Health, Food by celli (PG, Nick/Nat)

[celli]

Title: Health, Food
Author: celli
Beta-Readers: barely_bean and havocthecat
Recipient: waltd
Prompt: Nick/Natalie, romantic dine a deux, and everything goes wrong (but it works out in the end)
Length: 1,135 words
Rating: PG
Summary: "Health food makes me sick." (Calvin Trillin) Not long after meeting Nick, Natalie starts her campaign to get Nick to eat food by making him

Comments

[wiliqueen]

Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I. Love. This. So. Much.

Love the thought put into the candles, and her trying to guess what her apartment looks like through immortal eyes.

Natalie's temper flared. "Nick, eat the damn meat."

This is where I died laughing.

She shook her head. "What am I going to do with you?"

"Save me?" he said. Some of the humor faded from his expression. "Please?"

And this is where I stopped breathing. ~meep~

Natalie closed the door behind him and leaned her forehead against it. "I am in so much trouble," she said softly.

Oh, yeah, you are. ~wibble~

But even knowing all the badness down the road for them, this is SO. FREAKIN. ADORABLE. :: loves and loves ::

[celli]

Aw, yay! Thank you so much! :)

[celli]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it!

[celli]

Thank you for reading!

"Nick, eat the damn meat."

[brightknightie]

This story gave me many smiles, and left me smiling after. Food is one of the essential mysteries of the FK vampire fantasy -- what can and can't they eat, how much, why -- and it's curiously little addressed either in canon or in fanfic. (Although I do recall that Ophelia5 had this Nanette thing with chocolate in a zine, and Marcia once starved Nick out of his quest quite tragically, and of course wiliqueen... ~g~) As discussed, there are all these passing moments in canon where Nick manages to stomach a bite or sip of this or that, and all these other moments where he does not, interwoven with Natalie's chiding presentations of protein shakes and urging him to eat real food.

Thanks for giving Sydney a turn on stage. :-)

>"she'd discarded white as too matrimonial and red as too vampirical, and gone with a dark green that was hopefully neutral.This is funny on its own, but it's also an excellent illustration of Natalie vastly overthinking this event. He's an eight-hundred-year-old guy; candles are just light sources. :-) I think

Re: "Nick, eat the damn meat."

[celli]

*laughs* Racing references for the win!

Thank you so much for all your help with this. You really made writing it a joy.

*hugs*

Re: "Nick, eat the damn meat."

[brightknightie]

You made a lot of people laugh and leave smiling with this story. Good work! And thank you again for playing with us in general (and me in specific!).

[skieswideopen]

I love the description of Natalie's preparations, and putting too much time and thought into it, and knowing she's putting too much time and thought into it, but doing it anyway. It would be a stressful thing, having an eight-hundred-year-old over for supper.

[celli]

I would worry about my cooking! :)

Thank you so much!