Plastic Rings

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AN: Kay... so... my beta is gone for the summer... so this is unbeta'd BUT and... so will any thing else this summer... -can already feel the failure coming- and I would have found someone else to help BUUUUUT... well I procrastinated and now I'm going away fro a week with no internet and I want to get this posted and yeah. I'll post the Beta'd chapters when I get them!

Anyway, on too the suuupppaaarrrr fluff~

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A twenty five year old Allen sat in the room that was set aside for him in the busy church. It was a day that he had been looking forward to for twenty one years, a day of celebration and love. He smiled to himself as he played with the weathered toy ring in his palm. It had once been a gaudy yellow with a tacky pink flower on it, meant to be worn by a girl really, but he had kept it even as the yellow plastic's colour faded away and the decoration fell off. It had stayed safely hidden in a shoebox under his bed for many years, brought out during sleepless nights to touch in remembrance of a better time, a time when everything had been innocent and right. When things had been simple, everything life had to offer perfect, everything just right the way it was.

The years after the day he received that ring, that little promise brought into existence by a cheap piece of plastic were filled with confusion and longing, the fear of rejection and the wish for more. The years that brought injury, scars, joy and hope. The memory of the day Lavi lost the use of his right eye in a bike accident and the day Allen gained the long jagged scar across his eye along with the horrible scars on his left arm from the house fire he and Mana barely survived were still burned into Allen's mind.

It hurt to think about the hard times they had gone through, but remembering them growing together, learning together, laughing together and eventually feeling the same love for the other together brought the smile back to Allen's gentle face as he fiddled with his good luck charm.

The ring that no longer fit his slender fingers rolled gently in his palm as he thought about the smooth metal ring that would find its way onto the same finger as the little bobble in his hand had once occupied. His real wedding ring. He smiled warmly at the thought, still lost in his reminiscing as hurried footsteps pattered around in the hall outside the room.

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A six year old Lavi peered from around a tree, spotting his target and smirking, humming the James Bond theme song to himself as he darted behind a tree a little closer to the white haired child who was happily colouring, sitting on a brightly coloured blanket while a warm summer breeze swept past, the soft grass around him swaying as he remained oblivious to the older boy's presence. Lavi's smirk widened into a grin and he hummed a little quieter as he darted behind another tree, and another, getting closer and closer until....

"Da-da-da-daaaaaa! Allen!" the white haired four year old didn't even have time to turn around as Lavi pounced, landing on the boy's back and knocking the wind out of the poor child.

"Gah, L-Lavi!" he yelped as the bigger boy squished him, clawing at the grass and blanket he was lying on, "I-I can't breath! You're too heavy!" he gasped out, trying to convince the older boy to roll off him.

Of course he was ignored, "I saw them Allen! I saw them!!" the redheaded boy bounced excitedly, hugging the still struggling child beneath him around the neck.

"S-Saw what...?" came the weak reply and Lavi giggled, rolling off him and crawling around until he was facing his best friend.

"Boobies!" the redhead looked proud of himself as he puffed out his chest, "I saw real pictures of a naked lady's boobies!" Allen stared at him in awe, making the hyper young boy feel his already inflated pride swell at his friends wide eyed gaze, knowing he had just made him self look like the coolest kid in the world.

"How?" Allen asked, and Lavi was all too eager to explain.

"You know, Reever Wenham in grade seven? The guy who babysits me sometimes?" Allen nodded cutely making Lavi smile, "Well he was reading a magazine on cars and I asked him to look at the pictures because I like cars, and before he could say yes or no I looked over his shoulder and there they were!!" Lavi waved his arm dramatically, grinning widely.

"There were boobies in a car magazine?" the younger of the two children blinked in confusion.

"Eh? Oh, no, silly, Reever was reading another magazine but covering it up with the car one. So yeah, he told me not to tell anyone I saw him reading it, but I wanted to tell you because you were with me when Tyki in grade nine said they were so awesome and we should try to see them." Allen nodded, still looking curious.

"What did they look like? Were they really great like Tyki said?" The boy had arranged himself to sit cross legged in front of Lavi, leaning forward in anticipation, hanging off every word.

"Hmm..." Lavi made a thoughtful noise in the back of his throat, closing his lively green eyes in thought, "Well not really. Or I don't think so anyway. They looked weird... like they were struggling against gravity or something." Lavi wrinkled his nose as he remembered "I'm really glad I'm not a girl because it would be really hard to balance with those things growing out of your chest."

Allen's head tipped to the side, his silver hair settling itself across his forehead as his eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "That's weird..."

"Yeah I know!" Lavi agreed, scratching his head, "They just looked like sacks of skin or something."

"That sounds really yucky..." they both nodded as they sat on Allen's blanket quietly for a moment, thinking over the strange new development.

"I like you." Allen looked up at Lavi in surprise and blinked as the redhead grinned, "You haven't even seen boobies and you think that they're weird like me." The younger boy smiled happily.

"I like you too, Lavi! You're my bestest friend ever!" Lavi's grandfather and Allen's father had be neighbours for several years when Lavi came into his care at the age of one and a half, and so when Allen was born a few months later, Lavi was the first child of about the same age he played with. Lavi was there when Allen learned how to crawl, and helped teach him how to walk, and as they got older became as close to a brother as Allen was ever going to have.

"Let's get married." Allen blinked, looking thoughtful as he considered the older boy's suggestion.

"Okay!" Lavi grinned in delight as Allen tucked a stray hair behind his ear, "Do you have rings? My daddy said that you need rings to get married."

Lavi blinked, reaching into his pocket and digging around. It was an odd thing Lavi did, keeping just about everything he could find in the pockets of his jeans, 'just in case'. Allen waited patiently, knowing that Lavi would come up with something that would suit their purposes.

"Ah ha!" Lavi's face broke into a wide grin and he produced two rings, one pale blue with grey sharks glued onto the plastic and the other an obnoxiously bright yellow with one plastic flower attached to it, "Will these work?"

"Yeah they should be fine." Allen shrugged, making a face as Lavi dropped the flowery ring into his hand, "Why do I get the girl ring?"

"Because I'm older and I like sharks." The smaller boy pouted as Lavi smiled, and they both slipped the rings onto their ring fingers.

"There." Allen smiled, holding out his hand to admire the ring.

"So that means we're married now right?" Lavi fidgeted with the scratchy plastic and Allen's pale eyebrows scrunched together in thought.

"Uh... no I think there's something else... oh! That's right! This big priest guy has to say 'you may now kiss the bride' I think..."

"Oh, okay... well we don't have a priest guy... so... I guess we'll just have to do it without him."

"Yeah..." Allen nodded.

"Okay... are you the bride?" Lavi grinned as the younger boy got a scandalized look.

"What!? Why am I the bride!?"

Lavi rolled his eyes; that wide smile not quite vanishing from his face as he spoke, "Because you're shorter."

"... Fine... but next time you're the bride!"

"Okay, okay fine..." Lavi leaned down, hesitating for just a moment as Allen closed his eyes expectantly and took a deep breath before planting a light, chaste kiss to the smaller boy's lips. Lavi pulled back and watched as Allen kept his eyes shut tightly for a moment before cracking one eye open and peaking at him through his eyelashes.

"There... I think we're married now." Allen nodded and smiled sheepishly.

"Okay... hey! Let's go tell daddy!" Lavi blinked and Allen grabbed his hand, leading Lavi around the house to where Mana was doing some yard work.

"Daddy! Daddy!" the dark haired man looked up from where he was pulling a rather stubborn weed and waved to the two children.

"Hello boys. What can I do for you?"

Allen came to a stop in front of his father, smiling as he held Lavi's hand. "Guess what." Mana smiled at the excited sparkle in his son's eyes, leaning down a bit so their eyes were level.

"What is it, Allen?" and of all the things that could have come out of his son's mouth, Mana certainly didn't expect what did.

"Me and Lavi got married!" Allen mistook the stunned silence his father fell into as disbelief and he pouted, "Look! We have rings and everything see?" Mana snapped out of his stupor and smiled nervously, pushing Allen's hand away from his face.

"Allen... you and Lavi are both boys..." both Allen and Lavi's heads tipped to the side in confusion.

"Yeah, I know that daddy..." Allen spoke slowly, and Mana sighed, knowing that Allen didn't understand. Gesturing for the two boys to sit on the grass, Mana rubbed the back of his neck nervously, unsure of how to explain that sort of thing to his son.

"Okay well... Two boys can't get married..."

"Why?" Lavi scratched his head and Mana sighed.

"Well, many people think its wrong..."

"Why?" Allen tilted his head to the other side, his eyebrows crunched together as he tried to understand.

"Because the bible says it's wrong."

"You mean the big, boring old book we have in our living room?" Mana nodded, "Why does everyone listen to just one book?"

"Well it was a book written a long, long time ago and it sets out rules for people to live by." Lavi raised an eyebrow and Mana remembered that his family was atheist with an internal wince.

"But why does it say two boys getting married is wrong? Daddy, you told me that all love was special..."

"W-well... um..." Mana sighed knowing that they were too young to grasp the concept properly, "you're too young to get married."

"What? But I'm a big kid daddy! I'm going to be five in December!" Lavi snickered and Allen sent him an annoyed look as Mana smiled and patted his son's head

"You both have to be eighteen."

"Wh-what?! But that's so far away!" Allen whined.

"Sorry, Allen, that's the rules..."

The young boy pouted and hugged the much taller six year old that had been keeping quiet for most of the conversation. "But we love each other lots and lots! We don't need to follow some stupid head rules! Lavi is my bestest friend ever!"

"Allen..." Mana sighed heavily as Lavi nodded defiantly, wrapping an arm around Allen's shoulders, "that's a different kind of love. Friendship love and marriage love are two very different things."

"Different? How?" Allen didn't let go of Lavi as he looked up at Mana in confusion, leaning his head against the green shirt Lavi was wearing.

"Err... well... it just is... you'll understand better when you're older."

"Oh... I wanna marry, Lavi anyway because we're best friends and best friends should be together forever and ever!" Mana's heart melted at the innocent smile on his son's face and he really couldn't find it in himself to reprimand him anymore on the matter.

"Alright, Allen, whatever you say. Why don't you two boys go play in the backyard while I make some snacks for you?"

"Okay!" the two boys said in unison, smiling as they ran around the corner, hand in hand.

They laughed as they flopped back down on the blanket that was still spread out for Allen to colour on as they looked up at sky through the tree branches that provided shade over the end of the large backyard.

"Your dad is funny." Allen looked at the smiling boy curiously.

"I think he's weird... we're already married so it's not like the police can get us for breaking the law..." Lavi shrugged, rolling over onto his side to look at Allen's face properly.

"Well... just in case, we can pretend to not be married until we're old enough."

"That's a really long time though..." Allen made a sad face and Lavi smiled, ruffling his hair affectionately.

"It's worth the wait."

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"Allen?" the young man looked up from his reminiscing when a familiar voice called him from the doorway, sounding slightly amused, "You're supposed to be getting ready you know. Not sitting there daydreaming." The tall redhead closed the door behind him and smiled at his lover, brushing a stray piece of fluff off the dark fabric of his tuxedo.

The lanky six year old from Allen's memory had grown into a tall, well built man. He had grown very quickly as a young teenager, and had been gawky and awkward for several years, before he had filled out and built up muscle. Lavi wasn't a large man but he was healthy and strong. The tuxedo he wore was perfectly tailored and Allen smiled at the way it seemed to make his normally scruffy and casual husband-to-be look like a distinguished aristocrat.

"I know, I'm sorry..." the younger man smiled sheepishly, standing up and smoothing out the plain black pants of his own tuxedo. "Throw me my suit jacket, will you?" Lavi chuckled and tossed the final piece of Allen's outfit to him, adjusting his eye patch as Allen pulled on the expensive item.

"You ready for this, Al?" Lavi's single green eye glanced up hesitantly as Allen blinked at him.

"Of course I am. Aren't you?"

"...Yeah... just nervous I guess..." Allen sighed and crossed the room, taking his best friend and long time love's hand.

"Lavi, if you're not ready we really shouldn't be getting married... I don't mind waiting some more if it's what you want."

Lavi's shocked expression and the almost crushing hug Allen found himself in pushed the tiny doubt he had away as the redhead spoke, "Don't be stupid... I want this more than anything; otherwise I wouldn't have asked you... it's just a big step for us you know? It's kind of really scary." He pulled back enough to look into Allen's eyes and smile, tenderly brushing a stray lock of hair from his eyes. "But we can do it."

"And here I was worried you were getting cold feet." Lavi huffed at Allen's cheeky grin, kissing his nose apologetically.

"Sorry..." Allen smiled as Lavi's lips pressed softly against his own, enjoying the familiar warmth. Of course, he parted his lips without thinking much on it when Lavi attempted to deepen the kiss and before he knew it he was tangling his fingers into Lavi's hair and trying his best to keep up with Lavi's skilled tongue.

"Oi, Moyashi have you seen the Usa-" Both men froze as their friend Kanda Yuu opened the door, stopping and staring at them for a long moment before growling out in annoyance, "You fucking idiots. Save that shit for the ceremony. Lenalee is looking all over for you moyashi and you Usagi need to get out here and sign some papers or something for the caterers and how the hell did I end up being a messenger boy?" Kanda looked supremely pissed off and Lavi let out a laugh, planting one last kiss on Allen's lips before parting, going over to leave with the somewhat murderous man.

"I'll see you at the alter Allen!" the door closed and Allen chuckled as Kanda's angry voice carried though the door as the two men walked down the hall.

The next hour was a whirlwind of activity for Allen, making sure everything was set up, getting dragged away by Lenalee who insisted on styling his short hair, proclaiming it perfect after twenty minutes of adding in all kinds of goops and creams and having it end up looking exactly the same as it did any old day.

Before Allen could completely gather his thoughts he found himself standing in front of the man he loved, saying his vows. He glanced out into the people who had come to the ceremony, picking out the smiling face of his father, the utterly bored face of his uncle, Cross, his old high school teacher and Lenalee's older brother Koumi, Miranda, the German immigrant he helped to teach English, and all of the other familiar faces of his family and friends looking back at him and he smiled. Today was a day he had been waiting for, and now after twenty one years he was going to enjoy every second of it.

"You may now kiss the bride." There was a collective gasp and Lavi blinked, glancing at the man giving their wedding ceremony with a raised eyebrow. Everyone assumed that it was a mistake but Allen had asked the elderly man to say bride specifically. Grabbing Lavi's face while he wasn't expecting it Allen pulled their faces together and kisses his husband. There was a moment of surprise, where no one was quite sure what was going on but then the congregation broke into applause, cheering on the new couple.

Allen pulled back and smiled at his blinking spouse who raised an inquisitive eyebrow at him.

"I was the bride last time." Was all the explanation Lavi needed before he grinned back, taking Allen's hand and running back down the aisle, ready to face the world together.

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FIN

AN: woo! Another chapter~! :D my baby is seven years old now!! –Hugs- :D you have no idea how excited that makes me. XD yay for inspiration! Thank you to everyone who reviews/has made this a favourite/ alerted this! You guys really motivate me! Please don't forget to review if you have the time! It really makes me want to rip off my shirt to reveal my super author costume and save the day! :D

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