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ever-dimming.livejournal.com

Title: Untitled [Dean, nightmare]
Author: ever_dimming
Category: Gen
Rating: teen and up (not familiar with the rating system, sorry)
Characters: Dean, Sam
Warnings: See tags, but nothing we don't see in / know from the Show
Disclaimer: Supernatural, its characters, plot lines etc. belong to their awesome creators. I am only suggesting fun new ways in which those beloved characters could suffer even more.

Summary:
If for no other reason, Sam believes in the existence of a god because there has GOT to be some twisted sense of humor behind giving night terrors to a man who sleeps with a gun under his pillow.
Dean is in no condition to appreciate the irony, though.

Gen, post 1.09. The week following their visit to their childhood home is hard, and one night Dean suffers a massive nightmare. Sam tries to help -- not like he hasn't been through this with Dean before -- but this one hurts in whole new ways.

LJ, AO3

Current Mood: unhappy with this fic
Current Location: bed

kalliel

[Hi it's me again sorry--!]

But I have another rec. :D

Title: Away With Us
Author:

anactoria
Characters: Dean, Sam, Cas, Gilda
Genre: gen, post-S9 AU
Rating: PG-13
Tags: depression, dissociation/dissociative disorder, emotional pain/hurt, injury (misc./other/uncategorized), mark of cain, missing (kidnapping/abduction/etc.), psychological issues, supernatural powers, trapped between realities
Word count: 5900
Summary: Dean is still marked by the fae as their own, and, with the Mark of Cain gone, they begin to take an interest again. This time, he finds it harder to resist.

Reccer's Commentary: You always have such clear, incisive prose, no matter the complexity or frenetic whirlwind of a mental space you're conveying. <33 [...] I think what's particularly heroic and skillful about the way you've written this story is that you've managed to capture Dean's feelings of dissociation, and the cadence of that dissociative narrative, without losing those nodes of engagement that steer your audience towards empathy and feeling and a very intense experience of association; it's something I cannot do and envy very, very much. You are awesome. <3

Another thing you do across the board that I really admire and delight in when I read your fics is your allowance for this brief but scintillating appearances from characters who are not central to the fic yet are integral to its telling (I'm thinking here of Jody and Alex in one of your recent fics, and here Charlie and also Cain, in the opening scene). And in a similar but separate vein, inasmuch as this fic is very much Dean-centric, and inside of a headspace that has very little to do with the outside or with Sam, Sam remains this salient, dimensional person within the story as well; that marshaling of his character with such a short window, from so deep inside Dean's head, is truly ace.

The collision of mytharcs here, between the fae and the Mark of Cain, melds and bridges the two so powerfully--the result is a quiet thriller, internal without being buoyless and muddled. That external relation back to S9's mytharc and to the world of the fae really gives the fic a sense of wholeness and clarity and deep, wide horizons. It creates something new and exciting in that not only does it cross-breed two very different species of lore, but its warp and weft through Dean's human-mythic story makes that cross-breeding feel vital in every sense of the term. [...] If you couldn't tell, I adore this completely, and the whole world needs to read this fic.

anactoria.livejournal.com

Title: The Failing Candle Still Casts a Shadow
Author:

anactoria
Characters/pairing: Dean/Cas, Sam
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/contains: 9.23 spoilers, angst.
Word count: ~3500
Summary: It surprises him, that his hands still know how to be gentle. They’ll forget soon.

Read on: LJ | AO3

brightly-lit.livejournal.com

Title: Saving Sam
Author:

brightly_lit
Rating: PG, nothing they can't show on t.v.
Genre: gen, hurt!Dean, h/c, meta
Characters: Dean, Sam, John, Dr. Hydeker, Karla, Tessa
Word Count: ~2,200
Summary: Dean wakes up in the hospital. He's told he was in a coma, his mother and father are still alive ... and that he is Sam, an only child. There never was a Dean.

Read it here.

suepokorny.livejournal.com

Title: Still They Ride – Act IV
Characters: Dean & Sam Winchester, Castiel
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Through Season 7
Summary: First in a 4-part series designed to replace season 8, but bring us to a place to launch season 9. Not exactly AU, but not conforming to the canon we were forced to swallow either. J Afterall, if they can ignore the previous canon they themselves wrote, why can’t we? In Episode 1, Sam devises a plan to save his brother from Purgatory.

Read here at AO3

princess-aleera.livejournal.com

Title: But I Hear The Voices Say
Author:

princess_aleera
Word count: ~ 2,500
Spoilers: This is set sometime after 7x10, mostly canon apart from the Impala’s presence (and, obviously, Dean's hallucinations).
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: vivid hallucinations (blood, goo, etc.), banter and snarky, crack, helpful!hallucinations, (drunk hallucination?), a little angst, a little hurt/comfort, and enough meta to give you a headache. (Hallucinception!)
Disclaimer: Don’t own, don’t sue.
Characters: Dean, Sam, and various hallucinations: Cas, Bobby, Jo and Gabriel.
Pairings: Gen, implied unrequited Dean/Cas (or not unrequited – depends on the meta), brief unrequited Jo/Gabriel
A/N: Title’s from ‘Carry On My Wayward Son’. The original story is here.

Dean’s almost excited to leave, because Jefferson is hours away. Just him and Sammy in the Impala, windows open to the wind and CCR blaring. With Jo and Cas sitting in the backseat, Gabriel sprawled between them like a curled-up cat, of course.

felicia-angel.livejournal.com

Series: While I Lay Dreaming
Chapter Title: and this one is for bravery/and this one for me
Author:

felicia_angel
Fandoms: Supernatural, Paprika (movie)
Characters: (this chapter) Hendriksen, Doctor Shima, Doctor Chiba (mentioned), Dean
Series Summary: AU from "Swan Song" and "Jus in Bello" - Dean checked into the Institute because of insomnia. Now, his family must attempt to piece together a way to save him and the world from something dangerous.
Chapter Summary: Victor Hendriksen has finally caught Dean Winchester...and is now responsible for him when Dean dies. But the more he looks into Dean's past, the weirder things look.

AO3 Link

( Chapter 2 )

felicia-angel.livejournal.com

Series: While I Lay Dreaming
Chapter Title: I close my eyes/every night/and i dream...
Author:

felicia_angel
Fandom: Supernatural, Paprika (movie)
Characters: (this chapter) - Bobby, Rufus, Doctor Chiba, Tokita, Dean, Sam and Adam (mentioned)
Series Summary: AU from "Swan Song" and "Jus in Bello" - Dean checked into the Institute because of insomnia. Now, his family must attempt to piece together a way to save him and the world from something dangerous.
Chapter Summary: Bobby and Rufus learn of Dean's fate.

AO3 Link

( Part 1 )

mariahlee.livejournal.com

Title: glowing ghosts
Authors:

jaimeykay and

mariahlee
Rating: R
Pairing: gen
Warnings: gore, disturbing images
Word Count: ~2200
Note: MASSIVE spoilers for the season seven finale.
Summary: ( spoilers for finale )

here.

purple-carpets.livejournal.com

Title: Walking In a Winter Wonderland
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1400
Disclaimer: Not my boys. Kripke broke them long before I ever got to them.
Summary: Dean almost dies on his first hunt. But then the nice man in the trench-coat shows up and everything doesn't seem so bad anymore.

Written for the Winter/Holiday themed Dean-focused h/c comment-fic meme on

hoodie_time.

Now with super awesome art by

annartism

He's almost eleven now, which means he's almost a man and men don't mess up a simple clean shot just because their hands are a little cold.

tattooeddevil.livejournal.com

Fic Title: What Is And What Should Never Be
Fandom / Genre: SPN / Horror
Pairing(s): Dean / Alastair & Sam / Jess
Rating: NC-17 for gore and sex
Word Count: ~12.500
Warnings: Horror, gore, non-con, torture, sex, character death, suicide, DARK
Spoiler warning: All through S04 & S05
Beta:

obsidian_moon Big, big, big hug to you hun, I LOVE you!!! <3
Disclaimer: I own nothing but a dozen of Buddha statues, a 7 year old laptop and way too many pairs of shoes. I could do with a Dean of my own though, so if anyone has a spare or finally finds a way to create one, think of me!
Note: This fic was written for the

spn_reversebang, inspired by the amazing artwork from

reapertownusa. Her fabulous art can be viewed in PART 1 of the story, and also on her journal (art master post)

Summary: 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.

Feedback: is LOVE!

PART 1
PART 2
PART 3

purple-carpets.livejournal.com

Title: Storm the Castle, Stem the Tide
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5600
Disclaimer: Not my boys. Kripke broke them long before I ever got to them.

Art: Art Masterpost
Artist:

apieceofcake

Summary: It's only a cough, really. Until the cough turns into a fever and Sam gets all weird and Dean starts seeing Alastair and suddenly he's back in hell.

He can hear the drums and howls of hell echoing in his ears, demons cheering other demons, screeching for more blood, more pain. His heart speeds up along with the chants and then he's sitting upright and the sounds drain away into an eerie silence only punctuated by his erratic heartbeat.

maypoles.livejournal.com

Okay, I’m beginning to think I have a de-aged!Dean PROBLEM, haha.

Previous de-aged!Dean themed rec posts can be found here, and all de-aged!Dean recs can be found here: age regression (physical), age regression (mental).

This is a fairly large genre in this fandom, and I'm sure I've missed lots of goodies. If you have any other similarly themed recs, (or self-recs), please feel free to leave them in the comments to this post so that others can check them out.

Fic:

Title: And No One Sings Me Lullabies
Author:

dollarformyname
Tags: age regression (physical), bed-sharing, fever, intoxication, respiratory illness, substance abuse (alcohol), substance abuse (drugs)
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 4,382
Spoilers: Takes place at some vague point in early S6.
Warnings: Language. Underage drinking and drug use (sort of). De-aged!Dean and Soulless!Sam (that seems to merit some warning all on its own, yes?). It might also be kind of disgusting, as in AWWW, not EW; or maybe a little of both, depending on your perspective.
Summary: Sam has his eyes narrowed on the pool tables like he's thinking of dissecting them, and Dean's head doesn't even clear the bar-top. He wants a goddamn beer.
Reccer’s comments: In which there is robo!Sam and de-aged!Dean, a combo I’ve never seen before. Omg, I LOVE THIS TO ITTY BITTY PIECES. The author does a great job writing de-aged!Dean; he's just so Dean, no matter what size he is, and robo!Sam is great too. I mean, he's NOT a good babysitter, but he's fun. The whole thing is hilarious in a kind of heartbreaking way.

Title: There's a Hole in the Fabric of My Reality
Author:

etrix @

etrix_lists
Tags: age regression (physical), anxiety/panic attack, crying!Dean, death, emotional pain/hurt, grief, missing (kidnapping/abduction/etc.), nightmares, secrets (somebody finds out), trapped between realities
Characters: Dean, Sam, John, Mary, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen, John/Mary (offscreen), Angst, AU/AR, h/c
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 27k
Spoilers: spoilers for up to 5.01 (Sympathy for the Devil)
Warnings: character death, language, violence
Summary: Dean has always been a pain in Sam's butt, causing trouble in school, causing trouble at home. When he disappeared for 7 days the summer of 1997 everybody assumed it was either an overlong party or something to do with a girl. Sam didn't think so. Sam had visions of wings and water and light and death. So when Dean knocked on their front door like a storm-wrecked stranger, Sam stood back and wondered who had shown up at their house.
Reccer’s comments: This is a different kind of age regression fic – Dean is sent to an alternate reality as his younger self, while still retaining memories from his own reality.

It really captures the POV of a teenager (in this case, teen!Sam) and with his voice, weaves a wonderful and wonderfully complex AU/AR. The angst was delectable, the story itself was heartbreaking with a nice touch of hopefulness, and I just loved it.

Title: little boy lost
Author:

mimblexwimble
Tags: abandonment issues, age regression (mental), age regression (physical)
Characters: Dean, John, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen, pre-series
Rating: PG
Word-count: 2,100
Spoilers: N/A
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Dean's four again and nothing makes sense.
Reccer’s comments: A companion piece to so remember then, (Tags: age regression (mental), age regression (physical), common cold, fever) previously recced here, this is an awesome take on the theme of age regression, not ever overly schmoopy, and with a very realistic wee!Dean voice, I think. I love that John is in this one too.

( 8 more de-aged!Dean fic and art recs beneath the cut )

maypoles.livejournal.com

This is an ongoing fic that I came across off-comm recently and thought some of you might miss otherwise. If you’re wary of WIPs, fyi, the author notes that the fic is finished, and that they aim to post every day or every other day, so it should all be up very soon. Yay!

Title: There's a Hell of a Universe Next Door [WIP]
Author:

lustmordred
Tags: drugs (psychiatric), couselling/therapy, mental illness, supernatural trauma, trapped between realities
Characters: Sam, Dean, Mary, John, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, Sam/Dean, (this will totally make sense if you read it) AU (sort of)
Rating: R-NC-17
Word-count: 28,000
Spoilers: 5.13 The Song Remains the Same
Warnings: AU (sort of), dub-con (sort of), suicide (sort of), mental illness, violence
Summary: There's a big difference between dying and never being born.
Reccer’s comments: Dean, in a world where his parents are still alive, and his only brother is Adam, is “dreaming” about a man named Sam, a man who feels right when everything else feels off-kilter. I love the premise, and Dean's love for Sam that seems to come from both nowhere and everywhere. <333 It's at once creepy and touching.

etrix.livejournal.com

Author: etrix

Beta: slaybelle69. Thanks a bunch!

Characters: Dean, Sam, John, Mary, Castiel

Pairings: John/Mary [off screen]

Disclaimer: These characters are't mine. I just like shaking them out and playing with them.

Word count: 27k [complete]

Rating: PG-13

Content: Angst, AU/AR, character death, h/c, language, violence; spoilers for up to 5.01 (Sympathy for the Devil); Sam's POV

Notes: Inspired by dollarformyname's prompt for the hoodie_time challenge Writing between the Lines. Original prompt is here.

Icon by mizra as part of the jensenstillness Challenge #231 and snagged with permission.

Summary: Dean has always been a pain in Sam's butt, causing trouble in school, causing trouble at home. When he disappeared for 7 days the summer of 1997 everybody assumed it was either an overlong party or something to do with a girl. Sam didn't think so. Sam had visions of wings and water and light and death. So when Dean knocked on their front door like a storm-wrecked stranger, Sam stood back and wondered who had shown up at their house.

The whole story is now posted and unlocked. Start reading it here:

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ever-dimming.livejournal.com - Dean, nightmare, post 1.09 (Home)
kalliel - [Fic Rec] "Away With Us" by anactoria - post-S9 AU/Mark of Cain + FAE
anactoria.livejournal.com - Fic: The Failing Candle Still Casts a Shadow (1/1, Dean/Cas, Sam, PG-13)
brightly-lit.livejournal.com - Fic: Saving Sam
suepokorny.livejournal.com - Still They Ride - A Sue-Pernatural Ficisode, Act IV
princess-aleera.livejournal.com - sequel to My Charade Is The Event of the Season [hallucinating!Dean, cracky hurt/comfort]
felicia-angel.livejournal.com - Supernatural/Paprika Fusion: While I Lay Dreaming (2/?)
felicia-angel.livejournal.com - Supernatural/Paprika Fusion: While I Lay Dreaming (1/?)
mariahlee.livejournal.com - fic: glowing ghosts
purple-carpets.livejournal.com - Walking In a Winter Wonderland
tattooeddevil.livejournal.com - FIC: What Is And What Should Never Be
purple-carpets.livejournal.com - Storm the Castle, Stem the Tide
maypoles.livejournal.com - de-aged!Dean fic and art recs, part trois (all pretty much gen)
maypoles.livejournal.com - insta-rec (fic, Sam/Dean)
etrix.livejournal.com - There's a Hole in the Fabric of My Reality - Complete

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Entries tagged with trapped between realities

Dean, nightmare, post 1.09 (Home)

[Fic Rec] "Away With Us" by anactoria - post-S9 AU/Mark of Cain + FAE

Fic: The Failing Candle Still Casts a Shadow (1/1, Dean/Cas, Sam, PG-13)

Fic: Saving Sam

Still They Ride - A Sue-Pernatural Ficisode, Act IV

sequel to My Charade Is The Event of the Season [hallucinating!Dean, cracky hurt/comfort]

Supernatural/Paprika Fusion: While I Lay Dreaming (2/?)

Supernatural/Paprika Fusion: While I Lay Dreaming (1/?)

fic: glowing ghosts

Walking In a Winter Wonderland

FIC: What Is And What Should Never Be

Storm the Castle, Stem the Tide

de-aged!Dean fic and art recs, part trois (all pretty much gen)

insta-rec (fic, Sam/Dean)

There's a Hole in the Fabric of My Reality - Complete