Title: When the Devil Came to Pluto
Genre/Pairing: J2 RPS AU
Rating: PG
Word count: 21,300
Warnings: Chad. Asexual!Jensen. A certain amount of historical handwaving. Non-CW actors.
Disclaimer: It's a story about stories, which means nothing's true.
Summary:
The New Mexico Territory in the 1870s is a vast and wild place, all scrubland and hills and mystery, home to gunslingers and miners and working girls and scattered native tribes. Jared and Jensen live in a little mining town called Pluto, keeping the peace for a brothel and occasionally checking up on the mine. The land around them is full of secrets and stories, which Jared is eager to learn and share.
And then one night Jensen vanishes and Jared sets off through the desert to find him. A herd of ghost ponies brings him to the devil's front door, and even though the devil is not what Jared was expecting, he still thinks they can make a deal so he can get Jensen back.
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Part Three |
Part FourAO3 Author's Note |
Nifty Art thanks!
dear-tiger, for excessive amounts of squee, jokes about the devil not having a fridge, critiquing my paragraphs, asking questions, translating Russian, and sharing the story of Azovka (aka the girl in the mountain who needs her name back, who isn't actually the devil)
bleodswean, for speedy and enthusiastic beta-reading
amberdreams, for some pretty nifty art, despite prior commitments to bears and other bangs
belleweather, for the Romanian
lux--aeterna, for
Very Deep Went Down the Wellcrotalus-atrox, for Come to Scorch County, They Said (which has sadly vanished off the internets)
paleogymnast and
omgspnbigbang, for camaraderie, encouragement, and a writing/word count challenge that I totally failed >.< but which still helped me
wendy, for modding and generally being pretty fab
and "Hell on Wheels" and True Grit and The Magnificent Seven and Unforgiven and Two Mules for Sister Sara and Tombstone and The Quick and the Dead and Open Range and every other western I've ever seen
...even "Firefly"