I've Got My Hands Up So Take Your Aim

Title: Those Who Show Up for spn_j2_bigbang
Words: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Infidelity on an OFC (Jared cheats on his wife). Everyone is aged with respect to running for office (Jensen and Jared are mid to late 40s, everyone else around them is respectively older). Set in an alternative timeline (2020 U.S. Presidential Election) where politicians are better received/respected than they are today.

Summary
Jared Padalecki is the latest politician to throw his hat into the Presidential Race. As a Texas Senator, he's well respected by the Republican Party for upholding the values of the GOP. But his earnest, can-do attitude only gets him so far when it comes to the American public.

Enter: Jensen Ackles, a renowned strategist who resuscitates fledgling campaigns and wins political races. Over the course of a year, Jensen and Jared struggle to see eye to eye even as they're both hell bent to win in November. If only Jensen could figure out what skeletons are in the Senator's closet so he can get ahead of a scandal before it breaks.

Decisions are made by those who show up - Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing

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READ FIC: Posted on AO3*


________________MASSIVE THANKS________________

to my lovely artist matchboximpala for such diligence in number of pieces she created; she told me early on that she was excited to work on a political story because she's active in local politics, and I think it really, really, really shows. She has great detail to so many pieces, including blog posts, TV results, the flier for Jared's campaign. Such great, great stuff. Thank you for picking me and hanging in there over the long haul <333333333333

to gluedwithgold for the attention to detail to perform not just one, but two betas on this monster ;-) and all the hand holding, brainstorming, and all around tomfoolery! It's been wonderful having your assistance the last few weeks!

to kelleigh, my most beloved, dedicated to every sentence, reminding me to mention Madeline and the children, cheering me along from drafts to posting, and forgiving me for spelling Penikett and Bamber wrong 18,000 times in the fic ;-) I love you dear and I couldn't have done this without you :-****

to wendy as always for continuing to run the fabulous spn_j2_bigbang :D

*apologies it isn't on LiveJournal. I ran into last-minute posting issues (namely, sections being too long and yet unable to split them due to narrative structure) and just kept it with AO3.

Title: Beautiful Mess
Words: 3400
Rating/Warning: NC-17/escort!Jensen
Summary: Jensen is a high-priced escort and Jared is the businessman who changes everything. Part of the Domestic Dreams verse.
Notes: This comes before Hot Blood Love. Written for smpc. Inspired by from Jason Mraz's "A Beautiful Mess". Thanks to zubeneschamali and rozearkana for beta (and putting up with my writing this during our girls' weekend)


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Title: Hot Blood Love
Words: 3200
Rating/Warnings: NC-17/escort!Jensen
Summary: Jared is a businessman looking for Jensen, the escort he can't get out of his mind.
Notes: Part of the Domestic Dreams verse, comes before Growing Unease. Written for smpc. Title and cut text from Kaleo's "Hot Blood" as I listened to their album on repeat while writing this :D

HUGE thanks to dancing_adrift for late-night beta.

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( Just keep telling yourself there's no shame )

Title: Roots Stronger Than You Know
Words: 2200
Summary: Sam's outburst at the the therapist's office pushes Dean to remind his brother that he'll always be there for him. A coda to 12.04 The Big Empty
Notes: Written for smpc. Big thank you to my one and only cucharita cherie_morte for the lovely beta <333. Title and cut text from Foo Fighters' "Concrete and Gold" because of course it is ;-)

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( Our roots are stronger than you know. Up through the concrete we will grow. )

Title: Growing Unease
Words: 2400
Rating/Warning: NC-17/escort!Jensen
Summary: Jared is the businessman who is falling in love and Jensen is the escort at the heart of the matter
Notes: Written for smpc. Part of the Domestic Dreams verse, the comes before An Unconventional Contract in the timeline. While I'd recommend checking out the whole series, this can be enjoyed as a standalone escort!Jensen/businessman!Jared story.

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Title: An Unconventional Contract
Words: 2600
Rating/Warnings: NC-17/escort!Jensen
Summary: Jared is a lonely businessman craving normalcy with Jensen, the escort he's been seeing for two years.
Notes: Written for smpc; prequel to Domestic Dreams.

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Title: Slow Burn
Warnings: pot use, mentions of past drug use, fleeting mention of past infidelity, gross thievery of current NYE shenanigans (mine)
Summary: Jared's good and drunk while Jensen's warm and high.
Notes: Pinch hit for 2016 spn_j2_xmas, for buticankarriyou's prompt for shotgunning. Big thanks to the fangirl NYE commune group of kelleigh, cherie_morte, zubeneschamali, and quickreaver for a variety of brainstorming, beta, and words.

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( found you )

Title: Lightning
Words: 3000
Pairings: established Jensen/Danneel and Jared/Danneel, with bonus Jensen/Genevieve, Jared/Danneel, Danneel/Genevieve, and J2
Summary: In the commune, they share everything. Everything
Notes: Written for alyndra for 2016 spn_j2_xmas! Among her prompts were padackles things and I went in a wee bit of a different direction ... Hey, alyndra, remember at chicon when we discussed the idea that the padackles just randomly paired off and fucked and everyone was happy and commune-y? Here it is, just for you darling :-***

( Lightning )

Title: Share the Joy
Words: 2350
Pairing: Jensen/Danneel/Jared; established Jensen/Danneel (AU)
Summary: Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was always supposed to happen. Either way, Jensen isn't too positive that this whip-cream-g-string thing was that great an idea, no matter whose birthday it was.

Notes: Intended for the Comment Meme for Jared Padalecki's Birthday for zuben_eschamali's prompt of Jensen and Danneel have been talking about...possibilities...for a while, and if Jared's okay with it, they're going to give him a birthday he'll never forget. Jared's definitely okay with it. I was insanely busy for the month of July and finally got back to this as a present for zuben_eschamali who is one of my bestest friends in fandom and a wonderful houseguest that I'm always excited to hang out with <333

Hilariously ... Share the Joy is an actual title on Reddi Wip's web site LOLOLOL

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Hey there! I finally, finally, finally got all of Why I'm Talking to You (along with its ~20 timestamps?!?!) onto Archive of Our Own.

The whole thing now resides here if you're interested in reading/rereading/tracking/etc ...

Why I'm Talking to You.
Jensen Ackles' career is going just fine and dandy. He's chasing after a new client, he's up for a promotion, and while he's working absolutely too many hours, he's doing some really damn fine work. But his routine is shot to hell once Jared Padalecki starts working at the security desk in his building's lobby ...