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Swan Can Fix Cars All By Herself! (A Music Video)
ClarityIsClear
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(The first sound of the video is the quiet opening synth of a soft-beat pop song; the first image is a black backdrop with a text that waves into existence, like a mirage. It's the title of the video, followed by a smaller text -

SWAN CAN FIX CARS ALL BY HERSELF

A Music Video

(feat. I Can Lift A Car by Walk The Moon)

Next is a series of captured videos and sound, all set to the background music thumping and whispering away. Leah Clearwater giving the camera a peace-sign; the view of a now-familiar dashboard littered with fast food wrappers as a car rambles down an open road; Bella Swan sticking her tongue out while unseen companions laugh; Jacob Black spinning a wrench on his hand, then dropping it on his foot with a curse.

Leah Clearwater and the camera jostling around while she says, "Today we're going to be mechanics!"

The camera is following Bella Swan around a tiny auto shop, the wares stuffed onto shelves and the floor streaked with age-old grease stains. Bella Swan, wearing her hair in a bun with a white bandana as a headband and a set of denim skinny-jean overalls, tilts her head barely toward the camera, her eyes focused on browsing through a metal crate of small auto parts. "You're half right," she says.

"No, I'm totally right," Leah returns.

Bella picks up something small and silver, examining it from every angle before she puts it back. "We're not going to be mechanics," she corrects. "We're just at the mechanics."

"Are you or are you not fixing mom's car?" Leah asks.

Bella hesitates.

"She is!" someone pipes up from another aisle.

"Could you or could you not let an actual mechanic fix it?" Leah presses.

"She could!" chimes in the same male voice.

Bella huffs. "It's just easier if I do it, and cheaper, and besides, Mr. Johnson doesn't need to waste his time on little jobs when he can be fixing other things."

Jacob Black emerges from the aisle with a new plastic can of oil. He snorts. "Old Man Johnson doesn't need to be working jobs, period."

"He taught me everything I know," Bella defends.

"Sure, sure," Jacob agrees. "But that doesn't mean he shouldn't be working by now."

The video speeds up through the rest of Bella shopping at the auto shop, fast-forwarding through her bickering with Jacob Black and purchasing things from a white-haired man, presumably Mr. Johnson, who does indeed look old. The video continues to fast-forward as they drive back home, the road blurring while the chorus of the song sounds out.

When the video goes back to real-time, it settles on a scene of Bella Swan popping open the hood of a car at least a decade old, with Jacob Black scooting under the car on his back on a skateboard. Bella leans over into hood, reaching her hands into the engine.

"Sue was due for an oil change anyway," Jacob says from beneath the car.

"Then why are you only doing it now?" Bella asks, frowning at the engine.

"Uhhh," he hedges.

Leah snorts behind the camera and says, "You forgot, didn't you? Idiot."

"Well, I'm doing it now, aren't I?" he blusters.

Bella smiles wryly, pulls her hand out of the engine, and crouches down to rifle through a red metal tool box. "We're lucky it's not a blown head gasket like I thought," she says. She plucks out a small wrench, a oil-stained red cloth, and a small tube. Then she shifts, bending her head to peek at the underside of the car. The camera follows her, and soon the image of Jacob Black holding a flashlight between his teeth as he fiddles with the underside takes over the screen. Bella squints at the car. "Crack in the oil pan, then?"

Jacob grunts, probably in affirmation, because Bella nods and stands and leans back over the hood.

"What are you doing?" Leah asks from behind the camera with unabashed curiosity.

Bella taps her nail on some wide, rectangular part of the car that has a four large holes at the top. "This is the gasket," she explains. "Jake is taking care of the oil pan, but I'm going to be sealing the gasket, get a few more months out of it or more. See, the gasket controls the flow of fluids to the engine, so when it starts getting stressed it can fry the whole engine - and I noticed yesterday that Mom's car gets a little too hot too quickly, so I'm thinking that the gasket is starting to crack - and I'm right, see, if you look there? Tiny crack right around the intake manifold is why the coolant isn't working as efficiently. I'll clean it up, and seal it, and check the engine over to tighten everything up, and the car should be just fine."

"Right."

"I totally lost you, didn't I?"

"Yep."

"Great."

"Hey, no, it is great!" Leah hurries to exclaim. "You can fix a car up all by yourself!"

"And with Jake," Bella reminds her, already leaning back into the engine.

"He doesn't count," Leah decides.

"Hey!" comes the muffled shout from beneath the car.

Bella and Leah snicker, and then the music thrums louder through the video. There is another fast-forwarded montage of Bella and Jake fixing the car; Jake will roll in and out from beneath the car; Bella will move through all the engine, wiping things down and using the wrench; once, they switch places and Bella comes out from beneath the car with an oily rag, which she tosses right at Jake's face, something that is followed by a chase around and around the car.

And the end of the video, when the chorus is repeating itself, Bella Swan climbs into the car to start the engine, then pops out to give Jacob Black a double high-five, streaked in oil on her bare arms, hands, and face, but beaming brilliantly all the same.

The video ends.)

Comments

NoiceNoise
Is anyone else worried about old man johnson at the end of this? ClarityIsClear, we need to know how old man johnson is

ClarityIsClear
OMJ is cool! Don't worry - his son actually runs the shop now, OMJ just likes to show up for work. He's a cool old dude, he just forgets that he's already retired!

Yaheard
Nice follow up to the montage of Bella learning from Johnson way back when! And when they started working on that little bug of Jake's.

HeartsAPlenty
Oh Jake ^o^

twiiilit
Still taken, pretty sure still raging with chaotic bisexual energy, sis

HeartsAPlenty
Let me live twiilit

PeterPanda
This is so sick!

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A/N: Hmmm, some other ~developments~ with the commentary, eh? Building it up, y'all. Next update will probably be this weekend. Stay safe until then!

As always, be brutally honest. I can take it.

~Rae