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

[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.

[chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com]

Yaay, another Piano fan. It was interesting how the beauty of the piano and the expression of a passionate soul would be juxtaposed with the harsh reality and violence of the life being lived out there in colonial N.Z. I remember that Holly Hunter had a piano coach and had to learn to play pieces in only a few weeks. Amazing!