*Come Little Ari – I'll take thee away*
Preface
"No!" Grace cried, her voice screaming out into the night.
But no screaming, nor even the breaking of her own heart was going to change what had happened. Ari was dead and there was no bringing him back.
The wedding came to a close with some final congratulations to Danny and Kate, the Rabi and the Wedding Planner among them leaving with open hearts.
When the were finally all alone, Phoebe glanced at Kate, wondering whether or not she should ask the question she had been longing to ever since she'd seen them kiss at the fake-wedding.
"It wasn't fake…was it?" she asked with a tone that suggested she already knew the answer.
"No," Kate replied, smiling through fresh shining tears of joy. "We signed the marriage licence after all."
"Yep," Danny agreed. "Kate's officially my wife. Though what people will say about Eros getting married will be interesting. Especially father. Telling father will be interesting."
"Not as interesting as you might think," came a choked voice from behind them.
All four turned to see Leo who indeed looked quite a sight. His face was white and splotchy, clearly he'd been crying.
"What do you-?" Kate began.
"Leo, what's wrong?!" Phoebe interrupted her, racing to his side, almost feeling his pain as though the oracle itself had spelled it out to her.
"It's…" Leo began, struggling to find the words.
"Leo?" Danny questioned. "Where's mom?"
"It…it all happened so fast," Leo choked.
"What did?!" All three demanded in unison.
"It's Ari," he replied. "He's…dead."
"*"
This was just a very quick one-shot for my own personal struggle to deal with the show being cancelled so abruptly. If you'd like me to continue however, leave me a review and let me know and I'll see what I can do. Personally, I never liked Ari, but the pain Grace experienced – I swear I felt it. Ridiculous that we wont see more.