Ch. 29
Jesse, Kelly and Lisa were sitting in the special lounge room set up for them. Jesse was getting more and more nervous. She had the pre-wedding jitters and on top of that she had to think of the plan they had come up with. This was not how she had pictured her wedding day being. Groaning she glanced at her two best friends and felt the tears welling in her eyes. She knew they all wanted what was best for her, but today just felt wrong. She loved Slater with all her heart and she wanted to marry him but using her wedding as a way to trap a psycho just felt wrong.
"I can't do it." Jesse whispered knowing her friends heard her.
"Jesse listen to us. After you two are married we are going to plan a beautiful proper wedding. One where we know there isn't going to be a crazy maniac showing up but you know you need to do this today. How else are you going to get this guy to learn to leave you alone?" Kelly asked softly.
"I know that you're right and I know that we need to go through with this I just can't help but feel horrible about doing this on my wedding day." Jesse said biting her lower lip.
"Hey look at it this way when this is all said and done this guy will not be able to hurt anyone ever again." Lisa said with a giggle. "Look Jesse we love you and Slater loves you and right now all you have to know is that nothing is going to happen to you tonight out there."
"Okay, then let's do this." Jesse said with a sigh.
Slater was nervous as he stood next to Zack and Screech. He sucked in a deep breath and hoped that everyone was on the same page and in position. She wanted to make sure that no one was going to make a move they weren't supposed to and most importantly he needed to know that Jesse was going to be protected at all times. He groaned as he realized that someone was missing and he wasn't sure where they were.
"Slater relax man, everything is going to be just fine." Zack whispered to his friend. "You are going to be a married man at the end of this ceremony and with any luck we are going to finally get this freak that has been after Jesse."
"You think so?" Slater whispered back.
"I know so." Zack whispered and then sighed as the music started and Lisa walked down the aisle.
By the time the wedding march started everyone was on edge, hoping that everything would work out. Everyone gasped when Jesse was walking down the aisle with her father on her arm. Slater sucked in a deep breath at how beautiful she looked and could feel Zack patting him on the back.
"You ready to marry her?" Zack whispered with a grin.
"Always have been." Slater whispered back in awe of his bride.
Jesse smiled as she got to the front and stood there as her father finally handed her over to Slater. She could see the look on his face and knew that they were finally doing the right thing. The vows went by in a blur for Jesse who was starting to feel apprehensive. He hadn't shown up yet and Slater was starting to let his guard down, she could see a lot of people were relaxing.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride." The priest said as Jesse and Slater kissed she could see movement out of the corner of her eye. She looked over and noticed someone she didn't recognize holding a gun pointed at Slater.
"Get down!" Jesse yelled as she tackled Slater and the man started shooting.
Slater flipped them over so he was lying on top of Jesse and kept his eyes focused on the Military Police Officer's who had returned fire and were running towards the now fallen body.
"He sent someone else to see if it was a setup or not. He knew, someone told him what was going on." Jesse whispered with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Jesse it's going to be okay. We are going to find him and we are going to take care of business soon enough." Slater said as he kissed his new wife's forehead. "Besides your stuck with me from now on so don't even think of trying to say that I would be better off without you. You are now Mrs. Slater."
When the excitement had died down Slater slowly got off of Jesse, his injuries that were still healing were screaming when Zack helped him to his feet. Screech came over and picked Jesse up from the ground and she winced. She looked at Kelly and Lisa and noticed they were both as filthy as she was.
"Well it wouldn't be the wedding of the century without some excitement now would it be?" Jesse joked trying to lighten the mood. "I am going to go and changed and I think my bridesmaids need to change as well."
Jesse, Kelly and Lisa were in a room getting into the outfits they had as backups so they wouldn't have to be in their uncomfortable dresses. Jesse bit her bottom lip and sighed as she realized that they weren't doing any wedding photo's. They had decided early on they would do those on another day, since the plan was to trap the guy who wanted to kill her so badly.
"Jesse can you believe it you are married to AC Slater?" Lisa said with a giggle.
"I honestly never thought I would see the day when I would marry my high school sweetheart." Jesse said evenly.
"Well now that you think about it, you are finally going to have a chance at real happiness with a guy who will never hurt you Jesse. You don't have to be afraid anymore." Lisa said with a serious look.
"I am always going to be afraid until he is caught Lisa. He's going to keep trying to get to me until he kills me." Jesse said with a small cry.
