weakened, maybe injured, turns away from the bed that’s soft and his, and sets out to find Dean and, yes, John, too. (I think this should maybe be more than Sam calling up Dean and saying ‘come get me’ - so rule out the phones in whatever fashion you think best. I want Sam to go on a little journey here.) Prompt is here Claimed by ratherastory.
21- AU (maybe pre-series). Sam and Dean grow up with a drunk father who likes to take his anger out on his kids. Dean gets out, Sam lies and tells him that Dad backed off. Dean comes home (from college, or wherever he moved to) to find out Sam lied and John's abuse has gotten out of control. Prompt is here.
22- Sam has cancer. Either pre-series or Stanford-era... can be brain tumor, leukemia, whatever...but it's bad and he's really ill and hid it from everyone until it was to the point he collapses.
note: if Stanford-era, Jess calls Dean to tell him Sam is in the hospital. Prompt is here. Claimed by 9tiptoes
23- Partial picture prompt. Clicky Me, Please. Sam dives into the cage with Michael/Adam and down they go. The fall is long, painful, full of accusation and fighting and torment. At the bottom is the silvery shimmer of water. Michael, Lucifer, Sam, and Adam all plunge into the river Styx. Sam eventually comes up again despite the weight on his ankle and Lucifer and Michael both trying to burn their way into (back into) his body. (Adam's just gone on. Soul spared. WTFever, I do not care.) Sam fights to reach the shore, fights to stay sane, and maybe he's not sure why, maybe he knows he deserves this and that he should just allow himself to be pulled down. But he doesn't.
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Eventually, he sits on the shore of the river, listens to the creaking sound of wood over water as, oh, say a ferry draws near, and he thinks of Dean, life, and the desire to go home to both.
Gen, please. Prompt is here.
24- Gen, please. Sam has Trigeminal Neuralgia (tic douloureux). Which wikepedia (or Webmd or medscape, just use your google-fu) will explain in further detail. Basically, pain may be felt in any or all of the following: the ear, eye, lips, nose, scalp, forehead, cheeks, teeth, or jaw and alongside of the face, it is not easily controlled or cured. Poor Sammy. Please to be seeing this section: Wind, high pitched sounds, loud noises such as concerts or crowds, chewing, and talking can aggravate the condition, in many patients. Sam's having such an attack and it's loud, the wind stings with ice, there's a roaring in his ears, and his eyes fucking burn. But? Dean needs him and Sam will find him. Prompt is here
25- Gen S6 During a hunt, Sam falls and hits his head quite hard. When he wakes up- he is convinced that he's back in the cage and Dean is really Lucifer who wants to break Sam using Dean's body. Prompt is here. Claimed by minviendha.
26- Sam on the outside, looking in.
Sam and Dean are both dead. Sam never got his soul back, but there is some vestige left, echoes and memories. He is like a ghost in heaven, trying to get Dean to see him, trying to communicate with Dean. Maybe he uses Ash's radio. Maybe Cas can hear him. Maybe dead!Pamela can communicate with heaven ghosts. Up to you whether team!heaven can manage a soul rescue, or if Sam is left as a shadow of unsatisfied longing forever. Prompt is here. Claimed by annj_g80.
27- Sam was born with special needs (I.E autism etc.) Dean looks back through the years remembering what it was like to take care of a special needs brother and how their Dad helped and how he didn't help. Which means Dean remembering his child hood so a lot of flashbacks maybe he's recounting his time with someone else. Maybe another hunter (because come on you guys know that even John would still hunt even if Sam was special needs). Prompt is here.
28- Gen or wincest. Sam has revealed that he is currently feeling no emotions. I would love some lovely comforty fic where gets his emotions returned to him and suddenly has to actually feel everything that happened to him: Lucifer possessing him, the true depth of his manipulation through the years being revealed by Lucifer, all the possessed people Lucifer killed and drank while wearing him, beating Dean so badly, killing Castiel and Bobby, being trapped in Hell for who knows how long etc.
Basically, Dean hugging the bejeesus out of Sam and both of them getting the emotional, clinging, teary reunion that we were all denied in episode one. But AMPLIFIED because a year of the most epic enforced repression ever and then the dissatisfying troublesome reunion this season has to have made them need it even more, right?? Prompt is here. Claimed by captainlon.
29- In the beginning of season 5 Sam's feeling a butt load of guilt and Dean pretty much won't have a normal conversation with him that doesn't involve "You started the apocalypse".
Pretty much alone, scared and in need of someone to talk too Sam befriends another hunter who seems to understand what hes going through and talks to him like a normal human being. Sam's not stupid through he's already been duped once and has his guard up.
But what Sam doesn't know is the hunter is part of a ring of them who want nothing more than to Torture Sam till there hearts content. Sam's expecting just having a stern talk down and maybe a few punches but he doesn't realize the length these hunters are willing to go through to tear his insides out. Prompt is here.
30- Future!fic, with a lot of lingering issues. Sam/Dean or Gen.
Things are OK between Sam and Dean, but not great. Then Sam ends up with some permanently disabling injury or chronic illness. He needs a lot of care, and it's not like Dean's going to shirk the job. But from Sam's point of view, he's back to being a complete burden on Dean's life. As long as Sam's around and in this state Dean can't hunt, nor can he go to Lisa or some other happy, independent existence. Cue first, Sam finding ways to contribute and function and be awesome, and, second, both of them finding out that things are actually better for Dean when Sam is around. Prompt is here. Claimed by roque_clasique.
31- In Season 5, after Dean knows about the demon blood, Sam is hurt on a hunt but is trying to hide it. However, he starts coughing up blood, for whatever reason, and Dean, seeing the blood around Sam's mouth, mistakenly thinks it's evidence of Sam drinking blood again. Prompt is here. Claimed by vail_kagami.
32- On a lighter, less angsty note. As always, Sam/Dean and Gen equally welcome. I generally prefer series era or later rather than teen! or wee!Chesters.
They are in full throttle research mode when Sam manages to drop a dictionary on his foot. A seriously heavy dictionary -- say the Oxford Latin Dictionary, since it's not online. A lot of swearing from Sam, a lot of mocking from Dean, till Dean realizes that the foot actually is broken. Pretty nastily broken, as it turns out. Followed by a trip to the ER and a few weeks of Sam on crutches, with Dean alternately being helpful and telling every witness they interview a new, embarrassing, and completely fictitious story about how Sam broke his foot. Finally Dean's moronic how-could-anyone-hurt-themselves-with-a-book brother has to do some seriously kickass stuff on nasty terrain, broken foot and all, getting them out of a tight spot, and there is sarcastic, concerned, bantery bonding. Prompt is here. Claimed by electricalgwen.
33- After the Devil's Trap/IMTOD car crash, Sam is hiding or ignoring physical repercussions from the accident. Dean finds out when Sam can't hide it anymore. Prompt is here. Claimed by jennytork.
34- Gen. AU to beginning of S6--Sam shows up at Dean's door after he gets hurt while hunting with the Campbells. Prompt is here. Claimed by moviegeek03.
35- Sam/Dean or Gen, any series or post-series time.
Sam's not making it out of this one. He's alone, he's badly hurt, he's way the heck in the middle of nowhere, and it's starting to snow. But, miraculously, his cell phone is working. There are some things he wants to say to Dean, and this is his last chance.
Up to you if Sam lets on what's happening or keeps Dean in the dark, or if last minute rescue is possible after all. Prompt is here. Claimed by harrigan.
36- When Sam's body sleeps, he connects with his soul. He knows the tortures his soul is experiencing and his soul finds out everything his body is doing. Prompt is here.
37- AU/Gen In the episode Hunted Gordon does more than try to shoot Sam, he somehow captures Sam and begins to torture him for more information. That's where uber/protective/caring Dean intervenes to beat the crap out of Gordon and dish out some hurt/comfort for our poor Sammy. Prompt is here.
38- 6.07 spoiler. So it seems like on Friday we will learn that desouled Sam DOESN'T SLEEP AT ALL. NOT SINCE HE GOT BACK. So what if they resoul him and that just comes crashing down? A year and more of exhaustion and sleep deprivation catching up. Combine that with some cage nightmares. Be sadistic. I love me some tired!Sam, and this is like the Iliad of tired!Sam. Prompt is here. Claimed by debbiel66.
39- General season 6 spoiler. Sampa and the evil cousin Clan have been using Sam to there advantage since he has no soul therefore no repercussions or judgment. Sam get's sent on a dangerous hunt that seriously injures him. Dean is called and while Sam is recuperating (hospital or Sampa clan place you choose) Dean is going to find out what the hell is going on. Prompt is here.
40- Gen, please. Any season. AU but of course. Sam suffers from seizures as a result of a previous head trauma. Sam has a seizure response dog which can be trained, in the event of a seizure, to get help, immoblize him, carry med info (the thought of Sam & said dog having matching medic alert bracelet/dog tag is kinda cute), sense the onset of a seizure, move items, block victim from walking into dangerous things if it's a partial/walking seizure, etc.
This is probably all very handy when one's misplaced one's brother during a hunt and more than protecting himself, really just wants to find him. Of course, the dog may be conflicted -lay on Sammy, keep him safe, or go get help.
I dunno. Just the thought of Sam telling the dog to go find Dean is somehow awful and cute and sweet and I'm probably touched in the head.
Dean whump is always an appreciated bonus. Prompt is here.
41- Gen, post season 5/pre-season 6. I'm not mentioning spoilers, but if you want to use info from upcoming episodes to write this, you can. It's mostly dreamy and descriptive and sad and abstract, so the logistics are only as important as you want to make them.
Between the cage and Sam waking the night of his return is a lonely, surreal time. A time for a quest, maybe. A search. Not for his brother, whom he loves and can find. But for his father, who he knows cannot be found in Heaven and whom Sam now searches out to make his peace. To forgive and be forgiven. Maybe just to tell him that he loves him, he gets it, even if he wishes it could have been different, and to say/do whatever he thinks needs to be said so that his Dad can find his heaven, his peace, and the love of his life. Make it as dreamy and creepy or sad or as unglued as you possibly can/want. Prompt is here.
42- Prompt: Gen. After the end of Season 5, Sam is reborn back into his life, but with his memories intact. Being an adult inside a baby's body is hard. Unable to express himself except through the most basic of actions, unable to control his motor functions, he withdraws into himself, mostly lost in thought. John and Mary think that he may have autism or another handicap. The only one that brings Sam back to them is little Dean (who doesn't have any adult memories). Prompt is here.
43- Sam is horrifically burned during the time Dean is in hell after S3. When Dean returns it's to a brother whose face he barely recognises. Sam is still in a lot of pain and won't look in the mirror for fear of seeing the monster he knows is there.
If there's going to be any pairings, I'd rather it light wincest please.
As an additional request, I'd love it if this was somehow made cannon with Ruby getting Sam addicted to demon blood as it's the only thing that will relieve his pain. Prompt is here.
44- Gen! S5 preferred. Generally a progressively downhill - physically and mentally - Sam fic. (Dean is tired, and barely cares anymore. Sam is guilt-ridden, but trying.) The brothers run into something- can be a witch, trickster, angel, whatever fits. In order to make Sam see the evil inside him, it curses him by taking the proverb "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" literally. Nothing happens for a while, and Dean dismisses it, until they start their next hunt. At first it's little things while Sam's researching: ringing in his ears, blurry eyes, coughing. It hits full force when they go against a poltergeist (or whatever) and Sam is physically blind and deaf to it. No extreme injuries, but Sam's curse gets progressively worse, as well as his mental state (due mostly to guilt and self-doubt). Not only is he unable to research or even talk about the hunt, but he temporarily loses his sight every time he sees his reflection, goes completely mute, etc. (You can take his impairments as far as you want.) They finally go after what cursed Sam. But does the curse function on the guidelines of the one who cursed him, or Sam's own perception of evil? Prompt is here.
45- 6.07 & later spoilers. Sam is seriously injured while covering Dean's back on a hunt. He's clearly dying and Dean has no intention of leaving his brother's side when suddenly Tessa appears to him. She's come to reap Sam's soul, except she can't find it. She enlists Dean to help in searching for it while he tries his hardest to convince Tessa to let Sam live when they find it. Sam, meanwhile, keeps fading even though Tessa swears that neither she, nor any of the other reapers, have touched him. Whether or not they find Sam's soul and whether or not Dean makes a convincing argument is up to you. Prompt is here.
46- Gen or Sam/Dean; s6 AU. Sam's visions are back. Only now they are always of the same thing, Lucifer and the cage. At first he and Dean think they may just be flashbacks, but they last longer and longer, and Lucifer begins talking to Sam during them, and Cas warns them that Lucifer may be building a kind of bridgehead, finding a way through Sam's powers and the connection between them to slip out of the cage and regain his vessel. Because once Sam said Yes, he said Yes; Lucifer doesn't need his consent again. Could be that the only way to stop him is for Sam to die while he still can. Prompt is here. Claimed by emmram.
47- Canon S4, gen. So at the end of S4, Sam was obviously struggling through withdrawal (even before Dean pulls the all-stop and locks him in Bobby's Supernatural Bomb Shelter). Sam's point of view as he struggles though the cravings, the tremors, the sweats, the whole nine yards. Feel free to take it all the way through to the Bomb Shelter scenes of LEVEE. Just... make Sam go through Withdrawal. Preferably a very painful one. Prompt is here.
48- S1 or 2, Sam/Dean or gen. I don't care how they got there. I don't care how/if they get out. The boys get locked in one of those big industrial walk-in freezers with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and maybe some handwarmers if you're feeling generous.Sam took a dunk in the pool/alligator moat/communal shower/whatever, so he's not doing so hot. Dean may have been the lucky one in that he got locked in dry, but he's still not having a picnic watching Sam turn blue and frosty and incoherent. Prompt is here.
49- Gen, any season. Sam gets a head injury that leaves him with some serious motor-control issues -- he can't grab well, can't aim his feet well, has trouble judging distances, all that jazz. Other than that he's all right -- no pain, nothing like that, just a bad case of not being able to do SHIT for himself anymore. How do he and Dean deal? Prompt is here.
50- After watching the pilot of The Walking Dead, I want to see a season six AU where Sam comes back from hell immediately after a zombie apocalypse. He's weak, emaciated and traumatized when he comes to in Stull Cemetery, but killing zombies and trying to find Dean - who he prays is still alive - takes his mind off everything he's been through. I'd love to see the same confusion and process of discovery that we see Rick Grimes go through in The Walking Dead (or Jim in 28 Days Later, if you haven't see the first), with Sam leaving Stull to maybe hunt for some food and water and finding deserted shops and towns. Sam leading a band of survivors, while trying to get find Dean, dealing with PTSD and with the realization that he saved the world from Lucifer, but not from everything, will all get double bonus points.
Somehow, I think Sam/Dean might make this more interesting, but I'm a gen-lover, so either way works for me. Prompt is here.
51- Gen or Sam/Dean, pre-series (preferably with Sam older than fifteen) or canon timeline, Chelsea Grin. Prompt is here.
52- Gen or Sam/Dean. Anyone seen the BBC Mystery series Second Sight? The detective was suffering from a rare eye disease, which was slowly destroying his sight and causing distorted vision and hallucinations. (The disease was meant to be AZOOR, but a brief look online suggests that Second Sight made the hallucinations spookier and more psychological). That would be worse for a hunter, now wouldn't it? Not just losing the ability to hunt and research, bit by bit, but seeing things out of the corner of your eye, and maybe it's just the disease progressing, but maybe there IS something there. Dean doesn't know what to believe, when Sam says something is after him, something he can never quite see clearly, something Dean doesn't see at all. Prompt is here. Claimed by cordelia_gray.
53- Season 6 spoilers. Sam's soul has been in hell all this time and when it's put back into Sam's body, he's a mess. For weeks, he varies between screaming, crying and being catatonic. Finally, Dean gets through to him somehow. Of course, Sam's first word should be Dean. Prompt is here. Claimed by arialyre.
54- If heaven is reliving your best memories, hell is reliving your worst ones over and over again. When Sam gets back from hell, Dean deals with the fallout. Prompt is here.
55- Sam gets gum in his hair and has to cut it all off. Prompt is here. Claimed by cherry916.
56- A spell (or whathaveyou) physically de-ages Sam down to infancy. Luckily, it's temporary and Sam starts growing up again really quickly - at the rate of about two months/hour or two years/day. Almost immediately Dean realizes two things:
1) Sam's adult mind is intact, which becomes evident as soon as his physical body is old enough to talk, and
2) Everything that Sam's body went through in his real life happens again as he regrows- all the injuries, illnesses, etc. Cuts and bruises appear out of nowhere, that leg Sam broke when he was 12 snaps all over again, he gets hit with fast brutal waves of fevers and flu. It all heals really quickly, too, but Dean starts getting really freaked out at the sheer number of big and small hurts Sam suffered as a kid and teen, including some Dean never knew about (A minor injury was bigger than Sam let on? Stanford era meningitis?). Dean gets a little angsty regarding his perceived failures as a protector, and tries to make up for it this time around.
Sam/Dean or gen are both welcomed; Dean POV is adored; any season is great (although season two is my personal favourite h/c period). Feel free to mess with the details, and thanks just for reading the long prompt! Prompt is here.
57- After returning from Hell, Sam has problems adapting to the bright loud world filled with people. Dean not knowing what to do with a extremely paranoid and scared Sam. Prompt is here. Claimed by faunaana.
58- Season 6 spoilers. Dean thought he wanted his brother back. When they manage to get Sam's soul back into his body, he isn't so sure anymore. Instead of a cold, unfeeling shell he gets an insane wreck who is completely overwhelmed by the memories of centuries of neverending physical and emotional torture. Cas tried to warn Dean that this would happen, but Dean thought he could deal - and anything's better than leaving Sam's soul in hell forever. Claimed by radiumgirl.
Unfortunately, Dean can't deal with this on his own and eventually Sam ends up in a mental hospital, drugged and restrained to keep him from hurting himself and others in his madness. Unable to tell reality from his memories to begin with, the restrains make Sam freak out even more. Completely refusing food, plagued by horrific nightmares whenever they drug him to sleep and under constant emotional stress, he wastes away and falls sick. Castiel sticks around to help him as best he can, because he somehow feels responsible for Sam, or just because Sam is his friend. Dean can't bear to see his brother suffer like that but stays anyway because he's an awesome big brother.
Whether Sam eventually gets better, stays like that or even dies is up to the author. Prompt is here.
59- Gen. Someone watched Avatar one too many times and thought it funny to curse Sam Winchester into a Na’vi. Dean finds it hilarious as the transformation progresses (it goes slowly and over a period of time, up to the taker to decide how long, like for it to be painful whenever a new change hits). Things stops being funny when Dean realize that eventually the physiology is going to catch up and Sam will suffocate on air he can’t breathe. Prompt is here
60- The first time Sam drinks Ruby's blood. Prompt is here. Claimed by phreakycat.
61- Gen. Wee!chesters. It's the first anniversary of Mary's death and John has got plastered just like he planned leaving Sam's care to Dean. Which is fine by Dean but then Dean notices something wrong. Sam won't quit crying, he won't eat anything and his cheeks are a rosy red. Dean realizes that Sam must be sick and needs help fast.
So Dean does all he can to get his Dad's attention. Which at first is hard because his Dad is varying between drunken slurs and times when he's completely passed out. So Dean does something in a million years he never imagine doing... (Up to author) Prompt is here.
62- A bit of an AU s5, after 5.08, maybe. Just when Sam thinks that he and Dean have finally started on the long, hard road to redemption, he discovers that he's beginning to change. He can't make holy water. Salt irritates his skin. Soon he's getting hemmed in by Devil's traps. His body's changing - more muscle, his skin rippling and shifting like something's moving inside. After all, for a man who survived the heart-rate-temperature overload while raising Lucifer with no repercussions, there would need to be only these final finishing touches to finish prepping him to house the devil. Prompt is here. Claimed by rokhal.
63- Gen - Unpleasant truths: Sam's premonitions are back. But there's a catch - this time he sees the past and learns a lot more than he ever wanted to. Prompt is here.
64- Gen. or Sam/Cas if you're feeling adventurous. Preferably around the end of Season 5. Sam and Cas find themselves trapped somewhere Cas can't just zap away from (maybe Cas' powers have faded too much, maybe the place is warded for him, up to you). Sam's asthma is acting up, and what started out as a mild cough and maybe some wheezing quickly starts to turn more sinister-sounding. Naturally his inhaler is MIA, and Cas finds himself in the unfamiliar role of caretaker, trying to keep Sam calm and awake even while each breath gets thinner and more desperate and he slips closer and closer to unconsciousness, until Dean (or whoever else) can get there and get them out. Additional whump will get you cookies. :) Prompt is here. Claimed by rainylemons.
65- Gen. Stanford-era/Pilot. Dean comes to fetch Sam back from Stanford to go look for their father, only to find that his baby brother has been permanently injured/impaired in some way for well over a year, possibly since the last time they talked on the phone two years ago. Bonus points if Sam goes with him in spite of the newfound disability. Further bonus points for Sam having learned to deal mostly on his own but taking comfort in the knowledge that his brother does have his back after all. Prompt is here. Claimed by embroiderama.
66- Gen, post season 5 or 6. Sam develops Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and goes on treatment. Radiation and chemo. Loses his hair, Dean buys him hats, and they mostly just deal because that's how they are. But, Sam doesn't take to the chemo well and starts to get a little paranoid, starts to think that someone's poisoning him. Everyone thinks he's just depressed, has psych issues from the illness, and is maybe associating how badly the chemo makes him feel with poison or the intent of harm. Psych meds ensue and more pain meds and Sam tries repeatedly to ditch chemo, get out of it, or just rip it off. This is very hard for Dean, of course, because he knows chemo makes Sam feel like utter shit, but it's for his own good.
Except, yeah, Sam's right and he's being murdered slowly via the medication meant to save him.
Please don't make Dean the dumbass who can't see that Sam's clearly right about this. More also? Evil nurse? So overdone. Prompt is here.
67- Gen. Sam's first panic room experience, please. Probably prior to being tied down. Sam's craving for demon blood and his general hallucinatory state lead him to think that drinking from the only available source of demon blood on hand is a good idea. Said source? Himself. Cut, bite, whatever you've got to do. Dean and Bobby are horrified and Dean maybe almost lets Sam out after he holds him down, sutures him, comforts him, but he doesn't. Maybe it makes things that much harder (or easier?) for one guilt-ridden little angel who does eventually let Sam go. Prompt is here. Claimed by minviendha.
68- The hunters' attack on Sam in 5x03 left Sam with some sort of permenant injury (or something horribly painful with a long recovery period--like 3rd degree burns requiring grafting--but really whatever writer wants) so, not wanting Dean to feel obligated to take care of him, he tells Dean he was right the first time and they should stay apart when Dean calls wanting to reunite. Dean's pissed and a couple of months go by until somehow he finds out that Sam has been suffering alone all this time. Bonus points if Sam is depressed and not doing much to heal, thinking he deserves this and maybe Lucifer won't want him for a vessel if he's damaged. Prompt is here.
69- Gen. Season 2. After the car accident Sam keeps having frequent panic attacks, loss of sleep and little appetite.
Feeling even more shitty than before Sam stumbles across a conversation Dean has with another bar patron talking about what a pain in the ass he is and how Dean would be better off without him. Feeling more alone than he's ever felt Sam leaves in the night with no note or forwarding address. Dean wakes up to a missing brother and a whole heap of emotions. He'll do anything to find Sam again and make it right.
While Sam is trying to live life on the road with little money he gets into his own problems along the way. Prompt is here. Claimed by earthquakedream.
70- Warnings for potentially triggering material. Sometime in season 1 or 2 it comes out that Sam was sexually abused when he was a little kid, but the twist is that it was by a woman. At first Sam liked the attention/affection because he craved a mother-figure so badly. Then when things first seemed off, he figured he was just being paranoid because he didn't know how mothers were supposed to act. When the abuse crosses the line into painful and invasive, he's too embarrassed to tell, one because he let it get so far when he's supposed to be trained and tough, and two because it's a woman and Dean (maybe 13) who has started talking about girls, has teased Sam about being scared of girls because he always blushes when Dean talks. Plus, Dean acts like any guy should be happy to have a girl want to do things like that with him. He'd probably think he was a loser for hating it and crying about it. Prompt is here.
71- Pre-series, no pairings. Flagstaff! Sam runs away, you pick the reason, but no evil family members- no evil Dean, no evil John, no evil Sam. They can fight, but no everlasting grudges. I'd like a happy ending on this too, but not too sappy. Run with it however you want. Prompt is here.
72- Stockholm Syndrome. Can be monster or human (heck, it can be something looking like Dean or Jessica, I'm just throwing out ideas). Hopefully includes Dean to the rescue and slow but optimistic recuperation. Prompt is here. Claimed by micalaux.
73- Spoilers for 6.07 Sam gets his soul back and now has to deal with all the trauma of his time in hell and the year of being without Dean. Cue comforting!Dean and Bobby and Castiel. Plenty of schmoop and hugs. Prompt is here. Claimed by asilia.
74- Spoilers for 6.07 Sam's body seems to have made off with more faculties than is typical when a body and soul part ways -- it's not in a vegetative state, for one thing. This has left his soul with the emotions and the moral compass, but extremely limited cognitive abilities and only those memories anchored to very strong emotions, confused and terrified and angry and floating around like an incomplete ghost. It ends up "haunting" somewhere attached to some very strong emotion, torn between the influence of the moral compass on one hand and the confusion-terror-anger on the other. --A haunting at this emotionally charged location inevitably attracts attention from certain persons. Sam's soul recognizes Dean, of course, but what is that thing? (Self-loathing tendencies? Not going to help here.) When and how does Dean figure out what's going on? What does Sam's soul try to do to his body? What does Sam's body try to do to his soul (keeping in mind a basic salt-and-burn is impractical)? Can Sam be reconstituted, or is he the one who will be haunting the car henceforth? Prompt is here. Claimed by mercuryblue144.
75- Post season 5 or 6: While the relationship of Dean and Sam is once again difficult and tense, Dean decides to finally get away from his pain of a brother and leaves during one assumedly easy hunt. He doesn't leave a note, just plans to call at some point to let Sam know he hasn't been eaten by anything. But he gets distracted for a while (a girl, maybe) and during that time, Sam notices he's gone (Dean doesn't answer his calls), thinks he was taken by whatever, and goes to find and save him.
Before Dean gets a chance to get in contact with him, whatever they were hunting turns out to be a bit more dangerous that they thought. It takes Sam and tortures him for a few days or weeks (go wild here, if you want to, almost anything's fine, but if you just want to brush over it, that's fine too). Eventually he manages to kill the thing and escape, but not without being severely injured in the process, on top of everything else. Prompt has been truncated in the post as a concession to length. Full prompt is here.
76- Sam/Dean, slash or gen. Post-apocalyptic world filled with dangers but nothing the Winchesters couldn't handle -- except that as soon as they find a relatively safe, secure place to settle, Sam develops severe agoraphobia and doesn't want to leave their house. Prompt is here. Claimed by justmmy.
77- Gen. Sam and Dean get stuck in a loop (Trickster/Mystery Spot style -- for whatever reason the author chooses), but this time they are both aware that they're reliving the same day over and over again for weeks. The really crappy part is Sam happened to be suffering from bronchitis/teetering on pneumonia when the spell was cast, and is forced to relive the same day over and over again at the peak of the illness after barely getting any sleep the night before. Every day he wakes up just as sick as he was the day before and his exhaustion/tolerance keeps mounting, but he knows that if he doesn't at least make an effort to help Dean figure out how they get out of it, chances are they'll be stuck in the loop twice as long. Dean's freaking out trying to find a way to break the spell (because, frankly, he can't take much more of it either) and struggles between needing Sam's help and making his miserable brother rest. Prompt is here. Claimed by 27_jaredjensen.
78- During a hunt Sam disappears. Dean kills the monster they were hunting, but can't find a trace of his brother. A month later Sam shows up at Bobby's, desperately ill and unable to tell what happened. Now Dean has to figure it out in order to save him. Gen, prefer Season 1 or 2. Prompt is here. Claimed by nwhepcat.
79- Gen, post BUABS. I would love to see something that deals with the traumatic fallout of being possessed in a way that parallels the aftermath of sexual assault. (Details greyed out due to potentially triggering subject matter - highlight to read).
The way I see it, having a demon take total control of your body and forcing you to do things against your will would produce reactions and emotions very similar to those associated with rape (violation, shame, anger, flashbacks, etc). Sam is traumatized by Meg's possession but is in denial, trying his best to carry on as normal and pretend nothing happened. After all, it's over and done with and Winchesters don't dwell and mope. Bonus points for Dean slowly realizing how traumatic and violating the whole experience was for Sam and being determined to help him heal. No total woobie Sam, though, please. Tough-but-wounded Sammy is awesome! Prompt is here. Claimed by lissa_ann.
80- In Yellow Fever, Sam is the one who becomes scared of everything instead of Dean. Prompt is here.
81- Devil's Trap AU. Gen. Azazel possesses Sam instead of John, thinking that there is no way John or Dean would ever kill Sam. John and Dean struggle to make a decision that might lead to the ultimate sacrifice. Prompt is here.
82- Season 6 general spoilers. Gen :)
After living without a soul for a year Sam finally get's it back (how is up to you) and is flooded with all types of emotions. He misses human touch because he was deprived of it in Hell and without a soul he just didn't care. So he does little things at first like brushing Dean's hand just that bit longer and touching of the shoulders more often. At first Dean just thinks Sam's being a weirdo then he gets it. Claimed by twirlycurls.
83- Season 2 following BUABS. Gen. Sam's still holding a lot of guilt over killing Steve Wandell even though Dean says it wasn't him he still doesn't believe it. So when Sam decides to go for a evening walk to clear out his head he's ambushed by a van and kidnapped. Sam later realizes that these are hunters and there not going to let Sam get away after what's he's done. Dean thus searches frantically for his brother ans is all badass like usual.
84- Early-ish S1. Gen. There's something hunting second-born sons and the guys decide to go and hunt it because... duh... that's what they do. Only they don't figure out the creature/fugly/witch/whatever's M/O before it latches onto Sam. Sam, who hasn't been eating, hasn't been sleeping, and is still a wreck over Jess' death goes down fast and hard. Symptoms can be anything but preferably entailing some/all of the following: crazy-high fever, night sweats, sweating, shivering, peeing pure blood, hard distended stomach, excruciating cramps, muscle spasms, seizures, being unable to keep anything down, etc. Pretty much go crazy (anything up to and including the kitchen sink is included -- but preferably stuff involving the stomach and plumbing) and make Sam weak beyond belief. As in to the point where he vocally wants to die. Dean's the one who has to hunt and end the fugly while taking care of Sam. Keep the guys IC please -- no wooby-ing, etc. Prompt is here. Claimed by wallflowerlady.
85- AU, around the timeline of S1, gen or wincest, I don't really care.
Deaf!Sam leaves John and Dean because of the usual issues with John, made even worse by John thinking that Sam can't hunt because of his disability. After Sam leaves Dean has a major fallout with John and goes to find Sam. The brothers start to hunt together and it works well for them, until Bobby calls them up because John needs help on a particularly difficult hunt. John discovers that Dean chose Sam over him, that Sam is a good hunter despite being deaf... bonus points if there is wincest and that is another issue the boys and John have to deal with. Prompt is here. Claimed by nwspaprtaxis.
86- Gen. Pre-series or season 1. Sam is hurt/sick or both and ends up in hospital. Detailed hospital procedures, examination, etc. Big brother protective Dean. Prompt is here.
87- Gen. Sam breaks his pelvis and fractures a vertebrae sometime during or after S1. Sam's functional and still able to hunt effectively, but wages a daily battle against the (sometimes debilitating) chronic pain and is occasionally forced to rely on a crutch of some sort -- but not all the time. Not so much interested in the actual injury/recovery, but rather the aftermath. The good days vs. the bad days, the regimented drug therapy, not being able to stay in one position for too long, the agonizing rise from his bed in the mornings. Would love Dean to very quietly make adjustments in their lives so as not to make Sam feel like he's a burden on those days when things get really tough. Prompt is here Claim has been abandoned.
88- Gen. S2. Post-NO EXIT. A hunt that turns personal (maybe the guys couldn't save the victim, it involved kids, or had something connected with Dad... I don't care and am not fussy) goes seriously south, leaving the boys both injured and bleeding (Sam more than Dean, obviously, and it doesn't matter what their injuries are... just make them both a little bloodied-up) and grappling with "what the hell just happened?" But the thing is, Sam was already coming down with something -- preferably of the pneumonia/bronchitis variety -- when the hunt began so with his injury, he's really feeling crappy (maybe even passing out in the car). Dean's also at the end of his rope, so he hauls their butts to Harvelle Roadhouse because it's the nearest "safe" place he can think of, despite being chewed out by Ellen in NO EXIT.
Ellen's no longer seriously furious at them -- her temper burned itself out and she knows that the Winchester Boys really did do everything they could to keep Jo safe and that the events of NO EXIT wasn't entirely their faults because, hello, it's Jo, and she doesn't blame them for their father's actions involving Bill because she knows they had nothing to do with the incident -- and when she sees how beaten-to-west-hell-and-back they both are, she takes them in and tends to them in her hard-as-nails-yet-maternal way, taping up wounds, kissing their poor shattered souls, tucking them in bed and forcing them to sleep and heal, and also helping Sam through his bronchitis/pneumonia. Prompt has been truncated due to length (holy crap, people!). Full prompt is here. Claimed by vonnie836.
89- Spoilers for 6.07 Okay, we all know Sam can't feel and Dean seems to be Mister Emotional this year. What if the reason behind that is that Sam's missing soul latched onto Dean's body?
Sam not sleeping is causing his body to slowly break down. Dean's housing two souls -- inadvertently -- is causing his mind to snap.
How does the wandering soul get back to Sam where it belongs? Will there be any residuals from being inside Dean for so long?
I'd love to see Sam a blubbering mess once his emotions return along with a whole other set of memories....
Gen only, if possible. If gotta do slash, nothing more'n a kiss or two onscreen... please. Prompt is here.
90- Comforty schmoop, please. Sam/Dean or Gen. It's a miserable, sleety day, Sam has a cold, and the boys are investigating something that involves trudging from door to door endlessly, interviewing people, while Sam gets sicker and sicker. By dinner his voice is totally gone, he's not eating, and Dean can see he's running a fever. He agrees to swallow a couple of aspirin, but he's not going to go back to the motel and lie down while the thing's still out there. So they trudge off into the woods -- and of course Sam is wearing that ridiculous light jacket meant for balmy spring nights and sneakers with no waterproofing -- and kill the thing and then Sam just collapses. Lots of getting him out of soaking, icy clothes, forcing him to swallow warm beverages, concerned forehead feelings, yelling at him for being an idiot who doesn't know how to take care of himself, and general insane levels of schmoopiness with Sam all groggy and croaky and miserable. Prompt is here. Claimed by tifaching.
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