all duct tape and safety pins inside

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: E
Status: complete
Word count: 171,900
Genre: casefic, canon divergent after 06x17

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean’s had since he got his brother’s soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn’t exactly make it Sam’s favorite day, either. The Winchesters will do anything to save each other: that's almost a natural law. But in nature, everything has a cost, and Sam and Dean have a bad history of not examining the price tag.

25
( i have seen the writing on the wall )

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This fic is now complete. Great, big, buttery slabs of thanks to my amazing betas dimeliora and caranfindel and to everyone who's been reading.

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: E
Genre: casefic, canon divergent after 06x17

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean’s had since he got his brother’s soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn’t exactly make it Sam’s favorite day, either. The Winchesters will do anything to save each other: that's almost a natural law. But in nature, everything has a cost, and Sam and Dean have a bad history of not examining the price tag.

23
( does anybody here remember vera lynn? )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: E
Genre: casefic, canon divergent after 06x17

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean’s had since he got his brother’s soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn’t exactly make it Sam’s favorite day, either. The Winchesters will do anything to save each other: that's almost a natural law. But in nature, everything has a cost, and Sam and Dean have a bad history of not examining the price tag.

21
( open your heart (i'm coming home) )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: E
Genre: casefic, canon divergent after 06x17

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean’s had since he got his brother’s soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn’t exactly make it Sam’s favorite day, either. The Winchesters will do anything to save each other: that’s almost a natural law. But in nature, everything has a cost, and Sam and Dean have bad history of not examining the price tag.

19
( they're gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Genre: casefic, canon divergent after 06x17
Rating: E

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean's had since he got his brother's soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn't exactly make it Sam's favorite day, either.

Chapter 16: the trial
( Count your sins )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Genre: S6 casefic
Characters/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: M
Warnings: graphic violence, starvation, isolation, survival under extreme conditions; reference to addiction and recovery

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean's had since he got his brother's soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn't exactly make it Sam's favorite day, either. The Winchesters will do anything to save each other: that's almost a natural law. But in nature, everything has a cost, and Sam and Dean have a bad history of not examining the price tag.

Chapter 12: empty spaces
( "I am going to dismantle you." Sam's voice shook. "You think what happened to make you like this was bad? Give it time." )

Title: Another Brick in the Wall
Characters/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: M
Status: WIP (~63k)
Genre: S6 casefic
Warnings: graphic violence, starvation, isolation, survival under extreme conditions

Summary: When Sam vanishes on a case, it feels like every nightmare Dean's had since he got his brother's soul back is coming true. Waking up buried alive doesn't exactly make it Sam's favorite day, either.

Then it really starts to get weird.

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