A few months later and everything were better, Camicazi was able to move around in her wheelchair again and go back to riding her dragon and her teaching. The arrangement with Ingrid didn't happen, because the next day when she turned up at the house, she was met by the six Russian men that had become friends with Camicazi in her first year at university, and just the sight of them standing there with baseball bats and serious looks on their faces, made Ingrid back down, so she didn't even get to Ezekial, Aster and Vladamir. With every day that Camicazi got better, the closer it came to the proposed wedding date of December 21st, so when she could fully wheel herself around without pain, Aster organised for a day where they could go dress shopping. She invited Carmen, Astrid, Heather and Cami's aunt Una. And that was exactly where they were going today. However, Camicazi was sat in her wheelchair at her desk in hers and Vladamir's room and she was sketching in her own sketchbook, and it looked to be a design of a wedding dress. She was so absorbed in her work, that she almost screamed when she felt hands upon her and she looked up to see Vladamir looking over her shoulder.
"Don't do that!" She told him as she closed the sketchbook and hit his arm.
"Sorry, but the girls are vaiting vor vue." He told her.
"Alright, I'll be right out." She smiled and they shared a quick kiss, before she wheeled herself over to her bed and grabbed her jacket, sliding it on, and she picked up her handbag, before she wheeled herself out of the room with Vladamir following. They got into the living room and found everyone but Cami's aunt Una there.
"Shall we get going?" Cami asked them.
"We're just waiting on one other person." Carmen told her.
Camicazi just looked at her confused, before she glanced around the room: Astrid, Heather, Aster and Carmen were all here, she hadn't been told of anyone else.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Vladamir went to answer it, there was a quiet sound of voices at the door, saying something that Camicazi couldn't hear, but Aster soon spoke over them.
"Cami, we know that you haven't got a mother to come with us, but you do have a female relative." Aster told her.
"So I came instead." Una told her as she walked into the room.
Camicazi looked at her aunt and her face broke into a smile, wheeling her over, and Una got down to her level to hug her niece.
"Your mother would be so proud of you." Una told her.
Camicazi gave her a smile as they pulled away. "I hope so."
"She will be, especially when we have gotten this dress, now come on guys, lets go." Aster told them.
After a fleeting kiss with her fiancé, Cami was wheeled out of the house by Una and as Una put her into the car, she watched as Astrid got into the back with Carmen after kissing Hiccup goodbye, before they all drove off. It didn't take long for them to get into the city where it was lined with shops and boutiques for women to buy food.
"Whoa, I didn't know this was all here." Astrid told them as they all gathered in the carpark.
"Because you're not from here." Heather told her.
"Heather, be nice." Aster warned as she helped Una put Cami into her wheelchair and they wheeled themselves up to one of the bridal stores.
They all walked together, with Una pushing Camicazi's wheelchair, and as they got to one pretty bridal shop.
"Oh look at these dresses." Carmen gushed, looking at the dresses in the window display of the shop.
"I love this Grecian one." Heather told her. "Cami, come and see." She ushered.
Camicazi was wheeled over by Una and she looked at the dress. "I love it, but I need it to go with my wheelchair, it might look a bit weird if I wore a Grecian dress in a wheelchair."
"But it would look gorgeous on you." Una told her, kissing the top of her head.
Camicazi looked up at her and she smiled. "Thank you Aunt Una."
"Now come on, let's get you inside to find this ideal dress." Aster told her, and she led the way as Una wheeled Camicazi into the bridal shop.
Getting inside, everyone looked around at the posh and elegant decor of the shop, but Aster looked around and she immediately felt uneasy, and it was held in good stead with Camicazi and Una. As the girls looked around, Una parked Camicazi's wheelchair for her and she found an attendant. The attendant held a smile as she talked about the design of the dress that Camicazi wanted, and she was querying whether the dress Camicazi had seen would be alright for Camicazi to try on.
"Oh yes, but not the one in the window, we have another one on the rack." The attendant told her, bringing her over to the right rack and she pulled out the dress she had asked for.
"It's perfect." Una smiled.
"Now, which one is the lucky lady?" The attendant asked.
"She's my niece." She brought her over to Camicazi and the woman gave her the warmest of smiles ever.
"Well Miss, may we get this dress tried on for you?" The attendant asked.
"Um, yes, but if you don't mind, I would like my friend to help me get into it if you don't mind." Camicazi asked.
"Of course not, which one will be helping us?" She looked at the women who had come in with her.
Camicazi called Aster to join her, and she followed her and the attendant into a changing room, where the attendant paid avid attention to how Aster helped Camicazi change. In truth the attendant was amazed at how little Camicazi could move, but she felt proud at the level of friendship and caring Aster and Camicazi showed to each other. When they were finished and Camicazi was wearing the dress, Aster stood back a few inches and beamed.
"Cami, you look beautiful." Aster told her. "Grecian dresses are definitely the design that suits you."
"I agree Miss; the design compliments your wheelchair well." The attendant told her.
"Thank you..." Cami smiled softly.
"But the top does certainly give you a gorgeous decoration to your upper body." The attendant told her. "Does it feel too tight at all?"
"No, it feels perfect." Camicazi smiled. "Thank you."
"Come on, we had best show the others." Aster told them, and she poked her head out of the curtain. "Are you ready?"
"Yes, let us see the gown." Una told her and then they all stood up as the curtain was pulled back and Camicazi wheeled herself out to them.
"Oh Cami, it's amazing." Astrid gasped, smiling.
"You look stunning Cami." Carmen told her.
"Cami, your mother would be so proud of you." Una told her. "You make a stunning bride."
"Thank you Aunt Una, thank you all of you." She smiled.
"That looks aweful."
Everyone turned to see another attendant stood in the doorway to the staff room, watching the scene before them.
"I beg your pardon." Una told her.
"Our dresses aren't made for crippled people." She told her. "We suggest that her kind of people wear a wedding suit."
"Excuse me, but what right do you have?" Aster asked.
"I'm the manager of this store." She told her defiantly.
"That still gives you no right." Carmen told her.
"Guys, stop, let's not make a scene." Camicazi told her.
"Listen to her, she knows when she shouldn't be doing something." The attendant told her.
"Now listen here you-" Aster started.
"Aster, stop it. Come on, let's just go home." Camicazi told her, before she looked back at the attendant. "Can you help me out of this?"
"But Miss-" The attendant started.
"She's not having the dress, so end of story." The manager told the attendant. "Now get her out of it."
"Come here Cami, I'll help you." Aster told her.
"That isn't allowed." The manager told her.
"Try and stop me bitch." Aster told her and as the manager stalked off in a huff, Aster helped Camicazi change back into her jeans, before they left, however at seeing that the manager wasn't around, Aster was pulled aside by the attendant who had been helping them.
"Can I have your address?" She asked.
"Why?" Aster asked, letting everyone leave the store.
"So I can bring it over?" She asked. "Pay the instalments and I will personally make any changes to it."
"You're still letting her have the dress?"
"Of course." The attendant told her. "She deserves a happy ending, especially after how my manager treated her, and I am very sorry about that."
"Thank you." Aster smiled, before she left the shop and went to join the others.
However, when she got outside, she found everyone but Una and Camicazi, and she looked around at everyone.
"Where's Cami and Una?" She asked.
"Cami just wanted to go home." Carmen told her. "And I can't blame her." She sighed.
"I know, that woman was aweful, I have half a mind to go back and smack her in the face." Astrid told her.
"Me too." Heather sighed. "Why does this always happen to her?"
"Because people don't understand that she isn't actually a cripple, she just can't walk." Carmen told her, before she looked at Aster who was dialing a number on her phone. "Who are you calling?"
"Vladamir." She told them.
"Why?" Astrid asked.
"Because he's going to want to know and I can guarantee that Una won't tell him if Camicazi says not to." Aster told them as they walked to their cars.
As they got into the car and buckled up, she put the phone on the call service with the car, before Vladamir picked up.
"Hey, how did it go?"
"We're on our way home." Aster told him. "Cami and Una should get there before us."
"What's happened?"
Astrid, Carmen and Heather listened as Aster told him everything, except what the dress looked like.
"Hendrick and I are heading home to see her, so I'll meet you there."
Aster could hear the anger in his voice and she knew that she needed to calm him down. "It's alright Vlad, don't rush back." Aster told him. "We've just pulled up, she'll be fine with us."
After a few minutes, he relented and the line went dead, before Aster pulled up outside of the house she lived in with Camicazi and the others and they found Una's car parked on the driveway and a black jeep beside it.
"Oh no." Aster muttered.
"What is it Aster?" Carmen asked.
"That's Stoick's car." Aster told them as she got out.
Everyone went quiet as they all got out and as Aster pushed open the door, there was shouting from inside, and everyone could hear Una's voice against Stoick and Ingrid's. And she sounded furious.
"How dare you think that you can just walk into this house because you know where she lives!" Una shouted at her brother. "You have no rights to either of them and they certainly don't want you here!"
"She's still my daughter, and she needs me!" Stoick told her.
As the girls filled into the room, they saw Una squaring up to Stoick and Ingrid as Camicazi sat in her wheelchair watching everything outside of the window.
"She needs nothing from a child abuser!" Una screamed at him.
"How dare you!" Ingrid screamed. "He-"
"Shut the fuck up!" Camicazi suddenly screamed at them and they all stopped to look at her. "Una is right, you don't have any fucking rights to me or my brother, me especially." She shouted at Stoick. "And you, you jumped up little tart, stay out of the business that involves my family because no matter what, you're not family!" She then moved onto Una. "Aunt Una, thank you for coming to my defence, but everyone needs to stop. Because I've had a horrible day right now and all I want is to go for a fly. Alone!" She told them and everyone was stood still as she wheeled herself out of the back door.
When she had gone, everyone looked to the door as Vladamir and Hiccup walked in, and both men took in the scene before them and they looked momentarily confused. Before Stoick and Ingrid pushed past them and Aster walked to Vladamir.
"Give her time to cool off." She told him.
"You can't ask me to do that." He told her.
"I know, but just wait." Aster pleaded. "She'll be fine Vlad, Loki won't let her get hurt, you know that."
Eventually, Vladamir relented and he walked to his and Cami's room, as Hendrick walked to Astrid and the pair of them walked upstairs to his room, as the others slowly dispersed. When she was alone, Aster sat herself down on the sofa and she sighed. Today had been a disaster that shop had looked to be a lovely place to get a wedding dress from; instead it turned out to be a little shop of horrors! At least the assistant had offered them the dress anyway, and she got to her feet when there was a knock on the door and she opened it to find the assistant from earlier stood there holding a dress bag.
"Hi, Miss Aster, do you remember me?" The assistant asked.
"I do, have you brought the dress?" She asked.
"I did, the size fit perfectly, and it's all paid for." She told her, handing her the dress bag. "The size of the bodice was just right for her, it was the length that might need altering, but I've put the name of a dress fitter in the bag." She told her. "Tell her Charlene sent you and she won't give you any trouble."
"This is wonderful." She told her, hugging her. "Thank you so much."
"You're very welcome." She told her. "Your friend will make a beautiful bride."
"She will." Aster agreed. "Charlene, how did you pay for this?"
"I quit and used my savings; I know that everyone should have their happy ending." Charlene told her. "Take care of her now." She told them as she walked away and Aster brought the dress inside, taking it to her room to keep it hidden and safe as a surprise for Camicazi.