Written for the 2018 spn_j2_bigbang Challenge!

title: The Frozen Ocean
author: kelleigh
artist: quickreaver
genre: RPF
pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki
rating: NC17
word count: 50,700
warnings: Mentions of depression, very brief mentions of PTSD and suicidal ideation. Temporary character death. Minor character death. Action-movie violence and injury.



Three years ago, the world lost one of its heroes. Jensen Ackles, known to most as ‘Reactor,’ gave his life to save thousands, perhaps even to save our way of life. Jared Padalecki was there that day, amidst the ruin and rubble of battle, holding Jensen in his arms as he died. In the aftermath, as society mourned the loss of their superhero, Jared buried his husband on a quiet Texas hillside.

Now, Jared’s living as a shadow of his former self, unable to move beyond his loss, when the arrival of a strange object from deep in outer space sets in motion a series of events that challenges everything Jared thought he knew about Jensen’s past and hoped for their future. From old friends showing up at his door in Vancouver to a secret military base in the middle of Texas, Jared will go and risk everything, including his own sanity, to get Jensen back. But is Jensen still the same man he loved for so long, or will Jared lose him all over again? This time, the battle isn’t about saving the world - it’s about saving what they had.



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