Chaptered/Long Recs: Alternate History
Alternate History is a flexible section that covers anything from the boys merely meeting differently, to one or the other having social disorder. Some of these veer close to AU, in that there are dragons or something, and some seem close to alternate vocation, in that the boys are not actors, but the emphasis is not on what they do, but how they come together, or are together, and there is something immediately recognizable to our present world and that is what places the fic here.
CHAPTERED FIC/NOVEL LENGTH:
Alternate History:
A Complicated Love and Affection Between Two Men By: aleia
Rating: R
Pairing: Jensen/Jared with a side of Mike/Tom, Chris/Steve
Summary: Thanks to his idiot friends, Jensen gets signed up to compete for Jared Padalecki's friendship on the second season of MTV's Bromance. Can he beat out seven other guys to be Jared's new best friend...or maybe more?
Evolution By: pekover
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: JDM/Jensen
Summary: Jensen has put Jeff through a lot. Now, Jensen wants to rebuild their relationship, but Jeff isn't sure he can go through it all again. He's also not sure he can stay away. So Jeff decides to take control of the situation; if things are going to start up again ,they're going to start up on his terms.
Open Mike Night At the Fremont By: audrarose
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Bookstore AU set in Chicago, with Jared as a sculptor who works out of a garage and Jensen as a bookstore clerk who's trying to get over a tragedy.
Your Brains Are No Match for My Tractorbeam By: with-a-kay
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: AU, based on The Big Bang Theory. Jensen is a socially awkward but happy theoretical physicist, Jared is an aspiring actor, and everyone sucks at relationships pretty damn hard.
See: Life By: silentpoetryl
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: At the orders of his psychiatrist, Jensen is forced to leave the city and move in with his aunt in a remote and laid back country town. Out amongst the endless horizons and suffocating world, his Bipolar Disorder, questionable love of psychedelics, broken past, and his strange fear of and infatuation with them seems out of place. He is out of place. But all this may change when he meets a boy named Jared with startling jackal eyes, the type of person he never looked for, but perhaps he always needed. Jensen just needs to get out of his wrecked head first.
Say You're Mine By: belyste
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It takes his two best friends getting engaged to make Jared realize what’s missing in his own life, but once he figures it out, he’s a man on a mission: find true love or die trying. He’s not asking for much - just the perfect soul mate to spend blissful eternity with - so when a chance meeting drops Jensen into his life (and his lap), it seems like fate. But either Jensen missed that memo or fate seems to have other ideas, because nothing works out the way Jared planned. Based loosely on S1 of How I Met Your Mother, but you don't need to have seen that to know what's going on.
Single Male Seeking Same By: pocketfullof
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Fed up with dating women who never meet his expectations, Jensen answers a singles' ad, and gets much more than he bargained for.
Owner Surrender By: vamphile
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared volunteers at a dog rescue group. Jensen adopts a dog from him. They like each other, a lot.
Somewhere Between Texas and Mexico By: celtic_cookie
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: “You say you love me, but you love me not.” Still rebounding from his four year relationship with his college sweetheart Milo, Jared finds himself dragged south this summer. South Padre Island, TX is an oasis of beaches, beer and his very best friends and soon the Corona and the salt sea air have Jared back to his sparkly self. Or maybe it’s the fishing. Or the fishing boat’s captain.
New OTP 'Verse By: keepaofthecheez
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: GG!Jared and SV!Jensen, meeting prior to SPN.
If It Wasn't For You Meddling Kids By: trollprincess
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared is one of the leads of the new TV show "Supernatural", but under cover of darkness he is Shadow, a costumed superhero in dark blue spandex who prowls the streets fighting crime and saving people. The move to Vancouver means dealing with an entirely new city to patrol, Mike and Tom's ridiculous excuse for a two-man superhero team, and the mysterious man in black on a motorcycle who's following "Shadow" on his patrols and keeping Jared up nights. In other words, Jared’s a tall friendly Texan who walks through walls, Jensen’s his reserved new co-star -- together, THEY FIGHT CRIME!
QueensGuard By: aramuin
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It's been nearly three years since the war against the alien race known as the Others changed the world and nearly four months since they were beaten back by Earth's natural superweapons, the dragons. Jared's looking forward to reconnecting with his best friend and picking up life where he left off. It doesn't seem much to ask but after three years, how much has really changed? And are the secrets Jensen's hiding better left alone?
The Story of How We (Really) Met By: paleogymnast
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared and Jensen meet at a charity bachelor auction half a year before getting cast on “Supernatural.” Jensen’s hiding dark secrets and emotional scars, and attempting to recover from his troubled past, while falling head over heels for Jared. Jared wears his heart on his sleeve, but just can’t seem to understand his true feelings for his Jensen. Through many trials, tribulations, and near-catastrophes along the way, and with the help of a very understanding Sandy, these two hesitant friends become co-stars, and ultimately, lovers, healing each other from the mistakes of their past along the way. This is the story of how Jared and Jensen *really* Met.
The Empty Room By: germanjj
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jensen/Jared
Summary: Jared’s life felt like it was slowly falling into pieces, slipping right through his fingers and he didn’t even know why. What he did know was that there had to be a reason why he would always find his dogs scratching at the door to the empty room in his house. Why he would hesitate so many times before driving off to set simply because it felt wrong somehow to go alone. Why he would dream of this one guy he’d never met, but who, in his dreams, felt like a man he had spent a lifetime with. Why he couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something, someone, he’d forgotten.
Any Road Will Get You There By: doodle-writes
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen (with Chris/Steve and past Jensen/Chris)
Summary: Jared and Jensen have shared the same friends for almost three years and somehow they've never managed to meet. With Jensen working in Vancouver and Jared working in L.A. the timing's always been wrong and the distance too great. Chris Kane firmly believes they'd be perfect for each other and between him and yet another missed meeting the curiosity becomes too much to stand. Through text messages, e-mails and instant messenger they start to bridge the distance between them. As their new found friendship develops into something more, past hurts threaten to repeat themselves. Can they make a long distance relationship work, even though they've never met?
Imprint By: mass-hipgnosis
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: In a world where love at first sight is a documented scientific phenomenon, and potentially lethal, Jared and Jensen still meet for the first time when they've both been chosen for Supernatural; things just go a little differently after that.
Off The Script By: jasmasson
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen Ackles was the porn industry’s leading star for years, until Jared Padalecki came along. Jensen’s world-weary and disillusioned. Jared’s… not.
Godsend By: blynnk
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen, references to Jared/Chad
Summary: Five years after losing the love of his life, Jared is confronted with the challenge of telling his surrogate daughter about his love for Jensen, as well as the need to let go of everything holding him back from finding real happiness.
And We'll Paint the Grey Clouds (With Pretty Rainbow Hues) By: lazy-daze
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: An AU (very!) loosely based on/inspired by Disney's The Rescuers. Set in some far-off vague future. With action! Adventure! Hijinks! Romance!
Keepsake By: indysaur
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Based loosely on Disney/Pixar's Wall-E.
Put That Thing Back Where it Came From (or so help me) By: vorpalblades
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Like practically everyone else in the world, Jared had a point in his life when he was convinced there was a monster living somewhere in his room. Based on Monster's Inc.
Things That Never Age By: wraith816
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen Ackles leads the most ordinary of lives. Still living in the town he grew up in, teaching social studies at the school he graduated from...it's not exactly the grand future he once dreamed of. But when he attends his ten year reunion and runs into his ex-boyfriend - up and coming director Jared Padalecki - Jensen finds himself faced with the reemergence of old feelings and a choice he never anticipated.
The Heart You Stole (I'm Not Giving Back) By: ragingquiet26
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen is a struggling writer, desperate to get one of his books on the NYT bestsellers list, but his muse has left him high and dry. Inspiration comes in the form of Jared, who teaches Jensen that sometimes life doesn't go the way you planned. Sometimes it's even better.
You Go To My Head By: ras-fic
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: The year is 1938, and Jared Padalecki has just bought a small vineyard in the midst of Depression-era California. He has poured his heart and soul into working the land and creating the perfect wine, but he is still struggling to make ends meet. When he hires a drifter named Jensen to help during the summer harvest, he thinks his biggest problem is coming up with the money to pay Jensen's wage, but he soon finds himself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious man. Jensen's got street smarts and a mean right hook, but he's unprepared for the challenge of fighting off Jared's advances as well as his own simmering attraction. Jared's attention threatens to uncover the dark past Jensen left behind in Chicago, a past he's been running from, and a past that is about to catch up with them both…
Morgan's Free Rangers By: calamitycrow
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It’s 1854. Jared, an Easterner, goes west and meets a handsome Ranger named Jensen. You know, typical western romance.
You and Me, Sand and Sea By: sometimesophie
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: After their plane crashes over the ocean, stranding them on an unfamiliar island, Jared and Jensen have to learn to survive - both the island and each other.
Picture the Two of Us Alone Inside My Golden Submarine By: chash
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen's got a good life--taken in by a rich and famous globe-trotting scientist, bound for grad school at Harvard--and then he goes and falls for his adopted brother.
CHAPTERED FIC/NOVEL LENGTH:
Alternate History:
A Complicated Love and Affection Between Two Men By: aleia
Rating: R
Pairing: Jensen/Jared with a side of Mike/Tom, Chris/Steve
Summary: Thanks to his idiot friends, Jensen gets signed up to compete for Jared Padalecki's friendship on the second season of MTV's Bromance. Can he beat out seven other guys to be Jared's new best friend...or maybe more?
Evolution By: pekover
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: JDM/Jensen
Summary: Jensen has put Jeff through a lot. Now, Jensen wants to rebuild their relationship, but Jeff isn't sure he can go through it all again. He's also not sure he can stay away. So Jeff decides to take control of the situation; if things are going to start up again ,they're going to start up on his terms.
Open Mike Night At the Fremont By: audrarose
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Bookstore AU set in Chicago, with Jared as a sculptor who works out of a garage and Jensen as a bookstore clerk who's trying to get over a tragedy.
Your Brains Are No Match for My Tractorbeam By: with-a-kay
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: AU, based on The Big Bang Theory. Jensen is a socially awkward but happy theoretical physicist, Jared is an aspiring actor, and everyone sucks at relationships pretty damn hard.
See: Life By: silentpoetryl
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: At the orders of his psychiatrist, Jensen is forced to leave the city and move in with his aunt in a remote and laid back country town. Out amongst the endless horizons and suffocating world, his Bipolar Disorder, questionable love of psychedelics, broken past, and his strange fear of and infatuation with them seems out of place. He is out of place. But all this may change when he meets a boy named Jared with startling jackal eyes, the type of person he never looked for, but perhaps he always needed. Jensen just needs to get out of his wrecked head first.
Say You're Mine By: belyste
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It takes his two best friends getting engaged to make Jared realize what’s missing in his own life, but once he figures it out, he’s a man on a mission: find true love or die trying. He’s not asking for much - just the perfect soul mate to spend blissful eternity with - so when a chance meeting drops Jensen into his life (and his lap), it seems like fate. But either Jensen missed that memo or fate seems to have other ideas, because nothing works out the way Jared planned. Based loosely on S1 of How I Met Your Mother, but you don't need to have seen that to know what's going on.
Single Male Seeking Same By: pocketfullof
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Fed up with dating women who never meet his expectations, Jensen answers a singles' ad, and gets much more than he bargained for.
Owner Surrender By: vamphile
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared volunteers at a dog rescue group. Jensen adopts a dog from him. They like each other, a lot.
Somewhere Between Texas and Mexico By: celtic_cookie
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: “You say you love me, but you love me not.” Still rebounding from his four year relationship with his college sweetheart Milo, Jared finds himself dragged south this summer. South Padre Island, TX is an oasis of beaches, beer and his very best friends and soon the Corona and the salt sea air have Jared back to his sparkly self. Or maybe it’s the fishing. Or the fishing boat’s captain.
New OTP 'Verse By: keepaofthecheez
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: GG!Jared and SV!Jensen, meeting prior to SPN.
If It Wasn't For You Meddling Kids By: trollprincess
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared is one of the leads of the new TV show "Supernatural", but under cover of darkness he is Shadow, a costumed superhero in dark blue spandex who prowls the streets fighting crime and saving people. The move to Vancouver means dealing with an entirely new city to patrol, Mike and Tom's ridiculous excuse for a two-man superhero team, and the mysterious man in black on a motorcycle who's following "Shadow" on his patrols and keeping Jared up nights. In other words, Jared’s a tall friendly Texan who walks through walls, Jensen’s his reserved new co-star -- together, THEY FIGHT CRIME!
QueensGuard By: aramuin
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It's been nearly three years since the war against the alien race known as the Others changed the world and nearly four months since they were beaten back by Earth's natural superweapons, the dragons. Jared's looking forward to reconnecting with his best friend and picking up life where he left off. It doesn't seem much to ask but after three years, how much has really changed? And are the secrets Jensen's hiding better left alone?
The Story of How We (Really) Met By: paleogymnast
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jared and Jensen meet at a charity bachelor auction half a year before getting cast on “Supernatural.” Jensen’s hiding dark secrets and emotional scars, and attempting to recover from his troubled past, while falling head over heels for Jared. Jared wears his heart on his sleeve, but just can’t seem to understand his true feelings for his Jensen. Through many trials, tribulations, and near-catastrophes along the way, and with the help of a very understanding Sandy, these two hesitant friends become co-stars, and ultimately, lovers, healing each other from the mistakes of their past along the way. This is the story of how Jared and Jensen *really* Met.
The Empty Room By: germanjj
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jensen/Jared
Summary: Jared’s life felt like it was slowly falling into pieces, slipping right through his fingers and he didn’t even know why. What he did know was that there had to be a reason why he would always find his dogs scratching at the door to the empty room in his house. Why he would hesitate so many times before driving off to set simply because it felt wrong somehow to go alone. Why he would dream of this one guy he’d never met, but who, in his dreams, felt like a man he had spent a lifetime with. Why he couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something, someone, he’d forgotten.
Any Road Will Get You There By: doodle-writes
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen (with Chris/Steve and past Jensen/Chris)
Summary: Jared and Jensen have shared the same friends for almost three years and somehow they've never managed to meet. With Jensen working in Vancouver and Jared working in L.A. the timing's always been wrong and the distance too great. Chris Kane firmly believes they'd be perfect for each other and between him and yet another missed meeting the curiosity becomes too much to stand. Through text messages, e-mails and instant messenger they start to bridge the distance between them. As their new found friendship develops into something more, past hurts threaten to repeat themselves. Can they make a long distance relationship work, even though they've never met?
Imprint By: mass-hipgnosis
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: In a world where love at first sight is a documented scientific phenomenon, and potentially lethal, Jared and Jensen still meet for the first time when they've both been chosen for Supernatural; things just go a little differently after that.
Off The Script By: jasmasson
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen Ackles was the porn industry’s leading star for years, until Jared Padalecki came along. Jensen’s world-weary and disillusioned. Jared’s… not.
Godsend By: blynnk
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen, references to Jared/Chad
Summary: Five years after losing the love of his life, Jared is confronted with the challenge of telling his surrogate daughter about his love for Jensen, as well as the need to let go of everything holding him back from finding real happiness.
And We'll Paint the Grey Clouds (With Pretty Rainbow Hues) By: lazy-daze
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: An AU (very!) loosely based on/inspired by Disney's The Rescuers. Set in some far-off vague future. With action! Adventure! Hijinks! Romance!
Keepsake By: indysaur
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Based loosely on Disney/Pixar's Wall-E.
Put That Thing Back Where it Came From (or so help me) By: vorpalblades
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Like practically everyone else in the world, Jared had a point in his life when he was convinced there was a monster living somewhere in his room. Based on Monster's Inc.
Things That Never Age By: wraith816
Rating: R
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen Ackles leads the most ordinary of lives. Still living in the town he grew up in, teaching social studies at the school he graduated from...it's not exactly the grand future he once dreamed of. But when he attends his ten year reunion and runs into his ex-boyfriend - up and coming director Jared Padalecki - Jensen finds himself faced with the reemergence of old feelings and a choice he never anticipated.
The Heart You Stole (I'm Not Giving Back) By: ragingquiet26
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen is a struggling writer, desperate to get one of his books on the NYT bestsellers list, but his muse has left him high and dry. Inspiration comes in the form of Jared, who teaches Jensen that sometimes life doesn't go the way you planned. Sometimes it's even better.
You Go To My Head By: ras-fic
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: The year is 1938, and Jared Padalecki has just bought a small vineyard in the midst of Depression-era California. He has poured his heart and soul into working the land and creating the perfect wine, but he is still struggling to make ends meet. When he hires a drifter named Jensen to help during the summer harvest, he thinks his biggest problem is coming up with the money to pay Jensen's wage, but he soon finds himself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious man. Jensen's got street smarts and a mean right hook, but he's unprepared for the challenge of fighting off Jared's advances as well as his own simmering attraction. Jared's attention threatens to uncover the dark past Jensen left behind in Chicago, a past he's been running from, and a past that is about to catch up with them both…
Morgan's Free Rangers By: calamitycrow
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: It’s 1854. Jared, an Easterner, goes west and meets a handsome Ranger named Jensen. You know, typical western romance.
You and Me, Sand and Sea By: sometimesophie
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: After their plane crashes over the ocean, stranding them on an unfamiliar island, Jared and Jensen have to learn to survive - both the island and each other.
Picture the Two of Us Alone Inside My Golden Submarine By: chash
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: Jensen's got a good life--taken in by a rich and famous globe-trotting scientist, bound for grad school at Harvard--and then he goes and falls for his adopted brother.