SPN J2 AU Fic: Black Flag Over Texas (Masterpost)

[electricalgwen]

Title: Black Flag Over Texas
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~32,000 words

Summary: Jensen belongs to a team of mercenary vigilantes that is trying to stop a group of anarchists whose goal is the dissolution of the USA. They get information that a student group on UT Dallas campus is harboring at least one of the major players, and Jensen is assigned to an undercover mission to infiltrate the group.

His first day on campus, he meets a final-year PhD student named Jared who would be exactly Jensen’s type – if he weren’t a prime suspect. Move by move, like chess pieces, actions escalate, and the stakes get higher. Jensen and his colleagues are dealing with computer espionage, bombings, and kidnapping threats, as the institutions of government waver around them, threatening to fall. Ultimately, Jensen is forced to make a choice that pits revenge and love against the greater good.

Disclaimer: This is purely a work of fiction.

Warnings: Violence, language, sex under the influence of chemicals, discussion of politics.

Author's Notes: Written for the 2011 round of spn_j2_bigbang. Art by ladytiferet, who was a real pleasure to work with and put up with my last-minute flailing with great aplomb and grace. Big hugs are due to laisserais and dancetomato for beta-reading and fixing all my non-American vocabulary. Any remaining errors are of course entirely my fault (and please do let me know about them!) And of course, many thanks to wendy and thehighwaywoman for all their work in coordinating this amazing event.

This is set in the same universe as last year's story Green Means Go. It is a prequel, but both stories stand alone, and may be read in either order.

Part One  |  Part Two  |  Part Three  |  Part Four  | 

Art Post

Read here on AO3 - PDF/ePub/Mobi available for download

Comments

[laisserais]

*SMISH* I can't wait to see what you've added! And also, in case I didn't mention it before: I SNOG YOUR BRAIN ON GENERAL PRINCIPLE.. God, I don't think I can flail enough about how awesome this fic is, and how awesome you are. I can't even believe you wrote something so perceptive and so timely about American politics when, you know, you aren't even American. Seriously, FLAIL

YOU ARE AMAZING

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

I SNOG YOUR BRAIN ON GENERAL PRINCIPLE.
I approve this message.

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

YOU! ♥♥♥

You and Kari are responsible for this seeing the light of day. I can't tell you how much it meant that you were positive about the mess that I sent you for beta-reading. I did almost nothing with this for weeks after sending in the draft largely because I'd gotten to a point where I hated it and was convinced it was unsalvagable. To hear that even in its incomplete state, you liked bits of it...it made a world of difference. Thank you so much for taking your time on vacation to read it and give me such helpful suggestions!

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

I could not have pulled this off without you. Thank you SO much for your encouragement and suggestions, on IM and in the final draft! I seriously was at the point where I hated the whole thing and was ready to throw it out, and you helped turn that around. ♥ ♥ ♥

When I set up this universe last year, I knew what I wanted the political situation to look like in 2015, and I based it on events that I planned to happen between February and May 2011. Not all that backstory made it into last year's story, but I'd outlined it roughly in order to figure out where the dividing lines were, what the order of breakaway and the reasons were. I did some very cursory reading (as I tend to be relatively unaware of news in general, politics in particular) to try and fit it into what was actually going on, so it was semi-believable. So to hear that it's timely and apparently perceptive is a) lovely from a writer POV, and b) a little disconcerting! :)