Fic: "Summer Camp - that's how it goes", Jared/Jensen, Pg-13
Fic title: "Summer Camp - that's how it goes"
Author: the_milky_way
Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~ 2550
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Beta: Thank so much A.
Disclaimer: This story is fictional (not real, didn't happen). Not true in any way. I don't own anything.
Summary: Jared sees the boy that lives next door, moved in just before junior high school started, and who helps his mom and builds a race car with his dad. Jared also sees the Jensen who never even looks into Jared’s direction.
Notes: This was written for akintay for her prompt Summer Camp.
Originally posted at the J2 summer love comment fic meme. The comment fic is a little different. I changed some things here and I think they fit better now.
“You know, this is best camp ever.”
“Right? This one’s been awesome so far.” Jared sighs and wriggles a little. The wood feels smooth and warm under his naked back. His feet are submerged in slightly cooler water and the sun is baking down on his skin.
He feels good. This is what summer camp is supposed to be like.
The platform they are on - in the middle of the lake - is only open to the oldest boys and girls of the two camps at the shores. It’s huge, safely anchored to the lake’s ground and equally far from each side of the lake. It’s always been there, even Jared’s dad still talked about it. It’s also one of the hot spots around, the favorite place for people to hook up at or to throw parties.
And those parties are legendary around here; even the townies sometimes come and join the fun. It’s not uncommon for people to take their small boats and lug grills, food, drinks and everything needed for good parties to the platform and stay the whole night.
Jared still feels the last party in his bones, smiles at the memories and how this will always be a special place for him. So many things changed for him here, so many memories will forever be connected to a simple wooden platform floating in the middle of a Texan lake. Sometimes things are just that simple.
Today it’s only him and Jensen. Everyone else is already gone since the Camp Dance is about to start. They are not excluded but they decided not to go and their camp leader agreed. It’s not like they couldn’t have gone, the camp is happening in the middle of the 21st century after all but it’s the first time in weeks they had the chance to be alone. Jensen’s uncle being camp leader might have helped with their plea as well.
So here they are, lying side by side and taking in the quiet, warm air. They are close, so close that Jared feels the heat of the body next to him and tries not to melt with it. Their hands are touching, fingers entwined and stroking slowly over skin they still can reach.
“Never thought I’d like you this much.” It’s said against the slow breeze that sweeps gently over the lake. The words get carried towards him, like on a wave flowing on without boundaries or limits. And Jared doesn’t need to open his eyes or turn his head to hear the smile in them.
He lets his fingers tuck Jensen’s hand closer to his side so that they are touching even more. He grins, feels light and happy.
“So.. you like me now, huh?” He can’t help it, after everything they went through.
Suddenly the sun is gone; a shadow over him and Jared slowly opens his eyes. He wants to see Jensen like this, wants to see that it’s really Jensen hovering over him now. And Jensen is really close, hands on either side of Jared’s head, naked legs squeezing against Jared’s hips.
Jensen is smiling, happy and relaxed. Jared can’t get enough of it. It’s been so rare in the past that he savors every full on smile he can get out of Jensen.
“I’ve liked you since the first day I saw you. I just didn’t know what to do about it,” Jensen says, almost whispers it against Jared lips. The kiss shouldn’t make his heart flip as much as it does but it’s still new and Jared sometimes still doesn’t really believe that he can have that now.
Jensen kisses him slowly, taking his time and making Jared shiver.
Jared’s hands want more, twitch with the need to move, to touch. He slides them up from Jensen’s hips on to his sun warmed back and lets his fingers dance over freckled skin. Jared loves Jensen’s freckles, makes it his task to kiss every single one of them even though Jensen complains about it every time.
When they part, Jensen tips his head down a little more, lets it rest against Jared’s. They lie there, connected almost everywhere now but not moving at all.
“Since the first day?” he whispers, feels Jensen smile and nod a little. Jared’s heart is in his throat.
“That... that has been three years ago, Jen. Three years.” Jared sighs because it doesn’t want to get into his head that they wasted so much time, that they could have had this years ago.
“Yeah. It’s… we didn’t have much to do with each other. Different group of friends, rivalries... all that.” Jensen shrugs. He looks so young all of a sudden, not like the confident, cocky guys Jared has been getting to know during those last few weeks. Jensen looks like the 17 years he is and Jared love him even more for it.
Jared is in love for the firs time in his life and that with the most unlikely person you could have ever imagined.
***
Their history isn’t exactly much of a history. It’s maybe a bit like the typical high school story, with jocks and geeks and different social circles. They never clashed but their friends sure did and Jared never really knew how to prevent it or how to even talk to Jensen.
In fact, they haven’t even really talked to each other before this year’s summer camp.
Jensen’s popular, very popular and all the other popular kids make sure that no one that doesn’t belong enters their tight little group. Jared doesn’t belong.
Jared looks, though. A lot. From afar and when no one else is looking, when he doesn’t risk being found out or mocked about. Jensen is, after all, ridiculously gorgeous. He was and is also always surrounded by good looking girls, boys as well, and he was always too far away. Unattainable and way out of Jared’s league.
The thing is, Jared had always seen Jensen. The real Jensen, the one that sits alone and reads books that had titles other jocks would probably think are foreign countries. Jared sees the Jensen that brings his little sister to school and waits for his best friend to finish practice so that she won’t have to walk home.
Jared sees the boy that lives next door, moved in just before junior high school started, and who helps his mom and builds a race car with his dad. Jared also sees the Jensen who never even looks into Jared’s direction.
From the first day on Jared wanted to know more about Jensen, get closer, even if it was just during prep rallies and Friday night games. Sometimes it was enough to just see Jensen for it to be a good day for Jared.
It has been the same at camp ever since they started going to the same one.
They have been here every summer since junior high, always in opposite groups, just like in school, like outside of school as well. At camp, there has always been some sort of competitiveness that Jared never understood and sometimes thought it was more their friends then them. They didn’t really know each other after all.
This year though, Jared’s alone at camp, no Chad or Sophia this time. There is no Chris or Danneel for Jensen either.
They even end up in the same group. They are the oldest around anyway.
At first Jared doesn’t even know why he was at Camp again, instead of home - th eother choice his mom presented. He feels too old to hang out with kids, feels that as a soon-to-be senior he should have been allowed to tag along with his brother on the road trip. He’s sad, lonely and angry at his parents for saying no to his summer plans.
Turns out Jensen is in exactly the same position. They kind of bond over that fact, start to talk after the first few insults that just make them both feel even lonelier. Group activities prove to be their thing, make them an unbeatable team and they talk a little more.
In the end it’s a letter from home that gets them talking for real.
Jared’s grandma is in hospital and Jared’s out of his mind, wants to leave, wants to call his momma at the same time and runs around like a headless chicken. Jensen is the one who calms him, sits him down and talks reason.
It helps and Jared somehow ends up hugging the life out of Jensen. They talk, talk for hours during the night and Jensen even goes as far as to steal his cell phone out of the camp’s office so that Jared can call home and have his momma reassure him that everything is fine.
They are inseparable from then on; realize that high school social circles are not as important as they thought, that they get along perfectly well. And neither of them knows anymore why they didn’t talk before or why they didn’t like the other. Jensen even admits that he might have been a bit jealous of Jared and his relationship with this brother, that it might have been a reason why Jensen never came over and said hello after the move.
Then Jensen tells him that he has been looking back, seeing Jared and not just the geek who is in drama club and plays chess in his free time. Jensen tells him how he sees Jared painting the doors when his mom is too busy with work, that he sees Jared playing basketball with the kindergarten kids his brother’s girlfriend care for, the he sees Jared hiding his intelligence sometimes and that he doesn’t like this at all.
Jensen makes Jared blush like no one else has managed to in years.
Jared thinks that his crush ran away and came back as ‘being so very gone and in love’. Jared doesn’t mind this as much as he thought he would.
The night of the mid-camp fire changes things all over again. Smores and ghost stories have the younger kids either laughing or shrieking, and Jared actually feels like he is in the right place for the first time in a long time. Jensen’s sitting next to him, keeping his side warm and telling stories that have even Jared shivering a little.
He doesn’t know if things will be like this once they are back home but he knows he has never felt so at peace with himself, so content. Not even after he came out to his parents did he feel so settled, so peaceful. It’s more than the simple relief of realizing that he’s not a freak, that the most popular jock at his school is interested in him. It’s something deep inside of him that is suddenly calm and happy.
It’s past midnight, only the older campers are still allowed to be outside, when Jensen grabs Jared’s hand and drags him down to the shore, to the small sandy beach that somehow has become their place over the last few days.
The moonlight shines silvery on the lake water; the wooden platform is a dark spot in the distance. Jared feels Jensen’s smooth, warm skin under his hand where their fingers are still tangled. It’s the first time that they are this close.
Jared’s so nervous that he stumbles over his own feet. Jensen catches him, smiles so wide that Jared can see it clearly.
“Tell me I’m not wrong here. Please, just tell me,” Jensen whispers.
Jared’s too shocked to answer at first, can’t believe that he’s really here, that this is happening. When Jensen starts to pull away Jared realizes he hasn’t said a word yet. He pulls Jensen close, wraps his arms around Jensen’s waist and grins.
He never knew he could be this bold.
“You’re not wrong. Not at all.”
***
That first kiss after the campfire happened two weeks ago and they haven’t stopped kissing since. They do little more but not much, not at camp and not when they both still feel like this is part of their childhood, part of growing up.
Jared doesn’t want to think about what happens when camp is over, hasn’t even tried to talk to Jensen about it. He just wants to enjoy everything as best as he can, no teenage angst, no dark thoughts.
Jensen is still lying on top of him, skin on skin, shielding the sun from Jared.
“Jared?” Jensen’s lips tickle against his ear and Jared has to suppress a giggle. He closes his eyes again and enjoys the feeling of Jensen.
“Hmm?”
“This... this will stay, right? After camp, in school, we’ll talk and not just go back to how things were?” Jensen’s voice is low, rumbling against Jared’s chest and spoken directly into his ear. It’s like Jensen doesn’t want to break the spell, the bubble around them, with his serious words.
Jared tightens his hold on Jensen.
“Yeah… I’m not letting you go. Not now. Not after all this wasted time. My parents, my friends, they all know, they won’t mind. We don’t have to tell anybody or no one else… What you want, Jen.”
Jared means every single word and he knows coming out will probably cost Jensen more then it would him. He doesn’t want to spend their last year in high school running against walls of prejudices and insults. This is still Texas after all.
Jensen sighs, kisses Jared’s ear and settles down next to Jared. They are still wrapped up in each other though, arms tangled, legs as well.
“My best friends know. They’ll have a field day though, once they figure out you’re my boyfriend. They had to endure me drooling over you for years now.”
Jensen isn’t looking at him but Jared knows there’s a faint blush staining his cheeks. It’s once of Jensen’s adorable features, he blushes a lot. And really, Jared isn’t any better right now. The word ‘boyfriend’ does things to him.
“So? Just our friends and family then, yeah? No one else.”
“Hmm... yeah... okay. My mum knows, I told her before this summer because she saw me ogling some guy. My dad, I’m not sure but he isn’t close minded. I... I’ll tell them when we are home.”
“You don’t have to. Not because of me.”
Jensen kisses him again, small nips and licks against his skin, soft pressure against his lips until Jared opens up. His hips move without him realizing it, press against Jensen’s thigh and they both moan at the contact.
They kiss for a long time, languid and exploring. It’s the most erotic thing Jared’s ever experienced, and he has some experience after all. Okay, so one boyfriend isn’t much but he knows how to kiss. And this is just in such a different league that Jared can’t help but think they are perfect for each other.
“I want to. You are worth it. And I think I’m in love with you,” Jensen almost sighs against Jared’s lips.
And just like that Jared knows they’ll be okay.
“I think I’m in love with you, too” he says, pulls Jensen closer again, closes his eyes and just lets everything be. He’s on vacation and he loves it right now.
The End
Author: the_milky_way
Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~ 2550
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Beta: Thank so much A.
Disclaimer: This story is fictional (not real, didn't happen). Not true in any way. I don't own anything.
Summary: Jared sees the boy that lives next door, moved in just before junior high school started, and who helps his mom and builds a race car with his dad. Jared also sees the Jensen who never even looks into Jared’s direction.
Notes: This was written for akintay for her prompt Summer Camp.
Originally posted at the J2 summer love comment fic meme. The comment fic is a little different. I changed some things here and I think they fit better now.
“You know, this is best camp ever.”
“Right? This one’s been awesome so far.” Jared sighs and wriggles a little. The wood feels smooth and warm under his naked back. His feet are submerged in slightly cooler water and the sun is baking down on his skin.
He feels good. This is what summer camp is supposed to be like.
The platform they are on - in the middle of the lake - is only open to the oldest boys and girls of the two camps at the shores. It’s huge, safely anchored to the lake’s ground and equally far from each side of the lake. It’s always been there, even Jared’s dad still talked about it. It’s also one of the hot spots around, the favorite place for people to hook up at or to throw parties.
And those parties are legendary around here; even the townies sometimes come and join the fun. It’s not uncommon for people to take their small boats and lug grills, food, drinks and everything needed for good parties to the platform and stay the whole night.
Jared still feels the last party in his bones, smiles at the memories and how this will always be a special place for him. So many things changed for him here, so many memories will forever be connected to a simple wooden platform floating in the middle of a Texan lake. Sometimes things are just that simple.
Today it’s only him and Jensen. Everyone else is already gone since the Camp Dance is about to start. They are not excluded but they decided not to go and their camp leader agreed. It’s not like they couldn’t have gone, the camp is happening in the middle of the 21st century after all but it’s the first time in weeks they had the chance to be alone. Jensen’s uncle being camp leader might have helped with their plea as well.
So here they are, lying side by side and taking in the quiet, warm air. They are close, so close that Jared feels the heat of the body next to him and tries not to melt with it. Their hands are touching, fingers entwined and stroking slowly over skin they still can reach.
“Never thought I’d like you this much.” It’s said against the slow breeze that sweeps gently over the lake. The words get carried towards him, like on a wave flowing on without boundaries or limits. And Jared doesn’t need to open his eyes or turn his head to hear the smile in them.
He lets his fingers tuck Jensen’s hand closer to his side so that they are touching even more. He grins, feels light and happy.
“So.. you like me now, huh?” He can’t help it, after everything they went through.
Suddenly the sun is gone; a shadow over him and Jared slowly opens his eyes. He wants to see Jensen like this, wants to see that it’s really Jensen hovering over him now. And Jensen is really close, hands on either side of Jared’s head, naked legs squeezing against Jared’s hips.
Jensen is smiling, happy and relaxed. Jared can’t get enough of it. It’s been so rare in the past that he savors every full on smile he can get out of Jensen.
“I’ve liked you since the first day I saw you. I just didn’t know what to do about it,” Jensen says, almost whispers it against Jared lips. The kiss shouldn’t make his heart flip as much as it does but it’s still new and Jared sometimes still doesn’t really believe that he can have that now.
Jensen kisses him slowly, taking his time and making Jared shiver.
Jared’s hands want more, twitch with the need to move, to touch. He slides them up from Jensen’s hips on to his sun warmed back and lets his fingers dance over freckled skin. Jared loves Jensen’s freckles, makes it his task to kiss every single one of them even though Jensen complains about it every time.
When they part, Jensen tips his head down a little more, lets it rest against Jared’s. They lie there, connected almost everywhere now but not moving at all.
“Since the first day?” he whispers, feels Jensen smile and nod a little. Jared’s heart is in his throat.
“That... that has been three years ago, Jen. Three years.” Jared sighs because it doesn’t want to get into his head that they wasted so much time, that they could have had this years ago.
“Yeah. It’s… we didn’t have much to do with each other. Different group of friends, rivalries... all that.” Jensen shrugs. He looks so young all of a sudden, not like the confident, cocky guys Jared has been getting to know during those last few weeks. Jensen looks like the 17 years he is and Jared love him even more for it.
Jared is in love for the firs time in his life and that with the most unlikely person you could have ever imagined.
***
Their history isn’t exactly much of a history. It’s maybe a bit like the typical high school story, with jocks and geeks and different social circles. They never clashed but their friends sure did and Jared never really knew how to prevent it or how to even talk to Jensen.
In fact, they haven’t even really talked to each other before this year’s summer camp.
Jensen’s popular, very popular and all the other popular kids make sure that no one that doesn’t belong enters their tight little group. Jared doesn’t belong.
Jared looks, though. A lot. From afar and when no one else is looking, when he doesn’t risk being found out or mocked about. Jensen is, after all, ridiculously gorgeous. He was and is also always surrounded by good looking girls, boys as well, and he was always too far away. Unattainable and way out of Jared’s league.
The thing is, Jared had always seen Jensen. The real Jensen, the one that sits alone and reads books that had titles other jocks would probably think are foreign countries. Jared sees the Jensen that brings his little sister to school and waits for his best friend to finish practice so that she won’t have to walk home.
Jared sees the boy that lives next door, moved in just before junior high school started, and who helps his mom and builds a race car with his dad. Jared also sees the Jensen who never even looks into Jared’s direction.
From the first day on Jared wanted to know more about Jensen, get closer, even if it was just during prep rallies and Friday night games. Sometimes it was enough to just see Jensen for it to be a good day for Jared.
It has been the same at camp ever since they started going to the same one.
They have been here every summer since junior high, always in opposite groups, just like in school, like outside of school as well. At camp, there has always been some sort of competitiveness that Jared never understood and sometimes thought it was more their friends then them. They didn’t really know each other after all.
This year though, Jared’s alone at camp, no Chad or Sophia this time. There is no Chris or Danneel for Jensen either.
They even end up in the same group. They are the oldest around anyway.
At first Jared doesn’t even know why he was at Camp again, instead of home - th eother choice his mom presented. He feels too old to hang out with kids, feels that as a soon-to-be senior he should have been allowed to tag along with his brother on the road trip. He’s sad, lonely and angry at his parents for saying no to his summer plans.
Turns out Jensen is in exactly the same position. They kind of bond over that fact, start to talk after the first few insults that just make them both feel even lonelier. Group activities prove to be their thing, make them an unbeatable team and they talk a little more.
In the end it’s a letter from home that gets them talking for real.
Jared’s grandma is in hospital and Jared’s out of his mind, wants to leave, wants to call his momma at the same time and runs around like a headless chicken. Jensen is the one who calms him, sits him down and talks reason.
It helps and Jared somehow ends up hugging the life out of Jensen. They talk, talk for hours during the night and Jensen even goes as far as to steal his cell phone out of the camp’s office so that Jared can call home and have his momma reassure him that everything is fine.
They are inseparable from then on; realize that high school social circles are not as important as they thought, that they get along perfectly well. And neither of them knows anymore why they didn’t talk before or why they didn’t like the other. Jensen even admits that he might have been a bit jealous of Jared and his relationship with this brother, that it might have been a reason why Jensen never came over and said hello after the move.
Then Jensen tells him that he has been looking back, seeing Jared and not just the geek who is in drama club and plays chess in his free time. Jensen tells him how he sees Jared painting the doors when his mom is too busy with work, that he sees Jared playing basketball with the kindergarten kids his brother’s girlfriend care for, the he sees Jared hiding his intelligence sometimes and that he doesn’t like this at all.
Jensen makes Jared blush like no one else has managed to in years.
Jared thinks that his crush ran away and came back as ‘being so very gone and in love’. Jared doesn’t mind this as much as he thought he would.
The night of the mid-camp fire changes things all over again. Smores and ghost stories have the younger kids either laughing or shrieking, and Jared actually feels like he is in the right place for the first time in a long time. Jensen’s sitting next to him, keeping his side warm and telling stories that have even Jared shivering a little.
He doesn’t know if things will be like this once they are back home but he knows he has never felt so at peace with himself, so content. Not even after he came out to his parents did he feel so settled, so peaceful. It’s more than the simple relief of realizing that he’s not a freak, that the most popular jock at his school is interested in him. It’s something deep inside of him that is suddenly calm and happy.
It’s past midnight, only the older campers are still allowed to be outside, when Jensen grabs Jared’s hand and drags him down to the shore, to the small sandy beach that somehow has become their place over the last few days.
The moonlight shines silvery on the lake water; the wooden platform is a dark spot in the distance. Jared feels Jensen’s smooth, warm skin under his hand where their fingers are still tangled. It’s the first time that they are this close.
Jared’s so nervous that he stumbles over his own feet. Jensen catches him, smiles so wide that Jared can see it clearly.
“Tell me I’m not wrong here. Please, just tell me,” Jensen whispers.
Jared’s too shocked to answer at first, can’t believe that he’s really here, that this is happening. When Jensen starts to pull away Jared realizes he hasn’t said a word yet. He pulls Jensen close, wraps his arms around Jensen’s waist and grins.
He never knew he could be this bold.
“You’re not wrong. Not at all.”
***
That first kiss after the campfire happened two weeks ago and they haven’t stopped kissing since. They do little more but not much, not at camp and not when they both still feel like this is part of their childhood, part of growing up.
Jared doesn’t want to think about what happens when camp is over, hasn’t even tried to talk to Jensen about it. He just wants to enjoy everything as best as he can, no teenage angst, no dark thoughts.
Jensen is still lying on top of him, skin on skin, shielding the sun from Jared.
“Jared?” Jensen’s lips tickle against his ear and Jared has to suppress a giggle. He closes his eyes again and enjoys the feeling of Jensen.
“Hmm?”
“This... this will stay, right? After camp, in school, we’ll talk and not just go back to how things were?” Jensen’s voice is low, rumbling against Jared’s chest and spoken directly into his ear. It’s like Jensen doesn’t want to break the spell, the bubble around them, with his serious words.
Jared tightens his hold on Jensen.
“Yeah… I’m not letting you go. Not now. Not after all this wasted time. My parents, my friends, they all know, they won’t mind. We don’t have to tell anybody or no one else… What you want, Jen.”
Jared means every single word and he knows coming out will probably cost Jensen more then it would him. He doesn’t want to spend their last year in high school running against walls of prejudices and insults. This is still Texas after all.
Jensen sighs, kisses Jared’s ear and settles down next to Jared. They are still wrapped up in each other though, arms tangled, legs as well.
“My best friends know. They’ll have a field day though, once they figure out you’re my boyfriend. They had to endure me drooling over you for years now.”
Jensen isn’t looking at him but Jared knows there’s a faint blush staining his cheeks. It’s once of Jensen’s adorable features, he blushes a lot. And really, Jared isn’t any better right now. The word ‘boyfriend’ does things to him.
“So? Just our friends and family then, yeah? No one else.”
“Hmm... yeah... okay. My mum knows, I told her before this summer because she saw me ogling some guy. My dad, I’m not sure but he isn’t close minded. I... I’ll tell them when we are home.”
“You don’t have to. Not because of me.”
Jensen kisses him again, small nips and licks against his skin, soft pressure against his lips until Jared opens up. His hips move without him realizing it, press against Jensen’s thigh and they both moan at the contact.
They kiss for a long time, languid and exploring. It’s the most erotic thing Jared’s ever experienced, and he has some experience after all. Okay, so one boyfriend isn’t much but he knows how to kiss. And this is just in such a different league that Jared can’t help but think they are perfect for each other.
“I want to. You are worth it. And I think I’m in love with you,” Jensen almost sighs against Jared’s lips.
And just like that Jared knows they’ll be okay.
“I think I’m in love with you, too” he says, pulls Jensen closer again, closes his eyes and just lets everything be. He’s on vacation and he loves it right now.
The End