Long Way Home, CWrps, JA/JP, PG-13

[topaz119]

Title: Long Way Home
Fandom: CWrps
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating/Warnings: PG-13. Threats, abuse (non-sexual), off-camera parent deaths.
Length: ~29,000 words
Disclaimer: Clearly, this never happened, but just in case you're confused, nope, I don't know anything about anybody.
Notes/Thanks: Written for the 2010 j2_everafter challenge, riffing off of Candleshoe. Thanks to tassoss for cheerleading me through the rough draft; hurricanemegan for telling me it held together; and pensnest for Brit-picking. Serious editing handled (as always) by the ever-patient and -excellent without_me. And of course, much love to withdiamonds who traipsed around Disney World with me, plotting stories for prompts we didn't get. Next time!

Also posted to AOOO, starting here.

Summary: All Jared had to do was get in, find the treasure, and get out before everybody figured out the scam. Simple. Yeah, right.





Prologue


September, 1986

Later, they would call it one of the worst freeway accidents Los Angeles had seen. Three tractor trailers jack-knifed; a dozen cars twisted and crumpled, all but unrecognizable; dozens more totalled; traffic snarled for miles in both directions. Helicopters circled overhead, whipping the smoke that poured from the worst of the cars into a fog that drifted over everything. Emergency-band radios blared non-stop with calls for metal cutters and chemical packs and EMTs right the fuck now.

In the confusion, it was easy for the little boy, cut from the back of a destroyed Mercedes sedan while the firefighters worked to get to his parents, to run from the noise and the smoke and the heat, to tumble down the hill on the side of the freeway and run and run until he found someplace safe and quiet to hide himself away.

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Prologue | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Epilogue

Comments

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

\o/ you posted! I now have my afternoon activities set!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I did! I finally made myself stop fiddling with it and turn it loose.

[without-me.livejournal.com]

Whee! So glad I could help!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I added a scene, based on something you said--it is likely riddled with extraneous commas and adverbs, sigh. Someday, I will grow up & own my grammar issues, I swear.

[without-me.livejournal.com]

The phone call with Chad--I loved it! ::nods::

Now, about that epilogue...

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

The epilogue! I have to work out when it takes place--I keep wanting to make it a year later, but that still doesn't quite get Jared old enough for Jensen to stop being fussed about his age.

[without-me.livejournal.com]

I'll bet Jared can use his powers of persuasion. Also, if I'm not mistaken 16 is considered "adult" for at least certain sexually related things in England--at least, on QAF Nathan's turning 16 was a big deal.