"Pass me another tampon."
Dean looked at Sam over the top of his bottle of beer. "Really?"
Sam nodded, looking so serious that Dean snorted before taking another sip. "Come on, Dean, if I let this go before the hot glue dries it'll fall apart!"
Dean glanced at the vaguely animalistic looking creation Sam was currently constructing from the mess of feminine hygiene products scattered about the TV room. Sam turned on the puppy dog eyes and he sighed, sitting the beer down and turning away from the mindless program he hadn't really been watching anyway.
"What size?" He asked, scanning over the mess.
Sam looked at his creation thoughtfully. "I need the legs to hold its weight…So give me a couple of the big ones."
Dean fished through the pile and pulled out four large tampons and passed them to Sam. "People must have thought you'd gone nuts when you were buying this." He commented.
Sam snorted, "I think they thought I was a very confused boyfriend."
Dean laughed, "Probably safer than trying to explain to them that you were planning on making a… What is this again?" He tilted his head, trying to make sense of the collection of glued together pads and tampons that Sam had been working on for the past half hour or so.
"It's a Porcupanda." Sam told him, nodding to the picture he'd printed from the GISHWHES website. "It's a panda with porcupine spines."
Dean picked up the picture. "Why?"
Sam shrugged, "Why not?"
Dean didn't have an answer for that.
"You can make the head, if you want." Sam told him as he continued attempting to get the thing to balance on its tampon legs.
Dean sighed, "Sure. Why not." He looked at the picture again, focusing on the head in particular this time. Then, he picked through a scattered packet of pads, occasionally holding one up against the body Sam had created.
They continued to work in silence for several minutes, with the occasional noise of frustration from one or the other as things didn't go as planned.
"Oh! Damnit!" Dean peeled a pad off his hand, having tried and failed to unstick it from itself when he'd make the mistake of folding it wrong. "These things are such a pain!"
Sam tried and failed to supress a laugh, and suddenly found himself with one stuck to the side of his face. "Hey!" He picked up a stray tampon and lobbed it back at Dean, hitting him square on the nose.
"Oi!" Dean threw it back, bouncing it off the top of Sam's head.
Soon both were laughing madly as pads and tampons and their various wrappers went flying around the room.
The mini battle came to an end when Dean's, thankfully nearly empty, bottle of beer crashed to the floor as Dean was dodging a tampon box. "Whoops…" Sam tried to keep a straight face…and failed.
Dean rolled his eyes. "I'll get the dustpan. You can pick up…all that." He waved a hand in the general direction of the floor as he exited the room.
That sobered Sam up and he sighed. He started pushing everything into a pile.
Once the clean-up was complete they sat back down to examine their progress.
Dean had collected a black permanent marked when he collected the dustpan and then mop, and used it to finish his panda head. "There you go." He said proudly, passing it to Sam to glue onto the front of his body.
Sam grinned, "Who knew you were such an artist."
Dean snorted and made a mocking bow. "It still needs spines." He commented.
Sam nodded, "Can you find where the small tampons went?"
Dean rolled his eyes, "You didn't think to put them aside?"
Sam shrugged. "They're…somewhere over there." He pointed to the pile he'd created from the mess on the floor.
Dean went hunting. "How are you going to make them into spines?" He asked, tossing a packet to Sam, who held up the hot glue gun in response.
A total of four packets were eventually glued onto the back of the thing, with the hot glue gun used to turn the strings into spines.
Dean stared at their finished product shaking his head slightly as if he couldn't quite believe what he had just been a part of.
For his part, Sam looked proud of their efforts. They'd done a surprisingly good job of matching the picture.
And with that picture number three was taken and uploaded.
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