J2 Big Bang Fic Masterpost - The Protocols of Friendship
Fic title: The Protocols of Friendship
Author name: Lizzywinks
Genre: J2 RPS
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: R
Word Count: 35,092
Disclaimer: None of this belongs to me, none of this is real.
Notes: This story isn't an AU of the lumberjack!Jared/conservationist!Jensen kind, but I have played fast and loose with some timelines when they refused to play nice with my plot. Hopefully, though, it's most of the right events, just not necessarily in the right order. Title is from the poem "Protocols" by Vikram Seth.
Summary: Jared loves Jensen. Just not like that. He has a huge house, and a best friend who's practically homeless so asking him to move in makes perfect sense and isn't weird at all. Jensen loves Jared, most definitely like that, but after apparently misreading all the signs and jeopardizing their friendship and the show, he isn't about to trust his instincts where Jared is concerned ever again. But when Jensen starts pulling away, Jared discovers that maybe there's no like that, only them, and he might have realized it far too late.
The Protocols of Friendship
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Acknowledgments: I owe a big thank you to doctor-dorothy for the beta. All remaining mistakes are most definitely mine. Thanks also to wendy and the spn_j2_bigbang mods for holding the challenge and keeping us all amused over the long SPN-less summer.
Art and dividers for the fic are by the brilliant waterofthemoon who somehow peered into my brain and sucked out the exact artwork for the story I'd been dreaming about without me even knowing. She put oodles of effort into searching for images that actually tied in with the fic, and I couldn't have asked for a better artist. I'm very lucky, and grateful, that she chose me.
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