I'm a big fan of Not Going Out. I really enjoyed watching the Christmas Special this year and was glad to see Lee and Lucy getting married in the episode. Plus Tim returning to be Lee's best man was one of my favourite moments as well. However I felt after watching it, there should have been a reception scene and honeymoon scenes for Lee and Lucy. So I've decided to do a fanfic on the aftermath of the wedding and set it during the reception and the honeymoon. Hope this is okay, as it's my first attempt at writing a NGO fic.

Not Going Out: The Power of Love

Wedding Reception - Chapter 1

While friends and family were in attendance at the Wedding Reception, drinking and nibbling on the food. Lee now felt like the luckiest man alive, after marrying the woman he secretly loved for 6 years. So much so he couldn't stop grinning, this didn't go unnoticed, as Lucy and Tim soon both acknowledged his relaxed and cheerful mood.

"My best mate's all grown up and finally become a man." Tim proudly mentioned, which earned a I'm suppose to say that, cos I'm his father look from Frank.

"Of course I've grown up, well it was a tough job for 40+ years walking around, after formerly being known as Eileen and then having to change my name to Lee, to avoid being chatted up by the male staff in Subway." Lee made one of his typical remarks.

"God I've missed this." Tim admitted, once he came to realize how much, he had missed the catching ups with his best mate in the local bar. Well working in Germany hadn't exactly been a barrel of fun for him, over the last two years.

"Missed what?" The groom asked.

"Me and you...you know the banter talk. The football talk, me helping you out with one of your latest sticky situations..." Tim turned to his sister, reassuring he wasn't referring to her. "And by that, I don't mean you Lucy...honest. Still I'm glad you two finally got your damn bloody act together and got married."

Lee was touched by his best friend's comments. Lucy then gave his hand a squeeze and they soon both gazed affectionately into each other's eyes. Tim smiled to himself, he was absolutely delighted for the both of them, seeing as it was a touching moment to witness between the newly-weds.

Frank leant in behind him and gave him a tap on the shoulder, even though they were sitting alongside each other. Lee's very proud father looked like he had something rather important, he wanted to get off his chest and ask his fellow Best Man.

Before he could get the chance to speak, Tim foiled his chance to blurt out what he wished to ask him. "If you're going to ask me to do a dance off with you Frank...then yes the answer is...of course I would be more than happy to take you on, on the dance-floor and show off my best dance moves. I've been waiting to get them out ever since that night back in 1994, me and Lee won a contest for...Best Twerking. You know me and Lee might have invented it 20 years earlier."

"Bring it on, Timothy. How about...the winner gets to bang the bridesmaid." Frank's excitement and confidence was growing by every minute.

"Blimey we haven't even got to the speeches yet and Tim and my dad are behaving like squabbling auditioning contestants for the next series of Britain's Got Talent." Lee didn't want their bickering to get in the way of the important father of the bride and best man speeches, otherwise Geoffrey might wade in with some father to father advice, to give to Frank.

"Go on Tim. Twerk him off the floor." Daisy giggled as she willingly cheered her man on. Needless to say, she wasn't helping matters by shouting aloud.

"How much has Daisy had to drink?" Lucy asked her new husband. The two of them were eager to head off on honeymoon.

"I've lost count. Although I'm sure I did overhear her, asking the vicar if he's actually Wayne Sleep in disguise." Lee enlightened her on part of a brief conversation, which he had overheard between Daisy and the Vicar at the church.

"No, that vicar definitely reminded me more of Tommy Cannon." Lucy shared her thought. Lee seemed to agree with her on this, with a nod of agreement.

"I don't want to alarm you Lee but your second best man is playing footsie under the table with Daisy." Lee and Lucy both watched on in surprise and amusement, once the two of them acknowledged the cheeky grin expressed across Frank's face. Eventually they both averted their eyes away from this awkward witnessed moment and retained eye to eye contact with Tim again. "I think he's pushing his luck, if he thinks he can win my Daisy over. She's an animal in bed,and he wouldn't be able to contain her, like I can. She gave me the nickname The Master Tim-inator"

Lucy couldn't resist laughing, as soon as her brother mentioned his ridiculous sounding nickname. "Sorry to say this ...but you're more of a Robotnator than a Master Tim-inator...whatever the hell that means. I'm sure mum and dad can back me up on this. "

"She's got a point there mate...sorry.." Lee happily agreed with his wife, sporting a cheeky smile.

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Once the two most important speeches were given and with the wedding guests and the happy couple still recuperating from Geoffrey's absolute tearjerker of a speech. Geoffrey recounted one occasion where he punched Lee and another occasion where he criticized Lee for hardly caring about his own father, even though Lee's father did seem to behave like a silly old headache causer.

Flashback:

Geoffrey can't bear the thought of seeing another man even an unmotivated man like Lee, getting Wendy in such a happy dancing mood. So he makes his move to reclaim back the love of his life and surprisingly floors Lee with an unexpected punch to the face.

"Although I always may have believed you were a right lazy bugger, who got his kicks from admiring Rachel Riley far too much whenever I happened to invite myself into the flat while you were watching Countdown.

Flashback

Lee standing patiently in the flat doorway,wearing a Football top, shorts and a tracksuit jacket greeted Lucy's father, in the only way he constantly preferred to greet visitors to the flat, with one of his chirpy comments. "Alright Geoffrey, don't tell me...you've come here hoping to pick five consonants and four vowels. Because I've already used them, for my Alphabet spaghetti dinner.."

"Lucy's right about you, you must love that chair more than Cristiano Ronaldo when he loves to celebrate a goal by taking his top off and roaring like a tiger."

"That's a nice compliment. Normally when I score on Fifa 2014, I run about the flat and pretend I'm a plane crashing into Godzilla."

"Oh for goodness sake! I guess Lucy isn't here, otherwise she would have probably played peacemaker and locked us both in the bedroom together, so we can sort out our differences once and for all." Geoffrey wondered whether he had made a mistake coming over to visit his daughter, seeing as her layabout lodger was asking for a punch, if he wouldn't put a stop to the attempted blokes talk.

"I'm flattered Geoffrey that you mentioned the bedroom, however I'm afraid I'm already taken by the sofa." Lee pointed out.

"What you need is the love of a woman. God help whoever she is." Geoffrey left as soon as he possibly could. Lee stood where he was, looking thoughtful. Maybe Toby was right, over the last couple of years someone did need to give a kick up in the arse, so just he could affirm his feelings for the woman of his dreams. Well he had Geoffrey to thank for that, even if Lucy's grumpy dad didn't know it yet.

Finally he revealed because of a touching change of heart, he was now looking forward to calling him his son-in-law to officially welcoming his son-in-law into the family. Just as long as he didn't make any jokes while playing golf with him, after he and Lucy return from their honeymoon.

"You know Geoffrey should consider a career as a comedian someday. I'm surprised I'm only the one who's thinking this right now." She shared her opinion with everyone at the wedding table, some of whom were still teary eyed.

"Sod this, I'm in the mood for another bottle of champagne?" Wendy tried to boost her spirits, by announcing her desire to sample a glass or two another of this fine sparkling champagne.

"Yeah you go girlfriend" Daisy excitedly cheered Lucy's mother on, in the excitement of everything that was happening right at that moment.

At around 7pm, while the guests were all gathering on the dance floor and eventually observed on - each individual guest expressively looked delighted, as Lee and Lucy were now sharing their first traditional dance together as a married couple. It was very romantic to witness, even though the couple of the moment weren't exactly experts at normal dancing.

"God Lee you're shaking like jelly." She softly whispered to him.

"Never mind me, you're shaking more than I do after coming off a treadmill. Good job Craig Revel Horwood isn't watching our dance, if he was and he criticized it, I'd happily persuade Bruno and Len to team up together and ask them to decide between themselves, who should shove one those seven flippers up Craig's arse as part of my revenge." Lee jokingly suggested, this witty comment he had mentioned suddenly resulted in, Lucy bursting out crying with laughter.

"Good plan." She smiled, before casing her arms and resting her head against the side of his neck. While they danced, in the background outside the nearby window. Frank annoyed Tim, by playing with and flicking his braces. So Tim chased after him and Daisy hand gestured for fist cuffs. Tim was chasing after him, presumably he wanted to teach Lee's father a lesson, for the way he had been behaving mischievously today but Frank seemed to be one step ahead of him, by climbing up a nearby tree.

"Come down you big girls blouse, otherwise I will have no other choice but to send you flying from here up to Scotland, with only your braces for support." Tim tried to notify the silly bugger of this. This request didn't sink in with Frank, so Tim decided to tickle his legs.

Their comical actions ended up catching the attention of the wedding guests. Lee and Lucy quickly tried to regain and divert the guests attention, by performing an upbeat dance to Eternal Flame. Which only just managed to do the trick. Lee's confidence grew greatly, so much so he was shaking his hips like there was no tomorrow.

End of Chapter

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