"First Love Song"
Fandom: Gilmore Girl
Characters: Dean, OC, Rory, Lorelai
Time: Post-show; ref seasons 5 and 1

First Love Song

"Hey, you know what I think we need? A song. A song that's like, 'our song'. Oh, I know." Her delicate arm reaches across him to slip a CD into the player next to him on the nightstand."Okay. Perfect. So, from now on, no matter what you're doing, where you are, you'll stop and think of me when you hear this..."

"Candy-man! Caaa-andy maa-an!" He's not really paying attention to the static-y buzz on the radio until that song starts playing. Suddenly all of his attention is focused on keeping the car from swerving off into a ditch or veering into oncoming traffic.

"Woah, Dean! Watch what you're doing!" Barbara grips the old truck's dashboard and slams her foot down against an imaginary break pedal. "What the hell was that?" she asks after the truck is centered in the lane and cruising at the speed limit.

He deliberately slows down so the guy in the suburban behind him has to go around. "Nothing." He can feel her eyes on him, but he doesn't care at the moment.

"Candy-man!"

She watches a line of other cars fly by them and sighs quietly like she does when she's hit a brickwall with him, giving up for the moment. After a moment of silence, she sits forward and turns up the music, "Isn't this that song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?" Her hand fiddles with the dial trying to get the song to come in clearly. They keep talking about replacing the '98 Ranger, but it's never in the budget.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. "Something like that."

"You know," Barbara tries again. With all they have coming she's been trying harder than normal to reach him. "I always thought this song was super cute, but I never saw the whole movie. I think the Oompa Loompas scared me when I was little," she laughs lightly.

"My mom has a thing for the Oompa Loompas"

"I don't think finding them amusing constitutes a thing."

"No, but having a recurring dream about marrying one does."

"Mm," he grunts shortly.

Out of the corner of his eye he can see her smile fraying and with it the rope she been throwing out to him, desperately working to keep them together. "Did you never see the movie?"

"Who can take the suu-unrise, sprinkle it with dew?"

"That's not going to be our song!"

"Why not? It's perfect. It's happy, it's hopeful. It's got the word 'candy' in it. What is more hot than candy?"

... "something that will make us remember this.

"It was a long time ago."