Author's Note: I have issues. I don't know why the hell I wrote this when I have all these other fics to do. I just can't help myself. I ran around all day with my nephews and niece in 90 degree weather shuffling them all over the artist's open air market in the park and downed a pound of kettle corn, and now I can't sleep. I write when I can't sleep.
So, uh, Lucille/Wayne for the win, I guess.
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#01 - Walking
When they walk together, his arm gingerly wrapped around her waist, Lucille can't help but think he's adorable.
#02 - Waltz
He closes his eyes and remembers the feel of her petal soft hair against his cheek as they waltzed, and it gives him strength to do his job now.
#03 - Wishes
The first time she wrapped her arms around him, his first thought was he wished the embrace could last forever.
#04 - Wonder
She can't help but wonder what a smart, handsome boy like Wayne sees in an overdramatic Theater Club student like herself.
#05 - Worry
Wayne doesn't worry about people hurting him or his Patrol – just Lucille.
#06 - Whimsy
On a whim, one day, she weaves flowers into Wayne's hair, and he's too nice to do anything but smile.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
He'll never tell her about the darker side of X or the cases from there that haunt him.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
Wayne only drank the vile stuff to impress Lucille's overly hill billy father; he chokes on it repeatedly.
#09 - War
When he discovers the Theater Club has organized a water balloon Civil War reenactment, he immediately knows 'Theater Club' is code for 'Lucille'.
#10 - Weddings
"If we got our parents to sign this, we could get married right now – Wayne, darlin', why are you staring at me like that?"
#11 - Birthday
There's something to be said, Lucille's father thinks, for a young man who shows up to his girlfriend's birthday in a tuxedo.
#12 - Blessing
Wayne isn't sure how to earn the blessing of Lucille's family, but after the marriage comment, he's not so sure he wants to.
#13 - Bias
Maybe she's just biased, being from the South and all, yet Lucille can't help thinking Wayne's Northern accent is adorable.
#14 - Burning
Lucille and Wayne met in an incident involving five lollipops, a shampoo bottle, newspaper, and a burning barn.
#15 - Breathing
Her breath always catches in her throat when he looks at her with those smoldering brown eyes and speaks to her in a low, quiet voice that only she is meant to hear.
#16 - Breaking
He has never been sure how to vocalize how broken he felt under the Patrol Sheriff's rule, but when Lucille takes him in her arms, he's sure she understands.
#17 - Belief
Wayne doesn't particularly like her church, but it's hers, so he won't say a word.
#18 - Balloon
"A water balloon war isn't a proper date," he informs her, smiling despite himself, "It's just a totally awesome one."
#19 - Balcony
She roped him into the school's rendition of Romeo and Juliet – guess what parts they got!
#20 - Bane
For Christmas, she got him a shirt that says 'Shakespeare; the bane of my mortal existence, 'tis.'
#21 - Quiet
When he's most serious, he goes silent, and that's when his lips and hands and heart say the most to her.
#22 - Quirks
Her entire wardrobe is filled with dresses, giant sunhats, sandals and dramatic scarves.
#23 - Question
"Are you…" his jaw dropped, incredulous, as he glanced between his best friend and his girlfriend. "Are you jealous of Fillmore?!"
#24 - Quarrel
In the South, most fights end with the guy throwing the girl out of the house, but they aren't most couples and he runs out with tears streaming down his face.
#25 - Quitting
She quits being angry within, literally, seconds, and tackles him to the ground, pressing gentle and soothing apologies all over him in the form of kisses.
#26 - Jump
Fillmore cannot stop laughing for ten minutes when he finds out Wayne has entered into a jump rope competition with Lucille, and Wayne's face doesn't stop being red for a good five minutes after that.
#27 - Jester
"I'm not playing that part!" he insists, although privately, he does like the hat.
#28 - Jousting
"What's mattress jousting, and why is it illegal?" Lucille had asked, reading over Fillmore's file; she hadn't expected Wayne to take her by the hand and call in the rest of the Patrol for a public demonstration.
#29 - Jewel
The night after their first fight, she finds a silver ring with her birthstone sitting on her porch, along with a note saying 'I'm sorry'.
#30 - Just
She can't stop thanking him for taking the Patrol Sheriff down, but he always shrugs it off as just being the right thing to do.
#31 - Smirk
He's normally a good boy – then he smirks, his eyes twinkle and you had best get to runnin' now.
#32 - Sorrow
It's the only emotion she has a hard time portraying onstage.
#33 - Stupidity
Whenever she starts to get mad at him, she looks down at the ring on her finger and decides not to repeat her past stupidity, even if it means letting him win all the arguments.
#34 - Serenade
How Fillmore talked him into this, Wayne thinks as he hauls the boombox closer to Lucille's window, he'll never know.
#35 - Sarcasm
"Oh, yeah, I totally think you and Ingrid are just friends. And Lucille and I hate each other," he adds, rolling his eyes for emphasis.
#36 - Sordid
Wayne helped turn Fillmore around who helped turn Ingrid around who helped turn Malika around, but only Lucille knows that someone had to help him turn around from his sordid past before he'd even met Fillmore.
#37 - Soliloquy
'The Soliloquy of the Greeks' is such a lame, long winded play that Wayne feels he deserves an award for sitting through it.
#38 - Sojourn
The best days of his life have been spent on Lucille's front porch, talking about everything and nothing.
#39 - Share
One day, Lucille brings a bucket of ice cream to school for lunch and they share it with all their friends, laughing and flicking ice cream soup at each other.
#40 - Solitary
When Wayne says 'I need some alone time', what he means is 'I need to go listen to music and stare at the ceiling for an hour'.
#41 - Nowhere
This place is the best part of the middle of nowhere special, because Lucille's here.
#42 - Neutral
In the war between Southern football lovers and church goers, Wayne and Lucille are the neutral people hanging out at the bowling alley.
#43 - Nuance
He will never understand all the twists and nuances of Southern slang.
#44 - Near
When the fair comes to town, Lucille's screams during the rollercoaster are nearly totally genuinely fearful, with only a little bit of dramatic flair to them – it's a rare moment.
#45 - Natural
She doesn't need make up because she's a natural beauty, and he never fails to remind her of that.
#46 - Horizon
Dear Fillmore, today I watched the sun rise during the rain in the middle of a slush-tastic and freezing January; I take this to be proof that you're right and I am, indeed, whipped.
#47 - Valiant
"Why are we watching the World War Two pigeon movie again?" he grumbles as his girlfriend hushes him.
#48 - Virtuous
The church drama team, he muses, combines Lucille's overdramatic personality and under appreciated sense of virtue into one solid moment of weird.
#49 - Victory
When he finds out she's a cheerleader, he joking asks if she wants him to teach her the X Middle School victory cheer, and ten minutes later he's become the first male cheerleader in the history of the school.
#50 – Defeat
The homecoming team may have lost, but Wayne survived being on the bottom of the cheerleading pyramid, so he considers himself a winner.