Who We Are missing scenes: Adversity brings out people's true nature.

Dean never figured the cage wouldn't leave a mark. He was prepared for memories, flashbacks, and nightmares. He wasn't expecting the words Sam brought back with him or the way they made him seem just a breath beyond Dean's reach.

All in the Family tag: Having Lucifer around finally gets to Sam.

Beyond the Mat tag story: There are two stories: what they tell the cops, and what really happened.

The older boy is sick, coughing in a way that makes Bobby cringe and the toddler has his fist wrapped in his brother's shirt. And even though there is snow on the ground, neither one is wearing shoes. Bobby has never seen a sorrier sight. Pre-series.

Breakdown tag: Winchesters don't do depression. But sometimes it's a struggle, and when it's Sam struggling, there's only one thing Dean can think of to do.

When Dean gets home from apocalypse world, Sam is on traumatic brain injury protocol. He was fine when Dean left. He was fine. (for the prompt "Sam's gotten a lot of knocks to the head recently. He's fine-except not really." AU s13e18, Bring Em Back Alive - Gabriel's recovery is postponed and Ketch returns from apocalypse world, only to be barely relevant. gen.)

A brief look at Dum Dum Dugan in the Krausberg HYDRA factory before Captain America turned up. Rated for language.

Hibbing 9-1-1 tag story: When Sam's injured and Dean is nowhere to be found, Jody steps into the gap. And she's not the only one. (Jody POV)

Missing scene from 12.02 Mamma Mia. One-shot: the brothers talk, and there may just be a bro hug.

Everybody Hates Hitler tag: The bunker's not home, but...it's not bad.

Southern Comfort tag: Dean reaches his limit, and has to find a way to deal with it. Preferably one that doesn't involve punching Sam.

Alpha and Omega tag, sort of. Another possibility. My Season 11 rebuttal.

S11. Tag to "The Devil in the Details." Sam wasn't ok. Not at all. Dean didn't need to ask his brother that question to know the answer. He decided he wasn't even going to ask that question tonight. In fact, he was going to give it a few days before asking that question. After a few days he would ask it and then he'd pretend to believe Sam when he lied and said he was fine.

The wounded brothers look after each other as they make the journey back to the bunker. Sam and Dean are able to be healed by Cas, but they need to get to him first. Tag to 11.04 Baby. Hurt!Brothers. Lots of brotherly-feels.

Is Sam still infected or is it something else? Missing scenes and tag to 11.2.

Survival of the Fittest missing scenes and tag: He wanted to go find his brother so badly, but...

Adventures in Babysitting missing scene: Brother tends to brother, physically and emotionally, and in so doing ends up helping himself, too. So, the usual.

John had never been particularly easy on the boys, but things were worse around this time of the year. Hurt!Sam, Protective!Dean, Guilty!John

H/C Tag to 9.19 Alex, Annie, Alexis, Anne. After Sam was drained of most of his blood, he made it down those basement stairs only by leaning heavily on Dean and…then they cut to commercial. Sigh. This tag takes place during that missing chunk of time, and offers some Sam POV on the Mark of Cain-fueled changes in Dean.

Sam may not be the big brother, but he's been Dean's brother his whole life.

Blood and death stalk a quiet logging town. Sounds like a perfect place for the Winchesters to recover. post 2x03 'Blood Lust' hurt/caring/awesome!Sam/Dean

Someone else is making the deal this time, but the Winchesters are still the ones paying for it.

Sam discovers a book of new Devil's Traps in one of the library rooms of the bunker, but when he tries duplicating them, one backfires on him. Unfortunately, Dean is still in town when Sam realizes he is trapped and steadily growing weaker inside the circle. Comment-fic fill for LJs ohsam birthday meme.

The bites are viscous, jagged ovals that ooze blood and, a few of them, pus, ringed with deep purple bruises and the bright red flare of infection.

Adventures in Babysitting tag story: He seriously doubts either of them are up for this hunt...but maybe in the end that's not such a bad thing.

Dean still feels as though he's all that stands between Sammy and death. Warriors 'verse

He spun, dangling high in the air at about fifty feet up like a fish on a hook. limp/Sam heroic/Dean Do these hunts ever go as planned?

And Then There Were None... tag story: Family doesn't mean blood, and blood doesn't mean family.

Takes place after "Pac-Man Fever." Sam is getting sicker. Dean feels helpless, and Dean Winchester doesn't do helpless. Brotherly bonding abounds.

Dark Side of the Moon tag: After "Heaven," Dean felt like he had nothing left. But he has something more to lose...

Tag to 8.21-The Great Escapist. Spoilers for that episode and events leading up to it. When Sam wouldn't–or couldn't–answer the phone, Dean didn't know what had happened, but he knew it was nothing good. Canon-based missing scenes that book-end the ice bath. Hurt/Comfort with plenty of bro-mos.

Hunters tend to see things others don't. It was just a matter of time before some of them pieced together who let Lucifer out.

After John's death, Dean makes the mistake of rushing into a hunt and Sam pays the price.

Sam goes alone to meet an old friend from college. What can go wrong?

Dean's making the bunker home, but not just for himself.

AU Spin on 8x20 – Sick Sam / Big Brother Dean / Quirky, Supportive Charlie – If Sam was sicker now than when they had left him...if they indeed found him on the floor coughing up blood...then Dean would handle it; Dean would take care of his brother; Dean would somehow make it better. Charlie had never been so sure of anything else in her life.

Season 8 – Sick, Feverish, Nauseous Sam / Awesome Big Brother Dean taking care of his Sammy – When I'm sick and tired, we watch TV.

Thanks to a witch's curse, Sam has nothing but time on his hands and nothing to entertain him but his own thoughts. Post 7x07 "The Mentalists" hurt/limp!Sam comfort/awesome!Dean

Nights like this are the worst. SickSam&BigBrotherDean (Warriors 'verse)

1-shot. Sick from the trials and getting worse, Sam wakes up one night and decides to seek out his sleeping brother to confess a truth that he's been hiding from Dean since Dean's return from Purgatory. Only the confession doesn't quite as Sam planned. *Sick/angsty/Hurt!Sam & Comforting/concerned/big brother!Dean* Slight spoilers from 08x20 Pac-Man Fever*

Sam's at the end of his rope and is ready to end it all. At least this way, Lucifer won't be able to use him to start the apocalypse. With Dean and Bobby both gone, Sam's sure that he'll be able to do this in peace. Castiel; however, has other ideas. He won't let Sam give up, not on his watch. *one-shot, Castiel/Sam bonding with a dash of BigBrother!Dean, no slash*

Garth meets Sam and Dean together for the first time since the incident with the cursed coin. He knows right away there's something different. Spoilers up to 8.15, "Man's Best Friend with Benefits".

The first time Dean sees & talks to Sam in his room on the psych ward.

Dean is on a supply run and a sick Sam is alone when someone breaks into their motel room.

My Bloody Valentine tag story: Sam's disappeared again, but this time it's not by choice.

Casefic. The tables are turned on Sam and Dean – this time they're the hunted, and it's a new enemy who wants them. Contains adult situations although nothing explicit , violence and some strong language. Hurt/comfort-Adventure

Sam's still struggling to earn back Dean's trust after loosing Lucifer, but someone else is about to turn up the heat.

One shot. Injured, bullet removal, doped-up, hurt, hero Sam. Worried, caring, in trouble big brother Dean. Time set: Early years.

Sam's hurt, but neither he nor Dean notices - there are just too many other things for them to think about. Tag to 7X19 hurt!Sam. Angsty!Dean

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.

Dean may not have been able to kill grief for hurting Sam, but he'd be damned if he'd let his lapful of shaking, unresponsive little brother suffer through it alone. Early S1, worried/protective Dean, hurt Sam.

When an angelic weapon shows up unexpectedly on a hunt, Dean should know better than to think they could catch a break. Takes place after 6.12

Sam's inundated with visions, but is it the demon, or something else?

He could seldom sleep after the nightmares. He was always afraid of what he'd see when sleep claimed him once more. Season 1. For the LJ Summer of Sam Love fic exchange.

It takes more than love or blood to be family.

Pre-series – Sick Sam / Surprisingly Awesome John / Big Brother Dean – "He's sick, and it's only a matter of time before neither of you can ignore it anymore."

AU And Then There Were None: Samuel did shoot. H/C ensues.

Pre-Series – Bloody, Vision, Angsty Sam / Big Brother Dean – It was the pain that woke him. But it was the blood that got his attention. Because it was everywhere.

Love beats fear every time.

6.22 missing scene. Castiel raises a hand, Sam collapses, and Dean makes a decision about loyalty. He has no regrets, not when it comes to Sam.

Post-6.14. When news of Sam and Dean's return to the hunt gets around, some old "friends" come back to find out what's going on. With Sam missing, Dean and Bobby race to find him before the rogue hunters do something to crumble the wall in Sam's mind.

Grieving for Jess, an injured Sam doesn't have much to live for...or so his big brother fears.

A brother's got to do, what a brother's got to do. H/C

Sicko liked to build little hidey holes in the ground, stick people in them, and just wait up top listening until they withered away. Sam, Dean, Bobby

What with detoxes and resoulings, Sam's memories of the panic room can't be good. So it's unfortunate that they are under some supernatural siege at Bobby's and retreating into the panic room and closing the door is the only way to be safe...

Dean comes to Stanford for a visit, intending to hang out with Sam for a few days while he's between hunts. He discovers Sam wasting away while on his own.

Dean reads Sam's medical file and finds out he has a history of suicide attempts. Angst ensues. Set directly after 5x11

Set after Bloody Mary. Sam was blaming it on lack of sleep, the stresses of doing the job finally taking its toll. Because Jess couldn't really be sitting next to him, right? Hurt/sick Sam & minor hurt/worried Dean with some brotherly bonding!

Prompt by KlutzyGirl33: After "Dark Side of the Moon", Sam comes down with a really bad cold because of all the stress piling up from the past year or so. Dean takes care of him. Would be nice if the amulet was given back too! My attempt at this storyline

"Two are better than one... A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart." - Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12

He doesn't know what they've done to Sam or how to reverse it, so he needs at least one of them alive. That doesn't mean he can't crack a few skulls. Just some Sammy whump with Dean being awesome.

Sam and Dean join up with other hunters on a hunt, but there's a reason their dad usually hunted alone...

Sam has a breakdown post 2.5 Simon Said, courtesy of an ill-timed migraine.

It's bad enough to have visions of people dying, but experiencing it with them is a whole level of worse.

A desperate phone call from Sam has Dean flooring it to Colorado where his brother was helping a friend investigate the disappearance of hikers and sightings of an old miner.

Hunter by day, big brother...around the clock.

Somewhere, lost in this hell of heat and blinding sun and arid waterlessness, was his brother...

Prompt response: 5x10 Abandon All Hope AU. It's Sam who goes back for Dean, not Jo, and Sam who thus suffers the consequences.

Post 5x13. Even though he'd been patched up, as promised, Sam still feels...off.

Sam is beset by visions and Dean can’t help but worry over his brother. Featuring a little h/c along with a hunt that literally lands on their doorstep. S1, post Nightmare.

Sam's sick, Dean's panicking and everything's about to go to hell. Sam needs a whole new life, one where his last name isn't Winchester because Winchesters are cursed.

Sam's not mad, he's panicking.

Two shot. Snow monsters, fevers, and heroes…oh my! Nothing fancy. Hurt, confused, fevered Sam. Brutally handsome, dashing, caring, hero Dean.

Tag to 4.22:Sam's sick, feverish, has a monster headache. He knows he's going through detox again and wants Dean to put him back in the panic room. What do we think Dean's answer is going to be? Up now Ch 2: Bobby comes home.

Title Translation: I Will Fear No Evil. Waking up tied to a bed is never a good thing, as Sam is about to find out. Where the heck is Dean?

Pre-Season. Dean was hurt because Sam had been careless, and now Sam had to get on with what needed to be done. Now was not the time to give in to his own minor aches and pains.

A childhood trauma comes back to haunt both Sam and Dean, forcing them to confront their trust issues. Set in S1, sequel to All Choked Up, and birthday offering for Faye Dartmouth.

Tag to ELAC and birthday gift for Trasan: If they had known there were two of them, things might have been different. Straight forward, good old fashioned hurtSam/bigbrotherDean. Two shot.

Whether Dean can't talk or he can't shut up, it's never just words.

Even ten seconds of unconsciousness in water could make a difference. A life and death difference.

He just wanted a break. Maybe he should have taken the Impala... Trapped!Sam, Angry!/Worried!Dean, brotherly love.

It's been his number one charge all his life...but that's not why Dean does it.

After landing in the hospital with meningitis, Dean has to take care of Sam, who's made himself sick worrying about him. Featuring sick!Dean AND sick!Sam.

One shot: Sam moves forward, opens his mouth to ask what the hell is going on but is suddenly floored when his gaze travels downwards to what Dean’s couching over. Sam can’t breath for a moment. This can't be right.

Post 5x03: There's nothing left for Sam to do but this. Despite the parting, he still calls. And despite the parting, Dean still races to get to him. Warnings: Attempted suicides. Not a death-fic. Angsty McAngst.

At first they both suspected it was delayed detox. Because that happens...right? Sick!Sam, Dean POV. Post 5x01. Liberties have been taken.

Post Lucifer Rising. During the first hours of the end of the world, Sam can only wish that everything was a figment of his imagination. Except for Dean, who has come and got him, and is bent on proving he isn’t going anywhere. Oneshot

A hunt for a berserker in the woods soon becomes a hunt for Winchesters when the cops become involved and Sam is injured.

Written as an extra Sweet Charity fic: Sam falls ill after a hunt in a marsh. Sick enough that Dean decides serious downtime is needed, not just two days rest in a motel room. Schmoop with a tiny bit of angst. Two-parter.

The desert is a dangerous place filled with poisonous snakes, spiders and intense heat. With the addition of the civatateo Sam and Dean find themselves battling an ancient vampire along with their own inner demons. COMPLETE.

Dean grabbed Sam and ran. It was time to reap what they'd sown. Tag for 4.22 Lucifer Rising. First of two parts. Rated T for some language.

Tag to Lucifer Rising. It’s been years since Sam has looked so vulnerable…for a moment Dean is back in Palo Alto, pulling his brother from a burning building for the second time in his life.

Sam lost a lot of blood and he's acting...peculiar. Jump The Shark tag.

Battle lines are drawn when the touch of the Fae is felt in the town where the Winchesters have found refuge. The repercussions could change the family’s path forever. Sam 18 Dean 22.

Sam's pretty sure he's going to die under this bridge, next to this stupid, stinking river.

Missing scene for Jump the Shark, bridges the gap between Dean saving Sam and the hunter's funeral. Spoilers for Season 4 episodes, up to and including 4.19.

Ten-year-old Sammy wakes up in the backseat of the Impala to find the car in the ditch. Written for the h/c meme on LJ.

Sam is dying and Dean can't stop it. An enemy is counting on just that.

Sequel to "Forget and Forgive": Two weeks after Sam woke up, he's still sore, and Dean's still the big brother Sam missed. And finally, the missing memories begin to return. Hurt!Sam, worried-big-brother!Dean, ANGST.

Post 4x14: Sam wakes up and realizes that something went wrong with the last hunt. In the same token, though, it might've made things right between him and Dean again. Hurt!Sam, worried!Dean, helpful!Bobby, angst, brotherly h/c.

Sam has a head injury. Good, old-fashioned H/C.

Dean didn't have time to brace himself for the feel of a bullet slicing through his chest. He barely managed to suck in a breath. He laid there, eyes shut, and wondered why he wasn't dead yet.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester tag: Sam's not sure what's worse, the pain after the exorcism or Dean's reaction.

Sometimes saving a life is just the beginning of the story.

E/O Challenge: Nausea. Stuck in a traffic jam, Sam is feeling under the weather while Dean gets a little revenge. Thank God for fast food. Sick!Sam, Comforting/Angry Dean! Happy Birthday Enkidu07!

Sam, Dean, a witch with bad taste, and even the best laid plans often go awry--especially for the Winchesters.

Post 3x13, Ghostfacers: A birthday gift for crystalchain. Just why did Dean cover the camera after the hunt was over? Hurt!Sam, bigbrother!Dean, annoyed!Winchesters, constant filming.

Sam's been hunted before. But never like this. Tag to 4.04 "Metamorphosis", so spoilers up to that point.

One moment. Two points of view. A lot could be heard in the silence immediately following Samhain's return to Hell. Twoshot. Tag to 4.07 "It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester."

An ailing Sam gives his older brother cause for serious concern.

Sam’s in trouble and Dean isn’t there… Or is he? – One-shot, set somewhere in the 2nd season.

Tag to 4.07 ITGPSM. After the way Sam had destroyed the demon…How could he look so vulnerable all of a sudden? Young and intense. Lost, needy. His Sammy. If only he was so sure that he was still someone's Dean. OneShot.

When Sam and Dean re-visit their dad's storage container, Sam makes an unexpected discovery. Set early season 3.

Post 4x06: All Dean knew, when he came to, was that Bobby was crouched over him, concern evident, and Sam was standing above him, looking like his world had ended. Angsty!Sam, bigbrother!Dean, patient-dad!Bobby, awesome brotherness.

Mystery Spot tag: He was almost used to the idea again that Dean was alive.

Dean really misses his little brother.

A hunt to destroy a vengeful ghost ship leaves the brothers stranded in the cold Atlantic, depending on each other in the fight to survive. Fanfic Auction tale for winning bidder Harrigan who requested brotherly self-sacrifice. How could I refuse?

Sam always thought the visions were bad enough, and that was before they started responding to him. Based on a "Dead Zone" episode.

For lissa ann - Three days after being possessed, Sam's still seeing the blood on his hands and the black in his eyes. Hurthurthurt!emo!Sam, patient!worried!Dean, self-harm, nightmares, happy frickin' ending, Wee!Chester flashback.

Sam's gone...right?

When Sam is left incapacitated in a way that could be permanent, the boys face some tough choices. Set during Season 2.

Post 3x12: The boys wind up locked in a vault with little air, and decide to clear the air between them while they wait for help. Bigbrother!Dean, hurt!Sam, vault-of-evil, rushed!Bobby.

He was terrified. This wasn't what I'd signed up for. Outsider POV.

A Very Supernatural Christmas tag: The story didn't end there.

Bad Day at Black Rock missing scenes and tags: There are some things money can't buy.

Post Bloodlust, 2x03: Dean sounded like he didn't want to say anything at all, didn't want to be reminded that he had his little brother tagging along, his last reminder of the broken family they both now belonged to.

Leaving on his own was one thing. Being taken was very much another. Sequel to "Where They'll Always Take You In."

Born Under a Bad Sign tag: He'd thought he was over it, until he turned and looked down the barrel of Sam's gun.

Bad Day at Black Rock tag: None of this was funny anymore.

Roadkill tag: The hunt's not done yet. Unfortunately for Sam.

Crossroad Blues tag story: Dean's confession hurts Sam in more ways than one.

No Exit missing scenes and tag: Sam's not quite himself.

Simon Said tag: Sam takes precedence, over everything.

In My Time of Dying missing scenes: Nosocomephobia: fear of hospitals. Sam had been awake for it all.

Faith tag story: Dean's having a hard time accepting the gift of his life.

Home missing scene and tag: The hunt took its toll on each of them in different ways.

Bugs tag fic: They were a little twitchy around bugs now. Turns out they had reason to be.

It would have been Sam Winchester's graduation day, too. Outsider POV.

At first glance, he looked like a thousand others who'd stopped in the diner over the years. Outsider POV.

Even though Sam's grown up now, Dean's still his hero.

Dean was so never leaving Sam alone again. Anywhere. EVER.

Something's wrong with Sam, and it's not natural. Dean calls in a marker for help.

Misunderstandings and insecurities throw the brothers off balance and land them in the path of a wildfire as they face a dangerous foe and the line between hunter and hunted blurs.

They don’t have time for headaches. With having died and pending hell, headaches should be nothing. One shot.

Not everything that threatened his family was supernatural. Sometimes danger arrived wearing a familiar face, packaged in fancy wrapping paper and sporting a captivating smile. When it came for his brother, he didn't even see it coming. Now Complete.

Sam disregards a promise to Dean to be home before dark and consequently gets attacked. Not wanting to admit his mistake, he decides to hide his injuries.

S2. Sammy always gets what he wants, especially while bleeding out in a warehouse parking lot.

Sixyearold Dean and twoyearold Sam pass an afternoon in a motel room.

After a week of riding shotgun inside his own body, Sam needs to know that he's the one in control.

Faced with an annoying little brother, a giant dog monster and money troubles, Dean’s honestly not sure what's stressing him out the most. Until a minor car accident causes him to rethink his priorities.

Sam and Dean return to their motel after a simple hunt is completed. In their profession, they should have already learnt not to leave wounds untended.

Short story where Sam gets a clear revelation about how special Dean is compared to other brothers. Then he tries to thank Dean for it, much to Dean's dismay, while they finish the ghost hunt. Sam POV, hurt!Sam, protective!Dean, minor hurt!Dean

While hunting a sasquatch, Sam and Dean are reminded that not all dangers are of the monster kind. Teen Winchester fic.

Mindless, plotless, good old fashioned Sam Whumping. Oneshot.

15 year old Sam Winchester just wants to take part in his school play, John thinks Sam needs to learn a lesson, but it's all of the Winchesters who learn the lesson when a hunt in the Colorado mountains goes terribly wrong...

Sam is the one with the vision and pain. A missing scene from the episode Simon said.

Sam's 11 Dean's 15. Sam decides to play with one of his brother's things. He was told not to touch it for a reason. Sammy angst. Twoshot. Complete!

Because maybe winning isn't about what he gains, but about what he doesn't lose.

A refreshing twist on an old tale: A house's spiritcleansing gone wrong. Oneshot.

When Sam almost gets them both killed, Dean decides enough is enough.

Some things you never see coming.