AN: Another chapter already, and my longest one yet! Also, I just started a Harry Potter Fic called Phoenix Rising, that I would love for you to check out. Now, on to the next chapter.


Through prom and graduation, Patty strutted around on Reid's arm as though he were some kind of trophy. Jay hadn't spoken to him or even looked at him since Patty had unfeelingly announced to her that they were now an item. This bothered Reid, but he couldn't help but feel that she was being a bit self-righteous. She was after all, dating his best friend too, but for some reason she was the one who had the right to be mad. He had tried to explain himself, for reasons he didn't quite understand, but she had a way of disappearing, before he could get a word in.

The day he finally managed to corner her was the day before Caleb's wedding. She was in a spare bedroom at the Danvers manor, getting ready for the rehearsal dinner. He stepped into the room, closing the door behind him. Jaleen spun around at the noise.

Reid looked into her eyes. Her once innocent eyes glared icily back. He tried desperately to find some trace of the girl he cared so deeply for.

"Marry me." He said, it wasn't a question.

Jaleen looked surprised.

"What?"

""Marry me." He repeated. "run away with me."

"No!" She looked at him with disgust. "You're dating my friend, and I'm dating Tyler."

"So what?"

"So, I actually care about those two people. A lot."

"So do I"

"If you did, you wouldn't be asking me to marry you." Jaleen snapped, she couldn't believe him.

"I care about them, but I love you." Reid looked her in the eye. "Jay, I love you."

Jaleen looked away, trying hard to suppress the tears that stung her eyes.

"Its too late, Reid." She managed to choke out. "We had our chance, and it didn't work. I won't go through that again, I can't."

Reid cupped Jay's face in his hands and passionately kissed her. She pulled away even though she badly wanted to return his kiss, to feel his arms around her again.

"No Reid, this is wrong."

"It doesn't feel wrong." He insisted kissing her neck.

"It will if we let this go any further."

"You know what the difference between me and you is?" Reid asked her, Jay shook her head, staring at the floor. "I know what I want and there is nothing that can come between me and what I want. Then there's you, Jay, you know what you want, but your too damn scared to go for it."

"Shut up." She said pulling away from him.

"Deny it."

"I said shut the hell up." Jay pushed past him, and stormed out the door, not looking back.


It was the day of Caleb and Sloan's wedding. The grounds that surrounded the Danvers manor were beautiful. Flowers were artistically strewn across the ground. The trees were draped in flowers and beautiful lace. It was picture perfect, and had obviously had taken about a hundred wedding planners to create.

Caleb stood at the altar beside the preacher. A long satin carpet trailed from the base of the altar all the way to the beautiful French doors of the house. Caleb waited in nervous anticipation for his bride. It was a small wedding, as far as guests went, only close friends and family. Caleb was jolted from his reveries by the sound of the wedding march starting up.

The French doors of the Danvers' manor slowly opened. Reid and Patty appeared arm in arm. The crimson bridesmaid dresses were extremely elegant, and Patty looked stunning, not that Reid noticed. They were about halfway to the altar when Tyler and Jaleen appeared, a sour look crossed Reid's face at the sight of them. Pogue and Kate appeared in the doorway next, smiling happily. They walked gracefully down the aisle and separated before the altar. Kate stepped lightly up to the other bridesmaids and Pogue stood beside his best friend giving the groom to be a hearty pat on the back.

That was when she appeared. Not Sloan…

"Sarah?" Caleb mouthed in silent bewilderment. Sarah strode down the aisle, shamelessly. "What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk." She said urgently.

"In case you didn't notice, I'm kind of in the middle of something." Caleb said coldly.


Everyone stood, waiting awkwardly as the groom left with his ex-girlfriend. The wedding march abruptly stopped and everyone watched them leave. Caleb and Sarah hurried a good distance away, into the privacy of a gazebo.

"Why did you come back?" Caleb asked through his teeth. Sarah looked at him sheepishly.

"You should know." She mumbled. Caleb shook his head angrily.

"I was about to get married, Sarah. Married!"

Sarah continued to stare at her feet. "I know." She whispered.

"Then why did you come back, now of all times?" Caleb tried to stay calm.

"I love you." She said quieter than ever.

"You know what, Sarah? No. I moved on. I love Sloan, and I'm going to marry her."

Sarah looked him in the eye, her eyes filling with tears.

"I understand. I didn't expect you to forgive me. I was just hoping you might give me a second chance."

"I'm sorry. Sarah, its too late." Caleb whispered gently.

"I know, but I had to try." She tried to smile. It hurt Caleb to see her like this, but he loved Sloan, she was the love of his life. "So you're going through with the wedding?"

Caleb nodded. Sarah smiled sadly.

"No second chance for us, I guess." She whispered, and kissed him on the cheek. "Caleb, I wish you and Sloan the best." Caleb gave her a look. "Really, I do."

"Thank you." Caleb smiled at her. "It means a lot." Sarah sniffed, and plastered on a big smile.

"Come on, Caleb, you need to go get married." She straightened his tie and patted his jacket.

"You know, Sarah, thank you for interrupting my wedding." Caleb said awkwardly, Sarah looked at Caleb. "Seriously, I needed to make peace with you. I needed to forgive you."

"You forgive me?" She looked at him happily. He smiled at her.

"Yeah, I do." He said decidedly. Sarah hugged him tight. She shook with her tears.

"Thank you Caleb, I needed to hear you say that." She wiped away her tears. "You have a wedding to get to, your own."

Caleb smiled at her joke.


Caleb and Sarah hurried back to the wedding ceremony. Sarah sat in the back and Caleb hurried up the aisle to the altar. Pogue looked at him questioningly but Caleb ignored him. Caleb signaled to the band to start playing. Caleb took a deep breath, but he didn't let it out.

There she was… Sloan. His beautiful bride, and the love of his life. His mother walked his bride down the aisle. Evelyn and Sloan stopped before the altar. Evelyn looked into Sloan's eyes and hugged her lovingly.

"Who gives this bride to this groom?" The preacher asked. Evelyn stepped forward and gave Sloan's slender hands to her son.

"I do." Evelyn said lovingly. She smiled at her son and then took a seat with the guests.

"Would you exchange you vows?" The preacher said to Caleb and Sloan. They nodded.

"I'll go first." Caleb whispered to Sloan and squeezed her hands. She smiled in blissful happiness. "Sloan, I love you. I have loved you since the first moment I looked into your eyes. Though, I will admit, I never would have guessed that I would meet my future wife by running over her with my car. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I don't know where I would be without you, and I don't want to know, because when I'm with you everything seems right. I love you Sloan. You're the only one for me, and I will never love another woman the way I love you."

Sarah sniffed as Caleb said this; she had tears rolling silently down her face. Sloan was crying too, but her joy radiated through her wet face.

"Wow," Sloan said. "I think I got the raw end of the deal. Now I have to try and top that. Well, here goes nothing. When I came to Ipswich, I had a plan. I was going to finish school and go to Harvard. That was my plan. Nothing could get between me and my plan, or so I thought. Then love came along and knocked me off my feet. Literally, with a car. I guess I'm kind of an old fashion girl, but when I say my knight in shining armor came along and swept me off my feet while riding a mustang, I'm not talking about a horse, and that whole sweeping thing was kind of painful. Caleb, you screwed up my plan, and I couldn't be more grateful that you did. You showed me what I was missing. I didn't even realize how empty my life was until you made it complete."

Caleb was beaming and squeezed Sloan's hands as she finished. The preacher then stepped forward.

"Do you, Caleb Danvers, take this woman, Sloan Peters, to be your lawfully wedded wife? To have and to hold, for richer or for poorer, through sickness and in health, as long as you both shall live?"

Caleb looked into Sloan's eyes and whispered "I do."

"Do you, Sloan Peters, take this man, Caleb Danvers, to be your lawfully wedded husband? To have and to hold, for richer or for poorer, through sickness and in health, as long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

"If anyone has any objections to these two being joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace."

"I object." Came a voice from the crowd. A voice Caleb had hoped never to hear again.

"Chase." Caleb whispered as he turned to confront his enemy.

"If there is one more interruption in this wedding, I am seriously going to hurt someone." Reid muttered.

"It seems you forgot to invite me to your wedding, did you really think I was dead?" Chase looked a little worse for wear after their last meeting. He had scars all over his hands and arms from the fire. "Now how was it again that my 'death' came to pass? Oh, I remember now, you killed me."

Sloan looked at Caleb in complete confusion.

"What are you doing here?" Caleb asked.

"I wanted to celebrate my old friends wedding." Chase grinned evilly. "You have told your bride your secret, haven't you?"

Caleb looked at Sloan worriedly.

"No?" Chase said in mock disbelief. He looked at Sloan. "My dear, I am so sorry to interrupt your wedding, but I feel it is incumbent upon me to tell you that you groom here is lying to you."

Sloan looked at Caleb questioningly.

"What is he talking about, Caleb?" Sloan asked, her voice shaking. Caleb avoided her eyes.

"He's insane, don't listen to anything he tells you."

"I believe you that he is insane," Sloan pulled her hand away from his. "But your face tells me that at least part of what he's saying is true. Caleb, what aren't you telling me?"

"Oh yes, Caleb, what aren't you telling the poor girl?" Caleb glared at Chase who was simply giddy.

"Sloan, can we talk in private?" Sloan nodded and followed Caleb into the house.

"I just love weddings." Chase said happily, clasping his hands together. The other Sons of Ipswich glared at him hatefully.


Caleb walked into his room and stopped. He heard Sloan closed the door behind them. Caleb took a deep breath and turned around.

"Caleb, What aren't you telling me?" Sloan asked. Caleb was silent. "It's big isn't it?" She pressed again.

"Yeah, its big." Caleb finally gave in.

"How big?"

"Life altering." Caleb admitted.

"God, you could have picked a better time to tell me." Sloan said shaking her head, indicating her long white dress.

"I haven't even told you what's going on yet."

"Then stop beating around the bush, and tell me already." Sloan growled.

"Sloan, do you love me?" Caleb asked.

"Yes, and nothing you can say will change that."

"Are you sure about that?"


Chase stood there cackling to himself. Tyler and Pogue were doing their best to restrain Reid, while everyone else was in complete confusion. Pogue stepped towards Chase and pointed his finger at him threateningly.

"You had better get out of here." He said warningly.

"Oh, I will." Chase said calmly and turned to walk away. He stopped and looked back over his shoulder. "But don't think even for a second that this is the last you'll see of me. We still have some unresolved issues."

"Let me hurt him." Reid pleaded, struggling to free himself from Tyler's grip.

"No, just let him go." Pogue said calmly. This surprised Reid because Pogue was usually so passionate about things.


"Wow." Sloan whispered. Caleb had told her everything. He had finished ten minutes before and they had sat together in silence since.

"Well?" Caleb asked nervously.

"Well, what? I still love you, I already told you that nothing you said would change that."

"You are amazing." Caleb observed.

"I know. Since we're in such an open mood, already, I have something to confess as well." She smiled guiltily.

"Big?" Caleb asked, Sloan nodded. "Life altering?"

"Just a little."

"Well, it can't be much worse than mine. Can it?"


"I believed what you told me, do the same for me." Sloan said to Caleb.

"Of course."

"First of all, do you believe in vampires?"

"As in, do I think they're real?"

"Yes."

"No." Caleb said assuredly.

"You best start, then." Sloan said calmly.

"What?" Caleb was clearly confused.

"Vampires are very real, they are very dangerous, and they are a severe threat to mankind." Sloan said seriously.

"What does that have to do with you?" Caleb asked.

"I'm a Vampire Slayer." She said bluntly.

"As in, you kill vampires?"

"Yes."

Caleb looked stunned for a moment and then grinned.

"I've got Xena for a girlfriend." He chuckled.

"Wife, if you'll still have me."

"Why wouldn't I?"


AN: What do you think? Please review!

Midnightfarie