Title: Misspelled
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Categories: AU, humour, urban fantasy, magical accident, romance.
Length: Medium (9,000 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: cleflink
Author on AO3: cleflink

Summary:
Jensen's not sure what he did to deserve getting magically bungee-corded to the most inept witch he's ever met, but he's more than willing to start apologizing if it'll get Jared off his back. Pretty literally, in fact.

Review:
I felt like something light and fluffy this week, and J2 fandom provided. This is an entertaining little tale that throws us in at the deep end by starting with a furious Jensen finding himself stuck to his kitchen wall as if gravity had just turned sideways. It turns out that this is because Jared, a co-worker he vaguely recognises, botched a spell. Which, apparently, is nothing new.

This story seems to go in for the iceberg principle of world-building. Setting up a convincing world with functioning, publicly known magic takes a bit of doing, even at this short length, and it's done largely by omission. Things that we done need to know aren't mentioned, and things that we do need are sketched in just enough to let our imaginations fill in the details. We know that Jensen and Jarod work office jobs, for example, and we even see Jensen at work, but the story never bothers to say exactly what their company does.

The same sparseness applies to the supporting cast. Only Misha gets anything like the screen time of Jared and Jensen, and he has the advantage of being a purple cat. Don't ask, just trust me that the characterisation is still great. The others only appear for their brief scenes, but still manage to be well-rounded parts in that time. We don't even get to see Chad, just hear Jared arguing with him on the other end of a phone line.

It's short and it's sweet, and it was a good thing to come across. Go, enjoy it yourselves.

Misspelled