50 First Dates - Date 20 ( I love this one)
Title: Date 20
Author: Gedry
Pairings: Cas/Dean
Rating: PG - 13
Word Count: 656
Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me. I am making no profit from this fanfiction.
Beta: None
Spoilers: none
Warnings: None
Summary: Written for 50 first dates - baby animal.
Date 20
The thing about working at the aquarium is that it’s never really boring.
Peaceful sometimes, tranquil even, if you don’t have Dean’s job.
Dean takes care of the penguins.
The loud, demanding, forceful, self-protective penguins and did I mention it’s mating season?
Well it is, which translates into meaning that Dean’s personal love life is reduced to jacking off in the shower for stress relief while desperately trying not to think about the noise that said penguins make all day long every day.
So yeah, it doesn’t sound like a big ball of laughs but Dean loves it. His little babies follow him around the enclosure like they’re waddling after their giant odd looking momma and he takes a lot of pride in the fact that his little colony is one of the healthiest in the nation. He works hard and it shows.
So it bothers him when he has to go tricking his first year parents by swapping out the eggs they aren’t incubating right. But the population needs to grow and taking them away from their parents for just that little while will help give these eggs a chance for a healthy start.
Besides, he puts them back when they are hatched. They won’t know the difference.
Of course, the new vet is hotter than hell too so that doesn’t exactly help Dean’s level of sexual frustration. Castiel Novak is new to the zoo, Dean’s barely spoken more than five words to him that aren’t directly related to the job and he’s pretty sure those five words were directions to the bathroom.
The guys good though, he gives Dean’s eggs a solid but careful once over and leaves Dean to do his thing. After all Dean’s the expert here.
Or eggspert as Gabriel teases him.
Everything goes down as planned until Dean gets to Zeppelin. “Come on little guy,” he whispers to the egg when it fails to hatch as scheduled. “Don’t do this to me. You can do this.”
“Dean,” Castiel says softly from behind him. “It might be time to let it go.”
“Look,” Dean snaps as he places himself between Novak and the incubator that’s heating Zeppelin up. “I get you have your vet thing. So why don’t you go do that? This is my territory and I haven’t lost a viable egg in three years. Today is NOT the day.”
Dean dismisses the other man then and spends the afternoon humming Led Zeppelin to the egg as the little being inside of it decides if it’s going to live or die.
He goes to take a break after the day staff goes home. When he comes back Dean’s shocked to find Castiel Novak hunched over the incubator with the door up as he shifts and tugs on Zeppelin for all he’s worth.
“What the fuck are you doing?” Dean bellows so loud that the trays stacked next to him clatter to the floor.
“He wasn’t going to hatch on his own,” Castiel says calmly without taking his eyes off the egg.
“So you decided to dispose of him?” Dean spits as he shoves in next to the vet to peer inside the incubator.
There’s a baby penguin in there.
“I thought he needed help,” Castiel offers with a shrug.
“You cracked his egg,” Dean accuses.
“I….encouraged him gently,” Castiel corrects. “He is a she by the way.”
“Well, damn,” Dean comments and shivers when Castiel’s hand slides over to brush against the back of his softly.
“Indeed,” Castiel chuckles before leaning into Dean’s side and sighing when Dean leans back.
Zeppelin regards them both as if she had it planned the whole time.