Title: Mirrors of Reoccurrence
Rating: K+
Summary: It starts and ends the same. (Almost.)
Authors Notes: I have no idea where this came from, I refuse to take the fall for whatever this thing is.
Disclaimer: Don't own, ever. Nor do I own Notting Hill where the quote came from.
It starts and ends the same. (Almost.)
She's twenty-one and in college. (Pre-med because, yeah, she wanted to save someone if she couldn't save herself.)
This is how it happens:
She's standing there, in front of a gaping Derek, soaking wet and sobbing. It's so freaking clichéd that she starts to cry harder and really, this is why she shouldn't do things like this.
He's sort of staring at her like he can't decide whether to a) call an ambulance or b) push her the five feet out into the hallway and close the door. It reminds her too much of the looks he used to give her their first year of college when she'd come to his door red-face and freaking out.
(Because ohmygosh her professor like totally hates her and she's going to end up having to drop out and work at a farm in Oklahoma.)
Note: those were days when she had a little too much caffeine.
She starts to hiccup and she can tell he's leaning towards option B.
She hasn't planned this (irony much) so she says whatever pops into her head first and the only thing playing on repeat in her mind is Julia Roberts and after all I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her, so that's what comes out.
Actually she only gets to love before her backs up against a wall and his lips are on hers. (But considering who she's talking to, it pretty much means the same thing.)
Their parents freak, as expected. Lizzie pays Edwin and Edwin pays Marti, but that's also expected. They get through college and her intern years and it's sort of almost perfect. (Who would have thought?)
He continues filming and somehow that turns into record producing and suddenly he's got his own label.
He proposes and she's calls off the wedding twice because nothing ever goes as planned. (Welcome to their life in a nutshell.)
They get married and argue. (Then make-up because somehow he always ends up pinning her to the floor or against a wall. Most of the time it's to the bed.)
They have three kids instead of two-point-five and there's no white picket fence.
They do get a dog, though, and he caves and buys a house with a wrap-around porch. (He really didn't actually cave, because he was planning to anyway, but shhh she can't know that.)
This is how it ends:
It's been forty years and everybody sort of expected they'd last this long. Mom and George are dead and Lizzie's married and so is Edwin. (To each other, but that's not much of a surprise.)
Marti died when she was thirty, and Derek never really got over it.
She's dying, so is he, just not before her.
She writes a note, because he's not there. (He's two floors up suffering from kidney failure, and really this isn't how this, they were suppose to end.)
He gets it four hours after she dies and three before he does.
After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, thanking him for loving her.
(It smells like The Notebook sequel and he smirks because they were always so impossibly clichéd.)
A/N: Wow okay so that didn't come out the way it was planned. Technically it wasn't planned at all but you get the point. This is what comes out of a blank word document and horrible writers block. Feel free to do with it what you must.