A/N
Pointless fluff
One good reason
"Reason eight, when you get angry, you slip into strange Wonderland talk I don't understand."Alice said, reading from the paper in her hand.
Hatter underlined something on his own paper. "Funny, my number eight is that you have a mouth like a sailor."
"Ok," she said, nodding her head. "Seven, you're the complete opposite of me. If it wasn't for Wonderland, we never would have made it past a first date."
"Seven," he said, holding up as many fingers. "You watch the most asinine crap on TV. Jerseylicious is not a real word and it definitely shouldn't be a TV show."
"Six, there's more to drink than tea." She held up her coffee and took a sip.
He huffed. "I should have listed that swill you drink as number six. Instead, I only have two words, cold feet."
"You're the one who won't let me wear socks to bed." She looked down at her list for a moment before talking again. "Four,"
"What happened to five?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't want to talk about five."
"If you wrote it down you have to say it." He grabbed at her list but she quickly hid it behind her back.
"What are you two doing?" They looked up at Carol who was standing in the living room doorway.
"Listing reasons we shouldn't be together." Alice said nonchalantly.
"Ok…" Carol stared at the couple. "Why exactly?"
"Because your daughter read in some dumb magazine that it was a good couples exercise." Hatter said, lightly kicking Alice in her shin. "Ya know what? I'm changing my number four to that."
"To what?" Alice asked.
"The fact that you're easily swayed by others." He said as he crossed off his old answer.
"What was your old number four?" Alice tried to read his list but he clutched it protectively against his chest.
"I don't want to talk about four." He said, mocking her words from earlier.
"Then I'm going to change my five to something else!" Alice huffed.
"Stop!" cried Carol. "I'm not sure I understand what the point of this 'exercise' is. All you two are doing is aggravating each other."
"You list ten reasons you shouldn't be together and then you each list one reason why you should." Alice explained.
"Your one reason is supposed to outweigh the bad." Hatter added. "It's silly, but she insisted we try it."
Carol folded her arms across her chest. "Well I'd like the two of you to just get on with it. I'm trying to read and I can't concentrate with all the yelling."
"Fine." Alice said. "My one good reason is because I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone but you."
Hatter cupped her chin and brought her face close to his. "Mine is that there's not a single person in this world or any other that makes me as happy as you do."
They kissed and Carol smiled and left the room. Maybe now they'd stay quiet.
