Title: Scattered Popcorn
Author: Raven_Silversea
Rating: T
Pairing: Colonnello/Lal Mirch/Sawada Nana
Prompt: Day 2: Scary Movies | Ouija board
Tags/Warnings: Fluff, Humor, Movie Night, Scary Movies, References to Scream (Movies), Established Relationship
Summary: Nana definitely didn't suggest a Scream movie marathon because she enjoyed the way her two otherwise fearless partners steal her lap blankets to hide under. Why would you suggest such a thing?
Colonnello stares at the TV screen. His hands clutch more than his fair share of the blanket to his chest as he curls into Nana’s side. The blue light of the movie sucks all the color from his face and reflects off his wide eyes. On-screen, Sidney Prescott slowly inches her way over the unconscious Ghostface to unlock the driver side door. He and Lal suck in twin breaths on either side of Nana, their bodies tense like springs pressed to the floor.
HONK! goes the car horn as Sidney’s elbow presses into it, and popcorn goes flying as Colonnello’s knee knocks the bowl with a “Motherfucker!” On-screen, Sidney and her friend wait with bated breath for a reaction from Ghostface. Off-screen, Nana calmly rescues the popcorn bowl, absently snacking on a handful of buttery kernels.
“You’re a fucking embarrassment,” Lal hisses from under the blue quilt she stole five minutes into the movie. Her eyes are just barely visible over where it’s tucked up over her nose. She reaches a hand out from her blanket cocoon and snags a fistful of popcorn and then it vanishes back under the quilt. The only evidence of her movement the quiet sound of popcorn munching.
Nana shifts the popcorn bowl closer to Lal and takes another handful herself.
Colonnello pulls himself out of the hollow he’s progressively tucked himself into over the course of the movie. It’s a quiet moment in the movie- Sidney and her friend have made it out of the car and are now arguing about just running vs discovering Ghostface’s identity. “At least I’m not hiding under- OH MY GOD!”
Ghostface comes out of nowhere and stabs Sidney’s friend- “I knew he was faking it!” Lal hisses-, and the lap blanket Nana had been sharing with Colonnello vanishes from the sudden force of Colonnello yanking it. Nana can’t help but laugh as her boyfriend almost launches himself up and over the back of the couch, gripping the blanket to his chest like a plushie. “WHAT THE FUCK, KORA!”
Pulling out a third blanket from the basket beside the couch, Nana says, “If it’s too scary for the two of you, we can watch something else.” She looks at each of them through her eyelashes, wondering if this will be the moment in their six movie marathon that her partners cry uncle. It’s invigorating in a way, being the brave one. She’d be lying if she said she didn’t keep suggesting horror movies to watch simply for the way these two fearless former soldiers reach for her like she’s their shelter from a storm.
Her partners loudly assert their desire to keep watching the movie, and Nana smiles. There’s a thump from upstairs, and all three go silent, waiting to see if whatever child they disturbed would stay asleep or not.
When no one comes traipsing down stairs with a heavy yawn and a question about what time it was and could they have a snack please, they relax back into the couch and each other. “Who’s scared?” Lal says with a sniff. She carefully pulls her quilt down and folds her hands in her lap. “I’m not scared.”
“I’m not scared either, kora.” Colonnello slides back down onto the couch proper but doesn’t release his death grip on his blanket.
Nana shakes her head with a fond smile and holds the popcorn bowl out to the two of them. “Of course not,” she soothes. “After all, you two are here to protect us from anything that may go bump in the night.”
“Exactly!” Colonnello nods. He frees a hand from his blanket to play with Nana’s fingers and aims a besotted smile at Lal who rolls her eyes but does lean over and kiss him on the cheek.
For the next few minutes, everything is quiet and peaceful. The movie punctuated only by the sound of popcorn.
Then the boyfriend is lowered from the rafters onto the theater stage, hung on the prop like a crucifix, and Colonnello all but jumps into Nana’s lap with a loud “JESUS H CHRIST!” while Lal falls off the couch all together.
