like a fever that just won't break.

Title: All the Lonely People
Author: bellatemple
Tags: alcoholism, amnesia/memory loss, allusions to mental illness, mind control
Characters: Dean, Castiel, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen, drama
Rating: Teen
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: Season 6
Warnings: Angst, references to alcoholism and mental illness. Also, angst.
Summary: Dean did best in the hours after midnight, when he could forget that there was anything missing at all.
Reccer: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: Oh, the angst. (Seriously, this was more hurt/hurt than anything.) I loved it, though. It was brilliantly thought-out and executed.

Title: Killing Me Softly [WIP]
Author: Sharlot
Tags: neurological disorder (synesthesia), hallucinations/delusions, exhaustion, heart condition, hospitalization, missing (kidnapping/abduction/etc.), mind control, supernatural illness
Characters: Dean, Sam, OCs
Genre/pairing: Gen, h/c
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 64,885 (so far)
Spoilers: Season 1
Warnings: electro-shock therapy
Summary: While on a case in Louisville, KY, Dean gets a song stuck in his head. He's not amused. Hurt!Dean, and the usual brotherly shenanigans.
Reccer: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: This turned into one of the neatest fics I’ve discovered on ff.net in recent memory. The monster is different than any I've seen and very creepy, the OCs are great, the sick!Dean and protective!Sam is tasty, and the fact that it's set in season one is a nice change of pace.

Title: Inside-Out
Author: zoemathemata
Tags: fever, gunshot wound, injuries (misc.), infected wounds, self-harm
Characters: Dean, Sam, a little Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 2000ish
Spoilers: Season 4
Warnings: self-harm
Summary: “Must be getting slow in your old age, man, letting that demon get the jump on you,” Sam jokes as he stitches up the knife wound on Dean’s leg. Written for the prompt - Something with Dean self-harming as a coping mechanism and Sam finding out. But not the classic, after-school-special treatment of it we often get on tv, please.
Reccer #1: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: This was chilling, with good h/c too.

Reccer #2: maypoles
Reccer’s comments: I've been meaning to rec this one too; I think it deals with the subject matter the way SPN would, if they dealt with such things. The reveal was perfect.

Title: Sabbatical 1996
Author: borgmama1of5
Tags: hospitalization, paralysis, suicidal ideation
Characters: John, Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen, h/c, Teen!chesters
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 11,200
Summary: A hunt gone bad, and John is faced with an untenable situation.
Reccer’s comments: sandymg says: Really heartwrenching, relentlessly driven story of a horrible hunting incident that leaves Dean paralyzed. Cleverly fits into canon. And examines the relationship between John and his boys in a frank and sparse manner that just rings so true. I dare anyone to read the first few sentences and not keep going.

Title: Free and Clear
Author: merryish
Tags: Dean’s deal, hell/post-hell issues, hugs/cuddling, shock, size differential
Characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, AU
Rating: Adult
Word-count: 6,641
Spoilers: post-AHBL2
Summary: "You don't even know what you're thanking me for."
Reccer’s comments: maypoles says: A fic where Sam breaks Dean’s deal. This is an absolutely brilliant combination of well-written schmoop and a darker intensity. The atmosphere is a quiet, gentle one, but there’s always the undertone that for the Winchesters, love and sacrifice are the same thing, and oh, they love each other.

Title: Deanzilla vs. Hydros, [complete] and sequel: Measure of a Man [WIP]
Author: queeberquabbler
Tags: post-hell issues, PTSD, anxiety/panic attack, nightmares, pain, injury, kidnapping, captivity, torture, headache/migraine, fainting/collapse, heart condition, phobia, self-esteem issues, supernatural illness, poisoning, sleepwalking, transformation (uncategorized)
Characters: Sam, Dean, Bobby, some OCs
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Spoilers: up through "Wishful Thinking"--takes place right after.
Summary: Dean slays a monster, only to become pretty monstrous himself. But Dean's not about to let a little (okay, very big) size issue stop him from kicking ass and taking names.
Reccer’s comments: An anon says: On top of there being much to love in the Hurt!Dean department, it's a great mix of angst, humour, schmoop and action, making it a richly layered story, both deep and light-hearted. Plus there is a very original monster, a couple of adorable OCs, and one delightfully hateful bad guy.

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Title: Or where you go, or where you've been
Author: amonitrate
Tags: childhood trauma, heart condition, mutism, psychological isues
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG (rated by reccer)
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: Spans season one between "Dead in the Water" and "Faith."
Warnings: None
Summary: No one talked about any of this stuff, period, but Sam seems to think Dean and their dad had secret heart-to-hearts when he wasn't around or something.
Reccer’s comments: I'm reccing this because it's rare to find fic that deals with the (awesome) episode "Faith" these days, and because it's gorgeous! It's a spot-on look at season one era Sam and Dean getting to know each other again, figuring each other out. The parts where Sam presses Dean to talk to him about their mother's death and Dean's subsequent mutism are written with such a subtle touch. I found this whole fic to be really poignant and lovely.

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