Sorry this has taken so long to be posted, I'm just worried it's not good enough of an ending. And me and my iPad are having a fight so the formatting is not working.
That night there's a disturbance by the perimeter fence. The intern on nights, Jess, is called to the guard post. What she sees makes her gasp and chuckle at the same time. There's an adult Bengal tiger throwing rabbits at the fence from his mouth. It's almost like the tiger is playing with the animals. As the small blonde woman gets closer to the fence to investigate if the rabbits are alive or not she catches the attention of the tiger. The huge hazel eyes are breathtaking. She hasn't ever seen a wild tiger this close in her life. She has no clue as to why she sticks her hand through the bars but she does and the tiger growls then walks up to her hand. She pulls her hand back to her side of the bars as the huge cat approaches her, but the cat shows no real aggression.
She holds her hand flat against the bars as the tiger sniffs her. He sits on his hind legs as if a trained pet and waits. The young intern gets a crazy idea; she remembers Meg going on about how the Caspian tiger had a mate outside, maybe this was a tiger from that family as well. He did look passive enough after all. She unlocks the gates to the Caspian enclosure, leaving the perimeter gate for last and makes sure she's out of harm's way when she lets this huge cat enter the facility.
Sam chuckles at his inventiveness to get humans' attention. He does like the human that comes to investigate though, she smiles and smells nice, like trees and fruit. He waits while she runs off and comes back. As the gate opens he laughs to himself. Too bad Dean didn't think to just ring the doorbell?
Meg was none too pleased by Jess in the morning to find her once solo enclosure to now be overrun with Bengal tigers.
The new mysterious Bengal was much more docile than the Caspian's mate. He was tranquilized much easier. Meg had to bang her head against a metaphorical wall when she found out the new tiger was male as well. The interesting thing was the interaction between the two Bengals.
Naturally male tigers are territorial and don't like other males in the area, yet in this interesting and very unique pride, family, it consisted of three adult males and no females. Meg does wonder how Saber (Dean) found Cas and also how this new tiger found them as well.
Meg sees the lab results from the new tiger and is shocked to see that the two Bengals are related and siblings by the genetics listed. She has to grin at the name the Vet gave him, Kato(masculine), apparently this tiger was huge, like 340 kilograms heavy, one and a half metres high at the shoulder and shockingly almost four meters in length. He was a monster in size.
Two brothers and a male mate, if Meg didn't witness it with her own eyes she'd never had believed the story. She has to laugh when a small bird lands by her while she sits on a zoo bench eating her lunch a few hours after getting the lab results. The bird drops pieces of paper and starts swquacking at her.
She picks up the four pieces of paper and looks at them. The first one says in different letter sizes and fonts 'Castiel', at first Meg thinks it's weird but she does remember seeing the same bird on numerous times sitting in a tree of the Caspian and Bengal's enclosure. She sifts through the other papers and laughs at the names on the others, 'Dean' and 'Sam' are on two but the last one is the oddest. It says the most, 'family and love forever'.
Dean was the most suspicious of the three on what was going on. Castiel was just happy that when he woke up after being tranq'ed that Dean was still in the enclosure, everything over and above that was good too, but Sam showing up and being led to them was awesome. Dean thought it was hilarious that he was tranquilized in of all places the butt and brought it up regularly to Cass' annoyed groans.
Meg knew she was pushing her luck proposing to the board of Directors that in order to keep the only known Caspian tiger housed at the zoo required that they house an adult orange male Bengal tiger in the same enclosure. When the second adult orange Bengal tiger showed up at the perimeter Meg knew it was too much. She was faced with a dilemma; the zoo already had a family of Bengal tigers, adult male, adult female and two female baby cubs. It was odd but understandable that the Caspian tiger would have a mate, but it was harder to explain to her bosses that the two males were a package deal and there would be no baby cubs in the future from the pair. Zoos are in the business of breeding and preserving endangered species and a homosexual pairing resulted in no genetic future.
The zookeeper was sitting in the Caspian/Bengal enclosure, listening to music on her iPod, eating her lunch, no meat just fruit when Kato(Sam) came wondering up to her. Most of the other zookeepers thought she was crazy for being in the habitats with the captive animals but she was only really worried to be in proximity of the smaller Bengal. He was napping in the shade or at least he appeared to be napping, but the way his breathing wasn't shallow like he was actually sleeping gave her just enough incentive to keep her mind on where she was.
The larger of the two Bengals was nosing his way into her lunch bag when Meg has an impulsive idea. She takes her oversized noise cancelling headphones off her ears and slowly puts them over the Bengal's ears and waits. It takes about ten seconds for a reaction and not really the one she was expecting. Meg couldn't help herself when the song 'Eye of the Tiger' started and she saw Kato or Sam, which ever, rummaging in her bag, which she made sure had nothing interesting to a tiger inside. She wanted to see what he thought of the song.
Sam paws at the offensive thing covering his ears and growls as it comes off. The noise coming from the black object is so torturous that he also feels the need to snort, shaking his head, hoping to get rid of the noise in his head.
Cas lifts his head to see what Sam is making a fuss about and laughs when he sees Sam snorting and making a scene in front of Meg. Dean gets up from his napping spot to investigate.
Sam waits for Dean to get close enough before he explains. "She has a torture device; it makes music and not my kind of music either."
"Really? Cool, what was it?"
Meg was laughing, enjoying the tiger's playful display at his dislike of her music choice when he noticed Saber or Dean, as she thought his name was, coming towards her. She unplugged the headphones, grabbing her bottle of water before retreating behind the gate. She watched the two tigers from the safety of the fence. After a minute of the two Bengals growling she notices the smaller of the two, Dean lean his head down and noses the discarded headphones. Now she's wishing she had enough time to grab those as well, her lunch bag is replaceable but those headphones were not cheap and now the aggressive tiger is most likely going to maul them to pieces in anger. Her curiosity spikes when she notices he's not destroying them but is trying to get his ear close enough to hear what Sam heard. She looks down at her iPod and chuckles, Sam's not a fan of classic rock but Dean might be. She runs to the offices and grabs her boombox, laughing at the look of one of the interns she passes.
She places the boombox speakers facing the tiger enclosure as she cues up the song. She cranks the volume to the maximum as she watches. It takes no more than five seconds for Dean's ears to perk up, he lets the headphones drop to the ground and roars. At first Meg thinks it's an angry roar but then she sees Sam walk to Cas and flop down, which is not typical for an aggressive defence. She looks back to Dean and laughs. If she didn't know that these tigers were from the wild she's said the tiger was dancing. His paws are clawing the Earth in time with the music. She puts the song on repeat just to see what will happen. After the second time the song repeats a few zookeepers come to see what all the noise is and join in the audience. It's Jess who suggests a different song just to see what the tiger does. Meg puts on a country song, 'God Blessed Texas', Dean snorts and lies down, but Cas bobs his head. Jess puts her iPhone on the dock and plays 'Heat of the Moment' both Bengals react to that song.
This display attracts a pretty good crowd and Meg gets requests to get the tigers to dance again the next day. She reluctantly agrees, thinking this feels like the tigers are like trained pets, performing an act for their dinner.
After nearly a week of discussion amongst the zoo officials a conclusion is finally reached. The Caspian tiger is a remarkable discovery but the cost required to keep the rare tiger is too high for the Russian zoo. Meg argued that separating the tigers would not end well; Cas would refuse to eat again. Luckily Meg got in touch with the World Wildfire Federation. They agreed to aid in locating a good area to relocate the very unique pride. Mostly the group was interested in the discovery of the thought to be extinct Caspian tiger and wanted to know if they were any more.
All three tigers were low-jacked with a small GPS microchip medically inserted under the fur between the shoulder blades. Even though tigers are quite unlikely to lead them to more it was still a possibility and that was what the WWF were hoping for.
