one-soul-two-brothers’ ultimate fic recs: j2 tinhat edition (part I)
general notes: The following fics are all consistent with tinhat lore and are more-or-less compliant with the timeline and events as documented in Speak the Truth and other real-life events. (Basically, these are the MOST non-aus of all the non-aus.)
title: I Knew From Day One
rating: mature
word count: 31k
summary: A memoir of J2 from Jensen’s POV.
anna’s notes: A tinhat classic. It starts with Jensen meeting Jared at the audition and goes through season 5. (I really wish the author would add more, it’s just such a good and easy read, and I imagine that this is extremely close to how real-life events took place.) Also, it’s written in first person which felt weird to me at first but after a few paragraphs I didn’t even notice it. Anyways, go read it. Now.
title: We’ve Got This
rating: gen
word count: 2500
summary: When the situation requires them to hide their true relationship both are struggling to get through it.
anna’s notes: Just a short and sweet fic with some very mild angst that ends on a good note. Written by the lovely @mooseintheocean
title: Whiplash
rating: none
word count: 5300
summary: How long can you keep walking this tightrope, high up in the freezing mute pitch-black dark, far, far above the glitter that frames you and your beautiful boy in the salivating crowd’s eyes?
excerpt: How many more years are going to slip through your fingers until you’re free to…What? Pull him mid-conversation to press a kiss on his nose, just because you can? Just because? Grab him while you’re out for ice cream to lick it out of his mouth just to taste him, then do it again, just because those lips look too damn illegal all red and shiny with your spit? Wear his ring, put your ring on his finger, once and for all? Say my husband over and over and over, show it off and stop smothering it with brother and friend and best friend even though he is all of that…
title: This Cage I Built With Good Intentions
rating: none
word count: 3800
summary: It’s getting harder, not easier. Between your bitter rage at the façade and the constant what-ifs that plague you, half-formed visions of any number of other paths you could have walked where you could reach for him without a second thought, bend him backwards in a sloppy kiss whenever he opened that pretty pink mouth, whenever other people’s lust touched him (always so astounded by his beauty in person, and you want to snarl at them to pick up their jaws off the floor, half-smug and half-seething in jealous protectiveness), it feels like you’re swallowing bile all the time.
title: Silk and Satin
rating: explicit
word count: 2600
summary: Your hands in his hair leave no love bites that need a bitter alibi, no marks that can only be clawed before a long weekend, because you can’t get away with bundling your beautiful boy in a scarf every time you get a little rough on his skin.
title: Strangers On a Train
rating: explicit
word count: 2500
summary: Jared is travelling across Europe by train. He’s prepared for a long and boring journey, but a handsome stranger he meets at the restaurant car might change that. Note: This is NOT an AU fic.
anna’s notes: So. Hot. And written by the amazing @seraphyde666
title: Austin City Limits & Dreamweaver (parts I and II of Season 12 Stories)
rating: varies
word count: varies
summary: A collection of ficlets from moments (on- and off-set) during the filming of season 12.
anna’s notes: Shameless self-promo, okay? Sue me. But I’m trying to add a new ficlet each week. Edit: Read it on ao3.
title: A Little Light
rating: explicit
word count: 3500
summary: During the Austin City Limits festival (October 2015). Written for a J2 possessive!kink request at spnkink_meme : “Touch him again, and I will rip your heart out!” Author, you have free reign over this so whatever you want. Thank you!
excerpt: “Son of a gun. Never would’a guessed y’all really were like that. I was just kidd’n around before. So you must be pretty jealous that me ’n Jared here shared a special moment in the bathroom a few minutes ago.” Jared blinks hard, all the words in his brain abruptly getting caught in his too-tight throat. He has no idea what this asshole’s deal is, but he knows with absolute certainty that Jensen knows he’s lying. What happens next is one of those things that – when you try to recall it later – you end up telling people “It all just happened so fast.” The guy reaches past Jensen to try and grab Jared again, and Jensen doesn’t hesitate for more than a split-second before clocking him right in the face. “You touch him again and I will rip your fucking heart out. Do you understand me?” Jensen says evenly.
For all my other ultimate fic recs (j2 non-au and wincest), go here.
Also, I’m always looking for more tinhat fics so if you know of any not mentioned here I’d love to be sent a link so that I can add it to my next list!
