Here's chapter two… more random words, more Alex/Sabina love! :) I'd say this is set about one year after the last one, where Sabina suggests that Alex should be a cop.

I did a lot of research and spent all night on this! I hope you enjoy it!

And you know I don't own a thing! Alex Rider belongs to the great Anthony Horowitz, and rightfully so!


Raise

Alex, Sabina, and Sabina's mother, Elizabeth Pleasure, are meeting with Elizabeth's friend Katherine. Katherine Brauer is a San Francisco area event planner, with twenty years of experience.

Edward and Elizabeth offered to pay for the wedding. Sabina was their only child, of course. And even though they had been Alex's legal guardians, he'd never been a son to them. Always like a son-in-law. Sabina and Alex had been romantically involved even before Jack's death, so Alex was their daughter's live-in boyfriend who they'd become legally responsible for. They always worried that the two would end up in one bedroom during the middle of the night. And unbeknownst to Sabina's parents, they had; on more than one occasion. But all that had happened when the two were teenagers. After they graduated from college, the two lived in their own apartment together. When Alex had proposed, it felt like destiny. And the Pleasures were more than happy to make this marriage happen.

Katherine started, "So, this is a bit of an unusual situation. Under the law's eyes, the pair of you would be considered siblings."

"Wait, we can still get married, right?" asked Sabina worriedly. She began nervously turning her engagement ring around and around on her finger.

"Well, we'll have to look into it, but I don't think it will be a problem." replied Katherine.

"We didn't adopt Alex, and the two aren't biologically related anyway!" added Elizabeth.

Alex was starting to get angry. "I am twenty five years old! Yes, the Pleasures were my legal guardians, but that ended when I turned eighteen."

Katherine raised her voice, "Like I said, I don't think it will be a problem. Let's get back on topic. Have you given any thought to the date and possible venues?"

Sabina directed the question at Alex "What about March fourth? Wouldn't it be sweet to get married on my parents' anniversary? And that's, what, eight months away. Definitely enough time to plan a wedding without feeling rushed!"

Alex thought about that date, 4 March, it sounded familiar. Someone's birthday? No. It was the day Ian Rider died, eleven years ago now. Would he actually get married on the twelfth anniversary of his uncle's death? But Sabina didn't know that. If this was the wedding date she envisioned, then why couldn't he just let her have it? This might actually be a good thing: as a sort of tribute to Ian, the man who raised him. Besides, if Ian had lived, then it's all quite possible that Alex would never have even met Sabina.

"The fourth is perfect." Alex responded, taking Sabina's hand in his.


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Alex had never been to an outdoor wedding before. This sort of thing would have been unheard of in March in Chelsea, where he'd grown up. Yet here Alex was, standing in a big white tent, facing the aisle, waiting for his bride.

Katherine, the wedding planner, had assured them that an outdoor wedding would work, even in March when the average temperature was about sixty degrees. They'd gotten lucky today, March fourth, it was a sunny sixty-five degrees. They'd set up a tent in Lincoln Park, a place that overlooked the South Bay and that had amazing views of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Alex looks over the guests. They'd invited several of the police officers Alex works with, along with people that work at the fitness club where Sabina works as a personal trainer. Also among their guests are a few friends that they'd met in high school and college. Alex sees several of Sabina's relatives: aunts, uncles, and cousins who have flown in from England. He feels a slight pang of jealously and mourning. He tries to imagine what it would be like if his mother and father, uncle Ian, and former housekeeper and guardian Jack Starbright were here, alive. Sure, these relatives of Sabina's would be his family at the end of this ceremony, but it wasn't the same.

Sabina's relatives weren't the only ones who'd flown in from England. Tom Harris, his best man, was standing right beside him. Derek Smithers, John Crawley, and Ben 'Fox' Daniels are in attendance as well. Paul Drevin also flew from New York to San Francisco for the wedding. Even Jack Starbright's mother was here, though she hadn't met Alex in person before. She brought along her new husband, as she'd remarried after Jack's father passed away. Alex and Sabina sent invitations to Mrs. Jones, who declined but sent a gift in congratulations, and Jerry Harris, who informed the couple that he couldn't make it because his wife was pregnant and her due date was in March. Alex tried to invite Wolf, but Fox notified him that Wolf had died on a mission in India five years ago.

It was a small wedding, with less than fifty guests. They didn't have a flower girl or a ring bearer, as the couple was not close with anyone who had young children.

Sabina's friend, Ashley, made her way down the aisle in a red dress. Ashley was among the girls that Sabina had traveled to Cancun with. She carried a bouquet of white orchids. Tied to the flowers with a red ribbon was a ring. The ring that Alex was to place on Sabina's finger currently resided within Tom's jacket pocket.

As the violinist the Pleasures hired begins to play the Bridal Chorus, the guests rise. All eyes are on Sabina as her father walks her down the aisle. She is wearing her dream dress, a one-shouldered lace A-line. Alex can't take his eyes off of her and his smile is a mile wide.

After the ceremony and reception, which included dancing, cake, and even fireworks, Alex drives Sabina back to their apartment in a white BMW convertible, borrowed from a friend on the police force. He carries her over the threshold. Tomorrow the newlyweds are going to fly out to Australia, one country Alex actually would have enjoyed, had he not been involved with the Snakehead at the time.

"Let's get you out of that tie." said Sabina suggestively as she removed it from his neck.

"Let's get you out of that dress." replied Alex with a grin.


Affection

The next day, at the airport, Sabina pulls Alex in for a kiss. "Last night was amazing, we need to keep it up all week." she whispers.

Though Alex is excited for that prospect, a week of honeymoon sex, he is displeased at his wife's very flirty move. "We're at the airport, dear."

"So? We're on our honeymoon!"

"You know how I feel about public displays of affection."

"Why are you so afraid of people seeing us kiss? You, my husband, are a great kisser!" she smiles.

Alex can't resist smiling back.


Yep, those were really long! And there were only 3. Sorry! I promise that next chapter I'll get back to doing these 'drabble' style.

As I was coming up with wedding guests it made me think, 'dang, how many of the people in the tent have been shot at some point in the series?' My answer: too many!

I don't write sex scenes. But yes I was implying all throughout this story that Alex and Sabina have been sexually active since high school. And that they'd only ever been with each other.

And sorry I killed off Wolf!

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