FILLED: Once Upon a Time (1/?)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:20:48 UTC
OKAY HERE WE GO. Warning: long as hellll, and you asked for schmoopiness, remember. YOU ASKED FOR IT.
(I did one change: Dean got the cold from the paramedic. Sam gets the cold from Dean.)
Bobby's been playing nursemaid to a sick Dean for two days now, which was bad enough when Dean was a stuffy-nosed eight-year-old, but now he's not only got a bitch of a head cold but a leg that's been broken for all of three days, and he can't seem to decide whether he wants to hobble around on it like it's half-healed or roll and jerk around and moan (like he's having a damn seizure, and isn't that what he wants to be thinking about when he's left Sam upstairs alone so he can get Dean another damn popsicle) every time he coughs. Not to mention that eight-year-old Dean was never high off his ass on painkillers, and his brother was never in a goddamn coma
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (2/?)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:21:33 UTC
They're probably all surprised by Sam's recovery. Two days later Sam's following most of their conversations and awake nearly ten hours a day. Dean, predictably only notices the negatives-of course Sam's still dizzy, idjit-but Bobby's read just about everything there is out there about the kind of head injury Sam suffered. Even without the Wall to deal with, the fact that Sam's doing as well as he is when half a week ago his brain was swelling its way up to a brain and a half is about as close to a miracle as the Winchesters get. The hallucinations show up and scare him but very rarely debilitate him, and usually all Bobby has to do is say Sam's name for a while or, for the bad ones, kick Dean awake and make him say Sam's name for a while, and Sam will shake his head and come out of it and nap a little to shake it off. It's a testament to how far they've fallen the past few years that Bobby watches Sam space out and tremble in the middle of a bowl of oatmeal and thinks, we could live with this. If we have to, we can live with this.
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (3/?)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:22:49 UTC
Bobby makes eggs that morning and Dean whines that it's too early, that his telenovelas aren't on yet, that he wants to go back to sleep. Sam says his legs are sore so Dean has to stay up for a while. Bobby suspects that Sam was just lonely.
“Fine,” Dean says, “But you godda read me a story,” but instead Sam tells Dean a story that he clearly makes up as he goes along, because parts get added and dropped halfway through. He talks about a cowboy and a pretty girl in a saloon and a villain with guns instead of hands. Sometimes he looks into the corner and flinches and says, “No, that's not what happens next,” but Dean puts his thumb on Sam's cut hand and says, “Sabby, whad comes negxt?” and Sam gives his head another one of those hard shakes (those have to hurt, Bobby realizes, he'll talk to him about that) and makes up something to happen next.
Sam's worn out before the story's finished and he sleeps through breakfast, but Dean and Bobby are used to him falling asleep in the middle of things-they can live with that-and don't think
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (4/?)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:24:01 UTC
The only good thing about Sam having this many damn seizures is that they now know what to expect, and Bobby at least is prepared to wait a little for him to wake up afterwards. But Sam's taking a little longer than any of them would like, and Dean won't stop tugging on Sam's hand and barking “Sab!” over and over
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (5/?)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:24:40 UTC
It's possibly the saddest thing Bobby's ever seen, and that's saying a damn lot, when Sam's fever is spiking and he's crying out for Dean to get the bad guys away, and Dean has his arms wrapped all the way around him while Sam shivers and jostles the fuck out of Dean's leg, and every few minutes Sam gets lucid enough to say “Dean, Dean don' cry, why y'cryin?” and then drifts back out before he can hear the answer (“because 's brogken, 's all brogken”) and Bobby thinks that Sam is still pale and cold-pale and cold like plaster-and he dreams about splinting Sam up like a bone because he can't get the image of Dean down two limbs out of his mind
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (6/6)shangriladaOctober 12 2011, 23:25:17 UTC
Slowly, Dean gets well, but the idjit seems to forget that it took him a week and a half to get there, because he's fretting over Sam's immune system like a mother hen. He spends all of Thursday morning rubbing Sam's back while the kid shivers and cries for Lucifer to stop talking while he clutches his head and moans whenever Dean moves
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Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (6/6)mad_serverOctober 12 2011, 23:59:36 UTC
Well luckily this was AWESOME.
Things. Let me collect my thoughts.
1. OMG SNEEZY DEEEEEAN AND SAM HOLDING THE TISSUE FOR DEAN WHICH IS MY ACHILLES HEEL OF ALL ACHILLES HEELS. 2. The way Bobby keeps thinking of Sam as cold as plaster, cold as limestone. So evocative and so indicative of Bobby's disturbedness by what's happened to them. 3. Sam snuggling Dean's foot like a teddy bear and Dean resting his foot on Sam's chest. Aughh so cute. 4. Bobby wondering about putting a picture up in that one corner that Lucifer seems to like, and what that would do. 5. Noseblowy Deeeean with the steam and the six tissues.
Re: FILLED: Once Upon a Time (6/6)i_speak_tongueOctober 13 2011, 00:22:37 UTC
WOWOWOWOWOW. That was crazy awesome. I kind of imagine this would have been exactly how those three weeks went if both Sam and Dean were cute little chibi anime characters.
(I did one change: Dean got the cold from the paramedic. Sam gets the cold from Dean.)
Bobby's been playing nursemaid to a sick Dean for two days now, which was bad enough when Dean was a stuffy-nosed eight-year-old, but now he's not only got a bitch of a head cold but a leg that's been broken for all of three days, and he can't seem to decide whether he wants to hobble around on it like it's half-healed or roll and jerk around and moan (like he's having a damn seizure, and isn't that what he wants to be thinking about when he's left Sam upstairs alone so he can get Dean another damn popsicle) every time he coughs. Not to mention that eight-year-old Dean was never high off his ass on painkillers, and his brother was never in a goddamn coma ( ... )
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“Fine,” Dean says, “But you godda read me a story,” but instead Sam tells Dean a story that he clearly makes up as he goes along, because parts get added and dropped halfway through. He talks about a cowboy and a pretty girl in a saloon and a villain with guns instead of hands. Sometimes he looks into the corner and flinches and says, “No, that's not what happens next,” but Dean puts his thumb on Sam's cut hand and says, “Sabby, whad comes negxt?” and Sam gives his head another one of those hard shakes (those have to hurt, Bobby realizes, he'll talk to him about that) and makes up something to happen next.
Sam's worn out before the story's finished and he sleeps through breakfast, but Dean and Bobby are used to him falling asleep in the middle of things-they can live with that-and don't think ( ... )
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Things. Let me collect my thoughts.
1. OMG SNEEZY DEEEEEAN AND SAM HOLDING THE TISSUE FOR DEAN WHICH IS MY ACHILLES HEEL OF ALL ACHILLES HEELS.
2. The way Bobby keeps thinking of Sam as cold as plaster, cold as limestone. So evocative and so indicative of Bobby's disturbedness by what's happened to them.
3. Sam snuggling Dean's foot like a teddy bear and Dean resting his foot on Sam's chest. Aughh so cute.
4. Bobby wondering about putting a picture up in that one corner that Lucifer seems to like, and what that would do.
5. Noseblowy Deeeean with the steam and the six tissues.
*salutes*
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*DIESOFCUTE*
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This is my new favorite. :D
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