November 23th(3)
Diego nodded. "He would have taken care of you even without knowing that you were really his family. That's just like him. I'm glad to know that in the worst case you would have had his help." he said touched.
"He wanted us to be a family and asked me to try to make it legal. I told him that Zorro had promised me marriage and given me a ring, and then your father suggested that we say it was you and ask Father Benitez to marry us. I thought it was wrong, because it was forcing you to be married to me if you survived, but your father said that Zorro had died trying to save you, and that giving his child a home was the only thing we could do for him. He finally convinced me after you said we should do it, even though I didn't know someone could get married while nearly unconscious."
"Wedding In ArtÃculo Mortis." whispered Diego. "But it takes a doctor to certify that the sick person can give consent even if it is not in full use of its faculties."
"Yes, your father knew that, I think he was looking at your law books before he proposed it to me. Father Benitez also said so when we asked him. It took a lot of convincing even though you told him yourself that you wanted to. I showed him the ring as proof, and when your father saw it, he had to sit in an armchair saying that the ring belonged to your mother and that he hadn't seen it for a long time because it brought back so many memories. At that time I still did not know that your father was telling the truth. Father Benitez suspected that something strange was going on, and wanted to make sure that we were not forcing you in some way, it was then that Felipe approached me and by signs said that he attested that you wanted to marry me, he even swore on the Bible. When I saw the look on Felipe's face I knew he wasn't lying, that we were really engaged, and I wasn't the only one who realized what was going on."