The best J2 fics I've read this year (written this year).

Follow the Stars by Nisaki

NC17, 15k

Jensen goes to sleep single and wakes up married.

This is a beautiful fairy story, evocative and sweet.

The Guy Next Door by Whispered_story

NC17, 11k

Jensen hates his new neighbor. Jared is loud, obnoxious, and too damn hot.

More sweet getting together fluff; just what everyone needs at Christmas.

My lips are the gun by Kelleigh

NC17, 2k

When Jensen finds out there's a lipstick color called 'Jared' by Tom Ford, he can't stop imagining the way the shade would look on his boyfriend's lips. He's never clicked 'buy' so fast in his life.

This was one of my favourite spn_masquerade fills, partly because I too saw that lipstick and wondered, and partly because it just hits everything I like in a PWP…

Like a music that holds my hands down by Saltandbyrne

NC17, 23k

Perpetually-single pediatric dentist Jared lets his best friend Misha talk him into going to an anonymous BDSM party. Jared hooks up with a gorgeous stranger, but panics after their encounter and leaves before he can learn more about him. A year later, Jared is stunned to recognize Jensen Ackles as the father of one of his new patients and the guy from the best one-night stand of Jared’s life. With some encouragement from Jensen’s co-parent Danneel and Jared’s plucky office manager Genevieve, Jared realizes that he and Jensen might be perfect for each other after all.

I loved this. This is a combination of seriously hot bdsm kink and a rom-com - and it works so, so well!

Retrain by nerdypastrychef

NC17, 31k

Jensen Ackles wins teenage submissive Jared Padalecki in a poker game run by Stephen Amell. Jensen doesn’t know anything about being a Dominant or taking care of an abused kid but he can’t let Jared go, he has to help him learn who he was meant to be.

Maybe I’m biased because I beta-read this, but I am a sucker for protective Jensen and this fic has that in abundance!

Tempting Jensen by hpjk_addict

M, 53k

England, 1815

Jensen is an extremely pious young man. He is determined to live a life of purity, devotion, obedience and self-denial, devoid of all passions, pleasures and diversions. His one and only ambition is to become a clergyman. His mission in life is to atone for his mother’s sins that broke apart his family and caused his father’s death when he was a child.

However, his plans are irrevocably ruined when his guardians’ son, Jared, returns. Jared disrupts his daily life, disturbs his peace of mind, makes him feel things that he has never felt before and challenges all of his notions about himself. He overwhelms him with his liberal touches, embraces and caresses, makes him blush at his unabashed nakedeness, makes him laugh, teaches him to enjoy life outside his studies and gradually seduces him into his bed.

Following his desires for the very first time in his life, Jensen agrees to accompany Jared to London in order to explore their forbidden relationship that, should it become public knowledge, will destroy them both – unless, of course, Jared’s past affairs, youthful indiscretions and a terrible secret that he intends to keep from Jensen will tear them apart first.

Beautifully written regency J2 - what more could a girl want.

All that is gold by cherie_morte

NC17, 24k

AU: Jensen is an elven prince. All his life, he's wanted nothing more than to prove his worth to his aloof father, King Alan of Gnaven. When an attempt to impress the king by battling a gryphon goes wrong, Jensen thinks he’s as good as dead. Instead, he awakes in the home of a strange man named Jared who lives in an abandoned village alone. Despite saving his life, Jared has no love for Jensen or his kingdom. In order to convince his reluctant host to let him stay until his wounds have healed, Jensen offers to share a magical gift: a bard’s song. Jensen’s song wins him Jared’s esteem, but as the two grow closer, Jensen learns secrets about his father that force him to question his loyalties and change his kingdom forever.

One of my favourite fantasy aus this year.

Offering by Shayleas

NC17, 160k, check the tags for kinks/enticements

Jensen is straight, thank you very much, and set on his conservative Texan future with the girl of his dreams. But after accidentally seeing his college roommate naked, his straightness comes into serious question. As for Jared, what is a gay boy supposed to do when someone as hot as Jensen decides to experiment with him? Definitely not fall in love.

I rec’d this last year, but as it was finished this year I’m cheating and including it again. Quite simply the best J2 fic I’ve ever read, absolutely heartbreaking at times. Put a weekend or a week aside and read.

This, and My Heart, and All The Fields by Nisaki

NC17, 19k

Jensen is assigned to escort Prince Jared to his friend's wedding in another kingdom. He doesn't expect himself to be in the middle of a conspiracy, neither does he anticipate falling in love with the prince.

This wasn’t written for me, but it could’ve been, it hits all my favourite things so perfectly. Older, somewhat grumpy Jensen who is enchanted by rayofsunshine!Jared is probably my all time favourite J2 fic trope, and coupled with an excellent plot and steaming hot sex, it makes this a last-minute must-read addition to this year’s list.

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