I'm so glad that you've all liked this! I'm also so sorry that this took me so long! I had to think up something for the zoo. Lol. I always made a tiny little back story to that promise Dean mention before. I really hope everyone likes this; cause I loved writing it!

Kinda wish I could do this to tell the truth!

Thanks to Freefall for the review:D I'm glad you're enjoying it!

May 2

By: chocolate rules

Part Three

Sam reached his brother's side and looked over at the closed gates. Of a zoo. A zoo…

Behind him his friends, Dennis Cohen and Mike Clayton, too arrived and looked the gate over. All three of Stanford's finest looked over to their 'leader'; the "what the hell are we doing in the zoo?" hung unsaid in the air.

Dean smiled at the clueless trio. Then, looking into the gates himself, smiled at a familiar shadow.

"Now, you boys behave, and watch the master," Dean smirked over at them.

Before anyone could question him, a flashlight shone over to him. The shadow became a person and the person became a noticeable woman.

Sam looked over to his brother, saw the smirk, and groaned.

"Dean…"

"Hush, Sammy," Dean said over his shoulder as he pushed off of the wall and walked the last few feet to the gates.

"Well, well, well, gentleman." The security guard said over to them. "Take a wrong turn somewhere? This here Zoo is closed."

Dean shrugged as she leaned over by him.

"You alone tonight?" She rolled her eyes.

"Me and about a thousand of the world's finest."

"Cool!" Dean smiled even wider. She laughed at him as he turned over to his group.

"Guys this is Amanda Wallace. She's the zoo's night guard." Turning back to her now, Dean clapped Sam on the back. "Mandy, this is my brother Sammy, and his friend, uh, Thing One and Two." Dean shrugged.

Sam rolled his eyes at his brother.

"This is Mike and Cohen," Sam said instead pointing each out. "And it's Sam."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Dean said waving him to silence. "So?"

Groaning, Mandy pulled the keys from her belt and unlocked the gates.

"I can not believe that I'm doing this," she muttered as she opened the gates.

Dean ushered Sammy in first and then the other two, coming in last. After Mandy relocked the gates, he took her face in his hands and gave her a deep kiss.

Sam groaned and looked over to his friends. They in turn were watching Dean with amazement. Walking closer to them, and further from the duo, he leaned down to speak to them.

"Guys, don't encourage him," Sam whined.

"Encourage," Cohen said with disbelief. "Like he needs any."

"Well, no, but it really doesn't help me any either."

"Man, is it your day, or his? Cause my money's on him. Look at him."

Dean broke off of the kiss and winked at Mandy.

"Oh, yeah. That's way. That's a good reason."

Dean nodded and then headed over to Sam as Mandy caught her breath.

"Dude, what was that?" Dean shrugged.

"Free entrance?"

"Do you even know her?"

"Who? Mandy?" Sam gave him a 'duh' look. Dean shrugged. "I know her name. I know where she works. Oh, and that she has this really neat tat on her ankle with this really neat dragon."

Sam glared at him, which was just the trigger to set Dean off to laugh.

Mandy collected herself and then walked over to the group.

"Well, now that that's, um, settled. You're all still up for this? I mean, it's quite a request. Not that I'm here to handle requests. So this is it, I'm done and we're clear after this right?"

Dean smiled over at her.

"That what I said?"

"Yeah, that's what was agreed." Dean smirked.

"Okay then," Dean shrugged. "So, we're off for next week?" Mandy blushed.

"No, that's already set. Just, ugh, shut up Dean."

Mandy walked past them and then told them to follow her.

"Dean?" Sam asked as he stepped up over to him.

"Whassup?"

"Um, what the hell are we doing here for starters? Where'd you met someone in California, bikers and a girlfriend? Dude, that's so unlike you! Oh my God, you have a second life!"

Dean looked over his shoulder at is rambling kid brother. Where'd this kid get these things? What, like he'd never had a girlfriend before…well, okay not really. And he can go to California if he wants to, too.

"Dude, don't you remember?" Sam looked at Dean like he had just grown a second head.

"Remember what?"

"Great, I go through all this and you don't even remember. I knew I should've headed to Vegas instead."

Sam snorted. He shook his head at his brother.

"What are you even on, man?"

Dean winked over at him and stopped short, causing Sam to walk into him.

"This is what you wanted right?" Mandy asked.

Sam looked over to see what she was referring to.

"The Marine section?" Cohen asked from behind him.

Sam turned over and looked at the odd look that his friends were giving him. Then, he returned that look and even passed it on over to Dean.

Dean smiled over to Sammy and then nodded at Mandy.

"Yeah, here's fine. Thanks, babe." Dean gave Mandy another deep kiss, quicker this time before ushering the guys into the section.

Sam looks around and sure enough, his brother has led them to an aquarium.

Turning around, Sam gets a look at his two friend's faces. If he's clueless, and he's known Dean all his life, then he can only imagine what they must be thinking.

"Uh, Sam man?"

"I don't know, Mike," Sam responded with a shrug. Sometimes, he learned it was easier to just roll with it when it came to Dean.

"Guys! Don't worry," Dean scoffed at them as he walked past them and further into the animal regions of the zoo.

"Where we going?"

"Sammy, if you can't remember, I'm not sure I should've come all this way man."

Dean's all just talk, Sam knows this, but really like he hasn't fallen for less.

"You mean you would've missed my birthday?"

For all the likes of him, Sam knows that came out childish. Really childish. But in truth, out of eighteen years, he hasn't spent one, not one, without his big brother.

"Yep," Dean replies. Turning his head, however, Dean gives him this look that lets Sam know he wouldn't have missed this day for all in the world…

"Jerk."

"Bitch."

…And they both know it.

After a minute, they come up to the actual aquarium. Dean winks over to them as he pulls the door open and walks into the building.

"Woah! Wait a minute!" Cohen calls out, having not moved to follow Sam's brother into the dark building.

"What's wrong?" Sam asked.

Cohen scoffed as if Sam was asking him to go skydiving with nothing but the grace of God.

"Well, don't know about you, but the whole think that we've sneaked into a zoo and now into a conveniently unlocked door to an aquarium sounds a hell of a lot risky to me."

Sam thought about it for a second. Sure, what Cohen was saying made sense. It was really risky, but apparently Dean knew the security guard and they had worked something out.

Not to mention that for an eighteen year old, Sam was more accustomed to the ways of his brother than to trying to think his own way out of situations. In short, he followed Dean. Not that that was a bad thing, mind you, he liked following his big brother. People always reacted differently to him. And he had a knack of doing some of the most fun things in the world without ever get caught really.

"Yeah, that's just you. So, coming?" Sam asked back to Cohen with a smiling.

Not waiting for an answers, Sam turned back to the building and walked into the awaiting door..

"Ah man, what the hell have we gotten ourselves in?"

Not knowing to answer that, Mike shrugged and then followed Sam into the building.

"Maybe I should call my patrol officer or something." Not that this would matter much in traffic court.

Dean smiled as he saw realization hit Sammy's face. As the youngster entered the room and looked at his surroundings, the 'promise' hit him.

"Dean? You serious?"

"No, Sammy," Dean replied rolling his eyes. "I brought you all this way to taunt you. Well?"

Bouncing on the heels of his feet, Sam gave the room another pass looked behind him as Mike and then Cohen entered the room.

"Gear up boys, we're going in!"

Dean led them over to the employee locker room and pointed out the wetsuits. Sam was even more surprised to see that Dean had even gone through the trouble of finding a wetsuit that'd fit him.

"You guys can gear up best you want," Dean said pointing out the snorkels, flippers and caps and other things around the room.

Dean pulled on his own pair of wetsuit shorts, that he had previously bought and used and left there – but they didn't need to know that. He and Sam were dressed within a minute, being used to dressing quickly and just from Sam's excitement.

"Ready?" Sam nodded. Dean grabbed a preset bucket of fish and led his brother back over to the tank.

"Done this before?" Sam asked curiously as Dean walked with a trained ease over to the tank full of dolphins.

"Would you be mad if I said yeah? I know this is more your thing than mine."

"That's so cool," Sam smiled at his brother.

When Sammy had been eight, they were living in Florida and one of his classmates had been bragging about a birthday party in Sea World. Sam was a sucker for all animals, but dogs and dolphins were his favorite. He had been hoping that his father would let him go, Dean would be allowed to come along he'd made sure, but they had had to leave a few days later.

Sam's birthday had been the following month and he had yet forgotten the incident. He had thought that it be so cool to be able to swim with dolphins, but there was no way that his Dad would be able to spend all that money necessary to allow him just an hour of play with them; they couldn't even really afford the ticket into one of those places.

So, Dean being the awesome big brother that he was, and still is, he promised his brother that before he was 21, he'd find a way to get him in to swim with dolphins. Twenty one seemed like forever to Sammy, but he had never known his brother to fail on a promise, so he knew that he would get his gift.

Nine years later and while he had forgotten clearly Dean had not.

"See, this one," Dean said as he bent down to the tank. A gray dolphin with particularly long snot came to greet him. Dean placed a fish onto her offered tongue and pats her head. "This is Lila, she's very playful. I think she likes me best."

"Those are Winston and Ronen. Don't ask." Dean quickly said, knowing what he thought of the names. But he came to know that the names meant 'joy' and were named after a little girl.

"How can you tell?" asked Sam as he came you to sit besides his brother.

Dean shrugged. He didn't want to confess to coming every other month to check on the kid. And he really didn't want to tell his brother that he really liked the little flippers.

Behind them, Mike and Cohen finally left the locker room. Mike had been convincing Cohen that they really should just go with it. Sam's brother seemed to have a connection with the zoo security and they'd be fine.

So he hoped.

"Wow, so this is…huh…we really…"

Cohen's not one for words.

"Isn't this awesome?!" Sam piped up as he placed a fish into Ronen's approaching, opened mouth.

"Dolphins? We're swimming with dolphins? That's your, what dream?"

Okay, so he was pretty verbal at times. Didn't matter, not like anyone really listened anyway.

"Hell yea!" Sam said as he watched Dean toss another fish into the air and Winston leap up for it.

"Well, you just gonna sit there?" Dean asked down to him, seeing as he stood up so he could toss the fish further back to Winnie.

Before Sam could answer, Dean took a forward dive into the tank. Laughing, Sam looked over to see his friends shouting at Dean. They'd soon enough learn how useless that would prove to be.

"You guys coming?" Sam asked as he pushed himself up to his feet.

Cohen scoffed. There was no way that he was jumping into that pool with those animals in them. Who was he to say that they wouldn't attack him or something?

Besides him, Mike looked like he was considering it. He liked to swim. It was fun to free himself in the water. He had nothing against animals, except really annoying ones. Like dogs that only barked at the dead of night. And bugs, god he hated bugs.

Sam, having heard no response, shrugged and prepared himself to dive in. Just as Dean popped back out of the water, gripping to Lila's back fin, Sam emerged into the wet sanction of his dreams.

Dean watched as Winnie followed his brother into the water. Sure enough, the two met in the water and after a moment, Win offered his fin to Sam. Smiling he waited until Sam joined him above the water.

"So?" Dean asked, treading water to stay besides Sam, even as Lila tried to nudge him into playing.

Sam smiled back to him. His eyes lit up in childish wonder and joy.

"Awe-some," Sam stuttered out. Ronen nudged Sam's head and whistled for him to move. As the oldest dolphin, he was the one to stand back and check out this new stranger before he let his guard down to play.

"Welcome, lil bro," Dean said, swimming over to Ronen.

As he expected, Ronen followed him underwater and swam around Dean for a minute. Then, as if he had a human timer, he came underneath Dean and swam quickly up to the surface. Dean was pretty good at holding his breath for at least three minutes, more was really pushing it, but around Ronen he called the shots. And to Ronen, you didn't need to be under for more than a minute. That was just that.

Dean came back to the surface, looked around and found Sam. Lila and Win both were playing with Sam, literally. While Winnie spat out water to him, Lila kept nudging him around. Dean smiled as he watched Sam try to out smart the duo. As he felt Lila come back, he sank into the water and had Win spit at Lila.

"Nice one, Sammy!" Dean called out. Grabbing out to Ronen's fin, he let the dolphin tug him to the rest of them.

The pool was pretty big, housing all three animals, and so it always fascinated Dean that the three stuck so close together. Like a family. He had long decided that he was Winston and Dad was protective like Ronen. Kinda funny to think of Sam as Lila, but their gentle was and untamed energy – it really was a perfect match.

Dean looked up to see Cohen shaking his head at Mike and heading back to the locker. He knew that Dennis Cohen was a little pansy, but come on; dolphins? There was nothing to be scared of. Not like he would let Sammy anywhere near the animals if they proved to be dangerous.

"Hey!" Dean called out to Sam's friends. "You girls changed for a fashion show or you gonna put them suits to use?"

"Yeah, come on guys! It's my birthday!" Sam said using his leeway. He really was having an awesome time, and he'd love to see his friends' loosen up.

He especially liked seeing Dean being so playful and carefree.

Mike shrugged at Cohen, clearly planning on leaving his friend dry. Mike came up to the edge of the pool, a little away from the swimming group, and dove in.

Cohen stood by, watching the them play three with three. He really didn't want to trust these animals. And he'd never been such a great swimmer. The smallest area that he could find on the pool was 8 feet.

Dean shared a look with his kid brother. Surely, Sam wanted his friends in on the fun too. Mike was having a blast with Winston and Ronen had just warmed up to Sam.

Sam nodded. He wanted Cohen in on the fun too. They both moved slowly to the edge of the pool and then, before Cohen his eyes they were out.

"Wha-? Sam?"

But Sam was just smiling and really into the moment. Plus, he had Dean as a motivator and influence and that was never good. He was way too used to just following his brother's lead.

Oh well.

Cohen was lifted easily from the floor between both men.

And promptly dropped into the water.

"Happy Birthday, Sammy-boy," Dean smiled at his now eighteen year old sibling.

Then they both took a step back and dove into the water.

Does this need more? I was going leave this as a one shot, lol, so I really don't know what to do next. Unless you guys really want more? Who am I to stop you ;)?