ht_murray | Favorite tear-jerk moments...

This is just a little poll of sorts, except there's no way to make a poll for it, so I'm just gonna ask straight out.

I'm plotting fic, as always, a Christmas-type fic. Eventually, it will be schmoop, but we all know the best way to get to the schmoop is through a ton of angsty goodness, right? The fic I'm thinking of will draw heavily from music and movies, and the best way to strike a chord is to draw on the familiar.

So, I'm wondering, what's your favorite angsty scene in a movie? It doesn't have to be a Christmas movie, though it gets double points if it's a Christmas scene from a movie. I'm not talking sad endings. NOOOOOO! I'm talking the moment in the story when you burst into tears and swore if Party A and Party B didn't get their happy ending you were going to write you Senator or boycott the studio.

Or, if you can't think of a movie, a song (include artist and the lyric that hits you hardest) that makes you tear up.

For me, the movie is coming up blank, though it might be the scene from Latter Days where Christian gives Aaron's watch to Aaron's mother. WAH! And the song is the Steven Curtis Chapman song, "All I Really Want for Christmas." The lyric that gets me:

All I really want for Christmas
Is someone who'll be here
To wish me happy birthday
For the next one hundred years
I don't care if they're not perfect
Even if they're a little broken
That's all right
So am I. *sniff*

So, in the name of angsty fic, what are y'all's faves? And, um, y'know, I'mma heading to work right now and love sneaking on to read comments, but don't know if I'll get a chance to reply right off.

You guys... *blushes*.. made of awesome.