Woods, Elle

Title: All The Small Things
Fandom: RP-verse involving Evil Dead: The Musical and Legally Blonde: The Musical with a little bit of Re-Animator tossed in.
Paring: Ash Williams/Elle Woods
Rating: PG-13 for mentions of sex, violence and Herbert West
Summary: A series in vignettes in the relationship of Elle and Ash
Notes: An early Christmas gift for smartemployee, bulletsnductape and ash__evildead. It takes place in our RP verse, so it may not make sense to anyone else.

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It's really hard for me to imagine this decade without Legally Blonde. It's one of my favorite movies and it soon became one of my favorite musicals. Though, I'm sure that everyone isn't so familiar with the source material in it's various forms, so here's a short primer on the awesome that is Legally Blonde.

( Nobody screws with somebody who's Legally Blonde! )

Elle has the house to herself for once. The family went out to the movies and Elle stayed behind. Ash had insisted that she come along, but Elle had come up with some excuse for not go. Something about not feeling well.

She felt bad about lying to Ash, but she just needed some time to herself. Ever since her Ash left to go back to 1300, she had either been with Sheila, the other Ash, the kids or some combination of the three. She appreciated everything they had done for her, but she just needed time to slow down and let her mind clear.

The best place to do that? The shower.

The one at the Williams house wasn’t overly fancy, but it was much better than the ones at Harvard and it did what it needed to do.

Elle let the water heat up as she went and collected the bath product that Paulette had graciously brought her through the door. All her scents and scrubs and things most people found unnecessary, but she found essential.

She was about ready to disrobe and step in when she heard something in the hall. Her body froze up and she looked out with caution. “Hello?”

Note: This takes place in Elle's nearby future when Paulette gives birth to her twins. Ash is there, but he doesn't say much. Sorry. :x

( And now we have two kids... )

1.) Manicure. I am way overdue for one.

2.) Highlight the Strottham case. Dorety keeps putting emphasis on it.

3.) Re-stock the purse. Running low on handi-wipes and dog bones.

4.) Email Brooke about organizing Delta Nu alumni reunion for next summer.

5.) Schedule Bruiser for Groomer appointment. He's overdue for one as well.

6.) Talk to Ash. Need to see if it's okay to start using the 'b-f' word.

7.) Return CDs to Vivian and Enid.

8.) Book trip home to Malibu for Spring Break.

9.) Vacuum dorm.

10.) Get more Paul Mitchell samples from Paulette.

The day after the Wyndham trial, Elle immediately went out and bought copies of the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. She got a rather strange look from the sales clerk (apparently not many girls who looked like her bought newspapers), but a quick double take when he saw the cover picture of her and Brooke.

The Herald said THE DAUGHTER DID IT! The Stunning Upset In the Trial of Brooke Wyndham

The Globe said Brooke Wyndham framed, freed in Trial Upset

Elle didn't think of what happened in the trial as an "upset", but she wasn't writing the papers. She had expected most of it to be about Brooke and Chutney, so she was rather surprised when she had gotten a good paragraph in each on.

Later that day, Enid practically came rushing across campus with copies of The Harvard Crimson and Harvard Law Record. Both boasted the same headline with a rather unexpectedly flattering picture she didn't know was taken...

HARVARD'S OWN SAVES EXERCISE QUEEN IN TRIAL

Those articles talked a good portion about Brooke, but it had been mostly about Elle and how her own common sense had kept Brooke from going to jail. It made her feel oddly satisfied.

The next week, Paulette was excitingly waving a copy of People magazine in her face. The headline was 'I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR!' THE SHOCKING TRUTH IN THE TRIAL OF BROOKE WYNDHAM and in smaller text Jealousy, Fatal Mistakes and How a Law Student Saw The Truth.

Elle thought it was kind of sensationalized, but she got a good giggle out of it.

Those were the headlines. There were more, of course. Elle's inbox had been stuffed with online news links about the trial from AP to TMZ. There was even a Perez Hilton blog or two, but Elle passed on reading those.

If you look carefully at the corkboard on the wall behind her desk, you can see some of those headlines. Some might see it as boastful, but to Elle, it's vindication. A reminder that she's more than her hair.

It reminds her that some things aren't worth giving up, even when times are hard.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park

I love my mom and dad. Really, I do. But growing up, they really didn't feel or act like parents. They still don't. I think they could have been taken from my life and I would have still lived just fine as a kid with my nanny and the trust fund.

Bruiser was really the first person that ever really felt like family to me. I found him abandoned outside that mall when I was seventeen. I knew nothing about taking care of dogs, but he was just a puppy and I couldn't just leave him alone. Ever since then, he's been by my side. I take care of him and he's always there for me.

And now, I have two families. My California family. My Delta Nus. Say what you will about sororities, but those girls have been my angels since Freshman year. Everyone of them is my sister and if you don't believe me, I have a whole inbox full of encouraging emails and text messages that says otherwise.

Then there's my Harvard family. They were...rough on me at first, but I think we have a better understanding of each other now. Paulette is the big sister I never had, Vivian and Emmett keep me honest and Enid inspires me like no other to be a better person.

All of these people. They're not my blood and yet, I feel closer to them than I do anyone else in this world...

I guess that's what family really is.

1.) A few days ago, when Serena called to tell me she got engaged. Tears of happiness, promise.

2.) When Warner broke up with me. I'm no longer sad about the Jackie/Marylin thing.

3.) When I failed that test in Professor Stromwell's class after busting my ass studying for a week.

4.) When Callahan kissed me and fired me because I slapped him. Thankfully, everything became better after that.

5.) After that dream I had in sophomore year where Bruiser had been run over. Was it by one of the Zetas? I don't really remember that part of the dream.

6.) Whenever my nanny tried to dress me when I was a kid.

7.) Last week when my mom just didn't seem to care about anything school related I was talking about.

8.) When Emmett and I broke up. It was mutual and we still talk, but I still cried myself to sleep that night.

9.) Every time I watch Moulin Rouge. I should just start skipping the end and save myself the headache.

10.) When Farrah Fawcett died. I used to watch re-runs of Charlie's Angels religiously as a kid.

(Continued from here.)

Elle's space in the Harvard dormitories wasn't that grand. Since she was a grad student, she had managed to get a space by herself. Which was a relief. She soon realized shortly after starting law school that not everyone could handle this much pink in a small space. Nor a chihuahua no matter how well behaved he was.

She just hoped Ash wouldn't mind.

She slowly opened the plain wooden door and turned on the light to reveal the brightness within. "Well, here it is."