I popped my J2 cherry a while ago.

[dosciencetoit]

In other news, I wrote a couple of J2 shorts for the Schmoopy J2 Comment Fic Meme in the beginning of February. I forgot to post them here. It was my trial run for the spn_j2_bigbang.

Title: On Valentines Day
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 972
Summary: Jensen and Jared are two friends living together. Jensen hates Valentine's Day, but Jared surprises him anyway. The prompt is from jojothecr

Jensen doesn't like Valentine's Day. It's commercialized, and it's superficial, and it's fake. If two people are in love, or even in like, they don't need to waste money on useless gifts and expensive dinners just to show it for one day. It's like saying, "We couldn't be bothered to show our affection normally, but lets keep up appearances today, because TV says we're supposed to." Love is showed through the little, thoughtful things, not through grand gestures. Anyone can make a spectacle. It takes a lot more to show how much you know and care about someone.

It's not just couples, though. It's pointless to try going out on a date Valentine's Day because it puts so much presure on everyone that the whole thing ends up flopping.

Jared is convinced Jensen's hatred stems from the fact that Jensen doesn't have a date for tonight. While it's true that Jared gets more offers than him, it's mostly because Jared is more outgoing, and Jensen would rather get to know someone before asking them on a date.

"Are you sure you don't want to go out with Kathy and I?" Jared asks one more time. "She has a friend she could set you up with."

Sitting on the couch in sweats and a ratty T-shirt, Jensen shakes his head. He holds up his beer bottle and doesn't look away from the TV. "I've got my beer, and I've got the game. Don't need anything else tonight."

"But you haven't gone out on a date in a while..." Jared protested.

"I've got a hot date with the Indian delivery guy. There's pakora, rogan josh and naan with my name on it," Jensen shoots back playfully. "Seriously, go surprise Kathy with overpriced candy, cliché flowers and a meal with terrible service. I'll have more fun here."

Jared can only shake his head before he heads out, looking clean cut in his slacks and dress shirt.

It's only an half hour later when Jensen considers placing an order with his favourite Indian delivery restaurant. He's finished his second beer, and he has the first four digest punched in when he hears the front door open.

"You get stood up by your date?" Jensen calls out before he smells the delicious flavours of Indian wafting down the hallway. His voice takes on a hint of confusion. "You picked up food?"

Jared carries the food into the living room with a smile on his face. "Never had a date. Just wanted to surprise you because you've been in such a crap mood."

"But you love Valentine's Day..."

"Figured I'd spend it with my favourite person."

Jared unpacks the food as he says it, so Jensen couldn't see his face. The tone was a little too heavy for the situation, though, so Jensen tries to lighten the mood. "Awe, Jared, you say the sweetest things."

It gets Jared laughing, and he punches Jensen lightly in the arm. They dish out the food, and Jared puts on one of Jensen's favourite movies to kill the time.

By the time the movie is over they're both tipsy and full. To top it off, though, Jared pulls out a bag of the candy coated fennel that the restaurant serves after the meal in the dining room. It's actually one of Jensen's favourite things and he grabs at it. "Jared. You're going to ruin me for anyone else."

To his surprise, Jared blushes a little and ducks his head. He surrenders the candy while mumbling, "That was kind of the point." He hopes that Jensen doesn't hear him, but luck isn't with him.

"Jared," Jensen says softly, letting the bag of candies fall between them.

Shifting nervously on the couch, Jared blurts out, "So I've kind of been in love with you since we met, and I hoped that if we lived together I would get sick of you, or realize that you're not the most perfect person ever for me, but it didn't really work. I'm mean you're hot as sin and you like all the same things I do and you're nice to everyone and you look after me when I'm sick and you know all of my favourite foods and I can't help but fall more in love with you every day because you're just... you."

"Jared," Jensen says, cutting off Jared's babbling. Jared looks at him nervously, but doesn't back away as Jensen leans in and places a chaste kiss on his lips. "You're my best friend," he says softly, his lips brushing Jared's as he speaks. "I can't imagine anyone else I'd want to spend my time with. I just didn't think you felt the same."

At those words, Jared surges forward and pushes Jensen down onto the couch, kissing him again. This time, their lips meet and the kiss is decidedly not chaste. Jared uses his tongue to part Jensen's lips, and things escalate from there. When he finally pulls back, he can't resist nipping at Jensen's bottom lip. He sucks a little before pulling away, reluctant to fully let go.

"What do you think about Valentine's Day now," he asks, his voice husky.

It takes Jensen a few minutes to catch his breath, but he's playful when he responds, "Jury's still out. I could use a bit more convincing."

He's disappointed when Jared gets up off the couch, but only until Jared pulls him up, too. He ends up flush against Jared's chest, Jared whispering into his ear, "I guess we'd better take this elsewhere then."

***

Jensen wakes later that night, warm and content. He feels Jared's lips on the back of his neck, and he sighs, happier than he could have expected.

"What do you think about Valentine's Day, now?" Jared asks, sleepy.

"Still not a fan, but for you I'll make an exception."

---

Title: Thanks for Coming
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,215
Summary: Jensen's trips to Walmart increase exponentially when they hire the new store front greeter. The prompt is from whatjuliewrites

The first few times, Jensen thinks nothing of it. The Walmart is really close to his house, so it makes sense to make the short drive to pick up essentials, or to grab McDonalds from the attached restaurant when he doesn't feel like cooking. And he's certainly not above grabbing his groceries there, or picking up socks when all of his have holes in them. He's all about supporting local business, but after a long day at work, the local Walmart is just too damn convenient to pass up. All said, he probably goes in once or twice a week.

The first time, he's running late to Chris' house and has been told to bring snacks and mix for the game. It's a quick in and out to the grocery section, so he hardly notices that the greeter is a young man instead of the typical retirees Jensen's become used to. He just smiles, nods, and goes about his business.

The second time isn't much different. He's had a long day at work, and the idea of cooking for himself is too much. He just wants to grab a quick bite to eat before he goes home to pass out in front of the TV. He can't help but smile in return, though, when the young man offers him a huge, dimpled grin.

"Welcome to Walmart."

"Thanks." He smiles and feels a little better about the day he's had, but it's forgotten shortly after he got in line for his Big Mac.

The next few times he goes into the Walmart, he starts to notice things about the guy. For one, he's a fucking giant. Jensen starts calling him Sasquatch in his head. Next, he notices the stupidly floppy hair. Then he notices the guy has really straight, white teeth, and he shows them off when he smiles - which is all the time. By his seventh visit into the store, Jensen is quite convinced that the guy smiles a little bigger for him than he does for a lot of the other customers.

It surprises Jensen to realize that he actually misses the guy when he shows up after work one day and it's the typical older man welcoming him into the store. For an insane second Jensen is tempted to ask the man where Sasquatch is, but then he realizes that the idea is completely crazy. He doesn't even know Sasquatch’s name.

He leaves the store more irritated than when he entered it, and he doesn't realize he's forgotten the ketchup he'd wanted to buy until he was already at home.

He’s back two days later, because he likes his eggs in the morning, and eggs are nothing without ketchup. And really, it’s ridiculous how excited he is to see Sasquatch is back to greeting. He smiles brightly when Sasquatch says, “Welcome to Walmart,” and damn if he doesn’t leave with more bounce in his step.

He returns three more times in as many days. It’s all for valid reasons, of course. He runs out of milk, so he makes a quick stop at the store. Then he as the strangest urge to watch Shawshenk Redemption so he drives up to the store to buy a copy. It’s an awesome movie, and he might as well own a copy of it. Finally, he’s run out of razors, and his last one bit the dust, so he’d had to go into work covered in stubble. Sasquatch grins and rubs his chin, mocking Jensen’s not insignificant beard growth. Jensen grunts back, doing his best caveman impression before smiling and heading into the store. It’s the start of many silly interactions that don’t fail to draw the attention of other customers and even some of the staff.

After five more visits to Walmart in the span of a week, Jensen is forced to admit to himself that it’s kind of become a thing. Because Sasquatch is ridiculous, and ridiculously attractive. He hasn’t really gone beyond imagining how Sasquatch’s lips would feel against his, but it doesn’t take much imagination to come to the conclusion that it would probably be kind of epic.

Jensen makes up his mind to at least ask Sasquatch his name, but his plans are derailed when he comes into the store next. Sasquatch is talking to a petite brunette, and even though his stupid, floppy brown hair is covering his face from the way he’s leaning over, Jensen can tell he’s frowning. The girl is another employee, but she has her hand on his arm in way that Jensen finds... overly familiar.

And it’s dumb, because Jensen hasn’t even really talked to the guy, so there’s no reason he should be feeling jealous and protective of him. He doesn’t even know if Sasquatch is gay. He resigns himself to nodding to Sasquatch as he walks by, and doesn’t bother to see in Sasquatch acknowledges him. He can’t help but overhear the tail end of the conversation.

“Just do something about it,” the girl says in a hissed whisper before storming past Jensen. It’s probably some kind of lover’s spat.

Jensen doesn’t so much leave the store as slink out of it, hoping to avoid Sasquatch on his way out.

He doesn’t return to the Walmart until he’s completely out of edible food and all of the other groceries stores are closed. The parking lot is almost dead, so he parks close to the front and walks in. He’s actually surprised when he sees Sasquatch, not only working, but also flirting with a customer. A male customer. The interaction is pretty tame, and it ends with the guy scribbling his phone number onto a piece of paper to give to Sasquatch.

It makes him angry, so he stalks past them and goes to the grocery section to pick up his essentials. He pays, and walks past Sasquatch on the way out of the store, hardly acknowledging the somewhat subdued, “Have a good night.”

As Jensen puts his groceries into the car he realizes what an idiot he’s being. First, he has no reason to be angry. He has no claim over Sasquatch, and it’s not his fault Jensen thought he was dating the girl. In reality, the fact that Sasquatch accepted the guys phone number to begin with indicates that that, 1) Sasquatch is single, and 2) that he’s definitely interested in men.

Jensen throws the rest of his groceries into the trunk of his car and runs back to the store, hoping to make it in before the store closes. He gets there just before Sasquatch latches the door shut, and he’s greeted with a bemused smile.

“Did you forget something?”

Stopping for a minute, Jensen has to figure out what he wants to say. It starts out as “No,” before turning to, “Yes, actually...”

He holds out a hand to Sasquatch and says, “My name is Jensen, and I’m a bit of an idiot. I was hoping you’d let me take you out to dinner.”

Sasquatch smiles, and shakes Jensen’s hand. “I’m Jared. And I’d love to, and I get off in fifteen minutes.”

Jensen would be amused by Jared’s presumption that he wants to take him out tonight, but he’s too busy thinking, Jared fits him much better than Sasquatch.

---

I kind of want to play around more with the second one, but after I've finished everything else on my plate.

Comments

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

WHY WONT YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN CHAD?

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

I will fuck you!

I wrote these before I'd signed up for my bazzilion big bangs. Just wanted to share them now.

[albalonga99.livejournal.com]

That was nice. You really should do more to Nr.2. It was so lovely and I would like to read Jared`s POV. I`m already imagining him doing happy dance when he goes to employee area to change and than he starts stressing about how he looks because - FIRST DATE with Stupidly-sexy-guy and all that jazz and Sandy tries to calm him down while Jensen waits outside by his car and is nervous because Jared is not coming and... Okay - I`ll just shut up now. LOL.

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it, but you can't be giving me ideas like this ;) I'm a bit of a Big Bang addict, and my friend is already pissed that I'm working on six at the moment. Can't start day dreaming about other fics. I'm going to have to keep this in mine for when I've got free time.

[sadritsuka12.livejournal.com]

OMG!11 LOVE BOTH STORY THAY SOO SWEET AND HOT.. LOL

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[veiw13.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Both of them, and I'd like to see a sequel of the second one!

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I definately want to play with this again, but it'll have to be a while. Too many big bangs on the go right now.

[rhondeez.livejournal.com]

lol...both were absolutely adorable. Loved them!

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed.

[gwaeren.livejournal.com]

*flails* You should definitely play more with the second one! :D

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

I really want to, but it'll be a while until I get around to it. Focusing now on my J2 fic for the spn_j2_bigbang and two SPN crossover big bangs. Glad you enjoyed it, though :)