The Seahorse: Master Post
Title: The Seahorse
Pairings/Characters: Jensen/Jared, Jared/Chad, Jensen/Tom
Rating: NC-17 overall for sexual content and boys getting knocked up.
Wordcount: 36,211
Warnings: MPREG.
Disclaimer: This is a work of FICTION. None of this actually happened. This is totally not made for profit at all and is not meant to harm anyone.
Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki do not endorse unprotected sex while under the curse of Egyptian fertility gods.
Thanks: causeways and rejeneration for betaing. ignited for art. wendy and audrarose for doing this whole Big Bang! For a full list of acknowledgements, go here.
Summary: For spn_j2_bigbang! Everything is going fine for Dr. Jensen Ackles, a successful 3rd-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Grace's Heart hospital in San Francisco. But when a 22-year-old art student shows up at claiming he's pregnant, Jensen is completely certain he's crazy. After a bunch of tests, a sonogram and a bizarre story about having invoked the wrath of a ram-headed Egyptian fertility god, it turns out that Jared Padalecki isn't joking: he really did get knocked up! And when Jared insists on having an OB-GYN of his own gender, Jensen's long stretch of successfully not falling for one of his patients is finally at an end.
Prologue: Swimming in Gray
Pseudocyesis || Perinatology || Syngnathidae || Areion || Prolactin || Fry
Epilogue: Cradle You in The Palm of Me
Art by the amazing ignited is interspersed throughout the fic, but check out her Master Art Post here for even more great extras!
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Download the 98MB zip here! Also includes the front and back art by ignited!
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Credits:
Story by memphis86
Art by ignited
The writer wishes to blame most of this on watching re-runs of Scrubs. All medical/scientific mistakes are her own.
Poems cited in the epilogue: "Father William" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll. No copyright infringement is intended.
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Acknowledgments:
First of all, thanks goes to the maintainers of spn_j2_bigbang, audrarose and wendy! Thank you for running and coordinating this, and always being there to answer any questions. You guys rock! And wendy, you kind of already knew this was for YOU, right?
Thank you ignited, for the AMAZING art, and for putting up with my nagging and bouncing. I still love you like Dolphins love tiaras and buttsex and their trainers love candy and Barack Obama, or something.
Thank you everyone on the Seapony filter, for being so excited and encouraging! And for letting me spam you and helping me stay motivated to finish this.
Thank you balefully for being part of the writing party and the last-minute medical info; thank you tvm for your mpreg cherry; thank you smidgy06 for being a guinea smidge, thank you karmicunderpath for the cracky manips and the cowboy on the seahorse; thank you loony_moony for those EEEE noises; thank you regala_electra for helping me work out the summary at the last minute and for the purple seaponies of AWESOME and the dodgeball jokes and the constant encouragement and support; thank you dark_reaction for trying to dissuade me and sending me a pregnancy primer which actually backfired in the end because you inspired me to write Dr. Ferris that way and thank you for my ill-fated bet; thank you kashmir1 for the encouragement as well as unintentionally putting the image of seapony!Jared in my head with your S1 picspam; thank you hkath for the song and the constant squee and encouragement; thank you mickeym for being an awesome part of SPN fandom and showing love to the Big Bang writers and artists on your flist; thank you thehighwaywoman for the flower and the lovely thoughts; thank you Penguin for letting me flop and not teasing me to death when I awkwardly explained Big Bang to you.
Thank you rejeneration for the pre-beta, and that you did it without me ever asking! You gave me a lot of encouragement and things to chew on, and I hope you like how it turned out. Your e-mails always make me smile. I really do hope you know just how wonderful you are for this fandom, and as a friend.
causeways, catjihad, katja-dee, holy cat war against fishes, merrin's braintwin, KELLY. Whatever you're calling yourself these days. This fic really would NOT exist without you. Thank you for the times spent on IM, listening to me go nuts. Thank you for having me send you nightly updates, which literally SAVED this fic when my harddrive went kablooey. Thank you for the song, Sea Legs, which really did help me make up my mind to write this! Thank you for pretty much GIVING me the summary. Thank you for the laughs and the CRACK and the distractions and the writing parties and the snippets and the check-ins! Thank you for the amazing beta, really whipping this fic into shape and letting me vent on you when I was having the crappiest day EVER and I was coming undone. Thank you for being MEAN but like, 90% right about everything. Even though I had to send people away to have their babies in Nepal. THANK YOU.
(Therefore, it's all your fault when I get kicked out of fandom for writing EPIC MPREG.)