Fic rec

[layne67]

The Doors of Time by felisblanco. J2 AU

I don't have enough words to express how incredible this story is. 65,000 words and I still don't have enough of it. It's so awesome that I suspect even 200K wouldn't be enough. I'm hooked, transfixed and riveted to my monitor screen - crying, laughing, smiling - and now I can't wait to read it all over again!

Summary : Jensen is a special child with special abilities. So special that no one's really comfortable with him, not even his family. He has no friends and he spends his days alone. Until Jared comes along that is. Jared, the only one who's able to get through to Jensen, but even Jared doesn't know the extent of Jensen's abilities, and to what terrible extent Jensen's family is capable of doing to keep Jensen safe.

It’s not like he doesn’t try to fit in and make friends, he really does. It just seems like nothing he does is good enough for them. If he smiles they blink. If he speaks they stare. And whenever they see him coming they get this panicked look in their eyes like they want to run away and they don’t even know why.
Jensen knows why. It’s the same thing that makes his dad worry and his mom cry. That makes Nana tell his parents he’s going to Hell, not even caring that he can hear her.
It’s what makes him ‘weird’.

Oh God, don't miss this.

Comments

[evening-spirit.livejournal.com]

It's AMAZING, isn't it? Gads I've never felt like this about a fic, never. I think I'm in love.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Did you listen to the accompanying piano soundtrack? I'm so upset because my connection is CRAPPY today and I couldn't listen to any of them :(

But omg, I felt like I've been ran over by a truck or something. And Jensen made me think of Sam and Ava and Carrie rolled into one.

And the banner killed me dead it's so gorgoeus!! You know I spend the whole day with that fic *sighs*

[evening-spirit.livejournal.com]

NO! I didn't listen to the soundtrack (yet), because something didn't want to download, but I want to and I WILL!

Jensen made me think about my daughter, which, y'know, just about kills me.

It makes me feel it pays off to write something and edit it and polish some more for half a year (I think she mentions that's how long she's been working on it), to have that effect. I might want to try that approach now, omg. But I don't know if I'd have the patience without the feedback.

Do you know something about that novel that inspired felisblanco ?

[winchestergirl.livejournal.com]

Hi there, I saw your rec for Felis' fic on the newsletter (and Felis linked me too) and had to squee when you mentioned you loved the banner I made :D

I'm glad you loved the fic so much. I've been lucky enough to see this fantastic story develop along the way, and to see other people feel the way I have for a long time about this story makes me so happy. Felis is brilliant! Just wait for the second part... I can say with complete confidence the wait will have been worth it. I've made more cover art for the second soundtrack and we have more art for the fic too that we hope will add to the richness of the story.

[tj-smartz.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Its a WIP????!?!?!?!?!?! *cries* But I want to read it but I can't read it if its not finished...... When will it be done??

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I think she said part 2 is completed it's just that she needs time to post it ( she said a few days )because it's so big, and there's the soundtrack and the artpost as well, it's like a big-bang fic! Don't worry, Part 1 is 60K ++, and the ending is like the season finale of a TV series, it doesn't really leaves you hanging. I think part 2 is going to start with them all grown up.

[tj-smartz.livejournal.com]

Ok, so maybe I can do this. If for sure and certain she has the rest written and won't leave us hanging. I can't do that, Lin. Honestly, I have no patience and I JUST HAVE TO KNOW and its upsets me if I don't. I know its odd but I'm just made that way!

Ohhhhh!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

And dude, I've just read the author's notes ( which you should only read after you finished the story otherwise you'll be spoiled ). Hee, she was inspired to write this story by one of Joanne Harris's books 'The Lollipop Shoes'!

[tj-smartz.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THAT BOOK. Ok I'm totally gonna have to read it now, even if its a WIP.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oh I want to read! Just seeing the pic of him playing the piano *cries* is enough to make me want to read.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Omg YES!! The banner is GORGEOUS, isn't it? And the story, oh, it's certainly one of the best stories I've ever read!!

Btw, lovely icon! Annwyn? ( Haven't checked the flist at all today )

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, it's from Annwyn! :D

Oh, I've saved the chapters but I have to teach now so they have to wait. *cries* Gosh. These kinds of stories can really crush me as a writer. :)

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Did you read all of it? I thought she didn't post 2nd part yet? Damn, i'm afraid to read cos i want it to end with happy ending and the last song of the soundtrack scared me.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Part 2 is completed and she said she's going to post it maybe in a couple of days. She said the second part is going to be even bigger than the first one, hence the delay.

I haven't listened to the soundtrack yet :(( I have very slow connection today and was unable to hear any of them! The songs are mostly what Jensen played to Jared and I think the last one is when -- oh but I can't tell you that because it's going to be spoilery. But don't worry, it's not a deathfic.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Aw, heck, i'll send you PM so you won't spoil anyone :)

[arabia764.livejournal.com]

Is it a wip?

If it is would you mind reminding me when it's all complete, please. I can't do wips any more, I really can't. I've been caught so many times and it *hurts.*

A happy ending?

Many thanks.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

It's completed. She posted the first part ( seven chapters ) and will be posting the second part in a couple of days. She said the second part is even longer than the first one hence the delay.

I think you can start reading the first one now!!

Have you seen the movies Carrie, Phenomenon and Powder? Think Jensen as a combination of all three main characters but with even MORE scary abilities. And think a mother who think that her child is a freak, a child with the capability of killing people, and a mother who's afraid that the world would find out about her son. So she kept him isolated. Things changes when Jensen discovered music (you've seen the awesome banner? ), and with it Jared who came to be tutored how to play the piano. Jensen's 18 and Jared's 13 at this point. The ending of the first part is dramatic, but not "bad", I mean, I took the ending well because there's still part 2!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Tru, part 2 is posted. And now I'm scared to read it, I've very high expectations of it I'm so afraid that I would be disappointed.

http://felisblanco.livejournal.com/861982.html

[arabia764.livejournal.com]

Go, read, tell me what it's like!!!!!!!

I'll wait to hear what you think.

:-)

[vshendria.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's very special. Some of the best fic I've ever read, without question. I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I'm so hoping that the second part will start off with them being adults. That maybe Jared will find Jensen in an institution somewhere, doped out of his mind, or something like that.

And oh, isn't it so heartbreaking, an 18-yr-old with a 13-yr-old as his best friend, his only friend? And Jensen telling Jared that he's going to be magnificent during that last phone call *cries*

[vshendria.livejournal.com]

The whole thing hurts in that very best, wonderfultastic way. Oh, why can't all fanfic be this good!

[chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com]

It's incredible when people pour so much heart and soul and time and effort into a fic.

"The Piano" is one of my favorite movies of all time because of it's truth about women being silenced in this world, emotionally, artistically, sexually, physically. The same can be said of those who are "differently abled."

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie and now I really want to. That along with the book 'The Lollipop Shoes' that the author said inspired her to write this story.

I'm still high from the story, remembering bits and peices from time to time, like the time when Jensen went with Jared to see Chad play, all doped up, him playing the piano, his mother's heartbreak and oh, I so pity the mum in all this. The agony that she must have gone through thinking that her son might be the one who killed her mother.

Is it not up yet, part 2?

[vshendria.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind my jumping in, I just want to say I also love The Piano, for exactly the reasons you mention but also because the music and the look and feel of it are so very, very beautiful.