A/N: Hope you guys enjoy this chapter :3

"You are a complete and total diva and I have absolutely no idea of why I'm friends with you." Casey jokes as she eyes Kim with genuine curiosity, pausing before she shakes her head. "Never mind, I take it back. I know exactly why I'm friends with you, but I just never knew that taking you out of the city would highlight how much of a diva you are."

Kim quirks an eyebrow and moves her designer sunglasses to the top of her head. "Am I over dressed?" she asks in a serious tone as she looks down at her clothes. "I think I dressed appropriately."

Casey chuckles as she shakes her head once more. "The heels might just be a little overdone. You're in the country Kim and you look like you've just walked out of a supermodel magazine. Did you only bring your purse?" she concludes with a small frown as she takes note that her friend is only carrying her purse. "How much stuff did you really bring?"

"Too much." Abbie grunts irritably as approaches the duo with bags and bags stacked high in her arms. "Way too much."

Kim rolls her eyes and slips her purse off of her arm before she adds it to her girlfriend's stack. "You'll be alright." she deadpans before she turns back to Casey and follows her towards the other guest house. "It is safe to be staying out here right?"

"How did I know you were going to ask that? I've been here and I'm fine, aren't I? What are you afraid of?"

"I don't know. Bears. Mountain Lions…Jaguars…"

"The most that we have our here coyotes. I don't think I've seen a mountain lion since the last time I've been deep into the mountains, but that's been several months though." Alex says informatively as she steps into the conversation, tilting her head when she sees Casey's glare. "What?"

Kim's eyes widen considerably before she turns back to Casey. "C-Coyotes?" she stutters before she turns back to Alex. "You really have coyotes?"

Alex opens her mouth to respond but trails off when she sees Casey's glare once again and the redhead is viciously shaking her head. "Uh…no, not really. I was just um…joking." The blonde trails of awkwardly before she clears her throat and extends her hand towards the woman she's probably just unintentionally terrified. "I'm Alex."

"Kim." Kim responds with narrowed eyes as she shakes the taller woman's hand before she nods towards the angry brunette stalking to and from the car to retrieve her luggage. "And that little ray of sunshine over there is my girlfriend Abbie. And who might you be exactly?"

"Oh, uh, I'm JJ's sister. Well, half sister, but it's kinda the same thing."

"Really? She never mentioned having a sister."

Alex sighs heavily but musters a smile as she shoves her hands into her pockets. "Yeah well, I'm sure there are a whole bunch of things she neglects to mention…"

"Look, I don't know whatever your deal with me is, but I'd appreciate it if you told me what's going on instead of pissing around like this." JJ states flatly walking outside of the bar for privacy as she narrows her eyes at her sister.

Alex folds her arms tightly and scowls as she turns her head in another direction, unable to look the shorter blonde in the eye. "You don't deserve her." She says as she shakes her head disapprovingly.

"Excuse me?"

"You don't deserve Casey. She's far too good for you."

JJ snorts humorlessly as she folds her arms as well. "This is all because you want her for yourself right? I know your secret Al. I heard you and Daddy talking in the stables. If you think for a second that you are going to take Casey away from me, you're dead wrong."

Alex clenches her teeth tightly and her eyes harden with anger. "You don't deserve her and you know it. You know how you treat her is wrong. She's...she's not happy with you but you're here forcing her into a marriage you know she doesn't want."

"If she didn't want to marry me, she wouldn't have said yes. I'm not holding a gun to her head and forcing her into anything."

"You might as well be! She doesn't know how to say no to you! Why can't you just see how unhappy she is? Do you even realize how much you make her cry? You aren't supposed to make her cry like that. You're supposed to love her and treat her like she's you're queen, but you just have no idea how to do that."

"And you do?!" JJ retorts irritably. "You sure are talking pretty big for someone who's been single pretty much her entire life. How would you even know how to treat any woman, let alone Casey?"

Alex bites the inside of her cheek before she shakes her head. "I know that she's an amazing woman but you don't make her feel like she is. I know that even though she's strong on her job, she needs someone to take care of her. She likes to be held and to know that she's cared for. She just wants to be loved Jen, and you just can't do that."

JJ scowls darkly as she points a finger at her sister. "Stay away from my fiancée Alex. I mean it. Don't you even go near her."

"Is everything all right between you two?" A confused Emily Prentiss questions as she pokes her head outside.

"Fine. Everything's fine." Alex growls before she breaks her stare down with her sister and proceeds back into the bar."

Emily stares after the fuming lieutenant before she turns back to her best friend. "Is everything really alright Jayje?"

JJ clenches and unclenches her dust before she forces a smile. "Yeah, everything's just great..."

"Guys, I am super nervous about tomorrow. I feel like this is all just a dream and I'm going to wake up any moment and all of this won't be real." Casey rambles as her hands slightly begin to shake.

Serena giggles softy and gently oats the redhead on the shoulder. "It's alright honey, I remember I was the exact same way when I got married. I was a nervous wreck. The only thing that put me at ease was the inkling at Liv was probably a billion times more nervous than I was."

"I don't think I'd be nervous at my wedding." Abbie states as she shrugs her shoulders nonchalantly. "I don't ever get nervous over anything."

"Except the roller coasters on Coney Island..." Kim murmurs with a smug smile tugging at her lips.

Abbie blanches before she snaps her head towards her girlfriend. "I did not get nervous."

"My apologies. You were scared. Completely different thing. Sorry."

"I wasn't scared!"

Serena giggles and leans in closer to Casey. "Do they always bicker like this?"

"Oh, all the time." Casey replies as she fails to suppress a laugh of her own.

"And they're happily dating?"

"It's how they balance each other out. They're actually super adorable. See?" Casey explains, nodding her head towards her best friends who are now smiling and sharing the occasional kiss now and then. "I hope Jen and I are like that after we get married."

"You're having doubts?" Kim questions curiously, lifting her head from her lover's shoulder. "Or is it just nerves?"

"I-I think it's nerves." Casey mutters as she stares down at her hands. "I think..."

"Don't do it Casey." Abbie instructs with a firm head shake. "If you're having doubts about it then it isn't right. You know how unhappy you are."

Casey blushes and her shoulders slump drastically. "I'm not unhappy Abbie, I've told you. I-I want to marry Jennifer, I love her and she loves me..."

"That's not true and you know it Case."

"Abbie!" Kim scolds lightly as she shakes her head.

"It's true!" Abbie exclaims seriously. "If she's not happy, then why would get married to the root source of the problem?"

Casey shakes her head and begins absentmindedly wringing her hands. "There isn't a problem..." She states, though her tone portrays far more uncertainty than she would care to announce.

"What about Alex?" Serena questions gently, raising her eyebrows when Casey doesn't respond right away. "Casey?"

"I-I don't know..." The red haired woman murmurs quietly.

"What about Alex?" Kim speaks up, tilting her head when there is once again a lag in response. "Casey, tell us what's going on. We're you're best friends. We're here to help."

Casey nervously bites down on her bottom lip as she launches into her story. She retells everything from start to finish, not leaving anything out. She tells them how nice Alex has been to her, about how Alex kissed her and she didn't exactly pull back, about how she's had slightly conflicting dreams about a certain blonde, that just so happens to be the wrong blonde. When she's done, she realizes that she can't even look up to look her friends in the eye.

"Wow Case that's...what're you going to do?" Abbie asks softly.

"What I'm supposed to do. I'm going to marry Jen." Casey responds as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Are you sure?"

"I have to...I just...I just have to."

On the day of the wedding, Casey finds her self walking the landscape at a rather ungodly hour of the morning. She needs to clear her head and also try to put a cap on the bottle of nerves that is threatening to overflow within her.

"What am I doing." She mutters to herself as she roughly drags her fingers through her hair. She's getting married in just under ten hours and her nerves make her feel like she's going to be sick.

As she continues walking, Casey spots a familiar figure by the stables, shoveling large stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow. Sealing thickly, Casey comes to the realization that she has involuntarily been avoiding Alex and she isn't sure how the lieutenant will take her sudden reappearance.

"H-Hey Alex." Casey says nervously as she shoves her hands into her pockets.

Alex briefly looks up from what she's doing before she goes back to shoveling without even bother to verbally respond.

Casey takes a deep breath and bites down on her lip as she stares at her shoes. "Okay so...you seem upset."

Alex shakes her head, this time responding, but not bothering to look up. "You've been avoiding me. Don't think I haven't noticed."

"I-I didn't want JJ to see us talking."

"So you're ashamed of me?"

"That's not what I said."

"It was implied."

Casey sighs heavily and shakes her head as she tries to put together what it is she wants to say. "I didn't mean it like that. I meant...I meant that I didn't want her to get upset, after the whole fight thing..."

Alex snorts mirthlessly as she goes back to shoveling hay. "It wasn't much of a fight..." Alex mutters quietly.

"You did that to her because of me...didn't you?" Casey asks, the silence that follows is all she needs for a response. "Alex I...I realize you actually care about my feelings but you... What you did to her was wrong. Especially since you're a cop. You can't just..."

"You don't understand..."

"Help me understand. Look, you're a great friend but I just...help me understand."

Alex stands up straight and shakes her head in disappointment. "Friend...right. Casey, you aren't happy with Jennifer. You told me so. You told me how she makes you feel, how you feel when she doesn't look at you, how you feel when she doesn't come home. You don't need her anymore Casey. Let someone else take care of you. Let me take care of you."

Casey tilts her head in confusion and folds her arms. "Alex, what are you saying?"

"I'm saying that I..." Alex pauses as she takes a much needed deep breath. "I'm in love with you Casey. I've fallen in love you with. In fact, I'm still falling and the bottom seems nowhere in sight. I-I don't want you to marry Jennifer because I want to be the one to take care of you. I want to make you smile when you're down or hold you when you cry. I want to hold your hand when we take walks and I want to cuddle with you when you're cold. I just...I love you and I honestly think marrying JJ would be the biggest mistake of your life. Please, don't force yourself to do this. You still have time to change your mind."

Casey doesn't realize that she has tears streaming down her face until she involuntarily reaches up to wipe them away. "Alex I-" she starts, but her voice trails off as her emotions start to get the better of her. "I can't" she finally forces her self to say as she shake her head. "I can't do that to her...I can't leave her. I'm supposed to marry her..."

"You don't have to marry her Casey. Please. Just, please just thing of your happiness. Please don't do this. Don't force yourself into a loveless marriage."

"I-I love her Alex...and she loves me..."

Alex drops her hands to her sides and glumly shrugs her shoulders. "I guess then I can't do anything. But there is something I am going to do." She says quietly before she steps forward and presses her lips softly yet firmly against the redhead's.

Casey is taken of guard by the kiss but she immediately feels her heart soar to heights that she didn't even know were imaginable. Her becomes weak in the knees and she's sure she would have fallen if Alex hadn't wrapped an arm around her waist. Finally, the kiss is broken and Casey finds her self panting for air as her heart hammers violently in her chest.

"Just something to remember me by." Alex says quietly with a sad smile as she prepares to walk away. She stops when she feels a hand tightly grip her wrist.

"Alex I...aren't you going? To the wedding?" Casey asks sadly as she tilts her head with a pleading look in her eyes.

Alex hesitates for a moment before she shakes her head. "I can't go sit in an audience full of people and watch you marry someone you aren't happy with. I've had my heart broken enough as it is. Goodbye Casey."

Casey reluctantly releases her hold on Alex's wrist and she immediately feels like she's going to be sick again. She wraps her arms around her self and takes a shaky deep breath as she watches Alex's silhouette disappear into the distance.

"Dearly Beloved, Family and Friends alike; Jennifer and Cassandra have invited us here today to share in the celebration of their marriage – their wedding. We come together not to mark the start of a relationship, but to recognize a bond that already exists.

This marriage is one expression of the many varieties of love. Love is one, though its expressions are infinite. It is fitting to speak briefly about love. We live in a world of joy and fear and search for meaning and strength in seeming disorder. We discover the truest guidelines to our quest when we realize love in all its magnitudes. Love is the eternal force of life. Love is the force that allows us to face fear and uncertainty with courage.

If you would have the foundation of your union be the love you have for each other, not just at this moment, but for all the days ahead, then cherish the hopes and dreams that you bring here today.

Resolve that your love will never be blotted out by the commonplace nor obscured by the ordinary in life. Devotion, joy, and love can grown only if you nurture them together. Stand fast in that hope and confidence, believing in your shared future just as strongly as you believe in yourselves and in each other today. In this spirit, you can create a partnership that will strengthen and sustain you all the days of your lives."

Casey swallows thickly for the hundredth time in the past five minutes. She feels a slight squeeze on her gloves hands and she looks up to find JJ staring at her with a slight look of confusion that silently asks if she's okay. She nods and manages a smile as she squeezes back in reassurance.

She then goes back to tuning out the man who is marrying them. She swears that she can feel Abbie staring at her, silently telling her that she's making a mistake. She can feel the eyes of everyone on her, watching her every move.

Casey acts completely on autopilot as they go through the ring ceremony. Afterwards, she stares at the wedding ring on her finger that now sits just above her engagement ring. She takes a quiet but sudden deep breathes when the announcement of vows rings through her ears.

"Do you, Jennifer Jareau, take Cassandra Novak to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do you part?"

"I do." JJ responds with a warm smile as she gives Casey's hands a reassuring squeeze.

"And do you, Cassandra Novak, take Jennifer Jareau, to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do you part?"

"I-" Casey swallows thickly and opens her mouth to respond, but nothing comes out. Her heart is thumping loudly in her ears and her throat goes dry before she is finally able to find words. "I-I can't..."

There is a small yet audible unison gasp from several people occupying the audience and Casey has to look down at her shoes to avoid looking at the petrified blue eyes that are staring into her.

"Casey, I-what? W-what do you mean you can't?" JJ squeaks as her voice raises an octave from shock.

Casey shakes her head shamefully as she forces her self to look up. "I can't marry you..." She whispers as tears spill out of her eyes. "I can't..."

"Casey, why? I don't understand...We're here, we're in love. I don't understand."

"We aren't...we aren't in love. Not anymore. You don't love me Jennifer. You don't treat me like you love me. You weren't there when I needed you, ever. Your job is more important to you than I am, and you're always putting anything and everything you can find, before me. You don't make me feel beautiful, and you don't make me feel like I'm anything special...I...I can't marry you when I know that you don't love me. I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time, but I can't do this...I won't do this."

JJ grips Casey's hands tighter in an attempt to keep the redhead from leaving before she gets down on her knees. "Please Casey, don't do this. Please don't do this. We can work things out, I primes we will, but don't give up on us."

"There hasn't been an 'us' in a long time Jennifer...I can't."

"Casey, no. I'm begging. Please don't. I love you. I can't lose you. Please. Please don't go. I need you and I can't lose you."

"Jennifer, let me go, you're making a fool of yourself."

"I don't care! Please don't leave me. I love you Casey, please don't give up on what we have. Don't give up on all of those good times we've shared. Don't give up on us. Please. I want us to live happily together because we're in love. I want to marry you, I want to start a family with you, I just, I want to be with you. I can't be without you...I need you Casey."

Casey wipes her free flowing tears as she shakes we head. "I can't do any of those things. Please just...let me go. I'm taking my heart back JJ. I can't do this." She says as she slips both rings off her fingers and tries to hand them to the distraught woman below her. "Here..."

JJ shakes her head and attempts to pushes Casey's hand away. "No. Keep them. We'll work this out. I know we will. We have to. Please Casey. Please don't do this. Please don't walk out on me."

"I'm sorry." Casey whispers as she is finally able to hand over the rings. She shakes her head and steps down from the alter, avoiding eye contact with anyone and everyone as she makes her way back down the aisle.

JJ stares at the two rings in her palm and she feels the thousand pieces her heart has shattered into, shatter even more. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knows that she just completely degraded her self by getting down on her knees, begging like a small child, but she can't help but realize that she let the best thing that could ever happen for her, slip away.

Alex is tending to the horses and a few other livestock out in the pastures. She sighs heavily when she glances at her watch and realizes that Casey is probably now apart of her family, but only as her sister in law, nothing more.

"Who am I kidding." She mutters as she gently pets Allegra's mane. "Loser cop like me, from a small town. I was stupid to even dream that a girl like her would ever go for someone like me. I probably made a complete fool of myself telling her that I love her, didn't I? What's it even matter now, she's married to my sister. How is it the first woman I fall for belongs to someone else? I wish she were mine though...i just wanted a chance, you know? Now look at me, I'm standing here, talking to my horse like a crazy person. Apparently this is how it is; JJ will always be better. She'll always have the better job, she's had better girlfriends, Hell, she's even Mom and Dad's favorite. Now she has an amazing wife. Where does that leave me? Right back where I started."

"Alex!"

"Great, now I'm hearing things..."

"Alex...!"

Allegra snorts and nudges Alex with her nose in order to get the blonde to turn around. Alex turns around and frowns when she swears she can make out a figure in a white dress running towards her. "Casey...?" She whispers as she hops over the fence to the other side.

Casey runs into the Alex's arms, wrapping her arms tightly around the woman's waist. "I'm sorry. I'm so so so sorry..."

"Casey, what're you...what're you doing here?"

"I-I couldn't marry her. Not when I know that you're here. Not when I finally accept how I feel about you. I don't want to hide it anymore. I want to be happy. I want you to take care if me. I want YOU to make me happy. I can't be happy with her. I want...I just want you."

Alex is speechless as she runs a hand through her hair. "Casey I-are you sure? I don't unite what to say."

"I've never been more sure if anything. I want you to take care of me."

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