Title: Future Forged
Author: R1 Max/FangZeronos/FangJoker/GokaiRed
Couple/Character: Raven/Beast Boy. Hints of Robin/Starfire, Cyborg/Bumblebee, Speedy/Jinx
Short Summary: As their wedding day draws closer, Raven and Garfield get a few blasts from the past, culminating into their wedding.
"Are you sure about this?" Raven-who was holding the eleven month old Angel in her arms as she sat outside of the dressing room-asked her fiancée, Garfield Logan, who was currently behind the closed door trying on a tuxedo.
"No, not really, but has that ever stopped me?" Gar asked,. laughing as he looked at his reflection in the full length mirror. "Hmm...does this give new meaning to the term, monkey suit?" He was fighting with the silver tie, and he started remembering how he'd asked Raven to marry him a few months before.
Garfield knocked on the door to his and Ravens bedroom, since she'd been locking herself in there for a few hours on end a few days a week to meditate. He didn't have to worry about where his daughter was, since Starfire and Robin were there with Serafina, their own daughter of a year. The two babies were playing while Starfire watched them, but that wasn't his concern at that point.
"Come in," Raven's voice-slightly irritated as it got when she was interrupted with her meditation-answered.
Cautiously stepping into the room in the concern that he was about to get blasted into green goo, Gar smiled as he looked at the hovering Raven. "Hey," he said, shaking his slight fear away. He moved and sat on the bed, making sure to sit right under her.
"Hey," Raven said, said, lowering herself down onto her long-time boyfriends lap. She snuggled up close to him, putting her arms around his waist. "What's up, my love?" She rested her head on his neck, and she kissed his jaw.
"Well...I'd been thinking, and yes I know that's a dangerous thing," Gar said, laughing as he smiled at Raven. He put his arm around her waist, and he pulled her ever closer to him. "I got to talking to Robin, and he asked me why I hadn't married you yet. He said that I'd already given you a good life and a beautiful baby girl, and he offered to help me with something, so I took the offer."
He smiled as he reached into his pocket, and he pulled out a diamond ring that seemed to sparkle in the light coming from the lamp on the nightstand. "Raven...will you marry me?" He smiled at the woman that was his everything, the woman that he loved, and the mother of his daughter, and he hoped to High Heaven and whatever Deities were out there that she said yes.
Raven grinned and kissed Garfield as he slid the ring on her finger, basically giving him all of the confirmation that he needed. She smiled against his lips, and she put her arms around his neck and linked her hands behind him. "Of course I'll marry you, you dork," she said, grinning. "You've already given me three things that I never want to lose: eternal love, a wonderful daughter, and something that I look forward to waking up to every morning."
As Garfield thought about that day, Angel's giggling broke him out of his reverie and his trip down Memory Lane, he smiled as he got the tie done. HE smoothed it out and slid his feet into a pair of dress shoes. He looked at himself in the mirror, and he nodded.
"Hey, babe?" he asked, calling out to her.
"Angel, not Mama's hair, baby. Angel, stop. That hurts," Raven said, trying to pull her long hair out of her daughters iron grip. "Thank you..." She shook her head and put her hair up in a ponytail so that Angel would stop playing with it, and she held up the rattle that she loved. "What's up, baby?"
"I think I got it. I like this one. It's simple enough, but at the same time, it has a small sense of elegance that we're both going to need for the wedding. I think that I'll go with this one," Gar said, already in the process of taking the tuxedo off and hanging it back up.
"Alright. I'll put Angel in her seat and get ready then. You do have the credit card, yes?" Raven asked, starting to strap her daughter into the car seat.
"Of course. It's in your purse. I put it in there this morning since I didn't want to lose it," Gar said, stepping out of the dressing room with his black tux draped over his arm as he walked to kiss his fiancé on the cheek. "Hi."
Raven smiled, and she stood up after putting her daughter in the seat. She turned and put her arms around Gar's shoulders, linking her hands on his neck. "Hi," she said, her voice low and slightly seductive as she kissed him, moaning a bit against his lips.
Gar smiled, and he smirked against her lips. "Mmm….someone's anxious," he whispered. "What's got you in a tizzy, my dear?"
"Well…I'm getting ready to get married to an amazing man, I've got the most amazing friends, a beautiful daughter that I wouldn't trade anything for, and I know that I'm going to have an amazing life when I get married to you, Garfield," Raven said, smiling as she put her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest softly.
"Well, I promise that we'll have a good life. We've got the Tower, the best friends in the world, and we're never really hurting for cash since Bruce is still funding the Titans though we're all off on our own," Gar said, giving Raven a squeeze. He heard Angel start getting a bit fussy, and he sighed softly. "What's wrong, Baby girl?" He pulled back from Raven and he shifted into his tiny housecat look, and he jumped up into the car seat with his daughter and purred as he nuzzled her cheek with his shoulder, looking at her with big green eyes.
"Papa!" she giggled.
Gar's eyes widened, and so did Ravens. She dropped her purse, the majority of its contents falling over the floor. Gar slid off of the car seat, and he turned back into his normal look.
"Did she-?" he started.
"-just talk?" Raven finished.
"Yes…yes she did!" both of them laughed and exclaimed at the same time.
They didn't get a chance to say much since people were flocking over to them to see the baby in all of her new-found talking glory. Gar shifted into something that would slightly frighten people away, and they backed off, letting them escape the shop in relatively one piece.
Back at Titans Tower, Robin and Starfire were sitting and talking with a very adamant Speedy that they go out with Raven and Garfield.
"Let me and Bee baby sit the girls tonight. You four go out and have some fun at Quartos tonight. When was the last time that the four of you went out and had some actual unadulterated fun?" Speedy asked, his bow and arrows locked away in a room off the main one.
"He's got a point, Star. We haven't been out in a long time, not since just before Sera was born. I think we've all earned one night," Dick said, looking at his wife.
"Dick…I don't know…I'm not sure that we should be doing the going out tonight. I don't want to leave our daughter alone tonight…" Star whispered, instinctively putting her arms around her two year old daughter, Serafina, before she nuzzled her cheek with her nose. "Don't want to…."
"Star, she'll be fine. We both know that Daniel will be fine. Sera's going to be fine. Baby, please," Dick said, putting his hand on Starfire's cheek. "Kori? Come on, It'll be us, Raven, and Gar, so nothing's going to happen."
At that moment, the other couple in question walked in. "What's going to by you guys, Raven, and Gar?" Raven asked, blinking a couple of times before Gar took off towards their room to put the Tux away.
"Will you two come out with us tonight? Dan said that he'd watch the girls. I told him to bring Jinx over if he wanted to keep him company, but that they had to stay in the Commons until we got home," Dick said. "Star doesn't really want to go and leave Sera, though."
Raven, seeing that she could normally get through to her only other female friend, walked over to the couch and took Sera from her. The small girl looked around curiously, and she looked down at Daniel, seeing what Raven did. She turned, the girl still in her hands, towards the one that most people knew as Speedy. Sera looked down, and she held her arms out and started cooing and making noises like she wanted down.
Daniel reached out and took Sera, the younger girl grasping his arms in her small ones, and she proceeded to play with his fingers. A satisfied Raven turned to Starfire once more, and sat beside her on the couch.
"Starfire. Look at me," Raven said. "We need to get out of the Tower. We've all been cooped up for a lot longer then we wanted. We need to go and have some fun. Gar and I are getting married in less then six months. We won't have time to do much after that. I know that. You and Dick have been married for almost two years. When was the last time that you two went out on your own?"
Starfire racked her brains, but she wasn't entirely sure. "I…"
"Exactly. This is going to be a good night for all of us. I know that it will be," Raven said. "Trust me." She smiled and gave her friend a hug, kissing her cheek softly. "You do trust me, don't you?"
'Of course I do," Starfire said, looking at her best friend. "I've always trust you."
"Good," Raven said. "Now, come, Starfire. We need to raid your closet to find two absolutely sexy dresses for our men for tonight."
Five hours later, the two couples were standing at the door, looking at Daniel and Jinx as they each held one of the kids. Beast Boy had combed his hair, trimmed his beard, and had put a tie on. That was the surprise for him.
Dick had settled for a red shirt that hugged him in the right places, Starfire noticed. He also had a pair of black slacks with his one pair of decent dancing shoes. His hair was slicked back, and for once, he wasn't wearing his standard and copyrighted Robin mask.
Starfire was also wearing her best form fitting dress, silver with a small black waistband. It hugged her curves in every single spot, and she'd done up her make up: black mascara with a smoky eyeliner, applied a set of press-on eyelashes, painted her fingernails and toenails a hot bubblegum pink, some bush on her cheeks. Her ever-fiery red hair had been combed and cut some, styled up into a ponytail that had some of it sticking out of the sides just behind her ears, which were sporting a pair of diamond earrings, part of her wedding gift from Raven. To top it off and make everyone swoon, she carried a silver handbag and wore open toed Roman style heels that closed the height gap between her and Dick.
Ravens outfit was the one that caught attention-not just from Garfield-but from Starfire, Jinx, Daniel, and Robin. She was adorned in a black backless dress that was held together at the top by a set of strings that draped down her back, stopping a few inches below her neck. Despite not looking like she was, she was wearing a bit of makeup, lightly applied blush and eye shadow, a dark blue eyeliner to accentuate her purple eyes, as well as a navy blue nail polish, lent to her by Starfire. Her hair was styled so that it bobbed as she walked, Starfire having brushed it through and washing it and combing it so that it had some volume and depth to it. Star had convinced her to wear a pair of sapphire earrings, despite her protests. Her shoulders were covered in a similarly colored blue shoulder wrap that set off of her eyes. Her shoes were lent to her by Starfire, a black single strap shoe that she could easily get out of if she tried.
As the girls walked over to the guys, Daniel and Jinx's mouths fell open. Daniel looked at the girls, and he had to blink. "Wow….you two look amazing," he said, smiling at them as he walked over and gave them hugs.
"Thanks, Dan," the girls said.
Raven sighed, and she took Angel for a minute from Jinx. "You be good, ok? Mama and Papa will be back tonight, sweetheart, then Papa can read you your sleepy-story," she said, giving her daughter a kiss on the forehead. "We love you."
She straightened up and while handing her daughter back to Jinx, looked at Daniel. She looked him point blank and put her hand on his shoulder. "Instructions for her bottle are on the fridge. Emergency numbers, mine and Gar's cells, Dick and Kori's cells, and Vic's too, just in case. She's to be in bed by about seven thirty, no later, and don't even think about sneaking off to do it, you two. Cameras are on. I left some money in the cabinet by the microwave if you want to order in a pizza. Please don't screw this up, Dan….me and Star are trusting you with our daughters lives. We're putting all of our trust and faith in you tonight. Please….don't fuck this up. We should be home around eleven," Raven said.
"I promise, Rae. I won't mess this up. I swear. If I do, I'll turn in my Titan Com and resign. You two are trusting me with your worlds….I won't let them get hurt. We'll keep them right here and watch some TV and movies. I know that Sera likes Disney. Go and have some fun, and we'll be right here when you get home," Daniel said, smiling at Raven before putting his hand on her shoulder in a reassuring manner. "Go."
"I'll call and check in about seven and make sure she's alright," Raven said, giving Daniel a hug before hugging Jinx and kissing her daughter again. "We'll be back later."
"Bye, you guys," Jinx said, hefting Angel up a bit higher as the duo of couples walked out of the Tower and towards the T-Car.
After the four ex-Titans showed up to the club, they were let right in. Dick took the girls towards a table while Garfield went to the bar and ordered some drinks for them. He couldn't help but think that something was wrong. He didn't know that he was right.
"Garfield," a scarily familiar voice sauntered, walking up to the suit-clad green-skinned Titan. "Gar…don't tell me that you don't remember me…"
Gar had a beer halfway up, and he paused, feeling his blood freeze in his veins. "Terra…?" he asked, turning a bit.
"Aww…you do remember me," the former Titan said, putting her manicured nails all over Gar's shoulders and face. "Did you miss me, baby?"
"Fuck no, Terra. You betrayed us and hurt me the most. Get the fuck away from me, you two-timing-bitch," Gar growled, pulling his body away from Terra. "Get away from me, Terra, and go back to whatever grave you crawled out of."
"Aw, come on, Gar…you know that you can't talk to me that way. Not your little Terra," she smirked, leaning in to kiss him.
Rae. Help me out here, babe. In a bit of a sitch. Gar said telepathically, trying to force Terra off of him.
Raven had been bobbing her head to the music and talking with Starfire when she heard her fiancé in her mind, and she sighed. She looked over at the bar, and her eyes flashed white. "That bitch," she growled.
"Raven?" Dick asked, turning and following Raven's gaze. "Terra."
"I'll deal with this fucking whore," Raven growled, slamming her purse on the table and vanishing through the floor. She reappeared next to Terra who had been inching ever closer to a struggling Garfield, and flung out her left hand, punching Terra in the face and leaving a good sized impression of her engagement ring.
Terra stumbled back, and her eyes flashed. "Hello, Raven. Miserable timing as always," she sneered, rubbing her jaw.
"Stay away from my fiancé, you two-timing bitch," Raven growled, looking at Terra before pulling Garfield up and slamming her lips onto his, giving him a deeper kiss then she'd ever given him before.
Terra growled, and she turned and stalked off out of the door, her eyes flashing as she did, trying to keep her powers in check. "One day, Raven. When you least expect it!" she growled, punching a car and sinking it into the ground.
Back in the club, Gar sighed as he laid his arms on the counter, his beer securely in his hands. He didn't realize that he was shaking until he felt Ravens hand on his.
"Gar, look at me," she whispered, fear evident in her eyes. "it's not your fault what happened. I don't blame you for any of this. I wish that she'd stay dead, but trust me…I want a crack at breaking her neck myself this time. Go on back to the table with the others. I'll get this round, baby." She kissed his cheek, clearly worried about him. She watched him walk back to the others, and she started searching around in his mind for a minute. What she saw made her proud. She could see the struggle in his mind about wanting to give in and kiss Terra, but the fact that he was getting married to Raven and hand a daughter stopped him from doing that and betraying her trust.
As Garfield got sat back down, Star and Dick could see the change in his demeanor very clearly. Apparently Terra had a bigger affect on him then the two thought. Starfire reached over and put her hand on Gar's, and she looked at him.
"Friend Garfield. Will you be alright?" she asked, sliding over Dick to sit next to him. "You look like you were struggling very much against her."
"Star…you don't know how bad I was fighting against letting it happen. I don't want to lose Raven's trust at all, and that's why I was fighting so hard to get away from her," Garfield said, patting Stars hand with his. "I'll be fine, Kor. I promise."
Starfire nodded, and she gave Garfield a kiss on the cheek before she moved back over to her husbands side, putting her arm around his and laying her head on his shoulder. She was worried about Garfield, and she knew that Terra-even after almost six years-was still a very sore and very open wound with him.
Raven came back to the table, and she looked at the tab and the drinks. "Alright, guys. Here we go," she said, setting one down in front of Starfire. "A Creamy Pflueger for Star, 5th Element for Dick, Amaretto Heartwarmer for me, and for Gar, Jack on the Rocks, especially after just now."
She sat next to her fiancé, and she put her hand on his. "Gar?"
"I don't want to talk about it, Rae. Not right now, please…." he whispered, focusing his eyes on his drink. He didn't want to really talk about it, since they were there for some fun, and he laid his head back on the booth.
Raven lowered her eyes, but she didn't give up. She put his arm around her shoulders and hugged herself close to him, planning on making him open up sometime. When the music changed into that of something faster and more upbeat, she smiled as she recognized the song. "Come on, Gar. I want to dance."
She pulled him up from the booth, dragging him to the middle of the dance floor as she started grinding on him, keeping his arms around her waist as she looked up at him. "Come on, baby. Loosen up."
As the song started playing more, she started singing.
I wanna Dance, I wanna dance in the lights.
I wanna rock, I wanna rock your body
I wanna go, I wanna go for a ride.
Hop in the music and rock your body right.
Rock that body, come on, come on
Rock that body, rock your body right
Let me see your body rock,
Shakin from the bottom to top
Shake to what the DJ drop
We be the ones to make it hot
(to make it hot)
Gar had to smile when he felt how much Raven was trying to get him to dance, and he put his hands on her waist, and he felt himself start moving with her, keeping in time with the music. He muttered along with the song, letting the last minutes just wash out of his mind as he enjoyed the now with his one love in the world.
"Thank you," he whispered in her ear as she came back up and put her arms around his neck.
"You're welcome," she whispered back, leaning up and kissing his jaw. "I love you. I love you more then you'll ever be able to realize, Gar."
As a slower song came on, Gar turned her around and put his arms around her waist, pulling her in close to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and she laid her head on his shoulder softly. The two swayed to the tune of Rainy Rose, lost in their own world away from everyone. All they needed was each other, and that was evident in how they danced and how they held each other.
A few months later, almost two months after the incident at the club with Terra, Raven and Starfire were going to get their dresses from the bridal shop. They had gone a few weeks before to get fitted, and when they finally got them figured out, both of them had to use their cards to pay for the dresses completely.
Ravens dress was strapless but elegant at the same time, a bronze bow on the side that she liked. It covered her for the most part, and that was all that mattered to her.
Starfire's dress was similar to Ravens, but she had light purple sash around her waist for her dress.
"Star, you're going to look so beautiful," Raven said, smiling at her best friend as they drove towards the restaurant they were going to so that they could meet Bumblebee for lunch.
"Raven…that day is about you, not me. This is your wedding. I'm merely a spectator and your Honor of the Maid," Starfire said, eliciting a smirk out of Raven.
"That's "Maid of Honor", Star. The way that you said it makes it sound like a girl that ain't been intimate with anyone," Raven giggled, pulling into a parking space.
She barely had the engine cut off when Karen-known to everyone else as Bumblebee of the Titans East-was yanking the two out of the car and into rib cracking hugs.
"Kar! Lemme go!" Raven laughed, returning the hug. "How are you, girl?"
"Fantastico Magnifico!" Karen laughed, hugging Starfire back. "Getting married, Rae, huh? Damn, girl! Been a long time since I seen you happy."
"Well, I finally found someone that makes me happy," Raven said, smiling as she sat down at the table.
The three friends talked for a couple of hours about different things, Raven couldn't help but think that she'd been missing a lot of interaction while the threat of Trigon was a possibility. Raven and Starfire finally managed to get home to see their respective other halves watching some movie on television.
"Hey, you guys," Dick said, smiling at the two as they hurriedly put the dresses behind their back.
"Hi," both said. "We'll be right back. Need to put these away."
And with that, they took off down the hall almost beating an Olympic Champion to do so with utmost haste.
Finally, the day that Gar and Raven had been waiting for had arrived. Starfire had taken Raven for the night, and Dick stayed back at the Tower. They were meeting at the church at twelve, so it left about three hours for the almost-married couple to get ready.
Garfield was pacing around his room, shaking his hands out as if he was trying to rid himself of fleas. He sighed as he laid down on the bed, staring up at the ceiling. "God…why am I so nervous?" he muttered.
"Grass stain, it's probably because you're about to take a leap that few men do voluntarily. Trust me, man…it's only going to get better for you," Cyborg said, smiling at his best friend. He was walking Raven down the aisle, so he was already ready to go.
"Cy….this is the biggest thing I've ever done, brother," Gar said, sitting up and looking at his long time friend. "I….I love her more then anything in the world, and this is my time to prove it to the entire city. I won't ever do anything to hurt or lose her, Cy….."
"You better not, man. Because I know for a damn fact, little brother, that there are at least three people that will kick the shit out of you if you did," Cy said, giving his friend a hug. "I'm going to head down to the church, see if everything's set up the right way. I'll see you in a while, bro."
"Alright, man," Gar said, standing up and looking over at the window, looking down at the way that the city was buzzing with news of their wedding.
Across the city, Raven was starting to freak out. She hadn't been able to talk to her soon-to-be Husband in over seventeen hours, and she was starting to get nervous and jumpy. The knock on the door made her jump and phase through the wall, trying to hide herself.
"Raven?" Starfire asked, her voice soft. She knew that Raven was in a weird place right now, and she didn't want to upset that. "Raven? Where are you?"
"I'm here, Star…." Raven's voice floated from the bathroom. She was curled up in a ball in the tub, trying to shrink herself down.
"Raven….what's wrong?" Star asked, picking her friend up and carrying her back to the main room. "Are you experiencing the butterflies of nervousness?"
"Not butterflies. Fucking dive bombers," Raven muttered, shaking her head. She let Starfire help her into her wedding dress. She slid into her shoes, and she let Starfire apply the make up. "God….Star….I'm so nervous right now…."
"I know, Raven, but there is nothing to be nervous about. It's a day that you've been waiting to have for a long time now. I know that you're nervous, and you remember how nervous I was on my wedding day to Dick," Star said, looking at her friend as she hung a necklace around her neck.
"Hang on, Star," Raven said. Starfire pulled the sapphire necklace away, and Raven grabbed her purse. She pulled out a chain that had a small penny on it, and she pulled that necklace on instead. "I want this one today, Star. I'll wear the other one tonight for him. I want to wear the penny."
Starfire nodded, and she smiled as she put her necklace back in the box. "It's time, Raven," she whispered, helping her friend stand up. She put her hands on Raven's shoulders, and she smiled, trying to stop the tears that were in her eyes. "You look….you look beautiful, Raven. Absolutely, completely beautiful. I'm proud to be your friend."
"You aren't my friend, Starfire," Raven said, lifting her head up to look at the horrified fast on the Tamarainians face. "You're my sister." She pulled Starfire into a hug, trying her damnedest not to cry and make her make up run.
A knock on the door broke the two apart, and Cyborg and Dick stepped in, smiling at the two. "It's time, girls," Cy said, smiling as he looked at Raven and Starfire. "Raven…."
"I know, Cy. I know," Raven said, moving over to give the biggest of the Titans a hug around the neck, one that he eagerly returned. She pulled back and could see the tear in his human eye, and she reached up and wiped it away. Dick had walked up behind her and given her a hug around the shoulders from behind. She smiled as she leaned into his arms, turning around and hugging him around the middle. "Thank you. For everything, Ro-Richard."
"You're welcome, Raven," Dick said, smiling as he placed a soft kiss on her forehead. He smiled down at her, and he pulled back, taking Starfire's hand. "Gar's already down there. Everyone's seated. Kyd Wykkyd, Jinx, Mas y Menos, Aqualad, Bee, Speedy, and Kid Flash are all down there, including Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, though he's here for Daily Planet purposes, Diana Prince, J'onn J'onzz, Wally West. There's a good chunk of the League. We just need to get in place."
"The song?" Raven asked. "I didn't want the traditional wedding march, Richard. Remember."
"I know, Rae. I've got that one set to play as Starfire and I walk down in front of you and Victor," Dick said, smiling. "It's almost time, so we need to get into place."
The foursome nodded, and they were deathly silent as they walked down the stairs. When Cyborg took Ravens arm in his, he patted her hand softly, feeling the engagement ring. He looked down at the Azar woman on his arm, and he lowered his head to her ear.
"Take care of him, Raven, please. There's still a lot that he hasn't worked through. Please," he whispered, looking at Raven.
"I will, Vic. I promise," Raven whispered, leaning up and kissing his cheek softly. "I'll take care of him forever."
Dick and Starfire looked back at Raven and Victor, and they started forward with a nod from the minister at the front. As they started walking down the aisle, Meet Me
Halfway by the Black Eyed Peas started to play.
Ooh, ooh. I can't go any further then this.
Ooh, Ooh, I want you so badly, it's my only wish.
Cool. I spend my time just thinking, thinking, thinking bout you
Every single day, yes I'm really missing, missing, missing you
And all the things we used to, used to, used to do
Hey girl, what's up? It used to be just me and you….
Starfire and Dick made it to the end of the aisle, Star standing off to the side waiting for Raven as Dick moved to stand next to Garfield, shaking the young mans hand and offering some words of encouragement.
As the chorus started on the song, Victor started leading Raven down the aisle, even though Raven was trying to reason with running the other way. She kept her eyes focused on the front of the church and her ultimate goal, Garfield. The song played through as she made her way up, and Garfield reached his hand out and took Ravens.
"Which of you is here giving her to this young man?" the minister asked.
"I, Victor Stone, also known as Cyborg of the Teen Titans. In place of her father and mother give her away," Victor said, getting a smile from Raven with a mouthed "Thank you." He needed to her, and he went and sat down beside Bumblebee, taking her hand in his.
As Garfield took her hand and turned to face the front, the minister started to speak. "Love, though most go entire lifetimes without knowing it, is a sacred thing that cannot be bought or bargained for. It's something that grows, expands, and turns into much more over the years. I know of the Titans and of how close you all are, and seeing that I married Richard and Kori, I always saw the light in your two eyes, Raven, Garfield," he said, smiling at the two.
He continued, "I don't know how you two were brought together, but I know that it was something that you both had to do for yourselves. In this time, I know that you two will continue to love and cherish each other over the years like you have lately," he said. "Do you have the rings?"
From his pocket, Dick produced the wedding Rings, handing Raven and Garfield the ones that were to go on the others hands.
"Raven, repeat after me," the minister said. "I, Raven, do solemnly swear to love and cherish you, Garfield Alexander Logan, until we part in death." As Raven repeated, she couldn't stop smiling or the tears that were in her eyes. "Do you, Raven, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband? To have and hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse as long as you both shall live?"
"I do," Raven whispered.
"Garfield, please repeat after me," the minister said. "I, Garfield, do solemnly swear to love and cherish you, Raven, until we part in death." He repeated, and he held his ring tightly in his hand. "Do you, Garfield, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, as long as you both shall live?"
"I do," Garfield said, his voice cracking as he said the two words.
"Ladies and gentlemen, by the power vested in me by the Church of God, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride," the minister said, smiling as he closed his Bible and held it down.
Garfield pulled Raven close, and he entwined her fingers with his, smiling as he kissed her deeply, feeling her slid her hands out of his and wrap them around his neck as they kissed for the first time as husband and wife.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Logan!"
As the minister finished speaking, cheers erupted all over the church, everyone rushing forward to congratulate the two. Garfield smiled as he kept close to Raven, shaking hands and giving hugs back as he did. He smiled as he saw what was on Ravens neck, and he kissed her hand.
"You kept it," he whispered.
"Of course," she whispered, hugging close to him and kissing him again. "I'll always keep it."
As the two moved into the main hall for the reception, Garfield couldn't help but stare at his wife as they walked through the hall and passed everyone. Starfire came up with Angel and Sera in her arms, and she handed Angel to Gar.
"Hi, girly," he said, kissing her nose. He smiled as she put her arms around his neck, and she laid her head against his shoulder. "Someone's getting sleepy."
'Angel tired, Papa," she mumbled, curling up against him. "She was up awl night cause she missed Papa."
"She would not go to sleep at all. I did everything that I could think of, short of calling you last night and having you talk to her," Raven said, running her hand in her daughters dark hair that was so like her own. "Maybe we should just skip this part and go home and put her to bed. I know that I've got something I want to show you." She wiggled her eyebrows, and she smiled at his reaction. "Come on, baby."
"Alright," he said, chinking his glass. "Hey, guys….can I have your guys attention, please? Hey! Over here!'
All heads turned to the newly married couple, and they all stopped talking and looked up at them.
"We hate to do this, guys….but, we need to go. Angel's kinda rowdy and tired, and I know that this is a long day already. I tell you guys what. Bring it over to the Tower tonight, and we'll celebrate later. For now just put it in the fridge. Vic! Out of the Spinach dip!" he laughed.
Everyone laughed and led the two and the small sleeping girl to the waiting car, a silver Chevy Camaro with JUST MARRIED on the back window. As the two drove off with their daughter in the backseat, both of them knew that the next years would be the best of their lives.
Authors Notes: I realize that there are some things in this that may not make a lot of sense to some of you right now, such as Terra's reappearance, but that will be explained in the next installment, I promise. I also wanted to clear any type of Copyrighting that might happen to me in this one, so here's the start:
"Rock That Body" and "Meet Me Halfway" are both Black Eyed Peas songs and property of said group. I used them mainly for description as to what is happening in the story, and that's all that I did with that. I didn't want the traditional Wedding March since, well…these two ain't traditional. =P anyways, there's one last installment coming up on this very soon, so stay tuned for the last chapter of this story within the next weeks.
And for those of you that are going to bitch at me, "Speedy's name isn't Daniel!" I know this. It's called an author avatar. I wanted a small cameo in the fiction, and this was the way that I could do so without crafting a new character altogether. =P
