01 May 2015 @ 08:33 am
Pre-Series, depressed teenage Sam, specific fic  
I'm looking for a specific story, but I also love the whole genre of depressed teenage Sam... so fic recs are welcome in addition to finding the specific story.

I don't remember much about the story, but I remember how it emotionally impacted me. So I'm trying to find it again.

Here is what I can recall:

-Winchesters get to a town where they are going to stay for a while. I think, right away, Sam doesn't like it.
-Sam has a sketchbook. He likes to draw.
-At one point, Sam tears up a picture he drew of Dean and himself. This part is important and I think it's when he reaches rock bottom.
-I'm pretty sure Sam self harms in this story (not certain, but pretty sure).
-It's a slow decline, for Sam, into this pit of depression and low self worth.
 
 
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[identity profile] lisaerin.livejournal.com on May 1st, 2015 05:26 pm (UTC)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7304131/1/Textus
[identity profile] rosworms.livejournal.com on May 2nd, 2015 12:27 am (UTC)
three chapters in and i think this is it. thank you!
[identity profile] lisaerin.livejournal.com on May 2nd, 2015 12:30 am (UTC)
You're welcome.
[identity profile] flawedteacup.livejournal.com on May 1st, 2015 06:17 pm (UTC)
Are you OK with wincest? or just gen? I love depressed Sam and teen!chesters also so I am thinking of recs and looking for anyone else's suggestions.

[identity profile] rosworms.livejournal.com on May 2nd, 2015 12:28 am (UTC)
the specific story i was looking for is gen, but i love wincest too. like the invisible boy series is amaaaazing.
[identity profile] ithuriel788.livejournal.com on May 1st, 2015 11:48 pm (UTC)
Keep Holding On (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6582987/1/Keep_Holding_On) kinda fits the bill, as well.
Sam's got a crush on his 17 year old brother. He knows it's wrong, but he knows he can't help it either. Someone (a very not-nice someone) at his school suspects something weird is going on with him and does something about it. It all goes downhill for Sam and Dean, but a little brother needs his elder brother, no matter what.

ETA: noncon

Edited 2015-05-01 11:51 pm (UTC)
[identity profile] rosworms.livejournal.com on May 2nd, 2015 12:30 am (UTC)
the specific story i was looking for is gen, but this sounds like a good one too. i'll definitely be adding it to my reading list.
[identity profile] flawedteacup.livejournal.com on May 5th, 2015 02:01 am (UTC)
I hope some of these fit what you are looking for. I don't have a lot of "just depressed", there's usually h/c or wincest or coming out involved too.

Settle Down My Shivered Bones: (http://a-biting-smile.livejournal.com/920.html) this is an eating disorder fic. It's Dean's POV but when you think about Sam...

The Importance of Being Sam Winchester (http://bettenoire.livejournal.com/5183.html) the author doesn't put any trigger warnings, so I have to spoil with a suicide alert.

Crown and Anchor Me: (http://Crown and Anchor Me:) Sam Winchester is fifteen years old, at yet another new high school in yet another state, he doesn't get along with his distant, distracted father, he's figuring out that he likes guys just as much as he likes girls, his clothes never fit and his limbs ache at the joint ever since his growth spurt started, he has to study for the PSAT and, oh yeah, he's a little bit in love with his brother, Dean, who's taken a break from hunting monsters to work at a local garage for minimum wage.

Stuck: (http://brightly-lit.livejournal.com/1416.html) Summary: Things go from bad to worse in a small Wyoming town until Sam and Dean are stranded in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard, where there's nothing to do but talk about all the things they've never been able to before--things that may be better left unsaid. At least maybe now Dean can try to fix whatever's going so wrong inside Sam that's made him so cold and hostile all these past months, but talking about feelings has never been Dean's forte. (I know this another Dean POV, but I love Sam's dialogue in this.) She also has an AU called Kintsugi that shows a broken, struggling Sam that's really good.

These are some of the ones I like. still working on it!
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