If You're Out There | Epilogue | (8/8)
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Epilogue
If you hear this message, wherever you stand. The future started yesterday, and we’re already late.
When Jared kisses Jensen, everything melts away around them until they are all that’s left, bodies connected as one. Unspoken words pressed onto their lips dissolve, sink into their skin, etch I love you and you’re beautiful and don’t ever leave me onto their chests. When they make love, it’s slow and gentle. Soft strokes and cool kisses. Jensen loves the look in Jared’s eyes just before he comes, like he’s falling but knows the ground beneath him is soft and firm. Jared feels the tremors that run through Jensen’s body, and thinks he makes the most beautiful sounds.
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Jensen’s back fits perfectly against Jared’s chest as they lie pressed against one another. The air of the room is still and warm, the heat of Jared’s body making his skin sweat. Jensen turns slowly, manages to maneuver his way from underneath Jared’s arm and slip unnoticed out of the bed. He keeps his steps light and walks over to the window, slowly undoing the latches and pulling it open.
The night is calm, the sky clear, and the stars sparkle and shine as they bask in the glow of the moon. He picks out the different constellations, thinks of the stories behind them. He thinks of Chris and wonders if he’s okay, thinks of Mackenzie tucked safely in her bed down the hall, thinks of back home and tries to forget the nightmare that woke him.
He can feel Jared’s footsteps coming up behind him before arms snake their way around his waist, hook together at the hands. He leans into the warm touch, eyes closing briefly before Jared reaches out and tilts his face upward.
“Want to talk about it?” His voice is barely a whisper.
Jensen shakes his head, makes a broad motion towards the sky and signs beautiful with a circular motion of his hand around his face.
“Yeah,” Jared says, leaning in to rest his head on Jensen’s shoulder. “It is beautiful.”
Jensen brings his hands down, rests them on top of Jared’s still wrapped securely around his waist. He feels safe and warm. Happy. Alive.
“Love you,” Jared whispers, feeling Jensen tremble as his breath dances across his neck, and he knows without having to ask that even though Jensen can’t hear his words, he feels them move somewhere deep inside him.
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As it turns out, there’s more to downtown Austin than crowded bars and endless nightlife. It’s full of hidden parks and walking trails, small open-air cafés and diners that they have come to love in the months since they made it their home.
They’re walking along a trail named Broken Arrow when Jensen spots it. The tree is small, trunk thin then when compared to the rest of the trees surrounding it and he would have missed it completely if Jared hadn’t needed to stop to tie his shoe.
There, carved into the area just below the first sprouting branch, are the letters J & J.
Jensen looks over at Jared, and the laughter that comes from both of them is loud and boisterous and carefree.
“Well there’s a cheesy romance flick if I ever saw one,” Jared says through a smile.
Jensen’s not sure what makes him walk over to the tree, or take out the apartment key from his pocket, but he does, carves are out there underneath the original letters. When he finishes, he smiles up at Jared who just leans in and kisses him, lips soft and warm as they press against his.
“Who knew you were such a romantic,” Jared says when they break apart, grin still large and wide.
Maybe, if it were another time, they would have returned to that spot, gone there to escape life’s wrath, but when they walk away they don’t come back.
They have each other now, and it’s all the escape they need.
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