The long, dragged-out, unpredictable, emotional, let's-nearly-kill-'im version of Sam dealing with the trials (setting S08) */* Hard gen (no slash), sick Sam, hurt Sam, big bro Dean, shmoop, brotherly love, platonic hugs & cuddles, recovery. */* Complete rewrites/revisions of this fic were completed on 8/20/2019! WOOHOO!

This is a series of stories showing times when Sam needed Dean near him to be able to sleep. New chapter: Missing Scene to S13E22.

Follow Sam final months before he left go to Stanford.

What if Dean had returned back to the Cabin in time to see Corbin with his fingers wrapped around Sam's throat? AU Coda to 11x17 Red Meat. Hurt!Sam. BigBro!Dean. Protective!Dean. BAMF!Dean. Hurt/Comfort.

Dean had been down this road so many times, he could write a book about it: "The Complete Illustrated Guide to Nursing Your Little Brother Back to Health After He's Been Tortured." Season 12x02. Hurt!Sam. Caring/Protective!Dean.

After a car accident leaves him stranded, Sam's badly injured. Help comes from the person he least expected . . . his dead father. *hurt!Sam, Ghost!John, one-shot*

A hunt gone wrong. Blood on Bobby Singer's kitchen table. John Winchester's guilt.

From all the times Dean had been abandoned by the people he loved, Sammy leaving for Stanford had hurt the most. But this came close. Pretty damn close. Episode tag to 12x03 "The Foundry". Hurt!Dean. Hurt!Sam. Hurt/Comfort. Brotherly feels.

Sam lost his brother, got shot in the leg, abducted from his home, patched up by a vet and tortured by a secret society all in the same night. Dean is taking care of him in the aftermath. Episode Tag to 12x02 "Mamma Mia" Hurt/Comfort. BigBrother!Dean. Hurt!Sam.

Even Sam knew there were just some things you couldn't apologize away. Bobby could look into the earnest and apologetic eyes and remember them with no emotion. He could remember a raised knife. Had Dean not come back in time… Bobby just couldn't forgive and forget. Not until he heard the gunshot echoing back along the corridor from the direction Sam was in.

Taxi Driver tag: Post second Trial, Sam struggles to stay awake, while Dean struggles with everything else.

"Feel that?" Benny whispered against the shell of Sam's ear, sending a violent shiver down the man's spine. "Feel the way your heart's trying to punch its way out of your chest? That's what dying feels like. And you better get used to it." Hurt!Sam, Protective!Dean, season!8

Sam and Dean each have two sets of rules, one for themselves, and one for their brother. The rules they have for one another are hypocritical and impractical, but it all stems from the most protective brotherhood there ever was. One-shot. Brotherly Feels.

Sam wasn't quick enough. 10x03

Pre-series. Sam is 17. The tension between father and son is escalating to an all-time high leading John and Sam to clash after a difficult hunt. A distressed Dean finds himself caught in the middle. *COMPLETED*

"You've kept it with you this entire time and you never said a word?" Coda to episode 11x20- Don't call me Shurley. The boys have a much-needed heart to heart after the events of the episode. Hurt/Comfort.

Two sick brothers on a late-night supply run, unintentionally, leave a powerful impact on the owner of a small variety store. Weechesters. Teenchesters. One-shot. Caring/Sick/Sam and Sick/Big Brother/Dean. Brotherly-feels galore.

A stranger who had had a little too much to drink and an argument with his father was all it took for Sam to end up in the hospital, leaving his family struggling to deal with the fallout. Hurt!Sam, Protective!Dean. Preseries.

A hold-up in the convenience store is about the last thing Dean needs on top of having to take care of a sick little brother. Pre-series. Teen!Chesters. Sick!Sam. BAMF!Big-Bro!Dean.

Tag for 11.10 Dean makes record time getting them home after the events of The Devil In The Details. All Dean wants to do is get his brother home and lock him safe inside the bunker after the last frankly traumatizing twelve hours. Dean wants to care for Sam, but is he up to it?

Sam is left in the hospital following a disastrous hunt while John and Dean go back to finish the job. Despite his injuries, Sam goes after them when he realises they're in serious danger. Pre-series.

Sam has a hard time accepting the fact that he is no longer his brother's sole center of attention when Dean becomes friends with the son of their Dad's current hunting partner. Soon the unresolved tension between the boys starts to escalate. Pre-series. Gen. Jealous!Sam. Protective!BigBro!Dean

After a night of drinking, Sam and Dean accidentally cuddle. Sam secretly likes it, but Dean seems to hate it. Then it happens again, and again, and again.

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

Dean struggles to find a way to help Sammy heal, both physically and emotionally, from the events that occurred in Skin 1x06. Hurt/Scared/Sam and Protective/Big Brother/ Dean and a little dash of Fatherly/Bobby.

Wee/teen-chesters with a lot of John. With all the immigration that the US has seen is it any wonder that more than a few supernatural things hitchhiked along? Sam gets a not so welcome gift to help deal with one.

Sometimes it's not the monsters or the ghosts that cause the biggest problems, but nature itself. preseries teenchesters with plenty of hurt!Sam and hurt!Dean to go around.

Sam Winchester didn't feel as though he was part of the family. It wasn't until a hunt that his brother and father realized that fact. John turns to Bobby Singer to help bring their family back together. AU angst/hurting/Sam, neglectful/John and Dean, awesome/Bobby, some language

Sam and Dean have to find a way to deal with their father's death.

Post-6.21. Sam's hurting and Dean's grieving. But rather than burden his brother, Sam hides the injuries he received at the hands of Crowley's demons and the aftereffects. Needless to say, things don't go well. For the LJ Summer of Sam Love fic exchange.

Sam realizes that sometimes being a Winchester is a good thing. Pre-series. Teenage Sam, protective Dean & John. Not complete yet. Will end up being a few chapters long.

Teenage Sam and Dean just can't catch a break. If it's not something supernatural, then it's something else... One shot.

The Alphabet of limp!Sam. Different stories every chapter. Brother bonding, bad times, good times, other characters... stories with heart. Hurt!Comfort. Limp!Sam Pro!Dean some limp!Dean. COMPLETE

AKA: "How Can I Beat The Crap Out of Sam This Week" Lots and lots of hurt!/limp!/sick!/physically! and emotionally! injured Sam! And plenty of caring!/worried!/awesome! Big Brother Dean! Touches of Super dad! John and a few other pairings! :D

A bitter argument with his father leads Sam to drastically change everything that makes him... him. Instead, he becomes a stranger,cold and distant, even scary as hell. ANGSTY emotionally hurt Sam and very, very, very guilty Dean and John. PLEASE REVIEW

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

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

Set just after ELAC. Dean's world has been turned on it's head- He's alive while his Dad is dead and Sam just won't leave him alone. Consumed by rage and grief, his anger has consequences that neither he nor Sam can foresee. Limp!Sam, Angry!Dean. Complete

Dean spends some quality time with his little brother and learns something about himself in the process. Pre series.

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 belated birthday fic for Carocali! Happy Birthday! Sam’s been burning the candle at both ends and his family is too busy to notice.

Set directly after ELAC. After their father's death Dean was emotionally broken and angry as hell. He wasn't thinking straight and hurt Sam emotionally. But Sam wasn't alright,emotionally and physically. Sick/Broken Sam; Guilty/Angsty Dean. BETA Vonnie836

Preseries: Sam 17 Dean 22. The Winchester family enters a quiet little town when they get wind of teenage deaths. When his family neglects what Sam brings to the hunt, his family learns that Sam could be the next victim if they don't find him in time.

When the boys are captured by the first 'friend' Gordon sends after Sam, one with a vendetta of her own, things go horribly wrong. Did Dean come back from the djinn's near-perfect world, for Sam, just to lose him now? Much Limp!Sam and Protective!Dean.

Sam’s been getting under foot, and fun though little brother hero-worship is, Dean really wants some alone time. Sending the kid out on a wild goose chase seemed like a good idea at the time… Limp/Hurt/Heartbroken Sam, Guilty/Worried/Angsty Dean

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.

Only singles left," she says, popping her gum, and since she's chewing with her mouth open Dean can see it's blue. "Got two with a king bed apiece, room five and room nine."

Post Sam's disastrous food run... Sam's leg was in a cast, his head hurt… and he really wanted that glass of water. Oh, and Dean was angry with him. Again.

A botched hunt leaves Dean hurt, and John lashing out with harsh words. But is everything as it seems. A gift for cindy123.

Dedicated to and written for charis-kalos. Dean 21, Sam 16. Sam is given a writing assignment in English class which leads him to make unsettling discoveries about his family. Complete

Sam had been pretty sure his day couldn’t get any worse. He’d figured wrong. Co-written with Faye Dartmouth for Authoressnebula who is simply awesome.

They pull off to the side of an empty highway sometime after midnight.

The brothers take care of each other in their own private ways. **SPOILERS for Season 4**

Teeth chomped down, three words that just wouldn't leave me alone. So here's a short one shot motel fix up of wounds based on them. One of the brother's is shot and needs fixing.

With the burden of hunting consuming their lives, John and Dean let their responsibility, for what should be their first priority, slip through the cracks. Pre-series. Sick Sam.

With as much time as the brothers spend together, arguments will happen. After being together non-stop for weeks, one such fight sends Sam away. It was just supposed to be for a little while, but Sam loses track of Dean. First season one-shot.

Complete AU. The bond between the brothers was all too easily broken. Set after the death of Azazel, and assumes Sam didn’t die at the hands of Jake. When he finds out what happened in his absence, Dean tries to find a way back to Sam.

TeenChesters: Will John's constant pressure for Sammy to "suck it up" cost him the lives of his sons? Limp Sam/ Angsty and hurt Dean/ Angry and Guilty John. Sam is thirteen and Dean is seventeen.

A short one shot sequel to Broken Promises, Uncovered secrets. After Jess' death Dean tries to get Sam to open up, in doing so bridges once broken are mended once again.

Left alone by John and Dean, Sam learns that not all predators are supernatural. Pre-series, hurt Sam.

15 year old Sam faces another move, another battle with his dad, and the neglect that surfaces when Dean isn't around to be the buffer between them. Limp Sam to come, and whumpage for Papa Winchester and Dean too!

John learns of Jessica's death and struggles to cope with his memories of Mary.

Not sure where this came from but it wouldn't get out of my head so here it is -- Pretty much a character study with a plot, HEAVY Sam Angst, something of an overview look through the lens of one particular incident. Anyway, I hope you like it!

After a fight with his dad, will a run away Sammy survive the coming storm! Hurt/Sick Sam, Angsty Dean, Guilty John!

Surviving the accident was only the first step for Sam. After Sam's discharged from the hospital, Dean takes them to Bobby's to give Sam time to recover. Hurt!Sam.

Sam was barely a few feet away when he heard the impact – there just wasn’t enough time for him to get out of the way. Hurt!Sam.

Bela sells supernatural items to the highest bidder. What if someone wanted to buy Sam? One shot; written for the Supernatural on the WB Yahoo group.

Following a petty argument between the brothers, Sam ends up alone and hurt. Limp Sam. Dean and John angst.

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.

Just after 'Skin', Dean discovers something about Sam that leads Sam to a confession about a hunt gone terribly wrong. HurtDean, HurtSam. Angst. NOW COMPLETE

A sort of carry on from 'Becoming Invisible' but really just my need to PimptheLimp and batter the boys to come...!

After a hunt ends badly, Dean shuts Sam out emotionally. Wrapped up in his own problems, Dean's not aware that Sam was injured during the hunt and now needs his help. Hurt limp Sam. Protective Dean

Dean punches Sam and it's up to Bobby to help Dean let go of his guilt...WARNING: contains the spanking of a main character...not your thing then don't read!

Captured with no hope for rescue, he found himself clinging to the one person who never left his side. One Shot. Sequel posted titled Devotion.

Dean and Sam run into serious trouble when hunters gang together and make Sam their prey, and Dean, his only hope. Sam angst, Dean angst, hurtSam, hurt Dean.. NOW 1595 reviews! Thanks guys!

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

The boys are on their way to Bobby’s so Dean can help him with a hunt. Sam is still weak from a stay in the hospital and he is still hearing voices. Dean will need to be at the top of his game in order to save his brother.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Set directly after ELAC. Dean wonders what made him forget that he still had the most important thing in his world.

Preseries. Scholarships don't pay for everything. When you're not talking to your family, that makes summer the worst time of the year.

Post 'Children shouldn't play with dead things' with Sam hiding his hurts away as Dean struggles to keep things together.

A peek in at the boys, and sometimes John, in their private moments together. A oneshot.

Sam and Dean have gotten on each other's nerves and Dean drowns his sorrow at a bar.