I'm so sorry for the long delay in updating, the last couple of months have quite literally been mad and I've barely had any time to write a sentence let alone a chapter. This is the end of this story, I hope you've enjoyed it and I hope I did the ending justice! Let me know what you think :)

Javier looked himself over in the full-length mirror, straightening up his royal blue tie against the stark bright white of the shirt underneath. Glancing out of the window to the expansive garden area below him, he could see guests milling around waiting for the ceremony to start. Not long now, he grinned, fishing the small piece of paper out of his chest pocket, reading the words written in his handwriting, engraining them in his mind. I'm getting married today, holy shit.

The door behind him opened suddenly and the energetic face of his best man rounded the door. "Dude, you are going to die when you see Lanie! You're a lucky guy. You nervous?" Kevin Ryan asked eagerly, casting an experienced eye over Javier's suit. "You're flying a little low." He points, watching as Javier whips his head down, hands flying to his pants, until he raises his face to glare at Kevin.

"Not cool bro, I'm already stressing here. How's Lanie?" Javier asks, pacing slowly around the room, occasionally glancing out of the window.

Kevin walks over to check himself out in the mirror, catching Esposito's anxious face watching him closely. "She's fine." Ryan states, a little too casually for the former.

"Ryan! If I'm stressing…Jenny and Beckett are with her? She hasn't murdered anyone has she…?"

Ryan laughs and turns around to face his friend. "Javi, relax. She's well taken care of down there. Jenny and Beckett have made sure she doesn't need to lift a finger."

"Good. Great. Have you got the rings?" Javier asks anxiously.

"Yes."

"Speech?"

"Yes."

"No funny business?"

"Absolutely." Kevin laughs.

"Kevin." Javier fixes his friend with a deadpan stare, feeling the corners of his mouth turning up.

Kevin laughs again, heartedly and whole. "It's your wedding bro. Nothing dodgy."

Javier grins, twisting his hands together nervously. "My wedding. I'm getting married today."

A soft knock on the door breaks the excited tension in the room, and Kate Beckett's face rounds the white wooden door. "Hey," she smiles brightly, closing the door quietly behind her. "Kevin, Castle needs your help escorting a few of the older people to their seats. We're almost ready for you down there Espo."

"Right, that's me gone then. See you down there Javi." Kevin claps the Hispanic detective on the back and steps out of the room, adjusting his jacket as he leaves.

Javier grins at Kate, whose face is alight with happiness. She reaches out toward him and straightens his tie slightly, brushing her hands over his collar.

"You look very handsome Detective Esposito. You nervous?"

Esposito hums, nodding. "Just until I see her. She, ah, is gonna walk down the aisle right?"

Beckett laughs and pulls him into a tight embrace, which he returns just as keenly. "I promise you, she is going to walk down that aisle and you are going to die." Beckett pulls back and rearranges her dress, now slightly crinkled from the hug. "I'm so happy for you two, it took you long enough!"

Javier laughs, content. "We just had to find our groove."

It wasn't often that Javier Esposito was lost for words. More often than not, he had too much to say. Seeing his bride walk down the aisle towards him in her flowing white dress, however, had him barely able to breathe, let alone string two words together. God she's so beautiful.

Her smile light up her entire face, and it was answered by the grin on his. Her soft hands slid into his when she stood before him, her father having declared he was giving her away. Breathe, Javier.

"You're so beautiful." His voice is a whisper, a heartbeat living just for her. Her hands squeezed his gently and the words I love you formed on her lips.

"On this glorious afternoon in the Hamptons, we are gathered to celebrate the joining of Lanie Parish and Javier Esposito in holy matrimony…"

"…so to the happy couple, to two of my best friends: you deserve all the happiness that the world can offer you. I love you both so much and I know that today marks the beginning of an exciting life together. To Lanie and Javier!" Kevin Ryan raised his glass amid cries of 'Lanie and Javier!', drinking to the beaming couple.

"Javi I think you're going to burn holes in her soon…" Kevin came to a standstill next to his best friend, offering up a glass of whiskey.

Javier grinned and accepted the glass, not taking his eyes off his radiant wife. My wife. She was laughing and bursting with happiness, as she danced and joked with Beckett, their two dresses swirling around like delicate ribbons caught in the wind.

"Not to look at her would be to waste of my sight." Esposito sighed and turned his head towards his best man, intoxicated with love, happiness, and just a hint of whiskey.

"I know how you feel. Jenny and I have been married more than a year and she is still the most beautiful girl in the world to me – always will be." Ryan glances over to where his wife his seated, in conversation with Castle. As if there is a magnetic connection between them, she turns and catches his eye, smiling softly.

"I still can't believe it Ryan. I'm married." Javier laughs, his eyes shining.

"That you are, Mr Parish." Ryan laughs, dodging the light punch thrown his way.

"Actually, that has an okay ring to it…" Esposito says wonderingly. "Hey, Kevin. Your speech was really beautiful. Thanks for being my best man."

"S'what best friends are for."

"Brothers. S'what brothers are for." Esposito corrects him, fixing his eyes on his wife again. "That's my wife, Kevin."

Kevin tilts his head and grins, raising his glass to clink with Javier's.

"You are one lucky guy, Javier."

All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers 'til the end.

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