Song: 'I Do'- Colbie Callait
Season: 3
Pairing: Garry/Bec
Author: aussiebabe290 (Rhyleigh)
The fourth and final part to the previous three song fics ('Alone', 'Can't Fight This Feeling' and 'Taking Chances'). Read and review.
"And then he heard 'Russell! get out of the bushes'!" Guy grinned, as his housemates groaned in disgust.
"Mate, that's possibly the worst joke you've ever told!"
"That was bad".
"That was worse than bad!"
"Pathetic".
"Horrific".
"Terrible", Garry concluded, with a pat to the boy's shoulder.
Guy's shoulders slumped. "I'd like to see you come up with something better than that!"
"I will", Garry accepted the challenge cheerfully. "I've been saving this one for a special occasion... what's yellow, lives in a tree, and is very, very, very dangerous?"
All six of them looked confused.
"A canary with a machine gun!"
He looked gleeful, as the others groaned even louder than they had with Guy.
Bec had to smile, at the scene in front of her. Four years earlier, she had all but given up on the chance of ever having a relationship- at sixteen; she had a broken heart and had accepted her fate as single.
It's always been about me myself and I
If all relationships were nothing but a waste of time
I never wanted to be anybody's other half
I was happy to say that our love wouldn't last
That was the only way I knew to that you
"Wanna share what that smile's about?" Garry wanted to know, as the brunette gazed into the distance.
"Certainly not about your joke", Loren shot.
"Loren!" Bec laughed, as the blonde blushed shyly.
At the beginning of the year, when people asked what her future held for her, she told them it was a blank page. At that time, she was living in Queensland, with no hope of ever returning to Solar Blue. But there she was, once again amidst the teenage drama and tantrums (significantly less than there were in her year). Starting the year single and loving life... but finding love in the most unlikely of places.
Garry Miller was her prince on a surfboard.
You make we wanna say
I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Yeah, I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Cause every time before we spend like
Maybe yes and maybe no
I can live without it, I can let it go
Ooh, I did, I get myself into
You make we wanna say I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do,
Together, they faced their days, battling with six teenagers, running a surf school. All the responsibilities of adults, the freedom of teenagers. Complete opposites, and yet they meshed together so well.
Perhaps that was why the kids saw them as a couple, long before they even mentioned getting together- it had been one of the more awkward, kid-initiated house meetings of the year. Adam and Guy had stuttered out explanations, while Bec blushed and wished the ground would open up and swallow her whole.
It didn't, of course. That would just be too weird for her to comprehend.
Maybe it was that day that she started to see Garry in a different light.
But she didn't know that was the day he started to see her differently.
Tell me is it only me
Do you feel the same?
You know me well enough to know that I'm not playing games
I promise I won't turn around and I won't let you down
You can trust and never feel it now
Baby there's nothing, there's nothing we can't get through
She knew they had hurdles to face- the finals, saying goodbye to 'their' kids- it didn't matter how many years of intakes they looked after, Bridget, Cassie, Loren, Adam, Guy and Charley would always be special. they had formed a family, a special bond that was unbreakable. At the end of the year, tears would be shed by all- even Garry, cracking through his hard outer shell.
Bec and Garry had to face the summer between farewelling their kids and welcoming the new intakes- a time period that was awkward for everyone.
But they would do it, together.
So can we say
I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Oh baby, I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Cause every time before we spend like
Maybe yes and maybe no
I won't live without it, I won't let it go
Wooh Can I get myself into
You make we wanna say
She had never been the girl to say 'by this age I want to be married with three kids'. That just wasn't who she was. She didn't even know if she wanted to get married at all. Kids had always been a possibility- they frustrated her sometimes, but she did love them.
Somehow, her views had all changed when she met Garry. They had a family- slightly unconventional, but a family nonetheless. Three girls, three boys. a big house, complete with a lounge where she could curl up beside him, resting her head on his shoulder. She had been doing that since the day he moved into the Solar Blue boarding house.
Me a family, a house a family
Ooh, can we be a family?
And when I'm old and sit next to you.
It didn't matter how many years of intakes they would look after, the ones in front of them at that moment in time would be the ones they would always remember. The ones who had seen their relationship blossom from friendship to something more, the ones who had teased them silly and loved them all the same.
The ones who were there when they said 'I do'.
they been the ones to visit even after they graduated from the academy, clearing a weekend when all six of them were in Sydney to visit the boarding house and meet the new intakes (Bec had never been so happy to see them). they had mentored the new intakes (Zoe, Aden, Ellie, Alicia, Scott and Liam), proving to them that not all is over if you don't win the wildcard.
The ones who had brought flowers and presents when Bec and Garry welcomed little seven pound, three ounce Savannah Hope into the world.
The ones who counted on them, phoning in the silence of the night.
Because they were a family- unconventional, none the least- but a family all the same.
And when we remember when we said
I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Oh baby, I do, I do, I do, do do do do do do doo
Cause every time before we spend like
Maybe yes and maybe no
I won't live without it, I won't let it go
Just look at what we got ourselves into
You make we wanna say I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do,
Love you