Blind Date ↳ Jared Padalecki

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NEW YEARS' COMES and goes, along with Jared and Emma's midnight kiss. They had spent New Years' Eve at some party; someone from Emma's office was throwing a huge get-together with lots of booze. It felt like a college party, honestly. Especially because the huge amount of alcohol they had  caused Jared and Emma to do a little more than kiss that night.

Now, a month later, Emma is on the Supernatural set again. She got off of work early and stopped by to watch Jared and Jensen finish up a scene. They haven't seen her yet, she's just watching silently as the two act together as Sam and Dean Winchester.

Emma loved watching them act together. It's different than watching them on television somehow. There's some kind of magic in it, in watching Jared and Jensen momentarily change into these other people, who are so different, yet also a little similar. If that makes any sense.

This particular episode really interests Emma. Well, she says that about every episode, it seems. This one has Lauren Cohan in it again, which makes Emma happy. She loves the character she plays— Bela— because she's kind of like Jensen's character, Dean. She's cool and badass.

In this particular episode, it seems that the Winchester boys are in need of some African dream root to get inside Bobby's head. Why, Emma doesn't know, she hasn't been here long enough to figure that out.

Another thing she loves about Bela is how much trouble she stirs up for the boys. She just finds it funny.

"Cut!" The director calls, finishing the scene. Emma lifts her head as Jared and Jensen break character with smiles on their faces. Jensen tilts his head and notices Emma. He grins wider, gesturing for Jared to look too.

The boys come over to her, Jared greeting her with a kiss, like always. "Hey," he says, happy to see her. She smiles back.

"I'll be right back, I'm gonna say hi to Lauren," Emma says quickly, notices the other girl walking away. The last couple of times that Lauren has been on set, the two have bumped into each other and started talking. They might be best friends if they had more time together. But Lauren seems to be a busy woman, and Emma also has her job.

"Hi, Lauren," the brunette greets her with a soft smile, tapping her shoulder a little. The English woman turns and her eyes brighten up at seeing the familiar face.

"Emma!" She exclaims, and then she puts her hands on her shoulders, pulling her in for a little hug. "Oh, it's so nice to see you again." Emma can't help but laugh a little.

"Yeah, you too," Emma replies as Lauren pulls away from her. "I didn't even know you were back. I thought the guys would have said something."

"Well, here I am," Lauren says. "And hopefully I'll stick around a while." Emma smiles a little, agreeing. She, too, hopes that Bela will be a reoccurring character for many seasons to go. "Are you busy right now? Because I think we're finished up here, and I was going to grab some food. If you want to join me..."

She raises her eyebrows as she suggests this. She glances over at Jared and Jensen. Oh well, they can wait. She sees them all the time; Lauren only comes around once every few weeks.

"That sounds great," Emma agrees, wanting to catch up with her friend.

•••

Later, after filling Lauren in on all the news, which mostly concerns her relationship with Jared, the two part ways, with promises to meet each up with each other the day after tomorrow, which will be the last day Lauren will be on the set for the current episode.

Emma feels a little badly for leaving Jared and Jensen out of the blue like that, so she goes back to the set. She knows that the boys are probably still working, and she hopes that they are not upset with her.

When she reaches the set, she hangs back and watches as Jensen and Jared finish filming. She checks her watch, realizing that it's a lot later than she thought it was. Boy, is she getting tired. It's been a long day, and she'd like nothing more than to lay down and take a nap.

The boys finish their scene and come over to her. "Hey, I'm sorry I left so suddenly like that, but I haven't seen her in a long time," Emma explains before they can even greet her hello. Jensen rolls his eyes a little.

"You know, most people wouldn't think of three weeks as a long time," Jensen tells her. "Three months maybe, but definitely not three weeks."

"I'm sorry, okay?" Emma tries again. Jared shoves Jensen shoulder a little.

"Yeah, it's fine," Jared tells her.

"Well, we're done here for tonight," Jensen says, looking at Emma. "Jared and I were gonna grab some burgers or something. You wanna tag along?"

"You know what, I'm kinda tired," Emma says. "I'm probably just gonna go home. But we can do that tomorrow?"

"Sure," Jensen says, nodding a little. As she turns, Jared grabs her elbow gently.

"Hey," he says. "Is everything okay?"

She must look worse than she feels for him to ask that. "Yeah, yeah, I'm alright. It's just been a long day."

Jared nods. "Okay. Try and get some sleep, you look tired."

Emma scoffs. "Okay, dad," she says jokingly. He smiles a little and kisses her head before she walks away. She blushes as she realizes that Jared could have made an inappropriate joke about what she just called him, but he didn't. Another reason she loves him.

•••

The next day, Emma actually has the day off, despite it being a weekday. So naturally, she tags along with Jared and Jensen and goes to the set. She exits the car when they arrive, along with her boys. As the trio approaches the set, Emma notices a familiar face in the crowd.

When she's sure who it is, her mouth falls open in surprise, her eyes wide. When the man turns to her, he smiles too.

"Oh my god, Richard!" She says excitedly. She taps Jensen on the shoulder to get his attention. "Look, it's Richard Speight!" She says in a hurried whisper.

"Yes, we know," Jensen says. "He's been here before, Emma."

"Did you know he was going to be here?" The brunette asks.

"Possibly," Jensen replies, shrugging. Emma walks forward and hugs Richard as he approaches her. The two laugh a little and smile.

"Is it crazy of me to suspect that you finally work here?" He asks jokingly.

"Really crazy," Emma says. "I'm just tagging along with these two, like always." Richard sighs.

"Emma, when will you start working on this show?" He asks, tilting his head to the side.

"When I learn how to act," Emma responds. Richard laughs at this. Emma remembers the first time he was ever in an episode, which was sometime last year, in season two. The two bonded surprisingly quickly in the eight days Richard was on the set.

"Come on losers, we got a long day ahead of us!" Jensen calls out jokingly from a few feet ahead. He must be heading to his trailer. Jared and Richard go in the same direction, leaving Emma alone.

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uGh I cringed, this sucks :(

Oh well, I think the next chapter will be better. I'm going to make it longer, and it's going to be more about Jared and Emma, I think.