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Warning for Muggle!AU, and hinted at blood from a horror movie. There might also be a bit out of character due to the Au that was used. Mostly on Bellatrix's part. The word count is 615 words. I hope you all enjoy Horror Movies to Laugh At (Or Not).
"Aren't girls supposed to like rom-com movies or whatever you call them?" Edgar whined as he turned his face away from the carnage on the screen. When he suggested watching a movie he never expected Bellatrix to have picked something so….this.
"Aren't boys supposed to like scary movies?" Bellatrix said, smirking as she caught sight of the fear in Edgar's blue eyes. "Isn't this part where you are supposed to swoop in all gallantly and keep me safe from the monsters in the night?"
Edgar felt his face flush. He wasn't the sort of guy that enjoyed watching people get killed and have corn syrup blood all over them. He was more of a comedy-type guy anyway. Give him something to laugh and he was there for it. But the thought of all that gore and gunk that horror movies usually had in them made him sick to his stomach.
Bellatrix on the other hand was quite the opposite of that. She enjoyed everything about horror movies. From the plot lines right down to the corn syrup gore that was usually used for death scenes. She could quote most of her favorite movies by heart. Mostly the Scream movies or Dance of the Dead.
"This one of the funniest horror movies ever," Bellatrix said, pointing at the screen where a bunch of stoners was playing guitars for a horde of zombies. The zombies were dancing and Bellatrix couldn't think of anything more funnier than what she was watching right now. "Look they're dancing. Dancing zombies. Can you think of anything funnier than that?"
Edgar looked at the screen and instantly regretted it. The scene had changed from the one of the dancing zombies to one with a crashed truck and pizza delivery boy checking on one of the passengers to make sure they weren't dead. The zombies had started to swarm and the boys started to take them out.
"Are you kidding me, Eds?" Bellatrix said as Edgar hid his face in the curls that were cascading against her shoulder. "It's just a movie. Zombies aren't real."
"How do you know that?" Edgar asked against her neck. "How do you know that they aren't real? How do you know that something like that can't really happen?"
"Because if it could it probably would have happened by now," Bellatrix pointed out. "With all the horrible junk we put into the air as a people. We could have been overrun by zombies like these years ago." She giggled. "Although if they were like these zombies you and your friends would be safer than anyone else. The zombies in the movie enjoy music, remember?"
Edgar looked up at her from her shoulder raising a blond eyebrow in question. "Why do you say that?" he asked, the question sounding sincere. "You said our band was horrible."
"Maybe I was lying when I said that," Bellatrix said, looking into his eyes. "But in all fairness, you do say some pretty horrible things about my choices in entertainment."
"Which aren't really all that fair," Edgar said, looking up at her with a pouty puppy dog face on. "Can you forgive me, love?"
"As long as you can forgive me, love," Bellatrix said, leaning down and pressing her lips against Edgar's. "Now let's watch the rest of the movie, shall we?"
"As long as I can cuddle up against your shoulder for protection from the zombies, Trixie?" Edgar said, snuggling against Bellatrix with a look of utter contentment on his face.
"Of course, you can, Eddie Spaghetti," she said, pulling the blanket from the back of the sofa over them as they settled in to finish the rest of the movie.
I hope you all enjoyed Horror Movies to Laugh At (Or Not) as much as I enjoyed writing it.