Since I ended up with that time skip in You Can't Fight Destiny, there were a lot of things that I skipped over. Including the Kolvina and Marbekah weddings. I'll probably also post the Freelin wedding here, for consistency.

First up is Kolvina. Their plan was just to elope, but Caroline, Josh, and the Mikaelsons have other ideas.

~Operation Wedding Crash~

Josh stared at his phone. An email. Davina had sent him an email. That was certainly new. And what in the world was up with that subject line? "So, this happened…"? Even more curious, it had been sent to both him and Marcel. It couldn't be an emergency. She would have called, or dropped a note directly into his pocket with magic.

So, as curious as he was, he forced himself to stay at the bar and keep working. It wasn't until he closed up for the night and went upstairs that he let himself pull out his laptop and open the email.

Only to be greeted by a picture of a beaming Davina, holding up her left hand to show off a rather impressive diamond ring. It was captioned "I said yes." She went on to ask Marcel to give her away and told Josh that she understood that he wouldn't be able to be there, but she still wanted him to be the first to know.

He wiped at the tears that started to form. This was what he hadn't really considered when he agreed to be Elijah's bodyguard. Hayley had tried to warn him that they were asking him to give up his life for this. But, it didn't really occur to him what that would really mean. Not until he was presented with not being at his best friend's wedding.

And then Elijah walked in. "Josh? What's wrong?"

Josh closed his laptop. He wasn't quite sure why, but he didn't want Elijah to see Davina's picture. The odds of it triggering some memory were very slim, but some instinct told him to keep Elijah away from any part of his old life. "My best friend sent me an email, today. She's getting married. In Chicago."

"And you're crying because…?"

"Because I can't exactly go, can I? I mean, I'm supposed to be looking out for you." He sighed. "That came out wrong. I didn't mean to blame you. I just never expected this. I'm sorry. I do not, for one second, regret being there for you. But, I realized just now that I miss her."

Elijah smiled at him. "And you're in tears over the thought of missing her wedding. I don't know, it seems to me like she's more than just a friend."

"My family wasn't exactly very accepting when I came out. I haven't spoken to any of them in longer than I can remember. I mean, shit! None of them even came looking for answers when I died. Dee is a witch, who also has nothing to do with her family for various reasons. I met her after the man that took her in when she ran away accidentally turned me. I was twenty, she was sixteen. It's funny, in a way. I'm a vampire, she's a witch. But, with each other, we could ignore all that. We were a couple of kids just trying to hold on in a world turned upside down and crazy. We were each other's one tiny piece of normalcy. I say that she's my best friend. But, that's just on paper. You're right. She's more than that. She's my sister. Not because my Sire considers her his daughter, but because I love her."

"And now she's getting married. And you think that you can't be there for her." There was a pause. "Have I ever met her?"

Josh shook his head. "She knows about you, obviously. So, she understood when I called her to tell her that I needed to get you out of the country. But, no. You never actually met."

Elijah seemed satisfied with that answer, but Josh knew that the time was quickly coming when he was going to need to come up with a story about how they met. And why Elijah trusted him so much.

"You should go."

"I'm not leaving you. If something happens while I'm gone…"

"Josh, you've given up so much for me. You packed up and moved halfway across the planet, because that was what I needed to be safe. I don't know why you did it, and right this minute, it isn't important. What is important is that your little sister is getting married. And I would never forgive myself if you missed it because you were busy babysitting me. I think I can take care of myself for a few days. So far, the most threatening thing to come around is Antoinette. And it's not like I don't have somewhere I can go to get away from her. Please, don't let me take your entire life from you."

Josh had to smile. Maybe Elijah was right. And actually… "All right, I'll go. But first, there's something I need you to do for me."

~Operation Wedding Crash~

"So, are we really going to let Kol and Davina get married in City Hall, with nobody but Marcel there?"

Josh laughed. Leave it to Caroline to jump right in to the matter at hand. "Well, they don't know it, but I'll be there, too. I'm going to surprise them."

The things he did for this family - his family. Like sitting in his office downstairs at some ridiculous time of the morning so he could be a part of a group Skype call at a time that was good for everyone else. Without Elijah hearing any of it. When had this become his life?

"Are you sure that's a good idea, Joshua? I'm not sure I like the idea of leaving Elijah all alone."

"I have been informed that he will never forgive himself if I miss my little sister's wedding because I'm busy babysitting him. And since I'm here more to protect his sanity than anything else, I'm not sure that making him hate himself is really the best way to go about that."

"Fine! So, they'll have Marcel and Josh. Still. That's hardly a real wedding. And they deserve better than that. They went through so much to be together. Hell! They both literally died, for Christ's sake! Kol died twice. They deserve a real wedding, with the people they love all there to celebrate with them."

"Yes, well, since most of the people they love can't be in the same city as Kol, that makes things a bit difficult, doesn't it, love?"

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Have you forgotten what I do for a living? Just because your bodies can't be in the same city as Kol, that doesn't mean you can't be at his wedding. I can send my two best Astral Projection students to New York and Los Angeles. Now, what to do about this City Hall nonsense? Obviously, Davina is wishing for more than that. I mean, she didn't just invite Marcel to the wedding. She asked him to give her away. Not exactly something that's done in a City Hall wedding."

"I agree. She deserves the white dress and the flowers, and for Kol to be waiting for her at the end of the aisle that Marcel walks her down. So does he, for that matter. It took him a thousand years to find her. He deserves to stand there, with Nik at his side, and to see her walking towards him."

"Maybe I can convince her of that. Maybe even get her to come visit us so that Rebekah can take her dress shopping."

"Do that! Freya, I'm going to assume that you don't need my students' help to get you there? Or are you and Hayley going to actually go physically? Since you can?"

"I'm going to project in. After all, I kind of murdered the bride. If either of them don't want me there, it will be easy for me to wink out. And they might be less inclined to be honest about it if I actually traveled all that way to see them. Hayley?"

"I… I don't know what I'm going to do, yet."

"Well, I know for a fact that Hope can project herself. She's come to see me that way."

"Maybe I'll meet up with Hope at the school? That way, if she can't project both of us, we can get a student to help, but I won't be insulting her abilities by just assuming she can't do it."

"Well then. It sounds like Operation Wedding Crash is a go. Marcel, as father of the bride, is going to convince the happy couple to let him give them as close to a real wedding as can be managed under the circumstances. Caroline is going to arrange transportation for most of our uninvited guests. Freya and Hope will take care of the rest."

"Operation Wedding Crash?"

"Well, since none of us were actually invited, technically we're all crashing it. It seems fitting. Let me have my fun, Klaus."

"Well, actually, you were invited. She's just assuming you wouldn't be able to go."

"She never actually invited me. She said she understood that I wouldn't be able to go. And, I have no intention of RSVPing. So, I'm still crashing. Let. Me. Have. My. Fun. Marcel."

"Have the past few months been boring, Josh?"

"No. I'm just feeling a bit punchy, is all. Been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster. Finding out that Davina is getting married, realizing I can't go, being told under no uncertain terms that I have to go. And, right now it's late, and I'm downstairs in my office because if Elijah overhears all of this…"

"So, really the problem is that the past couple days, at least, have been anything but boring."

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Go on and get some sleep. Now that we have a rough plan figured out, we can do the rest of this through text messages. And all you can really do from your end is make sure that you're there. I'll text you the details in plenty of time for you to make arrangements."