Five Times Two - Notes and Thanks

[likiel]

Hi!

First of all thank you so much for reading my challenge, it’s truly humbling to have his work appreciate like that, thank you!

Second of all, Pfiou ! Let me tell you, this story was a long thing coming! It should have been post a year ago, during the first round of the J2 non-AU little challenge, created by aelia1980. That community is awesome; I wish it the best success possible and many more writers, artists and readers for the years to go.

Last year, events in real life stopped me from posting the first version of this story and after a long vacation to Israel, into my mom’s home, I decided to rewrite it. Then I have to get back to university in Paris, and then during holidays to my dad’s family house in Eire, and during all those times, “Five Times Two” wouldn’t leave my head.

It’s my second J2 story ever, but the first one I’ve finished. The other J2 story is also an non-AU and have 20 chapters. One day I’ll post it.
“Five Times Two”, the structure of it, is inspirited by the Movie “Cinq fois Deux” of François Ozon. It’s a French movie, about love of course and betrayal. About the end and the beginning of an entire relationship and how things go from good to bad, or bad to good sometimes.

I wanted to give you this story in reverse because the plot fits the structure and because all the five moments I wrote, with Jared’s and Jensen’s POV are crucial and build the entire fiction.

I needed bad guys for this one, and those roles worked great on Danneel, Christian, and Steve. Now, I do not know them in real life, and I’m sure they are all adorable, just because I used them like that in my fiction doesn’t mean I, personally, hate them or something like that OK? Quite the contrary. But “Five Times Two” is not only a story about love, it’s also, even more, a story about betrayal. I needed the bad guys to be close people of Jensen.

Now, I really want to thank three people:

• Lou, my friend and my artist who went borderline psycho to force me finish my story and gave me tons of encouragements, the most important ones being her gorgeous, fabulous, talented arts! Thank you, dear, and we will talk about you being my artist for this year Big-Bang!

• Caroline, firesign10, my Beta! What would I have done without you, seriously? Despite the very, very long moment between my first mail with the first parts and then my last mail with the lasts, you didn’t lose interest! And despite the awfully short, downright impossible timeline I imposed on you, you rocked it all, like a queen. Thank you really, thank to you I could made it.

• Andy, aelia1980, Thank you for creating the j2noauchallenge.community and giving us the opportunity to write and read greats non-AU stories. Those are the best and I’m glad someone wants to preserve that. I did admire how much you wouldn’t relented when you didn’t have enough artist, you go girl!

But most of all, thank you, you who is reading those words and probably read the story, you are the cause of my biggest smile today.

Kiss everyone, I truly hope you enjoyed the ride, I know I did.

Erin.