#rescues

Panels of Seonu and his two adopted feral big brothers

TW: blood. Spoilers below.

“I’m not here to babysit someone who’s dead weight.”

Title: Amateur Hour

Fandom: Supernatural Length: One-shot, 1366 words Rating: Teen Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester (Destiel) Challenge: Whumpril 2025 Prompt: Day 20 — “You’re next” Additional Tags: Canon-typical violence, hurt/comfort, casefic, witches, spells, BAMF!Castiel, smiting, rescues, kisses, established relationship, injured!Cas, injured!Dean, taking care of each other Summary: Dean wasn’t paying as much attention as he should have, and now he’s stuck listening to the world’s most mediocre witch have a burnout tantrum. If that wasn’t bad enough, Cas might be in serious trouble…

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This piece was written for the Whumpril2025 Day 20 Prompt: "You're next." Be sure to check out the other works posted & reblogged over at @whumpril!

We had an exciting visitor this week! My niece and nephews discovered this lost homing pigeon at my parents' alpaca farm, so they called me to help because I have a slight history with rescuing birbs. Mom gave it food and water and kept it in a dog kennel overnight (it was very very hungry!) We tried releasing it the next day since the tag suggested it was a racing pigeon, but it didn't seem to know what to do, so we brought it back in.

(Trying to help me with my editing, to limited success.)

But, happy day, I was able to contact the national pigeon racing organization signified on its legband, and they got me in touch with the area chapter referenced by the legband code, and HE got me in touch with the owner! The owner said this little guy was very young and got scared off by a hawk attack about a week ago (which explains the very small, healed-over scab on his neck). And he is from over an hour's drive south of here! We were both surprised he wandered that far! The owner was SUPER appreciative that we took care of him and made the effort to find the owner, and lo and behold, there is a pigeon auction he had been considering attending IN MY TOWN, so he asked if we could take care of it until this Saturday! All of us were super jazzed at this happy ending and I volunteered to keep the bird until then.

Also, when I asked the bird's name, he said it didn't have one yet. My niece was DELIGHTED when he said it would now be called by her name suggestion, Pedro! :D

Anyhoo, I took him to my house since I have dove food. He is very nervous and baby, but I have been loving on him to help keep him used to peoples. And my doves have been surprisingly accomodating (only going after him if he tries to land on their cage)!

(Compared to the doves he is a BIG BOY)

And all of this has also led to one of my new favorite bird pictures I have ever taken: