Rather a Story

Someone else is on their third chapter of a Sam-is-in-a-car-accident-at-Stanford fic, and now I'm kind of depressed about it.

I'm sure the fic doesn't have exactly the same plot as "Roses in December," but still.

*mopes*

So here's the next chapter! It turned into a bit of a beast, and this one character just jumped out at me out of nowhere, and since I'm not 100% sure where this fic is going, I'm too chicken to just cut the character. We'll see, I guess.

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 5

After a lot of fiddling, I have finally come up with Chapter 3. Because this is an Experiment in Fanfiction™ I'm not putting up a header each time. You can find all applicable summaries/authorial wibbling/whatnot at the Master Post.

There are specific Season 5 spoilers in this section, although nothing that will reveal Important Plot Points™.

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 4

The Experiment in Fanfiction™ continues. Not much happening in this chapter, alas. This is me getting a feel for the character I haven't paid attention to, yet. So, uh, yeah. It's a) a whole lot introspective and b) a whole lot of nothing happens.

There'll be more action later, I promise. :)

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 3

Okay, so today we have an Experiment In Fanfic™, in which ratherastory is going to run the risk of an epic fail, and start a WIP. I blame pkwench , because it's all because of her prompt at ohsam 's latest comment-fic meme, except it sort of dovetailed with the other idea I had a while back about Dean and Jess getting together to look for Sam, and I had to write the first part of the story just to get it down on paper, and the rest of it still needs to, umm, percolate. Or whatever.

Title: Roses in December
Prompt: From the ever-lovely and talented pkwench: Freshman semester at Stanford Sam gets tagged by a car while walking home from work, the library, whatever. His only emergency contact is one Bobby Singer who is attending a "business conference" in New Hampshire. However, he has the number of someone who might be a little closer to Sam and who can probably get there before the boy wakes up. You can totally go permanent injury with that if you like. :) Original prompt can be found here.
Summary: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” J. M. Barrie. (Okay, not exactly a summary. That's what the prompt was for.)
Spoilers: This is a Season 1 AU, so none.
Wordcount: 3,736 (this section)
Warnings: So far? Not much. A bit of bad language. It's tame by my standards. Otherwise, it features smoking!Dean (just because) and gratuitous leg injury. You know, the usual. ;)
Disclaimer: Disclaiming disclaimer disclaims all that ought to be disclaimed. Furthermore, I disclaim.
Neurotic Author's Note: Okay, so I kind of took the prompt and, uh, did something totally different with it. I set it waaay after freshman year, and kind of went with something a little other than permanent injury, although I suppose it could be permanent, but I just don't know yet. So, uh, yeah. There you go. Sorry, pkwench.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I don't actually know how long this thing is going to be. I'm still playing with it. It might resolve in just one more chapter, maybe five. Or it could get epic on me, I just don't know. My apologies in advance, because I'm not going to be following my usual rule of updating on a daily schedule until the fic is complete. It's going to be sporadic at best. *cringe*

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( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 2

Title: Roses in December
Prompt: From the ever-lovely and talented pkwench: Freshman semester at Stanford Sam gets tagged by a car while walking home from work, the library, whatever. His only emergency contact is one Bobby Singer who is attending a "business conference" in New Hampshire. However, he has the number of someone who might be a little closer to Sam and who can probably get there before the boy wakes up. You can totally go permanent injury with that if you like. :) Original prompt can be found here.
Summary: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” J. M. Barrie. (Okay, not exactly a summary. That's what the prompt was for.)
Characters: Sam, Dean, Jess, Bobby, Brady, a whole bunch of OCs. Later pairings are Sam/Jess (non-explicit) and Dean/OFC (consensual, vanilla, and warned for in the appropriate sections)
Wordcount: 7,505 so far
Warnings: Gratuitous leg injury. Amnesia!fic. Both Dean and Jess smoke. A few scenes of het, that are warned for in the appropriate sections. Lots of swearing, and angst. You know, the usual. ;)
Disclaimer: Disclaiming disclaimer disclaims all that ought to be disclaimed. Furthermore, I disclaim.
Neurotic Author's Note: Okay, so I kind of took the prompt and, uh, did something totally different with it. I set it waaay after freshman year, and kind of went with something a little other than permanent injury, although I suppose it could be permanent, but I just don't know yet. So, uh, yeah. There you go. Sorry, pkwench.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I don't actually know how long this thing is going to be. I'm still playing with it. It might resolve in just one more chapter, maybe five. Or it could get epic on me, I just don't know. My apologies in advance, because I'm not going to be following my usual rule of updating on a daily schedule until the fic is complete. It's going to be sporadic at best. *cringe*

Anyway, this here is the Master Post for the fic. Herein you will find links to all the chapters, as they're posted.


Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14