Just for Fun - Oblivious Changes (A J2 Story)

by Dgray3994

So, what happens when life throws you a curve ball? Like say, stranded on the highway with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles? This story is pure fiction but can you imagine how much life could change from one little encounter? We're all made up of small oblivious changes that one day turn your life upside down.

38. One Foot in Front of the Other

One foot in front of the other – Cari

I looked up at them, both men and their knowing grins and that alone told me whatever I had rattling around in my little brain was perfection fine with them… tomorrow, which was okay with me because I needed a drink. Jensen moved to sit beside me on the couch, which I happily made room for to accommodate his body, but he had other ideas and just pulled me up on his lap instead. Jared, who had been at my knees, holding me down as if I might fly away, shifted so that he was sitting against the couch on the floor, close enough so that I could play with his hair.

It was Misha that was missing and after the day we had, I was not surprised. With the whole talk about being more than friends, I would hope that he had rushed home to his wife, though a two-hour drive in this kind of weather was pushing it if he was rushing. I placed my head on Jen's shoulder and the three of us sat there quietly just for a little bit. The boys seemed lost in thought, letting their minds deflate from this bitch's plans and I was quietly scheming, until there was a knock at the door.

Jensen looked at Jared. Jared looked at him and then at me.

"I'm not moving!" I stated quite blatantly and curled up more again him, which made Jared smile before he placed that large hand on the sofa, shook his head and made his way over to the door. With a deep breath, he opened it and in walked the bitch in question, she was holding a script, pretending to look down at it as she made her way up the steps, right past Jared.

"Sorry to bother you guys but I have this one quest…" she stopped when her eyes came up and looked at me, and I mean looked right at me, but I placed a hand on Jensen chest and ran it up to his shoulder, his arms coming around to firmly hold me in place, "well, I see that my assumptions about the two of you were right?"

"I'm sorry," I whispered, not to her but to Jensen as I slowly moved my legs, shifted my body on his lap, something I knew would get an instant reaction from him and his hands went straight to my waist as he spread his legs so I could sit between them on the couch. One hand moved from me, the knuckles sliding up my spine where she couldn't see, until he huffed, completely muffled by said hand. "You had a question about what?"

"Do you always sit with your co-stars like that?" She asked, not missing a beat as she came in and Jared closed the door, because… hello we weren't heating the outside.

"Like what?" I smiled, and glanced back at Jensen. "Oh, you mean on his lap?" I stood, bit down on my lip and felt the one that remained on my hip try to grasp for my belt while the boys said nothing because I knew somewhere on her was some sort of recording device. "Only when I totally have a meltdown," I stated, as I approached but stopped less than two feet away, because, let's face it, any closer and I would have punched her, "you know, after some nobody walks into our space and throws an ultimatum on the table."

"I never said it was an ultimatum," she smiled her perfect smile and I scanned her over, looking for that cell phone. Jared cleared his throat, which caught my attention first and his eyes went to the small of her back. He knew what I was doing, and I gave him a nod when she turned to look at him, as if she had forgotten he was there. "It was a heavy suggestion that you couldn't refuse."

"Guess what," I grinned and heard Jared moan, his eyes closed, his hand went to his face. "I'm refusing."

"What?" She questioned.

"What?" Jensen mimed as I heard him sit forward. "Cari…"

"Are you insane?" Jared asked. Man, did I love when these boys played improv with me.

"I don't do things on other people's terms," I smiled, looking her over as she stared at me in disbelief. "You want this, you do it my way."

"You're way?" She laughed, "I think you're the one with the least amount to lose."

"Oh, my dear, dear Alexis," I whispered, so softly that it was almost… almost affectionate. "That's where I think you're wrong."

"So what are your terms," she shifted uncomfortably under my gaze and I couldn't help but smile, oh my God did I grin because as much as this was such an unexpected turn of events, it fit so perfectly into my plan.

"Ut-uh, you said tomorrow, first scene, so… you don't get anything until tomorrow," I whispered as I stepped up closer and ran my fingers over the lapel of the fed threads she was still wearing, "first scene."

With that I turned and moved back towards Jensen, who still looked a little confused but accepted me back on his lap with open arms. I leaned my head on his chest and felt his arms move to lock around me. This could all end tonight, this whole thing could suddenly blow up in my face, but I felt him turn his head, breath in the scent of my hair and slowly let that breath out, as if everything inside him just relaxed.

Alexis stared, but I didn't let her eyes go, even as I felt his lips kiss me gently, and his arms hold on tightly. She huffed, turned and walked passed Jared almost as quickly as she entered. And I held my breath waiting to hear her slip and fall on the snow outside BUT no such luck.

Jared turned, rubbed both hands through the scruff on his face and walked over, sitting on the coffee table right in front of me. "So, exactly what happens now, because the cat is out of the bag if she goes to anyone else."

"Well, if she was recording, like I think she was, nothing was said except that she had given Jensen an ultimatum on set, and I don't agree to her terms, so this all falls on her." I shrugged and sat up, sliding off his lap again. Jensen was surprisingly quiet this whole time, even as I reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone. Jared looked at it questioningly as I pressed the light and gave him a smile. "I was looking for her phone, no one hides it unless they really want to get away with something. Mine has this neat little thing about the light going off for a screensaver, no matter if it's on a call or not, so recording our conversation wasn't going to light up my pocket, but I knew hers would so when she hid it, I pressed record."

"Wait, I thought you said recordings weren't admissible if the other party didn't know." Jensen rattled off as he sat forward.

"In court," I shrugged placed it down on the table beside Jared and took Jensen's hand. "I don't intend for it to go that far."

"So what now?" Jared sighed.

"Well, cast call is at eight, right?" I glanced over at the clock and sighed, before I looked at them. "Why don't we go out?"

"You wanna go out," Jensen questioned, confused, "in public with a maniac guest star on the loose?"

"You have a better idea, Ackles?" I grinned and turned to him, watching his eyes move to my lips then back up again. "That's not an idea, that's a given, doesn't mean that it has to happen right now."

"Jared, close your eyes," Jen smiled and reached for me, pulling so quickly that I was suddenly on my back, on the couch with him between my knees. "I have been away from you all day, it certainly does mean it has to happen right now."

"Okay, I'm going to go watch from the kitchen," Jared laughed, not keeping the little secret he had very secret anymore, "because up close, you just don't get the full view on it."

I smiled at him and shook my head, before I felt Jensen's fingers brush over my cheek and I turned my attention to the green-eyed man towering above me. I let my lips part as I reached my hand between us and grasped the bottom of his shirt, running my fingers along the naked skin of his waistline.

"We should call Danneel," I said softly as he brought his lips down, gently brushing mine and my body did the only natural thing it could as I arched up against him.

Jensen hmmed as he continued with his gentle brushes, but that was before his hips pressed down and his hand moved up my shirt, thank God it was on the side of the couch away from Jared's prying eyes, not that I minded the Moose watching but the things I wanted to do to Jensen right there. Screw this, little kisses were not going to get me anywhere and I removed one hand from the warmth of his skin and gripped that little bit of hair on top of his head, pressing my lips up.

I knew what he needed then, and he was just waiting for the okay to do it. He needed that hard kiss, the one that told him it was okay, that said I was really there and wasn't afraid of the woman in the suit, the monster that threatened us, the one that I had a plan for and just as his tongue decided to slip between my lips and invade, as I let the taste of the beer he was drinking and the scent of his cologne fill my senses, I heard Jared moan over at the kitchen counter.

Good for him, I thought to myself, nothing in this family should be held back, not even something like what he needed, because tomorrow was going to be something altogether insane.

Jensen was wrapped around me in only his boxers, warm legs and arms tucked under and over me and I could have stayed there all day but there were phone calls to be made and plans to be hatched. Slipping out from where I was in the covers, I leaned down and kissed him as I slipped on a tee-shirt, then his soft flannel that I decided that I was stealing for the day, one that smelled like him and gave me courage before I hopped into my jeans and sat on the bed to pull my socks on. He took a deep breath, reached out and grabbed the back of my jeans.

"Really?" he whispered, "now?"

"It's the agreed upon time, Jen, so that we can make sure it's all straight, and yeah, I have to go now." I groaned and turned around, climbing over the bed so that I straddled his waist and pinned those stubborn arms to the mattress above my head. He looked up at me with sleepy green eyes and sighed. "You know, one of these days, when you come in with that ridiculous red-stripped tie on, I'm going to use it to strap you to the bed and do what I want to you."

"Promise?" he questioned, and I sunk down lower on his hips, sliding the soft material of the sheets across him, as he moaned.

"I swear," I smiled, and he closed his eyes tightly. I saw that tongue peek out from between his lips and quickly leaned down to kiss him and capture it, ravishing him with a kiss to take his breath away, and it work, and got him flustered.

I moved I released his hands, moving over to kiss his cheeks, to run my lips along his skin and when I glanced up from where I stopped, just over one of his hard nipples, I noticed the way he was biting his lip, trying to hold in the noises he was making, even as he panted through the breaths. With a smile, let my tongue flick out over the small, hard nub and his body clenched. Oh this was going to be fun.

I moved slowly down, taking the sheets with me the lower my lips traveled and suddenly his hands were tangled in my hair, not yanking but giving him something to hold onto as he let his legs spread so that I could rest between them, my knees tucked under me. I spread my fingers wide as I let them run over his hip bones, sought out the way they curved towards where I wanted to be and I licked up the length of him, drawing a groan from him.

I loved his noises, the way his hips moved up when I wrapped my fingers around the base of him and slowly twisted upwards until I hit just under the sensitive head. Looking up at his face, what little I could see because his head was thrown back giving me the view to only catch the bottom of his jaw.

"Jensen," I whispered, my hand moving back down, gripping tight and stroking just enough to draw a breath out of him. He tried to look at me, his eyes blown wide as I smiled, "up on your elbows." I love how he listened when he was at the mercy of my hands and propped himself up on his elbows, even with how much they shook. "Don't look away," I whispered as my tongue came down and licked at the tip, getting his teeth to suddenly clench, "promise."

"Yeah," he whispered softly, giving me a light nod of his head as I licked at him again before taking the top of him into my mouth, "oh God!"

His hand gripped into my hair as I began to move, sliding up and pressing down as I sucked in my cheeks. The little ohs and ahs were enough to make my own eyes roll, and the heat to begin to build. I loved to make him shake and it did wild things to me, which was probably the worst thing to do to myself, but hell, if it was going to make Jensen feel good, then I was all for the torture.

His body shook as he began to swell, especially when my nails began to run along the sides and under his tight balls. Those little noises became huffs of air as he tried his best to hold on but soon, I could feel the tightening of his hand in my hair and I knew it would be long.

"Wait, wait," he sighed, and I moved just as he clenched his teeth and the first pulse ran though him. He caught my eyes as I looked up, his lips parted as his free hand grasped the comforter, twisting it into a knot between his fingers, and he stared at me until the last rope was spent and slowly he let out a breath. "You are fucking amazing."

"Couldn't let you go to work without some sort of memory of me." I smiled back, both of us well aware of the man in the next room. I licked my lips, loving the taste of him, but I made a quick trip to the bathroom for a warm cloth and set it gently in his hand as I leaned down to kiss him. "I'm sorry I have to go."

"It's okay, I can hear the car outside," he replied but grabbed a handful of my shirt, "go and come back because I owe you the favor and so intend to make it worth your while."

"Hmm, I like the sound of that," I grinned as he kissed me solidly before letting me go, "I love you."

"I love you too, now go." He whispered, kissed me once more and I slipped out of the room.

I thought I was going to make it out of the trailer without any issue, but when I saw Jared asleep on the couch, I just had to stop. He had passed out after a few glasses of wine just before Jensen and I had snuck off to the room and apparently never made it to his own bed, so with a sigh, I sat down on the coffee table across from him for just a moment before he opened one eye, still droopy with sleep.

"I'm mad at you," he mumbled.

"Why?" which I could only be curious about.

"I heard you and Jen in there," he said like a kid pouting. I smiled, leaned over and kissed him softly.

"Jealous much?" Jared snaked his big hand into my hair and pulled me too him, to which I slid onto his lap, straddling him as he kissed me just as thoroughly as I had kissed Jensen. "You taste like Merlot," I mumbled between his kisses. "I like the taste of your tongue."

"Fucking flirt," he whispered as I moved off him and grabbed my boots. "I needed that to get through this. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle Jensen."

"You kiss him like that," I smiled licking my lips as I pulled on my coat, "and he'll be so breathless, that he'll be putty in your hands."

"Gross, but…" Jared smiled as I leaned down once more, "Good luck."

"Oh, me and Yorkey have an understanding," I winked, "Trust me, I'm not the one who's going to need the luck."

"Just be careful," he whispered as I grabbed his hand as he pulled me down for one last kiss.

"Always, Tallman." I smiled and moved away, glancing into the back room before I disappeared out of the trailer.

I climbed into the car that was idling just a few spaces down and closed the door behind me, snapping the passenger side belt before I looked up at Tom, the man who always seemed to be assigned to me.

"You sure you wanna go off lot to do this?" He asked as he pulled through the gates.

"Tom, I'm absolutely, one-hundred percent sure that this needs to be done in Surry. So if you're okay with this, I'm totally cool with it too." I winked and reached over, turning off the Christmas music as we headed towards the main road.

The cutest damned spot in Surry to catch coffee and a bite to eat Be'Wiched Café, was relatively quiet at that time of the morning, but it was the smirking face of the writer that was the best thing to see. He had a script in front of him and obviously someone on the line, so as I pulled out the chair, all I had to do was look him in the eyes to know it had been done.

"You wanna look it over?" Steve grinned.

"Did you get in everything we talked about?" I smiled.

"And then some," Davy Perez' voice spoke up and I leaned down to the phone.

"I love you, Davy, but you give me too much leeway." I laughed and heard him blow me a kiss.

"Anything for you, peaches." Davy laughed.

I licked my lips and looked up at Steve before picking up the steaming cup of coffee the waitress had dropped off. With a small grin, I brought it to my lips. Yeah, this was going to be fun.

I wanna be your end game – Jared

"I don't like this," Jensen growled as we stepped out of the makeup trailer, heading towards set. First stop first, concessions where we can get Groucho another damned coffee.

Cari wasn't back yet, but there had been a knock on the door not long after she left and Rachel, one of the new PAs had handed me two new scripts. Jen had barreled out of the room, thinking it might have been Alexis, but he stopped as I waved the papers around.

With just enough time to fire up the coffee makers, the two of us looked over the script in shock, and I laughed as Jen nearly choked on the sip of coffee he managed to get down before he ran a hand through his hair.

"God damn, she did it." He mumbled as he looked at the page, a wide smile on his face, "she managed to get them to change it the day of shooting to something… well, that's freaking amazing."

"Well, she said she wasn't going to let us ruin our reputations, right?" I shrugged, not surprised but then again, I hadn't gotten to where he had in reading it yet. "Any of our lines changed?"

"Nothing, just like she said."

SO, here we were getting yet another cup before we made the hike to the small on-set location in the back of the lot. It was a small room that they had used before, something that everyone changed around to become something different and I wanna say at one point it had even been part of the angel's offices in season… well, any season with the angels because it had been switched too many times.

As we walked through the doors, Jen and I both turned at our names and watched as Misha rushed up on us with the paper in hand.

"What the hell is this?" He questioned and the two of us smiled. "Seriously, this was all her?"

"She said she didn't want us involved," Jensen replied raising his hands, "I've learned that when she wants something, she usually gets is and well, you can't argue with a force like that."

"You just don't want to argue because it might cut off some of your playtime." He pointed out and I couldn't help but laugh because the smile that moved up Jensen's face as just priceless as he thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Pretty much, yep." He grinned and walked ahead, but Misha stayed back with me, completely oblivious to the fact that I was thinking about the night before, the make-out session on the couch and some of the little kisses I had been able to steal before they had disappeared into the bedroom.

I think I need a shower.

"Jared?" Misha snapped and I shook my head, took a quick drink and raised my brows.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm good." But, I don't think Misha believed me.

"So what's the plan in all of this? Just let her go headlong into it and sit back hoping she won't be the one to get fired?" Misha, always the protector, was pissed. I placed my hand on his shoulder and took a deep breath.

"Do you trust her?"

"I trust her with my life… not to have a clear enough head to not do something monumentally stupid when it comes to the three of us, no!" he growled out. "Seriously, I thought the two of you would have more common sense to try and talk her out of this."

"Oh, trust me, we did, but she got a few other people involved and it just kind of blew up." I sighed.

"Other people, what other people?" I glanced around at the crew who were moving quickly to get the first scene set up and I would be lying if I told him I knew who.

"Just trust her, Mish, please, she's not going to do anything that's going to take her away from us." I watched as his shoulders squared, but he sighed and relaxed in defeat.

The stage was set Dean had gotten out of the restraints, Sam was up and moving around, blow for blow they were taking on Alexis but the powerful whatever she was had Dean knocked out in the corner, and me, unfortunately, up against the wall… getting choked, again!

Cas comes in mid-fight as I get tossed around like a rag doll, but the angel and the monster were now facing off together, as I shook my fogged head and Dean slowly comes out of his unconscious state. Blow for blow, it seems an even match, until the Monster Alexis pulls a blade, trying to stick Cas but it's blade for blade now and Alexis is moving Cas into a corner (this is actually not a bad play-by play). Cas goes down, being tossed back as Alexis (cheater) uses her powers to send him flying back against the wall. She stands over him, blade poised to come down on his chest and she's about to strike when Nic suddenly appears.

The angel blade pierces Nic's side, but the demi-arch does nothing but look down at the annoying thing like it was a toothpick. She looks up confused, as if she wasn't sure what she had stepped into, scanning over all of us, before watching Dean's eyes go wide.

"Nic," Jensen whispered, but it was the only thing that was said the whole time, until Cari looks up at Alexis.

"You're looking for me, I assume," Cari asks, irritation evident as Alexis backs away, but Cari steps forward, pulling the blade from her side. "Who are you and why are you looking for me? Better yet," she looks at me and Misha before stopping to stare at Jensen, "why are you touching my family?"

"You're the Nephilim?" Alexis is in full character and she said this with disbelief. My heart is pounding, this is where Cari had acted, this was what changed the whole scene, this was what decided what was going to happen next.

"And you're the monster that threatened my friends." Cari growled, and damn if it didn't make me shiver this was almost as good as watching her and Jensen sneak little make-out sessions in the back room.

AND we're fighting again, just the girls, but it was a really hot thing to see. We were waiting on the cut, the call that we needed to move onto the next, but there was nothing coming, Cari went at it like she truly meant it, not hurting Alexis at all but this small bit of fighting took just as much choregraphing as the fight between us did, but it was the next part that stopped us dead. Cari snarled, and you could definitely hear it, before she wrapped her small hand under the base of Alexis' jaw. In that one moment, in that small span of time, my eyes opened wide and I watched as Cari really got angry, but she smiled at pure sex grin that Jensen loved so much and she brought her lips crashing down on Alexis as she took the fake blade and right at the perfect camera angle, plunged it into the monster's heart. She follows the body towards the ground but holds Alexis there.

The kiss was raunchy and deep and sexy as fuck but when they called cut, Cari let go, moved her lips away, let her hand ease as she slowly brought her cheek to cheek with Alexis, her face away from the onlooking crew and I heard her softly whisper.

"You still want in?" The shock on Alexis' face was pure and I couldn't hold back the smile on my face. Jensen wasn't sure if he was coming or going, just leaning against the wall staring at his girl, the bold smile across her face. Alexis stares, its all she can do, until Cari looks up and winks. "First, you have to explain to him," and that was when I followed her gaze as Jim walked onto set, "why you're giving Jensen an ultimatum, you see why I may be the one with the least to lose, it also make me the most dangerous to mess with. So, just remember who saved your career by stopping this from happening."

Cari stood, stepped back and I watched in awe as Jim came to stand by our little demon to look down at Alexis. "Your agent is on the phone in my office, shall we have a little chat?"

Alexis stood, looking totally confused before she glanced at all of us and walked off set with Jim by her side. Cari licked her lips and just grinned a small little sly smile that had me wondering what was going on in her head.

Jensen was up just as soon as they cleared the area and Cari was off her feet before I could even get to mine, his arms wrapped tightly around her, but there was no kiss, just the biggest smile I had ever seen on his face.

"You scared the crap out of me!" Jensen scolded as he put her down on her feet.

"I told you I had it handled." Cari laughed as she looked back at me, "you trusted me, right?" All I could do was roll my eyes because I had been scared to death that we might have actually lost her, but with a deep breath, she put the best pout on she could, before she glanced back and forth between us. "You know what, I don't need your approval on what I do, I'm just gonna do what I have to, which right now is, lunch," and with that she glanced up at Jensen, "you want in?"

"What I want is to never hear that phrase again," he groaned, and I died laughing because he was totally Dean for that few seconds. "But lunch with a beautiful demon, count me in."

"Me too," Misha gushed and came up behind her, wrapped his arms around her shoulders and hugged her from behind before all eyes landed on me.

"Yeah," I sighed, "Yeah, okay, let's go do this, I'm starving!"

Jensen wouldn't leave her alone, I mean seriously wouldn't leave Cari's side. Something about the day was still bothering him, even when Jim came back and brought us all into the office to explain that he had ever so graciously allowed Alexis to bow out of the storyline. (She was actually set to not die in this episode, but with Davy and Yorkey's quick rewrites, we were now one monster short, not a big deal on the storyline for the next week). He had assured us that nothing of the incident or the ultimatum was going past those doors but he kept Jensen for just a while longer, and something about that bothered me.

When Cari and Misha took off to do another scene alone, something about Nic and Cas "family meeting time" I was finally able to corner Jensen.

"Dude, what's going on?" I had let him pace for what felt like a half hour in the trailer before I just couldn't take it anymore, but Jensen didn't stop moving, he wouldn't until I reached out and grabbed his arm. "Talk to me, Jen."

"He knows," the man huffed out and I think I almost passed out, the room actually started to spin, "he knows about me and Cari, he knows about you and Cari, fuck, I'm pretty positive he thinks he knows something about Misha and Cari too."

"So, he knows, what did he say about it?" I was trying to be the level-headed one here, even as my heart thumped so hard against my chest that I swear I was going to have a heart attack.

"Nothing." Okay, so that stopped me and apparently by my facial expression, Jensen felt pushed to go on. "He just said he knew and that… to be careful."

"That's it?"

"That's enough, don't you think?" Yep, full-on Jensen panic mode in three, two… "If he knows than others know, Jar, this is too much, too much!"

"Okay, so are you going to break it off?" I shrugged.

"WHAT?" he stopped pacing then, "no, why the hell would I do that? I love her."

"Send her home?"

"Are you on some sort of drugs, no I'm not going to send her home?" I smiled as he got defensive.

"Refuse to do scenes?" Pushing the line, I know.

"Jared, did you hit your head?" And that was when I smiled.

"I don't know what you're so worried about," I grinned… grinned, because Jensen in a frenzy was actually kind of comical. "Jim isn't getting rid of her, he just said to be careful, right? And I sure as hell would never let you break anything off with her, especially now, I mean she's coming for Christmas."

"I know," his mouth moved after that but there weren't any words, until he had switched his footling like ten times, "I'm just scared."

"So am I!" I closed my eyes and breathed, "but we still have her, YOU still have her and apparently, she's badass and isn't going anywhere."

I watched that grin come up on his face, that little shy one he did when he thought of her and suddenly he was licking his lips, because that was just what Jensen did, and I knew I had him.

"She really was, wasn't she?" The grin turned into this look of pride. "And that kiss."

"Hotter than fuck!" I moaned, cause when is the girl you just want to have wrapped in your arms taking charge not hot?

"Wow," Jensen laughed and for just a moment, I saw Dean.

"You good?" I shook my head, still in awe of the dumbstruck look in his eyes.

"Yeah, real good."

"Come on, we have to head to set," I grabbed a piece of gum just as a knock came to the door and Greg stuck his head in. Jensen only gave him a thumbs up before the two of us were out the door.