Title: Ballad for the Boy King
Authors: badbastion & thursdaysisters
Genre: casefic
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Sam/Dean pre-slash, Sam/Lucifer if you squint
Spoilers: None. Set vaguely in S5
Warnings/Content: Mostly Gen, boyking!Sam, cursed!Dean, angst, Hell, h/c, possession, brotherly love, shifting POV. About 17k words.
Summary: Dean is cursed by Michael, and the brothers must travel to Hell while trapped in a tower of eternal darkness. All ways are open to the Boyking. Brotherly angst, blood magic, and boyking shenanigans ensue.

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Title: In This Depression
Author: badbastion
Characters: Sam & Dean
Spoilers: S8
Rating: PG
Warnings/Content: depression, angst, reference to canon character death
Misc: ~1300 words. Kind of a coda to 8.19. Posting for Eight Days of Wincest Challenge. This fic is Sam&Dean gen.
Summary: I started writing this after “Goodbye Stranger,” and just finished it. Season 8 was Season 8, with all its flaws and grace notes, but I always wished they’d explore Dean’s depression, and they never really dealt with it. So I did, for just a little while.


And I've always been strong, but I've never felt so weak
And all my prayers have gone for nothing
I've been without love, but never forsaken
Now the morning sun, the morning sun is breaking
--Bruce Springsteen, This Depression

( I've had my faith shaken )