This was so much fun ok. Moofy (@cocklestrash) and I walk up to him, our smiles sickeningly sweet, and I ask him “Would you mind wearing this snuggle for us, and smiling real big?” The music was playing pretty loud in the op room so I put a hand on his shoulder and leaned up to talk to him, which was cool wahoo~~
Jensen sees Moofy holding this mound of fluffy fabric, and asks “okay what is it….?” and Moofy hands it to him and he unfolds it himself to look at it. I was watching him unfold the blanket, but Bexy (@hufflepuffdean) and Mara (@sunbeamdean) were right behind us and tell me they were watching his face and he lit up and looked freakin’ adorable. I mean duh look at it. Moofy explains for emphasis that it is indeed a Castiel snuggie. I chime in, “Listen, we can tell you’re totally a snuggie person, so this is our treat to you.” He puts it on immediately, still smiling, and Moofy and I take our positions. Right before Chris takes the picture, though, I see Jensen shift from his smile to his usual I’m-too-cool-and-grumpy-to-have-fun-on-camera face.
Honestly this would’ve been fine, he does it all the time because he thinks it’s funny and I do too, but my gut feeling was “HEY we actually made him laugh and smile a lot and that was great so I wouldn’t be as happy with a grumpy picture, I want to remember this silly thing gave him a chuckle or two”. So I lean up and sass him a bit, saying “You’re not smiling” with a kind of stern/mock-horror twist to my voice. He immediately smiles again and shakes a little from chuckling. Whatever face I was making before, now I’m just trying so hard not to cackle at that. We take the picture, he peels the snuggie off, and hands it back to Moofy. I was going to walk away, but I wanted to make sure that that was indeed okay, so I look back and give him a thankful/apologetic thumbs up, but he’s all smiles and gives me a thumbs up right back and nods and says “thank you darlin’, you did great”.
Moofy and I leave the room and join up with Mara and Bexy after their op is done, and they tell us about how smiley he was at the blanket. Love this man.