Big Bang 16: Begin to Begin Again (NC-17)

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Title: Begin to Begin Again (Non-AU Future Fic)
Words: 27,000
Rating/Warnings: NC-17/ past Jensen/Danneel and Jared/Genevieve, mentions of the Ackles and Padalecki kids (with JJ in a speaking role, age 15)

Summary: Years after Supernatural ends, Jensen realizes that his job isn’t the only thing missing. He’s divorced, a lame-duck father, and living alone. He wakes often from long-ago memories of the boots and leather jacket he filled out back when he had purpose, dreams of the connection he had with the one who stood beside him through it all. When Jensen finds a spark of himself while reconnecting with his daughter, he is determined to make this new feeling stick with a cross-country trek in the driver's seat of the Impala.

Even as he’s weighted down by his own growing pains post-Supernatural, Jared meets Jensen in middle of Michigan, and they both dive into the same luxurious dream of seeing the country with nothing but time and pavement ahead of them. As Jensen and Jared rediscover themselves and their friendship, they uncover more between them that awakens buried feelings and lights a fire between them. Written for 2016 spn_j2_bigbang

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HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to wendy for running yet another great round of the Big Bang season, and for staying on top of deadlines and such. And thank you thank you thank you for setting me up with my beautiful pitch hit artist beelikej.

J - darling - thank you SO MUCH for your patience over the last month as I was pulled in all directions prior to getting this done. I am so excited to have shared this story with you, especially with your own connections to Route 66 and using some of your own photography. You are a jewel and I am extremely appreciative of your work, your friendship, and your zeal for J2 on a road trip.

Thank youuuuuu to souslelys for the beta - though all remaining mistakes are my own (sorry about all that). Thank you for being my lovely lil babbu and for excellent notes like 'YAY' when I write notes with 'SEX HERE'. <3333

And to Team Procrastination - we did it again!! kelleigh, deirdre_c, cleflink, and I swear to God my brain is dead and I will add more as the names come to me :-******