The Second Man, NC-17, Jensen/Jared, Master Post

[ht_murray]

Title: The Second Man (86,022+ words, Complete in 9 parts)
Authors: tru_faith_lost and captcrashsc
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Jensen/Jared
Summary: A rewrite of the movie Overboard. Jared's wealthy and wound too tight, and his parents seem intent on keeping him that way. Jensen's the oldest of four unruly siblings who lost their parents four years ago. Things keep slipping through his fingers no matter how hard he works to keep them together. When Jared's parents manage to ruin the last thing that Jensen has for himself, right before their son washes up on the beach with amnesia, Jensen's lifelong friend and Bear Creek town Sheriff, Christian Kane, takes it upon himself to get some payback. Jensen's sure he's not gay, and Jared's sure he's never lived at the end of Ackles Rd, but somehow their made up life together makes more sense than their actual lives apart. (They're about the same age.)
Warnings: Cheese on crackers prepared in a facility that also processes nuts. If you have chronic eyeroll syndrome, you should probably not be reading Rom Com.
Disclaimer: We don't own these people or profit from the fictional scenarios in which we place them.
A/N: Originally started for last year's whenboymeetsboy challenge. Title from the Switchfoot song, "24." Beta'd by the gracious and amazing ysbail and jane_eyre. And it probably never would've been finished without the encouragement of the people on my flist who read the bits and pieces as I wrote them. You know who you are. (Glomps). This story is complete in 9 parts. All Parts Now Unlocked!

There are two ways to read. The livejournal version will be text only. It will be simultaneously posted on Dreamwidth in this community: up_in_arms. The Dreamwidth posts will contain muzicons that play suggested music selections as you read. You can click them or not click them, as is your preference. However, the volume on the muzicons seems to be set quite loud, and they don't work for all readers. We suggest you click on the muzicon below to test and turn down your speakers to keep music at a suitable background level before you attempt to read the story with the music. Also, depending on your reading speed and song length, songs might overlap in a few places.

All comments will be routed to the Livejournal posts.

Test Muzicon: Randy Newman--Something Special (from the movie soundtrack)

Many thanks to ysbail for the banner!
Link to Part One on LJ||Link to Part One on Dreamwidth||Author's Notes (coming soon)||Soundtrack (to follow if there's enough interest

Comments

[vamptastica.livejournal.com]

hey sweetie. Um i was trying to read your fic and the first chapter goes to a :Not authorized to read this. do i need to friend you? I'd be happy to if so. :D

thanks can't wait to read it. I'm loving it so far.

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Sorry. The parts are going to be unlocked once a day. Some of the parts still need editing and/or music. So, they might be posted, but they're only visible to me. Next one will be unlocked tomorrow. Sorry for the confusion.

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

It's all posted now. Thanks.

[captcrashsc.livejournal.com]

*twirls you* ♥

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

*smooshes* I was gonna post this in the comm, but I don't have any kind of stats on that, and I've been kicking myself since posting bigbang for not having any idea if people were even reading.

Now, I'm kicking myself, because it seems like a lot of people are reading and no one likes it enough to comment. I guess I'll just keep plugging away posting it. Sigh.

[maboheme.livejournal.com]

So glad to see this going up, bb! I know how hard you've been at work on it. Can't wait to read it :)

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's been much stress indeed. Glad it's mostly over. If only supernaturalfic would stop raising my blood pressure every time I post there. :/

[calijirl5150.livejournal.com]

Smooches you thanks BB :D

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

You are much welcome, sweetie! It was here all the time, but it wasn't exactly complete. LOL. Now, the important stuff should all be there. Enjoy re-reading. And thank you for letting me know you liked it. That means a whole, whole lot. *smish*

[passing-through.livejournal.com]

One of the funniest fic Warnings that I've ever read :)

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thank you. I'd like to think it accurately describes the fic. :D

[yukisherry.livejournal.com]

i always enjoy a soundtrack to go with a story!

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the input. I hesitate to do one, because, well, you know, but I know I love music to remind me of great moments, too. I'll totally let you know if I decide to post one. I actually have all the songs in a folder, but there's no art, and I usually get like hundreds of downloads of music and no one commenting on either the fic or the soundtrack, so... maybe I'll post it and just link to people who ask for it. I know that sounds mean, but I'm putting myself out there by posting it. Thanks so much for the request.

[yukisherry.livejournal.com]

hey i totally understand. posting music is a bit risky.
*hugs*

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

LOL! Your icon is win. I'll reply back when I have a link for you. ;D

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

Part A (http://www.mediafire.com/?uymjoytobun)
Part B (http://www.mediafire.com/?wztww4njznk)

[yukisherry.livejournal.com]

i looooove this icon (and misha is really awesome).

playlist looks cool, am dl-ing from mediafire. <3 thanks!

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I fail at making sure all the titles of the songs are actually visible, LOL, but most of them are probably familiar anyway. Enjoy!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!! Quite a number are old favourites, and quite a number are new to me!

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. Hope you enjoy the new ones. I tried to pick songs that haven't already been on a million other soundtracks. :D