Fic: A thousand dollars for a kiss: Masterpost
Title: A Thousand Dollars for a Kiss
Author: zara_zee
Artist: apieceofcake
Beta: 9Tiptoes
Total Words: 49,500
Genre(s): Slash, hooker!fic, drama, romance. Sequel to Fifty cents for your soul. Can be read as a standalone, but the story will probably be more enjoyable if you read Fifty cents first. 2014 SPN_J2_Bigbang
Pairing(s): Jared/Jensen (main pairing), Jensen/Sebastian, Jensen/omcs
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I have borrowed the names and faces of certain actors without their knowledge or approval. Said actors belong to themselves and I have merely cast them in my fiction. Not a word of this is true; I’ve just got them playing parts.
Spoilers: N/A.
Warnings: smoking, swearing, m/m sex, violence, references to homophobia homophobic slurs, prostitution, references to drug abuse, depictions of addiction and withdrawal, references to child abuse, references to prior underage, references to non con, religious discussion and debate, **major trigger warning** for one flashback scene (in prologue) depicting the rape of a minor (15 yr old) [feel free to inbox me for further info if this is potentially a trigger]
(The story is not as dark as it sounds. It has dark bits, sure, but there’s a lot of schmoop too!)
A/N: I have made up families for the major players, as I don’t personally feel comfortable casting non-actors in my fictional drama! I have also messed around with people’s ages. Jensen is only two years older than Jared.
Title is from a quote by Marilyn Monroe: “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
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Summary:
Jared has never been happier. He’s come to terms with his sexual orientation and the fact that he will never be a priest and he feels free, for the first time ever, to discover who he really is and what he wants to do with his life. Sure, there is the scandal surrounding his famous father’s arrest for soliciting a minor and the very public breakdown of his parents’ marriage, but so long as obsessively private Jensen doesn’t find out that Jared has famous parents, it shouldn’t interfere with Jared’s new life too much. Jensen is still sleeping with other men for money, and his animosity toward religion is a lot deeper and more intense than Jared first realized, but so long as Jared has Jensen’s heart, what could possibly go wrong?
Being in a relationship is new for Jensen. It takes trust, and trust isn’t something that comes easily to him. He’s happy though, despite his growing list of problems. VIP client Sebastian Roche still thinks Jensen is his boyfriend; Jensen has a retaliatory beating from Pellegrino’s goons hanging over his head; and, thanks to a random act of kindness he showed to a homeless addict, he seems to have earned himself the little sister he never wanted. Still, so long as he can trust Jared with his heart, what could possibly go wrong?
As it happens, almost everything.
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Prologue | Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four
Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Epilogue
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Notes and Thank Yous
A huge thank you to apieceofcake for all her fabulous art. I love every piece she did and I'm so very happy that she picked my story for this challenge!
Thanks as always to my good friend and beta reader 9tiptoes who kept me on the straight and narrow, made sure our boys didn't sound like Aussies, provided a good sounding board and picked up my typos. As usual I tinkered after the final beta read - any remaining mistakes are my own. Love you T! :)
A final thank you to wendy whose hard work and commitment to running this challenge year after year never fails to amaze and impress me.