Suptober / Flufftober Day 2 - Pumpkins and Porcupines
Still doing this thing (albeit WAAAAY behind). As soon as I stumbled on this video I knew he would have to be the star of today's entry.
This one is for Day 2 - Prompts:
Suptober: Pumpkin Patches
Flufftober: Family, Friends, Loved Ones
Entry is below as well as on AO3 as part of the October Days (and Nights) series.
Title: Pumpkins and Porcupines
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Tags: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Donna Hascomb/Jody Mills, Kaia Nieves/Claire Novack, Wayward Women, Harvest Festivals, Family Gatherings, Domestic Fluff, Animal Encounters
Summary: Dean is excited to take Cas to the Harvest Festival, but is also looking forward to seeing his two favorite lady sheriffs and their wayward girls. But there's an adorable prickly surprise waiting for them there, as well.
Words: 1,055
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3758800
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“Hey, there they are!
Dean squeezes Cas’ hand and pulls him through the milling crowds who, like them, had turned out for the first day of the annual Autumn Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Patch. He assumes Sam and Eileen are following but doesn’t turn to find out. Keeping up — that’s all on them. He’s here for two things: pumpkin apple pie, and having a fun day with Cas.
Okay, three things: seeing his two favorite lady sheriffs (and the gaggle of girls — well, women, now — with them). “Donna! Jody!”
Donna turns and Dean stifles a laugh at the dusting of powdered sugar on her chin, the source being the large plate of fried dough in her hand. Mouth and hands full, she pops out an elbow and nudges Jody, who squawks as the cup of hot apple cider sloshes in her hand and just misses spilling. Donna nods in their direction and Jody beams as she spies them.
“Dean! Cas!” Passing the cider to Donna, she strides to meet them and wraps them both in a hug, the strength of her grip all but forcing the air from Dean’s lungs. She may be small, but she is mighty.
She glances over Dean’s shoulder and pulls back from the hug with a raised eyebrow. “What, no Sam or Eileen?”
“They arrived with us,” Cas explains, “but I believe Eileen saw something of interest in the craft vendor’s area and pulled him in that direction.”
Donna joins them, balancing the plate of dough on top of Jody’s cup to wipe the sugar from her face, then passes both to Jody to hug them both herself. “It’s good ta see ya, Dean-o. You too, Cas. It’s been too long since we’ve seen you fellas.” She pulls back, her smile wide and bright as the sun. “But no matter, you’re here now!”
“Oh my God, are you holding hands? Gross.” Dean can’t help the smile as Claire comes up behind them. She punches Dean in the shoulder and then shoves herselt between them, pulling Dean into a sideways hug; then sliding under Cas’ arm to wrap her arms fully around him. Dean’s heart clenches at the soft, startled look on Cas’ face as he returns the hug, brushing his lips against the top of her blonde head.
“Wow… Claire, showing affection like a functioning human being,” Alex says as she, Patience, and Kaia join the group. “Someone get a picture, quick.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Kaia says, crossing her arms. “Claire has no problems hugging me.”
Patience snickers. “Yeah, there’s a reason for that.”
“Yeah, yeah, you can all shut the hell up now.” The effect would have been a lot different were Claire’s voice not muffled by Cas’s shoulder, releasing him to glare at them over her shoulder.
“Anyway,” Alex says, “we came over here to find out where Claire ran off to, but also…”
“Oh, right!” Claire grabs Cas’ hand and starts tugging him toward the pumpkin patch. “You guys absolutely need to come see this!”
“See what?” Dean says, just as Sam approaches and says “See what?” at the exact same time.
Dean’s eyes roll as Jody nudges Donna, laughing.
Patience glances between them, confused, but shakes it off. “The porcupine.”
“Excuse me, did you say ‘porcupine’?” Cas asks, taking the words right out of Dean’s mouth.
Claire nods excitedly and starts tugging his hand again. “Yes, a porcupine and he’s amazing.” With a shrug, Cas lets Claire pull him toward the pumpkin patch, grabbing Dean’s hand to pull him along with. Over his shoulder as he’s being pulled away, Dean sees the rest of the group following with bemused expressions that are probably reflecting his own.
It’s not too hard for Dean to guess where they’re headed — a group of people huddled at the far corner of the pumpkin patch around one of the bales of hay that had been set out as both seating and barrier for the large array of pumpkins available for sale.
And from that bale of hay came the most adorable noise Dean had ever heard — something between a whine and a growl mixed with munching noises.
“I think Teddy Bear found some pumpkins for Halloween,” a woman says as they approach, Dean peering over Cas’ shoulder to see a large porcupine sitting on the hay bale, a small black plastic cauldron filled with tiny pumpkins in front of him.
“What did you find, Ted?” the woman asks, and Dean swears he hears the porcupine say “Pumpkin!” in his little whine-growl.
Apparently he wasn’t hearing things. “Dean, did that porcupine just talk?” Cas turns to whisper and Dean quickly shrugs to both answer the question and shake off the shiver Cas’ breath on his ear raises. He’s not completely convinced yet — it’s a porcupine, not Scooby Doo, after all.
Talking or not, Claire was right, Teddy was completely adorable, chirping and munching away on his pumpkins. Not that Dean was ever going to admit it out loud, though.
“Yum yum?” The woman asks, and Teddy says “YEAH!”
“Dean,” Cas whispers urgently in his ear, causing a fresh bout of shivers with accompanying goosepimples. “He’s definitely talking.” Cas squints suspiciously and its adorable. “Is he possessed, do you think?”
Dean’s laugh bubbles out of his chest, and he pulls his hand out of Cas’ grip to wrap an arm over his shoulders and pull him close. Claire glances back at them and her eyes all but roll out of her head, whether the open cuddling going on or at Cas wanting to smite a porcupine, Dean can’t guess.
Just to spite her (and Cas is right there, after all), Dean brushes a kiss against his temple and grins inwardly at the quickly-masked soft smile on Claire’s face as she quickly turns back to watch the porcupine.
The spiky little guy continues to munch on his pumpkins, chattering away as Dean glances around him, at the friends and family gathered around him. The love of his life in his arms, his brother by his side wrapped in the arms of his own love. Donna and Jody arm in arm with their girls wrapped around them as well.
A warm, happy feeling floods through him and he savors it, as much as Teddy Bear the Porcupine savors his pumpkin treat.
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