So Much Time (Doc x reader) Completed

Chapter 15: Getting Ready for the Expo

Your POV 

I was with Emmett in his lab as he was trying to think of something to present at the expo. We only had few days to come up with something and time was ticking. Marty was over on a couch passed out since he's been pretty tired lately. Emmett still looked pretty down since the whole courthouse clock tower thing. 

"Come to me my melancholy ba-aby, cuddle up and don't be blue" I sang before he stopped and turned around to look at me slowly. "All your fears are foolish fancy, maybe you know dear that I'm in love with you." He started to move over to me slowly. "Every cloud must have a silver lining, wait until the sun shines through. Smile my honey dear while I kiss away each tear." He had gotten to me as he held my hand gently. "Or else I shall be melancholy too" 

By the end of the song he had pulled me to him and we were inches apart. He looked at me for a moment before the green light that was on his helmet started to blink. He sighed deeply.  

"I think you're a better singer than Trixie Trotter" he mumbled. I smiled wide and squeezed his hand a little. He was looking somewhere else before he looked at me. He leaned down and kissed me gently. We held it for a bit before he pulled away and cleared his throat. He was blushing madly. 

I bit my lip a little as I looked at him. "You got an idea didn't you?" I asked and he tilted his head a little before nodding. "Usually only Edna would be able to strike an idea but there's something with you that I can't place quite yet. I smiled and looked at him. "Tell me your idea at least" I said. 

He shook his head. I groaned before I started singing again. "Whisper in my ear so no one can hear, Secrets are for sharing, love. They're not meant for blaring, love" He was leaning on the desk with his eyes closed as he listened. The green light on the helmet started blinking again. "Whisper in my ear so no one can hear. Whisper in my ear, let me read you soft and clear, Don't make it fortissimo, make it pianissimo." He looked over to me as his arms were crossed. He smiled a little as he listened. "Whisper in my ear so no one can hear. I want you to so tell the chany and when you do, I'll cry, may wee. Darling whisper in my ear, there's nobody near." He looked around the room as he tried not to look at me, blushing more. 

I finished and he looked at me. "You've twisted my arm, just stop with the beautiful singing," he said and I blushed a little. "I know how to get my rocket car to work, the basic idea was sound, but the propulsion system was unworkable. But the lightning, the lightning! Suddenly the answer is clear! It came to me all at once." 

"Like a bolt of lightning?" i asked. 

"Exactly! Static Electricity! Super ionized static electricity, powering the asynchronous oscillation of frictionless plates inside the" he stopped as he noticed that the helmet was still on "What's this stupid thing still doing on my head" he said before he threw it to the other side of the room. 

He looked at me and smiled before he pulled me over as he held his hand on my waist. "There's nothing I can do to thank you for getting me to open my eyes to how wrong Edna was for me. If it weren't for you and Marty I wouldn't be able to have this new idea and go to the expo with it. Thank you both, so much." he said as he looked at me. 

"We haven't won the expo yet so don't get sappy with me Emmett Lathrop Brown. You can do whatever you put your mind to, you just need to believe in yourself and in your dreams." I smiled as I looked at him. He hugged me tightly before he let go and went to his chalkboard to start writing equations 

"Tungsten. The catalyst will need to be made out of tungsten, given the temperature within the converter will no doubt be intense. We'll  have to harvest the filaments from all the light bulbs here." 

"You think you can finish it before the end of the expo?" I asked 

"Think? I've got to! My future depends on it remember?" he smiled at me as I leaned on the side of the table and watched him scribble away. "Of course, the oscillating plates will need to be calibrated precisely! Even the slightest misalignment could cause the magnetic field to fluctuate in intensity, leading to sudden shifts in polarity. The results could  be catastrophic." he mumbled as he wrote down stuff. 

"Who cares?" I asked

"My thought exactly, science should be messy and unpredictable, or else where's the fun of it?" he asked. I smiled as I watched him work before he ran around getting every light bulb he could find in the house and taking the filaments out of them.