Part 3: You look; sound; feel and hell, you even smell like the man I love! But the man standing in front of me is a stranger to me.

Chapter 26: Down the Aisle

Author's Note: It took me forever to start this chapter because every time I thought about it I would get all misty eyed and that was just from the author's note! Then I sat down to write the chapter and it just became too long and too rushed to be the last chapter… so I decided to extend the story to 27 chapters plus an epilogue. I know I'm a horrible person making you wait so long for the last chapter and have it not be the last chapter! Sorry!

Dedication: I don't know who I should dedicate this to! I mean I've already thanked myself and StarKid so I guess I'll thank my phone and my computer for helping me write this story with all your wonderful resources such as (but not limited to) notes, Word, Google Translate, iTunes and YouTube.

Disclaimer: Yeah I don't own this stuff! If I did I wouldn't be sitting here screaming over the fact that AVPSY IS COMING OUT NEXT YEAR!

P.S. Taz's hair for the wedding looks like Taylor Swift's messy up do… search that and you'll find lots of pictures.

Taz looked around the room at all her friends and family as they watched movies and played games on the third floor for Up's bachelor party. Krayonder and Specs were taking it slow but steady. February and Bug were engaged. Megagirl and Tootsie were starting a family. Jose and Veronica had found she was pregnant and were starting a real family. And Up was getting married. Everything was falling into place… well almost everything.

She leaned into her old Commander and whispered, "I need to talk to jou- in private."

The brunette quickly got up and walked down the stairs to her room. A few minutes later Up walked in and sat on the bed with her. Both of their backs were against the headboard and they were staring at the wall across the room. The air was slightly tense but neither knew why.

"Veronica's pregnant." Taz finally said.

"Really?" Up raised his eyebrows but Taz wouldn't know because she was still staring at the wall.

"Sólo dile! Si no quieren ayudar a que está bien! Usted tiene José y Verónica. Sólo dile que antes de pensar que quieren algo más!" She stared mumbling.

Before Up could ask, Taz blurted it out. "Jose and Veronica decided to let us have Ryder back and I hust wanted to know if jou're in. If jou aren't dat's ok dough."

Up turned to look at her but she was still staring at the wall. "Taz, our son means more to me than anything and I would love to finally have him in my life."

There was silence again.

"Does this mean you're coming back?"

"Maybe."

He reached over and took her hand in his. She looked over at him but he was back to staring at the wall.

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Jessica stepped into her dress and let her sister zip it up. She turned to the mirror and Vanna clapped her hands.

"Jessie, you are going to look so good at her wedding tomorrow!" Vanna cried fluffing Jessica's ball gown style wedding dress's skit. "I can't believe my baby sister is going to get married before me!"

There was a knock on the door followed by Up's voice, "Everyone decent?"

"Yeah come in, sweetheart." Jessica responded.

"No! You are not decent!" Vanna shrieked.

The cracked door slammed shut and Jessica turned to her sister, "I'm in my wedding dress! I would hope I was decent!"

"That's exactly it! You know its bad luck for the groom to see you in your wedding dress before the wedding."

"Tradition shamition!" She waved Vanna off. "You can come in Up, Vanna was just leaving."

The older blonde gave her an 'I'm warning you' look and Jessica responded with an 'I don't care' eye roll.

Vanna walked out and Up came in after her but stopped in the doorway.

"Wow… you look amazing." He breathed out.

"Did you come just to stare at me or do you wanna talk about something?" She asked after a couple of minutes of silence.

Up closed the door and sat on the foot of the bed, "Yeah I actually have something really important to tell you."

He paused for a minute as Jessica came and sat next to him. Her wedding dress taking up quite some room on the bed and Up took her hands in his.

"You know how the other day you said that you felt this relationship was too easy? That we needed a make or break moment?" She nodded. "Well the time has come for that moment."

"Our wedding?" She asked trying to hide the hurt she felt.

"No! Never! Ok I'm just gonna come right out with it… I have a son w-"

The bride-to-be jerked her hands away and jumped away from the bed.

"You have a son?! And you didn't think that was important to tell me when we got engaged?!"

"Let me finish- I never told you because he was living with someone else and they just recently told us that we could be his sole parents again."

"From the way you say 'us' I'm going to assume you still have contact with the mother?"

"Yup." He made sure to pop the p and avoid the underlying question, but Jessica just had to ask it anyways.

"Who is she?" She asked tentatively.

Up was silent as he thought about how to answer. He had been very good at looking Jessica in the eye the entire conversation but now he was looking anywhere but her.

"It's Taz isn't it?" She asked softly, looking down at her wedding dress and playing with the hem. His continued silence answered the question. "They said when they picked you up from that first mission you two were half naked."

Up finally got his voice back, "It was four years ago and we thought we weren't going to make it back, but we did."

"Can I meet him sometime?"

"You already have… Ryder is my son."

There was silence again, for longer than Up was comfortable with but he let Jessica take her time.

"I can't wait for him to call me mom!" She squealed.

"I'll take that as a good sign." Up smiled, pushing the thought of Taz out of his mind.

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Taz slid on her gold bracelets and applied a fresh coat of glossy red lipstick as she looked in the mirror attached to the vanity table.

"Why gold? Oh right because Miss Prissy Pants can't handle her wedding being too much of a winter wonderland so instead of traditional azul y plata we have to go azul y oro!"

She picked up her curling iron and fixed a curl that was losing its spring. The Lieutenant opened a drawer in the vanity pulling and pulled out a letter. She set it on the table top and picked up numerous bobby pins to pull her hair up with.

Jessica was wearing her hair down and refused to let anyone else in the wedding party do the same. Her bridesmaids were wearing their hair in ponytails with a braid on the side going from their forehead to the ponytail. She didn't tell Taz what to do with her hair so the 24 year old took that as a sign of free reign.

She sat back in the chair and admired her handiwork in the vanity mirror. She had pulled her soft curls into a side bun at the base of her neck. It was somewhat messy, but in a good way, and there were a couple of pieces of her hair left out of the bun and framing her face. She had wrapped a piece of hair around the hair tie so you couldn't see it. Taz looked down at the letter and hastily shoved it back into the drawer. She turned and slipped on her gold pumps and made her way across the way to Up's room.

There was lots of loud noise coming through the closed door and for some odd reason Taz got nervous. She knocked on the door, took a deep breath and pushed down on the handle.

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The guys had decided to get ready in Up's room and they were laughing and joking around as they did so. Everyone got quiet when they heard the knock and they glanced around at everyone, counting to see who was missing.

The door swung open and there stood Taz. The only thing running through Up's mind was "Dead God, she's beautiful."

He tried to push the thought out of his mind and left himself with the question of why he kept thinking that.

"You're marrying Jessica today and here you are fawning over your best friend. You don't even like her that way." He scolded himself.

He couldn't deny that his best friend was pretty, both of his brothers were looking at her like 'hot damn' (at least Gabe was; Matthew had a little bit more self control), both of her brothers were beaming with pride and his crew… well they didn't know if they should look and risk a punch to the groin. The blue dress that he picked out looked just as amazing as he thought it would in her. It hugged her in all the right places and it didn't pool in a big mess around her feet. When she walked you could see her gold heels and when she stood still about an inch of fabric touched the ground.

"Put some clothes on!" Taz finally said as she looked around at the guys, who were all in various states of dress. The silent room was soon full of noise as the men shuffled around looking for clothes. Up shrugged his shirt on and started to button it as Taz walked over.

"You got the rings?" He asked as he grabbed his tie from off the bed.

The brunette responded by holding up a long necklace that had two gold rings on it.

"Thank you so much for doing that. I love Ryder but I don't want him to lose them." He explained as tried to tie his tie.

"Oh my Dead God!" Taz exclaimed.

"What?"

She grabbed his tie and began fixing it. "Jou are 33 and jou can't tie jour own tie."

"Well I used to be able to do it myself but someone," He pointed at her. "Didn't like the way I tied it."

"Jou took too long!"

"Try tying your own tie sometime."

Taz just looked at him, shook her head and rolled her eyes. She pushed the tie pin in a little harder than necessary, making Up wince. She patted his chest and whispered, "Good luck."

"Shit!" Krayonder cried as he looked down at his watch. "We better get downstairs or Jessica will have our necks."

The boys filed out of the room all wishing Up luck if they didn't get to talk to him by the time he got down. She turned to leave but Up grabbed her hand and pulled the younger woman into a hug. He kissed the top of her head and let go of her but she didn't drop her arms.

"Taz, I'll see you downstairs and even then I'm not leaving forever. Just a two week honeymoon. I'm not breaking your birthday wish." Up said as he pulled her arms from around him.

"Right… I'll see you downstairs… just let me grab something from my room… you go on down…" She seemed to be distracted as she stumbled out of the room. The Lieutenant slammed her door shut and ripped open the vanity drawer, slapping the letter down on the table. She roughly took off her necklace and threw it on top of the letter.

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Up rocked back and forth on his heels as he waited for the procession to start. Taz would be the first one out because she was the best woman and the only one without a bridesmaid. Jessica had so many bridesmaids that instead of his planned three groomsmen made up of his two brothers and Jose, he had to add (not that he minded) Alejandro, Krayonder, Bug and Tootsie. He scanned the crowed and saw the girls of his crew, Captain Gaines, Veronica, his sister in laws and his nieces and nephews. He noticed a man standing in the back and squinted to get a better look. It was Ambassador Sanchez.

He wanted to talk to him but he couldn't figure out why. He refrained himself from calling out to him when the wedding march started. Out came Tootsie and his bridesmaid and then Bug and his. He was in such a daze that he didn't realize that someone was missing until Ryder walked out with the flower girl.

"Where's Taz?" He asked as the Jessica started down the aisle.

I'm so sorry! I made you wait way too long for this! I just got really busy with exams and this play I'm in but you guys have one more chapter to look forward to! Congrats to HP2011 and Catiebug26 for getting the reference:) Uhhhh since this was supposed to be the last chapter I tried really hard not to put in any references but if you see any make sure to mention them! I'll try to update before the New Year but I got out of school late (the 21st) so maybe not… but definitely before I go back to school.

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