Kim Possible in "Wedding Bells"
By Star-Eva01
Part – 4 Rachel Load
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"This way Mrs. Load, Mr. Load."
Rachel Load looked over from her husband, to the source of the voice that had called to her and her husband.
"Jim," she asked.
"It's Tim, Mrs. Load," Tim Possible informed her with a smile.
Rachel smiled back at Tim then held out her hand to her husband Ryan.
"Have you met my husband Ryan, Tim," she asked.
She watched as Tim waited patiently for Ryan take a better grip of the cane in his left hand, and then held out his right to shake hands.
"It's my pleasure Mr. Load," Tim said with a voice that was filled with respect.
"Thank you Tim," Ryan said to him. "I have heard a lot about you from Wade."
Rachel smiled as she watched her husband and Tim Possible talk for a moment.
"Anything good," Tim asked.
"Well, Wade did say something about an idea you and your bother had for changing the way the Middleton High PA system worked. Something about a repeated song," Ryan said as Tim blushed and joined him in a good heart felt laugh.
"Don't tell Mr. Barkin that we made the changes last week. We have a little surprise for him when he gets back from break," Tim added.
Rachel notice that Tim waited for a moment or two for Ryan to stop laughing before he held out his hand toward the chapel and saying "This way Mr. and Mrs. Load,"
She watched Ryan start toward the door. When he had taken a step or two, Tim moved in front of him. She after a second, she could tell that he was making sure that Ryan had a clear path down the aisle.
She stopped for a moment, and looked at the people gathered in the chapel. She knew a few of the faces that belonged to Middleton's own. Timothy North and Mr. Paisley were Middleton's two most peculiar. Then there was Pop Porter and Granny Crockett from food fame. Granny Crockett lived in Texas, and had that Texas "sound" to her voice, but was born in Middleton.
'Wade sure loves those mini corn dogs of Porters and I know that he kept a stash of Crockett's cookies,' she thought to herself.
"Mrs. Load, are you ok," ask a voice standing beside her.
Rachel pulled herself out of her thoughts to look at another young man standing beside her. "Jim right," she asked.
"Yes Mrs. Load."
Rachel looked to the front of the chapel and saw Ryan moving into a pew on the right hand side, second row.
She felt a hand take her arm, and she looked to Jim as he started to guide her forward.
"Kim insisted Mrs. Load. And she told us not to take no for an answer."
Jim led her to the pew, and she moved to sit beside her husband. She looked over the see both Possible boys standing there.
"Thank you Jim, Tim" she told them.
"You're welcome," both replied at the same time making it sound like a single one answered, and then both headed to the back of the chapel.
Rachel looked at her husband, thinking back to their own wedding years ago. It had been in a small church, with just her and Ryan's families there. Ryan had looked so handsome standing there waiting for her in his tuxedo that he had borrowed for their wedding.
'He owns two of them now', she thought.
Thinking about her own wedding, she could not remember almost anything that the preacher had said that day. 'I have always wondered if that is the same for every bride.'
She was pulled back to the present by her husband tugging on her arm.
"Over there Rachel," he told her as he pointed to archway off to the side were Ron and Wade were walking out into the chapel. Both men taking their place at the front, and then turned to face the back.
Both Ron and Wade were wearing tuxedos. And at first glance they looked the same. But Rachel Load knew better. She recalled the day just a few weeks ago when Kim had shown up at her front door asking for Wade.
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Rachel had watched Kim drag Wade out of the house, into her car and drove off with him saying that they would back in a few hours. She could see Ron in the back seat, and he seemed to be talking to himself. She remembered getting a call from Kim asking her to come to a shop downtown four hours later. The shop turned out to be for a tailor that Ron's father had told Kim about that did custom work. She walked inside to find a sight that she would remember till the day she died.
Both Wade and Ron standing on platforms in the middle of the shop, looking like Shego had used her claws to rip off most of their clothes off. And what clothes they had on, looked like they were turned inside out and ready to fall off with just a small breeze. Neither of the boys or Kim heard her enter, so she paused to listen in on the conversation all three were having with the tailor.
"If you boys do not stand still, how do you expect me to get your measurements correct," he told them.
"KP, you know that I love more than anything, and that includes Nacos, but have you seen were his hands are going?" Ron asked Kim.
"I'm with Ron, Kim," Wade added. "I'm not sure about this."
Rachel watched Kim walk over from a table as the Tailor started telling the boys again about getting the correct inseam length. Kim stopped when she was standing in front of Wade.
"Wade, you are one of my best friends, and I know that Ron feels the same way. But so help me, if you don't stand there and him get the measurements that he needs. I'll spill," Kim voiced.
"Spill what Kim?" Wade said with a grin starting up on his face. "That you really want to marry me instead of Ron?"
Rachel then saw a look cross Kimberly Anne Possible's face that would have done any evil person proud, as she moved up stand by Wade. Then she watched Kim pull Wade down to whisper into his ear. Rachel had learned how to "lip read" a number of years ago during her college days, and she knew that she was rusty but it looked like Kim had told him "I'll spill on the Battle Suit Fitting."
Wade's reaction happened so fast that Rachel wondered what was going on. Rachel did not know if Kim could tell that Wade was starting to blush.
"The suit has helped save your and Ron's life Kim," Wade whispered back to her so that Ron or anyone else could not hear anything, forcing her to read lips again.
"What fitting," Rachel thought to herself as she watched Kim's grin go past south of evil, and into pure wicked.
"And that Wade, plus all that you have done for Ron and me is the only reason that I have not informed your mother on how I believe you got those measurements. And if you think that my not being 100 sure of how you did it would stop me, would you still like to explain how you really did it to your mother?" Kim informed him again in a whisper that forced Rachel to read lips "Or Wade, how would you like me to inform your Mother and Ron how I think you did it?"
Wade's blush got deeper, and he told her "Ok Kim, you win. I'll be still."
"We are having a talk young man when I get you home," Rachel thought as she now watched Kim move to Ron.
"Ronnie, I love you with all my heart and you know that better than anyone. I want you and Wade to look your best at the wedding for all the press that will be there," Kim informed Ron. Then she again leaned in to whisper into his ear.
Rachel could not hear or read Kim's lips so she had no idea what she told him. But his reaction was faster than Wade's. Ron's blush was much more visible on his face.
Ron just looked at Kim for a moment, and then nodded his head. Rachel could see him mouth one word over and over again. Something that looked like the words "Kim" and "shine" placed together but that did not make any sense.
"Ok Mr. McMead, I think both 'boys' will behave themselves now." Kim told the shop owner.
"And if either one of you give him any more trouble, I will have him do this the way that I got fitted into my dress from Giorgio Armani. And from what I have heard about you both, I really don't think you boys want to stand there in the middle of the shop naked with just your boxers on do you?" she told them with that wicked smile still on her face.
Rachel could see both boys sallow and turn to face away from her. With their backs to her, she saw the tailor walk up to Kim and give her a wide grin that the boys did not see, then his face turned hard before he opened his mouth.
"If it was anybody but you Miss Possible, I would have thrown them out by now. And Ronald should know better. Now both of you stop being such schmuck's and let me finish," Mr. McMead said in a crusty tone of voice has he moved to take the measurement for Wade's inseam.
Once he had Wade's, he moved over to Ron. He took Ron measurement, with Ron closing his eyes, and then stood up and wrote them both down on a pad he pulled out of his pocket.
"Now boys, I have a question for you both. Which pant leg do you routinely place your little friend?" asked Mr. McMead.
As both Wade and Ron shot spit across the Room, Rachel decided that they had had enough. Laughing out loud as she came into the room proper, she said "Ok boys, which one of you or was it both of you that got Kimberly so mad that she ripped your clothes to shards?"
As both boys started to answer her on top of the other, Kim pulled her off to one side. Kim showed her four different bolts of fabric that she wanted her thoughts on. After just a few minutes conversation, they had both agreed on which ones for each of the boys. Another hour later, and after a couple cups of coffee each, Wade had on the making of a tuxedo jacket and seconds later Ron had one too.
But she had a question to ask Kim.
"What's this about a fitting for a battle suit Kim," Rachel asked in a low voice that she was sure the boys could over hear.
Bushing a very deep red, she saw Kim turn to her and ask in a low voice too "How did you find out about that?"
"I learned how to read lips in college my first two years while working with some new friends that were deaf Kim," Rachel replied again keeping the conversation private.
"Well, you know that Wade designed a battle suit for me that I used to defeat Drakken. I got to wondering more about how that suit fit so perfectly after a comment from Ron," Kim informed her.
"But didn't Ron wear it a few times to get his foot in the door for the football team? And he is bigger then you are and it still fit you right?" Rachel went on.
"Not really, Wade to repair it after that," Kim said. "I could wear it, but it didn't fit right. He said that it rode up in the butt, and you and I know that we are built differently then they are."
"But the fitting Kim? Rachel asked.
After taking a moment to look over to the boys and seeing that Mr. McMead had been busy, Kim looked down at the floor as she spoke. "I think that Wade might have used the Kimmunicator to take some pictures of me at a private time to get the measurements for the suit."
Rachel leaned over so she could whisper in Kim's ear. "That may be true Kim, but I know that for over a month Wade had pictures of you all over his room."
"Pictures of me?" Kim asked.
Nodding Rachel continued. "Pictures of you from news stories, stills taken from interviews, shots of you in your cheer outfit, pictures that Jim and Tim had taken of you and sent out on the internet, he even had two of you in a swimsuit."
Rachel watched Kim blush a deeper shade of red, and then took pity on her.
"I'm sure that he used all those pictures to get the measurements for the suit Kim. But I will have a talk with him later."
Rachel smiled as Kim nodded her head as she turned back to watching the boys get their fitting. She did have that talk with Wade the next day. He explained how he got the suit to fit Kim so well, but she could see him sweating bullets the whole time that they talked.
'I think that was punishment enough for now,' she had thought at the time. But had let Wade know what she thought might happen if Kim or her could found out anything else happened to get that fit.
A week later Kim called and Rachel found a repeat of the shop incident, but this time the suits were almost finished. By the look of things, Mr. McMead was pinning the cuffs on the pants to insure the length was perfect. She had noticed the week before that both boys had been wearing tennis shoes when the tailor had taken the measurements. And now, Kim had both boys in the dress shoes that they would be wearing at the wedding. With just a quick look, there was not any difference between the two tuxedos. But look closer and the differences stood out. Each was cut to compliment each man's features best.
Ron's was cut so that his tall frame and swimmers lean and toned body that he had grown into, and filled out, to best effect. Ron would never be a hunk like some of the movie stars out in Hollywood, but he had grown into one of the most handsome men she had laid eyes on next to her own Ryan and Wade. A classic Black Tux with tails with a light grey vest with red trim around the pockets that matched the color of Kim's hair.
Wade's was also a classic black tux, but his vest was a lighter grey with the red trim also. Mr. McMead had cut Wade's to show off the broad shoulders that he was growing into. And to show off the slimmer waist that he now had and some of the muscles that he was starting to develop. And the lighter gray vest went better with his darker color. His vest also was trimmed in red, but a slightly darker color. Again, going with his darker tones.
'He is looking more like his father now,' she thought. 'If he keeps going, he will be the spitting image of Ryan at that age.'
Standing up, Mr. McMead nodded his head as he turned to face Kim and Rachel.
"If I say so myself that is the best work that I have done in a few years Ms. Possible. I don't think you will find any better anywhere," he informed them with a shining smile.
"You boys look wonderful," Rachel said just before she moved to give Wade then Ron a hung.
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Rachel was pulled out of her memories and back to the present by the tug of Ryan on her arm.
"There," he informed her simply as she turned to face the back of the chapel to see Anne Possible start to walk down the aisle accompanied by one of her sons.
'She looks lovely in that dress,' Rachel thought as Anne walked to the front pew. In a shade of a "just" off-white, Anne looked somewhat like a model for a fashion magazine. She watched Anne set down in the row in front of her, and turn to face her.
"Wade looks handsome in that suit" Anne told her.
"Kim took him shopping for it Anne. Outside of that mission that he went on with them to help with the Senior's, that has been the longest time out of his room in sometime," Rachel informed Anne. "Besides, Wade is getting better now, and the mission and the shopping trip did him some good."
Rachel noticed Anne nod at her and Ryan, then she saw the other Possible brother walk another woman over to the pew that Anne was sitting in then hurry to the back of the chapel.
The music changed into "Here Comes The Bride". And Rachel turned to face the back of the chapel with Ryan. The main doors opened to show both of Kim's bothers standing there in the doorway. Then at the same time, both held out an arm. In a second, two women moved to take the offered arms and be escorted down the aisle.
One was almost a carbon copy of Kim. She looked just like Kim from a few years back. The only real difference was that her hair was not the same "bright" shade of Red that Kim's was. 'That has to be her Cousin Joss' she thought.
The other was a girl that she thought was Kim' age, and dressed in a gown that matched Joss' at first glance. But Rachel noticed that both dress' where trimmed different. Joss' was trimmed in a red that matched her hair and the other, Monique if she remembered right, was done in a light gray that highlighted her wonderful skin tone.
Jim and Tim brought the girls down to the front and helped them take their place at the podium. Then both boys moved to sit beside Anne.
A second or two after the boys sat down, the doors at the back opened again. Standing there were Kim and her father.
Smiling at his daughter, Rachel watched Dr James Possible start down the aisle. Once inside the pair had made it only a few steps, when Kim stopped. She could see James lean over to her and whisper into Kim's ear.
"What's wrong Kim," he asked her as Rachel again used lip reading. 'I've had more practice doing that in the last few weeks then in the last few years,' she thought.
Again reading Kim's lips she knew she told him "I love you Dad," as she leaned over to give him a kiss in front of everybody.
Watching James blush a red that was a close match for her hair, Kim got them started back down the aisle of the church.
Rachel smiled as Kim looked at everyone that was in the chapel for her wedding. She knew that Wade was doing a live feed to every television network around the globe plus on the Team Possible website. 'The world is watching,' she thought. Then she noticed that Kim was looking directly at Ron with a grin that was going to split her face in a second. Then, she saw that Kim closed her eyes. And it looked like she kept them closed until they were standing in front of Rabbi Katz.
"Who gives this woman to marriage?" asked the Rabbi.
"Her mother and I do," was the reply from her James
Rachel watched James lift the veil over Kim's her face lift. With the veil lifted, Kim turned and received a kiss from James.
"We love you Kimberly," he told here. "And we know that you're in good hands with Ronald."
And with that, James Possible moved the seat beside his wife Anne on the front row.
She watched as Kim watched her father move and did not see Ronald hold out a head to her, but when she turned to face the Rabbi and wedding party, the hand was in the correct position for her to hold as she took the last steps that brought her to stand beside Ron.
Kim then turned and handed the flowers that she as holding to Monique, and then faced Ron.
Rachel could see both Kim and Ron stare into the other's eyes. Leaning over to Ryan, she whispered "it's like they have forgot that the rest of us is here with them."
"I know," Ryan told her. "Just like we did."
Rachel leaned in, and gave him a quick kiss.
"I want to thank everyone for coming here today to witness the wedding of Mss. Kimberly Anne Possible to Mr. Ronald Dean Stoppable," started Rabbi Katz. "Kim and Ron have asked that everyone here join them in this wonderful time…"
Rachel knew that the ceremony was a mix of Ron's Jewish faith, and Kim's Christian. And Rabbi Katz mixed the two wonderfully without one part of the ceremony over powering the other. And she watched it all gently holding Ryan's hand in hers while leaning her head on his shoulder.
Rachel lost herself in the words of the ceremony and what seemed to her the love that poured out of the two kids. The wedding paused for a moment, and then the words that were said in almost every wedding that she could remember were spoken.
"Does anyone here have just cause that this couple should not be wed? Let them speak now or forever hold their peace?" ask Rabbi Katz.
Rachel held her breath. Ron and Kim had traveled around the world a number of times, and more likely had made more then a few "bad guys" pissed at them. And she waited to see if any one them would take this time, to take a small measure of revenge on Team Possible by stopping the wedding at this point.
After a few seconds of hushed silence, Rabbi Katz continued.
"In both beliefs of Kim and Ron, the exchange of rings is a symbol of the love between them. And in this case, with the world watching, that has a special significance."
Kim, for the first time since walking to join Ron and the wedding party, turned away from Ron to face Joss Possible. With a smile that could be seen by everyone, Joss handed her a simple gold band. Turning back to face Ron, Rachel knew she was looking deep into his eyes, Kim spoke.
"This ring is my gift to you Ronald Dean Stoppable, my Ronnie. It is a symbol of my love for you that the whole world may see. With this ring, I thee wed you." Then Rachel watched Kim place the ring on Ron's finger.
Rachel could see Kim suddenly blush a bright red that matched her hair. 'I wonder what she was thinking,' was her thought when Rachel then watched Ron turn to her Wade and take the ring that he now held out to him.
Turning back to face Kim, Ron took her hand and spoke out loud.
"This ring is my gift to you Kimberly Anne Possible, my KP. It's a symbol of my love for you. And a promise that I will always be there for you whenever you need my. And when you don't I will still be here for you," he said as he placed the ring on her finger.
Rachel could see the tears start to form in Kim's eyes as Rabbi Katz turned to pickup a glass and a bottle of wine. Pouring the wine, Rabbi Katz started to perform the Sheva Brachot, when done he passed the glass to Kim and Ron in turned and both drank.
When the glass was empty, Rabbi Katz placed it into a lace cloth. Placing it on the floor, he called out in a voice that could be heard in every part of the chapel "Mazel Tov" then broke the glass.
Rabbi Katz again spoke in a clear voice, but one filled with emotions.
"I now pronounce you man and wife."
Rachel could see Kim whisper "I love you Ronnie" just before she kissed him, without waiting for the Rabbi to say you may kiss the bride. She laughed to herself as he started to say it, but she watched him just smile at the newly married pair.
Instead he said, "I give everyone here and watching around the world, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Dean Stoppable."
Rachel started to clap and she saw that Ryan was starting also. But she also noticed that Ron and Kim had not stopped kissing.
Remembering what it was like to be young and that deeply in love, Rachel did not notice something happening with Ron and Kim at first. But when did see it, the only thing that crossed her mind was one sentence…
"Oh my God…"
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Author's notes:
First, I want to thank cpneb for the loan of Rachel and Ryan for the names for Mr. and Mrs. Load for this story. I have liked his take on Wade's folks. And I highly recommend his "Blue Eyes: Shinning" stories.
Let me say sorry to everyone that has been reading this story and waiting on the next chapter. As you well know, life can get in the way of things.
I had a case of writers block doing this chapter, and it's part of the reason in the delay. I other was trying to get "inside" Rachel Load's head. I wanted to do cpneb proud and I hope that I have. Thanks again my friend for the loan and for all you help with this chapter. Anytime I can return the favor, you let me know.
And just to make sure that everything is cool with legal stuff out there:
Kim Possible, and its characters, are copyright by Disney Inc.
I'm just playing here for the fun of it.
Rachel and Ryan Load belong to cpneb, and are used with his permission.