FIC: "Crevasse Rescue" (3/7)
Crevasse Rescue
By Simarillion
Fandom: Supernatural RPS
Universe: Alternative Universe
Rating: R
Beta: Asm Z
Pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki, others
Warnings: slash, M/M
Word Count: 3,044
Summary: Tell it like it is. (Of settling and living)
Disclaimer: None of the herein presented happenings and events are true. Everything is 100% fiction and that includes the sexuality of the characters. I don’t claim to be in the know about their relations and private affairs, and I don’t make any money with the creation of this story.
Author’s Note: I changed the age of Jensen and Jared, they are the same age now. The plot wouldn’t really work otherwise.
This is part 4 of the Glaciology! ‘verse. Jensen is a scientist in the field of glaciology and he spends most of his time surrounded by ice, whereas Jared is a Hollywood movie star. Prequel to this story are Invisible Glaciers, Iceberg Anatomy and Avalanches Approaching.
[ Masterpost]
Part Three
A week before the fall term starts, Jared starts on a promotional tour for a movie. The promotion work in the States has been going on for a month now, but the film starts later in Europe and Asia, so the cast is sent first to Germany, France, and Spain, and then they head out to China, Japan and Singapore.
Jensen says his goodbye to Jared at the house, both of them unwilling to let the press and the public pry into their private matters. Once Jared is gone, Jensen packs his things, which have been accumulating in the house over the last two weeks, and loads Dean into the kennel. He promises Linda to call once he’s arrived, and then he heads out.
The drive is quiet, and both he and Dean are subdued, already missing the excitement and the tumult of Jared’s home. When Jensen arrives hours later at Tom and Mike’s place, his friends help him carry the bags, and other things inside. They prepared a barbeque for dinner, and Jensen wonders about the last time he ate so many burgers and steaks.
During his last week of preparations, he tries hard to make up for the slump of the last two weeks. Jensen had been working on lesson plans, and literature lists, but more often than not Jared had gotten bored watching him read and review. Jared being bored usually resulted in Jensen being dragged off to hang out, or, with increasing frequency, to make out.
Thankfully Jensen had already started working on the curriculum and the teaching outline while wrapping things up in Alaska, and so he can send his preliminary plans and lists to the department secretary on time.
The first time he logs onto the intranet of the department and sees his own picture on the website, Jensen stares at the screen for a couple of minutes, somewhat intimidated by the step into a new part of his life. The last days before college starts, he updates the class outlines, the recommended literature, uploads links to relevant websites, and posts pictures from previous expeditions and projects he had participated in.
When he gets the list of students who had enrolled for his courses, he’s surprised by how many are interested in his subject, and he works even harder into perfecting his handouts and scripts for the seminar and the course.
His search for accommodation hasn’t been too successful yet, and with all the time he’s spending on preparing his courses, Jensen has almost no time to invest into finding a new home. He called an agency when he arrived in San Francisco three weeks ago, but until now the offers they sent him are not what he’s looking for. Either they are apartments or houses without any yards, or they are huge houses far out of his price range. Tom and Mike both reassure him that they don’t mind him staying longer, but Jensen wants to have a house of his own.
It’s a coincidence that Jensen finds the house he buys in the end. He takes Dean for his usual run in the evening, just that this time they are running south, a little out of the city. It’s suburbia, and there’s no mentionable infrastructure, but when Jensen jogs past a rundown house, that looks like it’s a Victorian with a large garden, and front yard, he stops and walks around, checking out the property. The neighbors are very helpful, telling him how to contact the owner, and soon Jensen has arranged a visitation of his future home.
The previous owner had been an old man who had lived on his own, and when he died the house went to the daughter of his brother. The young woman isn’t interested in it, and now Jensen owns a 2,500 sqft house with four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Dean loves it. There’s enough space for him to run around, and Jensen is sure with a little TLC the building will be returned to its previous glory.
When Mike and Tom see Jensen’s new home for the first time, they are helping their friend to get all of his belongings from their own house to Jensen’s. With two cars they only have to drive once to relocate everything. Mike’s first reaction when he sees the house is to turn to Jensen and ask him if he’s being serious.
Tom is also rather doubtful of the usability of the rundown building, but none of their arguments or protests are able to dissuade Jensen. In the end, they can only offer to help with the renovation, or at least give Jensen the number of their own handworkers.
Jensen’s first day as a teacher doesn’t start too promising. During the night, some animal had bitten through the ignition leads of the car, so when Jensen goes to drive to work, the rental won’t start. He arrives an hour later than he had intended, only to realize that in his hurry to organize a car, and calling a mechanic, he had left the briefcase with the copied handouts and reading lists in the hall.
Fortunately the department secretary is kind enough to print out the correct amount of handouts for Jensen. It comes as no surprise that when he arrives at room 12.4, there’s already a lecture going on, because there had been a last minute change in rooms that Jensen’s not aware of.
By the time he arrives in the seminar room, the copies almost flying away from the precarious hold Jensen has on them, and his face sweaty from the mad sprint he did from the wrong to the right room, Jensen wonders how he could have ever considered working as a teacher.
The students are forgiving about his tardiness. Most of them are in a graduate program, and they have a consolidated knowledge about ecology and environmental systems. As it turns out three quarters of the class are already experienced in field and lab work.
Jensen uses the first class to introduce himself, and let the students talk about who they are and what they want to do. He shows them the photos he uploaded onto the e-learning platform, and talks about where they were taken and what Jensen had been doing there.
One of the students recorded the whole class and offers to put the audio file online. Jensen likes the idea so much that he decides to bring a video camera next time and to tape the class. It will make it much easier for his students to study for the exams.
After his course, Jensen makes for his office, and organizes his copies and his books some more. He gets the boxes from the car, and starts to unpack more books, magazines and journals. He hangs a couple of photos from AE and Alaska, as well as a sketch he did of the Northeast Passage the expedition, and puts some rocks he took with him from various places he visited on the desk. Once he’s finished, he looks around and is pleased with his work. It feels comfortable and homey.
His call to the mechanic informs him that the spare part for the car is not on stock, and that they’ll have to order it which will take a couple of days. Jensen then calls the rental company, and organizes that he’ll get to keep the substitute car until the other one is repaired. After thinking about it for a second, Jensen then calls his dad and arranges that his parents will drive out to him with Jensen’s own truck, and they’ll visit him in his new home.
It’s in the evening when he returns home. Dean is giving him the Evil Eye because he had to stay inside, on his own the whole day. After Jensen takes him for a run though, he’s forgotten about his displeasure, and plays in the garden, while Jensen works on the flower beds.
The weeds are tall, and they are growing everywhere. At times it seems that there’ll be nothing green left after he’s done with weeding. In the end there are quite a few bald spots in the lawn, but Jensen’s neighbor, who watched him for some time (helpfully pointing out how to go about the garden work), assures him that with a handful of seeds here and a handful of earth there, everything will be perfect in no time at all.
That night Jensen sleeps like a stone, and when the alarm sounds the next morning, he turns around and sleeps some more until the alarm goes off the second time, half an hour later.
The handy workers Jensen calls about the renovations show up on Thursday. They tour the house with Jensen, and check everything out. Their estimate is that it will take quite some time to whip Jensen’s home into shape, but the good thing is that even though the house looks to be rundown, there are no structural problems, so most of the work that has to be done is ‘cosmetic’. Of course there are some wires that need exchanging, and the plumber says that he wants to repair one of the pipes in the upstairs bathroom.
After the workers leave with the promise to return the next day, Jensen spends some more time in the garden. The seeds he bought need to be sown, and at the gardener’s he got some nice flowers, five new trees, and a couple of bushes.
His helpful neighbor shows up when he’s well into planting his purchases, and promptly gives him some more advice on where and how to go about planting the flowers. In the evening Jensen proudly surveys his work, and decides that even though there are still some brown patches in the lawn where the new grass has to grow, his garden and the yard look great now.
On Friday, while the workers are starting on the first floor, Jared calls, and he tells him that the promotional tour ends the day after. He asks Jensen to drive down to LA, so that they can spend the rest of the weekend together, but Jensen can’t really leave. For one, the plumber can only come in Sunday, and the other reason is, that he has a departmental meeting early Monday morning, so he would have to leave Sunday afternoon the latest and that would leave them barely a couple of hours to see each other anyway.
Jared is upset that Jensen declines, but he then decides that once his work in LA is done, he’ll fly up to San Francisco and visit Jensen himself. The rest of the phone call they catch up on what the other has been doing the last two weeks, and Jensen proudly tells him about his first week as a teacher, and his work on the house and the garden.
The house looks like a construction site. There’s a scaffold covering the façade and the painter is sanding down the wooden boards to repaint them. Since the plumber is fixing the upper bathroom, Jensen has to wash, and shower downstairs, and while the electrician is rewiring the kitchen and the living room, Jensen has to jog to the coffee shop two miles away for his breakfast.
Dean is suspicious of the strangers in the beginning, but he spends most of the time in the garden. Once he comes to realize that none of the workers are going to bother him, he just ignores the men that are crawling all over the house.
Working at home for his courses is almost impossible during the day. The noise, the constant outages, and the dust that seems to hang permanently in the air, have him retreat into the garden during the day. Only once everyone has gone home, and he’s aired out the rooms, does he start on preparations and reviews for college.
During one of his hideouts in the back of the garden, Jensen decides that he wants a pond in one corner. His neighbor, who has been curiously watching the goings on, is this time actually really of help, when he gives Jensen the number of a gardener that specializes in water plants and ponds. Pocketing the paper Jensen decides to give him a call some time during the week, maybe once the chaos that is his house has calmed down a bit.
The repainting of the façade is finished on Wednesday, and with the new coat of paint and the great work on the garden, the house looks really impressive now. The painter had urged Jensen to get rid of the wisteria that is growing over the north and part of the east side of the house, but Jensen likes the look it gives, and so the vine stays.
Work on the pond will start in two weeks, and so far Jensen has looked over the designs he got, deciding on the one he likes. Jared calls him in the evening, and tells him that he’ll be finished the next day. He asks about the work on the house, and Jensen proudly tells him about how great everything’s starting to look.
It is decided that Jared will not fly up, but drive and bring Sadie and Harley with him. The garden should be large enough for all three dogs.
In his second week as a teacher, Jensen happily has more luck with arriving on time to his courses and meetings. The departmental meeting on Monday is perfect to meet his new colleagues, and he finally gets to meet the other teacher of the seminar. Professor Whitfield will start with his part of the course in October, and the two of them agree to sit together some time the following week to talk about how to best combine the two parts of the seminar.
This time he gives his students a short home exercise, and when the first papers are sent in, Jensen enthusiastically starts to work on them. The idea of teaching young people about things he loves is still very exciting to him.
Tom and Mike visit him on Tuesday, and they are quite impressed with the changes that have happened to the house so far. Their previous pessimism transforms into downright excitement when they talk with Jensen what still has to be done, and they offer to go and get new furniture in the none too distant future.
When Jared arrives Thursday evening, the workers have already gone home for the day. Dean is running around on the front yard, barking at the GMC truck, and getting his answer from Harley and Sadie inside the car.
Once the door opens and Jared gets out, the husky shoots off and jumps him. Doggy kisses and yipping accompany Jared’s walk to the back of the car, and then the three dogs are off, running around in the back of the house.
Jensen smiles happily at the display, and he watches Jared walking up to him. There’s a blinding smile on his face, and while approaching Jensen, Jared theatrically turns around, looks the house up and down, and pretends to be awestruck.
“Idiot.” Jensen whacks him on the arm.
“What?” Jared grins mischievously at him. “It’s beautiful.”
When Jensen rolls his eyes, Jared looks at him in earnest.
“No, really. It’s beautiful.” Pride fills Jensen at the words and he drags Jared off to show him what has already been done, point out what he still wants to change, and presents his garden, of which he’s incredibly proud.
They end up in Jensen’s kitchen, which thankfully is fully functioning again, and Jensen starts on making them dinner.
“I like the house, Jensen. It’s great.” Jared is leaning against the door frame, watching Jensen move around the room, getting pots and pans out of cupboards, cutting vegetables and meat, and cooking them.
“Yeah, there’s still a lot of work, but it looks so much better than it did a week ago.” He adds the meat to the garlic he’s been roasting gently. “There are some shingles that need replacing, nothing too bad, but I was told it’s better to do it now than wait. The floor boards on the porch in the back will be sanded down and get a new coat, and I think I’ll replace the window in the downstairs bathroom. It’s not broken or anything, but it’s drafty.”
Jensen almost drops his spoon he’s stirring the food with, when two arms warp around him, and he can feel Jared leaning against his back.
“I missed you the last two couple of weeks.” Jared’s voice is right next to his ear, and he can feel the other’s breath ghosting against the shell. “I liked hearing your updates on how the house is coming along. Made me feel like I’m participating in it myself.”
“Well, you’ll get to participate all you like the next couple of days.” Jensen dials down the heat of the stove and turns around, smiling at Jared. “I’m glad that you could come.”
At this Jared just grins and then leans down to kiss Jensen. The awkward angle, with which he’s pressed against the stove, has Jensen blindly reach behind him to get some hold. The kiss deepens and goes on for some time, only ending once they’ve run out of breath.
“I should finish cooking before anything burns.” Jared unwillingly lets go of Jensen, but helps with setting the table.
Once the food is ready, and the full plates are on the table, they eat, talking some more about what happened while they had been apart. Jensen describes in great detail Mike and Tom’s reaction when they saw the house the first time. And he has Jared laughing about his Mike impersonation.
Jared talks about visiting Europe and Asia, telling Jensen about how boring and tedious promotional work is, and how he sometimes woke up, not remembering in which country he’s right now. Jensen asks about the cities Jared’s been to, but most of the times Jared never got the chance to see anything of the places they went to.
After they are finished with their dinner, Jensen soaks the dishes and the pots and pans in the sink. Having Jared with him is more important, and of course, much more interesting than doing the dishes. They curl up on the couch in front of the huge TV, Mike and Tom had insisted he get, and start on a DVD that his friends left with him.
They never make it through the movie, because sometime between the hero jumping out of a burning building, and the villain kidnapping the hero’s girl, they get distracted by each other. The rest of the movie is spent kissing, which doesn’t end with the end credits on screen.
continue: Part Four
By Simarillion
Fandom: Supernatural RPS
Universe: Alternative Universe
Rating: R
Beta: Asm Z
Pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki, others
Warnings: slash, M/M
Word Count: 3,044
Summary: Tell it like it is. (Of settling and living)
Disclaimer: None of the herein presented happenings and events are true. Everything is 100% fiction and that includes the sexuality of the characters. I don’t claim to be in the know about their relations and private affairs, and I don’t make any money with the creation of this story.
Author’s Note: I changed the age of Jensen and Jared, they are the same age now. The plot wouldn’t really work otherwise.
This is part 4 of the Glaciology! ‘verse. Jensen is a scientist in the field of glaciology and he spends most of his time surrounded by ice, whereas Jared is a Hollywood movie star. Prequel to this story are Invisible Glaciers, Iceberg Anatomy and Avalanches Approaching.
[ Masterpost]
Part Three
A week before the fall term starts, Jared starts on a promotional tour for a movie. The promotion work in the States has been going on for a month now, but the film starts later in Europe and Asia, so the cast is sent first to Germany, France, and Spain, and then they head out to China, Japan and Singapore.
Jensen says his goodbye to Jared at the house, both of them unwilling to let the press and the public pry into their private matters. Once Jared is gone, Jensen packs his things, which have been accumulating in the house over the last two weeks, and loads Dean into the kennel. He promises Linda to call once he’s arrived, and then he heads out.
The drive is quiet, and both he and Dean are subdued, already missing the excitement and the tumult of Jared’s home. When Jensen arrives hours later at Tom and Mike’s place, his friends help him carry the bags, and other things inside. They prepared a barbeque for dinner, and Jensen wonders about the last time he ate so many burgers and steaks.
During his last week of preparations, he tries hard to make up for the slump of the last two weeks. Jensen had been working on lesson plans, and literature lists, but more often than not Jared had gotten bored watching him read and review. Jared being bored usually resulted in Jensen being dragged off to hang out, or, with increasing frequency, to make out.
Thankfully Jensen had already started working on the curriculum and the teaching outline while wrapping things up in Alaska, and so he can send his preliminary plans and lists to the department secretary on time.
The first time he logs onto the intranet of the department and sees his own picture on the website, Jensen stares at the screen for a couple of minutes, somewhat intimidated by the step into a new part of his life. The last days before college starts, he updates the class outlines, the recommended literature, uploads links to relevant websites, and posts pictures from previous expeditions and projects he had participated in.
When he gets the list of students who had enrolled for his courses, he’s surprised by how many are interested in his subject, and he works even harder into perfecting his handouts and scripts for the seminar and the course.
His search for accommodation hasn’t been too successful yet, and with all the time he’s spending on preparing his courses, Jensen has almost no time to invest into finding a new home. He called an agency when he arrived in San Francisco three weeks ago, but until now the offers they sent him are not what he’s looking for. Either they are apartments or houses without any yards, or they are huge houses far out of his price range. Tom and Mike both reassure him that they don’t mind him staying longer, but Jensen wants to have a house of his own.
It’s a coincidence that Jensen finds the house he buys in the end. He takes Dean for his usual run in the evening, just that this time they are running south, a little out of the city. It’s suburbia, and there’s no mentionable infrastructure, but when Jensen jogs past a rundown house, that looks like it’s a Victorian with a large garden, and front yard, he stops and walks around, checking out the property. The neighbors are very helpful, telling him how to contact the owner, and soon Jensen has arranged a visitation of his future home.
The previous owner had been an old man who had lived on his own, and when he died the house went to the daughter of his brother. The young woman isn’t interested in it, and now Jensen owns a 2,500 sqft house with four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Dean loves it. There’s enough space for him to run around, and Jensen is sure with a little TLC the building will be returned to its previous glory.
When Mike and Tom see Jensen’s new home for the first time, they are helping their friend to get all of his belongings from their own house to Jensen’s. With two cars they only have to drive once to relocate everything. Mike’s first reaction when he sees the house is to turn to Jensen and ask him if he’s being serious.
Tom is also rather doubtful of the usability of the rundown building, but none of their arguments or protests are able to dissuade Jensen. In the end, they can only offer to help with the renovation, or at least give Jensen the number of their own handworkers.
Jensen’s first day as a teacher doesn’t start too promising. During the night, some animal had bitten through the ignition leads of the car, so when Jensen goes to drive to work, the rental won’t start. He arrives an hour later than he had intended, only to realize that in his hurry to organize a car, and calling a mechanic, he had left the briefcase with the copied handouts and reading lists in the hall.
Fortunately the department secretary is kind enough to print out the correct amount of handouts for Jensen. It comes as no surprise that when he arrives at room 12.4, there’s already a lecture going on, because there had been a last minute change in rooms that Jensen’s not aware of.
By the time he arrives in the seminar room, the copies almost flying away from the precarious hold Jensen has on them, and his face sweaty from the mad sprint he did from the wrong to the right room, Jensen wonders how he could have ever considered working as a teacher.
The students are forgiving about his tardiness. Most of them are in a graduate program, and they have a consolidated knowledge about ecology and environmental systems. As it turns out three quarters of the class are already experienced in field and lab work.
Jensen uses the first class to introduce himself, and let the students talk about who they are and what they want to do. He shows them the photos he uploaded onto the e-learning platform, and talks about where they were taken and what Jensen had been doing there.
One of the students recorded the whole class and offers to put the audio file online. Jensen likes the idea so much that he decides to bring a video camera next time and to tape the class. It will make it much easier for his students to study for the exams.
After his course, Jensen makes for his office, and organizes his copies and his books some more. He gets the boxes from the car, and starts to unpack more books, magazines and journals. He hangs a couple of photos from AE and Alaska, as well as a sketch he did of the Northeast Passage the expedition, and puts some rocks he took with him from various places he visited on the desk. Once he’s finished, he looks around and is pleased with his work. It feels comfortable and homey.
His call to the mechanic informs him that the spare part for the car is not on stock, and that they’ll have to order it which will take a couple of days. Jensen then calls the rental company, and organizes that he’ll get to keep the substitute car until the other one is repaired. After thinking about it for a second, Jensen then calls his dad and arranges that his parents will drive out to him with Jensen’s own truck, and they’ll visit him in his new home.
It’s in the evening when he returns home. Dean is giving him the Evil Eye because he had to stay inside, on his own the whole day. After Jensen takes him for a run though, he’s forgotten about his displeasure, and plays in the garden, while Jensen works on the flower beds.
The weeds are tall, and they are growing everywhere. At times it seems that there’ll be nothing green left after he’s done with weeding. In the end there are quite a few bald spots in the lawn, but Jensen’s neighbor, who watched him for some time (helpfully pointing out how to go about the garden work), assures him that with a handful of seeds here and a handful of earth there, everything will be perfect in no time at all.
That night Jensen sleeps like a stone, and when the alarm sounds the next morning, he turns around and sleeps some more until the alarm goes off the second time, half an hour later.
The handy workers Jensen calls about the renovations show up on Thursday. They tour the house with Jensen, and check everything out. Their estimate is that it will take quite some time to whip Jensen’s home into shape, but the good thing is that even though the house looks to be rundown, there are no structural problems, so most of the work that has to be done is ‘cosmetic’. Of course there are some wires that need exchanging, and the plumber says that he wants to repair one of the pipes in the upstairs bathroom.
After the workers leave with the promise to return the next day, Jensen spends some more time in the garden. The seeds he bought need to be sown, and at the gardener’s he got some nice flowers, five new trees, and a couple of bushes.
His helpful neighbor shows up when he’s well into planting his purchases, and promptly gives him some more advice on where and how to go about planting the flowers. In the evening Jensen proudly surveys his work, and decides that even though there are still some brown patches in the lawn where the new grass has to grow, his garden and the yard look great now.
On Friday, while the workers are starting on the first floor, Jared calls, and he tells him that the promotional tour ends the day after. He asks Jensen to drive down to LA, so that they can spend the rest of the weekend together, but Jensen can’t really leave. For one, the plumber can only come in Sunday, and the other reason is, that he has a departmental meeting early Monday morning, so he would have to leave Sunday afternoon the latest and that would leave them barely a couple of hours to see each other anyway.
Jared is upset that Jensen declines, but he then decides that once his work in LA is done, he’ll fly up to San Francisco and visit Jensen himself. The rest of the phone call they catch up on what the other has been doing the last two weeks, and Jensen proudly tells him about his first week as a teacher, and his work on the house and the garden.
The house looks like a construction site. There’s a scaffold covering the façade and the painter is sanding down the wooden boards to repaint them. Since the plumber is fixing the upper bathroom, Jensen has to wash, and shower downstairs, and while the electrician is rewiring the kitchen and the living room, Jensen has to jog to the coffee shop two miles away for his breakfast.
Dean is suspicious of the strangers in the beginning, but he spends most of the time in the garden. Once he comes to realize that none of the workers are going to bother him, he just ignores the men that are crawling all over the house.
Working at home for his courses is almost impossible during the day. The noise, the constant outages, and the dust that seems to hang permanently in the air, have him retreat into the garden during the day. Only once everyone has gone home, and he’s aired out the rooms, does he start on preparations and reviews for college.
During one of his hideouts in the back of the garden, Jensen decides that he wants a pond in one corner. His neighbor, who has been curiously watching the goings on, is this time actually really of help, when he gives Jensen the number of a gardener that specializes in water plants and ponds. Pocketing the paper Jensen decides to give him a call some time during the week, maybe once the chaos that is his house has calmed down a bit.
The repainting of the façade is finished on Wednesday, and with the new coat of paint and the great work on the garden, the house looks really impressive now. The painter had urged Jensen to get rid of the wisteria that is growing over the north and part of the east side of the house, but Jensen likes the look it gives, and so the vine stays.
Work on the pond will start in two weeks, and so far Jensen has looked over the designs he got, deciding on the one he likes. Jared calls him in the evening, and tells him that he’ll be finished the next day. He asks about the work on the house, and Jensen proudly tells him about how great everything’s starting to look.
It is decided that Jared will not fly up, but drive and bring Sadie and Harley with him. The garden should be large enough for all three dogs.
In his second week as a teacher, Jensen happily has more luck with arriving on time to his courses and meetings. The departmental meeting on Monday is perfect to meet his new colleagues, and he finally gets to meet the other teacher of the seminar. Professor Whitfield will start with his part of the course in October, and the two of them agree to sit together some time the following week to talk about how to best combine the two parts of the seminar.
This time he gives his students a short home exercise, and when the first papers are sent in, Jensen enthusiastically starts to work on them. The idea of teaching young people about things he loves is still very exciting to him.
Tom and Mike visit him on Tuesday, and they are quite impressed with the changes that have happened to the house so far. Their previous pessimism transforms into downright excitement when they talk with Jensen what still has to be done, and they offer to go and get new furniture in the none too distant future.
When Jared arrives Thursday evening, the workers have already gone home for the day. Dean is running around on the front yard, barking at the GMC truck, and getting his answer from Harley and Sadie inside the car.
Once the door opens and Jared gets out, the husky shoots off and jumps him. Doggy kisses and yipping accompany Jared’s walk to the back of the car, and then the three dogs are off, running around in the back of the house.
Jensen smiles happily at the display, and he watches Jared walking up to him. There’s a blinding smile on his face, and while approaching Jensen, Jared theatrically turns around, looks the house up and down, and pretends to be awestruck.
“Idiot.” Jensen whacks him on the arm.
“What?” Jared grins mischievously at him. “It’s beautiful.”
When Jensen rolls his eyes, Jared looks at him in earnest.
“No, really. It’s beautiful.” Pride fills Jensen at the words and he drags Jared off to show him what has already been done, point out what he still wants to change, and presents his garden, of which he’s incredibly proud.
They end up in Jensen’s kitchen, which thankfully is fully functioning again, and Jensen starts on making them dinner.
“I like the house, Jensen. It’s great.” Jared is leaning against the door frame, watching Jensen move around the room, getting pots and pans out of cupboards, cutting vegetables and meat, and cooking them.
“Yeah, there’s still a lot of work, but it looks so much better than it did a week ago.” He adds the meat to the garlic he’s been roasting gently. “There are some shingles that need replacing, nothing too bad, but I was told it’s better to do it now than wait. The floor boards on the porch in the back will be sanded down and get a new coat, and I think I’ll replace the window in the downstairs bathroom. It’s not broken or anything, but it’s drafty.”
Jensen almost drops his spoon he’s stirring the food with, when two arms warp around him, and he can feel Jared leaning against his back.
“I missed you the last two couple of weeks.” Jared’s voice is right next to his ear, and he can feel the other’s breath ghosting against the shell. “I liked hearing your updates on how the house is coming along. Made me feel like I’m participating in it myself.”
“Well, you’ll get to participate all you like the next couple of days.” Jensen dials down the heat of the stove and turns around, smiling at Jared. “I’m glad that you could come.”
At this Jared just grins and then leans down to kiss Jensen. The awkward angle, with which he’s pressed against the stove, has Jensen blindly reach behind him to get some hold. The kiss deepens and goes on for some time, only ending once they’ve run out of breath.
“I should finish cooking before anything burns.” Jared unwillingly lets go of Jensen, but helps with setting the table.
Once the food is ready, and the full plates are on the table, they eat, talking some more about what happened while they had been apart. Jensen describes in great detail Mike and Tom’s reaction when they saw the house the first time. And he has Jared laughing about his Mike impersonation.
Jared talks about visiting Europe and Asia, telling Jensen about how boring and tedious promotional work is, and how he sometimes woke up, not remembering in which country he’s right now. Jensen asks about the cities Jared’s been to, but most of the times Jared never got the chance to see anything of the places they went to.
After they are finished with their dinner, Jensen soaks the dishes and the pots and pans in the sink. Having Jared with him is more important, and of course, much more interesting than doing the dishes. They curl up on the couch in front of the huge TV, Mike and Tom had insisted he get, and start on a DVD that his friends left with him.
They never make it through the movie, because sometime between the hero jumping out of a burning building, and the villain kidnapping the hero’s girl, they get distracted by each other. The rest of the movie is spent kissing, which doesn’t end with the end credits on screen.
continue: Part Four