Umm... Hi. So yeah, I'm late. The chapter was actually finished last night, but I was also pretty sick so I fell asleep before I could actually post it. I had my biggest response on this story on the last chapter so thank you everybody! Big thanks to drone84 and for favoriting and following and to Annie for reviewing! I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my best friend, Moe, who this past weekend went and read all of my stories. She writes on archive of our own under the name KatsatheGraceling, so if you like Sherlock and James Bond, go check her out! There are a bunch of flashbacks in this chapter marked by italics. Enjoy!

Crowley's base was a mess from wedding preparations. Kaylee was beyond excited. Wash and Zoe were finally getting married today.

Zoe and Wash had gathered everybody in the kitchen. Everybody was looking around at the others trying to figure out what was going on. Jayne, the newest addition to the crew, was leaning back in his chair with his arms folded across his chest. Kaylee and Inara were sitting next to each other, whispering and wondering what this was about. Inara though that Zoe was pregnant while Kaylee believed it was an engagement. Mal was standing off to one side, his face neutral. While he liked everybody in the crew, he didn't approve of Zoe and Wash's relationship, mainly because he didn't see himself as first in Zoe's eyes anymore.

"We have something to tell y'all," Zoe began.

"We're getting married!" Wash finished.

Kaylee jumped up from the table and pointed at Inara. "I knew it! You owe me one!"

Inara pulled a face at her as Zoe and Wash laughed.

"Well congratulations and all that stuff," Jayne grumbled.

Kaylee enveloped Zoe in a hug. "I called it! I knew you two would end up together!"

"Yes, you're quite the little oracle, mei-mei," Zoe said with a smile. "I was wondering something else as well. We're not planning anything big, but I was wondering if you'd be my maid-of-honor?"

"Me?" Kaylee asked shocked. She knew that they had become close over the past few months aboard Serenity, but to be asked this honor? "Of course!"

"May your future together be happy," Inara said with a nod towards Wash and hug for Zoe.

Everybody turned to the last person in the room who hadn't spoken and offered their congratulations. Mal was observing the engaged couple carefully, keeping his neutral face intact.

"Married, huh?" He asked.

"Sorry, Mal, I probably shoulda asked you first if marriage was okay on your ship, but I'd give all this up if Zoe'd still marry me," Wash said, earning him a small smile from Zoe.

"Mal, this was my choice as much as his," Zoe said quietly.

Mal's face cleared immediately and a bright smile showed through. "Jeez, you'd think I was giving you the boot. 'Course you're okay here."

Zoe and Wash smiled in relief and began talking to Kaylee once again. Only Inara saw the pained expression on the Captain's face as he turned and left the room.

Kaylee turned a corner in the base and had to move quickly out of the way as somebody ran past her. Zoe and Wash had just been expecting something small at some out of the way church, but Zoe had confided in Inara and Kaylee one night that she wished for an old fashioned wedding. A couple of waves to Crowley later and he had set up a private ceremony in a little chapel a little ways from the base. He then offered to host reception at the base itself.

"Hey, Crowley. What's up?" Kaylee asked with a grin when the demon's face popped up on her screen. It had been a month since Serenity had been in range of Persephone to send a wave. While Crowley could technically pop over any time he wished, they never wanted to risk him being caught on the ship.

"It's been 300 years since that phrase and you still can't let it drop, can you, Amy?" Crowley complained, rolling his eyes.

"It's been 50 years and you still can't let my name drop, can you, Crowley?" Kaylee mocked.

"Touché," Crowley conceded. "So what's the wave about?"

"What, I can't call my favorite demon?" Kaylee asked with a mock pout.

Crowley eyed her. "For anybody else, maybe, but with that lip sticking out like that, I know you want something."

Kaylee laughed. "Alright, I did want to ask a favor."

Crowley heaved a fake sigh. "And getting food for you isn't enough?"

Kaylee stuck her tongue out. "Actually, I was wondering what you know about weddings."

That subject change startled Crowley for a moment. "Amy, why didn't you tell me you met someone?"

Kaylee shuddered. "Ugh, no. You know I'm never getting into a relationship again. Only good thing that came out of my last one was Jacob. It's actually Zoe and Wash."

"So the love birds finally made it official," Crowley said with a smirk. "When's the date?"

"They don't know yet. Their hoping to actually have it on a planet in a real church and stuff, even though neither is very religious. I was hoping you could help."

Crowley raised an eyebrow. "You want me to help with a church?"

"Okay, that sounds a bit offensive when you put it that way," Kaylee admitted.

"You don't say," Crowley muttered before sighing. "But, yes, I'll help. There's a little place around the corner from here actually. Very nice and quiet. I'll book something and you can have the reception here."

"Really?" Kaylee asked, surprised. Crowley had, for some reason, put a ballroom in the base, but it had never been used. At least, not for parties. Kaylee went in their all the time to do martial arts training.

"Why not?" Crowley shrugged. "More than one person should get some use out of the room.

"You're the best Crowley!" Kaylee exclaimed.

"Of course I am," Crowley said with a smirk. "Would sometime next month work? That way it will coincide with your visit to Jacob and you don't randomly disappear from the ship while it's in the middle of space."

"Good idea," Kaylee said. "I'll let Zoe know. Thanks again!"

Kaylee continued walking through the base. Without really meaning to, she had ended up in the ballroom, but it was completely changed from how she normally had it. All of her training equipment had been moved to another room. There were round tables with white tablecloths around the edge of the room, leaving the middle clear for dancing. She walked to the middle and slowly started to dance to a tune in her own head, imagining what her own wedding would've been like. She had never had a wedding before.

Jacob had been a complete accident, but a welcome one that she wouldn't change for the world. She had been dating a guy at the hospital she worked at. His name was David McLean. He was one of the sweetest guys she had ever met. He had brown hair and warm, brown eyes. She could feel herself falling for him a bit every day. She had never meant for more to happen than just dating and maybe marriage eventually. When she had discovered that she was pregnant, she knew that she wouldn't be able to keep her secret anymore as it would be obvious in the child.

"David?" Amy asked hesitantly.

Her boyfriend was sitting and reading in the living room of the house they shared. They had moved in together a couple months ago and Amy was adoring living together. She had never been as close to a human as she was now. The only slightly problematic thing was trying to keep her diet hidden, but if all went well in the next few minutes, that shouldn't be an issue anymore.

When David heard her voice, he shut the book and beckoned her over. She sat down next to him on the love seat and he took her hand in his. "What's the matter, love?"

"I'm pregnant," Amy said quickly, getting it over with.

David froze. Amy watched his eyes carefully. Emotions ran through them so quickly that she couldn't tell, but they settled on one: complete joy.

"Oh my gosh, Amy. That's incredible!" He exclaimed. Amy gave a relieved laugh and sank into his embrace. Round one was successful.

"Oh goodness. We're going to need to start preparing immediately. What are we going to tell my family? Should we get married?"

David continued rambling but Amy's mind had stopped on one question. Should we get married?

"Married?" Amy choked.

David pause and look over at her before sprinting to the kitchen. He came back less than a minute later with something in his hand. He came and knelt before Amy who was still seated on the love seat.

"I've been meaning to do this for a while," David began awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. "I've had this for a long time, but I just never felt that it was a good time. But now is perfect."

His brown eyes slowly sought out Amy's. He opened the box in his hand to reveal a perfect golden band with three small diamonds. "Amy Pond, will you marry me?"

Amy squealed and tackled him in a hug which quickly turned into a passionate kiss. When they took a break for air, David laughed and pulled them back up onto the love seat.

"I take it it's a yes?"

Amy sobered up quickly. In her relief of David taking the baby news so well and her ecstasy with the proposal, she had forgotten the second part of what she meant to tell him.

"Umm, can my answer wait a minute?" She asked hesitantly. David's eyes immediately filled with hurt and she felt terrible. So she quickly backtracked. "I would love to marry you, David. Of course I would!"

"Then what's the problem?" David asked.

"There's something you need to know abut me," Amy began.

"What is it, love?"

"Oh this is going to sound terrible," Amy muttered before steeling herself. "Okay, you know all the legendary creatures? Vampires, werewolves, djinn?"

"Yeah," David answered, confused as to where this was going.

"They aren't just myths, they're real."

David had enough sense to not laugh. He could see that she was being completely serious but, he was completely confused at the same time.

"Amy, please tell me your just having a laugh," he said slowly.

"David, I'm not joking. I'm a part of them," she admitted.

"Amy, what are you trying to say?" He asked, frustrated.

Amy sighed. She took both of her boyfriend's hands in her own and looked him strait in the eye. "David, I'm not human."

David wheeled back from her in shock, tripping over the corner of the couch and ending up on the floor.

"Please don't be scared!" Amy begged. "I would never hurt you!"

"Wh... What are you?" David stuttered.

"I'm a Kitsune," Amy explained gently. "We are not actually too different from humans, unlike some other species. The biggest difference is our diet."

At that she looked cautiously at David who was watching her with a guarded expression. "Which is...?"

"Myspeciesneedsthechemicalsfromthehumanpituitaryglandtosurvive," Amy said in one big rush.

David gave her a confused look. "Huh?"

Amy took a deep breath and slowed down. "We eat the human pituitary glands. Many of my kind prefer fresh meat, but I value human life. That's why I work in the morgue at the hospital. I take what I need so nobody must be harmed."

David took a moment to consider this. "You look human."

Amy nearly burst out laughing. That was the last question she had expected after admitting to her diet.

"We hide ourselves pretty well, not that there are many differences in the first place."

She held out her hand and watched David's eyes widen as her claws slowly extended from her hand.

"This is the main physical feature that's different," she explained. "Sometimes when we are feeding or feel threatened, our eyes will flash yellow. We are naturally very fast and strong. All of this helps with the hunt."

David kept examining her carefully, making Amy squirm under his gaze. He slowly stood up and walked to where the ring box was sitting, forgotten on the couch. Amy resolved herself for him to walk out on her and their life together. She was utterly surprised when he sat next to her and opened the box once again.

"Amy Pond. I don't know as much about you as I thought I did, but you still carry my child and I love you. Will you marry me?"

Kaylee blinked her eyes against the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyes. David had died three months later in a car accident coming home from work. He had never gotten to meet Jacob. Her broken heart had harden against anyone ever entering her life from a relationship standpoint. After time, she had begun looking at any relationship she could've had with a tinge of disgust. Why would she put herself through that misery again? Perhaps that's why she felt the need to help others in their relationships, so they didn't go through her heartbreak.

She didn't realize that she had stopped dancing until applause reached her. She spun around to see Crowley standing in a corner, watching her.

"Thinking of weddings again, darling?" He asked softly.

Even though it was phrased as a simple question, Kaylee knew that he was asking if she was thinking of David.

"I'm okay," she said quietly. "I shouldn't be thinking of the past on a day like this."

"That's why I came looking for you, actually. Zoe's looking for you."

Kaylee brightened at the thought of the bride to be. "Is she in her room?"

"With the Companion," Crowley nodded and Kaylee hurried off.

The ceremony was beautiful. It was only the crew there along with a couple dozen people from Crowley's base. The crew had taken quite a few jobs there over the past months and so had become familiar with many of the people that worked there.

Crowley obviously didn't go to the wedding in the church, but he joined them for the reception.

Everything went off without a hitch. Kaylee sighed in delight as she watched Zoe and Wash sway together in the middle of the dance floor. People stood around the edge of the room, chatting, as music played from the speakers hidden around the room. Her guard was down, so it probably shouldn't have surprised her that someone had managed to sneak up behind her.

"Amy Pond"

It was only her five centuries of pretending to be somebody else that kept her from jumping like a cornered rabbit, although she did jump a bit at the voice. Behind her was a man in a brown trench coat. He had dark hair and stubble littered his chin.

"I'm sorry. You must have the wrong person," Kaylee lied smoothly.

"No, I do not," the man stated confidently. "My name is Castiel."

Kaylee breathed a little sigh of relief. She recognized the name Castiel from the stories Crowley had told her about the Winchesters, but she had never actually met the famous angel.

"What is it you want, angel?" Kaylee asked, letting him know that she recognized him.

Castiel tilted his head a bit at the acknowledgement. "I wished to inform you that you will have an important guest aboard your vessel soon."

Kaylee snorted. "Guest? Mal doesn't bring passengers. "

"He will," Castiel assured her. "There is one in particular, a girl, who must be protected at all costs."

"Why?" Kaylee asked. Perhaps it wasn't smart to question an angel, but she wasn't going to just follow orders blindly.

"I am afraid that I cannot tell you at this point. You will notice that this girl is very special as soon as you meet her. Protect her."

At these words, her gaze was diverted slightly against her will. When she was able to refocuses, she realize Castiel was gone.

Phew, lots of things happening in that chapter! I know I didn't spend a lot of time on Jayne, but I just didn't feel like he and Kaylee would ever be that close. And we're finally getting back into some Supernatural stuff! Can anybody guess who the girl is(okay, that's obvious) or why she's so important?

I'm going out of town this weekend so there won't be a post on Sunday. If I get enough written on the plane, I might post a second chapter the Wednesday after. I'm always susceptible to reviews as bribes:P

Again, sorry about the lateness. I'll be back in a couple weeks!