Hello again everyone! Bet you didn't see this coming! :P I'm back with a slightly different story here, since I can't focus my brain on Four Letters right now. So enjoy Jack trying his hand at puns! (EVERYONE IS HAPPY, EVERYTHING IS GOOD.) Bit more of a Crack Fic, but if that's how it goes, that's how it goes. And it's not like it wasn't already.
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They were sitting around the main table in the bunker when it happened. They were all sitting around, and Gabe was talking nonstop, using vivid gestures. He was sitting on Sam's lap, and Sam had his hands wrapped tightly around the smaller man's waist. Cas had his head on Dean's shoulder, and the green eyed man was leaning slightly into him as well, a small smirk on his face.
"She was flirting with me, right? When I tried to tell her I was taken, she started to get nasty. And so I said, 'Woman, you're such a bitch! I'm a taken man,' and then I ran home to you, Sammy!" Gabe made kissy lips at Sam, who chuckled at the anticlimactic resolution to such a built up story.
"I guess you could say she was… barking up the wrong tree." Jack tried after a short silence, smiling innocently. He had just begun to understand idioms, and he was quite pleased with himself.
All other parties turned to stare at him, horrified.
"Which one of you taught him puns?" Cas was distraught.
"No, kid, just… no." Dean shook his head. "That's not how you do it!" Cas shot him an angry look, and his hands went up defensively. "What? I didn't teach the kid anything like that! It wasn't even that good of a pun!"
Sam frowned. "I think that's part of the reason Cas is so upset, Dean." They all turned to the trickster.
"What? Why do you all turn to me whenever something like this happens?" Gabe cried out, his hands flying up defensively as well. "I'm always the victim!"
"Because you're the only one dumb enough to try and teach the kid puns." Dean growled out.
"Fair point, fair point." Gabe frowned. "I didn't do it though."
"Kid, where did you learn-" Dean turned back to look at Jack, but he was already gone. "The hell-?" He muttered.
Sam shrugged.
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"Come on, Dean-O, stop yelling!" Gabe whined, his tongue sticking out as he clutched the wii remote slightly harder.
"I am in third, and you just expect me to calm down!?" Dean roared, trying his hardest to work his way back up the ranks. "I was in first, Gabe! First!"
"On second thought, maybe getting them Mario Kart was a bad idea…" Gabe leaned over, whispering to Cas and Jack.
Cas acknowledged this with a quick nod of the head, leaning over and patting Dean's shoulder, but Jack was zoned out, his focus rapt and on the TV.
Dean growled once more. "Ok, good. Back in first."
Jack smiled slightly, the power up block that he had just hit flipped to reveal a red shell. Dean saw it out of the corner of his eye, and he let out a string of curses, hitting another power up block. Coins.
"Shit!" He exclaimed as Jack shot him, racing on ahead of him across the finish line. "I lost again! How are you so good at this? You weren't even created yet when this game was made!"
"Geez Dean, don't be so pessimistic. If Jack is good at video games, just let it happen. It happens to all other fathers, you don't need to be so upset." Sam frowned slightly, even though he was slightly miffed as well that Jack could beat them all so easily.
"It's ok Sam, I understand. It's just in his blood." Jack turned to Sam, smiling that innocent smile again.
"In his… blood?" Sam was confused.
"Yes, Be negative." Jack sat there a moment, waiting for his pun to sink in. Maybe this time they would like it!
There was a chorus of groans from around the room, starting with Dean, moving all the way to Castiel, who put his head in his hands in despair. He had hoped to shield Jack from this life, but it seemed far too late for that. Two puns in two days, he knew that that couldn't be a coincidence.
"Jack, how did you do that?" Sam asked him, choosing his words carefully.
"Oh, I simply found a word or phrase that seemed to have a double meaning, and waited until the situation seemed fit to say it. I have been observing all of you these past few weeks, and seeing as you all seem to treat them as conversation starters and chuckle when they are said, I decided to learn how to as well!" Jack smiled at them, proud of himself. "The internet came in handy."
Dean rubbed soothing circles on Cas' back sympathetically as the angel tried his best to keep his composure intact.
"Ok, Jack. Puns aren't… funny." Sam tried to explain. "If people use them too much, or too often, they aren't received very well. People kind of hate them."
Jack looked at him in confusion. "But you, Dean, and Gabe use them all the time." He turned to Cas. "Even you, Castiel. You as well are guilty of this."
Cas hung his head in shame. "While this may be true, Jack, I hoped that you would not fall victim to this disease as well. I at least hoped you would be older."
"Huh." Was all Jack said. There was a long silence, and then, "Can we at least keep playing? I was on a roll."
"Jack!"
Jack let out a small chuckle, turning once more to the television. He didn't miss Dean muttering to Cas, "This is getting punbearable…"
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Jack was doing his best to make tea for Sam, who's throat was bothering him recently. He had boiled the water, and put the tea and honey in, just as Dean had instructed. Carefully, balancing the steaming tea in one hand, he made his way into Sam's room.
Sam looked up from his computer, sucking on a cough drop. "Oh, hey Jack." His words were slightly raspy sounding, and punctured by a small fit of coughing.
"I made you tea." Jack smiled sweetly, holding out the steaming cup for Sam to take. "I hope you like it. Dean said honey helps with coughing, so I put some in as well."
The hint of a smile tugged at Sam's lips as he took the cup, looking inside. "Thanks Jack, but I can't drink this."
Jack was perplexed. "But Dean and Cas insisted that it would help to battle your cold?" He spoke as if that sentence was a question, and Sam chuckled slightly before more coughing impeded his speech.
"Jack, when you make tea, you can't just put the tea leaves in." Sam explained. "When I'm better-" he coughed a little, "-I'll teach you how to, ok?"
Jack nodded slowly. "Well you know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, chai, chai again."
Sam stared at him, distraught. "Is it Gabe? Is Gabe the one telling you to do this?"
"No, I simply wanted to fit in." Jack looked him over. "I will prepare you a better cup of tea." Jack left the room.
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Cas and Jack were preparing lunch for everyone in the bunker, as they had been doing of late. Jack was pulling out lettuce for Sam's salad when Cas spoke. "I do wish that Dean would decide to eat healthier."
Jack turned around. Cas was staring at the calories on the back of the bacon in distress. "Well, you know successful diet hinges on mind over platter." The ghost of a smile tugged at his lips as he evaluated Castiel's reaction.
"Yes, but to get him on a diet…" Cas muttered, distracted. Suddenly he whirled around. "Wait a moment!"
"Yes?" Jack looked over at him innocently, pulling out tomatoes to put on Sam's salad.
Cas sighed, opting for the 'nice dad' approach. "What has possessed you to speak as such, Jack?"
"I was up late reading on the internet." Jack confessed, continuing to pull out vegetables. "I just want to be like you guys."
Cas smiled as Dean, Sam, and Gabe walked into the room. "Is that bacon I smell?" Dean grinned. "Yum. You're the best, Angel."
"Don't hog all of the bacon, Dean! Leave some for me!" the words were out of Gabe's mouth before he could stop them.
"Gabe!" Sam was aghast. "We said we'd stop telling puns!"
Dean finally sighed, giving in to the pun. "Stop your swining, Sammy."
Jack leapt on his chance, tacking on his favorite pork related pun. "Yeah, that's utter hogwash, and you know it!"
"Will everyone stop shoating?" Cas groaned. "These puns are really quite terrible."
"I am full of gilt. I'm so sorry, Sammy. I never meant for it to end this way!" Gabe added in dramatically, referring to the pun that started this all.
Dean blinked. "Ok, now all of these pig puns are flying over my head."
"A gilt is a female pig under one year old," Jack added in helpfully for Dean's benefit.
"Enough, please!" Sam cried out, distraught. "Did you forget about Jack?"
At least Cas and Dean had the courtesy to look guilty. Gabe just chuckled. "The kid's good at it Sammy. I don't see why we'd try and shelter him from it any longer. Cat's out of the bag. Hell, I don't think the cat was ever in the bag.
There was a moment of silence.
"I'd like my salad now."
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They were all gathered around the table, eating lunch. No one had spoken since, except some muttering between Sam and Gabe in the corner. Finally, Sam stood up, his fork with salad on it still in hand.
"May I have your attention?" Sam spoke out to them all, Gabe staying seated beside him.
"Sam, please, we don't-"
"No, Cas, lettuce speak." Gabe frowned at him.
Jack leaned over to Dean and whispered, "Yeah, well then it must be a big dill."
Dean cracked up laughing, leaning back. "I think you'd butter stop doing that, or someone's gonna get mad."
Cas gave Dean a mischievous look. "Honey, come on..."
"Please, give me thirty seconds!" Sam was ticked off. Finally, he turned to Gabe, doing the one think he knew would get their attention. "It's like they don't carrot all."
Jack, Cas, and Jack looked at him in shock. "Ok, you have intrigued us. Please, dazzle us with your pun laden speech."
Sam took a deep breath. "Frankly, I don't give a ham. You seem intent on raising Jack in a pun rich environment, and since I love olive you, I will agree to your wishes, on one condition." Sam paused. "Jack is the only one allowed to start the punning. From there, you can tack on any puns that you want, but it has to start with Jack. Fair?"
They all nodded and muttered, turning to Jack, who was grinning broadly. "Sam, that was an amaizing speech. Thank you." He looked around at them all. "And I want you all to know that olive you too."
Sam just smiled at Jack, shaking his head slowly. "I have got to say, Jack, you have got a real snack for these puns."
Jack hadn't grinned this much in a very long time.
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So that's it! I might add more in the future, (since I do have some ideas :3) but for now, have a great night! I hope you enjoyed! Please leave a review and let me know what you thought!
