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caffienekitty ([personal profile] caffienekitty) wrote2010-06-30 12:22 am

SPN Ficlet: Important Decisions

Title: Important Decisions
Characters: Sam, Jo, Dean and Ellen
Rating/Warnings: GEN, PG. Humor.
Word Count: 655
Disclaimer: Not mine, no ownership claimed.
Summary: A response for [livejournal.com profile] maychorian's Birthday comment meme prompt; "Jo and Ellen run into the boys on a hunt. Afterward, they unwind with movies and pizza in the motel."
A/N: Not a lot of unwinding involved.



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Important Decisions
by CaffieneKitty
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"Olives!"

"No olives!"

"Guys," said Dean, holding a scrap of motel stationery and a pen up defensively. "It's not like we're only getting one pizza, one can have olives and the other one won't."

"No," Jo sniffed, sitting on the floor next to the TV and DVD player. "If they put olives on one pizza there is an eighty-five percent greater chance of cross-contamination. I do not want to ingest olive residue."

Dean sighed. "Fine. Sam, can we forego the olives?"

"I'm the one with the sprained shoulder, I should get priority in picking what goes on the pizza."

"Not my fault you're breakable," Jo huffed.

"Jo does have a point, Sammy."

"... fine." Sam hunched up against the headboard and very specifically did not pout. "No olives. I guess I'll have artichoke hearts instead."

"On pizza?" Jo grimaced.

"Oh come on! Am I picking on your dread fear of olive residue?"

Dean swung towards the only silent person in the room. "Ellen?"

"You all can leave me out of this." Ellen smirked around her beer. "I'll have a pasta or something."

"Okay, so far I've got two pizzas, no olives anywhere, one with artichoke hearts-"

"Ew."

"Olive-residue-phobe."

"Shut up."

"Oh no! Jo!" Sam gasped, wide-eyed. "I think there's some olives in the mini-bar! They might ooze on your beer!"

Dean snorted.

"Shut. Up. Both of you." Jo crossed her arms. "Olives are gross."

"Ignore him," said Dean. "He's a dick when he thinks he isn't getting enough attention."

"I am not." Sam shuffled awkwardly up the bed. "I only sprained my shoulder 'cause I had to push Jo out of the way."

"I could've taken it," Jo said, chin tipping up.

"Jo..." Ellen spoke, her voice holding a tone of warning.

Jo looked over at Ellen, then sighed. "Fine. Thanks for shoving me into a puddle and taking the hit, Sam."

Sam had taken up an intent study of the wallpaper next to the bathroom door.

"Sam..." said Dean, tone nearly matching Ellen's.

"Alright! You're welcome, Jo."

"There. All better now?" asked Ellen

Sam muttered. "I'd be better with olives on my pizza."

Jo rolled her eyes. "Oh my god, you are such a princess."

Dean barked a laugh.

"I'm injured!" yelped Sam.

Jo picked a bit of unidentifiable grue off the knee of her pants. "...okay, fine, one of the pizzas can have olives. And if I see an olive anywhere near my pizza, I reserve the right to freak."

"Fine. I'll take olives instead of artichokes then."

"Fine."

"Great," muttered Dean, scribbling on the notepaper. "One topping down."

Ellen drained the last of her beer and stood.

"You leaving, Ellen?" asked Dean.

"Nope. Since it's going to take you three about a year to figure out what you want on pizza, I'm going to the video store across the street and picking the movie."

Everyone spoke up at once.

"I want-"

"Ooo, that one with the-"

"But we-"

Ellen held up a hand. "Judging by this pizza ordeal, if you all go down and try to pick a movie together that everyone agrees on, there'll be a brawl. You guys get yourselves organized on the pizza soon enough, then and only then do you get a say in what movie we watch."

Sam looked at Jo. Jo looked at Sam. Dean looked down at his notepaper and smirked.

"Ground beef, tomato, feta and olives," said Sam.

"Barbeque chicken, banana peppers and mushrooms," said Jo.

"And Ellen's pasta. Done," said Dean, scrawling on the paper and democratically choosing not to gripe about the complete lack of pepperoni.

They all looked up at Ellen, who shook her head and smiled.

"Well, I guess I asked for it. Call it in, we'll have thirty minutes to pick a movie. No more."

"Should be plenty of time," said Sam maneuvering himself off the bed.

"This won't take any time at all, I know exactly what I want to watch," said Jo, aiming for the door.

Dean grinned at Ellen and held up his cell phone. "How about I call in the order from the video store, sometime around round three?"

"You know, I think that might be wise," Ellen said with a chuckle as they left the motel.

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(that's it.)

[identity profile] tehomet.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Lol! Olive-residue phobe. Thanks for a good read.

[identity profile] sxymami0909.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehe I loved this. Is it too much to ask for a follow-up? Hehe I loved the way you write all the characters interacting. Totally beleivable :-) great job! :-D

[identity profile] sams1ra.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Olive-residue-phobe."
*snorts*
Loved this!

[identity profile] samalander-dawn.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
hee!

I know EXACTLY how Jo feels :D

[identity profile] irismay42.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally love Dean and Ellen as the "adults" while Sam and Jo bicker like a couple of kids! Oh and olives AND artichoke hearts are disgusting on pizza! They should have gone with pepperoni!

[identity profile] malevolent73.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like an average pizza ordering night to me. LOL I drive the pizza people crazy with my "half this and half that" ordering too.

Great family chemistry here. Makes me miss them even more.

[identity profile] ciaranbochna.livejournal.com 2010-07-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome!! Now I want banana peppers damn you to hell:P I do have a hatred of black olives, so I understand Jo..lol Sam is a hilarious man-baby, mind you they all are when injured;)

[identity profile] charis-kalos.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
You posted this when I was packing for Europe and somehow I never got back to it til now. It's hilarious! I love parental Ellen and Dean making Jo and Sam play nice! And I'm completely with Jo on her olive-phobia. First thing I do when I get a Greek salad is remove all the olives, which kinda takes all the "Greek" out of it.

[identity profile] borgmama1of5.livejournal.com 2012-05-05 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
This made me smile :)

[identity profile] antrazi.livejournal.com 2012-05-05 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Reading stories like these make me happy that I live in a country where we don't do this half and half crap. Everybody gets their own pizza, with their own toppings, no cross-contermination possible. It makes things so much easier... ;)

[identity profile] auntmo9.livejournal.com 2012-05-06 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Omg! Even Jo thinks Sam is a princess! Loved it! Thanks for sharing at the Big Pretzel!