full of fever dreams that scare you sober (delirious!Dean fic recs, gen and Dean/Sam)

[hoodietime.livejournal.com]

Yet Still Steadfast by ariadnes_string
Author's notes/summary: Written for hoodie_time's Dean-focused h/c comment-fic meme, for the prompt: Dean is hurt/ill after a hunt, and Bobby calls Sam. Not exactly a happy reunion fic. Set between 5x03 and 5x04. 1,400 words. PG. Bobby, Sam, Dean. Gen.

Reccer's notes: Set between 5x03 and 5x04, the author says that this isn't a happy reunion fic and it isn''t – but it was EXACTLY what I needed to read during that arc, and it remains a very touching fic, sad but hopeful.

Tags: delirium, fever, infection, injury

Not in the Next Life by callistosh65 [fic challenge response]
Author's notes/summary: Written for hoodie_time's Dean-focused h/c fic challenge. The prompter wanted Sam/Dean, Dean with flu, high fever, and lots of bed sharing and snuggling to get him through it. Me being me I set it post-WIAWSNB just to give the poor guy issues as well as flu. 8,500 words. Light R, Sam/Dean.

Reccer's notes: This was actually the fic that prompted me to put this post together! As I said in my feedback to it: The characterizations were stellar - Dean in pain and keeping it all in until it explodes, and Sam, frustrated but empathetic and just wanting to make it all better. Oh, boys. Add that to the fact that Sam cuddling feverish!Dean is maybe my favourite thing in the whole wide world, and... I don't know what to say. I'm just so in love with this story right now!

Tags: bed sharing, cold/flu, cough, delirium, ep: "WIAWSNB", fever, hugs/cuddling

Delirium by ficwriter1966
Author's notes/summary: Dean made a face. Not an emo face. Because if Sam thought driving to Pittsburgh with some coughing and sneezing for musical accompaniment was the short end of this deal, he was wrong, wrong, wrong with a side order of wrong. “Bite me,” Dean told him. 2,783 words. PG for language. Sick!Dean, Sam. Gen.

Reccer's notes: This was funny and sweet, with fantastic use of flashbacks to earlier points in Dean's life that are blended seamlessly with the present.

Tags: delirium, fever, flu

Weryl by mad_server
Author's notes/summary: A hunt goes badly for Dean, who gets a shoulderful of poisonous quills. But don't worry, Sam is there. Delirious!Dean, snark, snuggles. 3,300 words. PG-13, for a bit of language. Dean, Sam, OFC, gen.

Reccer's notes: SIGH, mad_server always writes the best protective!Sam. And let's not forget her wobbly, feverish, positively adorable Dean. And did you see the summary? That's right, there are bro snuggles! ♥

Tags: crying!Dean, delirium, fever, hugs/cuddling, poisoning, supernatural illness

Painted Dreams of Red and Yellow by maychorian
Author's notes/summary: Dean remembers hell. Season 4. 2,450 words. R. Dean, Sam, gen.

Reccer's notes: This is an awesome look at the way Dean compartmentalizes his emotions over - well, a lot of things, but hell in this case – in order to keep going. The ending is painfully perfect.

Tags: delirium, fever, flu, nightmares, post-hell issues

Here’s What You Would Have Won! by Supernoodle
Author's notes/summary: Dean has a fever. Chock full of wobbly, feverish, slightly delirious Dean. Spoilers for all of Season 4. Rated purely for ick factor. 2,000+ words. PG-13, gen.

Reccer's notes: This is another fic that deals expertly with Dean's post-hell issues. I won't spoil the revelation at the end, but I thought it was great, and it's an issue I haven't seen explored much in fic.

Tags: delirium, fainting/collapse, fever, flu, post-hell issues

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Comments

[chiiyo86.livejournal.com]

Nice list! To add to it, I'd rec Big Red Plus from LaLa Land, that wave_obscura wrote for me at the occasion of a comment fic meme. There is delirious!Dean's stream of consciousness, and bonus hurt!Sam! (http://wave-obscura.livejournal.com/11824.html#cutid1) ()

[hoodietime.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Thank-you! I love that one too, and had totally forgotten about it in this case. There's too many awesome people in this fandom, I tell you! ;D

[mad-server.livejournal.com]

Also there's this one (http://innocentculprit.livejournal.com/4072.html#cutid2) whose babies I want to have, by innocentculprit.

[hoodietime.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank-you! innocentculprit is awesome!

[insecret-ly.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful to add. Just, delirious Dean?
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[hoodietime.livejournal.com]

Haha, MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. ;D