Love isn't a chemical. (Rick x O.C.) (Rick and Morty fanfic) [Hold/maybe ended]

Seven

After Lily and Rick went through with the process of making the business legit, they shot their commercial for their store.

"Have you required creepy, specific old stuff from a mysterious antique or thrift store that gives you powers, but fucks with you?" Rick asked the camera.

"Bring it to Curse Purge Plus! We use science to undo the cursed item for cash and you get to keep the powers." Lily said, walking over to a man with sneakers. "This guy got mysterious sneakers to make him run faster, but guess what? He would have to run until he died, making them worthless. I removed the curse, making them worth, I don't know, $8,000,000?? See you at the Olympics, buddy"

"And this eerily intelligent was threatening to murder its family. Now, it does their taxes." Rick said.

"Everything is deductible." It said.

"Don't pay for cool stuff with your soul." Lily said.

"Pay for it with cash, you know, like how every other store in the world works??" Rick said. "We're located at First and Main in Old town. Come on down."

After that, their business was booming. They had a line stretching down the block. They went outside once they knew Needful saw and danced around with their middle fingers high when they saw him look out.

"Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!" Rick yelled. Lily didn't hear it over the floppy guy machine. They laughed and went inside, working on removing curses from objects.

"Did you see the look on his face when everyone went rushing into his store? It was great!" Lily laughed when she and Rick went to the back for a break. Rick smiled, loving her laugh.

"Yeah! It was priceless." Rick laughed with her. Lily stopped and smiled at him.

"You know, Rick, BP said you changed since I died. I can see he was right." She said, rubbing her neck. "Not much though. You're still an asshole."

"Yeah, but you fell in love with this asshole." She rolled her eyes and walked back out. There was a line still and there was a man standing there with boxing gloves.

"Looks like we got, uh" She scanned the gloves. "Haunted boxing gloves that will make you the heavyweight champion in 1936 and then you'll be trapped there winning the same fight for all of eternity. We can take out the eternity and the padding and then you'll have time-traveling mittens." She offered, handing the man his ticket. He nodded and left. Summer walked in with a box.

"Oh, look, it's Rosemary's baby. How's business?" Rick asked, leaning on the counter.

"Here's the last of our inventory. We're going to file chapter 11 and do some restructuring." Summer said dully.

"Sounds like, you win, guys!" Rick said. Summer turned around and glared.

"That was important to you two, wasn't it?" She asked.

"No. It was important to your dumb devil friend. To us, this was just a bit like when Bugs Bunny fucks with the opera singer for 20 minutes." Lily explained

"He tried to kill himself." Summer said in anger.

"Seriously??" Lily asked.

"Holy crap! Holy crap." Rick laughed slightly.

"You know what, Grandpa and Grandma? He's strong and he's never going to give up." Summer told them.

"Uh-huh, yeah, I don't care." Rick said.

"Oh I know you don't care. Everyone knows you don't care." Summer said, pointing at Rick.

"So?" He replied.

"So, have fun not caring." Summer said, with her hands on her hips.

"I always do." Rick said.

"Good."

"Yeah, it is good. IIIIIIt's the best."

"I'm sure it is." Summer said, walking out. "Bye."

"Laaaater!" Rick said, waving at her. A man with glasses walked up to Lily.

"I'm here to pick up my undead cat and child." He said, holding out his ticket.

"Yeah, just- just give me a minute." Lily said as an employee walked up to her and Rick.

"These are the forms for the employee health plan." He said.

"Yeah, just set it on my-" Rick sighed and looked at Lily. She nodded and they both grabbed gasoline they had stored under the counter and poured it everywhere.

"We just got bored. Everyone out." Lily said as Rick struck a match and threw it behind them as they walked out. They got back to the house and stretched out on the couch.

"Well, that was fun." Lily said. Rick nodded.

"Yeah. I hope those people were smart enough to get out of the building."

"Me too." After that, a silence fell between them. Neither one of them said anything for awhile. Lily was reading her notes on something she wanted to build and Rick was drinking from his flask, handing it to his ex-wife occasionally so she could drink.

"Lily?" Rick finally broke the silence.

"Mm, yes, Rick?" Lily replied, handing his flask back and wiping her lip. She looked at him and suddenly felt his lips on hers. She pulled back and looked at him. He smiled and kissed her cheek.

"How about we watch a movie?" Lily blushed brightly, but something went off on her phone. She checked it. There was something going wrong in her lab.

"Oh, um, I have to go real quick, but I'll be back as soon as I'm done." She kissed his cheek and got up.

"Wait, do you need help?" Rick asked, starting to get up, but Lily already shot the portal walked through it. She typed in the password for her to get into her lab and walked in, locking the door behind her. She checked everything and didn't notice anything wrong.

"Huh." She rubbed her head. She checked her computer and checked the notifications. It had said something about her defense systems starting to overheat. She worked it on and fixed it up.

"There we go." She walked outside and locked everything back up. She was about to shoot a portal when one opened up in front of her. She looked up and saw Rick. He looked around and saw the planet she was on, and her lab.

"So this is where you go. Nice. Not bad."

"How in the hell did you follow me??" She asked, a little angry.

"Oh! I hacked into your portal gun. I was curious." Rick smirked but it was quickly wiped away when Lily slapped him.

"Don't EVER hack into my shit again." She said, glaring. Rick nodded and held his cheek.

"Alright. Look, I'm going to help Summer get all beefed up to kick Needful's ass. Want to help?"

"Nah, you two can have fun with that." Rick nodded.

"Coming back to the house? We can watch a movie still." Rick asked, smiling. Lily smiled back.

"Yeah, I guess." She kissed his cheek and walked through the portal.