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Author: Dark Habit

Status: Non-canon

Timestamp: 5 years post-Beacon graduation

The Marriage of Wolf and Hawk

Azure's POV

"Are you sure you don't want to wear white?"

Morgana, you may be my fiance's little sister, but I do have a limit. I was looking for a wedding dress along with Haley and Morgana, but if anything, they undersell just how hard it was to find the one.

"The white dress at a wedding is meant to state the bride is pure. Need I remind you that I am not pure in any sense of the word?"

Morgana blushes when she gets what I implied. "Please don't talk about what you do with Dracul behind close doors."

I smirk. "Oh, we do plenty when not behind close doors. Can I talk about those? There was that one time I borrowed Blake's weapon..." Morgana goes a shade of red I didn't think was physically possible.

Fortunately, Haley finally intervenes. "Please stop mentally scarring your future sister-in-law. I'm just glad that Rex finally proposed to you. you two have been married in all but name since we were still students."

I roll my eyes. "I get it, we wouldn't admit it for ages. Still, that just leaves Jason as the last of our team to marry. I think Velvet's been taking notes." I know she's getting tired of him dragging his feet.

"You never told us, how exactly did he propose?"

I laugh. "You think it was a grand gesture? No, it was pretty simple. All that happened was-"

Another day, another crook behind bars and another paycheck in my pocket. Hm, its been a while. Maybe Dracul and I can find a lovely little restaurant to eat at. After we started dating, I started calling him by his first name; something he only allows his me and his sister do.

I open the door to our apartment and was greeted by the smell of blood. "Extermination mission go wrong?"

Dracul walks in the room, still trying to wipe blood off his face with a wet cloth. "No, I just got too close to a certain hammer wielding berserker when she decided to, in her words, 'get the high score.'

"Nora always goes overboard."

Giving up on getting the blood off without a proper shower, he tosses the cloth into a bin to wash later. However, his body language shifts. Is he getting nervous?

He walks over to me. "I've been meaning to ask you something important. We've been together for a long time, and have been dating for years. I was hoping you'd be willing to take the next step with me." He pulls out a black box and drops onto one knee.

My heart starts speeding up. No way, is he actually?

He opens the box revealing a ring. "Azure Raptor, will you marry me?"

I feel like my heart is going to jump out of my chest. "Yes!" I rush forward to grab him and start kissing him.

Azure Rex. I think I could get used to the sound of that.

Haley was staring at me. "You're telling me he proposed to you while covered in Grimm blood?"

"I told you it wasn't going to be something grand."

Morgana starts to smile. "In a way, I can't imagine my brother doing something else. He was big on showing his love in the small ways. It was a moment for just the two of you. He would make it romantic with the act itself."

"And that's part of why I love him." All of a second my eye catches a certain dress. "What abut this one?" I hold it up in front of me.

The two take one look and reply in sync. "It's perfect."

I am freaking out. "I can't do this. Why couldn't we simply elope and be done with this? Therearegoingtobesomanypeopleandallthoseeyesonme-"

Haley grabs me. "Breathe Azure. You're about ready to pass out."

I try to stop hyperventilating. "How did you and Terra put up with this?"

"We were nervous too. Just remember the important questions. One: do you love Rex?"

"Of course I do."

"Two: do you want to spend your life with him?"

"More than anything."

She gives a gentle smile. "Then you will be fine."

"A-hem."

We turn around to see Qrow standing at the door. "Ladies, we do need to leave in the next ten minutes unless you want to be late."

I direct my thoughts towards him. Do you realize just stressful this day is?

He winks. Asshole. Why did I ask you to be the one to give me away again? Oh, right. My other option was Thamior...

Rex's POV

"How nervous are you, Rex? You're tensing up really badly."

He finds this hilarious. "Jason, when it is your turn, remember I will repay in full what you do to me today. This is more terrifying than any battle will ever be."

"Well, do your damn meditation trick and calm down. Everyone besides you two have been waiting years for today and there is no way I'm letting you escape this by passing out."

"There will be no mer-" Suddenly the doors open and everything stops for me a I see Azure walk in.

Azure was wearing a deep blue wedding dress. The bottom was abridged, so it only came a few inches below her knee. A golden wolf was embroidered over her heart. Overall the dress looked simple, but she radiated beauty wearing it.

She changed up her hair as well. She dyed two streaks into it; one gold, one blue. They were braided together and hung over her shoulder.

However, everything paled in comparison to the smile on her face.

Snapping back to reality, I hear the music playing as she walks down the to altar, flanked by Haley.

A soon as she is standing in front of me, I direct my thought to her. (You look stunning.) Her smile only widened.

We stand there as the priest goes through the ceremony. Eventually the time come to say our vows.

I turn to face Azure. "Azure, you have saved me from the pit of my despair. I promise to make your life happy no matter what. When you need me, I will always be at your side. My love for you will never disappear."

Azure smiles and responds. "Dracul, our love for each other is the greatest treasure I will ever have. I will always be faithful to you and stay with you beyond this life into the next."

"By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss-" The priest stumbles when Azure rushes to kiss me. "... the husband?"

The two of us were silently laughing at his reaction to Azure ignoring tradition.

Azure's POV

After we retreated to the reception afterwards, everyone started celebrating with the sheer ridiculousness only Hunters could pull off. Haley's twin dragons were flying around, Nora was being, well, Nora, Ruby was figuratively everywhere, Blake was literally everywhere, Weiss had conjured several full sized ice sculptures of everyone, and somebody, I think it was Yang, set the curtains on fire. That was the first hour. Morgana was having the time of her life, though.

I mutter to Dracul. "We shouldn't have provided alcohol." Dracul pauses to look at his wineglass, which he had yet to touch. (They probably would have brought it themselves.)

Thankfully the chaos had lulled to a stop. Well, not stopped, but it was manageable for sanity. That was when Jason stood up and cleared his throat, catching just about everyone's attention. "I would like to give a few words about our man of the hour here."

Several of the people in the audience, including Thamior, start chanting, "speech, speech, speech!"

Jason smiles. "I'll admit, when I first met Rex, I thought he was an asshole." People start chuckling, as Dracul's personality definitely takes getting used to. "Well, after getting to know him over the course of the last decade, I can firmly state- I was right." Laughter breaks out, and Dracul smiles.

"In all seriousness, once you move past his habit of getting you mad, he is a great friend. To me, he became a brother that I had never realized I had wished for. If you had a problem, he would make it his problem.

"There were some times I wished he didn't though. When I started developing a crush on Velvet for instance." Yang makes a catscall and Velvet nervously waves at the attention, sparking a new round of laughter. "Yeah, his eventual idea to help me was to throw me headfirst into the situation. Not a metaphor, he actually tossed me into Velvet!"

Dracul raises a finger. "First, do not deny you enjoyed the free skip to second base." More laughter. "Second, Azure's plan was to handcuff the two of you together in a locked room... with aphrodisiacs. Third, I was tired of watching you two dance around the issue, and yes, I am aware of the irony."

After that, it took a few seconds before the laughter quieted down enough for Jason to continue. "Speaking of that irony, how were you oblivious enough to not realize that this girl who was perfect for you in every way was pining for you?" I immediately flip off Jason, prompting more chuckles. "Proving my point right there. It took way too much before you finally wised up to that situation. Though you continued to be so slow in moving through the steps. I honestly expected to hear you had a kid on the way before you the day you two walked down the aisle. On that note; Yang, I'll pay you tomorrow." Once more everyone starts to laugh.

Jason raises his wineglass, with everyone following suit. "So here's to you on your wedding day, Rex. You are quite the son of a bitch in every meaning!" A large round of cheers and applause followed.

Eventually, things calmed down enough, and music started to play. Dracul and I take the floor, and the two of us dance for the first time as a married couple. I end up placing my head on his chest and listen to his heart beat. "This is absolutely perfect." I hear a loud crash and look over to see Nora laying on what used to be an ice statue of team DRAB. "Nora!"

"Thamior tossed me!"

Still worth it. Dracul raises his hand to my chin and lifts my head. "Of course it is. Its our day." He leans in and kisses me.

AN: Hope everyone enjoyed that.

Writing the vows sucked. I could have released this last Wednesday if it wasn't the fact I couldn't find the right way to express their love for each other. I am still not truly satisfied with them, but I don't think I can do better.

Perhaps its fitting this way... to quote from Traitor by Matthew Stover, "Those are only words. They are half-truths. Less. They are lies. The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it."

Funny story, I actually looked up wedding dress designs in public when making Azure's and my friends gave me the weirdest looks when they saw my laptop screen.