Snippet: Average Nudity (Jared/Jensen subtexty)

[rsadelle]

Yeah, so I'm apparently the kind of person who will read a lot of fan fic, know nothing about the canon, have no intention of ever being involved in the fandom, and then be unable to sleep and scribble out almost 400 words of fan fic at midnight. *grumblegrumble*. Anyway, what attracted me to this was the opportunity for snappy dialogue, which I would love to share with someone, but the person I would have shared that with in the past is someone I haven't been friends with in years.

If you can spoil reality, consider this to have spoilers. (To be fair, it's something the world only found out about yesterday.) The thread that sparked this is here.

Average Nudity

They're together fourteen-hour days on set, and then more at home since they decided it would be easier to have just one place. They never fight, which Jared thinks is maybe kind of weird.

"Do you think it's weird that we never fight?" he asks Jensen over pizza eaten leaning on either side of the island in the kitchen.

Jensen gives him a "you've been working too much, shut up and eat your pizza" look and says, "No."

But he must have put the idea in his head, because two days later he overhears Jen on the phone with Chris saying, "We never fight. Do you think that's weird?"

"Nobody fights on their honeymoon," Chad says when Jared brings it up to him. Jared laughs before he realizes Chad is serious.

"There's not enough nudity for this to be a honeymoon."

Because there's a little nudity. Not full frontal or anything, but they're guys and some Saturdays they just want to sit around in their boxers and watch sports.

Their couch is the best piece of furniture Jared has ever owned, and if they ever go back to two residences, they're going to have one hell of a fight over the couch. It's a deep sectional, with enough sections that even Jared can lie full out on each arm of it. They've angled it with the corner facing the really fucking big plasma screen Jensen insisted on so they can lie with their heads together and watch TV or play GTA.

"Not enough nudity," Jared says out loud without meaning to one Saturday.

"It's football," Jensen answers him. "Would you want to be tackled naked?"

"Not them," Jared says. "Us."

Jen turns and squints at the floor in front of the couch. "How many beers have you had?"

Jared laughs and reaches back to hit him, unerringly catching Jen's shoulder. "Chad said even he and Sophia didn't fight on their honeymoon," which, when you think about it, is pretty amazing considering how much they fought before, during, and after their marriage.

Jensen's quiet while the Cowboys make it two yards down the field.

"Sadie and Harley are naked all the time," he finally offers when they cut to commercial. "That's gotta more than make up for us."

Jared laughs so hard he almost falls off the couch.

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Ok, #1, that was completely adorable, especially the conversation with Chad and the "Sadie and Harley are naked all the time," and #2, I WIN AT THE INTERNETS.

Um. That is to say, I am impressed by my own powers of brainwashing happy to see you writing in this fandom. I'm sure you can think of it as a palate cleanser in between sections of your novel, or something.

Also, apropos of the subject of this story, you might be interested in this Swedish interview (http://community.livejournal.com/dean_sam/5488781.html) from a couple years ago where they both say they like to walk around their houses naked. (This was before they were living together, of course.)

[rsadelle]

Hee! Glad you liked it.

Oh, geeze. I see where all the fanon stuff comes from - Jared running and Jensen sleeping late.

So since I hate you, you have to help me with research: 1. Do we know how Jensen takes his coffee? 2. Do Tom and Jamie still live in Vancouver too?

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

I suspect someone in J2 fandom could answer your coffee question, but I cannot. But yes, Tom and Jamie still live in Vancouver (or the greater Vancouver area) as far as I know.

[rsadelle]

Well, dammit, now I have to find someone who could answer that because that's the kind of detail that will trip you up and make you look stupid. Know of anyone who would be willing to answer that kind of detail question from a reluctant fangirl?

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Sorry--when it comes to J2 fandom I am mostly a lurker/reader, and don't really know who might know that stuff.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

I have to go teach write now but if you want I'll post a question on my journal--though to be honest I don't have a lot of J2 fans on my flist. Probably more than you do, though.

[rsadelle]

Ah, the age-old question: Since it's just a ficlety thing, is it worth doing the research? (A quick google did not help. Most of the time, I keep ending up with results that are fan fic. I wonder if that would change if I logged out of Google and deleted my Google cookie.)

[dine.livejournal.com]

hee! this made me go awwwwwwww at the boys, then giggle madly at the ending

I'm only casually in the fandom, so can't offer any advice on how they drink their coffee - maybe you should just be vague?

[rsadelle]

Hee! Glad you enjoyed it!

Sadly, vague won't work. The point is that they know how he likes his coffee. I suppose I could blur that a little - "He starts to tell Jason how Jensen likes his coffee, but Jason says it over him. 'I know.'" - but it doesn't have quite the same impact.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

So far, absolutely no one has replied to my post.

I found a good compilation of interviews here, though randomly browsing through a few of them did not lead me to his coffee preferences: http://www.jensenacklesfans.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=3&Itemid=12

The most amusing interview, again with no coffee-related stuff at all, is this one that has a story from someone he grew up with: http://tvmakesyoustupid.com/2007/02/07/jensen-ackles-yes-hes-always-been-like-that/

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Okay, you probably found this when googling--and fiction I know is not a reliable source--but maybe the author actually did research? You could email her and ask? Anyway, this story (http://community.livejournal.com/rapture_verse/756.html) says he drinks non-fat no whip caramel soy macchiatos, and I'm prepared to believe it just because the first two paragraphs of the story, which I have not finished yet, have just become my favorite two paragraphs EVER, for reasons that will be apparent to you:

When the Rapture happens, the first thing Jensen thinks is, Huh, I guess I have to start believing in God now or something, and then he goes back to sleep. He doesn't consider accepting Jesus into his heart because really, the last thing he wants is to get Raptured with all the other believers. That would suck. Heaven seems like it'd be really boring, and also? Severely lacking in orgies. And booze. Jensen really likes his alcohol, so really, the Rapture just isn't for him.

When he wakes up, he calls Jared. "You have reached the voicemail of Jared Padalecki," a cool, female voice says. Jensen doesn't recognize it, but she sounds a little like Martha Stewart. "Jared isn't available right now, as he's been Chosen by Jesus to take his rightful place in the kingdom of Heaven. If you're listening to this, you're probably a sinner. Repent and accept Jesus into your heart! Jared awaits you in the glory of Heaven. Good luck and God bless, for He is the kingdom and the glory, forever and ever, amen." There's a pause, and Jensen thinks that must be it. "Oh, and don't bother leaving a message, because once you go Jesus, you never go back." She sounds incredibly smug. Jensen wonders when it started being okay for the Chosen Ones to, like, be all self-righteous and--oh. Right.

[rsadelle]

Hmm. If we can't find it that easily, maybe no one knows and I can just make it up. (Of course, that means I should probably have a rationale for why he drinks what he drinks, if only in my head.)

[rsadelle]

Ahahaha! I might have to read that. The question really is: cream and/or sugar? Because this is coffee made at home. He can have his fancy coffee drinks when he goes to Starbucks.

[rsadelle]

Oh, I love that story from the woman he grew up with.

[rsadelle]

Oh, ahahahahaha! That's a hilarious bit.

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Hee! I can help! (Though I don't know if you've moved well beyond this by now.) There doesn't seem to be a consensus in fandom about how Jensen takes his coffee (though he drinks a lot of it--in fanon and canon). However, one coffee detail (unlikely to come up in a domestic situation) is that, if he's drinking coffee from a paper cup with a lid, he removes the whole lid, even if it's a sip-top. He does this on the show as Dean, but he also did it on stage when he played Daniel Kaffee in "A Few Good Men" last summer. Fandom seized on this random detail.

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked this a lot! You certainly seem to have captured their voices, at least as well as most authors, from what I have gathered of them from interviews and con appearances and such.

[rsadelle]

I have moved past it - and I needed coffee that could be made at home.

Fandom's good about random details. We tend to pick something and latch onto it and put it in every story no matter what.

[rsadelle]

Thank you! I have spent a lot of time rewatching J2 clips on YouTube. (They're so cute! Also, I think my favorite bit of The Hug is not the hug so much as Jensen afterwards saying, "That's not going to be on eBay by tomorrow," and Jared laughing.)