Love is the Best Medicine

Summary: This is a Santa Clause 2 fanfic. Erin's heart has been shattered by the deaths of most of the people she loves a year prior to the events in this story. She believes anyone she loves will get hurt so she refuses to show any feelings of affection, developing a case of the melancholies. It's time for someone to supply her with the best kind of medicine, which isn't laughter. Bernard/OC
Disclaimer: I don't own SC2. Disney does. So there! I only own Erin, who's based on me, by the way.
Notes: Since I don't think the movies ever say where Charlie and his family live, I've put them in New York. Scott and Santa are the same person (Duh.). I'm including song lyrics in some chapters. I based the title on the saying laughter is the best medicine. Big thanks to my friend Dom'sgurl, my homeskillet. 'Thought ', "Speech ", Song lyrics, "More than one person speaking ", Emphasis. I changed the way I type the lyrics. From now on they'll be centered.
Disclaimer for this chapter only: I don't own any of the songs in this chapter, like, 'Beautiful', 'Broken', 'Mine, All Mine', 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing', and, most importantly, 'Breathing' by Lifehouse. I no own, you no sue.

Dedicated to Dom'sgurl 8).
You rock, homeskillet!

Chapter 11: Breathing

Bernard was in his room, Erin's headphones over his ears. He finally knew what to get her as a gift. He'd ask Curtis to find Erin's locket with some of his gadgets. Then, when he gave it back, he'd sing her a romantic song and confess his feelings. He pushed pause as the song ended and wrote it down. So far, he'd been through four songs: 'Beautiful' by Cristina Agulera, 'Broken' by Seether feat. Amy Lee, 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith (He was seriously considering this one), and 'Mine All Mine' by SheDaisy. He pushed skip and play.

I'm finding my way back to sanity again
Though I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there
I take a breath and hold on tight
Spin around one more time
And gracefully fall back to the arms of grace

Bernard was amazed after the first few lines. This song was wonderful. It described how he felt around Erin perfectly. He held his decision till the chorus.

Cause I am hanging on every word you're saying
Even if you don't want to speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me
Cause I want nothing more than
To sit outside heavens door
And listen to you breathing
It's where I want to be, Yeah

He really did hang onto every word she said. Sometimes he felt as if her breathing was enough to satisfy him. He stopped the song. It was perfect! He had to find Curtis.

Curtis was drinking cocoa in the Universal Pantograph. The other elves were on their brakes, too. He sat mulling about whether Bernard still wanted to knock him into next week. "Curtis!" Speak of the devil. "What? What'd I do?" "Nothing. I need your help." Before Curtis could make a snide remark, Bernard lunged into explaining his plan. When he finished, he looked desperately at the much shorter elf.

"Please, Curtis. You've gotta help me." "Of course I'll help you! Bernard, that's brilliant!" "Thanks." "I can use one of my tracking inventions to find the locket. I'll even polish it up for ya." "That's great." Curtis beamed before continuing. "Now, about the song. You can either sing it a cappella or I can burn the song onto one of Erin's blank CD's and remove the singer's voice. The second option will take longer, but you'd have the music to work with." "I'll think about it. Thanks again." "Don't mention it. Now, let's go find "Santa"." They both walked out into the workshop, and froze almost instantly at what they saw. 'Oh no, now what?'

Me: Would that be considered a cliffhanger?

Dom'sgurl: Yes, I think.

Me: All right! (Spies Evil Men on the hill) We've got company!

Dom'sgurl: Don't worry! I've got Kenshin, Sano, Saito, Alucard, and D with me today! (Turns to the line behind her) On my command!

Evil Men: CHARGE!

Dom'sgurl: NOW!

(Huge battle with Evil Men and the Allies)

Erin: (Sweatdrops) Uh, Jay, you can have the honor of begging the reviewers.

Jay: Review, all you (Erin covers his mouth) mmfh!

Erin: Using appropriate language, please!

Jay: I was gonna say 'freakin' losers', ya insane (Erin covers his mouth again) mmfh!

Me: Never mind! Okay, all you readers, review if you want to find out if we survive! (Dodges an arrow) Hey, watch it!