Title: Blue Thunder
Author: zara_zee
Artist: cassiopeia7
Written for: spn_cinema, Round 6. Movie prompt: Blue Thunder (1983)
Beta: 9tiptoes
Genre: slash, action-thriller, police, crime, drama
Pairings: Jared/Jensen (Very minor Jared/OMC and Jensen/OMC; reference to brief past Jensen/Danneel)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~48,000
Warnings: some swearing; homophobic, racist and sexist attitudes and slurs in keeping with the times (it’s set in the eighties); violence; PTSD; minor character deaths; rimming; minor misuse of prescription medication

Summary:
Jensen Ackles is an LAPD helicopter pilot. He’s also a cynical, troubled Vietnam veteran whose flashbacks and reckless ways mean he’s churning through partners too fast to count.  Nobody wants to work with him anymore.

Jared Padalecki is a young, idealistic police officer and due for his first promotion. He’s also an Out gay man at a time when the AIDS virus has just started to make headline news. He’s endured endless homophobic taunts and had other officers refuse to provide him with backup. Nobody wants to work with him.

When Jared is assigned to be Jensen’s new Observer, they're not sure which of them the partnership is supposed to be punishing, but the pair soon discover that they make a great team. And Jared thinks they could be something more if Jensen ever ventured out of the closet long enough for something more than a one night stand with a stranger.

When they’re selected to test pilot a state-of-the-art combat helicopter with cutting-edge surveillance capabilities, the pair unwittingly stumbles on sinister information about the government’s plans for the new helicopter. And suddenly, they’re not just fighting for their careers; they're fighting for their lives.
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Title: Déjà Vu
Author: zara_zee
Artist: riverofwind
Beta: 9tiptoes
Genre: Sci-fi, action-thriller, romance, slash. Loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall
Pairings: Jared/Jensen (main pairing), minor ‘Dean Winchester’/‘Carmen Porter’
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~47,000
Warnings: violence, minor character deaths, amnesia/identity issues, m/m sex (bottom Jared), homophobic slurs, references to climate change and associated global disasters, pseudo-science (with special apologies to neurophysiologists, astrophysicists and computer hackers)
Disclaimer: I have borrowed the names and faces of certain actors without their knowledge or approval. Said actors belong to themselves and I have merely cast them in my fiction. Not a word of this is true; I’ve just got them playing parts.
Families members mentioned are OCs except where family members may themselves be actors, as I don’t like to cast non-actors in my fictional dramas.
I have shamelessly stolen some dialogue from Total Recall (but to quote Marie from Fan Fiction, not enough to get us in trouble ) all credit to the writers. There are also a few lines of dialogue from Supernatural and Dark Angel taken completely out of context and reappropriated because they fit the scene so well and I like to throw in Show easter eggs here and there. Credit, again, to those writers.
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Summary:
Dean Winchester has a pretty sweet life. He works in construction; he married his long-time girlfriend, Carmen, straight out of high school; and he’s almost paid off a basic apartment in the Middle District. He may never have left his home district, let alone his home planet, but he’s happy… more-or-less.

So why does he keep dreaming about the red wastelands of Mars? Why does he know more about the Martian Resistance than he has any right to?  And who do the long, long legs and decidedly male butt that have him waking up achingly hard every morning belong to?

Maybe Dean just needs a holiday? He couldn’t afford a real one, of course, but maybe he could go to Déjà Vu and get the memories of a holiday implanted; get Mars out of his system.

Of course, that’s when the trouble really starts.
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Chapter One  || Chapter Two  || Chapter Three  || Chapter Four

Chapter Five  || Chapter Six  || Chapter Seven  || Chapter Eight

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To riverofwind... omigosh...riverofwind works best when under the pressure of a looming deadline...and oh boy, is their best AWESOME!! They worked for something amazing like 48 hours straight and I was blown away by the amazing art that I recieved...well worth the wait! Please go and give them all the love. They deserve it. :D
Many, many thanks, as always, go to my intrepid beta reader 9tiptoes. RL has been ridiculously hectic lately for T lately and yet she has still found the time to beta read my fanfic. Words cannot express my gratitude. Thank you so much, T, for reining in my rampant Australianisms, for helping me construct better sentences and for all your positive feedback and enthusiasm. As always, I tinkered after the final beta read. All remaining mistakes are my own.
And a final thank you to wendy whose hard work and commitment, year-after-year, makes this such a fun, popular and all-round sensational challenge.