Jared and the Undead Bartender Master Post (J2 RPS AU, NC-17)
Title: Jared and the Undead Bartender
Genre/Pairing: J2 RPS AU
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 30k
Warnings: Superhot chile peppers. Crossword puzzles. Bits of history and traces of Chad.
Disclaimer: Lies and falsehoods! I tried to make the history accurate, at least.
Summary:
Jared has only been in Boston a few months when he walks into a bar called Abigail's and meets Jensen, the bartender. Jensen likes crossword puzzles, old movies, and superhot chile peppers, and they become friends. Jared thinks a road trip to New Mexico to find the world's hottest peppers would be a great idea, but Jensen has a secret - he was born in colonial Boston, he's over 260 years old, and he's a vampire.
They go to New Mexico anyway, encountering fellow travelers and ghostly horses and the highway at night, and learning more about each other. It turns out that crossing the country in a camper with your best friend is a great way to fall in love, even if one of you is undead. Who knew?
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
AO3
Author's Note | Fabulous Art
Thanks:
dear-tiger as always for the squee and the cheerleading and the very thoughtful beta comments. Also the ghostly peppers. And the pepper farmer.
cassiopeia7 for her super cute art and, uh, radioactivity. Check it out! It's good stuff.
@ursulav for info about how to grow Carolina reapers in the kitchen
@lasrina for asking her about them for me
chemm80 for details about the landscape and night highways of western Texas and eastern New Mexico, and some pics of same
eve-n-furter for the Norwegian
belleweather for the Romanian
Katie from my writing group for first mentioning Dogtown and its spooky history
wendy for running this challenge for another year, and for being the best of all possible Wendys
and the odd confluence of Esquire magazine, tumblr, and Only Lovers Left Alive, which somehow combined to give me the idea
Genre/Pairing: J2 RPS AU
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 30k
Warnings: Superhot chile peppers. Crossword puzzles. Bits of history and traces of Chad.
Disclaimer: Lies and falsehoods! I tried to make the history accurate, at least.
Summary:
Jared has only been in Boston a few months when he walks into a bar called Abigail's and meets Jensen, the bartender. Jensen likes crossword puzzles, old movies, and superhot chile peppers, and they become friends. Jared thinks a road trip to New Mexico to find the world's hottest peppers would be a great idea, but Jensen has a secret - he was born in colonial Boston, he's over 260 years old, and he's a vampire.
They go to New Mexico anyway, encountering fellow travelers and ghostly horses and the highway at night, and learning more about each other. It turns out that crossing the country in a camper with your best friend is a great way to fall in love, even if one of you is undead. Who knew?
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
AO3
Author's Note | Fabulous Art
Thanks:
dear-tiger as always for the squee and the cheerleading and the very thoughtful beta comments. Also the ghostly peppers. And the pepper farmer.
cassiopeia7 for her super cute art and, uh, radioactivity. Check it out! It's good stuff.
@ursulav for info about how to grow Carolina reapers in the kitchen
@lasrina for asking her about them for me
chemm80 for details about the landscape and night highways of western Texas and eastern New Mexico, and some pics of same
eve-n-furter for the Norwegian
belleweather for the Romanian
Katie from my writing group for first mentioning Dogtown and its spooky history
wendy for running this challenge for another year, and for being the best of all possible Wendys
and the odd confluence of Esquire magazine, tumblr, and Only Lovers Left Alive, which somehow combined to give me the idea