like a fever that just won't break.

LJ, are you back for good? ::clings::

Title: Devil He Told Me to Roll
Author: Mirabella
Tags: cuts/lacerations, fever, infected wounds
Characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, pre-series AU
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Summary: Dean knows he's screwed up. The trick is going to be keeping Sam from finding out just how bad.
Reccer: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: Gorgeous brotherly love. I hope this is very well known throughout the fandom, but it's definitely worth a re-read, particularly if you miss the brothers' early dynamic. Set pre-series when Sam is in college with a clever AU twist, this story's spot-on voices will make it your new happy place. If you love both Sam and Dean and their overwhelming love for each other, settle down and read this slowly, savoring every word!

Title: Wedding Crashed
Author: moragmacpherson and dragonspell
Tags: injury, pain, physical assault/abuse, shower sharing
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, PWP
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 9,780
Spoilers: Season six, post "Like a Virgin" but prior to "Frontierland"
Warnings: graphic sexual content, multiple sexual situations with varying degrees of consent, gen and non-gen breathplay
Summary: It all comes back to this: Dean's groin feels like it’s on fire, his throat’s covered in a necklace of bruises, and he never wants to move again.
Reccer: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: This was so, so much fun. It's amusing, smoking hot, and topped off with delicious h/c. I was also impressed by how well the writers' styles meshed together.

Title: How Dean Winchester Got Everything He Didn’t Know He Wanted For Christmas
Author: runedgirl
Tags: bottom!Dean, restraints/ropes/handcuffs, psychological issues, self-esteem issues
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: Spoilers for 4.10 - takes place just after
Warnings: bondage
Summary: For the prompt ‘Sam taking care of Dean in every way possible, at a remote cabin.’ I tried to hit as many kinks as I could – Whew! And maybe there’s a happy ending in there too. The boys wanted to play dirty, it’s not my fault!
Reccer: anonymous
Reccer’s comments: I’m discovering this a few years (and months!) late, but oh well, it’s like Christmas in July! It was so nice to see Dean letting Sam take control like this. Sweet and kinky and comforting.

Need a pick-me-up? A spot of awesome in your day? Then, you are IN LUCK.

If you have any other similarly themed recs, (or self-recs), please leave them in the comments to this post so that others can check them out.

Title: happiness is only a heartbeat away
Author: alwaysenduphere
Tags: blindness/vision loss
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: This was supposed to be wincest but other than sharing a bed there's not really much action. Future-fic.
Rating: PG
Word-count: 1061
Spoilers: This is a future-fic, so vague ones for the entire series.
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes you think his face is more expressive now that he can't see, lines of disappointment and sadness easier to read, like he's forgotten that everyone else can still see him.
Reccer’s comments: Well-written domestic!Winchesters make me \O/. A fab little future-fic, this is sweet and achy at the same time.

Title: Travelers from Unspoken Lands
Author: fossarian
Tags: bed sharing, nightmares, psychological issues, drugs (medical)
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 1,600
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Summary: Dean has nightmares. Castiel does not.
Reccer’s comments: fossarian is a new (and delightful) discovery for me, probably because I’m more immersed in the gen and Sam/Dean camps than the Dean/Cas one. Anyway, I LOVE her take on Dean/Cas, Cas’s (slightly strange, endearing) tenderness, and Dean pushing back against it and finally allowing it. This is quietly intimate, a sweet spot between nightmares and whatever the morning brings.

Title: You're My Medicine
Author: selecasharp @ teashopmuses
Tags: bed sharing, carried!Dean, fever, hugs/cuddling, injury, mobility issues, pneumonia, shower/bath sharing
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean. Hurt/comfort / Humor / Romance.
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 5275
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Sick!Dean and hurt!Dean, schmoop
Summary: Dean's not having the best week, and only Sam can make it better.
Reccer’s comments: I love pneumonia!Dean so much it’s really kind of weird of me. You know what else I love? Bed sharing and shower sharing and just everything about this fic. Hot and funny with exactly the right amount of schmoop, this is some epic h/c right here!

Oh, how I love sleepy!boys. ♥

Anyway, if you like this rec post, you may also be interested in this - a sleep-deprived!Dean fic rec post. The recs there are all gen, and are generally more dire and involve sleeplessness curses and much angst, and the recs here are generally more schmoopy and involve sleepy cuddletimes, (and sometimes sleepy shower sex) so hopefully there’s something for everyone!

And if you have any other similarly themed recs, (or self-recs), please leave them in the comments to this post so that others can check them out.

Title: sleepy post-hunt shower sex
Author: anon
Tags: carried!Dean, exhaustion, shower sharing
Genre/pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: NC-17 (rated by reccer)
Summary: Written for the prompt - Dean is totally exhausted - like, can barely even stay on his feet, keep his eyes open exhausted - post-hunt, but they're in the shower cleaning up and things get a little SEXY.
Reccer’s comments: This was written for blindfold_spn for a prompt of mine, and it’s so intimate and sweet and HOT and really, everything I wanted when I prompted it.

Title: Take Me to the River
Author: ariadnes_string
Tags: crying!Dean, exhaustion
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen, h/c
Rating: PG
Word-count: 1,800
Warnings: General S5, no plot spoilers for any episodes.
Summary: Sometimes help with ordinary things means the most.
Reccer’s comments: This is an example of a gen fic that’s every bit as intimate as fic with a pairing/pairings. Awesome.

Title: At the End of the Day
Author: dragonspell
Tags: exhaustion, injury
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG
Word-count: 770
Summary: It's not about getting clean. It never really was.
Reccer’s comments: In which Sam and Dean are hopelessly co-dependent, just the way I like them best. This is gentle, yet intense.

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