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layne67 ([personal profile] layne67) wrote2009-02-23 05:27 pm
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The Doors of Time by [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] evening-spirit.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought so too, but figured out pretty quickly it was not the case, because those weird things don't actually happen to autistic people. ;) I was a little disappointed for a brief second, because it's rare to find a fic where Jensen has mental problem just because he has one, not because he was abused, or had a traumatic experience or whatever. But I forgot about my disappointment rather quickly, because 1) this fic and the idea are extraordinary and unusual, and it's beautifully written, and 2) it all still fits the idea of autism, or some other innate disorder in the way the family reacts to Jensen. Well, other than them being afraid of him hurting someone, because things like that don't happen either, at least not directly. But in the way they try to hide him or make him normal.
And 3) I was very curious how she was going to explain it. For a while I thought Jensen was an angel, sort of like Anna, only with the extraordinary abilities.

She said two days? Didn't she say one day? Shouldn't we demand it NOW? Okay, I know . . . ;)

[identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I was a little disappointed for a brief second

Oh me too, though I hesitated to use that word, because the story itself more than made up for that tiny, tiny hitch. But at this point of time, if Jensen were to be diagnosed with some physical disease ( the way John Travolta's character was diagnosed with TLE ), the "magic" of the story would be somewhat diminished IMHO, so yeah, even though I was initially mildly disappointed with the magical angle, I'm now ALL for it!

Gosh, I can't imagine what it's going to be like when they have their first sex together - an earthquake would happen? :DD

[identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry for spamming you hon, but I just need to squee a little bit - they just met ...

*cries*

[identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Omg, I'm about to read Pt 2 now and I'm so NERVOUS!!

*clutches you*