Cowboyguy's "Starting Over" Supernatural meme! (prompts post)

[cowboyguy]

Alright, here goes...



Hi, everyone! Welcome to my first ever Supernatural commentfic meme! In honor of the fact that I'm going to be moving soon, the theme of this meme is "starting over." God knows the Winchesters have been separated and reunited, argued and apologized, died and been brought back enough times, so I figure we've got lots of source material to start from. As long as there's something along this general theme, I don't care what you do. It can range from, "Hey, let's fix this apocalypse we started." to "Sammy, I'm sorry, I've been a total jerk today. Want a pizza?" (And who doesn't love a good curtainfic?) And, because it's me, any h/c you add in there can never, ever be a bad thing. No mpreg, though, because it generally squicks me. And warn for various levels of kink or possible triggers, just in case. Besides that, do what you want, and we'll operate under the "don't like, don't read" policy.

So here's what you do:
1. Post prompts. As many prompts as you like, one per comment. Seriously, there is no such thing as too many prompts.
2. Especially since we're getting closer to season 10, warn for spoilers. Since I have some friends who still haven't seen season 9, I'm gonna count that as spoiler-y, too. Anything up through the end of 8, though, we'll assume everyone has seen.
3. Any pairings or non-pairings you want. Wincest, gen, Destiel, whatever.
4. Fill the prompts! All the prompts! Fill as many prompts as you want, and multiple fills for one prompt are totally okay. Either post it as a reply to the original comment, or post with a link to the fic.
5. (Pssst! Share this with your friends. The more people, the better!)
6. Prompting and posting will continue either as long as people are interested, or until I'm drowned in a sea of fic. No deadlines on fics, either. We can wait. :)
7. Everybody have fun, be nice, and have an awesome time!

Let the prompting begin!

(Fills post located here.)

Comments

[tarotgal]

After a big ol' fight, Sam & Dean split up and both get cursed. When they (inevitably) reunite, one is mute and the other deaf. Breaking the curses will take both of them working together, naturally. Good luck, boys...

[tarotgal]

It's their first Christmas since they settled down in a life without hunting. One brother is determined to do it right, for once. Things go badly wrong.

[tarotgal]

Dean is thrilled about being able to settle down in a suburb somewhere. Seriously thrilled. We're talking already picking out curtains before the ink is dry on the contract.

The somewhere they end up in makes Sam sneeze miserably. The rooms are too dusty. He’s allergic to some trees in the neighborhood. Don’t even get me started on the first time the lawn is mowed.

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

WELL, OF COURSE THEY WOULD. Oh, jeez, I'm so writing this one.

[tarotgal]

Dean's been restless since his return, goes out for a ride in the Impala, gets into a car accident instead

[tarotgal]

One of the Winchesters has his very first cold since they gave up actively hunting and settled down. The sufferer tries to cope the way he's used to doing when on the road. It takes him/them a while to finally realize he CAN call in sick to work and CAN take the super-drowsy versions of meds, etc.

Stay in Bed Awhile (1/3)

[evelyncarver.livejournal.com]

Sam tried to stifle his first sneeze. He buried his nose in the crook of his elbow and made a tiny little "-nfff" sound, barely audible, even to his years. As he leaned back from the table in the main bunker library, his back cracked and his vision darkened for a second.

"Dean?" Sam called out as he got up, he was probably just hungry, it had been a while since lunch, at least it seemed like it had. He had to stop and lean against the wall on the way to the kitchen. His head was pounding and the hallway was starting to quiver for some reason. He probably just needed to drink something.

The kitchen was warm and when Sam pushed open the door, the most wonderful smells rushed out to meet him. "Cookies?" He asked after he sat down at the table.

"In about twenty minutes." Dean turned off the filling sink and came over. "You okay? You look a little pale."

"Just hungry." Sam shrugged. "You making dinner soon?"

Dean looked at him with a frown. "Are you sure you're okay? Lunch was an hour ago." He reached a hand out towards Sam's head and Sam leaned back in his chair to avoid it.

"I'll get myself a snack then." Sam pushed up from the table and wavered on his feet for a second. This was going downhill fast, maybe he had low blood sugar?

Dean grabbed him and pushed him down into the chair. "I don't think so. You just, just sit okay."

Sam nodded miserably, he could feel pressure building up behind his eyes and in his nose. He needed to sneeze again. It took all of his concentration to keep it inside and he jumped when Dean slammed a bowl down onto the table in front of him.

"Thanks." Sam pulled the bowl of apple slices closer and chewed on one. It was sweet and the juice helped his dry mouth.

"Have a drink." Dean tossed a water bottle at his head and Sam had to use both hands to catch it.

Sam slowly ate two of the apple pieces and drank half the bottle of water. He'd been hoping it would help a lot more than it did and he slouched forward in the chair, ripping the label off of the water bottle. The library was waiting for him, but he was waiting until his head was a little bit more agreeable to standing up.

He didn't see Dean's hand coming this time and he couldn't dodge to avoid it.

"Don't move." Dean ordered and he disappeared out of the kitchen.

Sam sat at the table, he would have liked to get up and walk back to the library or maybe even to bed, but he couldn't find the energy.

"C'mon." Dean was back now and Sam couldn't remember him coming in. "Can you handle this?" Dean asked as he pulled Sam to his feet and Sam slung his arm over his brother's shoulder.

"O' course I can." Sam mumbled. How had he gone downhill this fast? His body never betrayed him like this.

[absenthe-wrae.livejournal.com]

Set season 8 or 9.
So Sam is trying to catalogue the men of letter's library in the bunker but every single time he gets it somewhat organized something goes wrong and he has to start over again.
A poltergeist tosses everything off the shelves onto the ground so he has to put it back, his computer fails and all his data about where everything is disappears, he puts it in paper form but a monster eats the catalogue, and so forth... I'm sure you can think of a few creative ways for this to go wrong, Crowley could have a part, or even Cas if he tries to "help".
He's getting really damn tired of this crap and then Dean somehow ruins it one last time and he blows up. Dean has to calm him down.

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Oooooh... :D

[absenthe-wrae.livejournal.com]

Spoilers up to season 5.
I miss Gabriel, can someone give him another chance at life? De-aged would be fabulous, still a trickster with all of his powers but the mind of a small child. Give him to Castiel and/or the Winchesters to look after.

Gen, Kid!Gabriel, curtain-fic(ish)

[princess-aleera.livejournal.com]

(A/N: this is a tiny little thing, and I haven't written in this fandom for a year, but I hope you still like it :3 )


"I don't like you anymore," the seven-year old tells him, very seriously.

"I know, kid," Dean says and tries to be casual about it. In truth, he's a little hurt, but he understands. He's just glad Gabriel can't kill him two hundred times over again - at least not for a while. "It's not permanent, remember?"

"I don't trust you anymore," Gabriel says quietly and ouch, yeah, that hurts a bit. Sam has the pinched look of someone who's been punched in the face with a lemon, and even Dean can feel his smile slipping.

He picks up the kid instead and sets him on his lap. "Listen, you know what we talked about, Gabriel. C'mon. Once you turn..." He waits, waggles his eyebrows, and hopes Gabriel will go along with them.

He does, bless his archangel-trickster-rapped-in-a-kid's-body soul. "Once I turn eighteen, you and Uncle Sammy will remove the spells that keep my powers under wraps."

"That's right, buddy," Dean says. "Aaand?"

"And when Uncle Cas comes around to visit, he will teach me to fly," Gabriel says, reciting the words exactly like Dean told him. He's starting to brighten now, though, at the thought of flying in the near future. Strangely enough, that's a thought that makes Dean's stomach churn uncomfortably - waht if he falls and breaks something? - but he's just happy that Gabriel's stopped looking betrayed.

"Are you ready for some breakfast now, Gabe?" Sam asks, puppy-eyes still on maximum mode.

"Yeah," Gabriel says, and it sounds like he's indulging them. Even if Cas has long ago established that this version of Gabriel is an actual kid, not just looks like it, Gabriel isn't a normal kid by any stretch. He's part angel, part human, and part Trickster - and how that works, fuck if anyone knows - with abilities and personality traits of all three.

"C'mon, champ," Sam says and takes the seven-year old by the hand, who skips along to the bunker kitchen.

Dean rubs his face with both hands. At least he didn't cry again.

"Uncle Dean?" comes a plaintive voice from the doorway, and when he looks up, Gabriel looks uncertainly at him. He's biting his lip.

"Yeah, kid?"

"You coming with? Uncle Sam's gonna show me how to make you coffee," Gabriel says. He's got the most heartbreaking little uncertain smile, jesus fuck.

"I thought you were mad at me," Dean teases, but he gets up from the table and walks over to him.

"I got over it," Gabriel says, dead serious. He links their pinkies and drags Dean to the kitchen. "I want jam and sugar and honey on my pancakes, please."

"Absolutely not," Dean says, and knows he's lying.

~*~

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Waaaaay back at the dawn of time or, y'know, the beginning of season one... Dean is having a crappy day. The Impala's got a flat tire, his head still hurts from being thrown into a wall the night before, all the credit cards are maxed out, they're low on cash, and he lashes out at Sam when he makes some smart remark. Sam bitches right back, and they're pissed at each other for awhile. But slowly Sam realizes that it's not just Dean taking care of him all the time anymore. He's gotta take care of Dean sometimes, too.

[tarotgal]

Ohhhhhh. Oh this is so good!!!!

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Sam loses a leg. What happens now?

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I saw something like this posted in a meme a long time ago, and I don't think it was ever filled, so I'm giving it a shot here, too.

Somehow, either because he's injured during a hunt or through some kind of accident, Dean (or Sam) loses the ability to speak. Permanently. In order to be able to communicate, he gets an AAC device (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentative_and_alternative_communication). Cue the boys learning how this works and adapting to having a brother with a digital voice.

(And I'm happy to offer help, because while I'm not a speech therapist or any kind of related professional, I am fascinated by this, and I've done a lot of research.)

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Human Cas gets his first sunburn.

[senberet.livejournal.com]

soooo so cute

[grean.livejournal.com]

All the prompts are so good, I hope we get some fills soon.
Okay I am going to try a prompt.
Dean in his late teens left behind to watch Sammy once again. Dean finds trouble while snooping around the local haunted house.
I want Sam to shadow him and rescue him from his heroic tendencies. You are free to make the haunting a hoax and cover for criminal activity or the real deal.

[tarotgal]

Their first attempt at settling down in a post-hunting life did not go well. Dean was too restless. Sam was too jumpy. And they couldn't stay away from the local legends/hauntings.

So they get out of there as quick as they can and start over again somewhere else. However, they find it's not so easy to sever ties this time. Neighbors call, inviting them to block parties, forgetting they're not there still. They're still on email mailing lists for the local bakery/vet/library. Former coworkers insist on friending them on Facebook. Etc.

For two guys used to cutting ties and running after every job, starting fresh in each town, this is a change that's going to take some adjustment and getting used to.

I don't know where I'm going with this prompt. I'd just like them trying to make a fresh start but not being able to do that because the past town keeps coming back at them.

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I love this!

[tarotgal]

"Starting Over"? Sounds like the perfect excuse for a time loop fic!

The boys are on a case that just won't go right, whatever they do. What does it finally take to break the loop?

Bonus: The injuries/illnesses picked up in one loop carry forward to the next for them and start compounding and making it harder to do their job each time.

Filled: Never Ending (1/1)

[center-galaxy.livejournal.com]

You can read it at my journal (http://center-galaxy.livejournal.com/14369.html)

I hope you enjoy! Thanks for the prompt!

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Destiel cute x 1,000. Because they're soul mates, or share a bond, or whatever - Dean and Cas BOTH end up getting de-aged somehow, so it's up to Sam to raise them. They both remember some of their old lives, but mentally they're like little kids. (Only perhaps a little more shy or traumatized that your average five-year-old.)

And today is their first day of kindergarten.

[absenthe-wrae.livejournal.com]

AWWW!!! This is going to happen.

Inspired by something Jensen said at Vancon...

[senberet.livejournal.com]

While Sam's at Stanford, Dean drunk dials him.

Re: Inspired by something Jensen said at Vancon...

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

What did he say?

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Sam and Jess wasn't love at first sight. One night when the boys are drunk, Sam tells Dean about the really stupid/embarrassing thing he did the first time they met, and how he tried really hard after that to show her that he wasn't a complete idiot.

[lauehime.livejournal.com]

Awesome, you're hosting another meme!

And let me think about this prompt, it has something totally inspiring! I just need to figure out what Sam did and then I'd totally love to fill that one :P

[senberet.livejournal.com]

Sam has adjusted okay to college life, and now he's living off campus for the first time. Problem is, he doesn't have a meal plan anymore and has never really had to cook for himself -- all his life he'd either eat Dean's cooking, take-out, or food from the dining hall. He almost starts a fire the first time he tries to use his kitchen, so he opts to go the safe route (living on basically produce and bread, since he's always hated the processed instant stuff) and over time ends up losing some weight (muscle mass, mostly). He starts getting sick more often, he's cold all the time, and it takes a little while before somebody realizes something is up (and maybe the whole time he was too busy with school to stop and consider that it's been a while since he's had a proper meal).

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like this one!

[absenthe-wrae.livejournal.com]

Destiel. Let's have a wedding!
The first time Dean and Cas got married it was one hazy night in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator performing the ceremony and Cas was so drunk he hardly remembers it.
This time they intend to do it right.

FILL: Match Made in Heaven

[zana-zira.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry this took so long - I've had it on my to-do list since the day you put up the prompt. I hope this is what you wanted, hon!

Match Made in Heaven (http://zana-zira.livejournal.com/11330.html)

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Is there a word for "fear of Tuesdays"? It's the first Tuesday after the mystery spot, Broward County is halfway across the country, but it doesn't stop Sam from waking up terrified that the whole thing is going to start all over again.

[zana-zira.livejournal.com]

I googled this, and the only word I could find was "billymilleritus" for fear of Tuesdays. It wasn't widespread though, so I can't verify for sure that it's true. ;)

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Sam's back from Hell, and Dean makes a pop culture reference during a conversation at some point. Sam's all "What?" and confused, because 120 years is a long time to go without seeing any movies. So it's up to Dean to reintroduce him to all the best parts of pop culture. Between hunts,
they have movie marathons, and slowly Sam relearns Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Die Hard, Star Wars...

[tarotgal]

Awwwwwww!!!

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Cracky like whoa. Sam and Dean have settled down, and have a house of their own in a nice, quiet neighborhood. One of their neighbors is over, and when she looks in their pantry for something, finds the stock of salt (because 30 years of hunting habits never go away). She wonders what it's for, so Sam quickly makes up a lie that one of Dean's hobbies is pickling cucumbers. So now obviously the neighbor is expecting to try some of these awesome pickles, and Sam forces Dean to learn how to make
them. Dean is not amused.

[tarotgal]

I honestly can't stop laughing. Dean might not be amused, but I sure am.

GAH! So many things I want to write!

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Curtain fic with a natural disaster. So they've finally settled down, but Winchester luck being what it is, there's an impending natural disaster. Hurricane, maybe? They evacuate like most other people in the area, and when it's safe to return, there's a lot of damage. What do you do when you've only just started to build a permanent life? What happens to the six months' worth of waterlogged photos you've only just started keeping, and the furniture you've invested in, and the friends you've made? Do the boys take off, or stay and try to pick up the pieces?

[tarotgal]

Ever since I started thinking about this prompt, I've had one image stuck in my head, but I don't think I can turn it into a fic. It might just have to be a scene?

[tarotgal]

The boys are reuinited after a split (whatever reason/season is up to you). They're uncertain about each other still, trying to figure each other out now, unable to fall back into their comfortable routine. Then one of them catches a cold and the way they are together (light teasing, covering each other's weak spots during a hunt, lots and lots of brotherly concern & caring) all comes back to them like riding a bike.

[senberet.livejournal.com]

wow. my FAVORITE!!

[tarotgal]

OMGPLOT? One of the characters (could even be John, Bobby, Kevin, Castiel, etc.) is offered the chance to go back in time and make one single change. The character does it and everything resets... but what happens because of that change?