A Birthday in the Summer - Summer Day 'verse timestamp

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Title: A Birthday in the Summer
Rating: PG-13 (see warnings)
Genre: AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Spoiler/Warnings: terminal illness
Word Count: ~3000

Summary: Jared just wants Jensen to kiss him.

A/N: A timestamp for my Summer Day 'verse. Set before Last Day of Summer. Someone mentioned in the comments that I didn't write their first kiss after the

Comments

[nicky69]

You just ripped my heart out all over again.

This entire verse is wonderful and terrible, sweet and sour and everything in between. God, it's an emotional rollercoaster, portraying the very worst of human nature and the very best. We are forced to face the fragility of life and our own mortality and yet the thread that binds the whole sorry tale together is the gossamer steel of love. There is such an air of poignancy about the whole thing that it takes away my breath and brings tears to my eyes every time I read it.

It takes real skill to draw a reader so completely into your world. I've laughed and cried with our boys, felt their every high and every low and my heart bleeds for what has been lost and for what could have been.

This timestamp, for all its brevity, packed the same emotional punch as the rest of the verse, and yes, you made me cry again.

Wonderful work, thanks for sharing.

Kudos

[redrum669]

Thank you very much for your kind and elaborate words :) I'm so happy that you enjoyed reading this story and that you came back for the timestamp. And I'm glad you like it, too. Sorry for making you cry, though ;)

[reddevilpoes]

So precious, so haunting, so achingly sad and sort of happy at the same time. I love this 'verse and hate it. I must have read it four or five times.. I just can't NOT read it. It makes me cry every time and it hurts so beautifully and touches my soul.

Thank you for enriching my life!

[redrum669]

Aww, thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoy this 'verse so much and that you came back for the timestamp :)

Thank you !

[irina_something]

I was the one that asked for their kiss. I can't believe you wrote it !
Thank you!
It had the same flow and the writing was just as beautiful as I remembered it. I am left with just one question though - why would Jensen say this: “Promise me,” Jensen says, “promise me, you won't stay alone. But also promise me... promise me you won't kiss anybody else.” I mean I get him asking for Jared not to be alone, but why want him to alone in the romantic sense of the words.....I get that it might happen anyway, but why would Jensen want it.....

Re: Thank you !

[redrum669]

My pleasure :) I was worried the timestamp might feel out of tune, in regards to atmosphere so I'm glad to hear it did have the same flow after all :D

Fair question. I struggled with that part myself and I wondered if I should have had him phrase it differently, but that felt stilted, too. Jensen was being literal here - he doesn't want Jared to be alone in a romantic sense, he just doesn't want Jared to kiss someone else on the mouth because the herpes virus that causes kaposi sarcoma (the skin lessions that Jensen has) can be spread via saliva. So if Jared really wanted to kiss him despite the risk, Jensen wanted to make sure, in his emotional upset state, that Jared at least wouldn't spread the virus to someone else later on.

Re: Thank you !

[irina_something]

Thank you so much for your reply and your explanation - it really makes sense with their earlier conversation.
Is it weird that the fact that you wrote this makes me so happy, despite the fact that the story makes me so sad ???

[glasshouses]

Oh my gosh! I'd hoped for more stories to fill in the blanks like Christmas, valentine, long lost relatives on Jensen's side, wedding in Boston :-)

This is beautiful - like the rest of the series. Thank you for revisiting it.

[redrum669]

Sorry for the late reply and thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the timestamp :)

[bugmcsnug]

I was looking for Monster, but what a treat to find a missing scene in this story as well. It made me cry! And it was wonderful <3

[redrum669]

Aww, sorry for making you cry. But thank you for reading and commenting :)