His footfalls slap in the hollowed-rock tunnel and the echo is loud. Too loud. The thrum of the big drills and hydraulic excavators is only a distant background hum here, and it doesn’t drown out the sound of their passage. It makes him uneasy.

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On Saturday morning, Jared woke up earlier than Jensen for the first time. He slipped out of bed and put the coffee on to brew and then allowed himself to panic a little about how Jensen was going to react to Jared having basically put him to sleep the previous night.  When the coffee finished percolating, he made two cups and took them back ( Read more... )

The walk to Jared’s dorm room was awkwardly silent. Jared hoped that his roommate Chad would be out so that he wouldn’t have to explain what was going on, but no such luck.

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Jared Padalecki was snowed under. He had major end-of-semester papers due for every single subject, and every single one of his subjects had an end of semester exam too.  Jared rubbed the heel of his palm against the bridge of his nose and groaned. He hadn’t even started studying for his exams yet, which meant that for the next week he was ( Read more... )

The fairy’s name is Misha. Jensen leaves him standing at attention inside the ring of mushrooms while he goes about his chores.  He’s a little slower than usual today, because he keeps finding himself going back to check on the fairy, as though dragged into his orbit by some kind of gravitational pull. Or maybe he’s just double; triple, quadruple ( Read more... )

Jensen’s alarm clock doesn’t wake him up, because the loud, obnoxious crowing of a rooster roused him from his sleep half an hour ago. He’s been lying awake staring up at a crack in the ceiling ever since, wondering if he’s finally gotten some good luck or if this too is going to go to shit like most things in his life do.

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