AUTHOR: Goddess Isa
EMAIL: goddessisa@aol.com
SUMMARY: Xander and Cordelia tie the knot...
SPOILER: Slightly Hero and Parting Gifts, but mostly the previous story in this trilogy
DISTRIBUTION: Sandee, of course - My site - http://planetslaythis.homestead.com - Crystal and Butterfly if they want it - A Soul's Redemption - Anyone else - sure, just email me & lmk where it's going - I like seeing my name in print =)
FEEDBACK: Please, I'd hate to have to Slay for it. =P
RATING: TV-PG
DISCLAIMER: Xander is mine and everyone else belongs to Joss. Okay, Joss may've given our dear Xand life, but he lives at my house and is my love slave. He eats when I tell him to eat, sleeps when I tell him to sleep, and he even kissed my toes the other day. It's great having him around g
Weirdness just abounds in Sunnydale.
Who would've thought that I'd get married on Valentine's Day of 2001?
And who would've imagined that ANYA would become one of my best friends and my maid of honor?
It was so strange how it all unfolded. Spike coming to work for Angel "Just to get away from that bleedin' Watcher and his stupid Slayer and her demon boyfriend." When he brought Anya with him, I thought the first thing she'd do was go after Xander, but she was all over Spike twenty-four-seven. They do make a nice couple, the vampire and ex-demon. I never woulda thought he'd go for someone who wasn't Dru, but I guess he realized it was never gonna happen.
I guess we became friends fast because we were thrown into the same situations all the time. She liked it when I got visions and used to wish for them to be dirty. I offered to kiss her and try to give her the power but she wasn't up for it.
When Xander proposed to me last year, it was sort of a shock. I thought we were going to be kissy all our lives, and then all of a sudden, I'm wearing his ring.
I don't even know if he knows what tonight is going to mean to me, but hopefully the song I want played will say the things I can't.
*****
"She looks beautiful." I saw Xander whisper as I made my way down the aisle with Angel and Giles walking me. My own father was in jail, of course, not that I much care. Giles is special and Angel is the brother I've always wanted. I took Xander's hands and smiled at him before the song started to play. He knew I was going to play a song for him, but he had no idea what it was. He'd already told me he planned to sing 'You Are So Beautiful To Me' near the end of the ceremony and I was positive I was going to cry.
I noticed Giles smile at me from his new spot beside Xander as the Best Man, and I heard someone - probably Buffy - whispering about the song. She's become so cold hearted since her last boyfriend killed Oz. He was a corn demon for God's sakes. Her standards have come *so* far down since Angel.
I turned to Xander so I could mouth the words to him and prayed that I wouldn't run out from embarrassment or freeze for some other reason.
The rest of the wedding flew past me, there's a lot about it I don't remember. I know that Xander and I danced the Macarena at our party and that Amy and Anya said a blessing spell over all of our wedding gifts. The last thing I remember before Xander and I ran off to catch our plane to Rome is Buffy and Angel making out in the lobby of the hall where we held our reception.
