Big Bang 2010: In Becoming Who We Are (2.5)

Author's Note: RIGHT! So, I'm kind of a COMPLETE EFFING MORON and I left this part out by accident when I originally posted. BRB FACEPALMING FOREVER!!! Anyway, I added it back in to the original Part 2, but I thought I'd post it separately as well for people who have ALREADY read the story and would want to read this as something extra? Or whatever? IDK. I can't believe that I achieved quite this level of stupid and then took WEEKS to figure it out.

This comes after the Labor Day party scene. I'm just gonna go crawl under a rock now...

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Back to the Master Post
Over to the Art Post

(6/21/10) ETA: I am behind on comments, but I promise I will respond to y'all!! It might take me a few days, but I totally will! Cross my heart! ♥!!

Big Bang 2010 Master Post: In Becoming Who We Are

Fic title: In Becoming Who We Are
Pairing: Jensen/JDM, Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~82,700

Summary: Fresh out of school with a degree from the University of Washington, Jensen meets and falls for Jeff Morgan. He may not know what he wants to do with his life, but for the first time since leaving Texas, he feels like things are coming together. Jeff seems like the perfect guy, right up until it all falls apart, and Jensen is left wondering where he went wrong.

A couple failed relationships and a few years later, Jensen's decided that one-night stands are preferable to dates. He's got his friends and his roommate, Sophia, for everything non-sex related, after all. Until Sophia decides to move in with her boyfriend and Jensen's stuck trying to find a new roommate. At Sophia's insistence, Jensen meets Jared Padalecki and the two become fast friends. Only, the more they get to know each other, the more obvious it is that there's something there. But Jensen is unwilling to risk losing Jared's friendship for the possibility of more. Unfortunately, if he doesn't get things figured out, he might lose Jared anyway.





Part I: Where We End
One | Two | Three

Part II: Where We Begin
One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six

Timestamps:

♥ Lesser Men (Have Put Up Better Fights) - Misha/Clare, 2600 words
♥ If You Don't Ask, You'll Never Know - Jared/Jensen, 3500 words
♥ The Way It's Meant To Be - Jared/Jensen, 2400 words



ART: I cannot even begin to properly express how giddy and delighted I am by egotists' gorgeous art. She did an entire site!!! There are not enough squeaky dolphin noises in the world! Please be sure to stop by her Art Post and give her love. She went way above and beyond, and was an absolute joy to work with! ♥♥♥

Author's Notes: No lie, this story started out as a semi-pervy daydream to get me through a boring day at work. Many people were involved in getting it from there to here. Please forgive me if this gets a little long...

Thanks to wendy and thehighwaywoman for all the hard work they put into throwing this shindig. So awesome!!

Thanks to laulan for audiencing and fact-checking for me, in spite of a hectic RL schedule. ♥

Many thanks to my CAPS OF AWESOMENESS BETAS, elizardbits and aggybird both of whom took care of the most egregious of typos and homophones as well as trying to induce me into the cult of the Oxford comma. They did it on short notice with a quick turnaround, all without mocking some of my truly horrifying mistakes. Any remaining flaws or imperfections are an indication that this story was hand-made and should be taken as a sign of its uniqueness.

Thanks again to egotists for betaing ON TOP of all of the amazing art! And being very kind with all of my "Oh, one more thing!" requests and "Wait, how do I format this?" questions. I really can't overstate how awesome and helpful she's been.

FINALLY, endless thanks and love (and promised timestamps) to rhythmsextion. She helped with EVERYTHING, from beginning to end, including staying up late with me while I did all of the formatting to post. Honestly, I sort of feel like she should be credited with co-authorship at this point. To say that she audienced each paragraph as I wrote it would be only the mildest of exaggerations. There is absolutely no way I would have been able to write this without her encouragement and enthusiasm. This story is really for her, she's just letting me share it with everyone else. ♥

OMG, it's really late/early as I'm writing this, so if I forgot anyone, please let me know and I'll fix it asap. I'm a little bit stupid right now...

ETA: fayedoll is most awesomely providing a permanent download link for the PDF here. Yay! ♥!!!

OMG BIG BANG!!!!!

HAY HAY, FLIST! GUESS WHAT!!!

MY BIG BANG IS POSTED!!!

At the moment, I'm equal parts excited and sleep-deprived!! I don't think there are any flagrant errors, but IDK. I probably got the title wrong or something. SO braindead!! I triple-checked it last night, though, so I think I'm good. ANYWAY!!

Be sure to check out the art that egotists did, if nothing else. It's AWESOME!! And there's musics and stuff there, too! HOORAYS OKAY I AM TOTALLY EXCITE!!!

Now I am going to shuffle off to work and try not to:

*fall asleep at my desk
*lose my ENTIRE MIND waiting for the day to be over
*spend the day surfing the internets on my phone.

WISH ME LUCK!

OMGOMGOMG, MY BIG BANG IS POSTED! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ACTUALLY DONE! WHEE!!

Post-Big Bang Posting lethargy, I has it!

HOMG, internets! I am SO FREAKING TIRED!! I feel like I don't have two brain cells left to rub together. Okay, I maybe stayed up until 1:30 or so getting everything ready for posting, and it's possible that I woke up around 5:30, too excited to sleep anymore. Sooooooo, yeah. I'm a little sleepy and my head sort of feels like my brain is trying to claw its way out of my skull via my eyeballs.

HOWEVER! I managed not to fall asleep at my desk today, I only lost most of my mind, and I totally had to plug my phone in to recharge by 10:00 a.m. from all the internets I used. Ummm, two out of three ain't bad?

I will TOTALLY respond to everyone's lovely comments this weekend, cross my heart! At the moment, I'm not nearly coherent enough to formulate the responses they deserve. ♥ though. For reals.

Also, I just wanted to take one more opportunity to thank everyone who helped me with my story. Y'all are all super awesomely fantastic! I am very sincerely grateful for all of your work/help/input/enthusiasm/awesomeness.

With that, the last of my talk words good is done used up. ILU GUYS, KAY?