The Unexpected Wedding Date

Disclaimer and Warnings: This part is PG. All Harry Potter character's aren't mine, but the original character is my own.

Notes: Here's the second to the last chapter. Percy and Oliver get some things sorted out away from the others. After this si done, I'll be working on my Lord of the Rings fanfiction, since I already got my feet wet with writing fanfiction I'm going to try my hand at my favorite elf and ranger. Blame it on the movie. But don't worry I'd still play with Percy and Oliver. I'm not done with them yet **grins**. On to the wedding, Geez, I didn't know a weekend could last for a month, but we're finally here.

For my Angel.

This hasn't been betaed so all mistakes are mine.

Chapter 11 : In the Chapel

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Percy woke up with a start.  Glancing at the bedside clock, he uttered obscenities to the high heavens.  He had only about two hours to spare before the wedding starts.  Holding his head in his hands he sat up and tried to get his wits about him.  He didn't  fall asleep until after four so the lack of it in doing some crazy things in his head.

He should probably take a shower and dress.  He didn't have time for breakfast.  Who wants to have breakfast anyway?  Even if it's the most important meal of the day.  It was his fault for waking up too late.  He'd just have to eat at the reception.

Walking towards his closet, he opened it, to let his dress robes aired out.  He did notice that Oliver's dress robes were nowhere to be found, nor his tux.  He probably came to the room earlier to get dressed.  Not bothering to wake him up.  The thought that Oliver didn't plan on skipping the whole wedding was a complete comfort to him/ 

The reason that he slept so late, or so early, as the case was.  Is because he had a lot to think about, preferably thinking where his relationship with Oliver would go.  He knows that Oliver wasn't the only one who's not ready for a commitment.  So what if he was in love with the guy?  That shouldn't be a cause for major concern on his part.  Even if he didn't deem it so, that doesn't meant that he can't enjoy the time that they do spend with one another. So why should he lose it, even if they were back in their own worlds.  He was plenty sure that the day would come when they'd go their separate ways.  If spending his seven years at Hogwarts he had learned that even those that you don't want to end would eventually.  When that time comes for Percy and Oliver to be apart at least Percy would have some memories to look back on.  Oliver makes him laugh, he makes Percy feel alive and until the time comes, he'd continue to enjoy that laughter and that life that Oliver had so graciously brought back to his life again.

With that resolution, Percy was appeased.  He went to the bathroom and started to get ready.

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The service was late in getting started. All the guest were restless.  The wedding party were telling awful jokes amongst themselves.  But the groom and bride were noticeably absent from the proceedings.

The murmuring grew louder as the minutes passed by and still there wasn't any groom or bride that showed up.  It didn't look good Oliver thought, when he reached the lobby at the rear of the church where most of his family were gathered.  Percy was trying to calm his mum while his father looks on with worry, Hermione looked completely troubled, seeming lost for once.  Fleur was at the far end, comforting his son who in the worst luck, had chicken pox the night before was adamant that he should appear at the party.  Fred and George were as usual on one corner playing exploding snaps.  And Bill and Charlie were muttering something about those wasted food.

"What's going on?"  Oliver asked Harry who arrived the night before with his wife Cho.  He did ask the question but he obviously had the answer, from the look of things nothing is going on.  Marriage being one of them.  Harry just shrugged his shoulders and gestured towards Ginny who was standing in the center of it all, dressed in bridal white, with his fiancée Draco Malfoy, beside him dressed to nines.

"I'm not getting married."  Ginny announced.  "Draco and I decided to wait a little more before we do get married."  Draco was at Ginny's side, holding her hand, seemingly agreeing with her.

"I don't need to have this marriage in order to love her.  We'll do it when we're both ready for it."  Draco pronounced, pressing his should bride.  Ginny looked at him with stars in her eyes.

"But the people. Mercy, what would we tell them."  Molly Weasly was still in shock.  "They came all this way to see a wedding and we won't have one, oh the shame."  Molly turned to her husband and cries.  "The shame."  Arthur looked pleading at Percy, even the Minister of Magic haven't got a clue on how to solve this one. 

Percy as usual took charge.  "Fred and George, stop that lollygagging and tell the bloody organ player to stop, it's grating on my nerves.  Hermione, I think that there's some antihistamines on the car's glove compartment, get some for Ruelf would you.  Harry I hate to have to do this when you just arrived but can you call the caterers and tell them that they shouldn't set the food out just yet or it might spoil."  Harry nodded and went away with Cho, Hermione, Fred and George.  "Bill, Charlie, tell the wedding party something, make a story up or something, just don't let them give anything away.  It would be better if they heard the news from us.  Oliver why don't you stay here and try to make it a little less troublesome would you while I go to the front and tell them that the wedding has been called off."

"NO!!"

"What?"  Percy looked at Oliver, stupefied.

"I said no."  Oliver said adamantly.

Percy didn't have any idea what Oliver meant but he still said.  "Okay, fine, then Dad why don't you announce it."

"NO!!"  All the people who are left on the room looked at Oliver with confusion, clearly Percy wasn't the only one who didn't have a clue to Oliver's behavior.

"Look!"  Percy was exasperated.  "I don't know what else to do."

"I do."  Oliver grinned all of a sudden.  "Notice how easily the words I do came off my mouth.  Suddenly, I'm not feeling nervous at all."

Percy looked at Oliver as if he'd grown two heads in a span of a minute, and it was possible because at the moment anything that seems to come out of Oliver's mouth was pure gibberish.  "What the hell are you talking about?"

"I think that fate is trying to tell us something here, don't you?"  Oliver once again, graced Percy with that charming grin of his.

"Wha – How - What do you mean?"

Oliver gave the rest of the family a nod, when all of them arrived in the confusion.  "Yes."  Oliver asked.  "I'm asking if you would give me the honor and be my husband."

"But – but – but –"  Percy stuttered, seeming lost for words.

"Hey folks, finally Prissy Percy is speechless."  George exclaimed.  Fred snickered.  While the rest of the Weasly clan both real and adopted can't seem to stop from laughing, smiling, squealing all at the same time.

Molly clapped her hands together and moved her face away from her husband's chest.  "We can have a ceremony after all."

"But – but –"   Percy looked at his mum helplessly.

"Listen to your mother Percy."  Arthur said, his arms still around his suddenly energetic wife.  "Everything is in it's place.  It would be a waste of time and money if we don't go through with it."

Percy can't seem to stop shaking his head.  "But –"

Oliver moved forward to stand in front of Percy.  "Don't you love me Percy?"  Oliver asked bravely.

All eyes were suddenly on Percy Weasly and he was extremely uncomfortable being in the spotlight at this time.  Then he looked at Oliver, who was looking very vulnerable, but in Oliver's eyes, Percy saw the love that he was graciously offering him.  In it's depths you could find the sincerity of it's words and the meaning was not lost on Percy.  He was head boy after all.

Percy nodded.  "Okay.  I'll meet you at the altar."  Percy said and darted across the room towards the dressing room, with Ronan and Hermione and Ginny on his trail.

"Great."  Bill exclaimed.  "Me and Charlie and going up front to tell then that there has been a little change of plans."  Bill darted off, grabbing his other brother by hands.  Everyone smiled and the mood was greatly elevated.

"What are you doing?"  the boy who lived asked Oliver when he saw him going outside taking his cell phone out of his suit pocket.

Oliver grinned.  "I have to call Thane, and. Well, I kind of promised someone that I'd invite him to my wedding."  Oliver then proceeded to dial one of many numbers.

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Next time : Just a small snippet that I couldn't help but write.