Prompt: OTP is watching a chick flick. B makes smart ass comments throughout the movie, much to A's annoyance. At the end of the movie, B is crying because the ending is either very sad or very happy/beautiful.

Yes, it's bittersweet because as you might guess, I picked The Notebook. I guess there's spoilers if you haven't seen the movie yet, though it was released in 2004... Obviously, I don't own The Notebook or any of the lines derived from it. Enjoy!

zabeth

"No movie with two people kissing in the rain on the cover is ever good, Lucy."

Lucy huffs and slips the disc into the slot. She turns to see Natsu placing a bowl of popcorn on their glass coffee table and flop into the comfy blue cushions of their couch. He eyes the DVD box with distain, yet when she circles the table he still reaches a hand up and pulls her down onto his lap.

Tonight was her choice for movie night. She'd sat through some low budget kung fu movie last weekend (though she begrudgingly admitted it was funnier than she expected), so it was her turn. Fair's fair. Natsu would endure this chick flick for her.

"It honestly isn't a bad movie, Natsu," she says as she reaches to her side to get some popcorn. "You might even cry."

"Pah! Like some chick flick could make me cry. What could be so moving about a notepad?" He leans forward into her as he grabs the remote off the table. Lucy chews thoughtfully on the salty snack before snagging the tissue box off the side table. She sits it next to the popcorn bowl as she slides off Natsu's lap and onto the couch.

Well, this movie always makes her cry.

Natsu's arm is instantly slung over her shoulder as she pulls her legs up to the side. He presses play with his other hand as her fingers tangle with the one wrapped around her.

"Oh god, he isn't going to just read the whole time, right? Who are these people?"

Lucy keeps quiet. If she wants any hope that Natsu would like this movie and maybe feel some of the tragic romance it contained, she could not give anything away. Despite this, her eyes prickle with the knowledge of what would happen.

"Love at first sight, Luce. This is so cliché… Of course, she's pretty and he's covered in dirt."

Lucy rolls her eyes. Most chick flicks do contain clichés, but this one had a twist.

"Yes, I'm Annie and I enjoy moonlit walks with men I don't want to date."

She hit him at that, hissing that the character's name was Allie, not Annie.

"Are you sure this isn't the prequel to that musical movie with the car? What was it… Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"

Her eye twitches because he's thinking about Grease and the catchy song "Summer Lovin'" instead of focusing on the movie in front of him.

"Ah what a cockblock! Who sends the police out after their own kid?"

Lucy lets that one go since he was right. He probably just wanted to see Allie's character get naked, though.

"Hey, Lucy, isn't that what your dad told you about me? This movie is so wrong; your dad's words never stopped you from dating me."

She sighs again, because he's still right- at least the part about her father anyway- but pinches his leg and reminds him that Allie isn't her.

"Of course, she doesn't get to say goodbye… how freaking convenient…"

He mutters this one and Lucy notices he got a little quiet after that. During the war scenes, his arm sneaks behind her back and his hand wraps around her hip.

Her tears started falling right around Noah's first letters to Allie and the tissue box is in her lap. Rumpled tissues sit in the empty popcorn bowl as Allie meets the handsome lawyer.

When Allie sees Noah's face when Lon asks for her hand in marriage, the hand on Lucy's hip tightens.

Natsu doesn't say anything until Allie meets Noah in person again, but there's no context for his interjection.

"C'mon…"

When the movie suddenly shifts back to the 'present day', Lucy watches Natsu's face as he connects the dots. His eyes widen and his pupils constrict and she hears a small 'oh' fall from his lips. Duke insists on staying with Allie and the film falls back in time again.

Natsu is silent during the 'stupid rain kiss' and as the on-screen couple frantically disrobe in the house, he reaches over and pulls Lucy's legs over his. She looks up at him and gets only a glimpse of his dark eyes before he presses one firm, chaste kiss on her mouth. When they break eye contact, he clamps a hand around her knee and returns to watching.

As the love triangle deepens, Lucy is having trouble concentrating. Natsu's fingers are absent-mindedly trailing behind her knee cap and it is all she can do to not shiver as she grabs a fistful of his jacket. His attention is solely on the film now as Lon confronts Allie. Lucy tucks her head into the juncture of his neck and jaw, facing the screen again.

Natsu's head slips to the side and leans on hers as Allie remembers who she chose. Lucy is in tears again as Allie's note to Noah is revealed. Read this to me, and I'll come back to you. She's clutching Natsu now, tissues all but forgotten as Allie relapses and is sedated. Natsu in turn curls around her, her knees falling to his chest as he props his bare feet on the edge of the coffee table. He's rubbing her back as Noah/Duke breaks down and is rushed to the hospital.

Lucy vaguely hears the last scene where Allie and Noah have passed peacefully in their sleep, hands clutched together. The credits are rolling as Natsu shifts them so he's lying on his side with her on her back. Lucy's legs are tossed over his bent ones and his arms are wrapped tightly around her waist. It's only when he draws in a shaky breath right above her ear that Lucy realizes he's crying.

"Natsu?" She reaches up and cards her fingers through his hair. "Are you really crying?"

"It's… just so…" he squeezes her and she struggles to shift onto her side, slipping one leg between his, the other still on top. She folds her hands back into his hair soothingly. His face is a mess, red and streaked with tears. "It's so sad, Luce."

It makes her feel a little bad that she made him watch it, but she and never expected him to feel so strongly about The Notebook. But she thinks she knows why it struck a chord in him as she thinks of her father and his.

Lightly, she reaches up and kisses him on the lips.

"I'm never going to leave you, Natsu." Another kiss and she wipes at his face with one hand. "I'm not leaving. It's you and me… every day."

He gives a small wet chuckle at that, recognizing it from the movie they'd just endured. Her hands are soft on his face and Natsu cups the back of her neck. He can't remember any of the lines from the movie right now as he looks into her darkened whiskey eyes, her hair lit up from behind by the scrolling credits.

He kisses her then, because she's his best friend, because she's his girl, and because he doesn't know which part he likes better. When they break apart laughing softly at their overly emotional selves, he just knows that he wants her- all of her- forever.