A/N – Sorry I haven't updated in ages and thanks to the people who have reviewed, I hope you like this chapter. These characters are not mine!
Four years later
Christine stood in the same place that she had stood on the day her daughter's christening and the day of her first kiss with the man she loves. She looks around her and not much seems to have changed. She sighs nervously looking at Mary Beth who is standing beside her and casts her mind back to the morning's events.
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"Mummy, its today!" Chris wakes up to see her daughter jumping up beside her on her bed, she smiles excited but nervous as her daughter runs around the room. Christine sits up in bed and checks the time,
"Ten past nine! We're gonna be so late!" she cries and proceeds to get breakfast organised then quickly dresses before bundling herself and Charlotte in to the car.
"Now calm down!" she says to Charlotte, who is bouncing up and down in the back, although she is anything but calm herself. They soon pull up outside Mary Beth's house in Queens and she is standing at the door waiting for them in a robe with her hair up.
"You're late Christine, I've had my hair done already!"
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that Mary Beth, I overslept."
"That's ok, just come in quickly we've haven't got much time. Are you excited about having your hair done up all posh Charlotte?" Charlotte nods and runs inside while Chris stands still, a look of panic on her face, "Chris?" Mary Beth says,
"What? Oh yes of course." Chris nods going inside.
Alice Christine comes downstairs and hurries over to Charlotte.
"Look at my hair Charlie!" she exclaims and the girls giggle excitedly together.
"Now girls go up to Alice's bedroom and your dresses are on the bed." Mary Beth says, taking charge for once. "Are you alright Chris?" she asks worriedly,
"I'm fine Mary Beth! Now, let's get this show on the road!" Christine says slightly too brightly. Mary Beth nods silently are shows Chris into the living room where the hairdresser is waiting.
By 10.30 Mary Beth, Alice, Charlotte and Christine are all dressed and ready to go. Harvey comes in to see them; he has been gladly banished to the kitchen all morning but has to see his wife, daughter and their friends in their dresses.
"You look beautiful babe!" he says to Mary Beth and kisses her then he turns to Alice and Charlotte and hugs them telling them that they look gorgeous. To Christine he says, "you look wonderful Chris." She smiles and hugs him then he leaves to drive Michael and Harvey Jr to the church. Mary Beth glances out the window and says,
"The car is here." The girls rush to the window to see the spectacular car that is parked outside, "Are you ready Chris?"
"Ready as I'll ever be." Chris says, she is as white as sheet.
They get in the car. Mary Beth is next to Chris and notices her hands shaking.
"Chris are you sure you're ok?"
"I'm fine Mary Beth!" Chris snaps quietly so the girls don't hear. Mary Beth says noting just looks disbelieving, "ok," Chris whispers, "ok, fine I'm scared alright?" Mary Beth grips on to her partner's hands, "I've been undercover Mary Beth, I've risked by life for the job, when we were in that shoot out a few years ago we didn't think we'd make it out alive, so why am I so terrified now?"
"Chris I promise you, you're doing the right thing, you love him don't you?"
Chris nods,
"Then it'll be alright."
"Thanks Mary Beth." Chris smiles at her partner as the pull up outside the church.
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Chris smiles, she knows that this is right thing to do. She turns to Mary Beth,
"Thanks." She says.
"What for?"
"For everything," Mary Beth hugs her smiling. The music starts, Mary Beth gives Charlotte and Alice a little push and they start to walk into the church. In a moment Mary Beth follows smiling and nodding to Chris. She waits a second then slides in down the aisle, her dress lightly falling around her as she walks. Everyone in the church gasps as she walks past, looking radiant in the beautiful wedding dress she and Mary Beth chose but Chris doesn't even see them. The only person she sees is the man standing at the front of the church in a suit looking nervous but happy. She glides down and takes his hand.
"Christine Cagney, do you take Albert Samuels to be your lawful wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live?"
Christine looks up into Samuel's eyes and sees the love shining in them, she never thought this day would come for her and her heart seems to be almost bursting as she gazes at him and says,
"I do."