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In all of history there have been less than a dozen recorded Necromancers. Most of them destroyed themselves with the madness that came from such an unpredictable gift. Those few who survived, who learned to control that cold affinity, were feared for the power they wielded. When Dean is kidnapped by a crazy psychic out to collect the talents of others like him and enslave their souls to fuel his own power base, Sam is left wondering how he's going to pick up the pieces now that his brother seems to have everything he's ever wanted, with just one little catch... (J2/SPN BigBang, 2009)
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I don't have the answer / I want to meet you where you are / I don't need you to surrender...
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If Dean deserves to be saved, maybe Sam does too. Set during the time period from 4x01 through 4x07.
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Sometimes Dean needs a little pick-me-up. When Sam finds out, he's not happy.
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"There is blood left in the dirt in its trail, the stench of it tinged with smoke and fire. Its blind stumble is followed by the predators of a tree-filled place with wary eyes and offended noses, scenting bleeding and vulnerable but not prey, wrong."
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Dean's feeling a little claustrophobic. Sam takes his mind off of it.
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John was always meant to break the First Seal. Sam was always meant to lead Azazel’s army, start the Apocalypse, and say “yes” in Denver. Dean was always meant to be the Sword of Michael.
The Hosts of Heaven and the Hordes of Hell had planned the Apocalypse down to the last detail. They were all sure Destiny and Fate could not be altered once set in motion.
Of course, no one took into account, the theory that if a New Orleans butterfly flutters her wings, a man in Jericho might walk out of his hotel room and change everything.
(A true-to-canon fanfic covering 25 years from pre-series through the end of season 6; explaining how Castiel and the Winchesters got from there to here and how an Angel's errand girl Saw the way to salvation and led the fall.)
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AU of 7.02. The Leviathans and the souls destroyed each other. But Dean, Sam, and Bobby know that things are never that simple. They know it for a fact when they find two dark-haired children, one wearing face of a former friend and one wearing the face of a former enemy, lying on the panic room floor....
Written for the 2011 Reverse-bang over at Livejournal, which means there's art by the lovely watercolor artist farfadine. Her masterpost for this fic is here: http://farfadine.livejournal.com/194560.html
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Summary: Extended coda/AU to 6.22, The Man Who Knew Too Much. Cas leaves the boys behind, and Dean finds himself with one broken arm, one broken car, and one broken brother. But they've had worse, and Dean figures that as long as Sam is alive and safe and with him, they can deal with everything else. But it turns out he doesn't know the half of it. Title taken from "Stable Song" by Gregory Alan Isakov.
Warnings: Allusions to torture and mildly graphic self-harm. Allusions to schizophrenia but I'm not claiming to diagnose or portray it. …Yup, that should cover it. Sammy definitely gets the short end of the stick in this story, but I'm pretty indiscriminate with the whump here, so Dean and Bobby aren't really safe either… -
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Summary: He wasn't scratching the wall. The wall was scratching him. Clawing at him, more like. Tearing him. Wearing him down. AU after 6.11, Appointment in Samarra. Based on the idea that, even if Sam left the wall alone, what if the wall wouldn't leave him alone? Expect massive mind-attacks and an awesome big brother.
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- Part 1 of When The Levee Breaks 'Verse
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Watching him, Dean could almost pretend that Sam was not so destroyed as he really was. He could be sleeping...right? Sequel to "When the Levee Breaks," set after "Appointment in Samarra."
(And in case you don't want to go back and read the story that comes before this one, all you really have to know that it's post "Appointment in Samarra" and that the wall has come down. Here's the fallout.)Series
- Part 2 of When The Levee Breaks 'Verse
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"Somehow he was floating free. And it wasn't water anymore. It was blood...it was sulfur...it was fire. And he was drowning in it." Coda to "The French Mistake," written for a prompt by the lovely phreakycat for one of ohsam h/c comment fic memes over on Livejournal last year. I don't want to give away the plot but the request was essentially for some heavy angst pertaining to this episode and some unexpected consequences of inter-dimensional travel for Sam. Didn't think it was possible, but when I saw the prompt, my brain went to that "challenge: accepted" place that seems to write so many of my cruelest fics for me.
And a thank-you to phreakycat for having been a stupendous beta on this one, as well!
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AU. When Sam gets out of the Cage decades have passed.
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- Part 7 of Author's Favorites
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He's still a liar. Maybe always has been.
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When Dean comes back from Hell, it's hard to shake a few hard-won instincts.
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He hears Lucifer laughing, nothing more than a burning presence somewhere to his left. He can’t see much anymore, blinded by the relentless burning sun; Lucifer’s hand touches his face and the skin blackens and burns, peels away until there is nothing but bone in its place )
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It was the simple things from their lives before Hell, Lucifer, and Leviathans that Dean missed most. Like stitching up a bleeding Sam who wasn’t hallucinating that the suture needle was a meat hook.
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Dean’s back from hell convinced he came back wrong.
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Dean has a better reason for PTSD than pretty much anyone on the planet who's still human. He could use a little reprieve.
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Sound doesn’t travel in hell. Nothing but fire and chains, nothing but smoke and sulfur. Nothing for sound to bounce off of, to travel somewhere someone would hear and save him. Somewhere Sam would hear and save him. But Sam can’t hear him, nor save him, not even when Dean is back on earth.
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Dean's permanent record has the facts, but not the truth. Sam has some trouble with the difference.
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Summary: Extended coda/AU to 6.22, The Man Who Knew Too Much. Cas leaves the boys behind, and Dean finds himself with one broken arm, one broken car, and one broken brother. But they've had worse, and Dean figures that as long as Sam is alive and safe and with him, they can deal with everything else. But it turns out he doesn't know the half of it. Title taken from "Stable Song" by Gregory Alan Isakov.
Warnings: Allusions to torture and mildly graphic self-harm. Allusions to schizophrenia but I'm not claiming to diagnose or portray it. …Yup, that should cover it. Sammy definitely gets the short end of the stick in this story, but I'm pretty indiscriminate with the whump here, so Dean and Bobby aren't really safe either… -
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To his horror, Sam discovers that he's a stealth!snuggler.
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De-aged!Dean, early season four, having a tough time of it.
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"You know why. I'm not leaving my brother alone out there."
Sam is dependent on Dean's touch and closeness after the wall falls - Dean's presence reminds him of why he chose to wake up, and keeps the memories at bay, allowing Sam to function.
The brothers have to face up to what happens when their Winchester codependency becomes literal, and the physical, spatial and temporal boundaries of their bond blur the line between familiar and suffocating, comforting and limiting.- Language:
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WARNING: Brief Bottom Dean.
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AU set after Season 5, Episode 22 "Swan Song". Castiel rescues Sam from Hell but Dean finds out that 180 years in the Cage have changed his brother. Will Dean be able to leave hunting behind and take care of his damaged sibling?
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The Frayed 'verse is canon-divergent after the end of season 5. When he's trapped for centuries with two pissed off archangels and a younger brother he can't always protect, in a space where he can never be sure of what's real and what's not, coming back from Hell is really rough on Sam. After he finally finds his way out, alone and frightened, and makes his way back to Dean, Sam has to deal with hallucinations, lifetimes of guilt and trauma, and a whole host of sensory issues. The world is too loud too bright too rough too fast too much, and for Sam, just existing is a whole new struggle. But Dean is there, and they do what they can to make it work.
And thanks to my amazing beta, tarotgal, who always helps me figure out where I'm going in this 'verse. It wouldn't be what it is without you.
(This 'verse is still a work in progress.)
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In the Beginning, There Was Sam by orphan_account for WetSammyWinchester
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Dean is content to drink himself to death the in company of Ben and Lisa, but when Bobby calls, asking for help, he can’t let his friend down. Omens creep toward Sioux Falls, a trail of breadcrumbs leading right up to one very not-dead, very blind little brother. AU after season five.
For Wetsammywinchester for the 2017 summergen.
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AU after 5x22: Sam mysteriously returns from the cage and Dean thinks their problems are solved. Unfortunately, Sam is so shaken from his time in Hell that he can't—won't?—even talk to Dean, and when natural disasters begin to occur as frequently as they did when the Devil was walking the Earth, Dean realizes his brother may have acquired some of the angel's powers without picking up the ability to control them. In order to prevent Sam from hurting anyone, Dean finds a house as far from anything as he can manage and settles there to wait until the day Sam gets better—or until they both get killed by Sam's grace.
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Sam finally figures out a way to get Dean out of hell. Unfortunately, the brother he gets isn't the one he remembers. Dean’s twitchy, nervous, distrustful of everything and everyone. The memories of torture overshadow everything else until all the things that made Dean Dean are gone. All Sam can think of to do is take care of him. Maybe if Dean feels safe enough, he’ll come back. Sam knows just the way to make that happen.
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Maryanne had worked as a nurse in the psychiatric ward for years, which meant that she knew a bad case when she saw one. Sam Smith's certainly matched her description of a terrible and undeserved psychotic break, but he had something most of her patients didn't: an older brother named Dean.
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“Everyone deserves a little kindness, Dean.”
Outsider POV. Sam has sprung Dean from Purgatory, but the experience has changed his brother forever. Retired from hunting and in the throes of a breakdown, Dean finds himself miles from home with no recollection of how he came to be there and, more importantly, how to get back. Cue a kind soul and a little Christmas spirit.
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The Cage was never meant to hold a human. It was meant for one archangel, not two, and definitely not a human soul. Little by little Sam's soul was being destroyed by the torture the Cage inflicted on it. Lucifer and Michael joined together and, with their combined grace, pieced together Sam Winchester's soul and sent him out of the Cage and into the past in the hopes that he can stop this whole thing before it even starts.
Only, when Sam lands, things don't quite go so well. He's not all that sure that this isn't another torture the Cage has provided for him. He's in the past, right after Dean got out of Hell, and he's nowhere near the same man he was before. He can barely remember how to function as a human. It's going to take his family and a little help from a surprised archangel for Sam to start to recover. He doesn't have much time, though, because the apocalypse is still coming and the angels are fighting to get Lucifer free. Can one broken man manage to change the past? Or are they doomed to repeat their same mistakes over and over again?
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