CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS // REAL PEOPLE Prompts Post // July 1 - 15
This post is for ANY AND ALL REAL PEOPLE PROMPTS. People from other fandoms are allowed as long as the main pairing includes one person from the Supernatural cast. Exceptions made for Jared, Jensen, and/or Misha's wives.
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He found his mom sipping a cup of coffee. It was way too early for anything else.
“Mom?” she turned smiling, it felt as if she were proud of him for peeing, which made no real sense.
“Hello honey, we’re going to the doctor in an hour, get ready…” and moved closer to him hugging him and kissing his cheek.
Something was still stinging at Jensen’s mind. Something else was happening.
“Mom? Why is Josh here?”
He could hear his dad humming softly as he entered the kitchen.
“sweetie.” His mom started. “I don’t want you having any other episode… just because you’re in this small town with all those memories in every fucking corner…”
Mrs. Donna Ackles never swears, never! So hearing that word on her mouth made Jensen believe he understood.
“You want me to leave? With him?”
“It’s for the best.” Mr. Ackles got close to them, just in case his wife would need protection. “You spent almost a week attached to your bed, Son. We don’t want you to have a reason to feel like that again, people in this town are-” he couldn’t complete the sentence before Jensen shouted.
“You just wanna get rid of your shame! Let’s get rid of the black sheep, Your inconvenient little freak!”
“It’s for your own safety!” shouted his father.
“I’m afraid.” His mother was almost crying. “I don’t want to lose you again. Can’t you for once hear our side of the story before getting all worked up over nothing?”
Jensen sat and heard how his parents had nightmares those first ten days he was on the center, how they feared the regret the whole town felt for what he was forced to do and for the abuse he endured will run down and they’ll start harassing him again.
“And, my wife? She will love you baby bro, her sister came back too, she has experience in zombies sensorial rehab.”
The fog was back, Jensen only heard mumbling under the acute sound of anger on his ears.
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Jared went to see Jensen the next day to find the house empty, he waited for a couple minutes, maybe Mrs. Ackles didn’t want him to see Jensen but he’d fight for his right to see his friend.
Someone knocked on his window and when he rose his eyes saw Josh Ackles’ face.
“Why are you watching my parent’s house?”
For a second Jared felt it was stupid to say he just missed Jensen but nothing else came to his brain. He only noticed he said the words out loud when Josh smiled and looked away.
“What am I supposed to think of that kid?”
Jared looked at him.
“That I’m Jensen’s friend?”
Once more Josh smiled, he moved back a little and made a motion for Jared to get out the car and follow him into the house.
“Don’t do this to yourself, Jared. Jensen is leaving with me as soon as he’s cleared from the center.” Jared blinked a couple times. “I’m taking him somewhere else, somewhere he can start over, without any of this shit hanging over his head.”
Jared huffed and mussed his hair not knowing why this was bothering him so much.
“Seriously… Why you care so much about my brother?”
“I don’t know, maybe because I don’t really have friends here anymore, and Jensen is different from the kind of people I’ve met before.”
“And is that difference what made him a freak, that difference made my baby brother kill himself. I won’t let anyone hurt him again. You hear me Jared?”
“He wasn’t the only one hurt, Josh, My brother, myself… many people were hurt because of what happened with him.”
“You? How come you were hurt? You were a kid!”
“I was pulled out of my house, sent to the other end of the country, where I had nothing!!” Jared motioned with his hands as if swatting something away.
“I was alone and people used to mock me, and fear me because what kind of monster I had to be to be sent away and not even allowed to come back for holydays or summer?” Jared closed his mouth and sat down calming himself a little. “Have you any idea how it feels to be surrounded by people like you, and be the only one of your kind at the same time?”
“No…” Josh lit a cigarette.
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“I do…” Jensen was standing at the door. “I lived my entire life feeling like that, I died feeling like that. Not even my brother was there for me Jared, and yours only pushed me to the edge every time he could.”
“I protected you!” Josh was up and moving to Jensen. His voice was loud and Jensen moved a hand in front of them.
“Mom’s in the kitchen, keep it down.”
“I protected you…” repeated Josh. “I had to go, you know that, I was forced! I had to go and there was nothing I could do.” He blinked and inhaling deeply. “I left Ty to keep an eye on you, he was my second, Jay,” and took a long drag from the cigarette.
“He did, even if not at school at least out of there. He did, until the accident.”
“I heard that’s how you met Misha in the end.” And Josh smiled seeing the embarrassment in his brother’s face. “It’s good to see your old bitch face Jenny”
Something like a smile pulled Jensen’s lips.
From outside the room they heard Mrs. Ackles voice.
“Joshua Aaron Ackles! You better not be smoking in my house or help me God,
I’m gonna smack you with a wooden spoon like when you were ten.” The lady entered the room and saw three sets of green eyes on her and blushed. While her older son was fumbling manically around to put the cigarette off.
“Good Afternoon, Mrs. Ackles.” Jared Greeted jumping to his feet.
“Hello Jared… nice to see you.”
“Nice to see you too, Ma’am” Silence fell and Jared felt the need to fill it. “I came to visit Jensen. I see he’s feeling better.” The boy smiled and letting out a breath turned to his friend.
“Yes!!” the lady enthusiastically responded. “He’s much better, we’re just coming from the doctor and we had great news…” Jensen’s mom looked at him as encouraging him to talk. Jensen felt it was too personal to say anything about his body functions to a new friend. But when nothing came out his mother made a gesture for him to talk.
“Jensen went potty last night.” Josh teased. “All by himself and didn’t miss.”
Jensen rolled his eyes and groaned, this was the most human he’s been acting since he came back. And his family felt pleased.
“My kidneys started functioning last night, yes…”
“Doctor said he can have some water now!!” Mrs. Ackles chirped excited.
“That’s awesome!” Jared sounded happy and honest and Jensen smiled by reflex to that tone of voice. “Congratulations.”
Josh scoffed and moved toward his mother.
“Keep your congratulations until I come back I’m gonna do just the same my baby brother did last night.”
“Oh you, silly boy.” Mrs. Ackles smacked jokingly his arm as he passed by. “Do you need anything Jared? Can I offer you something to drink?”
Jared could recognize a hunt when he hears one so he said yes please and Mrs. Ackles left the room.
“Thank you for coming.” Jensen looked at Jared’s face before sitting in the first chair around. “I’m sorry my brother was interrogating you.”
“It doesn’t’ matter, he’s worried about you.” Jensen huffed. “Really, he’s just looking out for you.”
“I know, and it pisses me just the same.”
Jared smiled, he wished he had this kind of relationship, but of course his brother passed away almost five years ago and he didn’t had the second chance Jensen and Josh had.
“What were you and Josh talking about when I entered?”
Jared felt his face getting hotter.
“I was talking about my time in boarding school.” Jensen made a sound of understanding. “I know it was not as bad as you had but it was hard.”
“That’s why you said you felt alone?”
“Yes, you know how it is, here me, you and few others… we’re big fishes, we rule, the mayor’s son, the mill’s owner’s son, and some others.”
Jensen nodded.
“Where I was… I was a minnow.” And Jared looked down. “I was one of the less fortunate ones, and they used to bully me, I was left aside because I had nobody ever going to visit, and Christmas I was always there, and gossips were I had killed my brother, raped a baby sister, set the house on fire.
One said I had horns and hooves.” Jared joked trying to make the memories less painful. But Jensen was looking at his face surprised.
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“Here you go boys…” Mrs. Ackles sat a tall glass of lemonade in front of Jared, it looked delicious and for first time since he was back Jensen felt like he could drink something.
“And… here’s for you. Sweetie.” She put a glass of water with some ice and a lime wedge in front of Jensen who looked at it grateful, it was almost as tempting as Jared’s own.
“What about me? momma” Josh was coming into the room. “I went to the bathroom and even washed my hands…” Jared and his mother laughed Jensen didn’t.
“Are you implying I didn’t?” Jensen asked serious. “We both know; brother, who’s the one that had to be hosed down in the back yard for not wanting to bath an entire summer…” Mrs. Ackles and Jared let out small laughs. “You always lose when is about embarrassment Josh.”
“RED WINE!” shouted the older one.
“CONDOMS” answered Jensen.
“JOANNA” Josh got closer
“ARMAND!” Jensen replied, his brother was about to say something when their mother held both of them.
“Now, behave…” Mrs. Ackles called in a strong voice. “You two. Seriously! Don’t you see we have guests?”
“Is not a guest, mom, is Jensen’s new boyfriend that’s all.”
It was like a ton of bricks fell on the room, Mrs. Ackles gasped and the three men got quiet.
“Jay… I’m sorry.” It’s all in a second, Josh moves forward to his brother, Jensen stiffens, then moves forward without hesitation hands raised clenched in tight fists before his mother calls his name and he hesitates for a moment. Josh was bracing himself for the inevitable pain.
Jared did it by instinct; he had Jensen’s hand in his.
“Jensen, don’t… I don’t have any gummy bear. You better don’t get mad.”
Maybe it was the randomness of the comment, or the meaning behind it, Jensen chuckled, uneven and goofy, just like the day at Jared’s house.
“I shouldn’t have any yet…”
Jared smiled and Jensen for first time noticed his dimples, and how innocent and young Jared looked when smiling.
“Let’s walk a little.” Jared offered looking into Jensen pale dead eyes. “I promise I’d respect his curfew…” Jared said over his shoulder to Josh. “Just don’t spy on us Josh, if you don’t want to find us kissing.”
Jensen giggled, like a school girl at the hilarious disgusted face his brother made.
“Let’s go. Jared steered Jensen to the door while looking intently into Mrs. Ackles’ eyes.
Jensen frowned, confusion and something else, mischief*?* on his eyes. “You’re not planning to kiss me, do you?”
Jared tried so speak but everything was drowned by the laughter coming from inside the house.
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It’s Gen’s boyfriend, Mark Pellegrino who spots them first and parks his red pickup truck very close to them. Jensen stares at the car in anger and keeps walking away while the man greets Jared.
“Hey there JarPad, I was looking for you, there’s this picket we’re organizing to go to the capital and since you-” he got quiet seeing Jensen walking ahead before keep talking. “Ditched us yesterday and the day before…” and smirked at him. “but of course you were with your new best friend.”
“Look, Mark, he just had a…” he couldn’t explain himself.
“You dead banger, traitor, all you needed was a pretty one, huh?” and punched Jared straight in the jaw. “You can’t even respect your brother’s memory.”
Jensen was looking at them from few feet away, Jared up and ready to fight and Jensen didn’t move back. Jared punched Mark back and the man laughed, he was stronger, if not bigger. Before he could do much more, so Jensen was closer, feral pale face on, eyes overly open, pupils dilated, like two black holes.
“Jared, please let’s go… or I’ll hurt him.”
Jared saw Mark retreat and cleaning the blood from his split lip considered for a moment the idea of letting Jensen hurt him, but he was just too much a decent person for that.
“Let’s go Jensen, we could get to the fucking center before something like an apocalypse happens. ” Jensen smiled, the same mechanic smile he had all the time.
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Jared turned to Mark and shouted for him to leave, the bastard took a knife from his pocket and started taunting Jensen.
“Come on, rotten, come on, I’m gonna slit your fucking rotten neck.”
A police cruiser was flashing them and the siren calmed them, Jared cursed under his breath while Mark hid his knife, Jensen was looking at him still unable to control himself.
The officer driving climbed down and addressed them.
“What is happening here?”
“Nothing!” Mark barked. Still the officer turned to Jensen.
“Are you here by your own will?” Jensen blinked not understanding. “You’re a partially deceased among two well known trouble maker militians. I have to know you’re okay Jensen.”
“The fuck is with you and this specific rotten?” Mark was perplexed.
Jared turned to Mark while the passenger door of the police car opened slowly.
“Look you two, I don’t care if you want to rip each other’s eyes out, do it on your own house so we don’t have to interfere until one or both of you douches are death…” said the officer, and directly to Jensen. “It is dangerous for you to stay here, come on.”
“Jared is my friend now…” Jensen offered a little self-conscious.
The second police officer climbed down.
“Is everything clear?” Sheriff Mark Sheppard came out of the car. Sheppard put Jensen to a side with the deputy and then Jared and Mark at the other end of the car.
“Is he the new sheriff?” Jensen hadn’t seen the man yet. He at least looked competent and serious.
“I don’t know about new… He’s been sheriff since I came into town four years ago.”
“What happened to Anders?”
“Nobody knows…” the man looked into Jensen's eyes. “He disappeared on October 12 2009.”
Sheriff Sheppard turned at the sound of Anders name before facing Jared and Mark again.
“You two will leave Jensen Ackles alone and I won’t put your sorry asses in jail, capicce?” Both men were looking at him. “Not that I mind to throw you two in jail, is just that I bet there are better things to do.” The guy faced Jared. “Jared, aren’t you supposed to go to school or something? Many others would sell their souls for a chance to go to Stanford.”
“I need to find my place in the world again. I was going to Hopeful Hearts.”
Sheppard looked into his eyes. “there’s nothing for you in that place.” His voice was low and dangerous, Jared was scared, the man without turning shouted for his deputy to bring Jensen close.
“We three will be going to the station, Pellegrino, get you stupid ass out of here.” He pointed to Jensen and Jared. “Rocky and Bullwinkle, get in, we need to talk.”
“What?” Mark didn’t understood or was just stupid enough to recognize the threat. Out of nowhere Jared saw Sheppard hitting his friend in the stomach with his flashlight.
“Don’t make me repeat myself.” Sheppard’s voice was sorrowful. He faced the other three men. “Car, NOW!”
Once the patrol was moving Sheppard turned on his sit.
“I’m doing you two a favor and saving you a million complications boys, stop looking for trouble. Don’t ask questions. let’s all just accept we live in a better town now.”
“I can’t” Jensen let out without thinking. “I died a horrible dead, I lost everything I had, I just want to know why someone else did the same I did.”
“You were the warning. He was the wakeup call Jensen.” Sheppard tried to explain himself but couldn’t find words finally gave up and sighing sat properly.
“What about Mark?”
“Is not only him, Padalecki; that douche and you are in trouble.”
“NO!!” Jensen was still fighting the fog on his head. “You’re not taking Jared alone.”
Sheppard looked at Jensen. Jensen understood he knew what happened. “Is not like back then. Trust me.”
“I’m going with Jared.”
“Suit yourself boy.”
Jared turned to see Jensen’s face wondering what happened to him. Then something else hit him.
“Josh is going to kill me… and your mom too.”
“I was thinking just the same.” Jensen smiled, a real smile, like the smile he gave his brother. “Why I always end up in trouble when I go out with you”
“Quiet you two.” Was shouted from the front sit and the boys obeyed.
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“Jensen lets go.”
Jensen didn’t move.
“What about Jared.”
“His parents are on their way, move.”
“NO without Jared, and Mark, is Mark okay? Is he alone?” Jensen’s father moved closer facing his son.
“This is my fault Jensen, I’m sorry, but now it’s safe, nothing is going to happen to them.”
Jared had a big picture of what happened to Jensen, but nobody had details, nobody aside of the sheriff and his parents actually knew, still the worried voice of his new friend moved him, he was even asking for Pellegrino, the one man that did nothing more than offend him and call him names since they were introduced to each other.
“Now come on.”
“I’ll wait until they release Jared…” and sat closer. “I won’t let anyone alone knowing what happens here.”
With a low curse Mayor Ackles left the office
“Thank you.” Jared smiled trying to show how really grateful he was. That’s why the question was coming. “Are you really going to live with Josh?”
“That’s what my parents want. He works for the national program to treat partially deceased, he has answers.” After only a beat he kept talking. “Why you stayed? You could be in Stanford!”
“I don’t know, I don’t belong there, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like that.”
“Tell me about Zachary.”
Jared never talks about it, so he did what he usually does.
“I will if you tell me why Josh said Joanna.”
Jensen let out a short laugh and turned to face the wall.
“She was my only girlfriend. she was…” and motioned to his mouth and then his crotch. “You know…”
Jared felt a strange twist in his stomach at the idea of someone going down on Jensen. “And when I…” He made another movement with his hand. “I called Josh’s best friend’s name.”
Jared snickered, trying really hard to stop the laughter.
“Its okay, laugh… you haven’t seen Ty Olsson.”
Jared did saw Ty, that’s why he stole his brother’s yearbook. Ty was tll and muscular, strong jaw, pretyy faced, very masculine, soulful blue eyes and a smile that could melt icebergs. Ty was his go-to facet to jerk off when he was a teenager.
“OH!! But I have… Ty Olsson? The back-liner?” and Jared made a sound.
“I should have told you about why I said Armand.” They snickered once more when the door opened.
“I’m glad you find this funny.”
Jared’s father was there.
“Hello Dad.” Jared blinked surprised. His relationship with his parents was cold and distant but he needed someone who could take him out of there. “Let’s go you two.”
Mayor Ackles and Josh were outside the door.
“What the hell Jared.” Josh asked.
“This is our fault.” Jensen moved forward passing next to his brother and father. “I was too angry to control myself, Jared was only helping me, so was Mark. I just want to go home.”
Sheppard faced Mrs. Ackles and Mr. Padalecki seeing the boys walking away.
“Not now Sheppard, you know why.”
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Jared woke up the next day with a phone call, he kept putting school on hold but this time they said he’d lose his place if he didn’t start right away. He’d have three days to decide and the lady hung up.
He was staring at his phone when it ringed again, this time he only heard a voice.
“You want answers? Come see me tonight, 9pm crossroads demon’s bar.”
Jared stared at his phone again was he sleeping it was hardly 8 am.
Once more the phone on his hand rang and once more it was a number he didn’t know.
“Hello?” this was out of control for him.
“Hello Jared. Wanted to know if you are up to go to…” Jared sighed he had so much in his head he couldn’t deal with it right now.
“NO, Jensen, sorry, not today.”
“Oh…” the voice was soft and disappointed and Jared kicked himself for ever making Jensen sound like that. “Okay, bye.”
Jared sat there staring at his phone half waiting for it to ring again, half gathering courage to call Jensen back.
What was wrong with him?
That same morning, Josh came to Jensen’s bedroom to find him up.
“What? You don’t sleep?”
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Neither of the boys told anyone else, not even each other, whatever was about to happen would be a surprise.
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Jensen tried to sneak out of the house until his brother found him near the front door, he had to say then he’d be seeing Jared.
“I’ll drive you!” Josh had his keys already even if their parents were still telling them not to go.
“No, Josh, I’m fine, I’ll walk.” Three sets of eyes were fixed on him. “What?” and marched to the door. Flashes danced in his head, over and over again about the one time he snuck out like this barely 17, too nervous to do anything else, and too horny to consider being caught. That one time he went to see Misha. The guy was setting a telescope, he had a blanket and coffee, they made love that night under the stars.
Jensen heard a horn, once more he lost time, it happens to those partially deceased, he was so lost in what his brain was bringing back he didn’t noticed he was close to the bar already, and that he was right in the middle of the road.
Passing the door he heard country music, the smell of beer and cigarettes hit him and he moved forward to the bar.
“You’re the Ackles kid right?” a tall lady looked at him up and down. “there.” She pointed with her head to a side and Jensen saw Sheriff Sheppard there. The man saw Jensen and made a movement with his hand for the boy to get close.
“Hello kid.” He offered the chair in front of him before starting the talk. “I know you need some answers, right? And your parents won’t give you any.”
Jensen sat looking straight into the other man dark eyes.
“Why should I trust you?”
“Because I have sins in my conscience. And I’d like to clean it out.”
Jensen settled on his chair. And let Sheppard talk.
“I was just a deputy back in 2004, you remember me?” Jensen made a face, even in his inexpressiveness Sheppard knew the truth “I bet you don’t… ”
The older man sighed and took a swing of his scotch. “I was destined here on May, and I saw you and Collins around, I remember because he was the only person in this shitty town that greeted me as if he really wanted to be my friend, he showed me around.”
Jensen closed his eyes pushing the fog away, this made no sense, what this man was saying? That he had a crush on Misha?
“SO when I saw him… cuffed and bent over Sheriff Ander’s desk… I swear… I lost it!” he let out a breath through his nose and started picking as his bottle. “I remember rumors of what happened to the Olsson guy and… I was afraid.”
“WAIT! Wait…” Jensen sighed too and looked around before rubbing a hand over his lips, suddenly he felt them dry. “Ty Olsson? He had an accident!”
“No, it wasn’t, rumors said he was stopped by Anders few hours before they found his truck on the Sioux fall’s pond.” Jensen had his eyes fully open in surprise. “Rumors at the station said he threatened the sheriff, something about what he had done to him.”
“I… I was a low rank deputy when all this happened, but I knew we had to do something, I spoke to your father when he was only a council member.”
“I know, he said Mayor Banks was Anders’s uncle.”
“And Anders could get away with pretty much anything.” Sheriff Sheppard finished.
“What happened to Ty?”
“I don’t know, for sure. All I know is that Anders used to bully him since he was in high school. Poor thing had it bad after your brother left. Everyone knew that.”
“I didn’t.” Jensen tried to explain, he felt that if he could’ve seen or hear anything, he could’ve be there for Ty.
“Your brother knew, that’s why your father was okay with what happened.”
“What happened? You’re not being clear.”
“I just… it’s complicated.” Sheppard rubbed his face. “It was October tenth when I heard we had a boy that killed himself. Word at the police station said Anders had you arrested after your fight with the red pickup truck goons.” Jensen nodded and turned to a side, it was awkward to have someone who knew what happened. “When you came with the accusations, I couldn’t take it anymore. I knew Olsson, and Collins. I liked them before you appeared.”
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“Ty, look I know we said…” Jensen woke up startled by a guy older than him.
Jensen found the most amazing blue eyes, so deep blue, like the ocean, like the sky right before sunrise. “Hello… who are you?” asked the blue eyed man in front of Jensen who couldn’t take his eyes away from those lips. And suddenly not even Mr. Morgan looked as hot as this man. “Are you Ty’s boyfriend or something?”
“WHAT?” Jensen left the bed as if propelled by a coil. “NO! He’s my brother’s best friend, and I’m just visiting…”
“Okay, you must be little Jensen. Right?”
“I’m not little, I’m 17.” Jensen thinks about it, how petulant he sounded. How that made Misha smile amused.
How before a month they were already good friends, how it was Misha who asked if Jensen was gay. He remembers because Ty was always close and looking after him.
Then the Perseidas, Jensen didn’t know about them but then Misha started talking about the stars rain nonstop.
Jensen left his house saying he was going to see Ty, but Ty never got there, he was arrested for speeding, that was what the report said, and after three and a half hours with the sheriff he had an accident after he was released from the police station, he was now in an asylum in Louisiana where his brother lived. That was the night he and Misha kissed for first time.
Misha felt miserable, he said over and over he was sorry, he said it was not his intention that he cared too much for his friend that he didn’t want to betray his trust doing this with Ty’s little cargo. He felt so miserable they didn’t get in touch for almost a week, and only started talking again after a month, once Ty was sent to his brother, Jensen cried that day, Josh was gone and now Ty too. That’s why Misha was with him at all times, because Ty asked him to take care of his young friend.
Sheppard was quiet, part of this was said out loud and the man was looking at him amazed of how the rotten in front of him was recovering pieces of his memories right there.
“I’m sorry, I was there when Jeffrey Padalecki and Tommy Penickett.”
“Tahmoh, his name was Tahmoh.”
“They were so many.” The sheriff laughed. “All of them with the same stupid haircut.”
Jensen lowered his face remembering them, all wanted to look like Sawyer from Lost. All of them had pretty much the same haircut.
“So… anyway, after what happened to you, you don’t’ remember, right? I took you home that night, to Misha…” Jensen’s eyes shot to his face. “Your father thought I did something. I visited you at the hospital the day you spent there for… you know the bleeding?” Jensen remembered the pain and the haze of the painkillers. “The next I knew about you; we were told to go to the field near Sioux fall’s bridge, right behind Collins’ farm. I just knew it. By the time we got there they were already taking you down, Padalecki tried CPR, he did his best. But it was too late.”
“I guess guilt didn’t let him give up.”
“I thought the same. He really messed up his fingers, those same fingers you broke.” Jensen smirked with satisfaction. “He was just released after threatening your boyfriend.”
“He was there when… when…” he couldn’t make himself say it. “He even helped Anders when he raped me.”
“I was the one who got the phone, it was left inside my car, with a note, no SIM card, no prints, no contacts, nothing, just a bunch of pictures and the stupid case, with the confederate flag on it? The one he bragged about everywhere.”
Jensen remembered the flag. He remembered with the pain and the humiliation.
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It took Mark Sheppard a minute or two to regain control. “I found Anders with his pants down, his cock out and Collins bent over his desk” Jensen gasped fearing Misha had suffered the same faith. “I confronted him and let Misha leave.” He finished his drink in one gulp. “I should have never let him out… he went chasing every red pickup truck guy and shot three of them, the only one that died was Padalecki.” He turned and looking into Jensen’s eyes. “Misha killed himself with the same gun. The gun you left under your pillow.” Jensen left his father gun there, he didn’t need it, he didn’t want Misha finding a mess in his house, he’d have to live with the memories of blood and dead on the house he just bought. Jensen couldn’t do that to his love.
Sheppard kept talking “I never told anyone but that phone? We knew it was his, Jeff’s-”
“What?” Neither Jensen nor the sheriff knew how long Jared had been there. “You mean... are you saying…”
“That your brother was there when Sheriff Anders raped me?” Jensen said matter of factly, he felt the need to make someone else hurt, like he was hurting. Like the hollow empty space in his chest. “It was either him or someone else, just like him holding his phone and taking pictures.” He wished he could cry because he never cried for what happened to him. “He was there. I remember the hair and the phone in the same room. I remember he touched me when Anders was done with me.”
“Shut up you fucking rotten, shut the fuck up! My brother would’ve never… never!!”
Jared moved without thinking and punched Jensen sending him flying back to land on a heap. “It was all your fault, you couldn’t be normal, you couldn’t hide like the rest of us, you had to kill yourself weak bastard and you ruined everyone’s life!”
“Jared, enough!” Sheriff Sheppard held him back. “Calm down so we can talk.”
“I heard enough of your shit.” Jared pushed the sheriff back.
“Ask your parents Jared go home and ask them about what happened.” Jared looked at Jensen trying to get up disoriented and strangely calm. “You should go back to your grave rotten scum.” He spat on Jensen while a giant guy came to kick him out, the lady from behind the counter had a bat in her hand.
“Sheppard, leave, it’s your obligation to see that boy is safe, you messed with this.” She moved to get her phone and started dialing.
Jensen was still sitting on the floor. Sometimes emotions sucked.
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Gerry and Sheri Padalecki were just sitting in front of the TV when they heard the SUV parking outside their house. “That’s Jared… what you think had happened?” Sheri moved to the door to welcome her son.
The door opened in one harsh push before she could get close. The phone started ringing in the other room, but everything got drowned in the voice of their son.
“You knew?”
“What?”
“About what Anders did to Jensen? What Jeff did, you knew?”
Mr. Padalecki stood as tall as his son and nodded. “Yes, we knew. That’s why we sent you away, this was too much. He was always there, ALWAYS! What if he did the same to you?”
Jared felt as if someone punched him in the stomach, he was seeing everything in white and next thing he knew his mother had him hugged. She was caressing his back to try to make him control his breathing. His chest was burning and his eyes were blurry, his knees were weak and his feel felt like concrete.
“We had to, baby. We had to keep you and Meg safe.”
“Is not true, he was good, I came out to him, I told him, and he was cool with it.”
“He told us, a couple days before, just when he was arrested for picking fights on the street.”
“He harassed Jensen’s boyfriend! Did you know that?”
His mom started sobbing.
“I wanted to ignore it. I wanted to believe it was just friendly banter, but I knew.”
Jared moved away from his mother’s arms, looking at them with disgust.
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“There’s a lot more… Jared.”
The boy turned from his mother to his dad. “No! What were you thinking? Just because someone else said Jeff was bad you gave up on all your kids?”
“We did the unthinkable for our kids. You have no right to judge us!” his father shouted.
A knock on the door made all of them turn. Mayor Ackles, his wife, Sam Ferris from the bar and Sheriff Sheppard entered the house without any explanation.
“What happened?” Mrs. Padalecki asked.
“It’s my fault.” Sheppard was moving forward. “They deserve to know, but he wouldn’t listen to me. Jensen… he understood.”
“Why you had to do this to him?!” Jared’s father shouted on his face.
“Both boys deserve to know, they’re old enough to know.” Mrs. Padalecki looked at Sheppard with something like fear and pain.
Sheriff said he was sorry once more before he faced Jared. “Wanna know what happened? The day Jensen died your brother went to the bar and outed you. He was too upset and too drunk to think straight.”
Jared gasped and turned to his parents.
“It was never a problem for us. Never, we love you, and who you love is not an issue.” Mr. Padalecki stated.
“Sadly there was one person in the bar that shouldn’t have heard him.” Sheppard turned to Mayor Ackles.
“Anders…” Jared knew it before they had to say anything. “But I was fine, he was nice, he even offered me a ride the day Collins killed my brother.”
“Because I stopped him.” Jensen’s mother was looking into his eyes and Jared remembered. They were going towards the Sioux fall’s pond exactly the opposite direction from his house.
“You don’t mind right kid? I have a thing to take care of, and I’ll drive you home afterwards.” The man said while caressing his knee. Back then he didn’t though twice about the touch.
“I found him when he was about to rape a handcuffed man, I found him when he had the poor guy bent down. He left the station in a hurry saying he’d do the right thing and end with the fucking faggots.” Sheppard leaned on a chair. “We had no idea what he was going to do, there were only two gay guys in this town and Jensen was already dead.”
“I heard him, saying he’d fix you or kill you trying.” Mrs. Ferris said. “I couldn’t let it happen again. They chased my girl out of town for being too mouthy to marry one of their boys. I couldn’t let them do to you the same they did to Jensen or Misha.”
“When we heard what he did. When Sheppard told us, we couldn’t deal with the guilt, Jensen said the true, and we ignored him for being different.” Mayor Ackles continued, and looking to his wife finished. “We took care of that bastard.”
Jared turned around the whole room looking at him, this people all council members now killed a man?
“He went missing the day my son died.” Jared’s mom spoke. “I just had lost my boy, and he suffered so much, people say he didn’t even defended himself he knew he deserved it. I want to believe that he’s in heaven because he asked for forgiveness.” The lady cleaned her face with the tip of her fingers. “But I needed to make someone pay for all that.”
Jared’s dad moved to hold her.
“But… Is it true? Was Jeff? Was he..? With Anders when… was my brother a rapist?” His mom sobbed.
“All I knew was what was on those pictures, on that cellphone.” Jensen’s mom explained. “I knew it wasn’t fair for his parents, as it wasn’t fair for you what Anders was about to do to you.” She wasn’t crying, she had the same quiet strength Jensen showed all the time. “It was more than obvious, and Jeff wasn’t there to ask him about it anymore.”
“I don’t know what happened. I took his keys and sent him out with that other kid he was with all the time, he was too drunk for anything.” Mrs. Ferris tried to explain.
“I can’t believe this, this can’t be true.”
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“We did this on our own Jared, we are all mothers and fathers, we finished it so no children would suffer what Jensen and others suffered.”
“Son, it’s true. The people in this room is responsible of a murder, the entire town knows about this, we just want to believe that it made our town a better place.” His father tried to make him understand.
“And if you think they didn’t love you, you’re wrong.” Mrs. Ackles explained. “Donna saw Sheriff Anders had you in his car, we couldn’t wait.”
“You had to stay away in order to be safe, just like Meg and Mac, just like Jensen will do in a couple weeks.”
“And you thought I didn’t deserve to know this?”
“You were a kid.” his father reasoned. “We couldn’t burden you with this.”
“We swore secrecy Jared, we couldn’t tell you” his mother got close but he moved away again.
“I have to go…” Jared got to the lawn and stood there in blank.
“Kid.” Sheppard got close. “I was about to tell you, you should have stayed in the bar…”
“Shut up.”
“Stop the self pity party, I’ve seen your mother covered in the blood of the man that was a threat to you, you should at least thank them for that. You think Misha was badass for the killing spree? You haven’t seen those three ladies there, they’re the scariest creatures I’ve ever seen, all to protect their cubs.”
“Shut up.” He moved towards his car.
“This entire town knew, that’s why they were all at Misha Collins funeral, they understood.” He kept talking but Jared started running.
Jared didn’t stop. he went home, ignoring the cold or the hour. He had made his mind. It was about 10 pm, it was like 6pm in California. He dialed and let Stanford know he was going to join in at the start of fall.
He started packing that night. He couldn’t wait to leave this town..
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Jensen went home to find his mother up.
“Baby…” she hugged him and didn’t let him go no matter what he said. The gesture made him understand something had happened.
“Is Jared safe?” his mother nodded and Jensen left her behind going to his bedroom. He called his friend but Jared never picked up.
So by dawn he was out of bed and walking the mile and a half to Jared’s house only to find it empty.
Of course it was empty. Jared woke up early to pick up few gallons of pig blood from a slaughter house and marched with Genevieve and Pellegrino to the partially deceased health center.
He was so angry. He didn’t say a word to his friends he just shouted and throwed things, from the blood, to stones. It was almost ten in the morning when he saw a pair of dark eyes looking at him, long straight lashes framing them. He saw rosy cheeks and a sweet smile on the face of a young boy.
“What?!” he asked blunt and the kid giggled.
“Don’t you recognize me?” and the kid shook a bag of gummy bears in front of him. It was Osric and he had his eye color back. He was officially back.
Sadly Jared was still too angry and just smirked at him and moved to a side.
“You’re a rotten nothing more.” And then someone from behind brought a bucket of blood and poured it over the kid, Jared by instinct pulled the boy towards him and hugged him but he was still soaked in blood.
Osric’s pretty dark eyes filled with tears while his mother ran to him, the Christian ladies were roaring in anger. “Os…” Jared tried to get close again while the kid’s mom hugged him. “I’m sorry.”
Osric looked at Jared and throwing the candy at him said “I knew you were lying when you said you were Jensen’s friend now.”
“boo hoo little monster.” Mark Pellegrino had one of his giant paws on Jared’s shoulder and was laughing.
Jared stood under the sun the entire morning of his Saturday, without thinking without feeling anything. He only left when his mother went there bringing refreshments for the ladies. He couldn’t face her.
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Jared had to go back and walk all the way across their neighbors backyards in order to avoid him but finally was inside his house, he went straight to the fridge looking for a beer, to find nothing, no beer, there were only two stupid apples and a couple bottles of water.
Thinking about that, he haven’t needed beer to sleep since Jensen was in isolation with Osric, after that he always had a reason to wake up, and not since then either he had been in one of the demonstrations of the militia.
“I was going to give up everything for a fucking rotten, I was giving up-” he punched the wall. “Everything, I was ready to do everything for a bastard that could hurt kids and defenseless people.” Another punch and he started crying. “for someone who could take pictures of a rape instead of stopping it.”
“You didn’t know.” The voice was soft and emotionless, during this whole thing that same voice kept him calm, why does it anger him now?
“Leave.” Jared got up and walked down the hall “And leave my key.” He passed the door into his room closing the door, still he stood against it; one ear close trying to hear if Jensen will actually leave his house without saying anything else.
He woke up, it was dark and he by instinct held his phone, he had nobody to talk to, nobody else but Jensen, and he refused to talk to him.
The beer returned to the menu as the main source of nutrients, the only thing Jared did aside of drinking himself stupid was getting ready to leave, that same Monday he gave his two week notice and went from work to the militia meetings, then home and he drank himself to sleep.
Jensen tried to talk to him the first week, by Tuesday the next week he gave up. And Jared still felt miserable and sad. He looked himself on a mirror two days before leaving. And saw a ghost.
“Damn it! The only rotten thing here is you.” He shaved and got his stuff ready, he had everything packed already and sent away; Just a couple more days. He marched to the door, nothing in his mind or his schedule for the day, he just needed peace.
“What you’re not gonna tell anyone you’re leaving?”
It was Josh Ackles sitting on the same spot his baby brother favored when visiting Jared’s house, or more specifically at Jared’s front door.
“What the fuck do you want?”
“I want you to help Me.” he got up and showed him two shovels.
“I have to work.”
Josh’s face twisted. “I know you left your job, remember who you work for? He told me.” of course the factory manager was a guy from Josh class, his football team buddy, another of those from the red pickup truck gang.
Jared sighed and turned his eyes down to control his temper.
“What you really want?”
Josh moved closer.
“Jensen’s treatment will be done in two weeks and by then I hope I get some answers about a different matter” and offering Jared working gloves and one of the shovels. “For a start: We’re digging out Anders to burn the remains and get our parents free.”
“Free of what?”
“Just… free.” Jared stared at him not getting it. “You didn’t understand right? You think they wanted to stay here? Where their kids were killed? You think Sheppard wanted to stay here where things were shitty and people was scared of him? Or Sam wanted to be away from Alona?” Jared blinked stupidly. “They had to stay because any other sheriff or Mayor would be asking questions about a missing sheriff and this town is not ready for that.” And Josh moved tossing him the gloves. “Now, move, we’re taking care of stuff.”
Josh drove across fields and fields and empty planes and roads of dirt until they reached Samantha Ferris’ property at the very end of the city.
“My mom said, your father and mine brought him here, after whatever my mom and your mom did to the bastard.” Josh walked without saying another word until he found a specific depression on the soil, it was about six foot long and 10 inches wide, and without a word he stuck his shovel.
“You can ask, you know?”
Jared looked at him for a while.
“Ask what?”
“How’s Jensen.”
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He noticed Josh had stopped digging and turned to see the bathroom curtains from his house, from when he was 16. “Oh My God.”
The putrid smell permeating the air forced Josh to cover his nose.
“Oh My God.” Josh parroted.
To Josh this was maybe harder than it was for Jared, he knew his baby brother died and that his parents took care of the man that hurt him, but seeing in reality what was left of the man was a complete different thing.
“I can’t believe this is what’s left of a man I knew when I was young.” He moved around the body. “Look at this. it’s so small and so…” Josh removed some dirty stuck on the plastic and a part of what once was Anders face was revealed, Jared felt about to pass out. “This was a man once…”
Jared was looking at it thinking pretty much the same, but also thinking about the fact that what reduced this man to the small pile of rotten meat and bones had been his and Jensen’s mothers. Josh moved to pick the curtain from one end to take it out of the dirt in order to burn it.
“I think I saw a show where the murderers were caught for digging out the body themselves…” Jared said out of nervousness, this was the first time he touched a dead body.
Josh giggled. It was the same sound from Jensen.
“Good thing we’re not the ones that killed this bastard.” The body was pretty much out of the dirt so he pulled the plastic open to spray the remains with fuel. The smell was ten times worst and Jared could see a couple crawlers among the exposed bones.
Coughing and with watering eyes Jared backed away while Jensen’s brother sprayed the bottle of lighter fuel over the remains and climbing out of the hole throwed a lit matchbox. “Rot in peace.” Josh Ackles claimed as the flames wrapped the body
Jared noticed the similarity with what his militia told people outside the health center. More now that they were brazen and started attacking those rottens they found alone.
Josh took a small ice box from the back of his truck and offered Jared a beer. They sat watching the remains turn into nothing more than ashes without saying much.
“I wish I was here by then…” Josh had his jaw set and his eyes were fix on the smoking pile of ashes, it was far past noon and Jared felt hungry for the first time in over a week.
“I wish I knew about all this.”
Joshua Ackles turned to face Jared before letting out a breath.
“I’m glad that you didn’t, you were a kid, this kind of burden on a kid?” and shaking his head from side to side. “I’d have kept it a secret too.”
He got up and moved to the pile kicking the hot cinder away across the land and without fuss opened his fly peed over the last remains of ember.
“What the fuck, man, that’s disrespectful!”
“Oh. I’m sorry, I disrespected the bastard who raped and made my baby brother kill himself?” and zipping himself up moved to the car. “I guess I’m going to hell.”
Jared sat on the car and thought about this, Anders passed away no long after Jensen and he didn’t came back, just like Jeff, then there was the lady he killed. She came back after she passed away for the abuse suffered from her husband who abused her son after she was gone. Osric had leukemia, The deputy’s mother had cancer too. Jensen killed himself, case after case it had one common denominator. All of them were good people who had bad luck. Maybe that’s why Misha didn’t came back either, because he killed someone.
Jared understood that his brother was a monster, just like the man they burnt. He understood there was a reason why Josh didn’t come back. Jared thought that if he were to die, he wouldn’t come back either. His throat closed, his eyes stung, and Jared slept almost all the way back to the city.
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Just wanted to say I'm still loving this. Not sure if I should be angry with Jared or feel sorry for him.
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Jensen was called by Osric’s mom to her house, the day after Jared kicked him out, by the time he got there Osric was throwing stuff around.
“I can’t make him stop.” Mrs. Chao was in tears. “Please make him stop.”
Jensen held her for a second before moving inside Osric’s room.
The boy was feral, covered still in pig blood and crying. “The lamp too, broke the stupid lamp your mom kept here for you.” Jensen took it and offered it to the kid.
“It’s your entire fault!” he shouted angry moving in front of his friend with a wild expression. “You said he was your friend and I believed you, but he’s not!!” he sobbed and covered his eyes. “He’s mean and cruel. Just like everyone else.”
Jensen understood immediately. “Let’s just say I made a mistake.”
“He made fun of me, like when I was sick! Like before I died.” He rubbed his face and Jensen moved closer to hold him.
“He’s an idiot, and I have the bad habit of believing people can change.”
The kid faced his friend and gasped, actually both gasped. Jensen saw the dark in his eyes. And Osric saw the giant bluish-green mark of a bruise on his friend’s temple.
“What happened to you?” Osric asked.
“Someone got mad at me.” and Jensen moved a step closer bending to look into Osric’s face. “Look at your eyes, they look a little different.”
The kid smiled and blinked owlishly, surprised to have his friend this close.
“They were hurting last night and then this morning they were like this.”
“Amazing…” and standing up Jensen looked around. “We only need to get rid of the smell.” Osric looked down to his ruined shirt.
“Jared’s friends did this.”
“Well, you just made a mess out of the house.” The kid looked around surprised. “You better rein your temper. You have a grade A mom there.” Jensen pointed to the door. “Don’t go wasting her time with these things.” Osric sighed and pouted. “I’ve learnt something Os, you can’t judge anyone for his friends.” Jensen heard Mrs. Chao close. “Go take a shower, and say you’re sorry so we can go out. Did you heard? I’m taking liquids now, and if you’re not grounded. I’ve been said I can try with ice cream.”
The change in the boy’s demeanor was obvious, arms rose in the air with an excited hoot. “ICE CREAM!” and he ran down the hall to the bathroom.
Mrs. Chao kept crying when Jensen turned and let her hug him.
“He was not himself, he was nothing but a ghost until you came into our lives.”
Jensen wondered how it would affect the kid when he went away with his brother.
That afternoon he tried with strawberry and lemon ice cream, he wanted to be as far away from any memory as possible, he sat on the park with Os and let him pet the stupid stray he kept seeing everywhere.
Jensen saw a group of people getting closer. Militia’s all of them. They as everyone else avoided even eye contact with him, that’s when the nausea hit him and he hardly had time to move the few feet to the trashcan.
The next day he went to see Jared looking for an explanation on why he attacked his young friend, but couldn’t talk to him, the next couple days happened the same over and over, it felt like being bullied again, it hurt.
“Get the hell up from that door, seriously…!” Josh was there. “What are you? A fucking dog?” and pulled his brother and carried him to the only place he knew Jensen would enjoy; To Town’s library.
After Josh got there he made Jensen do something. Every day after treatment Jensen went to community college, he could learn some things, and it’ll make it easier for him if he ever decided he wanted to do more with his life than roam the town like a specter.
“I’m moving with you Josh, why I need any of this shit?” he protested at first.
“Because Jay… I’m not gonna support you forever and I’m a fucking biologist, I won’t have a grunt of a brother, you better find something you like and learn about it.” Josh sighed and facing his baby brother kept talking. “You deserve more than this, more than memories and pain. And mom and dad deserve more than guilt.” Jensen scoffed. “YES! They do, you weren’t here kid. You didn’t see it. They paid for it. It’s time to let it go.”
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